CLOSING PARTY and CATALOGUE LAUNCH THIS SATURDAY!

New York, New York, New York
So nice we named it thrice.
Curated by Jean Barberis, Melanie Cohn, and Chen Tamir. Original concept by Jean Barberis.

Saturday, January 12th
Free and open to the public

With a Film Program curated by Marie Losier at 7:00pm
Catalogue Launch and Closing Party at 8:00pm
Regular gallery hours beginning at 12:00pm

New York, New York, New York is an interactive, multimedia installation. It is a continuation of Flux Factory’s interest in urban landscapes and takes inspiration from the Panorama, Robert Moses’ scale model of New York City in the Queens Museum of Art.  For this exhibition, over 100 artists from all five boroughs and around the world re-imagine the public and private spaces of New York.

LIMITED EDITION NYNYNY CATALOGUE WILL BE ON SALE FOR $25

New York Story: Today and Yesterday’s New York: The Loony Land
Curated by Marie Losier
Come share a rare evening of new and old treasures from the heart of the loopiest and most beautiful city, New York.
Total Program Time: 68 mins
all films screened digitally Anatomy of Cindy Fink
Patricia Jaffe, Richard Leacock and Paul Leaf , 11 min, 1960
Cinema verité portrait of a teenage girl’s first jazz dance audition in a Greenwich Village studio. With Larry Rivers, Al Leslie, and Louise Lassier.

Le Mal du Pays
Cecile Paris, video, 4 min 50, 2006
Brooklyn roof and nostalgic music with a New York face you will not forget.

Hold Me While I’m Naked
George Kuchar, 16mm, color, sound, 15 min, 1966
“A very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than sexual frustration and aloneness. In its economy and cogency of imaging, “Hold Me” surpasses any of Kuchar’s previous work. The odd blend of Hollywood glamour and drama with all-too-real life creates and inspires a counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality.” — Ken Kelman

In The Street
Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee, silent, 15min, 1945
“In the Street,” a short, lyrical documentary film. The Streets of the poor quarters of great cities are, above all, a theater and a battleground.

Girl with 3 Socks
Shannon Plumb, super 8, 3 min
Brooklyn Bridge, a girl and 3 socks…

On The Bowery
Lionel Rogosin, 20 mins, 1957
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray.

The Existentialist
Leon Prochnik, 10 min, 1960
Leon Prochnik’s study of non-conformity has a man walking through New York while the traffic and the city move about him in reverse!

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 In conjunction with the exhibition New York, New York, New York
 PANEL: The City from Below, Above, and Sideway

 Featuring: Julia Solis, Steve Duncan, Catherine McMahon, Douglas
Paulson and Marie Lorenz. Moderated by Chen Tamir and Jean Barberis.

 Please join us for a panel discussion and presentations by acclaimed
urban historians and artists with slightly unusual views of New York
City.

 Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
 Free and open to the public.

 Steve Duncan
 Steve Duncan is an urban explorer who has been climbing and crawling
around NYC’s hidden spaces for the past decade.Steve will show images
from and discuss his two parallel projects: climbing to the tops of
NYC bridges over the city’s major waterways and spelunking in the
tunnels that hold the city’s lost and forgotten underground rivers.

 Catherine McMahon
 Catherine McMahon will discuss the amazing history of the New York
City panorama at the Queens Museum.

 Doug Paulson and Marie Lorenz
 Doug Paulson and Marie Lorenz discuss their adventures exploring the
lost, forgotten, and submerged islands at the northern edge of New
York City.

 Julia Solis
 Julia Solis organizes scavenger hunts and exhibitions in abandoned
spaces. She is the founder of Ars Subterranea, an artists’ group
dedicated to the creative exploration of ruins, and the author of “New
York Underground: The Anatomy of a City.”

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 New York, New York, New York
  So nice we named it thrice.
  Curated by Jean Barberis, Melanie Cohn, and Chen Tamir. Original
concept by Jean Barberis.

 New York, New York, New York is an interactive, multimedia
installation. It is a continuation of Flux Factory’s interest in urban
landscapes and takes inspiration from the Panorama, Robert Moses’
scale model of New York City in the Queens Museum of Art. Members of
the Flux Factory art collective will work in collaboration with over
100 artists from all five boroughs and around the world to re-imagine
the public and private spaces of New York.

 Gallery hours: Fridays – Sundays, 1-5pm. Closed Dec. 23rd and 30th.

 New York, New York, New York is made possible with public funds from
New York State Council on the Arts,
  New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on
the Arts, as well as generous support from
  the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation,
  Materials for the Arts, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Archives:

December 18, 2007

Hungarian Cultural Center
447 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10013

Special Thank to Flux Factory’s sponsors:
New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on the Arts, as well as generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Materials for the Arts, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Here’s the guideline for this one-month long film program: bad taste, saturated levels of color, heavy make-up, cartoonish characters, theatrical violence, domineeringly psychosexual women, larger than life pop art settings, & a healthy disregard for all forms of authority: religious, moral, legal, political, and last but not least, the authority of the established aesthetic tradition! And yes you can bring your mum: there’ll be make-up for everyone!

Admission: Free. Popcorn is on us. (more…)

By Bus
From Port Authority, take the 190 bus to Paterson. For Paterson Museum, take the bus to the end of the line, Broadway. Buses usually leave every 15 minutes. Go to www.njtransit.com for more info.
Cost: $4.50 each way

By Train
From Penn Station. Must switch trains in Secaucus. Go to www.njtransit.com for more info and schedules.
Cost: $5.25 each way

By Car
Follow Route 80 West and signs to Paterson. For the Paterson Museum, get off at Exit 57-A/B, to Downtown Paterson.

For detailed driving directions to the Paterson Museum, visit www.thepatersonmuseum.com