1、单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Reading,The Best Of Manhattans Art Galleries,The Frick Collection,弗里克收藏馆,Henry Clay Frick,Home of Frick,5th and Madison,Avenues,Many art lovers consider this to be the best small art gallery in New York.Henry Clay Frick,a rich New Yorker,died in 1919,leavi
2、ng his house,furniture,and art collection to the,The Frick Collection,Avenue n.,大街,:a hotel on Fifth Avenue,第五大街上的旅馆,American people.At this Gallery,you will not only see an excellent collection of pre-twentieth century Western paintings but you will also be able to explore Fricks beautiful house.Th
3、e garden of this lovely mansion is also well worth a visit.,Guggenheim Museum,古根海姆博物馆,5th Avenue and 88th Street,This museum owns 5,000 modern paintings,sculptures and drawings.These art works are not all displayed at the same time.The,exhibition,is always changing.,Guggenheim Museum,exhibition n,.,
4、展览,展出,;,展览品,The largest part of the collection is the impressionist and post-impressionist section.The Guggenheim Museum building is world famous.When you walk into the gallery you feel like you are inside a huge white sea shell.The best way to see the paintings is to start,from the top floor and wa
5、lk down to the bottom.There are no stairs,just a circular path.The museum also has excellent restaurant.,Metropolitan Museum Of Art,大都会博物馆,Metropolitan Museum of Art,5th Avenue and 82nd Street,This museum has the greatest collection of art in the United States.Its art collection covers more than 5,0
6、00 years,of,civilization,from many parts of the world,including America,Europe,China,Egypt,Africa and South America.The museum displays more than just art.It introduces you to ancient ways of living.You can visit an Egyptian Temple,a Ming garden,a room in an 18th century French house and many other
7、special exhibitions.,civilization n.,文明,Museum of Modern Art,现代艺术博物馆,Museum of Modern Art,53rd Street(between 5th and 6th Avenue),It is amazing that so many great works of art from the late 19th century to the 21st,century could be contained in the same museum.The collection of Western art includes
8、paintings by such famous artists as Monet,Van Gogh,Picasso,and Matisse.A few words of warning:admission price is not cheap and the museum is often very crowded.,Monet,Matisse,French painter,Whitney Museum of American Art,惠特尼美国艺术博物馆,Whitney Museum of American Art,945 Madison Avenue(near 75th St.),The
9、 Whitney holds an excellent collection of,contemporary,American painting and sculpture.There are no,permanent,displays in this museum and exhibitions change all the time.,contemporary adj.,当时的,同时代的,permanent adj.,永久的,持久的,Every two years,the Whitney holds a special exhibition of new art by living art
10、ists.The museum also shows videos and films by contemporary video artists.,Complete the chart with the information from the reading passage.,Name,Address,Type of Art,Which centuries?,What countries?,Whitney Museum of American Art,945 Madison Avenue(near 75th St.),Contemporary(mainly art by living ar
11、tists),America,Name,Address,Type of Art,Which centuries?,What countries?,Museum,of,Modern,Art,53rd Street(between 5th and 6th Avenues),Late 19th century to the 21st century,Western countries,Name,Address,Type of Art,Which centuries?,What countries?,Metropolitan Museum of Art,5th Avenue and 82,nd,Str
12、eet,All over the world,From,ancient,to modern,times,Name,Address,Type of Art,Which centuries?,What countries?,Guggen,heim,Museum,5th Avenue and 88th Street,Modern(from late 19th century onwards),Western countries,Name,Address,Type of Art,Which centuries?,What countries?,The Frick,Museum,5th and Madison Avenue,Before the 20th century,western countries,






