Art Rx
It's a holiday this week in the United States, so museums and galleries are largely on hiatus or at least their programming is, but that's not to say there isn't a whole bunch of things to do and see for the art lover.
It’s a holiday this week in the United States, so museums and galleries are largely on hiatus or at least their programming is, but that’s not to say there isn’t a whole bunch of things to do and see for the art lover.
You may want to visit the Metropolitan Museum (which is now open seven days a week) or party Friday night at the Brooklyn Museum, you can check out the new Museum Hours film or a photo exhibition about 1963 in America, hell you can even spend the Fourth in Bushwick — we can’t imagine that won’t be a little bizarre (in a good way). Whatever you decide, we wish you a Happy Fourth of July!
Metropolitan Museum Is Open 7 Days a Week
When: Friday and Saturday 10am–9pm, Sunday–Thursday 10am–5:30pm
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan)
Changes are afoot of the grande dame of New York museums. Starting this week, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and its medieval art branch in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights, The Cloisters, will be open seven days a week. The Museum is also ditching its metal admission buttons — first issued in January 1971 — for a paper admission ticket system.
Fourth of July in Bushwick
When: Thursday, July 4, starting at 4pm until ?
Where: Secret Project Robot Garden (389 Melrose Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn)
This Independence Day party by Secret Project Robot sounds like a good time. They promise: “Ivan Sunshine & Steve Shakewell will be bringing you beats … Giant Pitcher of Margaritas! Cheese Burgers and Veggie Kabobs … ” Call us D-I-Y-intrigued!
1963 in Pictures
When: Closes Saturday, July 6
Where: Howard Greenberg Gallery (41 East 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan)
1963 was a pivotal year in US history. From civil rights protests to the growing involvement in Vietnam, from the start of Beatlemania to the emergence of the Pop aesthetic , this show at this stalwart Midtown gallery examines this crucial year through the photographs of Bob Adelman, Arthur Rickerby, Cecil W. Stoughton, Dezo Hoffmann, John Loengard, James Karales, and others.
Listen to Ted Nelson’s Future Visions
When: Friday, July 5, 2–5pm ($10)
Where: MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens)
Ted Nelson is an American philosopher and pioneering theorist of information technology. He’s best known for coining the terms “hypertext” and “hypermedia.” He’s speaking at PS1 and he’ll reflect on his vision of the future. We’re guessing it might be hyper-… er… something …
Museum Hours: The Film
When: Continuing until Tuesday, June 9
Where: IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Manhattan)
This film‘s description is all kinds of awesome:
“During a snowy Vienna winter, Johann, a guard at the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum encounters Anne, a Canadian visitor called to Austria because of a friend’s medical emergency. Newly arrived and with little money, Anne wanders the city but is constantly drawn back to the museum, where her unlikely friendship with Johann blossoms. Acclaimed director Cohen’s (Chain, Benjamin Smoke) latest is both a touching portrait of two lonely souls and an investigation into the ways art shapes and reflects our everyday lives.”
First Saturdays in Brooklyn
When: Saturday, July 6, 5–11pm
Where: The Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Park, Brooklyn)
Always an eclectic cultural experience, this weekend’s free event at Brooklyn’s premier museum includes the Hungry March Band, which fuses everything from New Orleans street bands to Indian wedding brass, the Redhawk Native American Arts Council, which hosts an interactive dance performance inspired by traditional Native American dances, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, which is hosting a community poetry slam exploring themes of truth, struggle, and liberation. But that’s not all that is going on … check out the complete event listing for more info.
Erotic Art Show
When: Opening reception Saturday, July 6, 6-10pm with special guests You Bred Raptors
Where: Local Project/5Pointz (45-10 Davis Street, Long Island City, Queens)
Local Project is one of the spaces that may be homeless in the fall when 5Pointz is sold to developers, who will inevitably cleanse the site of its rich artistic heritage — ugh. Well, this is one of your last chances to experience a long-running art space in this complex. Curators Rebecca Memoli and Coralee Lynn Rose have put together a multimedia group exhibition that invites the public to explore the “artistic depths of sexuality.”
The artists featured are Juan Betancurth, Derek Brueckner, Evan Dalcher, Melissa Dowell, Katelan Foisy, Rachael Noel Fox, Fred Harper, Vlad Kenner, Peter Keresztury, Eli Livingston, Peter Luedtke, Rebecca Memoli, Richard Miller, Jeff Moore, Catherine Nance, Julie Pochron, Guillermo Riveros, Aubrey Roemer, Julie Simone, and Yao Xiao.
Early Works of Robert Arneson
When: Opening, July 8, 6:30–8 pm
Where: David Zwirner Gallery (537 West 20th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan)
Robert Arneson is a pioneer in the field of ceramics as contemporary art. His early career, which is intertwined with the Californian 1960s counterculture, will be given some consideration at this gallery show that is sure to display his wonky sculptural aesthetic that is always infused with a sense of humor.
