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Manhattan museum invites kids to share the adventures of Nickelodeon's Latina superstar
12/10/04
NEWSDAY, PART 2 BY STEPHEN WILLIAMS One modern, high-tech method to judge the extent of one's fame is via eBay. Just the other day on the Web site, 4,841items were listed under "Dora the Explorer." Now, it's nice that a Dora the Explorer Tooth Fairy pillow was available ($7.50), along with a Dora the Explorer Talking Dollhouse ($24.98) and a "We Did It!" singing-dancing doll (about $20). But this week, the animated Latina star of her own kids' carto... more »
Dr. Seuss: Unshlumping in a City Near You
07/05/04
Newsweek By Elise Soukup An electrical engineer, two industrial designers and a sculptor recently huddled around an odd-looking machine. A lot was riding on the success of this never-before-seen invention. The mood was tense as they pressed a series of buttons and the contraption sputtered to life. Each held his breath: Have we done it? they wondered. Have we unshlumped the shlumping Borfin? This isn't a scene from a movie--it was a real-life test at the Children's Muse... more »
It's Dr. Seuss's Birthday, Kids, and He's Here to Celebrate
07/02/04
The New York Times By LAUREL GRAEBER A bizarre-looking vehicle recently drew slack-jawed stares from the normally jaded Manhattanites on West 83rd Street. Occupying a flat-bed delivery truck, it looked like a white and neon-red locomotive, but with so many crumples and curves that it resembled melted marzipan. This was part of a train, all right, but not one that had ever chugged into New York, except in young imaginations. It was the locomotive from Dr. Seuss's ''... more »
Please touch
10/01/03
Town & Country Looking to attract new audiences and engage kids of all ages, museums are reinventing themselves in wonderfully creative ways. Here’s what kids find boring about art museums: being dragged from picture to picture while their parents labor over everyone. Here’s what kids think would be fun: actually playing with objects. Children’s museums have long known this, and art museums are starting to wise up, too. In the face of decreasing tou... more »
Drawing the Animals, two by two
08/01/03
New York Daily News Mila Andre The Children’s Museum of Manhattan at 212 West 83rd Street is presenting a special exhibit “Travels with Ted and Betsy Lewin”, that features ore than 60 illustrations from such well known children’s books as “Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type” (with Betsy’s whimsical drawings, such as the one displayed below), “Dumpy La Rue,” “People the Lamplighter” and “What’s th... more »
Children's museum invites youngsters to step inside contemporary art
12/01/02
By TARA BURGHART, Associated Press NEW YORK — It's a museum guard's worst nightmare: children plucking heads off sculptures, placing their palms on paintings and moving around the artists' works. But with a new exhibit at the Children's Museum of Manhattan, meant to introduce children to art and the creative process, such behavior is encouraged. In "Art Inside Out," children can "step into" 70 original works and 40 interactive stations by three... more »
A Journey Into Art
11/08/02
The New York Times By LAUREL GRAEBER It's not unusual to see a guard at the entrance to a museum show. It is unusual, though, for that guard to be a Weimaraner in uniform. Then again, nothing is ordinary about "Art Inside Out" at the Children's Museum of Manhattan. The canine official, a lifesize photo cutout by William Wegman, is one element of this huge new show, whose installations by Elizabeth Murray, Fred Wilson and Mr. Wegman were designed to take childr... more »
Art Gets Canine For Kids
11/06/02
Clare Henry talks to the team behind the children's exhibition 'Art Inside Out' By CLARE HENRY Children and animals are always a winning combination and the re are plenty of both at New York's groundbreaking Dollars 750,000 exhibition, Art Inside Out. The dogs are by photographer William Wegman, one of three artists who have accepted the Children's Museum of Manhattan's invitation not only to exhibit but be closely involved in a show. Wegman is famous for his photograph... more »
