♪ >>> COMING UP ON NYC ARTS, A LOOK AT THE NEW MOYNIHAN TRAIN HALL, THE REIMAGINED PUBLIC SPACE AND A SOURCE OF CIVIC PRIDE TO NEW YORKERS.

>> THEY HAVE CREATED A WORK THAT THEY'VE CALLED THE HIVE, A SCULPTURE THAT HANGS DOWN FROM THE CEILING COMPRISED OF DOZENS OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS, ALL SHAPES AND SIZES.

THEY'VE BEEN INSPIRED BY BUILDINGS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, AS WELL AS THEIR OWN ARCHITECTURAL INVENTIONS.

>> A VISIT TO THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO SEE A HIGHLIGHT OF THEIR COLLECTION OF AMERICAN PAINTINGS.

>> BEHIND ME IS THE RETURN OF THE 69th REGIMENT, THE IRISH REGIMENT IN 1862, FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

WANG HAS USED THIS AS A KIND OF SHOW PIECE TO SHOWCASE HIS ABILITY AS A DRAMA PAINTER, AS A PORTRAITIST AND AS A LANDSCAPIST.

>>> AND A LOOK AT CURRENT EXHIBITIONS THAT CELEBRATE THE HISPANIC SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY'S EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF ART FROM SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA AS WELL AS LITERATURE.

>> FUNDING FOR NYC ARTS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY -- THE LEWIS SONNY TURNER FUND FOR DANCE.

THE AMBROSE MONEL FOUNDATION.

CHARLES AND VALERIE.

THE NANCY SIDEWATER FOUNDATION.

THE MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION.

ELROY AND TERRY CRUM HOLTZ FOUNDATION AND ELLEN AND JAMES S. MARCUS.

THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL.

ADDITIONAL FUNDING PROVIDED BY MEMBERS OF THIRTEEN.

NYC ARTS IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY -- >> FIRST REPUBLIC BANK PRESENTS FIRST THINGS FIRST.

AT FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, FIRST REFERS TO OUR FIRST PRIORITY.

THE CLIENTS WHO WALK THROUGH OUR DOORS.

THE FIRST STEP.

RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY CLIENT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH UNIQUE NEEDS.

FIRST DEKRCREE.

SERVICE IN THE FORM OF PERSONAL BANKING.

THIS IS FIRST PUBLIC'S MISSION FROM OUR VERY FIRST DAY.

IT'S STILL THE FIRST THING ON OUR MINDS.

>> AND BY -- >> SWAN OCEAN GALLERIES.

WE HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT AUCTIONS.

VINTAGE BOOKS AND FINE ARTS SINCE 1941.

COMBINING KNOWLEDGE WITH ACCESS ACCESSIBILITY, WHETHER YOU ARE A LONGTIME COLLECTOR OR FIRST TIME COLLECTOR.

>> AND BY -- >> SINCE 1975 PROVIDING FABRICS AND DECORATIVE ACOUSTIC PRODUCTS FOR WALL, CEILING AND FLOOR APPLICATIONS AND CUSTOM ACOUSTAL DESIGN SERVICES FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL NEEDS.

INFORMATION AT UNIKAVEV.COM.

♪ ♪ ♪ >>> GOOD EVENING.

AND WELCOME TO "NYC ARTS."

I'M ON LOCATION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN.

IT IS LOCATED AT MADISON AVENUE AND 36th STREET.

THE MORGAN BEGAN AS THE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF FINANCIER PIERRE PARK MORGAN, ONE OF THE PREEMINANT ART COLLECTORS AND BENEFACTORS IN THE UNITED STATES.

FOUNDED IN 1906, THE MORGAN NOW SERVES AS A MUSEUM, INDEPENDENT RESEARCH LIBRARY, MUSIC VENUE, ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARK AND HISTORIC SITE.

I AM HERE IN THE MAGNIFICENT EAST ROOM.

MR. MORGAN'S LIBRARY.

