![[ museums in ny nightlife, led off by @RMAnyc in the NYT ]
Rubin Museum’s Dream-Over will be featured in the Sunday edition of the New York Times! Thanks to James Barron for this compelling article! Here is a reposting of the first part of the article:
Staying Up Late at Museums
By James Barron, New York Times, October 21, 2011
Darcey Howard had her reasons for showing up at the Rubin Museum of Art in her pajamas. Seeing the Himalayan paintings and multilayered manuscript pages was not one of them.
“It was the opportunity to spend a night in a museum,” she said. “I was interested in the access off-hours, of being there when it was almost taboo.”
But there was nothing illicit about her arrival after dark. She did not set off the alarms when she tiptoed into the Rubin, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and the 12 hours that followed were nothing like “Night at the Museum,” the 2006 comedy that starred Ben Stiller as a new guard coping with fossils gone wild at a more famous and more established museum uptown.
Ms. Howard, 45, had paid $55 to sleep on a gallery floor alongside 80 others who had brought their own pillows, blankets and toothbrushes for what the Rubin had advertised as a “Dream-Over.” The Rubin even had “dream interpreters” — psychologists and psychiatrists led by Edward Nersessian, a professor from Weill Cornell Medical College — to wake them in the morning and take notes on their dreams. Or, at least, what they could remember of them.
With attention-getting events like the Dream-Over, museums are grabbing for a slice of the city’s nightlife. Attendance-conscious curators are moving beyond lectures with big-name guests and trying unmuseumlike offerings like live music with a D.J. and open-mike nights.
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[ museums in ny nightlife, led off by @RMAnyc in the NYT ]
Rubin Museum’s Dream-Over will be featured in the Sunday edition of the New York Times! Thanks to James Barron for this compelling article! Here is a reposting of the first part of the article:
Staying Up Late at MuseumsBy James Barron, New York Times, October 21, 2011
Darcey Howard had her reasons for showing up at the Rubin Museum of Art in her pajamas. Seeing the Himalayan paintings and multilayered manuscript pages was not one of them.
“It was the opportunity to spend a night in a museum,” she said. “I was interested in the access off-hours, of being there when it was almost taboo.”
But there was nothing illicit about her arrival after dark. She did not set off the alarms when she tiptoed into the Rubin, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and the 12 hours that followed were nothing like “Night at the Museum,” the 2006 comedy that starred Ben Stiller as a new guard coping with fossils gone wild at a more famous and more established museum uptown.
Ms. Howard, 45, had paid $55 to sleep on a gallery floor alongside 80 others who had brought their own pillows, blankets and toothbrushes for what the Rubin had advertised as a “Dream-Over.” The Rubin even had “dream interpreters” — psychologists and psychiatrists led by Edward Nersessian, a professor from Weill Cornell Medical College — to wake them in the morning and take notes on their dreams. Or, at least, what they could remember of them.
With attention-getting events like the Dream-Over, museums are grabbing for a slice of the city’s nightlife. Attendance-conscious curators are moving beyond lectures with big-name guests and trying unmuseumlike offerings like live music with a D.J. and open-mike nights.
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