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Jonathan prince installs G2V at dag hammarskjold plaza.

Oct 5, 2012

G2V | 2012 | oxidized and high chromium stainless steel | 10.5 x 8 x 4 feet | click > enlarge

The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and Cynthia-Reeves Projects are pleased to announce that G2V, a new sculpture by the artist Jonathan Prince will be on view at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, at Second Avenue and East 47th Street in Manhattan. A public reception with the artist will be held at the site on Wednesday, 10 October 10 from 6 > 7p.

Prince’s new work continues to explore the principal theme of the “interrupted” iconographic form from his Torn Steel series. In G2V, the stainless steel “interruption” in the treated steel is a smooth undulating surface — a beautiful foil to the lush, sandstone-like patina of the oxidized steel. This installation coincides with a public art exhibition of two of his additional works, Southern Remnant and Bore Block, currently on view at the Christie’s Sculpture Garden at 535 Madison Avenue. Prince’s Vestigial Block, a recent acquisition by the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, will be permanently installed in advance of the museum’s opening celebration, and a retrospective of the artist’s black granite sculptures and functional art will be on view at ABC Stone in Brooklyn next month.

For G2V Prince uses his chosen material, steel, in completely new and innovative ways. The artist explains:

I believe that my steel work appears very different than other steel sculptures that are out in the world primarily because the forms I am creating are an extension of my earlier stone carvings. Works in steel tend to be rectilinear in nature whereas stone sculptures (and my steel work) tend towards the curvilinear and/or compound curve. Equipment to form this kind of steel exists in industry but, in forms that are used commercially like curved pipe. In order to create the sculptural forms that I design we often have to engineer the equipment and invent the techniques used for their fabrication. This element of invention is central to my sculpture practice and most importantly to my joy of creation.

Regarding Prince’s move toward public art scaled work over the past year, the artist observes:

For me, the viewer has to physically move through space for the totality of the sculpture to be taken in. I refer to this as temporal exploration. I believe this invites an interact with the object – as new information is revealed from different viewing angles.

The City of New York’s Department of Parks & Recreation’s Art in the Parks program has consistently fostered the creation and installation of temporary public art in parks throughout the five boroughs. Since 1967, collaborations with arts organizations and artists have produced hundreds of public art projects in New York City parks. Please see [ parks art ] New York real estate developer, Craig Nassi is generously serving as a co-sponsor of this project.

9/11 memorial. 2012.

Sep 11, 2012

memorial on 11 september 2011 | photo ©timothy a. clary-pool/getty images | click > enlarge

in remembrance of the terrorist attack in new york city 11 years ago, the national september 11 memorial & museum will host a live webcast of the commemoration ceremony at the 9/11 memorial, starting at 8:30a est on 11 september 2012. there were 4 million visitors in the first year. the memorial opened 12 september 2011.

rendering by squared design lab | courtesy of the national september 11 memorial & museum

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the only structure to reside on the site is the museum designed by architects [ snøhetta ] and scheduled to open 11 september 2012. the design of the structure respects the horizontal character of the memorial design. the reflective treatment of the facade will mirror the changing seasons.

image > christina brodzky

[ 9/11 memorial ] [ snøhetta ] [ christina brodzky ]

Photo exhibit: the post-olympic city.

Aug 7, 2012

The London Olympics are happening now, a compelling reason to stage an exhibit in New York City this week. Showing a selection of photos taken in Athens, Barcelona, Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Montreal and Sarajevo, that explore what happens to a host city after the Olympics are gone. An opening reception Tuesday, 7 August, 7 > 9pm, at [ storefront for art and architecture ] in Soho | 97 Kenmare Street. Photographs Jon Pack and Gary Hustwit.

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Olympic games celebrated by vipp.

Jul 31, 2012

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Vipp celebrates the Olympic Games with the ‘Re-United’ art bin by Chilean artist Mauricio Clavero.

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At the Olympic Games in London, the world is once again reunited. Chilean artist Mauricio Clavero has created the art piece ‘Re-United’ – a Vipp pedal bin covered with 90 national flags made out of Swarovski crystals. More than 70,000 crystals were used in the creation of the bin which symbolizes a world coming together.

Re-United is a part of “The Louvre Collection” – a collection of 36 unique works of art, made out of Vipp bins and soap dispensers with Swarovski crystals, previously installed at the Musée du Louvre. Nine Vipp soap dispensers depicting the metro systems of Tokyo, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Moscow, New York, Shanghai, Sao Paulo and Dehli with colorful crystals are also a part of ‘The Louvre Collection’. During the games, Vipp has reunited the four previous Annual Colors in green, red, blue and yellow together with black in an interpretation of the Olympic rings.

