Category: Exhibitions

Through 02.20.10
Chairs by Sook Jin Jo

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

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Through 02.21.10
Native Land, Stop Eject

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

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Through 02.26.10
Material of the Year

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

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

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

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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Through 02.11.10
Rites of Passage: 1995-2009

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

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Through 02.13.10
Never Can Say Goodbye

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

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Through 01.16.10
Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years

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

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Through 01.19.10
Detour

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

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Through 01.25.10
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

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

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Through 01.31.10
Collages: A Series of Works by 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

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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

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Through 01.06.10
Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn

Suspended from the ceiling, “Untitled” (Golden) (1995) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a shimmering curtain of golden beads, acts as a site of passage, opening onto Roni Horn’s gold floor piece Gold Field (1980–82).

Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, NYC

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Through 01.08.10
The Merritt Parkway: Photographs by Michael Zenreich

Realizing the difficulty of viewing the bridges on the Merritt Parkway while in motion, Michael Zenreich, AIA, recorded them photographically. He received a National Endowment of the Humanities “Youth Grant” to fulfill this goal and spent the summer of 1980 capturing them with an 8×10 view camera. In response to the World Monuments Fund (WMF) recently naming the Parkway as one of the most endangered monuments, the photographs are on view at FXFOWLE Architects’ office.

FXFOWLE Architects
22 West 19th Street, NYC

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Through 01.09.10
At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape

The work of photographer and artist Marina Ballo Charmet, whose formal training is as a psychoanalyst, is centered on what she describes as “inattentive, unintentional observation, irrational, and without direction.” This retrospective exhibition, presents a selection of photographic and video works produced since 1995 that investigate a variety of subjects from the urban landscape to the human figure.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, NYC

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Through 01.30.10
Richard Woods: Port Sunlight

Nine new patterns of print blocks are used to create panels that clad sections of Lever House and its grounds, including all of the structural steel columns, Noguchi benches, and sections of the floor in the glass-enclosed lobby.

Lever House
390 Park Avenue, NYC

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Through 12.19.09
The New Acropolis Museum

An array of full-scale casts of the sculpture that the new Acropolis Museum was built to house, together with casts of pottery that was unearthed during excavations for its foundation. The casts, on loan from the museum in Athens, are complemented by color photographs of the building, which opened in June. Also on view are planning documents from Bernard Tschumi Architects, including sketches, working drawings, and models.

Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University
8th floor, Schermerhorn Hall, 116th Street and Broadway, NYC

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Through 01.03.10
The Island at the Center of the World

Rare maps and documents of 17th-century New Amsterdam are on view. Eight interactive Portrait Stations allow visitors to learn about early Dutch immigrants and their backgrounds while viewing portraits of contemporary Dutch New Yorkers. Urban A&O created 34 transparent acrylic tables, which define the circulation of the space.

South Street Seaport Museum
12 Fulton Street, NYC

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Through 01.04.10
Design for a Living World

Ten designers were commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design. On view are prototypes, drawings, and finished products created by the designers.

Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128

Center for Architecture Gallery Hours and Location
Monday-Friday: 9:00am-8:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday: CLOSED
536 LaGuardia Place, Between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC, 212-683-0023

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS