Art Calendar
December
THE SELF-TAUGHT GENIUS GALLERY
47-29 32nd Pl., LIC
212-595-9533
“A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art”
On view through Dec. 31, 2019
This exhibit features works created between the late
eighteenth and twenty-first centuries that explores
how American gift-giving practices are interconnected
with self-taught art. Curated by Assistant Curator
Steffi Ibis Duarte, “A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in
Self-Taught Art” features six works that speak to the
self-taught nature of each piece while highlighting
the expression of each maker’s views. The exhibit
also complicates traditional gift giving by “presenting
a one-of-a-kind artwork instead of an everyday
commodity.”
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MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
36-01 35th Ave., Astoria
718-777-6888
“Reimagining the Cel: Experiments in Animation
from the 1980s”
On view through March 20, 2020
This installation at the Museum of the Moving Image
examines how filmmakers in the 1980s experimented
with cel animation, the art of animation by drawing
on transparent sheets. Audiences can watch three
short films, “The Case of the Spiral Staircase,” “The
Ravishing of Frank N. Stein and “Feng Huang”, which
all showcase how the filmmakers developed new
methods prior to the rise of digital animation.
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
32-01 Vernon Blvd., LIC
718-956-1819
“The Socrates Annual 2019”
On view through March 8, 2020
Each year, Socrates Sculpture Park showcases the
works of local artists in an outdoor fall exhibition.
These artist commissions engage the park’s history,
landscape and surrounding community. 15 artists
have pieces in the exhibition and range in topic from
a Native American myth that North America exists on
a turtle’s back to a depiction of a giant lizard that has
fallen asleep under the park’s grass.
Art by Paul Kopkau, photograph by Scott Lynch
Yard Shadow: Nokia & Yard Shadow: Samsung from “The Socrates Annual 2019”
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