Results tagged “exhibit”

       

Following her trip on the Hudson, Swoon got a bit more adventurous and gathered up more than 30 other artists to help her take her Swimming Cities to the Adriatic Sea. Three handcrafted vessels navigated the waters, and ended up crashing the Venice Biennale in Italy. Luckily Tod Seelie was on hand to capture it all, and now his photographs will be on exhibit, starting tonight, at the Anonymous Gallery.

       

Print isn't dead just yet, it's living on as art. The Museum of the City of New York has put together a nostalgic exhibit comprised of photographs from the now defunct LOOK Magazine. The publication reached peak circulation (of nearly 8 million) in the late 1960s, with nationwide readers who were attracted to the Only in New York-esque photographs (some of them taken by the likes of Stanley Kubrick). So naturally, the exhibit is called "Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine" (as is the book).

As you've probably noticed from Google's art this week, it's Sesame Street's birthday! Oh the times we've shared. The television show is in its 40th year (here's the pitch), and there's lots of celebrating going on. This coming Monday "the City of New York will unveil a proclamation and announce a temporary street naming in honor of the program’s permanence and everlasting impact on New York City’s history and four generations of children across the country." Yep, Sesame Street is getting a street! The dedication will take place at noon at 64th and Columbus Avenue.

       

The Bronx Museum recently opened an exhibit featuring Bronx "artifacts" from 1971 to present day. Urban Archives: That Was Then This Is Now is "the first of a new, multi-year series of exhibitions that look at contemporary culture as a living archive.” This one was drawn primarily from personal collections of artists that have been working in and on the Bronx for decades, and "in their collections, the testimonies of long-time residents and occasional visitors coexist in the form of mementos, documentation, artwork and other sort of cultural artifacts." Check it out sometime between now and March 1st.

In honor of the New York Historical Society's upcoming Grateful Dead exhibition, the Empire State Building is going to be tie dye tomorrow. At press time, we were unable to confirm how in the world this was going to happen, short of dosing the entire city with acid and hoping everyone sees beautiful melting colors shining off the building.

              

For twelve years now the American Museum of Natural History has brought butterflies to Manhattan from all over the world. Last weekend their "Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter" exhibit opened (it will run through May 31st of next year), and we sent Katie Sokoler over to photograph the 500 vibrant creatures (monarchs, zebra longwings, and paper kites amongst them). What to expect: a 1,200-square-foot vivarium, a freestanding structure aflutter with activity, lamps simulating sunlight in the rain forest, recorded sounds of howler monkeys, parakeets and other animals. Get more details here.

       

This past Thursday the Animazing Gallery unveiled the world’s largest exhibition and sale of original illustrations and etchings from the collection of artist and author Maurice Sendak. The show is comprised of 200 pieces and will run through November 8th and coincides with a Sendak retrospective at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Across the pond Brooke Shields is causing a commotion at the hoity-toity Tate Modern. The nude photograph of the actress at age 10 was to be part of a new salacious exhibit, which of course was met by the sighs of both children's advocates and religious groups, according to the Daily News. One outraged critic told them, "Putting a sign on the door like that means every pedophile in the land will head straight to that room." The Man agreed, and it's being reported that officers from the obscene publications unit of the Metropolitan police have taken it down. The photograph hung in the Guggenheim just two years ago, and features a "nude ten-year-old Brooke Shields, heavily made-up, standing in a bath." It actually is rather disturbing.

       

As you may know, Dennis Hopper (yes, that one—the only 73-year-old white male Republican who can still hold our interest), fancies himself a bit of a photographer. Currently his "Signs of the Times" show is hung at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, where it will be on view through October 24th. It includes a "vast selection of the artist's iconic 1960s photographs, twelve enormous and never-seen-before 'billboard paintings,' and select video excerpts from Hopper's extensive body of work as an actor and director in film and television." That's a whole lotta Hopper! Here's a report from the opening that went down earlier this month.

          

The first photographic study of New York City's parks since the 1930s will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York starting October 9th. The massive wall-sized prints will be on view through March 7th, introducing visitors to parks in all five boroughs (and making it easier to envision Mannahatta).

       

The Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit at the Whitney opened yesterday, and it may not be what you expect. The artist created some lesser known abstract works throughout her career, which have remained overlooked in favor of her landscapes and flowers. This exhibit, fittingly called "Abstraction" acknowledges those works. The exhibit includes 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors and sculptures, as well as photos of the artist by Alfred Stieglitz, whom she met in New York City and introduced her to many early American modernists.

