03.02.10 – 03.08.10
TIMESSQUAREARTS

“Black Sun” by Alexandre Arrechea. Illustration by Arrechea. Ten-minute animation of wrecking ball bouncing of the building. Video runs on NASDAQ screen at 11:50 PM.

Times Square Alliance

As part of the Public Art Program of the Times Square Alliance, several installations will grace Times Square, including: Sofia MalDonado’s “42nd Street Mural,” a 92 x 12 foot mural mounted on a construction fence (through 04.30.10); Alexandre Arrechea’s “Black Sun,” a 10-minute animation of a wrecking ball on the giant NASDAQ screen; and David Ellis and Roberto Lange’s Kinetic Sound Sculpture, a pile of real trash that moves and make sounds.

Times Square Alliance
Times Square, NYC

Through 03.20.10
Olafur Eliasson

Multiple shadow house (2010). Wood, metal, fabric, spotlights, color filter glass, halogen bulb, projection foil and transparent projection foil. Installation view Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, 02.11-03.20.10.

Photo by Jean Vong, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

This exhibition consists of a series of rooms, each lit with a bank of lights. The individual lights are different colors, but they create white light when blended on a single wall. As visitors walk in front and block the light sources, colored shadows are revealed.

Tonya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street, NYC

Through 03.27.10
Konstantinos Stamatiou: Refused Reused

Konstantinos Stamatiou

An installation, collages, and light boxes made from non-traditional materials create a multilayered labyrinth of social issues and various forms of physical interaction between the art and the viewer.

Black and White Gallery
636 West 28th Street, NYC

Through 04.04.10
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation

LTL. Fluff Bakery, New York, NY, 2004.

Michael Moran

Celebrating the winners honored during the first 10 years of the National Design Awards, this exhibition features the work of the more than 75 award winners for outstanding contemporary achievements in architecture, landscape, interiors, product design, communication design, corporate design, interactive design, and fashion.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, NYC

Through 03.13.10
The Great White Whale is Black

Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Professor and painter/architect Tony Candido presents his visionary idea of the interplay between humanity and the contemporary environment and what the future of architecture could be. The exhibition focuses on Candido’s calligraphic brush and ink paintings and drawings, which have been an important part of his output since 1967.

The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, 2nd floor, NYC

Through 03.21.10
Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Joel Meyerowitz’s expansive study of NYC’s parks, throughout all five boroughs, comprises an installation that includes large photographic prints, some as large as the gallery walls themselves. The images document the untamed and wild nature of the city’s open spaces, as well as bucolic and pastoral landscapes.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 04.03.10
SNØHETTA: architecture — landscape — interior

The work of Snøhetta is featured offering insight into the design and construction of the firm’s most important works. Included are: Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt; the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway; and the planned National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in NYC. On view are films, photographs, drawings, models, and interactive learning devices.

Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue, NYC

Through 04.28.10
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum

The central void of the Guggenheim’s rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the museum invited more than 200 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 02.20.10
Chairs by Sook Jin Jo

Chairs.

O.K. Harris Gallery

Korean-born, NY-based artist Sook Jin Jo combines a minimalist sense of pure structure with a love for rough-hewn materials. Conceptually, they invite a meditative and physical interaction with asymmetrical balances and unexpected harmonies of color, texture, and shape. Form, meaning, and effect are united by a single spiritual purpose: reclamation.

O.K. Harris Gallery Works of Art
383 West Broadway, NYC

Through 02.21.10
Native Land, Stop Eject

EXIT Animated map: Natural Disasters.

© Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, Ben Rubin

In response to the recent COP15 conference on climate change in Copenhagen, this exhibition explores the meaning of sedentariness and nomadism. Filmmaker Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to remain on their land but are threatened with exile. Philosopher Paul Virilio, in collaboration with the artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, and Laura Kurgan, examines and challenges new trends in contemporary human movement due to environmental, political, and economic factors.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2, DK 1051 Copenhagen, Denmark

Through 02.26.10
Material of the Year

Concrete Cloth by Concrete Canvas.

Material ConneXion/Concrete Canvas

This exhibition showcases Material ConneXion’s 2009 MEDIUM Award for Material of the Year inaugural winner and honorable mention recipients. UK-based Concrete Canvas’s Concrete Cloth was the winner (See In the News for more on the winning concept).

Material ConneXion
60 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NYC

Through 02.26.10
Living Architectures: Four Architectural Movies by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine

Living Architectures.

