38real estate PRIVATELYS PACE SEPTEMBER FUNDED Government’s investment in the growth of the arts and education has been atop of political and economic debates for decades, perhaps centuries. These days, at least in New York City, it is in the form of constructing new public schools, scholarships and equipment donations, or funding for non-profi ts that help young artists get affordable work space and gallery space. Just last month I spotted Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Queens political elite at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of Space Works at 33-02 Skillman Avenue, where a nonprofi t tenant we placed BY DAVID DYNAK last year (HAI NYC) sublet portion of their space to create the fi rst affordable performing arts studio spaces of its kind in Queens. It’s a pretty big deal to fund this type of space in our borough especially since Brooklyn and Manhattan have been offering it for years! The two new schools along Gantry Plaza State Park in LIC are ready and those who have been inside say these are not NYC public schools of your childhood, with no AC and rudimentary facilities. Any private school or even some colleges would envy the size and quality of gymnasium, cafeteria and state-of-the-art classrooms, not to mention an unobstructed riverside view of Manhattan skyline at the new high school designed by famous FXFOWLE Architects. The recent baby boom and growing new family demographics of LIC, Sunnyside and Greenpoint/Williamsburg to the south pushed the need for more daycares, schools, tutoring and after school programs and indoor play spaces to the forefront of needed services, along with extensive renovations and growth of parks and playgrounds. Little ones need space to roam and burn energy, and environment to develop their social and mental skills beyond home and school day. The city has been partnering with developers and communities in order to attract and keep families in the city, and stop them from moving out to the suburbs. The ever-expanding colorful and impeccably landscaped Gantry Park or recently upgraded, cleaned-up and now extremely-fun and packed McCarren Park are perfect examples of ARTS EVENTS Calendar Courtesy of Plaxall Long Island City Plaxall.com LICProperties.com 2013 MoMA PS1 Noguchi Museum 22-25 Jackson Ave., LIC, NY 11101 718.784.2084 • MoMAPS1.org 9-01 33rd Rd. (at Vernon Boulevard) Long Island City, NY 11106 718.204.7088 • www.noguchi.org Museum of the Moving Image 35 Ave. at 37 St., Astoria, NY 11106 718.777.6800 • www.movingimage.us Image Employment On view September 5–October 7, 2013 Not on view: September 6, 9 (de-installation period); September 15—26 (NY Art Book Fair) Image Employment presents recent moving image works that investigate various modes of contemporary production. The selected works illustrate differing approaches to the subject, from observational films that avoid participation in capitalistic image creation, to videos that engage corporate omnipotence by employing its processes, as well as works that complicate these two tendencies. Mike Kelley On view October 13, 2013–February 2, 2014 MoMA PS1 presents Mike Kelley, the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to-date and the first comprehensive survey since 1993. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions—which he set in relation to relentless self- and social examinations, both dark and delirious. Bringing together over 200 works, from early pieces made during the 1970s through 2012, the exhibition occupies the entire museum. This exhibition marks the biggest exhibition MoMA PS1 has ever organized since its inceptual Rooms exhibition in 1976. Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - Sunday, January 26, 2014 While en route to Japan for his first time since childhood, Isamu Noguchi paid an unexpected visit to Beijing (then called Peking) from July 1930 to January 1931. A fateful encounter with a Japanese businessman and art collector, Sotokichi Katsuizumi (1889-1985), exposed the young artist to Katsuizumi’s small collection of scrolls by the poet, seal carver, and traditional ink painting master Qi Biashi (1864-1957). Noguchi was entranced by what he saw, and asked to be introduced to Qi Baishi whom he observed and studied with. Space, Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - Sunday, January 26, 2014 Space, Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page was developed in a collaboration between The Noguchi Museum and The Ruth Page Foundation, building on a group of drawings Noguchi made of the great American avantgarde dancer and choreographer Ruth Page posing in a sack dress he designed in 1933 to transform her into a dynamic embodiment of his sculpture Miss Expanding Universe (1932). SERIES The Complete Howard Hawks • September 7–November 10 Organized by Chief Curator David Schwartz All films directed by Howard Hawks, unless noted. All titles to be shown on film. Howard Hawks was the quintessential Hollywood director, a master of many genres who moved easily between drama and comedy with a style that was always lucid, energetic, and direct. Hawks worked in relative anonymity until the 1950s and ‘60s, when auteurist critics discerned a directorial signature that gave depth and coherence to his extremely diverse films. In his influential book Howard Hawks (1968), Robin Wood wrote, “If I were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood, I think it would be Rio Bravo. Hawks is at his most completely personal and individual when his work is most firmly traditional: The more established the foundation, the freer he feels to be himself.” See It Big! (September–October, 2013) September 6–October 20 An ongoing series organized by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, and Chief Curator David Schwartz The Museum’s popular ongoing film series See It Big! celebrates the joys of large-scale moviegoing. It provides a chance to discover or revisit essential films in their full theatrical splendor in one of the finest film venues in the country. Great movies transport us into new worlds, and they immerse us visually and aurally. Despite the easy availability of movies on portable devices and small screens, there is only one way to really see a movie: BIG! The Museum always endeavors to show a film in the best available version, whether it is a stunning digital restoration, or a rare screening of a vintage Technicolor 35mm print. Projection formats are noted throughout. Cut Up • June 29–October 14 • In the Amphitheater Gallery Organized by Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media From supercuts to mashups to remixes, Cut Up celebrates the practice of re-editing popular media to create new work, presenting contemporary videos by self-taught editors and emerging artists alongside landmarks of historic and genre-defining reappropriation. 38 SEPTEMBER 2013 I LIC COURIER I www.queenscourier.com public-private partnerships that benefi t not only local residents but also create beautiful public space for visitors from other neighborhoods. Even the NY Water Ferry that now connects all of the gentrifying neighborhoods along the East River waterfront with Manhattan is supported by government funding, without which it could not afford to stay afl oat, no pun intended. If that weren’t enough, a state-agency funded “social impact” arts incubator is beginning to look for a large stand-alone building and I’ve been told LIC is the only neighborhood they are considering right now! But not everything educational or creative stems from the government’s coiffeurs. Another early childhood and tutoring franchise, Eye Level, is moving into one of Long Island City’s new buildings and word is out that a private Indian tech investment group is looking for a property to develop technology and design incubator space. And, to delight of all the artists, designers and amateur decorators or crafts/scrapbook afi cionados, Artist & Craftsman, a national art supply store chain will open its third New York City location in Long Island City at 34th Street and Queens Boulevard late this fall. David Dynak is a real estate broker at First Pioneer Properties and an LIC resident. He’s lived in Western Queens since 1993.
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