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	FALL MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Vol. 1, Issue: No. 28 Sept. 2003 Published by The Manhattan Club, 200 West 56th Street New York, 10019

The Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue (at 75th Street)
Wed and Thurs 11:00am – 6:00pm, Fri 1:00A.M. – 9:00P.M. and Sat-Sun 11:00A.M. – 6:00P.M. For more information on the following exhibits please call the museum at (212) 570 - 3676 or go to their web site, www.whitney.org.

Now – October 12, 2003 - The American Effect explores a wide range of global perceptions of the United States. The show’s works of forty–seven artists selected from thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America survey work created since 1990 in a wide variety of media, including drawing, photography, film, installation, painting, sculpture, video and Internet art.

Now – November 2, 2003 - Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue focuses on the work of this great twentieth-century abstract painter from 1958 to 1965. During that time period he made a number of figure/ground paintings on rectangular canvases using two or three colors–most often red, green, and blue. The exhibit traces the evolution of this body of work, distinguished by large, dynamically balanced fields of vibrant color. In these paintings and a series of related works on paper, Kelly blends an elegant yet rigorous abstraction with a close observation of form.

The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street)
Wed– Sat 10:00A.M. – 5:00P.M., Sun 12-noon – 5:00P.M. For more information on the following exhibits please call the museum at (212) 534-1672 or go to their web site, www.mcny.org.

Now – January 4, 2004 - Harlem Lost and Found traces the architectural history of this vibrant neighborhood, which, evolved from farmland and suburb into a thriving metropolis and its explosion into the cultural capital of African America. The exhibit looks at the structures where the people of Harlem have resided, worked, and worshipped, thus opening a window into their lives. The exhibit also celebrates contemporary New Yorkers who are working hard to preserve an irreplaceable environment. Inspired by the book of the same title by historian and Harlem resident Michael Henry Adams, who serves as guest curator, Harlem Lost and Found features many period images and objects that have never before been shown. Compiled from the Museum’s rich collections, selected loans, and contemporary color photographs by Paul Rocheleau, the exhibit depicts the extraordinary texture of everyday life in Harlem.

November 8 – April 25, 2004 - Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment in New York, 1930-1960 will feature 200 rare crystal objects drawn from Major American and European museums and private collections. Works on view will range from monumental architectural elements to sparkling functional tabletop pieces, smoking and drinking accessories, and desktop objects. The exhibition will present extraordinary sculptural works and related drawings by renowned twentieth-century artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Giorgio de Chirico, Georgia O’Keefe, and dozens of others who designed these singular objects for Steuben. The exhibit will also feature vintage photography, catalogs, advertisements, and other ephemera of the Great Depression and World War II periods.

The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Avenue (at 90th Street)
Tues 11:00 A.M. – 8:00P.M., Sun, Wed, Thurs 11:00 A.M. – 5:45P.M. For more information on the following exhibits please call the museum at (212) 423-3200 or go to their web site, www.thejewishmuseum.org.

September 5 - January 4, 2004 - Frida Kahlo's Intimate Family Picture is a small and highly focused exhibition examining her painting My Grandparents, My Parents, and I in order to stress the significance of Kahlo's Jewish roots. Based on a schematic family tree, My Grandparents, My Parents and I provides a direct visual expression of Kahlo’s identity with her family and heritage. Also on view will be the preparatory sketch for this painting and reproductions of her parents' wedding picture, which forms the central image in the painting. As a reference point Henri Rousseau's The Present and the Past, an acknowledged visual source for Ms. Kahlo’s work, will also be on view.

September 5 - January 4, 2004 - Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock's Places of Remembrance was the winning entry in a contest to design a memorial for the Bayerischer Platz in Berlin, a neighborhood that had a thriving Jewish population before the Nazis expelled the residents to concentration camps. Installed throughout the Bayerischer Platz neighborhood in 1993 the project consists of eighty signs that hang from lampposts. Each sign displays a Nazi ordinance passed between 1933-1945. Video projections will portray the signs as they appeared on the streets, while light boxes will display posters that appeared on billboards in the neighborhood, showing all eighty signs and their locations.

September 5 – January 4, 2004 - Erwartung/Expectancy: A Video Installation by Dara Birnbaum creates a multi-media work based upon Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 opera, Erwartung. Directly linked to the study of psychoanalysis that was emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. By selecting specific tableaus from this opera, Birnbaum exposes the viewer to the metaphors associated with Freud's theories that the opera first addressed over a century ago: that of fragmentation and the realm of the unconscious. Erwartung, which means Expectancy in English, probes one woman's condition as she moves through varying stages of isolation, alienation and uncertainty, in search of a lost lover. Birnbaum reinterprets the drama by re-engaging the original libretto by Marie Pappenheim, a medical student in Schoenberg's circle. The resulting work asks the viewer to contemplate if the contemporary woman is still trapped between finding self-identity and achieving a sense of completion through a male counterpart.

October 24 - February 12, 2004 - Schoenberg, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider focuses on the intellectual dialogue and friendship between two key modernists, painter Vasily Kandinsky and composer Arnold Schoenberg. The exhibit will chart the movements toward abstraction in art and music in the early twentieth century. More than sixty-five paintings by Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and German expressionists in the Blaue Reiter group, as well as letters, photographs, archival materials, and the music of the Viennese School will demonstrate this fascinating synergy between art and music.

