"After Nature" Exhibition
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At The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Media: Painting, Photography, Sculpture
Unfolding as a visual novel, “After Nature” depicts a future landscape of wilderness and ruins. It is a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture—an epic of humanity coming apart under the pressure of obscure forces and not-so-distant environmental disasters.
This exhibition brings together an international and multigenerational group of contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers, and outsiders, many of whom are showing in a New York museum for the first time.
Part dystopian fantasy, part ethnographic museum of a lost civilization that eerily resembles our own, “After Nature” brings together artists and artworks that possess a strange, prophetic intensity. Departing from the fictional documentaries of filmmaker Werner Herzog, the exhibition is an anthology of visions and epiphanies—a hallucinated panorama of a world on the verge of disappearance.
[Image: William Christenberry “Kudzu with Storm Cloud, near Akron, Alabama” (1981) Chromogenic color print 16 x 22 in.] Courtesy Pace/MacGill, New York
Schedule
From 2008-07-17 To 2008-09-21
Artist(s)
Allora and Calzadilla, Pawel Althamer, Fikret Atay, Roger Ballen et al.
Fee
General Admission $12, Seniors $8, Students $6, 18 and under Free, Members Free, Thursday Evenings (from 7pm to 10pm) Free.
Venue Hours
From 12:00 To 18:00
thursdays closing at 22:00, fridays closing at 22:00
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays
Maps
Access
On the corner of Prince St. Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street. Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince.
Address
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Phone: 212-219-1222
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Reviews
"After Nature": An Inconvenient Truth
The current exhibition at the New Museum has little to do with being green.
i quite liked the just finished New Museum exhibiitons, especially Toma Abts paintings, but check what people who missed them say about what's on show now http://hragvartanian.com/2008/07/13/new-museum-sucking/
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Venue: The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Schedule: From 2008-07-17 To 2008-09-21
Address: 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Phone: 212-219-1222
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