[ olympic exhibition ]
The Olympic art pieces from the Louvre Collection will be exhibited at Vipp Flagship Store in Copenhagen during the Olympics. Vipp Flagship Store |  Ny Østergade 34 DK-1100 | Copenhagen [ vipp ]

From ghosts in the machine.

Jul 25, 2012

inspired by kafka in the penal colony | click > enlarge

The New Museum has opened “Ghosts in the Machine”, a show that turns out to have quite a lot to do with design. Some of the most interesting ideas about the interaction of people and technology that is such a critical concern of design today had their origins in art in the 1960s.

As laid out by the curators, Massimiliano Gioni, the Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions at the museum and Gary Carrion-Murayari, its Curator, art became obsessed with the machine in the 1960s. Op art and mechanical sculpture were two sides of the obsession. The vision of a future art created by the cooperation of artists and engineers was nourished in such places as the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), founded by György Kepes.

The show is a reminder of a time when we associated certain kinds of images with computers—geometric loops and swirls, especially, patterns of the data of physics and astronomy rendered by plotters. Today, when we are accustomed to computers handing images of all sorts and styles, this once common idea seems strange.

While the New Museum has sometimes focused too much on the novel and transient, this show is historical and retrospective. It finds precedents in the past. Today’s multimedia world is anticipated in the crude Cinema dome of the late 1960s. The changing and evolving role of a technology is suggested by the pattern of the Vocoder, included in the show. The Vocoder was a sound recording and manipulating device that was shown as a wonder of the future at the 1939 World’s Fair, then later placed in the service of music making by Kraftwerk and then Afrika Bambaataa. [ ghosts in the machine ]

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A chair for new york.

Jul 16, 2012

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Paris is famous for its thin barebones park chair, seen in the Tuileries and other public gardens. Now, in an effort to look at designing a chair for public spaces in New York comes the NYChair Charrette Lab.
It assembled on Saturday at First Park, on the Lower East Side of the city at 33 East First Street, site of last year’s BMW Guggenheim urban ideas pavilion.

The creation of Laetitia Wolff of Futureflair and Silva Ajemian, the event included presentations by desigNYC’s Michael Piper of DUB-studios and Evan Bennett of VAMOS Architects.
Kids and adults assembled in groups and came up with ideas that will be judged by officials: Celia Petersen, Parks & Recreation capital projects division; Emily Weidenhof, Public Spaces, DOT Division of Traffic & Planning; Gail Wittwer-Laird, Capital Projects Division for New York City Parks. Stay tuned for the announcement of winners in mid-August.

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The highline new york city. An aerial greenway.

Nov 28, 2011

The High Line is a 1-mile (1.6 km) New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) section of the former elevated freight railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. Phase 1 was opened in 2009, phase 2 in 2011, phase 3 most likely 2013.

Visiting the new phase 2 on Friday following Thanksgiving and with 64-degree weather it was wall-to-wall on the Highline and not many were thinking about holiday shopping just yet.

Above photo taken prior to development. Much of the naturalized plantings are inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the disused tracks.

Pebble-dash concrete walkways unify the trail, which swells and constricts, swinging from side to side, and divides into concrete tines that meld the hardscape with the planting embedded in railroad gravel mulch.

The project was designed by [ James Corner Field Operations ] and [ Diller Scofidio + Renfro ] and construction on phase 1 of the park cost around $172 million public dollars to build. This investment into the community has resulted in more than 30 different projects being proposed or constructed.
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2011 canstruction exhibit and design competition. NYC.

Nov 2, 2011

10>21 november exhibit | left: 2010 mr potato head

Design competition at World Financial Center stacks over 100,000 cans into 26 larger-than-life works of art to help City Harvest feed hungry New Yorkers

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An annual art show, design competition, and food drive all rolled into one, Canstruction® raises hunger awareness by challenging teams of architects and engineers to create larger-than-life pop art masterpieces made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The creative results are donated to City Harvest for delivery to local community food programs.

This year‘s New York Canstruction® exhibition features 26 teams from the city’s top architecture, engineering and design firms. While each team spends months planning and designing their entries, they are allowed only one adrenaline-filled night to meticulously stack and color-coordinate cans into whimsical, wildly inventive feats of engineering.

