September 18 – January 19, 2012
Wonderstruck in the Panorama: Drawings by Brian Selznick parallels the preparation of the author/illustrator’s latest novel with the construction of the Panorama of the City of New York scale model at the Queens Museum of Art, a mythical location steeped in nostalgia. From its beginnings as the main attraction at the New York City Pavilion [...]
August 28 – January 15, 2012
The Queens Museum of Art is pleased to host Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, organized by the Akron Art Museum. The exhibition of thirty large scale photographs will be on view August 28th 2011 – January 15th 2012, with an opening celebration on September 18th. During 2008 and 2009, Moore spent 3 months in [...]
August 28 – January 15, 2012
Opening reception: Sunday, September 18, 2011 3:00 – 6:00 pm Eight works, four each from the photographic series Inside Havana (1998-2002) and Russia: Beyond Utopia (2000-2004), are brought together here to provide context for Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, organized by the Akron Art Museum, on the first floor. Moore uses 8×10 and 4×5 [...]
April 10 – August 21, 2011
Reaching from Flushing Bay on the north side to Kew Gardens on the south, and from the Federal Building on the east side in Flushing to the western entrance gate on 111th Street in Corona, the New York World’s Fair comprised a massive area covering 1,216 acres when it opened on April 30, 1939. The [...]
May 08 – August 21, 2011
GHANA THINK TANK: DEVELOPING THE FIRST WORLD. The Ghana Think Tank is a group of think tanks in the “Developing” world that has been solving the problems of the “First” world since 2006. They collect problems from citizens of the “First” world (primarily the U.S. & U.K.), send them to a growing network of think [...]
May 22 – August 14, 2011
The Queens Museum of Art is pleased to present the first New York museum installation of Egyptian video artist Hassan Khan. Khan’s The Hidden Location (2004) a four-channel video installation, is a 52-minute continuous flow of visual material. The work takes the city of Cairo and its inhabitants as a container in which disparate scenarios [...]
March 06 – August 14, 2011
The Queens Museum is pleased to host Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights…*, the first U.S. solo museum presentation of the work of Seoul-born, New York-based artist Sung Hwan Kim. Dog Video, 2006 and From the Commanding Heights… , 2007 will be on view in the galleries, where new drawings and architectural elements extend [...]
June 08 – August 14, 2011
Opening Reception: June 25th, 3-5pm Set inside the Queens Museum of Art’s magnificent Panorama of the City of New York, this exhibition presents the artist’s long-term commitment to documenting the experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander American communities of New York. These communities comprise 12% of the city’s population, who are perhaps seen but not [...]
April 10 – August 14, 2011
Participating artists: Taylor Baldwin, Clifford Borress, Barb Choit, Brendan Fowler, Ted Gahl, Rashawn Griffin, Faten Kanaan, Zak Kitnick, Jason Lazarus, Lauren Luloff, Dave Murray, Amanda Ross-Ho, Jean Shin, Hayley Silverman, Agathe Snow, and Bryan Zanisnik. As museums have mounted more exhibitions from their permanent collections, revisiting their archives and breathing new life into years’ worth [...]
November 14 – March 13, 2011
Opening Reception November 14, 3-6pm (click here for details) This exhibition features over 80 photographs by Luis Márquez (1899-1978), the official photographer for and art adviser of the Mexican Pavilion at the 1939-40 World’s Fair. Márquez fostered the image of a folkloric Mexico in photographic styles ranging from anthropological document to ironic theatrical tableau-vivant, often [...]