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The New Museum's Giant Slide (And More) Has Arrived!

New York, say hello to the your newest favorite attraction: Carsten Höller’s 102-foot-long slide at the New Museum. The giant plastic tube, which goes down from the museum’s fourth floor, through ceilings and floors, to the second floor is now fully operational and will be open to the public from tomorrow through January 15, 2012. And did we mention there is also a sensory deprivation tank? And upside down goggles? And a fish tank you rest your head in? Suddenly getting dragged to the museum seems more like dropping acid and reliving your childhood than a chance to better yourself. (via Gothamist)

The New Museum
235 Bowery, Lower East Side

National September 11 Memorial & Museum

The 9/11 Memorial will be dedicated on September 11, 2011 the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in a ceremony for victims’ families. It will open to the public on September 12, 2011, and will welcome visitors who have reserved advance passes. Click here to reserve a pass. The museum opens next year.

9/11 Memorial & Museum
Enter at the northeast corner of Albany and Greenwich Streets.

Last Call: Lines And Lines Outside Metropolitan Museum For Alexander McQueen

It is the last weekend for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster Alexander McQueen show, Savage Beauty. The show will end on Sunday the museum will be open until midnight on the last two days (Saturday and Sunday) to accommodate the eager patrons. To avoid a long wait, become a member of the museum and you’ll get special viewing access from 8:30 - 9:00am. Otherwise, if you’re planning on going this weekend, our sources tell us that non-members should plan on arriving at 6:30am to start queuing up. The long lines have been snaking through the Asian art galleries and you can expect to wait up to 3 hours. Bring a book or a chatty friend!

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side

UPDATE: The museum has revoked Membership privileges.  EVERYONE has to wait in line, and the scene is becoming more and more like the first day of Barney’s Warehouse sale.

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

Opening this Saturday, July 16th, this exhibit celebrates the internationally known creative genius Jim Henson, whose work encompassed film, television, and puppetry. The exhibition features over 120 artifacts, including drawings, storyboards, and props, all of which illustrate Henson’s boundless creativity and innumerable accomplishments.

Fifteen iconic puppets, including Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Rowlf, and Bert and Ernie, are on view, along with photographs of Henson and his collaborators at work and excerpts from his early projects and experimental films.

Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria

Manhattan’s Quiet Shelters of Solitude Amid the Noise

Despite appearances, it’s a lesser known fact that New York City is chockablock with shelters of solitude, some hidden and some in plain sight, that invite pause, reflection, even wonder; somehow the noise heightens the silence. The New York Times counts down some of their favorites.

TONIGHT: New York's Biggest Block Party

One day a year, for the past 32 years, nine of the country’s finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile.

33rd Annual Museum Mile Festival
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, 6pm-9pm

R. Crumb Retrospective Opens Today

Few comic artists get recognized as the real artists they are, especially within their lifetime, so it’s always refreshing when society recognizes such immense talent. Of course, R. Crumb’s talent is hard to ignore. On Friday the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators will open their new exhibit, “R. Crumb: Lines Drawn on Paper,” which will run through April 30th and showcase numerous unpublished works by the prolific illustrator. (via Gothamist)

The Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street, Upper East Side

Abstract Expressionist New York

A huge new exhibit, spanning three floors, recently opened at MoMA featuring works by Rothko, de Kooning, Gorky and Pollack. Abstract Expressionist New York underscores the achievements of a generation that catapulted New York City to the center of the international art world during the 1950s, and left as its legacy some of the twentieth century’s greatest masterpieces.  Now through April 25, 2011.

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown West

Alfred Stieglitz New York

Many people who dreamed of moving to New York in their youth had a poster of the Flatiron Building hanging on their wall.  This iconic image was captured in 1903 by Alfred Stieglitz and can be seen, along side 38 other originals, at the Seaport Museum New York in their exhibitAlfred Stieglitz New York, now through January 10, 2011.

Seaport Museum New York
12 Fulton Street, Financial District

Top 10 Art Exhibits to See In New York City

As usual, the dog days of August have cleared the city of all but its most devoted gallerists, leaving behind summer shows on reduced hours and a more or less dead event schedule. However, there are more than enough shows — some of them of historic caliber — on view in the city’s museums, as well as one must-see exhibition spread out between the hearty galleries of the Lower East Side. ARTINFO shares their top ten must-see shows.

Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art

Dead or Alive, presented by the Museum of Arts and Design from April 27 through October 24, 2010, will showcase the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and objects that were once produced by or part of living organisms-insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and hair-to create intricately crafted and designed installations and sculptures.

Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle, New York