Times Square Station, New York, 2005 by Valera and Natasha Cherkashin.
Courtesy www.dfcz.net
Through 12.11.07
Global Underground
Artists Valera and Natasha Cherkashin have created a project revealing the diversity and universality of mass-transportation systems worldwide. In each country, the subway reflects its culture, history, and technological advances. This show features the Moscow and NYC subways. In the future, a “virtual subway” will move around the world with select stations in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Mexico, among others.
The Harriman Institute
420 West 118th Street, 12th floor, International Affairs Building
West Side Rail Yards.
©Alex S. MacLean/Landslides, courtesy AIANY
Through 12.14.07
West Side Rail Yards
The Metropolitan Transit Authority seeks public comment on the five bids to develop the West Side Rail Yards. One third of the High Line runs through the Rail Yards site, and this section may be torn down depending on the MTA’s planning process. Zoning on the overall site allows 12 million square feet of combined residential and commercial development; the RFP also requires that space be allotted for a public school and community and cultural organizations. The MTA expects to select a developer for the site in the first quarter of 2008. And after conditional approval by the MTA board, the selected proposal will proceed through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP).
335 Madison Avenue (northwest corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and 43rd Street) across from Grand Central Terminal
Living City.
David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang, The Living, Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellows
Through 12.15.07
Living City
This exhibition by New York Prize Fellows David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang features a large-scale installation of a building skin designed to breathe in response to air quality. Using the city as a research lab, Benjamin and Yang propose architecture that functions as a public interface to urban air quality, creating a platform for an ecology of building skins where individual buildings receive, share, and respond to data as part of a collective network.
Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
1.17.07 From East 29th Street, 50″x40″, Chromogenic Print, 2007.
Susan Wides
Through 12.15.07
Mannahatta
Artist Susan Wides offers a view of NYC that is at once both recognizable and disorienting. With rare permission to shoot from roofs of new skyscrapers, Wides allows viewers to see the city as a physical entity of complicated tensions. While certain photographs intentionally evoke earlier artists who depicted modern city culture, others depict a NYC of heightened color and distortions of space, scale, and light.
Kim Foster Gallery
529 West 20th Street
Structure et Surface.
Courtesy Magen H Gallery
Through 12.22.07
Structure et Surface
This exhibition is of current and selected past works from four master innovators of modern design. Jim Cole, Howard Meister, Terence Main, and Forrest Myers were seminal members of the Art et Industrie movement in 1970s SoHo, merging craft and concept into singular works of art while creating a new platform for the decorative arts.
Magen H Gallery
80 East 11th Street
SHEER (2007) by Emiko Kasahara.
Richard P. Goodbody
Through 1.13.08
Making a Home
To celebrate the historic cultural links between Japan and NY, this large-scale group exhibition features the work of 33 contemporary Japanese artists who call NYC home, including Yoko Ono, Ushio Shinohara, Kunie Sugiura, Yuken Teruya, and Aya Uekawa. The show comprises a broad range of media — from painting and sculpture to video and photography — and covers diverse age groups, identities, experiences, and styles that will show the breadth and depth of contemporary Japanese art in NY. Visitors will experience multifaceted “homes” installed throughout the gallery, illuminating the ways in which Japanese artists have made their homes and careers here since the 1950s.
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street