NYAB Event - "The Curse of Bigness" Exhibition

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At Queens Museum of Art
Media: Painting, Sculpture, Film

The exhibition is inspired by the Museum’s “gigantic miniatures”-the Panorama of New York City, the model of the Watershed, and the Unisphere in our front yard-which, when you think about it, are large and small at the same time. Similarly, in many of the artworks, opposites are intertwined–small organizations have global reach; cutting-edge technology requires hours of hand labor; objects appear alive, animals dead, and humans far from civilized. Taking its title from Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis’ 1914 warning about the concentration of industry and finance in his era, Bigness also nods towards the Museum’s expansion project. QMA will add 50,000 square feet of gallery space by 2012-which, while obviously bringing new opportunities, may introduce new challenges as well.

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