The Museum of Arts & Design (formerly The American Craft Museum) 40 West 53rd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) Fri–Wed 10:00A.M.–6:00P.M., Thurs 10:00A.M.–8:00P.M. For more information please call the museum at (212) 956-3535 or go to their web site, www.americancraftmuseum.org.

Now – Nov. 2 US Design 1975-2000 this comprehensive analysis of American design during the last quarter of the 20th century features over 250 designs and objects that provide a look at the most significant developments in graphic design, architecture, and decorative and industrial design. On display are works by three generations of internationally recognized masters whose careers were at their peak during this period including Frank Gehry. The exhibit introduces theoretical and cultural issues that affect design as well as the impact of the information Age upon American design. The exhibit covers the entire museum and extends to the lobby gallery of Deutsche Bank next door at 31 West 53rd Street. By their own definition, “The Museum’s new name illustrates its mission as a contemporary museum dedicated to celebrating materials and the processes of transforming them into expressive objects – transcending the boundaries that currently separate craft art and design.”

November 14, 2003 - June 4, 2004 - Form and content: Corporal Identity/Body Language - This exhibit, consisting of more than 200 work by established and emerging artists, studies contemporary attitudes towards the human body and the relationship between body and self. The works span a broad range of media including ceramics, glass, wood, metal, fiber and mixed media. Their broad scope ranges from the examination of symbolic associations with various parts of the body, to exploration of the relationship between body and self. Combined, the works take a close look at the implications of advances in medical and biological technologies, including gene manipulation, cloning, body implants and modification, and sensory augmentation.

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 East 91st Street (at Fifth Avenue)
Tues–Thurs 10:00A.M.-5:00P.M., Fri 10:00A.M.-9:00P.M,Sat 10:00A.M.-6:00P.M., Sun12-noon – 6:00P.M. For more information on the following exhibits please call the museum at (212) 849-8400 or go to their web site, www.ndm.si.edu.

Now – October 10 – Solos: Smart Wrap is the first exhibit in the new Solos series. Solos was conceived to showcase works that are new to design, new to the market, new to construction, or in the research and development stage. Each instillation explores a singular work or theme and examines its development, creative process and innovative qualities. Smart Wrap is a 16-foot-square by 24-foot-high pavilion, which replaces brick and mortar construction with “smart” walls made out of an ultra-thin polymer-based film – the same used in a plastic soda bottle. This “smart” wall was conceived as a new building material that integrates the segregated functions of a conventional wall, like shelter and insulation, and compresses them into one composite film that can be erected in a fraction of ordinary building time. The pavilion also incorporates several emerging technologies in heating and cooling, visual display and lighting and energy collection.

October 14 – April 18, 2004 – Treasures from the Collection will be presented as its inaugural exhibit in the newly renovated Nancy and Edwin Marks Collection Gallery. Among the 150 pieces chosen for this exhibit are a 1st-century AD glass bowl, a large silk velvet panel from Persia dating back to 1610, panels of hand-arabesque wall paper from 1770 and a contemporary necklace by Gijs Bakker constructed of a spiral of Dahlia petals embedded in plastic. This unique and eclectic mix of objects will examine the hallmarks that define a masterpiece, whether it be an historic masterpiece treasured in its own era, a retrospective masterpiece that achieved its status over time, or a contemporary masterpiece immediately recognized for its importance.

The New York City Fire Museum 278 Spring Street
Tues- Sat 10:00A.M.- 5:00P.M. and Sun 10:00A.M.- 4:00P.M.

The museum is located in a renovated 1904 firehouse and houses one of the nation's most important collections of fire related art and artifacts from the late 18th century to the present. Among its holdings are painted leather buckets, helmets, parade hats and belts, lanterns and tools, pre Civil War hand pumped fire engines, horse drawn vehicles and early motorized apparatus. For more information please call the museum at (212) 691-1303 or go to their web site www.nycfiremuseum.org.

The National Academy of Design Museum 1083 Fifth Avenue ( at 89th Street)
Wed and Thurs 12-noon – 5:00P.M. and Fri-Sun 11:00A.M.- 6:00P.M

September 17 – December 28 George Inness and the Visionary Landscape a retrospective of the artist’s work and a focused examination of some of the most important issues and ideas that guided his new concept of the visionary landscape. Featuring forty of Inness’s most beautiful landscape paintings, the exhibition traces the artist’s career from his early Hudson River School period of the 1850’s to the broadly painted, gestural compositions of the 1870’s, to the hazy, mystical works of the 1880’s and early 1890’s. The exhibition explores how Inness derived insight from the doctrines of the Swedish scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. It also reveals Inness to have been one of the finest painters of his generation, an artist constantly in search of new pictorial techniques. It marks the first presentation of Inness’s work in New York in eighteen years. For more information please call the museum at (212) 369-4880 or go to their web site, www.nationalacademy.org.

MoMA Qns (Museum of Modern Art – Queens) 33rd Street & Queens Blvd.
Sat, Sun, Mon & Thurs 10A.M.-5P.M., Fri 10A.M.-7:45 P.M. Closed Tues & Wed. www.moma.org.

Now – Nov 1 - Ansel Adams at 100 this magnificent exhibit of works by perhaps the most renowned American photographer of the 20th century is a rare opportunity to see a very moving depiction of nature as seen through the talented eye of this beloved artist. For more information on
this exhibit call the museum at (212) 708-9400.



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