Through 07.31.10
desigNYC
desigNYC.
Alexandra Corazza
DesigNYC, a collective committed to improving life in NYC through good design, celebrates its first 12 projects with an exhibit dedicated to the impact of collaborations. Collaborations include The Broadway Mall Association with Balmori Associates, Joel Sanders, and Domingo Gonzalez Associates; Enterprise Community Partners with Robin Key Landscape Architecture, Sohbr Studio, and Andre Kikoski Architect; and Outstanding Renewal Enterprise: the Lower East Side Ecology Center with Andrew Berman Architect.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor, NYC
Through 08.01.10
Cars, Culture and the City
L Motors, 175th Street and Broadway, 1948
Photograph by Gottscho-Schleisner, courtesy Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Like many major cities, NYC has a low per-capita ownership of automobiles. But surprisingly, it has played an essential role in creating today’s car culture; the car has helped, in turn, to shape modern NYC. Visionary drawings and models, historic photographs, films, and advertisements, and a wealth of car memorabilia tell this untold story.
Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Avenue, NYC
Through 08.14.10
Land Use Survey
Aerial #62, 2002 by Sarah McKenzie
Courtesy Jen Bekman Gallery
This exhibition, with photographs, paintings, and works on paper by 27 artists, functions as a critical appraisal of land use across the country, as a document of the changing landscape vernacular, and as a celebration of the artists who take diverse approaches to capturing this genre.
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street, NYC
Through 08.28.10
ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty
Beizhuanzi II, Siming District, Xiamen, 2004
Sze Tsung Leong
This is an annual summer experience of environmental issues affecting our visual world and spiritual selves. The Tragedy of Beauty focuses on photography of land where the tragedy of the image becomes the aesthetic of the environment.
Exit Art
475 10th Avenue, NYC
Through 09.09.10
Before They Were Parks
Henry I. Stetler Warehouse and Comfort Station (now Bleecker Street Playground),1959.
New York City Parks Photo Archive
More than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs from the NYC Parks Photo Archive and other collections are on view. They may be lush and green now, but at some point in their past, parks may have been warehouses, tenements, estates, reservoirs, landfills, cemeteries, or jails.
The Arsenal Gallery
64th Street and 5th Avenue in Central Park, 3rd Floor, NYC