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The Queens Museum of Art announces the exhibition lineup
for Fall 2013 to coincide with the opening of the museum’s expansion – Pedro Reyes’s The
People’s UN (pUN), Peter Schumann: Black and White, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: The New York City
Building, and Queens International 2013. The Queens Museum of Art’s expansion project,
designed by Grimshaw, will further enhance the museum’s ability to present high-quality art to the
uniquely diverse communities of Queens through a broad variety of exhibitions and programs that
reflect the richness and breadth of the cultural environment.
Doubling the institution’s size to a grand total of 105,000 square feet upon completion, the
expansion will provide the museum with an additional 50,000 square feet of space, including a
suite of new galleries, artist studios, flexible public and special event spaces, education
classrooms, a café, back-of-house facilities, and visitor amenities. In addition, the west façade,
facing the Grand Central Parkway, has been redesigned with a new entrance and drop-off plaza
and that features a 200 x 27-foot glass wall that will announce the museum to the 244,000
motorists passing by every day. This entrance will also serve as a unique exhibition space for
commissioned artworks that will adhere to the glass surface and features a flexible multi-colored
lighting system, which will eventually present commissioned artist projects. The $68 million project
also includes a second new entrance and expanded outdoor space on the Flushing Meadows
Corona Park side of the building, as well as a generous skylit atrium. The expansion is supported
by the Office of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs, the Office of Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, New York State, the New York
City Council, and generous donations from private individuals and corporations. The Queens
Museum of Art celebrated a groundbreaking on April 12, 2011 and is set to open in October 2013.
The inaugural exhibitions highlight the expanded gallery space and showcase the Queens
Museum of Art’s dedication to presenting contemporary art that engages the various communities
it serves. Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director of the museum states, “At the Queens Museum, our
commitment to the local is as profound as our dedication to creating an international crossroads.
In October, after years of design and construction, we will finally have the sort of exceptional space
our community deserves, one that will allow us to continue to offer our innovative slate of
exhibitions and programs.”
Regarding the design of the building, Mark Husser, Managing Partner at Grimshaw, states, "One of
the great assets of the New York City Building, and the reason the building has survived and been
adapted for so many different uses over the years, is its intrinsic structural logic and robustness. It
is inherently flexible, and its long span roof will make it one of the largest art spaces in the city. It
has good bones, hence, our design is to capitalize and amplify those qualities while making
strategic interventions to create flexible contemporary art galleries, introduce natural light, and
improve flow and circulation."
Also timed with the inauguration of the new building, the museum is undergoing a rebranding
initiative with a new visual identity, a renaming of the institution from Queens Museum of Art to the
Queens Museum, and launch of a redesigned website to accompany the fall reopening. Further
details will be released in the coming months.
Pedro Reyes and The People’s UN
Pedro Reyes’s exhibition, The People’s UN, or pUN, brings together citizen representatives of the
193 member states of the United Nations for mock assemblies and performances which reference
the building’s history of hosting the General Assembly of the UN beween 1946-1950. pUN will be
presented as a counterforce to the UN. Reyes will employ alternative negotiation techniques drawn
from radical theater, psychology, marriage counseling, and corporate management consulting as
opposed to traditional diplomacy to address foreign relations issues. Humorously redeploying the
format of the UN—caucuses, plenaries, simultaneous translation—pUN will entertain but also
inform, and the objects and documents produced will be delivered to the UN in a culminating
event. pUN is planned for November 2013, and will include both private and public performance
sessions under the new massive central skylight.
Peter Schumann: Black and White
Also premiering with the opening of the museum’s expansion will be Peter Schumann: Black and
White, the first solo museum exhibition of Bread and Puppet Theatre founder and director Peter
Schumann. The Queens Museum of Art’s presentation of Schumann’s groundbreaking political
performance art is a strong response to today’s urgent questions about the role of the artist in
society, at a key moment for both the Queens Museum of Art and Bread and Puppet. The
materials used to create Schumann’s large-scale puppets and stages—black and white house
paint applied to discarded and recycled paper, cardboard, and fabric—reflect the bare-essential
production values and approach to living that have been central to Schumann’s work for his entire
career.
The exhibition consists of two large-scale immersive gallery installations combining new
paintings, drawings, papier-mâché sculptures, handmade books, automata, and kinetic machines.
