It's the 31st year of the Museum Mile Festival, where Fifth Avenue between 82nd and 105th Streets is closed so people can visit the nine museums along that stretch for free! The participating museums are: El Museo del Barrio; Museum of the City of New York; The Jewish Museum; Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Neue Galerie New York; Goethe-Institut/German Cultural Center; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. more ›

Nearly three decades ago, Andy Warhol's dealer made a list of 100 prominent 20th century Jews. Warhol created silkscreen paintings of ten of them. The show, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, premiered at The Jewish Museum in 1980. It was met with both admiration and criticism, and turned a pretty penny for the painter. more ›