Art Calendar
June
NOGUCHI MUSEUM
9-01 33rd Road, LIC
718-204-7088
Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and
Hasegawa in Postwar Japan
On view now through July 14
This traveling exhibit focuses on the friendship
between Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa,
who was one of the most renowned contemporary
Japanese artists living in the United States during
his lifetime. Hasegawa is credited with introducing
European abstraction to Japan through art history,
critique and art theory. The artists became friends
during Noguchi’s visit to Japan in 1950 as both of
them studied Japanese design, culture and aesthetics.
In their friendship, Noguchi and Hasegawa sought
to understand postwar Japan and how they could
reassemble it through art.
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MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
36-01 35th Ave., Astoria
718-777-6888
Don’t Forget the Pictures: Glass Slides from the
Collection
Running now through Oct. 20
Viewers can take a look at what is known as “lantern
slides”, which are glass slides from which images
are projected. These types of slides were integral
to people’s early cinema watching experiences in
the early 20th Century. The 3 ¼ to 4 inch slides are
colorful and often illustrated advertisements for local
businesses, illustrate songs during singalongs and
promote upcoming films. The exhibit presents over
1500 examples of these slides from 1914 to 1948.
By 1950, the lantern slides were no longer used in
theaters.
MOMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave., LIC
718-784-2084
Simone Fattal: Works and Days
On view now through Sept. 2
This is the first American solo exhibit of works by
Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal. The exhibit
brings together over 200 works Fattal created over
the last 50 years, which includes abstract and
figurative ceramic sculptures, paintings, watercolors,
and collages. Works and Days explores the impact
of displacement and the politics of archeology and
excavation. The artist drew inspiration from war
narratives, landscape painting, ancient history,
mythology and Sufi poetry.
Installation view of Simone Fattal: Works and Days. Photo by Matthew Septimus.
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