It also includes pieces dating back some 50 years, which Schumann will deconstruct and
reconstruct entirely, performing a survey of his work through the urgent lens of the present. A
separate 40 x 150-foot mural will be created live, during viewing hours in the first week of the
exhibition. Schumann will also stage monthly solo performances in a papier-mâché “chapel”
housed within the larger installation. The exhibition will be mounted in the largest of the museum’s
six new galleries, a skylit 2,600 sq. ft. space located just inside the new west entry.
Queens International 2013
Another highlight of the Queens Museum of Art’s reopening season will be Queens International
2013, the sixth edition of the Museum’s biennial exhibition of artists from around the world who live
or work in Queens. This year the Queens Museum of Art has invited Meiya Cheng, co-founder of
the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, to co-curate with Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum of Art
Director of Exhibitions/Curator. This marks the beginning of a new tradition for Queens
International that engages a co-curator from overseas to consider the Queens art community in a
fresh perspective. The show will also address globalization in Queens from a variety of angles by
facilitating and implementing collaborative projects between Taipei-based and Queens-based
artists.
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: The New York City Building
For the duration of the museum’s expansion project, Taiwan-born, Queens-based photographer
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao has been in residence capturing the transformation of the New York City
Building. A series of Liao’s large-scale photographs will chronicle this most recent metamorphosis
while archival photographs, documentation and blueprints will convey the rich history of the
building from its role as the New York City Pavilion in the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, home of
the United Nations General Assembly (1946-1950), and site of both the Queens Museum of Art
(1972 - today) and the World’s Fair Skating Rink (1952-1962; 1964-2008). In addition to Liao’s
commissioned work, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: The New York City Building will feature material from
the Museum‘s archives, the United Nations Archive, the Archive of the New York City Parks
Department, and Grimshaw.
For more information on these upcoming exhibitions, please visit the Queens Museum of Art
website at: www.queensmuseum.org.
About Grimshaw
Grimshaw was founded in 1980 in London by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and now operates worldwide
from offices in New York, London, Doha, Melbourne, and Sydney.
The practice’s international portfolio, which includes work in the United Kingdom, Germany, the
Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Mexico, is characterized by structural
legibility, innovation, and a rigorous approach to sustainable design and detailing. One of the most
outstanding design firms practicing today, Grimshaw has renovated several historic structures
such as the redevelopment of the Victorian Grade 1 Paddington Station in London, England; the
restoration of Thermae Bath Spa in Bath, England; and the adaptive reuse of the pre-existing
abandoned blast furnace of Horno3: Museo del Acero in Monterrey, Mexico.
Grimshaw has provided planning and architectural designs for cultural institutions including
Cornwall, England’s Eden Project; the Caixa Galicia Art Foundation in A Coruña, Spain; and the
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York. In the United States, the
practice is awaiting completion of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami in
2015.
Grimshaw is dedicated to the deepest level of involvement in the design of its buildings in order to
deliver projects which meet the highest standards of excellence. This dedication is also based on a
desire to be truly engaged in the evolution of a place - to contribute to its development on a
meaningful level. It is the firm's aim to be wholeheartedly engaged in the environments in which it
designs, and from this awareness generate truly inspiring and transformative design, in New York,
and across the globe.
# # #
The Queens Museum of Art is a local international art space in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
with contemporary art, events and educational programs reflecting the diversity of Queens and
New York City. The museum presents the work of emerging and established artists, changing
exhibitions that speak to contemporary urban issues, and projects that focus on the rich history of
its site. QMA is also home to the Panorama of the City of New York, a 9,335 square foot scale
model of the five boroughs; the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass; and a collection of more than
10,000 artifacts from both New York World’s Fairs. The museum seeks to exact positive change in
surrounding communities through engagement initiatives ranging from the multilingual outreach
and educational opportunities for adult immigrants, to our new year-long residency program,
Corona Studio, which embeds artists in the local community. The museum also conducts
educational outreach tailored toward schoolchildren, teens, families, seniors as well as those
individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
Queens Museum of Art is located on property owned in full by the City of New York, and its
operation is made possible in part by public funds provided though the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs. The Museum’s hours are: Wednesday – Sunday: noon - 6 pm. Admission to the
Museum is by suggested donation: $8 for adults, $4 for seniors, students and children, and free for
members and children under 5. For general visitor information, please visit the Museum’s website
www.queensmuseum.org or call 718.592.9700.
for Fall 2013 to coincide with the opening of the museum’s expansion – Pedro Reyes’s The
People’s UN (pUN), Peter Schumann: Black and White, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: The New York City
Building, and Queens International 2013. The Queens Museum of Art’s expansion project,
designed by Grimshaw, will further enhance the museum’s ability to present high-quality art to the
uniquely diverse communities of Queens through a broad variety of exhibitions and programs that
reflect the richness and breadth of the cultural environment.