       

In early 2008, New York-based photographer Haik Kocharian spent six weeks traveling alone through India; the impressive fruit of his journey has been gathered into a new exhibit at the 92Y Tribeca, called "Walking the Way." Featuring photographs taken in and around the Indian sub-continent, including the ancient city of Varanasi, the coasts of Varkala, and the Tar Desert, Kocharian's intimate images seem to exhale the serene elegance and colorful grit of everyday life. In addition to his work with still photography, Kocharian is also a fiercely independent filmmaker and musician (MySpace); following the opening reception Friday night, he screened his striking black and white short film "Control Z" and performed a set of passionate rock ballads with his three-piece band. "Walking the Way" runs through September 30th at 92Y Tribeca, located at 200 Hudson Street.

       

This September the New York Public Library will bring you back to school with some topographical history lessons. They're celebrating the New York Harbor Quadricentennial with an extensive exhibit featuring rarely seen maps, atlases and other treasures from their own personal collection. The exhibit is titled Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009, and opens on September 25th... but here's a sneak peek.

       

Not that we needed any convincing about Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949), but after New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl declared that the "astonishing" Ensor retrospective at MoMA "will affect many viewers like the detonation of a bomb whose fuse has been fizzing inconspicuously for a century," we quit procrastinating and finally humped it to midtown on Saturday. It was definitely worth the trip, and we were pleasantly surprised to find that the exhibit wasn't disastrously mobbed in the way that blockbuster museum retrospectives tend to get.

       

Fans of the Quay Brothers will be pleased to know that Parsons The New School for Design is currently hosting a traveling exhibit of 11 rarely seen miniature décors from some of the Quays' most prominent works. Since 1979, the famously reclusive brothers (born and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania) have produced over 30 enthralling animated works, including the critically acclaimed Street of Crocodiles, an adaptation of the Bruno Schulz novel by the same name, which Terry Gilliam deems one of the top ten best animated films of all time.

An abandoned church in Spanish Harlem is, at least temporarily, re-opened and housing a new religious-themed art exhibit. Animal NY reports that St. John’s Episcopal American Catholic Church on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 102nd Street, closed in the '90s and is now the backdrop for Sacrosanct, a group exhibition produced by curator Sophie T. Lvoff.

       

Just in time for summer: the snow leopards are here! Coming straight from the Bronx, the big cats have been getting some spotlight regarding their move to the Central Park Zoo, who will open their new Allison Maher Stern Snow Leopard Exhibit tomorrow.

Storefronts on the Lower East Side are constantly changing. What used to be a cobbler's shop might now be a high-end boutique that later might become a pre-prohibition cocktail bar with an special "cobbler" concoction as a nod to the olden days. Anyway, tonight a new store is opening, but it's also closing! Yes, a comment on instability by a collective of artists. Stop by 55 Delancey Street from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight where 31 artists will be hosting an exhibition in a vacant store front. Read more about the project here.

       

Today the Guggenheim Museum kicks-off a year-long celebration of art, architecture, and innovation to mark the 50th anniversary of its landmark building, and what better way to celebrate than with honoring Frank Lloyd Wright. Their From Within Outward exhibit will run through August 23rd and takes a look at the architect's vision from all angles. The anniversary celebrations won't just focus on the building's creator, however—on top of variety of exhibits, screenings of a documentary about the museum's past and present, and public events, there will also be city-wide celebrations. For instance, Mayor Bloomberg declared today Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Day!

Nick Ferris and Rani Free have collected regrets, but lucky for them, not their own. The two have taken other people's regrets and turned them into an art show, which will open tomorrow and includes photography, sculptures, video installations, audio installations, an interactive “Stage of Regrets”, a specially commissioned children’s book and also a Wall of Regrets where visitors can post their own regrets at the gallery. There are 250 total that will be exhibited in one form or another, and you can even purchase a photograph of one to take home with you (proceeds go to charity). Learn more about the show here, and more about the duo who put it together below.

              

This morning we got to check out the new exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex, called John Lennon: The New York City Years. Opening to the public tomorrow, the exhibit presents exclusive artifacts from the life and work of the former Beatle, as well as never-before-seen items that uniquely commemorate Lennon’s life in New York City.

