On May 21st we had our public opening for Andres Serrano: Residents of New York at La Guardia Place in the West Village. The weather was perfect and the plaza was filled with great conversation, and of course the stunning images from our collaboration with Andres Serrano. There was a performative element to this event, images were affixed to sign posts and were held throughout the night.
Currently you can see some of the images from Residents of New York, on public phone booths (courtesy of Van Wagner) around Manhattan! If you see one on your daily walk/jog/bike ride around the city feel free to tag it on instagram, twitter, or facebook using the hashtag #ResidentsofNewYork. Here is a list of locations where you can find our Residents of New York phone booths:
We had a great time in Red Hook to kick off our Art Walks series! Our walk began at Dustin Yellin’s studio, then continued to Pioneer Works, the wonderful interdisciplinary creative space he founded. Our next destination was the Kentler International Drawing Space, where Florence Neal gave us an in depth tour of their gallery
Our recent Spring Benefit was a tremendous success thanks to the support of our generous community of donors, sponsors, artists and staff. We held our event at the Knoll showroom for a beautiful sunset soiree overlooking the Hudson River. Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko was honored with our “2012 Feed More Art to the World” award. He
Last Thursday for the The Armory Show‘s VIP SoHo night we presented Joan Jonas‘ “Lunar Rabbit, 2011”. The storefront multimedia installation was the culmination of a series of workshops led by Jonas during spring 2011 for students from the Clinton School for Writers and Artists. The workshops explored the myth of a selfless rabbit who
This past October Xaviera Simmons set up an outdoor studio in the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses where she met and took portraits of the residents of these communities. Last night was the opening of two concurrent exhibitions for Xaviera Simmons’ “When You’re Looking At Me, You’re Looking At Country“. The event also marks the first
