ARTS EVENTS Calendar 2014 MoMA PS1 Noguchi Museum Serving the Long Island City Area For 17 Years! Corporate Accounts Welcome Luxury Car & Limousine Service Door To Door • 24 Hours • Se Habla Español “LI# B01506” 23-03 Astoria Blvd. • Astoria • 718.204.5861 www.queenscourier.com I LIC COURIER I JULY 2014 47 22-25 Jackson Ave., LIC, NY 11101 718.784.2084 MoMAPS1.org 9-01 33rd Road • (at Vernon Blvd) Long Island City, NY 11106 718.204.7088 • www.noguchi.org Courtesy of Plaxall Long Island City Plaxall.com LICProperties.com Museum of the Moving Image Astoria Studios and Museum of the Moving Image. 35 Ave. at 37 St., Astoria, NY 11106 • 718.777.6800 • www.movingimage.us JULY GCC: Achievements in Retrospective On view March 23– September 7, 2014 Consisting of a “delegation” of nine artists, the GCC makes reference to the English abbreviation of the Gulf Cooperation Council, an economic and political consortium of Arabian Gulf nations. Founded in the VIP lounge of Art Dubai in 2013, the GCC makes use of ministerial language and celebratory rituals associated with the Gulf to create videos, photographs, sculptures, and installations that examine the region’s rapid transformation in recent decades. Lights, Camera, Astoria! October 26, 2013–August 31, 2014 • In the Amphitheater Gallery This exhibition traces the fascinating history of the Astoria studio, which has been at the heart of filmmaking in New York City since 1920. The site was the East Coast home of Paramount Pictures in the silent and early talking-picture eras, a center for independent filmmaking in the 1930s, and the U.S. Army Pictorial Center from World War II into the Cold War. After falling into disrepair in the early 1970s, the site has become a thriving cultural hub that includes Kaufman Highlights from the Collection: Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - Sunday, August 31, 2014 The only thing Noguchi loved more than the promise of the future was the sense of belonging to the Earth he derived from working with million and billion year old pieces of rock. Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern explores a stylistic wormhole that seems to link the ancient past and the distant future in his work. Highlights from the Collection: Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - Wednesday, December 31, 2014 The only thing Noguchi loved more than the promise of the future was the sense of belonging to the Earth he derived from working with million and billion year old pieces of rock. Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern explores a stylistic wormhole that seems to link the ancient past and the distant future in his work. The World Comes to Queens: Films from the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs April 30–August 31 • In the Video Screening Amphitheater Nearly 100 million people came to Queens for two World’s Fairs that opened 25 years apart, in 1939 and 1964. On the eve of World War II, the 1939–1940 fair looked to the future, with the optimistic slogan “the Dawn of a New Day.” The 1964–1965 fair, organized by Robert Moses, was largely a celebration of mid-century American industry, symbolized by the twelve-story-high stainless steel Unisphere built by U.S. Steel. Sponsored films made for the fairs capture the excitement and ingenuity behind the fairs while also revealing the goals of the companies behind them. Films to be shown continuously in the Video Screening Amphitheater, in excerpts or their entirety, include The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair and To New Horizons from 1939, and Sinclair at the World’s Fair, World’s Fair Report with Lowell Thomas, To The Fair, and Unisphere: The Biggest World on Earth from 1964. Tut’s Fever Movie Palace • Ongoing Red Grooms (b. 1937, Nashville; lives in New York City) and Lysiane Luong (b. 1951, Paris; lives in New York City). Commissioned by Museum of the Moving Image Tut’s Fever is a working movie theater and art installation created by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong, an homage to the ornate, exotic picture palaces of the 1920s. Inspired by the tomb paintings they saw during a trip to Egypt, Grooms and Luong covered the walls, floor and seats of the theater with hand-painted, Egyptian-style depictions of Hollywood royalty. Silent screen star Theda Bara works the box office, Mae West stands behind the concessions stand, and Mickey Rooney is the usher. Rudolf Valentino, Elizabeth Taylor and many others grace the walls, and each slipcovered chair in the theater features an image of Rita Hayworth. Visitors can open a sarcophagus to find a sculpture of James Dean lying in his tomb, cigarette still dangling from his mouth. MINI VANS AVAILABLE ASK FOR PRICING LAGUARDIA NOW $2 OFF Expires 8/31/14 $2 OFF Any Ride To Manhattan/Queens Minimum $20 Not to be combined with any other offer NEWARK NOW $5 OFF Expires 8/31/14 KENNEDY NOW $3 OFF Expires 8/31/14 WITH COUPON ONLY WITH COUPON ONLY WITH COUPON ONLY
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