The DART Board: 10.18.2023
Saturday-Sunday October 21-22: Open House New York Weekend
“A pubic celebration of New York and the power of place! The 21st edition of Open House New York Weekend festival will offer a mix of in-person experiences, self-guided explorations, and digital content—inviting you to get an insider’s look at everything from single rooms, studios, factories, and public spaces to entire buildings, blocks, bike corridors, and waterways. Above: 1914 Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No 79, Red Hook. Brooklyn Register
From the signature Open House New York Weekend festival to design-driven public programs and the dynamic Urban Systems infrastructure series, join us to take an inside look at how the city works.
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Saturday-Sunday, October 21-22, 12-6pm: Gowanus Open Studios
Hosted by Arts Gowanus, Gowanus Open Studios is Brooklyn’s biggest celebration of local art and artists. For its 27th edition more than 350 artists and 70+ venues in the greater Gowanus neighborhood will open their doors, giving the public a rare glimpse inside the former factories, warehouses, and studio buildings of this vibrant neighborhood. Artists will be on hand to discuss their work, share their processes, and showcase their latest projects. Partner businesses in the neighborhood will be offering discounts.
Artists Directory Digital map is available on artsgowanus.org.
Saturday, October 21, noon-6pm: NYOpen House, National Academy
Guided tours of the exhibition Drawing as Practice and back-of-house spaces are offered first-come, first-served at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm. Tours also include a behind-the-scenes look at the Academy's art storage in Delaware, where the NAD houses its historic collection of more than 8,000 artworks. No reservations necessary. Above: Cecily Brown, Lady and the Swan, 2021-23, pastel on paper, courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery
National Academy of Design, 519 West 26th Street, New York, NY Info
Saturday, October 21, noon-6pm: MetFest
This celebration of the creative spirit of New York City. The festival will take place both outside, on The Met’s David H. Koch Plaza, and inside, at the Museum’s Fifth Avenue location
The festival begins on The Met’s iconic steps with an energizing performance by the female-led, New York City–based Brass Queens band and Brooklyn United Music and Arts Program, a community-based youth marching band. The outdoor celebration continues with more local artists, including a live DJ set with DJ Rob Dinero and Shani Kulture of Hot 97, a dance performance by Full Circle Souljahs celebrating the global phenomenon of hip-hop, and a performance by Afrobeats band Antibalas.
Additional activities, talks, and performances will also take place indoors throughout the galleries, including live performances by teen DJs, bilingual musical performances in English and Spanish from Don Quixote Puppets with Teatro SEA and New York City Children’s Theater, a photo booth, and gallery talks and demonstrations with Met curators and staff members. A full schedule of events can be found in English, Spanish, and simplified Chinese on the MetFest online hub.
For audiences at home, there will be virtual opportunities to engage with the art and artists through a live stream of all performances on the plaza stage. The live stream will be available on The Met’s website and social media channels.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Sunday, Octobert 22, 10:30am: Branching Out Exhibition Tour
Join Branching Out: Trees as Community Hosts artists and curator Cecilia Andre on a tour of the sculptures on the final day of the exhibition.
On this tour, artists will speak about the nature and presence of folk-art practices in their work. Learn about the artists, their cultural inspirations, and unique connections to artworks in the American Folk Art Museum’s collection.
Tour presented in partnership with AnkhLave Arts Alliance and the American Folk Art Museum. Free with Garden admission. No registration necessary. Meet on Magnolia Plaza by building steps. Please note tours can be canceled due to inclement weather. Check this page for updates.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, entrances at 50 Eastern Parkway, 455 Flatbush Avenue, 990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Closing Sunday, October 22: Ebony G. Patterson | ...things come to thrive...in the shedding...in the molting... at the Botanic Garden,
Exceptional art offers an experience apart from explanation. There’s hardly been a better demonstration of this notion than the experience offered by Ebony G. Patterson in her installation titled …things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting…, currently on view at the New York Botanical Garden. Patterson turns a light onto dark subjects: the violence, extinction, annihilation and erasure brought by colonialism, against both people and plants, that continue through the present—and which are embodied, in her view, by the garden as a site of beauty and violence. As the Botanical Garden’s first artist in residence, shefurthered these ideas, which have their roots in her childhood fascination with the formal gardens of Jamaica.
Patterson spent a year among its collections—both living and archived. In the process she discovered specific connections between looking and seeing, living and dying. All life on Earth, she says, is in a constant process of turning over from old to new: death, decay and loss make way for regeneration and new life. Read the entire DART feature here
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Brons, NY Info
Tuesday October 24, 6-9 pm: Heena Kim | Synchronize at Grove 34
See the recent sculpture of Heena Kim – two days only in this pop-up solo show. Works in marble, cast resin, mulberry bark, rice paper and more. Info: @helenacarve; messabird7@gmail.com
Grove 34 Studio and Artspace, 3183 34th Street, Astoria, NY