DESIGNED BY A CELEBRATED ARCHITECT OF THE TIME, CHARLES F. McKIM.

COMPLETED A FEW YEARS BEFORE McKIM'S DEATH.

IT IS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE HIS MASTERPIECE.

THE BUILDING EMBODIES THE RENAISSANCE IDEAL OF THE UNITY OF ALL THE ARTS, INTEGRATING ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING WHILE USING THE FINEST MATERIALS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS ARE ALSO PART OF THE MORGAN'S PROGRAMMING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

CURRENTLY ON VIEW IS ANOTHER TRADITION DRAWINGS BY BLACK ARTISTS FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH.

THE EXHIBITION CELEBRATES THE MORGAN'S ACQUISITION OF 11 DRAWINGS FROM THE ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING BLACK SOUTHERN ARTISTS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES.

ARTISTS REPRESENTED IN THE ACQUISITION INCLUDE DIAL, NELLY MAY ROW, HENRY SPILLER, LONNIE HOLLY AND CURTIS YOUNG.

THE FOCUS IS ON DRAWING USING A RANGE OF MEDIA SUCH AS WATERCOLOR, BALLPOINT PEN, CRAYON AND EVEN GLITTER.

THORNTON DIALS LIFE GOES ON FROM 1990 IS COMPRISED OF WATERCOLOR, ACRYLIC AND GRAPHITE.

HERE HE EXPERIMENTED WITH DIFFERENT MATERIALS AND SURFACES.

IN THIS EARLY EXAMPLE, CREATED ON HEAVY HANDMADE PAPER, THE BIRD'S NEST SITS ATOP A WOMAN'S HEAD.

APPEARING BARE AND WITH ROUGED CHEEKS AND SURROUNDED BY LUSH GREEN PLANTS, SHE IS A SYMBOL OF FERTILITY.

NELLY MAY ROSE, UNTITLED, WOMAN TALKING TO ANIMALS, 1981, IS CHARACTERISTIC OF HER DRAWINGS.

RECALLING HER RURAL UPBRINGING ON A FARM IN GEORGIA.

IN THIS WORK, TWO HUMAN FIGURES HOVER IN A DREAM-LIKE SPACE ALONGSIDE SOME 20 ANIMALS, INCLUDING BIRDS, DOGS AND SNAKES.

SHE USES THE WHOLE OF THE SHEET, THE DENSITY OF HER MARKS EXTENDING FROM EDGE TO EDGE.

IN SOMETIMES I GET EMOTION FROM THE GAME, WHICH IS FROM 1980, YOUNG USED BALLPOINT PEN AND MARK OR PAPER GLUED TO THE FOUNT BOOK.

INSPIRED BY ALL MASTERS SUCH AS EL GRECO, HE PAINTED EXPRESSIONISTIC FIGURES IN DYNAMIC GROUPS.

A DRAWING OF MEN PLAYING BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL.

AS THE TITLE OF THE WORK SUGGESTS, YOUNG VIEWED SPORTS AS A SPACE OF FREEDOM AND RELEASE FROM THE CONDITIONS THAT GOVERNED THE LIVES OF THE BLACK MEN HE KNEW.

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON VIEW THROUGH JANUARY TO THE 16th OF 2022.

IN OUR PROGRAM TONIGHT WE'LL VISIT THE NEW MOYNIHAN TRAIN HALL, A VISIONARY TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATION'S BUSIEST TRANSPORTATION HUB.

LOCATED ACROSS FROM PENN STATION, THE HALL IS NAMED AFTER SENATOR PATRICK MOYNIHAN WHO FIRST PROMOTED THE IDEA OF RESTORING THE AREA TO ITS FORMER GLORY.

THE ORIGINAL PENNSYLVANIA STATION HAD BEEN DEMOLISHED IN THE EARLY 1960s TO MAKE WAY FOR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.

THE 1914 JAMES FARRELLY POST OFFICE IS THE ARCHITECTURAL SISTER TO THE OLD PENN STATION, ALSO DESIGNED BY McKIM, NEED AND WHITE.

