Fans of art and sculpture will enjoy a stroll through the Socrates Sculpture Park, founded by an American sculptor named Mark di Suvero in 1986. What was once an abandoned landfill is now an outdoor exhibition space for sculpture and large-scale work. The park hosts events and programs like kids workshops, adult workshops, kite making and flying, fitness programs, outdoor cinema, and much more. In addition to encouraging and showcasing the creative expression of the featured artists, the park provides an environment conducive to artists, artwork and social interaction.
The Town Hall is an entertainment venue in Manhattan, and since opening in 1921, the hall has become a premier avenue for educational programs, activist gatherings and performance space for music, dance and other performing arts media. Throughout the years, the Town Hall has seen the faces of many famous musical, political, artistic and intellectual personalities. Jacques Cousteau, Joan Crawford, Miles Davis, Ellen DeGeneres, Celine Dion, Jane Fonda, Billie Holiday, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles and many more have showcased their talents or supported their cause on the stage here.
When you're checking out the sights of Brooklyn, be sure to spend some time at Prospect Park. The beautiful park occupies 585 acres and boasts a sprawling 90-acre meadow, aptly named Long Meadow, man-made waterways and lakes, the Prospect Park Zoo, a boathouse for Brooklyn's only lake, facilities for a variety of sports and the Prospect Park Bandshell concert venue. Musicians like Modest Mouse, Emmylou Harris and Bob Dylan have played at the venue, so keep an eye on the park's calendar because you never know when your favorite singer may take the stage.
The Ukrainian Museum was founded in 1976 and is the largest museum in the United States committed to collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting art and objects significant to the heritage of the Ukrainians. The museum organizes its holdings in three categories: an 8,000 piece folk art collection, a 2,000 piece fine art collection and archives stocked with over 30,000 items. The collections include festive and ritual clothing, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, decorative wood carvings, paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures. The archives contain photographs, documents, personal correspondence of noted individuals, playbills and posters.