The Armory Show and Art21 are presenting a public screening next Monday, June 18, as they initiate year two of the outdoor summer film festival they’ve dubbed New York Close Up. This, the second installment, will take place at Big Screen Plaza at the Eventi Hotel on 6th Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets. The event gets underway at 6:00 p.m.
Eight artists are included, their work broadening the scope of cultural production in New York City in presenters’ eyes. The list includes: Diana Al-Hadid (Syria), David Brooks (United States), Josephine Halvorson (United States), Liz Magic Laser (United States), Eddie Martinez (United States), Alejandro Almanza Pereda (Mexico), Mika Rottenberg (Argentina & Israel) and Erin Shirreff (Canada).
Marcel Duchamp, American, born France, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, (Nu descendant un escalier), 1912, oil, 58 x 35.
We’ve been enjoying the jam-packed e-mail blasts from the organizers of the Armory Show of late. They are curating cultural events around the city to present to those of us who like to be “in the know.” As we await the next installment of the fair itself, which takes place March 7 through 10, 2013, we thought you’d get a kick out of this mention of the show in New York Magazine. The article, surveying NYC’s scandals through the ages, riffs on the outrage around Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2),” which appeared at the Armory Show in 1913. This brings to mind the caveat, “Be careful what one ridicules, as it will likely be thought of as iconic modern art one of these days!”
We aren’t traveling far next week for our #TravelTuesday post but we’re bringing an inspiring project called Harvest Dome in the Inwood Hill Park Inlet. The brainchild of Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture, Harvest Dome 2.0 has gotten the attention of Kickstarter, the New York City Parks Department, the New York Center for Architecture, the Architectural League of New York, and the Trespa Design Center. If you’ve never traveled up Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Harlem River Ship Canal, you will have missed this ethereal dome made of weather-weary umbrellas. Fortunately AIA New York saw is as worthy of recognition for its New Practices New York 2012 competition so there will likely be other Harvest Domes to come, and we know you’ll enjoy the video shot by Chris Kannen so be sure to stop back by. There’s a BRX Facebook page we’ll give you a link to so you can support this environmental art project and amazing photography by Andreas Symietz.
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