The sculptures to be judged by experts that includes Michael Arad, designer of the World Trade Center Memorial; Annie Block, editor at Interior Design magazine; Jeff Andrews, celebrated California-based interior designer; Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA, MRAIC, IIDA, a founding partner of the international architecture and design firm, Perkins Eastman; Richard Hayden, FAIA RIBA, Managing Principal at Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Ellie Krieger, New York Times bestselling author, James Beard Foundation award winner and host of Food Networks “Healthy Appetite;” Wade Burch, C.E.C., Executive Chef at SouthWest NY and first-place winner on the Food Network series “Chopped;”and Chip Wade, Master Carpenter on HGTV’s “Curb Appeal: The Block” and HGTV’s “Designed to Sell.”

In New York City, Canstruction® is presented by Arts World Financial Center and produced by Canstruction New York, Inc., and the New York Chapters of the Society for Design Administration and the American Institute of Architects.

Participating Teams
AECOM
American Express
Arup
Cetra/CRI Architecture PLLC
Dattner Architects
DeSimone Consulting Engineers
Eleanor Roosevelt High School / Sandra Forman, Architect
Ennead Architects
Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLP
GACE Consulting Engineers PC
Gensler / WSP Flack + Kurtz
Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP
Gruzen Samton IBI Group
Halcrow, Inc.
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC
Langan Engineering / John Fotiadis Architect
Leslie E. Robertson Associates, RLLP
MKG
National Reprographics, Inc.
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Robert Silman Associates PC
Severud Associates
Skanska USA
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, LLP
Ted Moudis Associates
Thornton Tomasetti

date:       10-21 november
hours:       10a–6p daily |10a – 5p on november 21
venue:      world financial center complex | 220 Vesey Street | 212 945 0505
cost:         FREE – Suggested donation: One can of food per person

[ arts world financial center ]
Since its inception in 1988, over 2.5 million people have attended more than 2,500 free performances and events at the World Financial Center, making Arts World Financial Center the East Coast’s largest presenter of free, year-round performing and visual arts. This is the fourth consecutive year that Canstruction® will turn the World Financial Center into a spectacular food-sculpture gallery. [ arts world financial center ]
[ canstruction® ]
Conceived by the Society for Design Administration (SDA), Canstruction® is a trademarked design/build competition currently held in more than 100 cities around the world. The results are displayed to the public as magnificent sculpture exhibits in each city where a competition is held. The public is invited to donate canned food at the time of the exhibition. At the close of the exhibitions all of the canned food used in the structures and collected from the viewing public is donated to local food banks for distribution to emergency feeding programs that include pantries, soup kitchens, and day care centers.

[ city harvest ]
Now serving New York City for more than 25 years, City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children. This year, City Harvest will collect over 30 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to nearly 600 community food programs using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 300,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal. City Harvest also addresses issues that surround hunger in New York City by supporting affordable access to nutritious food in low-income communities, educating individuals, families, and communities in the prevention of diet-related diseases, channeling a greater amount of fresh produce into high-need areas, and enhancing the ability of agency partners to feed hungry men, women, and children. [ city harvest ]

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Civic action: A vision for long island city. Noguchi.

Oct 9, 2011

noguchi museum | 12 october 12 > 22 april 22

Queens, Long Island City, Astoria—even for New Yorkers locating them on a map can be a challenge. The Noguchi Museum—a wonderful garden refuge left by the sculptor–and its neighbor, Socrates Sculpture Park, have opened an effort to help give the area more identity and appreciation.

Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City is an exhibition of ideas intended to spur community and government action abut the area and raise its identity

The show runs from October 12 to April 22 at the Noguchi and larger scale prototypes of some of the projects will be shown at Socrates Sculpture Park, close to the museum and on the east river, looking out at Manhattan’s sky line, from May to August. The low industrial buildings first drew artists like Isamu Noguchi and Mark Di Suvero, who still has a studio and yard near the two institutions in the 1970s. But now gentrification is threatening. Why not encourage artists to supply ideas to improve the area that had drawn them in the first place? Artist George Trakas illuminated the history of the area, which was once home to piano factories. Rirkrit Tiravanija offers up a vision of a grass semi highway, with open food market, providing a new kind of main street, connecting the area with the subway stop. Mary Miss looked at the huge stacks of the electric power plant dominating the area and suggested making their red and white paint scheme a sort of brand dress or livery to identify the neighborhood. She painted up poles and signs. Natalie Jeremijenko envisions a future Long Island city with distributed power generation in the form of solar panel overhangs and distributed agriculture, in hanging, bag like planters on walls and windows. The program was developed by Jenny Dixon who is director of the Noguchi Museum and Alyson Baker, former Executive Director, Socrates Sculpture Park. It was directed by Claire Weisz and Laurie Beckelman and curator Amy Smith-Stewart.

venue: noguchi museum | 9-01 33rd road (at vernon boulevard) | long island city/new york
date: 12 october 12 > 22 april 22

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