Julius Shulman Photo of Eames House (one of the photographers at the Metropolis: 25 Years Exhibit)
Art & Design Events...
- The Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition Winner's Party
- An evening of inspiring design & energizing networking, honoring the winner of the 3rd annual Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize.
- April 26, 2006, Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served
- Art Directors Club, 106 West 29th Street (at 6th Avenue), New York, NY.
- RSVP: nextparty@metropolismag.com
- Earth Day New York
- Music, plantings, lectures--multiple venues
- Through the end of the month
- Creating a Sense of Place and Community
(Richard Feather Anderson)
- Establishing a well-defined center, boundary and gateways.
- 242 East 53rd St (btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves) 212.243.2438, $20.
- April 20th, 6:45–9:00pm
- The Metropolis View: 25 Years Through the Lens
- Metropolis magazine celebrates a quarter-century of visual excellence with an exhibition of photographers who each present an image of their favorite metropolis.
- Through April 28, 2006
- The Art Directors Club, 106 West 29th Street (at 6th Avenue), New York, NY.
- Amanda Mathis: Bringing Down the House
- Amanda Mathis uses common building materials to meticulously recreate large sections of rooms--a wall, a doorway, a corner--and then presents them in unexpected ways.
- April 6th through May 6th
- James Nicholson Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, 212.967.5700
- Grand Central Portraits: People in a New Town Square
- Photographer John Sarsgard views the Beaux Arts masterpiece and the people that pass through it as a kind of social crossroads.
- Through May 18.
- Municipal Arts Society's Urban Center 457 Madison Avenue, 212.935.2075
- Garden Paradise
- Artists explore the idea of garden as paradise: with its beauty and darkness
- April 19th through May 24th
- The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, 5th Avenue at 64th St.
- Olivo Barbieri: Site_Specific
- Global photo investigation into the nature of cities from 300 to 500 feet above ground with a large-format camera and a tilt-focus lens
- Through May 13th
- Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22nd St.
- Mind the Gap
- Through sculpture, photography, video, performance, and urban-scale architectural interventions, artists amplify and animate the urban void
- March 18th through April 30th
- Smack Mellon Gallery, 92 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn 718.834.8761.
- Floral Design
by NY Botanical Garden in conjunction with Cooper Union
- Learn how to create basic centerpieces and arrangements
- Eight Wednesdays, starting April 19th, 6:30-8:30pm. $336