IT'S BEEN CONVERTED INTO A 21st CENTURY TRANSIT CENTER FOR LONG ISLAND RAILROAD AND AMTRAK PASSENGERS AND A GRAND PUBLIC SPACE AND SOURCE OF CIVIC PRIDE FOR ALL NEW YORKERS.

THREE INSTALLATIONS WERE COMMISSIONED FOR THE SITE BY NEW YORK STATE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PUBLIC ART FUND.

IN THE WAITING ROOM ADJACENT TO THE MAIN CONCOURSE, STAN DOUGLAS' PHOTOGRAPHIC PANELS IMAGINATIVELY RE-CREATE AND PAY TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL PENN STATION.

AT THE MIDBLOCK ENTRANCES AT 31st AND 33rd STREETS, DYNAMIC AND COLORFUL CEILING INSTALLATIONS BY ARTISTIC DUO ELMGREEN AND DRAGSET, AS WELL AS ARTIST WILEY, WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE STATION.

THESE PUBLIC ARTWORKS MAKE MOYNIHAN TRAIN HALL A DESTINATION IN ITS OWN RIGHT WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE CATCHING A TRAIN.

NICHOLAS BOWMAN, DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CURATOR OF PUBLIC ART FUND TELLS US ABOUT THE ARTISTS AND ARTWORK SELECTED FOR THE PROJECT.

>> IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US THAT THE ARTWORK'S COMMISSIONED FOR THIS WONDERFUL NEW CIVIC LANDMARK WOULD REALLY EXPRESS SOMETHING ABOUT WHERE, WHO AND WHAT WE ARE.

NEW YORK CITY IS A VIBRANT OPEN DEMOCRATIC PLACE, AND WE WANTED TO REFLECT THAT.

WE WANTED TO REFLECT THE FACT THAT THIS BUILDING BRINGS TOGETHER SO MANY LAYERS OF THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

AND EACH ARTIST COULD, THROUGH THEIR OWN CREATIVE IMAGINATION CAPTURE SOMETHING UNIQUE ABOUT THAT.

STAN DOUGLAS HAS CREATED A WORK THAT HE'S CALLED "PENN STATION'S HALF CENTURY" BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL PENN STATION REALLY ONLY EXISTED FOR A HALF CENTURY.

IT WAS AN ICONIC NEW YORK CITY LANDMARK, A MAGNIFICENT BUILDING DESIGNED BY McKIM, MEAD AND WHITE THAT WAS TRAGICALLY DEMOLISHED.

STAN HAS DIGITALLY CREATED THE INTERIOR OF THE ORIGINAL PENN STATION AND THEN PHOTOGRAPHED PERFORMANCE DRESSED IN PERIOD COSTUME, RE-ENACTING STAN'S OWN RE-IMAGINATION OF EVENTS THAT HAPPENED.

AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MOMENTS THAT STAN CHOSE, THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY WORLD-CHANGING EVENTS.

IT'S MORE QUIRKY MOMENTS THAT MEANT SOMETHING THAT EXPRESSED THE WAY PENN STATION FUNCTIONED IN THE LIFE OF NEW YORK CITY.

IT WAS A PLACE WHERE THINGS HAPPENED LIKE AN IMPROMPTU VAUDEVILLE SHOW WHEN PERFORMERS WERE STRANDED HERE OVERNIGHT IN A SNOWSTORM.

OR THE TENDER MOMENTS OF GOOD-BYE WHEN SERVICEMEN WERE GOING OFF TO WAR.

STAN'S WORK FEATURES A NUMBER OF AMAZING PEOPLE, BUT WHO HAVE BEEN LARGELY FORGOTTEN.

EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE LIKE BURT WILLIAMS, PIONEERING LABOR ORGANIZERS LIKE ANGELO HERNDON OR EVEN A NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL LIKE CECILIA KUHNY.

