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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."

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The Unbuilt Futuristic Architecture of New York City

Never Built New York at the Queens Museum explores almost two centuries of unrealized architecture through blueprints, drawings, a panorama, and a bouncy castle.

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Ruination and Rumination on the Anthropocene

Patty Chang's ecological art struggles with its own fatalism.

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An Artist’s Bond with Her Imprisoned Father

In Sable Elyse Smith’s exhibition Ordinary Violence, the artist’s father is both muse and specter.

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Delivering the Internet, an Underground Network Keeps Cubans Connected

At the Queens Museum, an exhibition by Julia Weist and Nestor Siré explores Cuba's underground media-sharing network.

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Queens Museum Cancels, Then Reinstates Israel-Sponsored Event After Accusations of Antisemitism

Fallout from the cancellation and reinstating of the event, organized by Israel's ambassador to the UN, raises concerns about how museums might do business in light of recent anti-BDS legislation.

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An Animated Movie Reimagines Nosferatu in Present-Day NYC

Premiering this week, Andrea Mastrovito's NYsferatu is an adaptation of 1922 silent film as a parable about the immigrant experience made using rotoscope animation.

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A Vision of US Immigration Beyond the Melting Pot

At the Queens Museum, Ronny Quevedo uses the rules of sports as metaphors for the boundaries drawn in public space.

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Ronny Quevedo's Field of Play

At the Queens Museum, the artist has applied colored pieces of vinyl tape to the atrium floor in the shapes of athletic field boundary lines.

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Artists and Scholars Gather to Take Stock of South Asian American Art

A conference running June 30–July 2 brings together creators, curators, and scholars of South Asian American art from across the country.

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The Contested Histories of Water

Two group shows make the case that, even at its most innocuous, water still poses hidden dangers.

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Harness Art as a Tool for Resistance at the Queens Museum

Social Practice Queens will bring two projects, "Resistance Theatre" and "DebtBank," to the Queens Museum on June 11.