museums: our new favorite way to beat the heat

July 7th, 2010

Now that our iced coffee has no chance in this 102 degree city, we’ve come up with a few cultural ways to beat the heat in our favorite US cities. Museums in Chicago, DC and New York are featuring fabulous, and fabulously air conditioned, exhibitions all summer long. Once you’re totally art-ed out, crash in style at Park Hyatt Chicago or DC, and take your pick of Andaz Wall Street or Andaz 5^th Avenue in New York.

Modernists must check out Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, and Joy, an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago running until October 17th. Most famously known for introducing the mobile to society, Calder is represented by five colorful and movable creations (that might even resemble a fan if looked at just so). More interested in seeing the work of Leonardo da Vinci? Swing by DC’s National Geographic Museum, which is featuring a special section on the Mona Lisa, revealing 25 secrets about the painting now through September 12th. For fashionistas, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is showing American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, on view until August 15^th, which showcases clothing from 1890-1940, highlighting how political, social, and sexual revolutions have all affected style. Perhaps you’ll even learn a few tricks about how our pre-tank top and flip flop ancestors kept cool without central air?

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