Art
The World’s Borough Exhibition Pays Tribute to Queens
With works by over 70 artists, the show contains everything from personified felt dumplings to crochet renditions of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Unisphere.
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A Queens Show Celebrates NYC’s Latine and African Music History
At the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, an exhibition pays tribute to genres such as jazz, reggae, and bomba through visual mediums.
News
Queens Art Fund Distributes Almost Half a Million to Local Artists
Dozens of recipients, from textile artists to performance collectives, will use the funding to pursue public projects.
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NYC’s Largest Trivia Event Returns to the Queens Museum
After a four-year hiatus, the Panorama Challenge is back for its 13th edition at the museum’s massive model of the city that was created for the 1964 World’s Fair.
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In a Queens Mini-Mall, an Unlikely Art Show Brings Locals Together
Home-o-Stasis is a community-driven exhibition about the lives and landmarks that make up Flushing’s unique ecosystem.
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Artists Say the Queens Museum Has Failed Them
A group of cultural workers exposed some artists’ disillusionment with the museum’s residency program and one participant’s alleged experience of harassment.
Film
What Salamanders Tell Us About Our Future on Earth
A Common Sequence muses on the different ways that humans assess, categorize, understand, and often exploit the natural world.
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Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures
Sometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience.
Film
Noriaki Tsuchimoto Transformed Documentary Into an Art of Compassion
Though not well known outside of Japan, Tsuchimoto honed an observational style of filmmaking similar to the cinema verité movement in the US and Europe, but years earlier.
News
Queens Artists and Nonprofits Can Apply for This Cash Grant
The Queens Arts Fund awards project grants between $1,000 and $5,000 to organizations and collectives and $3,000 to artists for the production of new work.
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Pioneer Works Backs Out of Controversial Queens Development
Following a campaign by artists and anti-gentrification groups, the Brooklyn arts center is no longer endorsing the Astoria luxury tower project.
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Noguchi Museum Is Opening the Artist’s Studio to Visitors
The studio of the mid-century sculptor, located across from his eponymous museum in Long Island City, New York, received $4.5 million for its planned restoration and renovation.