Monday, February 27, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2012
“It’s Fine to Make Mistakes!” Making Accidental Art An Art Program for Families Affected by Autism Inspired by Barney Saltzbergs’, Beautiful Oops! In this 6-week series, students will make art inspired by the book by Barney Saltzberg, Beautiful Oops! A book that shows how art can be made accidently from torn paper or a coffee [...]
Sunday, February 19, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2012
CINEMAROSA is Queens’ first and only Queer independent film/video series organized by new media artist Hector Canonge and hosted at the Queens Museum of Art every third Sunday. Spring 2012 monthly film program (February to May) kciks off with a selection of shorts in celebration of Black History Month. The program includes fiction and non-fiction [...]
Saturday, February 18, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 2012
ArtAccess presents a fitness class for families affected by Autism hosted at the Jamaica Central Library Discovery Center, select Saturdays. 89-11 Merrick Boulevard Jamaica, NY 11432 Come and experience the traditional Indian dance Bhangra and the exhilaration of Bollywood! The name, The Masala Bhangra Workout, is derived from two Indian words: Masala, which is a [...]
Saturday, February 18, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 2012
Chinese painter, writer, and intellectual Mu Xin, who recently passed away at 84, is considered by experts to be one of the most original, important yet largely unknown artists of the last century. Among his greatest admirers and supporters is famed Chinese intellectual and painter Chen Danqing, who regards Mu Xin as his teacher and [...]
Saturday, February 18, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 2012
Come explore the Queens Museum of Art! Register for Saturday afternoon sessions to learn different ways to explore are various types of exhibitions. We’ll discuss how to view art with your children and families will have an opportunity to make art in the studio inspired by the work in the exhibitions. Exploration and play will [...]
Thursday, February 16, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 2012
Detroit: Lab for Urban Futures consisted of a series of three live events and rapid publications that invited guests from a range of disciplines to consider Detroit as a provocation for new investigations and experiments in urbanism. It was organized as a complement to the recent exhibition Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore at the [...]
Monday, February 13, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2012
“It’s Fine to Make Mistakes!” Making Accidental Art An Art Program for Families Affected by Autism Inspired by Barney Saltzbergs’, Beautiful Oops! In this 6-week series, students will make art inspired by the book by Barney Saltzberg, Beautiful Oops! A book that shows how art can be made accidently from torn paper or a coffee [...]
Saturday, February 11, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2012
Corona Park, Queens- Queens in Love with Literature (QUILL) presents a creative translation event featuring an afternoon of poetry and visuals presented by authors working in Spanish and English at the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows Corona Park o. Featured author/translators Guillermo Filice Castro, Urayoan Noel and Elizabeth Torres will present works and [...]
Saturday, February 11, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 2012
The Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), launched by former World Trade Center restaurant workers, presents a traveling exhibition of photographs – 107 Stories:Through Restaurant Workers’ Eyes. The Exhibition On view from February 11 – March 4, 2012 is scheduled to coincide with ROC’s 2/13 Annual National Day of Action to draw attention to the shockingly low [...]
Friday, February 10, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 2012
$10 suggested donation, includes a free beer from Brooklyn Brewery. Tasty Snacks for sale. All proceeds go to support the City Reliquary Museum RSVP your team with Mark@levysuniqueny.com Singles can join a team the day of the game onsite. CALLING ALL GEOGRAPHICAL GEEKS AND NEW YORK KNOW-IT-ALLS! Come to the Queens Museum of Art to [...]
Monday, February 6, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2012
“It’s Fine to Make Mistakes!” Making Accidental Art An Art Program for Families Affected by Autism Inspired by Barney Saltzbergs’, Beautiful Oops! In this 6-week series, students will make art inspired by the book by Barney Saltzberg, Beautiful Oops! A book that shows how art can be made accidently from torn paper or a coffee [...]
Sunday, February 5, 12:00 pm – Sunday, May 20, 6:00 pm, 2012
Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle is the fifth edition of the Queens Museum of Art’s biannual survey of artists living and working in the borough. The 31 artists featured this year are based in Astoria, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Long Island City, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and Ridgewood, and comprise a multi-national and [...]
Sunday, February 5, 12:00 pm – Sunday, May 20, 6:00 pm, 2012
Frank Oscar Larson (1896-1964) was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, of Swedish immigrant parents and lived in Flushing, Queens most of his life. As an adult, Larson spent his days at a branch of the Empire Trust Company (now Bank of New York Mellon), working his way up through the ranks from auditor to vice-president, and [...]
Sunday, February 5, 12:00 pm – Sunday, May 20, 6:00 pm, 2012
Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses is a site-specific art infiltration into the Panorama of the City of New York, which was built for the 1964 World’s Fair by urban planner Robert Moses and is now a centerpiece of the Queens Museum of Art. Artist and theorist Greg Sholette made and placed new islands about the [...]
Saturday, February 4, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 2012
Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle February 5 – May 20, 2012 OPENING PARTY: Saturday, February 4, 6 – 10 pm 7:00 Brian Zegeer and Baby Copperhead’s Pull My Daisy video remix 8:30 Rachel Mason at the Unisphere 8 – 10 DJ Dan Fox Snacks for sale by celebrated food trucks Mexicue, Rickshaw [...]
Saturday, February 4, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 2012
ArtAccess presents a fitness class for families affected by Autism hosted at the Jamaica Central Library Discovery Center, select Saturdays. 89-11 Merrick Boulevard Jamaica, NY 11432 Come and experience the traditional Indian dance Bhangra and the exhilaration of Bollywood! The name, The Masala Bhangra Workout, is derived from two Indian words: Masala, which is a [...]
Saturday, February 4, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm, 2012
A Photography and DJ Class for Teens with an Autism Spectrum Disorder & their Parents, Spanish Language Support Winter/ Spring 2012 Saturday, January 21st Saturday, February 4th Saturday, February 18th Saturday, March 10th Saturday, March 24th Saturday, April 14th Saturday, May 12th Culminating Artists Exhibition Event Date TBD ABOUT THE TEACHING ARTIST: Teaching Artist, Sol [...]
Saturday, February 4, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 2012
Come explore the Queens Museum of Art! Register for Saturday afternoon sessions to learn different ways to explore are various types of exhibitions. We’ll discuss how to view art with your children and families will have an opportunity to make art in the studio inspired by the work in the exhibitions. Exploration and play will [...]