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Queens Museum Hosts Food Pantry to Help NYC Borough at Epicenter of COVID-19 Crisis
Every Wednesday since June 17, the Queens Museum has hosted a food pantry designed to serve 1,000 families weekly, distributing a week’s worth of fresh and nonperishable food items.
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An Artist Is Painting a 20,000-Square-Foot Mural for Healthcare Workers at the Queens Museum
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada’s massive painting of a masked medical professional, “Somos La Luz” (“We Are the Light”), will be visible to satellites.
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What to Do (Online) This Week: Talks About Art, Race and Public Space, and More
This week, join an exciting range of artists, historians, and curators for conversations about art and culture — all from the very same couch where you’ve been falling asleep after one too many deep dives into conspiracy theories.
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Changing Minds on the Climate Crisis, One Conversation at a Time
A public assembly at the Queens Museum will discuss the Green New Deal sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey.
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Queens International Speaks Volumes About a Borough that Welcomes the World
The Queens Museum’s biennial exhibition offers an assortment of work that considers the politics of art-making in the borough today
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Celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Queens Museum
Celebrating the year of the pig, the Queens Museum will host a range of performances and workshops this Sunday.
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Mel Chin and Art that Is Proof of Life
Mel Chin’s work, while visually fascinating and intellectually invigorating, when it moves beyond representation becomes significant, material, socio-political action.
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Mel Chin Submerges Times Square in a Post-Apocalyptic Future
This Wednesday, Mel Chin takes over Times Square as part of his multi-location, interactive art exhibit that includes an animatronic sculpture and a mixed-reality experience.
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Open Engagement Returns to the Queens Museum for Artist-Led Conference on Sustainability
This will be the 10th edition of the artist-led conference and “the last in its current form,” according to the organizers.
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Queens Museum Releases Report Making Extraordinary Allegations Against Former Director
The results of an independent investigation into last years controversy pins much of the blame on the museum’s former director and former deputy director.
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Queens Museum Director’s Departure Prompts Call for More Politically Engaged Art Institutions
An open letter signed by 38 curators, artists, and academics praises Laura Raicovich and calls on art institutions to advance “cultural and social as well as political public discourse.”