Doubling the institution’s size to a grand total of 105,000 square feet upon completion, the
expansion will provide the museum with an additional 50,000 square feet of space, including a
suite of new galleries, artist studios, flexible public and special event spaces, education
classrooms, a café, back-of-house facilities, and visitor amenities. In addition, the west façade,
facing the Grand Central Parkway, has been redesigned with a new entrance and drop-off plaza
and that features a 200 x 27-foot glass wall that will announce the museum to the 244,000
motorists passing by every day. This entrance will also serve as a unique exhibition space for
commissioned artworks that will adhere to the glass surface and features a flexible multi-colored
lighting system, which will eventually present commissioned artist projects. The $68 million project
also includes a second new entrance and expanded outdoor space on the Flushing Meadows
Corona Park side of the building, as well as a generous skylit atrium. The expansion is supported
by the Office of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs, the Office of Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, New York State, the New York
City Council, and generous donations from private individuals and corporations. The Queens
Museum of Art celebrated a groundbreaking on April 12, 2011 and is set to open in October 2013.
The inaugural exhibitions highlight the expanded gallery space and showcase the Queens
Museum of Art’s dedication to presenting contemporary art that engages the various communities
it serves. Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director of the museum states, “At the Queens Museum, our
commitment to the local is as profound as our dedication to creating an international crossroads.
In October, after years of design and construction, we will finally have the sort of exceptional space
our community deserves, one that will allow us to continue to offer our innovative slate of
exhibitions and programs.”
Regarding the design of the building, Mark Husser, Managing Partner at Grimshaw, states, "One of
the great assets of the New York City Building, and the reason the building has survived and been
adapted for so many different uses over the years, is its intrinsic structural logic and robustness. It
is inherently flexible, and its long span roof will make it one of the largest art spaces in the city. It
has good bones, hence, our design is to capitalize and amplify those qualities while making
strategic interventions to create flexible contemporary art galleries, introduce natural light, and
improve flow and circulation."
Also timed with the inauguration of the new building, the museum is undergoing a rebranding
initiative with a new visual identity, a renaming of the institution from Queens Museum of Art to the
Queens Museum, and launch of a redesigned website to accompany the fall reopening. Further
details will be released in the coming months.
Pedro Reyes and The People’s UN
Pedro Reyes’s exhibition, The People’s UN, or pUN, brings together citizen representatives of the
193 member states of the United Nations for mock assemblies and performances which reference
the building’s history of hosting the General Assembly of the UN beween 1946-1950. pUN will be
presented as a counterforce to the UN. Reyes will employ alternative negotiation techniques drawn
from radical theater, psychology, marriage counseling, and corporate management consulting as
opposed to traditional diplomacy to address foreign relations issues. Humorously redeploying the
format of the UN—caucuses, plenaries, simultaneous translation—pUN will entertain but also
inform, and the objects and documents produced will be delivered to the UN in a culminating
event. pUN is planned for November 2013, and will include both private and public performance
sessions under the new massive central skylight.
Peter Schumann: Black and White
Also premiering with the opening of the museum’s expansion will be Peter Schumann: Black and
White, the first solo museum exhibition of Bread and Puppet Theatre founder and director Peter
Schumann. The Queens Museum of Art’s presentation of Schumann’s groundbreaking political
performance art is a strong response to today’s urgent questions about the role of the artist in
society, at a key moment for both the Queens Museum of Art and Bread and Puppet. The
materials used to create Schumann’s large-scale puppets and stages—black and white house
paint applied to discarded and recycled paper, cardboard, and fabric—reflect the bare-essential
production values and approach to living that have been central to Schumann’s work for his entire
career.
The exhibition consists of two large-scale immersive gallery installations combining new
paintings, drawings, papier-mâché sculptures, handmade books, automata, and kinetic machines.
