1. 人教课标
高二 选修 6
Unit 1

2. The Best Of Manhattan’s Art Galleries
Reading
The Best Of Manhattan’s Art Galleries

3. The Frick Collection弗里克收藏馆
Henry Clay Frick
The Frick Collection弗里克收藏馆

4. Home of Frick

5. 5th Avenues and E.70th Street
The Frick Collection
5th Avenues and E.70th Street
Many art lovers would rather visit this small art gallery than any other in New York. Henry Clay Frick, a rich New Yorker, died in 1919, leaving his house, furniture, and art collection to the
Avenue n. 大街: a hotel on Fifth Avenue
第五大街上的旅馆

6. American people. Frick had a preference for pre-twentieth century Western paintings, and these are well-represented in this excellent collection. You can also explore Frick’s beautiful home and garden which are well worth a visit.

7. Guggenheim Museum
古根海姆博物馆

8. 1929–30 At age sixty-six, the wealthy American industrialist Solomon R
1929–30 At age sixty-six, the wealthy American industrialist Solomon R. Guggenheim begins to form a large collection of important modern paintings by artists such as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Marc Chagall. He is guided in this pursuit by a young German artist and theorist, Hilla Rebay (born Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen).

9. In July 1930, Rebay brings Guggenheim to Vasily Kandinsky's Dessau studio, and Guggenheim purchases several of the artist’s paintings and works on paper; he will eventually acquire more than 150 works by Kandinsky.

10. Guggenheim Museum 5th Avenue and 88th Street
This museum owns 5,000 superb modern paintings, sculptures and drawings. These art works are not all displayed at the same time. The exhibition is always changing.
exhibition n. 展览, 展出; 展览品

11. It will appeal to those who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. The Guggenheim Museum building is also world-famous. When you walk into the gallery, you feel as if you were inside a fragile, white seashell. The best way to see the paintings is to start

12. from the top floor and walk down to the bottom
from the top floor and walk down to the bottom. There are no stairs, just a circular path. The museum also has an excellent restaurant.

13. Metropolitan Museum Of Art
大都会博物馆

14. Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue and 82nd Street
The reputation of this museum lies in the variety of its art collection. This covers more than 5,000 years

15. of civilization from many parts of the world, including America, Europe, China, Egypt, other African countries and South America. The museum displays more than just visual delights of art. It introduces you to ancient ways of living. You can visit an Egyptian temple, a fragrant Ming garden, a typical room in an 18th century French house and many other special exhibitions.
civilization n. 文明

16. Museum of Modern Art 现代艺术博物馆

17. Museum of Modern Art
(53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues)
It is amazing that so many great works of art from the late 19th century to the 21st

18. century are housed in the same museum
century are housed in the same museum. The collection of Western art includes 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.

19. Monet

20. Matisse
French painter

21. Whitney Museum of American Art
惠特尼美国艺术博物馆

23. Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Avenue, near 75th St.)
The 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

24. Every two years, the Whitney holds a special exhibition of new art by living artists. The museum also shows videos and films by contemporary video artists.

25. Match the number on the map
with the names of the museum.

26. Number on map
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Frick Collection
Museum of Modern Art
Guggenheim Museum 2 3 4 5 1

27. Complete the chart with the information from the reading passage.
Name
Address
Which centuries?
What countries?
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue (near 75th St.)
20th-21st centuries
America

28. Name
Address
Which centuries?
What countries?
Museum of
Modern
Art
53rd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
19th -21st century
Western countries

29. Name
Address
Which centuries?
What countries?
Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue and 82nd Street
From
ancient
to modern
times
All over the world

30. Name
Address
Which centuries?
What countries?
Guggen
heim
Museum
5th Avenue and 88th Street
20th-21st centuries
Western countries

31. Name
Address
Which centuries?
What countries?
The Frick
Museum
5th Avenue
And E.70th Street
Before the 20th century
western countries

32. Match the names in column I with the collections in column II.
1. Museum of Modern Art
2. The Frick Collection
3. Whitney Museum of American Art
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art
5. Guggenheim Museum

33. II
a. Pre-twentieth century Western paintings
b. Art collection covering more than 5,000
years of civilization from many parts of
the world
c. Great works of art from the late 19th
century to the 21st century
d. 5,000 modern paintings, sculptures and
drawings
e. Contemporary American painting and
sculpture

34. Match the names in column I with the collections in column II.
1. Museum of Modern Art
2. The Frick Collection
3. Whitney Museum of American Art
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art
5. Guggenheim Museum c a e b d

35. Listening
1. GaoYan, John and Susan are on holiday in New York. Listen to the three friends discussing the art galleries they would like to visit and answer these questions.
1. Who first suggested they visit art gallery?
2. Who does not like large museums?
John
Susan.

36. 3. Why is Gao Yang interested in visiting the Metropolitan Museum?
He wants to see art from all over the world, including some from China.
4. What is their plan for the first day?
Visit the Frick Collection in the morning and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the afteroon.

37. 5. Why do they do to make Susan happy?
They suggest that Susan go back in the afternoon from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to he hotel if she has had enough. Hohn and Gao Yan stay at the museum till it close.
6. Why doesn’t Susan want to go to the Museum of Modern Art?
She thinks a monkey could paint better pictures than modern artists.

38. 7. Which two galleries do they decide to visit on Saturday?
The Whitney first and the then Guggenheim.