Thursday, October 29, 2009
Looking Series: LOOKING AT THE MANY SIDES OF AN ARTIST
Thursday, October 22, QMA Theatre
Please support the program with a suggested donation of $10/class.
In this series of five slide talks, we focus on an artist who is either the subject of a one-person show or part of a group exhibition on view at a museum during [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Studio Art Series: Painted Paper Collage
Wednesday, October 28, 2:00-4:00 pm, QMA Studio A
Free, pre-registration required - (718) 592-9700 x130
Using acrylic paints, students will prepare colored and textured papers that we will then tear in order to create collaged paintings.
The Studio Art Series is led by Lorraine Klagsbrun, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, who [...]
Monday, October 26, 2009
Film Series: THERAPEUTIC CINEMA
Monday, October 26, QMA Theatre
Please support the program with a suggested donation of $10/class.
Music and Madness: SHINE (1996)
Directed by Scott Hicks, 105 min.
Based on the life of brilliant pianist David Helfgott with a vivid Oscar-winning performance by Geoffrey Rush. Co-stars Armin Mueller-Stahl.
Therapeutic Cinema is a five-week series that explores how movies have created [...]
Sunday, October 25, 2009
To date the PBS show Art 21 has featured
72 artists, demonstrating the breadth of artistic practice in the United States today. Each one-hour program is loosely organized around a theme helps audiences analyze, compare and juxtapose the artists profiled.
In advance of its broadcast on October 28, QMA will be screening the final episode “Systems” featuring [...]
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Free Drop-In Art Workshops: Children 5 and up with their adult companions.
Children with special needs welcomed, adaptations available.
Don’t miss out as we bring out the scissors, glues sticks, and heap of collage paper and let you go bonkers with it!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION-USA-QUEENS CHAPTER
Celebrating the 64th Anniversary of the Birth of the United Nations
UN DAY - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
at the QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART in Flushing Meadow Corona Park
The Museum is located next to the Unisphere in the NYC Building where the UN General Assembly met from 1946 - 1951
PROGRAM
Achieving Millennium Development Goal # [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
20 years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the face of international politics and ushered in a new era of hope. In recognition of this historic event, the German Parliament chose Fitz Maurice’s series “Berlin: Metamorphosis,” a dramatic encapsulation of the events surrounding the reunification of Germany, as the German Artistic Rendition of [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Looking Series: LOOKING AT THE MANY SIDES OF AN ARTIST
Thursday, October 22, QMA Theatre
Please support the program with a suggested donation of $10/class.
In this series of five slide talks, we focus on an artist who is either the subject of a one-person show or part of a group exhibition on view at a museum during [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Opening Reception October 22, 2009 6:00-8:00pm
Fitz Maurice is an artist well recognized for expressing international issues and values in her work. Born in Westchester, NY, she received her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Fitz Maurice received the Pollock- Krasner Foundation award in 2001, and participated in the 2001 Florence Biennale and the 2002 [...]
Monday, October 19, 2009
Film Series: THERAPEUTIC CINEMA
Monday, October 19, 2009 2:00 pm, QMA Theatre
Please support the program with a suggested donation of $10/class.
Music and Madness: THE SEVENTH VEIL (1945)
Directed by Compton Bennett, 95min.
An emotionally distant older cousin dominates and inspires his young ward to musical greatness. Starring James Mason and Ann Ward.
Therapeutic Cinema is a five-week series that [...]
Sunday, October 18, 2009
CINEMAROSA - queens’ only queer film series is a monthly independent LGBT film series created in 2004 by Hector Canonge, and hosted at the Queens Museum of Art.
In collaboration with UNID@S in the Big Apple, and in celebration of Latin@ Heritage & Coming Out month, CINEMAROSA presents a special program featuring works by emerging filmmakers [...]
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Children 5 and up with their adult companions.
Children with special needs welcomed, adaptations available.
Join the fun as we revisit the themes of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fair and imagine what a World’s Fair of the Future might be like.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Join us for the Closing Reception for IAAC’s Erasing Borders exhibit and Book Launch of participating artist Salma Arastu’s new art book “Lyrical Line.”
About the Book
“Lyrical Line - All flowing and Embracing” is unique to the genre of art books by emerging artists.
The book is based on the theme of what unites people from diverse [...]
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Ron Marzlock is a Queens County historian, columnist for the “Queens Chronicle” and author of The New York World’s Fairs. Using slides, commentary and personal anecdotes, Marzlock will journey back to the memorable 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs and tell the stories behind the pavilions and the excitement surrounding these two historic happenings. Signed books [...]
Sunday, October 11, 2009
If You Were a Wild Thing!!!
Inspired by Maurice Sendak’s book, Where The Wild Things Are, we invite participants to embark on a tour of the Panorama of the City of New York and imagine themselves as a Wild Things on the loose in the city. After the tour get ready to get messy because [...]
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Ron Marzlock is a Queens County historian, columnist for the “Queens Chronicle” and author of The New York World’s Fairs. Using slides, commentary and personal anecdotes, Marzlock will journey back to the memorable 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs and tell the stories behind the pavilions and the excitement surrounding these two historic happenings. Signed books [...]
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first New York World’s Fair, Artist/photographer O Zhang is looking back the 1939 Fair and its aspiration to stimulate and uplift the country out of The Great Depression. She will be presenting the result of a project working with immigrant teens to celebrate the ever greater cultural diversity in [...]
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Friday, October 2nd from 5-9pm & Saturday, October 3rd from 11am - 5pm
Free & Open to the Public
The Fourth Annual Multilingual New York Book Fair Expo celebrates this year the richness and diversity of the languages of New York. The academic and cultural program will present music, theatre, literary readings; and book signings showcasing authors [...]
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, October 2nd from 5-9pm & Saturday, October 3rd from 11am - 5pm
Free & Open to the Public
The Fourth Annual Multilingual New York Book Fair Expo celebrates this year the richness and diversity of the languages of New York. The academic and cultural program will present music, theatre, literary readings; and book signings showcasing authors [...]