STAN HAS REMINDED US ABOUT AND PRESERVED FOR ALL OF US TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT WHAT SHAPED WHO WE ARE TODAY.

WILEY'S WORK "GO" IN A SENSE BRINGS A TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND VITALITY TO A CLASSICAL GENRE.

THE RENAISSANCE-STYLE CEILING FRESCO WHICH HAS BEEN REINVENTED AS A CONTEMPORARY STAINED GLASS CEILING.

SO IN ANOTHER WAY IT BRINGS TOGETHER THESE IDEAS OF THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE BECAUSE WHILE IT GESTURES TO ART HISTORY, HIS CHARACTERS ARE CONTEMPORARY NEW YORKERS.

BREAK DANCERS.

PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY PERFORMING EXTRAORDINARY ACROBATIC ATHLETIC, CREATIVE GESTURES AND AN ART WORM THAT WAS INVENTED IN NEW YORK CITY AND THAT WE SEE THESE BLACK BODIES TUMBLING THROUGH SPACE AND FLOATING THROUGH THE AIR.

THEY HAVE CREATED A WORK THAT THEY'VE CALLED "THE HIVE."

A SCULPTURE THAT HANGS DOWN FROM THE CEILING COMPRISED OF DOZENS OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS, ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU START TO THINK, WAIT A MINUTE, I RECOGNIZE THAT BUILDING.

THAT LOOKS LIKE THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING OR DIDN'T I SEE THAT IN LONDON OR HONG KONG.

THEY'VE BEEN INSPIRED BY BUILDINGS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, AS WELL AS THEIR OWN ARCHITECTURAL INVENTIONS.

I THINK THE ARTIST CHOSE TO CALL IT "THE HIVE" BECAUSE THEY REALLY LOVED THE IDEA OF THE WAY THE CONTEMPORARY MEGA CITY IS SOMEHOW LIKE A BEEHIVE, A GROWING, EVOLVING, COMPLEX STRUCTURE.

AND I THINK FOR THEM, A TRAIN STATION AND THE IDEA OF TRAVEL AND EVEN THE IDEA OF NEW YORK CITY IS ABOUT CONNECTIONS AND THE ENERGY CREATED WHEN PEOPLE COME TOGETHER.

TRANSFORMS A PUBLIC SPACE INTO A TRULY CIVIC SPACE.

WHAT IS IT?

IT CAPTURES THE SPIRIT OF NEW YORK CITY.

THERE'S NO WAY TO SIMPLY ILLUSTRATE THAT, BUT A GREAT ARTIST CAN, THROUGH THEIR IMAGINATIVE VISION, THROUGH THEIR CREATIVITY, CREATE SOMETHING THAT DOES CAPTURE SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT IT IS TO BE ALIVE TODAY.

BUT SOMETHING THAT CAN ALSO TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE PAST AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE FUTURE.

AND THAT CAN EXIST FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

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>>> NEXT, A VISIT TO THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR A LOOK AT A HIGHLIGHT IN THEIR COLLECTION OF OUTSTANDING AMERICAN PAINTINGS.

♪ >> WELCOME TO THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

NEW YORK CITY'S OLDEST MUSEUM FOUNDED IN 1804.

I'M ROBERTA OLSON, CURATOR OF DRAWINGS HERE.

BEHIND ME IS AN INCREDIBLE TOUR DE FORCE PAINTING BY LOUIE LONG WHO WAS AN IMMIGRANT FROM GERMANY WHO STUDIED IN FRANCE AND ITALY AND CAME TO NEW YORK AND WAS KNOWN SPECIFICALLY FOR GENRE AND PORTRAITS.

AND THIS IS REALLY HIS PIECE DE RESISTANCE, HIS MAJOR PAINTING.

HE DID IT NOT ON COMMISSION BUT BECAUSE HE WAS INSPIRED TO PAINT THIS WORK, WHICH IS THE RETURN OF THE 69th REGIMENT.

