Museums – Page 45

Everyone Thought He Had Made the Famous Gown. It Was His Wife.

This fall, the Metropolitan and three other museums give female designers their due.

By Vanessa Friedman

Metropolitan Museum of Art Museums Poetry and Poets Schiff, Robyn

A Poet’s View of the Met From Behind the Information Desk

On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous octagonal information desk.

By Maggie Lange

Finances Israel Museum Jewish Museum (Manhattan, NY) Jews and Judaism Museums Snyder, James S

International Museum Leader to Head Jewish Museum

James S. Snyder, 71, after a long career split between MoMA and the Israel Museum, will lead one of the largest museums dedicated to Jewish culture worldwide.

By Hilarie M. Sheets

Art Cemeteries Culture (Arts) Historic Buildings and Sites Jews and Judaism Museums Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa (Venice, Italy, Museum) Travel and Vacations Veneto (Italy) Venice (Italy)

How to Avoid Crowds in Venice

Yes, Venice is so very congested. Yet visiting this unique Italian city doesn’t always require taking what Italians call un bagno di folla — a bath in the crowd.

By Anna Momigliano