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NEU To Do: Student Edition

When the pandemic began in mid-March, the Neuberger Museum launched its NEU To Do campaign, a weekly e-mail linked to arts suggestions and virtual activities. As students, you’ve received many of these e-updates and, hopefully, have taken advantage of these resources while we’ve all been forced to stay inside.

Now that some New York arts institutions have reopened their doors to the public, with COVID-19 protocols of course, I wanted to share a few of this month’s local exhibitions and events that I found interesting as a Purchase College student.

Photoville Festival, NYC's annual free outdoor pop-up fall festival takes place across all fi... Photoville Festival
September 17 – November 29, 2020

NYC’s annual free outdoor pop-up fall festival takes place across all five boroughs and features 60-plus exhibitions. Two of my favorites are in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Lowy+Lacar’s “ABC(orona),” a series of alphabetized photos depicting parenting during a lockdown, (D for Distance Learning, Q for Quarantine Queen). Daveed Baptiste’s “Haiti to Hood” is a series of tableaus that reflect Haitian-American culture.

 

Storm King Art Center open-air museum and sculpture park located in Mountainville, New York. Storm King
Open through October 26
with advanced reserved tickets

What could be more perfect for social distancing than an outdoor sculpture park right in the Hudson Valley? Check out newer commissions like Mark di Suvero’s 92-foot tall E=MC2, and artwork from their permanent collection like Alexander Caldwell’s “Five Swords.”
Stay tuned for the Neuberger’s Calder collection this spring as well!

 

Tameca Cole, Locked in a Dark Calm, 2016. Collage and graphite on paper. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Colle... Tameca Cole, Locked in a Dark Calm, 2016. Collage and graphite on paper. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Collection Ellen Driscoll.MoMa PS1:
Marking Time Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Sepember 17 – March 2021
with advanced reserved tickets

MoMa’s Queen’s location reopened Sept. 17th with advanced timed tickets and limited capacity. This exhibition features artwork made by men and women and by non-incarcerated artists concerned with state repression and erasure. Through poignant self portraits and sculptures made of nontraditional art media, the exhibition also reflects COVID-19’s impact on U.S prisons.

 

 

Looking up at the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum, New York City Guggenheim at Large
 October events

The Guggenheim Museum is hosting a series of Zoom-based workshops and online events with discounted tickets for students. The interactive “Responding to Art” series examines artwork from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection of artwork based on themes like portraits and landscapes. Other live discussion events center on themes like women photographers in the Guggenheim collection.


Autumn Leaves Looking for more outdoor arts destinations?

 Check out the Neuberger’s list of outdoor art venues to explore this fall.

 

NEU to Do For Kids

Another element of the Museum’s NEU To Do campaign is a special section of weekly activities and projects for younger art lovers. NEU To Do for Kids - Patrick Henry Buce-inspired cubist still life photographs While plenty of these NEU to Do For Kids activities are fun enough to try as college student (like taking Patrick Henry Buce-inspired still life photographs with your iphone), they are a great thing to whip out the next time you have a babysitting job!  In my opinion, nothing can keep kids entertained like some crayons and paper. Each NEU to Do For Kids activity comes with a project worksheet with activity instructions and related academic level art theory, so don’t forget to print these out beforehand!

Gabrielle Bohrman
Neuberger Museum of Art
Fall 2020 Communications Intern
NEU Student Voices Blogger