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Documentary Premiere – Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor

Documentary Premiere – Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor

Saturday, December 3, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 2011

Documentary Premiere – Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor A film by Zahida Pirani About the film: Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor takes the audience on an intimate journey into the daily life of Judith, a street vendor from Guatemala who lives and works in New York City. Judith reveals the routine obstacles and [...]

Artefacting Willets Point Festival & Public Tours (OFFSITE)

Detail of Muffler Man Sculpture, Willets Point. Photo by Alex White-Mazarella, 2011.

Sunday, October 30, 2:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 2011

Just a 15-minute walk from QMA, Willets Point, also known as the Iron Triangle, is New York City’s cheap auto-parts and service supermarket. It’s a surreal landscape, as autoshops line a pothole-peppered roads that make you feel like you are in an abandoned city. Yet across the street lies the brand new CITIField Mets Baseball [...]

SAT CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: Artefacting Willets Point Festival & Public Tours (OFFSITE)

Willets Point. Photo Courtesy of Arne De Knegt, 2011.

Saturday, October 29, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm, 2011

DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER SATURDAY WILLETS POINT FESTIVAL IS CANCELLED. SUNDAY LOOKS SUNNY, SO PLEASE JOIN US TOMORROW! Just a 15-minute walk from QMA, Willets Point, also known as the Iron Triangle, is New York City’s cheap auto-parts and service supermarket. It’s a surreal landscape, as autoshops line a pothole-peppered roads that make you feel [...]

Asian Pacifically New York: The Photography of Corky Lee

Corky Lee, Jimmy Kirikatani, Former homeless artist, concentration camp internee and subject of documentary "The Cats of Mirikatani," 2007

Wednesday, June 8, 12:00 am – Sunday, August 14, 12:00 am, 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 [...]