It also includes pieces dating back some 50 years, which Schumann will deconstruct and
reconstruct entirely, performing a survey of his work through the urgent lens of the present. A
separate 40 x 150-foot mural will be created live, during viewing hours in the first week of the
exhibition. Schumann will also stage monthly solo performances in a papier-mâché “chapel”
housed within the larger installation. The exhibition will be mounted in the largest of the museum’s
six new galleries, a skylit 2,600 sq. ft. space located just inside the new west entry.
Queens International 2013
Another highlight of the Queens Museum of Art’s reopening season will be Queens International
2013, the sixth edition of the Museum’s biennial exhibition of artists from around the world who live
or work in Queens. This year the Queens Museum of Art has invited Meiya Cheng, co-founder of
the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, to co-curate with Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum of Art
Director of Exhibitions/Curator. This marks the beginning of a new tradition for Queens
International that engages a co-curator from overseas to consider the Queens art community in a
fresh perspective. The show will also address globalization in Queens from a variety of angles by
facilitating and implementing collaborative projects between Taipei-based and Queens-based
artists.
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: The New York City Building
For the duration of the museum’s expansion project, Taiwan-born, Queens-based photographer
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao has been in residence capturing the transformation of the New York City
Building. A series of Liao’s large-scale photographs will chronicle this most recent metamorphosis
while archival photographs, documentation and blueprints will convey the rich history of the
building from its role as the New York City Pavilion in the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, home of
the United Nations General Assembly (1946-1950), and site of both the Queens Museum of Art
(1972 - today) and the World’s Fair Skating Rink (1952-1962; 1964-2008). In addition to Liao’s
commissioned work, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: The New York City Building will feature material from
the Museum‘s archives, the United Nations Archive, the Archive of the New York City Parks
Department, and Grimshaw.
For more information on these upcoming exhibitions, please visit the Queens Museum of Art
website at: www.queensmuseum.org.
About Grimshaw
Grimshaw was founded in 1980 in London by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and now operates worldwide
from offices in New York, London, Doha, Melbourne, and Sydney.
The practice’s international portfolio, which includes work in the United Kingdom, Germany, the
Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Mexico, is characterized by structural
legibility, innovation, and a rigorous approach to sustainable design and detailing. One of the most
outstanding design firms practicing today, Grimshaw has renovated several historic structures
such as the redevelopment of the Victorian Grade 1 Paddington Station in London, England; the
restoration of Thermae Bath Spa in Bath, England; and the adaptive reuse of the pre-existing
abandoned blast furnace of Horno3: Museo del Acero in Monterrey, Mexico.
Grimshaw has provided planning and architectural designs for cultural institutions including
Cornwall, England’s Eden Project; the Caixa Galicia Art Foundation in A Coruña, Spain; and the
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York. In the United States, the
practice is awaiting completion of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami in
2015.
Grimshaw is dedicated to the deepest level of involvement in the design of its buildings in order to
deliver projects which meet the highest standards of excellence. This dedication is also based on a
desire to be truly engaged in the evolution of a place - to contribute to its development on a
meaningful level. It is the firm's aim to be wholeheartedly engaged in the environments in which it
designs, and from this awareness generate truly inspiring and transformative design, in New York,
and across the globe.
# # #
The Queens Museum of Art is a local international art space in Flushing Meadows Corona Park
with contemporary art, events and educational programs reflecting the diversity of Queens and
New York City. The museum presents the work of emerging and established artists, changing
exhibitions that speak to contemporary urban issues, and projects that focus on the rich history of
its site. QMA is also home to the Panorama of the City of New York, a 9,335 square foot scale
model of the five boroughs; the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass; and a collection of more than
10,000 artifacts from both New York World’s Fairs. The museum seeks to exact positive change in
surrounding communities through engagement initiatives ranging from the multilingual outreach
and educational opportunities for adult immigrants, to our new year-long residency program,
Corona Studio, which embeds artists in the local community. The museum also conducts
educational outreach tailored toward schoolchildren, teens, families, seniors as well as those
individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
Queens Museum of Art is located on property owned in full by the City of New York, and its
operation is made possible in part by public funds provided though the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs. The Museum’s hours are: Wednesday – Sunday: noon - 6 pm. Admission to the
Museum is by suggested donation: $8 for adults, $4 for seniors, students and children, and free for
members and children under 5. For general visitor information, please visit the Museum’s website
www.queensmuseum.org or call 718.592.9700.
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