90 degree weather and stuffy subway platforms are here to stay (for a while). With Summer officially here, we thought you might like to know whats going in NYC's (air-conditioned) museums. Check out this comprehensive list of exhibits.
If you're too hot and bothered to look through the entire list, we've taken the time to bring you some highlights:
Metropolitan Museum of Art: ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ (through Aug. 14)
This entertaining exhibition proves that high fashion rarely looks quite as frivolous and cluelessly 1 percent-ish as when it upgrades aspects of the obstreperous punk sartorial mode, adding gold-plated safety pins, careful rips and holes, and a feigned DIY look that can involve materials like garbage bags or cellophane.Cleverness abounds. A few designers absorb and transform punk attributes, but most garments simplistically scream punk. Not for nothing do they call the show’s organizing department the Costume Institute. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org
Metropolitan Museum of Art: ‘The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi’ (through Nov. 3) Visitors to the Met’s rooftop will discover something shocking: the stone terrace is splattered with paint the color of dried blood so that it resembles the scene of some terrible crime. Looking closer at the areas of spillage, viewers will find they have been delicately altered. With deft white and red brush strokes, the Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi has worked into the raw paint a pattern suggestive of leafy shrubbery and flower petals, turning the whole into a politically fraught, allegorical mix symbolizing dualities of life and death and hope and despair. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org.
MoMA PS1: ‘Expo 1: New York’ (through Sept. 2) A sprawling, multisite extravaganza including a multitude of installations, shows-within-shows and events, “Expo 1: New York” offers few answers but raises many provocative questions about the current and future state of our planet’s unsettled human and natural ecology. Attractions at PS1 range from a beautiful show of pictures by the beloved nature photographer Ansel Adams to a refrigerated room containing chunks from an Icelandic glacier by Olafur Eliasson. On 53rd Street, next to the Museum of Modern Art, “Rain Room” invites viewers into a chamber where steady precipitation ceases wherever bodies are detected by high-tech hardware. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, (718) 784-2084, ps1.org
Museum of Modern Art: ‘Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store’ and ‘Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum, Ray Gun Wing’ (through Aug. 5) Pop Art is based on two things: ordinariness and eating. It’s about daily consumption; the democratic appetite, ravenous for meat, sweets, life on the street, and getting more of everything, cheap. No artist cooked up a tastier version of the primal Pop recipe than Claes Oldenburg did in New York in the late 1950s and early ’60s. The art he made in that brief, fecund time is the focus of a two-meals-for-the-price-of-one MoMA feast. (212) 708-9400, moma.org
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