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Ms. Golden mentions the Havana Bienial.  Recently, US restrictions on travel to Cuba have been relaxed.  Take advantage of this to make a quick hop to the island to view this art exhibit and soak in the splendor (and decay) of the city's amazing architecture!

An exciting new exhibition at MoMA this winter.  On view now through May 14th.  This is not a travelling exhibition so visit soon!  Its interesting to note that Diego Rivera was the subject of MoMA’s second monographic exhibition (the first was Henri Matisse), which set new attendance records in its five-week run from December 22, 1931, to January 27, 1932. This highlights Rivera's status as a "celebrity" artist during the period between the World Wars.

MoMA brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the exhibition’s opening and gave him studio space within the Museum, a strategy intended to solve the problem of how to present the work of this famous muralist when murals were by definition made and fixed on site. Working around the clock with two assistants, Rivera produced five “portable murals”—large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime, and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, now taking on New York subjects through monumental images of the urban working class and the social stratification of the city during the Great Depression. All eight were on display for the rest of the show’s run. The first of these panels, Agrarian Leader Zapata, is an icon in the Museum’s collection.

This exhibition will bring together key works made for Rivera’s 1931 exhibition, presenting them at MoMA for the first time in nearly 80 years. Along with mural panels, the show will include full-scale drawings, smaller working drawings, archival materials related to the commission and production of these works, and designs for Rivera’s famous Rockefeller Center mural, which he also produced while he was working at the Museum. Focused specifically on works created during the artist’s stay in New York, this exhibition will draw a succinct portrait of Rivera as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico, and the United States, and will offer a fresh look at the intersection of art making and radical politics in the 1930s. MoMA will be the exhibition’s sole venue.

The exhibition features artwork, props and puppets from Henson’s work on films and television shows like Sesame Street,  The Dark Crystal and Fraggle Rock, and has hosted special guests like the longtime Henson colleague Frank Oz; family members Brian and Cheryl Henson; and Kevin Clash, the Muppeteer who performs Elmo. The Museum has also reached hundreds of school groups visiting the museum for guided tours and education programs.  Overall, the exhibition has drawn nearly 90,000 visitors since its opening on July 16, the museum said, and is expected to have more than 100,000 visitors by the time it closes.  Read more in the Time's Art Beat here.

LGBT Artists have had a dedicated home on Wooster Street to show their work ever since art collectors J. Frederic "Fritz" Lohman and Charles W. Leslie founded the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation in 1990.

That space is now moving up in the art world, becoming the city's latest museum.  The newly accredited Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will celebrate its transformation on Tuesday with an exhibition of 45 works pulled from its 6,000-piece permanent collection.

"Creating a Queer Museum" includes work by Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Catherine Opie, Andy Warhol and the documentary maker Joan E. Biren, who goes by the initials JEB.

An untitled 1895 print by Wilhelm von Gloeden is among the works in the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art's permanent collection. (Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art)

Museum spokesman Jerry Kajpust said being designated a museum by the state board of regents allows Leslie-Lohman to offer more.

"This establishes us as more of a credible institution in the arts community and with [art&91; lending institutions," he said.