The Musical Crossroads gallery will present a broad spectrum of artifacts from those of turn of the century folk hero and blues guitar legend Huddle "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, to the sequencer and synthesizer of late hip-hop producer James Yancey, better known as J Dilla.
In an effort to draw visitors to the recently renovated and reopened Musical Instruments Galleries, the Met has temporarily introduced a single charismatic item: a gold-plated snare drum belonging to Ringo Starr.
A few blocks north, at the museum's Beaux-Arts HQ, there was a less splashy, but no less momentous, unveiling: the redesign of the museum's musical instrument galleries, which have been shuttered for the past two years.
Young musicians may step upstairs to the musical instruments galleries, home to dreamy, fancifully decorated antique violins, pianos, guitars, lutes, trumpets and saxophones, as well as traditional African drums and Indian sitars.
PEEKSKILL VanGlen Gallery "Musical Pieces," sculpture by Wilfredo Morel.
THE art scene in Berlin can sometimes seem like a big game of musical chairs, as galleries migrate from neighborhood to neighborhood in search of undiscovered spaces, low rents and artist-friendly locals.
There are no musical references in this gallery of pictures, at least in its current configuration.
To say that Ms. Ebersole has almost as many personalities inside her as appear in that illustration is not to suggest that her show, directed by Scott Wittman, is a gallery of musical caricatures.
One looks for coherence in small things rather than in large — in the unchanged gallery displaying musical instruments, say, or the gallery in which, for six weeks, a rarely displayed copy of the Gettysburg Address on loan from the White House will be shown.
Sangeeta Vadyakhand is a gallery of musical instruments from India and other countries.