Storefront for Art and Architecture

Filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine create intimate portraits of iconic contemporary buildings, giving backstage access to their inner lives and hidden workings. The films depict the everyday human activities within Richard Meier & Partners Architects’ Church in Rome, Frank Gehry and Partners’ Guggenheim Bilbao, and Herzog & de Meuron’s Pomerol Winery, alongside footage of Rem Koolhass/OMA’s Maison à Bordeaux.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC

Through 01.31.10
Building Energy Positive

The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons kicks off a multiyear collaboration with Stevens Institute of Technology. Examples of new solar building technologies are showcased, representing multi-year research collaborations among The 3rd Skin (Parsons), IC Solar Facade System and Advanced EcoCeramic Envelope Systems (RPI), and SolarLouvers (TU Darmstadt). It includes drawings and mock-ups of full-scale prototypes.

Parsons The New School, Sheila Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 02.07.10
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life

Joe Grand, Galvanized Steel Candelabra (2003).

Courtesy of Grand Idea Studio, San Francisco

This exhibition features nearly 60 works created between 1999 and 2009 by mostly Americans and Israelis, including both emerging and accomplished artists. Examples of industrial design, architecture, installation art, video, drawing, metalwork, jewelry, ceramics, comics, sculpture, and textiles, revealing the intersections of creative freedom and Jewish life, are on view.

The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 02.08.10
The Future at Home: American Furniture, 1940-1955

Butterfly table designed by Dan Cooper, 1942.

Courtesy Eric Laignel

In conjunction with “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,” this selection of furniture, textiles, and print materials demonstrates the height of Modernism in American home design.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 02.11.10
Rites of Passage: 1995-2009

Work by Cooper Union alum, David Ross.

The Cooper Union School of Art

Work of alumni of The Cooper Union who graduated between 1995 and 2009 from The School of Art, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and The Albert Nerken School of Engineering are featured. Explorations range from the intangibility of light and sound to the poetry of infrastructure, autobiographical reflection, and political outrage.

The Cooper Union School of Art
41 Cooper Square (Lower Level), NYC

Through 02.13.10
Never Can Say Goodbye

Courtesy Ted Riederer

Spotlighting more than 20 artists who work with sound, light, and image, a fantasy version of the now defunct Tower Records is recreated with “Never Records,” by Ted Riederer and the organization No Longer Empty: an installation complete with record bins, album covers, music posters, and a performance stage. Luce Group donated its time to light the installation.

Former Tower Records Store
4th Street and Broadway, NYC

Through 01.16.10
Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years

Courtesy of Pentagram

Seven themes in connection with Lincoln Center’s history explore origins and urban renewal; architecture; iconic personalities; landmark performances; innovative technologies; media and commerce; and educational initiatives. On view are a collection of 400 historic and contemporary objects including photographs, ephemera, correspondence, costumes, set pieces, props, and video recordings.
The Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC

Through 01.19.10
Detour

Rest Area, Lofoten, Norway

Snøhetta AS

On view are the results of a global design competition organized by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, which challenged designers to propose alternatives to traditional tourist-route architecture. Through images, models, and films, selections are showcased from the more than 200 structures that have been built since the competition’s inception. Highlighted are projects by emerging architectural firms as well as prominent architects such as Peter Zumthor and Snøhetta.

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Through 01.25.10
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Untitled (Woman [Lis Beyer or Ise Gropius] in B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and a dress in fabric designed by Beyer). c. 1926

Erich Consemüller

This is MoMA’s first major exhibition on the Bauhaus since 1938 and gathers more than 400 works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture. While visiting, also check out the exhibition In Situ, which closes 01.18.10.

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, NYC

Through 01.31.10
Collages: A Series of Works by Charles A. Platt

“An Instrument of War/Chanel Guernica” by Charles A. Platt

Charles A. Platt

Artist and architect Charles A. Platt, FAIA, “builds” his collages, which take on a three-dimensional effect. “I take apart clothes and find and re-work used objects — shoes and shirts, phonograph records, summer skirts, measuring tapes and rifle targets, tennis nets, wallets and so forth — and work them into compositions that depend on formal artistic expression and meaning. The nature of the object itself, the material, its color, texture, shape, construction, and the associations it evokes play a central role, as do the possibilities of its history.”

Garrison Art Center
23 Depot Square on Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY

Urs Fischer, Marguerite de Ponty, 2006-08. Cast aluminum and steel.

Courtesy the artist; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London; and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

Fischer uses the museum’s galleries to create a series of environments featuring towering aluminum sculptures, objects that appear to melt, and a labyrinth of silk-screened chrome steel boxes.

New Museum
235 Bowery, NYC