Saturday, January 14, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm, 2012
SUPERFRONT presents “Design with Detroit: Urban Futures,” a rapid design charrette for students and young designers at the Queens Museum of Art. Designers will have 30 minutes to review a brief and 2 hours to respond with design drawings in real time. The goal of the charrette is to generate designs informed by awareness of [...]
Saturday, October 29, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 2011
As part of special programming looking at photography as a tool for urban research, in connection with the current exhibition Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, we have invited architect and photographer Hai Zhang to do a walk-through of the exhibit, followed by a presentation of his own work. Zhang’s photographic studies look beyond China’s [...]
Saturday, October 8, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 2011
SUPERFRONT, a non-profit organization promoting experiments in architecture, offers a critical walk-through tour of Detroit: Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore that situates the aesthetic of ruination within a larger conversation about representations of Detroit and the post-industrial city. Led by SUPERFRONT curators Chloë Bass and Mitch McEwen, this walking tour launches the Lab for Urban [...]
Sunday, September 18, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2011
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 is on view August 28, 2011 – January 15, 2012, with an opening celebration on September 18. During 2008 and 2009, Moore spent 3 months in Detroit. [...]
Sunday, September 18, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 2011
As a prelude to the Opening Reception of Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, the Institute for Urban Design will host presentations of five of the best ideas and designs that address urban challenges relevant to both New York City and Detroit generated through the By the City / For the City project which invited [...]
Sunday, September 11, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 2011
Join us for a tour of our new exhibition,Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, featuring gorgeous large-scale color photos of abandoned buildings in which we find beauty in surprising places. Detroit has long been famous as an industrial city known for making cars, but it has been on the decline for decades. Nature is taking [...]
Monday, May 18, 12:00 am – Wednesday, September 16, 12:00 am, 2009
On June 9, 2009, Montreal-born American artist Dorothea Rockburne began work on a 40-foot mural in the Queens Museum’s Large Triangle Gallery. Destined for the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, this new work was commissioned by the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) and honors General Colin Powell, whose parents were from Jamaica. [...]