    

Recently the former Miss Subways got together to reminisce about their days as pageant title holders, and now they're getting their very own exhibit. "Artist Fiona Gardner and writer Amy Zimmer recently caught up with some of the winners of the Miss Subways pageant, held in New York City between 1941 and 1976, to find out where these former transit beauty queens are today. Their resulting show, ‘Meet Miss Subways,’ presents ten subjects, years later, but once again wearing their victory sash." The exhibit will be at the Rush Art Gallery through May 30th. [via TONY]

       

Masking tape as art? Whatever! The Brooklyn Museum is making it so, however, with Sun K. Kwak's Enfolding 280 Hours installation. The New York-based artist has created her masterpiece from approximately three miles of black masking tape in the fifth-floor Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery. She began installing the piece, with help from assistants, in early February and guessed it would take around 280 hours to complete, thus the exhibit's title.

      

The Guggenheim sent out a press release yesterday the size of The Fountainhead describing their upcoming Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward exhibition (opening in May and running through August). In celebration of the building's 50 year anniversary the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has helped them piece together the installation, which will present 64 projects designed by Wright, all displayed on the spiral ramps of the museum he designed. The CEO of the foundation says that, "Rather than a retrospective, this exhibition focuses on the diversity of Wright's vision and the ways he sought to realize it...The concept of the exhibition also reflects a growing recognition of the enormous relevance today of Frank Lloyd Wright's design philosophies, which embrace culture, technology and environment." Sad fact: Wright actually died six months prior to the grand opening of the Guggenheim.

     

The eyes of the art world are on The Armory Show and its impressive roster of satellite art fairs, but let us take a moment to point out R. Nicholas Kuszyk's show at McCaig Welles Gallery in Williamsburg, which opens this weekend. We do this not only because one of the best street murals on our daily route was executed by Kuszyk on the wall of the Bedford Bagel Store, but also because his robotic theme seems especially fitting given the sudden ascendancy of robots to the L train command.

Though not as impressive as this one, Lost City spotted a massive knitting project on West 37th Street last night. The car cozy was allegedly "a patchwork of separate pieces of knitting" that were made to fit snuggly around the car, as part of a Chashama exhibit that's running through the weekend. Countdown to a knitted bike cozy craze?

      

While it feels like New York may be crumbling around us at times, The Cueto Project and The Bruce High Quality Foundation piece it all back together with a new exhibit called Empire, opening tonight and running through April 11th. They explain: "Concomitant with the impending financial meltdown of the galaxy, and in the spirit of elaborating on political metaphors by way of natural events, Empire re-imagines New York City as a pastiche of Utopian visions through photographic historical interventions, dis-temporal allegorical paintings, broken statuary, and unrealizable urban planning models." Looks like a lot of D.I.Y. Transformers to us!

                  

Raised in Paris and Milan by Russian émigré parents, Elliot Erwitt did not become interested in photography until his family settled in Hollywood, California during his teenage years, and he started working in a commercial darkroom developing celebrity portraiture. After being drafted into the Army in 1950, he made a splash with a photo-essay on barracks life, and later traveled the world shooting for Magnum.

New Yorkers aren't too afraid of sleeping in public, but artist Chu Yun is still trying to find some willing to do it as part of his upcoming installation at the New Museum. The NY Post reports that Yun is "seeking women between the ages of 18 and 40 to sleep in a bed - a different participant every day" where he plans to create "a human sculpture by inducing sleep." 100 women are needed, and will be paid $10 an hour—which the paper points out "will pay the cost of a visit to the person's doctor as well as 'a prescription for a sleeping aid'." A rep for the museum said participants can wear whatever they are comfortable with, and "[The sleeper] arrives a little earlier than the museum's opening hours. She lays in bed and falls asleep, and we hope she stays asleep for roughly the six hours of our opening." The full job posting can be found here. And to think, some suckers had to pay to sleep in a museum.

       

Earlier this month a fire in the Chelsea building housing the PPOW gallery resulted in heavy water and smoke damage, just as an exhibit of Dutch artist Tuen Hocks's work was about to open. Co-owner Wendy Olsoff told Art Info that while the exhibition space and office were "completely demolished," Hocks's photographs, drawings, and videos survived "mostly" intact. Which is good news, because the artist's striking and surreal photography is well-worth checking out at a new location at 511 West 25th Street, Room 301, through February 7th.