MoMA Contemporary Art from the Collection opens today
Contemporary Art from the Collection
The works selected for this installation highlight the debates around economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity that have permeated artistic practices since the late 1960s. Including approximately 130 works drawn from all of the Museum’s curatorial departments, the installation features a variety of approaches to art-making and follows a chronological path. The exhibition begins with works such as a haunting “body print” by David Hammons (1969), which depicts the artist in an act of prayer, and Pino Pascali’s Machine Gun (1966), a sculpture he made out of parts from a Fiat 500 during a period of intense social unrest in Italy. Concluding the show are two projects that explore larger themes of humanity and loss through current events: Huma Bhabha’s expansive print series Reconstructions (2007), in which the artist memorializes lost civilizations in her native Pakistan, and Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot (2007), a project based on the artist’s restaging of Samuel Beckett’s play in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Opening today, continuing through September 12, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art is located at 11 West 53rd Street. For more information,…
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DBR To Perform at Central Park SummerStage – June 29 at 8:00 PM
This special event at SummerStage delivers hope and healing to the people of Haiti through a carefully cultivated program of top musicians and spoken word artists with ties to this Caribbean gem. The evening celebrates the beauty, vibrancy and resilience of this beloved island. Join DBR and his band, DBR & THE MISSION, as they perform works off of DBR’s latest record Woodbox Beats & Balladry, with special guests Emeline Michel—beloved in her native country of Haiti for her skillful infusion of social, political and inspirational content into traditional rhythms—and Erol Josué—renowned for his ties to voodoo as well as for his infectious pop music.
Tues, June 29, 2010
8:00 PM Central Park SummerStage
Rumsey Playfield at Central Park (enter park at East 72nd Street)
New York, NY 10065
Tel: (212) 360-2777
AMNH Water Terrace — Anecdote for 106 Degree Day
Palladio at The Morgan
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey features thirty-one original Palladio drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects. These exquisite drawings, which were exhibited only once before in America and never in New York, will be on view to the public for the first time in over thirty years. They are presented with rare architectural texts to illustrate the journey from Italy to North America of Palladio’s design principles of proportion, harmony, and beauty.
Palladio’s work has significantly influenced American architecture from colonial times to the present day. Focusing on the artist’s original drawings and following the trajectory of his ideas, the show also traces the story of American Palladianism. The drawings are supported by numerous architectural models. Three large examples—the Pantheon, Villa Rotunda, and Jefferson’s unrealized design for the White House—programmatically illustrate the journey from Rome to America. Smaller models, along with rare architectural texts and pattern books through which Palladio’s ideas were primarily transmitted, reinforce the themes of the exhibition.
The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016
For more information,…
Fuel up at the Shake Shack near you
Following the lead of our favorite Belgian chef — Le Pain Quotidienne — Shake Shack is opening in neighborhoods nearer to you,..Enjoy!
Filed under Children in New York City, Enjoying New York City, Great Sites about NYC, Navigating New York, New York City, Vegetarian - Vegan | Comment (0)72 + Sunny + NYC = 72 + w1/2
Whether or not you can get away from the city — you can enjoy this glorious weather in New York’s greatest perk — Central Park.
The Loeb Boathouse, located mid-park at 72nd Street is an ideal destination whether or not you want a meal, a drink, a bike road, or a boat ride.
Enjoy.
Filed under bicycles, Children in New York City, Enjoying New York City, Navigating New York | Comment (0)Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business — June 16, 2010
Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business caffeinated-conference takes place at Comix – Wednesday, June 16.
1:00pm – 1:45pm – Registration
1:45pm – Open Remarks
2:00 – 2:45 Panel Discussion: Creative Risks
Moderated by Ellen McGirt, Senior Writer, Fast Company
- Chris Barbour, Head of Digital Marketing, Sports Style Division, Adidas
- Kimberly Davis, President, JP Morgan Chase Foundation
- Susan Smith Ellis, CEO, (RED)
2:45 – 3:00 Jumping Into the App Game
Igor Pusenjak, President and Founder, Lima Sky
3:00 – 3:45 Panel Discussion: New Media and Mad Men
Trends in cross-platform and new media and how they affect our identities, relationships and even our experiences of being human.
Moderated by Anya Kamenetz, Staff Writer, Fast Company
- Soraya Darabi, Product Lead, Drop.io
- Ray Kurzweil, Inventor and Cofounder, Singularity University
- Josh Sapan, CEO, Rainbow Media
3:45 – 4:00 Idea Playground
An exploration of the essential synergy in a creative company that must exist between—talent, workplace and projects
Mark Fuller, Chief Excellence Officer, WET Design
4:00 – 4:25 Solving an Identity Crisis
Companies, brands and individuals all struggle to creatively express who they are and what they do. Director Jesse Dylan explains his techniques for distilling an identity down to its core and shows how to convey that insight to the largest number of people through a multi-media approach. Examples will range from Bill Clinton to Desmond Tutu to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
Mark Borden, Senior Editor, Fast Company
Jesse Dylan, Director, Form; Founder, FreeForm
4:25 – 4:40 Bridging A Visual Divide
Zachary Lieberman, Co-creator, open Frameworks; Professor, Parsons The New School for Design
4:40 – 4:55 The Untold Story
Franklin Leonard, Director of Development, Universal Pictures
Cocktail Reception to follow
Filed under Art, Navigating New York, New York City | Comment (0)Shore up for Summer at Salon AKS
The Brazilian Hair treatment at Salon AKS will coat your hair with acai and other natural fortifiers — protecting your hair from the ravages of sun and chlorine. And it will give you blown dry straightness – from towel dried hair.
Salon AKS is located at 689 Fifth Avenue at 54th Street. For more information,…
Filed under New York City | Comment (0)Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design at The Morgan
Scenic vistas, winding paths, bucolic meadows, and rustic retreats suitable for solitary contemplation are just a few of the alluring naturalistic features of gardens created in the Romantic spirit. Landscape designers of the Romantic era sought to express the inherent beauty of nature in opposition to the strictly symmetrical, formal gardens favored by aristocrats of the old regime.
This exhibition features approximately ninety highly influential texts and outstanding works of art, providing a compelling overview of ideas championed by the Romantics and also implemented by them in private estates and public parks in Europe and the United States, notably New York’s Central Park.
Drawn from the Morgan’s holdings of manuscripts, drawings, and rare books, as well as lavishly illustrated landscape albums from private and other public collections, the exhibition attests to the artistic creativity and intellectual ferment of the era, a time when technological advances in book production greatly enhanced the transmission of ideas.
The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Filed under Art, Children in New York City, Enjoying New York City, Museums, Navigating New York, New York City, Urban Life | Comment (0)Young Guns 5+5 at The Art Directors Club
ADC Young Guns Presents 5+5:
5 ADC Young Guns 7 + 5 Mentors present their work, Pecha Kucha-style: 20 slides + 20 seconds each = 400 seconds to tell their story.
Qian Qian, ADC Young Guns 7 + Kevin Grady of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky
Wesley Allsbrook, ADC Young Guns 7 + Adam Schmidt
Matt Smithson, ADC Young Guns 7 + Hayley Morris
Brian Close, ADC Young Guns 7 + Shoplifter
Dora Budor & Maja Cule, ADC Young Guns 7 + Micah Lidberg
The evening will be moderated by Bill Oberlander, past President of the Art Directors Club and Chief Creative Officer, Cossette New York.
Drinks to follow, providing an opportunity to speak with the presenters.
The event also kicks off with an Adobe CS5 Workshop led by Dan Rodney, Senior Tech Guru and Instructor at Noble Desktop. This hour-long workshop is included in the event ticket price.
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