THE IRISH REGIMENT IN 1862 FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

WANG HAS USED THIS AS A KIND OF SHOWPIECE TO SHOWCASE HIS ABILITY AS A GENRE PAINTER, A PORTRAITIST AND AS A LANDSCAPIST.

THE CANVAS IS PRECINEMATIC.

YOUR EYE CANNOT STOP.

IT FLICKERS OVER ALL OF THE LITTLE VIGNETTES YOU SEE HERE.

THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT MOVE YOU AROUND IN THIS CANVAS.

NOT ONLY THE WONDERFUL, SMALL ANECDOTAL DETAILS YOU CAN GET LOST IN.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE HARBOR, YOU CAN ALMOST SEE THE SHIPS BEGINNING TO PASS.

THERE'S THIS FEELING OF THE RESTLESSNESS, THE SORT OF ENERGY OF NEW YORK THAT WAS PART OF THE WATER AND PART OF THE HARBOR.

ENTIRE PAINTINGS SHOWS A CURRENT EVENT IN A VERY HISTORICAL, MONUMENTAL WAY.

7 FEET BY 11 1/2 FEET.

HE HAS BLOWN IT UP TO NEARLY LIFE SIZE.

THE CANVAS DEPICTS THE ARRIVAL OF THE 69th REGIMENT DOWNTOWN NEAR BOWLING GREEN IN WHAT IS NOW BATTERY PARK.

TO THE LEFT IS CASTLE GARDEN, WHICH WAS BUILT ON A FORT AND IT WAS A SORT OF CLEARING PLACE FOR IMMIGRATION BEFORE ELLIS ISLAND.

TO THE RIGHT, YOU SEE ON THE VERY FAR RIGHT, THE WASHINGTON HOTEL WITH SPECTATORS CHEERING ON THIS RETURN OF THE SONS OF THE IRISH REGIMENT FROM NEW YORK COMING BACK FROM THEIR SERVICE OF THREE MONTHS.

THEY HAD JUST UNDERGONE THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN, WHICH WAS A LOSS FOR THE UNION CAUSE, BUT THEY HAD DONE SPECTACULARLY IN THAT AND HAD HELD OFF THE CONFEDERATE.

SOME MAJOR HISTORICAL FIGURES HERE.

THE MAN ON HORSEBACK RAISING HIS HAND, THIS IS CAPTAIN MEAGER WHO WAS ACTUALLY AN IRISHMAN.

A HERO DURING THIS PARTICULAR WAR.

THE ACTUAL COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT, BRIGADIER GENERAL CORCORAN IS NOT PRESENT PHYSICALLY IN THIS PAINTING, BUT HE CERTAINLY IS IN SPIRIT BECAUSE WE SEE HIM AND HIS PORTRAIT BEING HELD UP BY THE NEWSBOY AT THE FAR RIGHT WHO IS HOCKING THESE PAPERS.

HE WAS WASTING AWAY IN A CONFEDERATE PRISON.

HE HAD BEEN CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN BUT IS STILL HERE INSPIRING THE HEROES OF THE REGIMENT.

IT'S A PATRIOTIC PAINTING.

NOTICE ALL OF THE AMERICAN FLAGS HERE.

YOU ALSO HAVE IRISH FLAGS.

IT'S A DOCUDRAMA.

IT IS FILLED WITH SENTIMENT.

IT HAS ALL OF THESE THINGS WHICH ENGAGE THE VIEWER BOTH EMOTIONALLY, INTELLECTUALLY AND ALSO IN TERMS OF CURRENT EVENTS.

AMONG THE COMPELLING VIGNETTES IS THE MOTHER IN THE YELLOW DRESS WELCOMING HOME HER WOUNDED SON.

YOU SEE THE TWO BOYS FIGHTING OVER THE RIFLE IN THE FOREGROUND.

YOU'LL SEE OTHER THINGS.

YOU'LL SEE LIKE A SHOULDER COMING DOWN WITH HIS LEG BANDAGE AND THERE'S A PRIEST MINISTERING TO THE PEOPLE.

