“The Adventures of La Coronita,” 2008, video still, Mike Estabrook (left); “Pimp My Piragua,” 2008, pushcart prototype (Puerto Rico Schwinn Club at left), installation with color video with sound (right).
Queens Museum of Art
Through 10.16.08
Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere v.2
The Queens Museum of Art has commissioned four temporary, site-specific artworks in Corona Plaza (103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue). These artworks are part of a larger Heart of Corona initiative in which the museum and community partners work together to improve the health of residents, beautify the neighborhood, and activate public spaces. The artists — Mike Estabrook, Lin + Lam, Miguel Luciano, and vydavy sindikat — developed projects specific to the plaza’s conditions and engage the public to highlight urban mythologies, visual perception, and everyday artistry.
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Practice of Encroachment.
Courtesy parkfoundation.org
Through 10.25.08
Practice of Encroachment: From the Global Border to the Border Neighborhood
The PARC Foundation presents an exhibition of projects by Estudio Teddy Cruz. His research-based architectural studio, located at the San Diego-Tijuana border, uses neighborhoods as sites of experimentation to research new forms of affordable housing and social density. The projects on view include conceptual works presented through videos, photographs, drawings, models, and cartographies.
The PARC Foundation
29 Bleecker Street, NYC
“Palmtree Island” (Oasis), project, NY, NY 1971, by Haus-Rucker-Co (Laurids Ortner, Manfred Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp, and Klaus Pinter). Cut-and-pasted printed paper with gouache and graphite and cut-and-pasted painted paper on silver gelatin photograph on board.
Wendy Evans Joseph Purchase Fund, courtesy MoMA
Through 10.27.08
Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
Works drawn from MoMA’s architecture and design collection explore ways that NY’s landscape has inspired architects with visions of utopia since the 1970s. Rem Koolhaas’s book Delirious New York (1978) and several drawings made for the book, including the recently acquired watercolor “Plan of Dreamland” (1977), are the exhibition’s departure point. Other recent acquisitions include works by Diller + Scofidio and Simon Ungers. The centerpiece of the gallery is a display of architectural models organized as a kind of fantasy city juxtaposing unbuilt visionary projects and realized buildings; architectural drawings complement and supplement the dreamscape of models.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, NYC