New York City

=== Arts ===
{{Further|List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City|Music of New York City}}
[[File:Lincoln Center at dawn.jpg|thumb|The [[Lincoln Center]]: [[David H. Koch Theater]] (left), home of the [[New York City Ballet|NY City Ballet]]; [[Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)|Metropolitan Opera House]] (center), home of the [[Metropolitan Opera]]; and [[David Geffen Hall]] (right), home of the [[New York Philharmonic|NY Philharmonic]]]]
[[File:Metropolitan museum of art 3.jpg|thumb|[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], the largest [[art museum]] in the [[Americas]]]]
[[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]], anchoring [[Lincoln Square, Manhattan|Lincoln Square]] on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is home to numerous influential arts organizations, including the [[Metropolitan Opera]], [[New York City Opera]], [[New York Philharmonic]], and [[New York City Ballet]], as well as the [[Vivian Beaumont Theater]], the [[Juilliard School]], [[Jazz at Lincoln Center]], and [[Alice Tully Hall]]. The [[Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute]] is in [[Union Square (New York City)|Union Square]], and [[Tisch School of the Arts]] is based at New York University, while [[Central Park SummerStage]] presents free music concerts in Central Park.<ref>{{cite web |title = About Summer Stage |url = http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage/about/ |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121016075818/http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage/about/ |archive-date = October 16, 2012 |access-date = June 14, 2012 |publisher = [[City Parks Foundation]] }}</ref>

New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 [[Art gallery|art galleries]].<ref name="NYC arts">{{cite web |date = December 2005 |title = Creative New York |url = http://www.nycfuture.org/images_pdfs/pdfs/CREATIVE_NEW_YORK.pdf |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080831013443/http://www.nycfuture.org/images_pdfs/pdfs/CREATIVE_NEW_YORK.pdf |archive-date = August 31, 2008 |access-date = September 1, 2008 |publisher = [[Center for an Urban Future]] |url-status = dead }}</ref> The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the [[National Endowment for the Arts]].<ref name="NYC arts" /> The city is also home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites. [[Fifth Avenue|Museum Mile]] is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue running from 82nd to 105th streets on the [[Upper East Side]] of Manhattan,<ref name="festival">{{cite web |title = Museum Mile Festival |url = http://www.museummilefestival.org/ |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120804102650/http://museummilefestival.org/ |archive-date = August 4, 2012 |access-date = August 23, 2014 |website = museummilefestival.org }}</ref> in the upper portion of [[Carnegie Hill]].<ref>{{cite news |last = Kusisto |first = Laura |date = October 21, 2011 |title = Reaching High on Upper 5th Avenue |work = [[The Wall Street Journal]] |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204618704576643022038133998 |url-status = live |access-date = August 23, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111023171126/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576643022038133998.html |archive-date = October 23, 2011 }}</ref> 
 
Nine museums occupy the length of this section of Fifth Avenue, making it one of the densest displays of culture in the world.<ref name="mmilemus">{{cite web |title = Museums on the Mile |url = http://www.museummilefestival.org/museums/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120101013336/http://www.museummilefestival.org/museums/ |archive-date = January 1, 2012 |access-date = August 23, 2014 |website = museummilefestival.org }}</ref> Its art museums include the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim]], [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[Neue Galerie New York]], and [[The Africa Center]]. In addition to other programming, the museums collaborate for the annual Museum Mile Festival, held each year in June, to promote the museums and increase visitation.<ref name="drv">{{Cite news |date = June 27, 1979 |title = New Drive Promoting 5th Ave.'s 'Museum Mile' |work = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F1FFA395D12728DDDAE0A94DE405B898BF1D3 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140506150805/https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F1FFA395D12728DDDAE0A94DE405B898BF1D3 |archive-date = May 6, 2014 |access-date = August 23, 2014 }}</ref> Many of the world's most lucrative [[art auction]]s are held in New York City.<ref name="NYCArtAuction1">{{cite news |first1 = Robin |last1 = Pogrebin |first2 = Scott |last2 = Reyburn |date = November 15, 2017 |title = Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-christies-auction.html |access-date = November 16, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="NYCArtAuction2">{{cite web |date = November 15, 2017 |title = Christ painting by Leonardo da Vinci sells for record $450M |url = https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christ-painting-by-leonardo-da-vinci-sells-for-record-dollar450m/ar-BBEYwDu?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171116083413/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christ-painting-by-leonardo-da-vinci-sells-for-record-dollar450m/ar-BBEYwDu?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp |archive-date = November 16, 2017 |access-date = November 15, 2017 |agency = [[Associated Press]] |publisher = [[MSN]] }}</ref>

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the [[List of largest art museums|largest]] [[art museum]] in the [[Americas]]. In 2022, it welcomed 3.2&nbsp;million visitors, ranking it the [[List of most-visited museums in the United States|third-most visited U.S. museum]], and eighth on the list of [[List of most-visited art museums|most-visited art museums]] in the world.<ref>''The Art Newspaper'', "Visitors Survey 2022", March 27, 2023</ref> Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments,<ref name="auto2">[https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2000/metropolitan-museum-launches-new-and-expanded-web-site "Metropolitan Museum Launches New and Expanded Web Site"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128201035/https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2000/metropolitan-museum-launches-new-and-expanded-web-site |date=November 28, 2016 }}, press release, The Met, January 25, 2000.</ref> and includes works of art from [[classical antiquity]] and [[Art of ancient Egypt|ancient Egypt]]; paintings and sculptures from nearly all the [[Western painting|European masters]]; and an extensive collection of [[Visual art of the United States|American]] and [[modern art]]. The Met maintains extensive holdings of [[African art|African]], [[Asian art|Asian]], [[Oceanian art|Oceanian]], [[Byzantine art|Byzantine]], and [[Islamic art]].<ref>{{cite book |last=de Montebello |first=Philippe |author-link=Philippe de Montebello |title=Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |year=1997 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/masterpiecesofme0000unse/page/6 6–7] |isbn=0-300-10615-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/masterpiecesofme0000unse/page/6 }}</ref>