DEAD CENTER YOU HAVE THE MARCH.

YOU HAVE ALL THE YOUNG DRUMMER BOYS AND YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR THE DRUMS GOING RAT-A-TAT-TAT AS THEY MARCH UP BROADWAY IN THIS PROCESSION MEANT TO CELEBRATE THE HEROES OF THE UNION CAUSE.

LANG'S MONUMENTAL CANVAS IS REALLY A MICROCOSM TO LOOK AT THE MACRO COSM.

IT'S A PORTAL, A LENS IN WHICH TO JUMP INTO THE REST OF THE OFFERINGS AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

♪ >>> I'D LIKE TO RECOMMEND AN EXCEPTIONAL EXHIBITION ON VIEW AT THE HISPANIC SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY IN UPPER MANHATTAN.

THE SOCIETY PROVIDES ACCESS TO THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF HISPANIC ART AND LITERATURE OUTSIDE OF SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA.

ENTITLED "GILDED FIGURES," WOOD AND PLAY MADE FLESH, IT OFFERS A RARE GLIMPSE OF THE MAJOR ART FORM FROM SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA FROM 1500 TO 1800.

IT IS POLYCHROME SCULPTURE.

THAT IS SCULPTURE BRIGHTLY PAINTED FOR STRIKINGLY NATURALISTIC EFFECT.

THE MORE THAN 20 SCULPTURES ON VIEW NOT ONLY ATTEST TO THE HIGH LEVEL OF ARTISTIC PRODUCTION BUT NOTABLY ALSO INCLUDE WORKS BY WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE 17th CENTURY.

GILDED FIGURES BEGINS WITH LAID GOTHIC AND EARLY RENAISSANCE WORKS FROM THE FINEST SCULPT ARES FROM CASTILLE.

A SUPERB RELIEF OF THE RESURRECTION WHICH REVEALS THE DAZZLING TALENT OF THESE ARTISTS.

THE 17th CENTURY BUST SHOWS THE DECISIVE WAY THAT ITALIAN MODELS SHARED THE WORK OF FOLLOWING GENERATIONS.

THE BAROQUE PERIOD WITNESSED AN IMPRESSIVE FLOWERING IN WHICH FIGURES ACHIEVED STUNNING NATURALISM AS IN HIS "ST.

ASISCUS."

NOTABLE ARE WORKS BY 17th CENTURY WOMEN ARTISTS.

LUISA AND ADRIANA.

THEY ACHIEVED SUCH SUCCESS IN HER LIFETIME THAT SHE ROSE TO THE POSITION OF ROYAL SCULPTOR.

ALSO ON VIEW, SCULPTURES FROM LATIN AMERICA.

WORKS OF IMPRESSIVE RANGE AND SCALE OF EMOTION.

FROM MEXICO, THE 16th CENTURY RELIEF OF SANTIAGO MATAMOROS.

FROM ECUADOR, STATUES THE VIRGIN OF CUNITO AND ST. MICHAEL AND THE MOST ROMANTIC DISPLAY ALSO FROM ECUADOR, THE FOUR FATES OF MAN.

IN THESE FIGURES, THE INDIGENOUS SCULPTOR DEPICTS IN EXQUISITE DETAIL A DRAMATIC RANGE OF EMOTIONS AS PART OF A MISSION TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO PERSEVERE IN THEIR FAITH.

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON VIEW UNTIL JANUARY 9, 2022.

TREASURES FROM THE HISPANIC SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY MAY BE SEEN AS WELL AS THE GROLIER CLUB ON EAST 60th STREET.

ON VIEW, MORE THAN 100 MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS THAT REPRESENT THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SPAIN AND THE AMERICAS.

THE PRESENTATION OFFERS GREATER DIVERSITY BY INCLUDING SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND LATIN AMERICAN MATERIAL, AMASSED LARGELY BY THE 20th CENTURY BIBLIOFILE.

THE MANUSCRIPTS ATTEST TO THE BREADTH OF THE COLLECTION IN GEOGRAPHY AND FUNCTION.

THE HISTORY OF SPAIN AND THE AMERICAS IS FEATURED IN MEDIEVAL CHARTERS, ROYAL LETTERS, MANUSCRIPT BIBLES, BOOKS OF OURS, AS WELL AS HISTORICAL, SCIENTIFIC LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS AND EXTRAORDINARY MAPS.

THE EXHIBITION IS ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 18th.

>>> NEXT WEEK ON "NYC ART," A VISIT TO A NEW PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM IN THE FLAT IRON DISTRICT.

>> AS PEOPLE MOVE THROUGH THIS SPACE WHAT WE REALLY WANTED TO EMPHASIZE IS DIFFERENT TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MIXED WITH FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, MIXED WITH LANDSCAPE, FINE ART CONCEPTUAL WORK, REALLY HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.

>> A TRIP TO AUTOMANIA.

AN EXHIBITION FEATURING SOME OF THE CARS OF THE 21st CENTURY.

>> THE JAGUAR E-TYPE FROM 1963 OFTEN IS WHAT HOOKS PEOPLE.

IT'S AN INCREDIBLE.

DEEP PURPLE COLOR.

AND IT'S AN UNDENIABLY SEXY CAR.

ONE THING THAT SETS JAGUAR APART IS COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING IT WAS MUCH MORE AFFORDABLE THAN A COMPARABLE CAR FROM PORSCHE OR MASERATI.

STILL AN EXPENSIVE CAR.

DEFINITELY NOT CHEAP BUT IT WAS ONE THAT CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF PARTICULARLY THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AND THE PUBLIC IN THE UK.

>> AND A LOOK AT A HIGHLIGHT IN THE COLLECTION OF THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM.

>> JEAN MARCEL GATHERED -- OF HIS HOME AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA AND STARTED FASHIONING WHAT HE CALLS WOODEN QUILTS, PAYING HOMAGE TO HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A JUNK COLLECTOR AND HIS GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WHO WAS A QUILTMAKER.

>>> I HOPE YOU ENJOYED OUR PROGRAM TONIGHT.

I'M PHILIPPE ON LOCATION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

♪ >>> FUNDING FOR NYC ARTS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THEA PETS PETSCHEK IERVOLINO FOUNDATION, THE AMBROSE MONELL FOUNDATION, JOEDY AND JOHN ARNHOLD, THE NANCY SIDEWATER FOUNDATION.

THE MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION.

ELROY AND TERRY KRUMHOLZ FOUNDATION AND ELLEN AND JAMES S. MARCUS.

THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL.

ADDITIONAL FUNDING PROVIDED BY MEMBERS OF THIRTEEN.

NYC ARTS IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY -- >> FIRST REPUBLIC BANK PRESENTS FIRST THINGS FIRST.

AT FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, FIRST REFERS TO OUR FIRST PRIORITY.

THE CLIENTS WHO WALK THROUGH OUR DOORS.

THE FIRST STEP, RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY CLIENT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH UNIQUE NEEDS.

FIRST DECREE.

BE A BANK WHOSE CURRENCY IS SERVICE IN THE FORM OF PERSONAL BANKING.

THIS IS FIRST REPUBLIC'S MISSION FROM OUR VERY FIRST DAY.

IT'S STILL THE FIRST THING ON OUR MINDS.

>> AND BY -- >> SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES.

WE HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT AUCTIONS.

OFFERING VINTAGE BOOKS AND FINE ART SINCE 1941.

WORKING TO COMBINE KNOWLEDGE WITH ACCESSIBILITY.

INFORMATION AT SWANN GALLERIES.COM.

>> AND BY -- >> UNIKA VAEV PROVIDING FABRICS AND DECORATIVE ACOUSTIC PRODUCTS FOR WALLS AND SURFACES.

INFORMATION AT UNIKAVAEV.COM.