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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/0302" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/0302">
  <Name>Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/2F6CEBC1">
    <Name>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028</Address>
    <Phone>212-570-3951</Phone>
    <Fax>212-472-2764</Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 82nd St.  Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 21:00, saturdays closinghour 21:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open on some holiday Mondays.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Other</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art, 1st floor
Upon entering the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art this season, visitors will see several newly installed galleries, which are part of a reconstruction project that began in 2002. The reinstallation covers the Museum’s collections of Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian art (from before the 5th millennium to ca. 2650 B.C.) in a large space along Fifth Avenue, and the art of Roman Egypt (30 B.C. to ca. 400 A.D.) in two galleries on the opposite side of the centrally located Old Kingdom tomb of Perneb (ca. 2350 B.C.). Highlights of the project also include the uncovering of three windows facing Fifth Avenue, the exposure of the original Richard Morris Hunt ceiling beams in the Predynastic/Early Dynastic gallery and in one of the Roman Egypt galleries, and the reconfiguration of the architecture of the Old Kingdom tombs of Perneb and Raemkai (ca. 2350 and 2440 B.C.) to more closely resemble their original settings.
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2004-01-29</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/2409" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/2409">
  <Name>&quot;Early Gothic Hall&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled stained glass, primarily from the 13th- and 14th-centuries, are among the objects on view. Four recently acquired and exceptional examples of German stained glass from the late-13th century glazing program for the convent church in Altenberg-an-der-Lahn are reunited in this new installation. The renovation of the Early Gothic Hall also features construction of two new limestone apertures in an interior wall (for the display of grisaille glass windows) and new lighting. The display in this room constitutes the largest and most varied group of 13th- and 14th-century panels outside Europe. Also returned to view are more than a dozen important Gothic sculptures and paintings from the Museum’s permanent collection, including the lifesize Virgin from the choir screen of Strasbourg Cathedral (mid-13th century) and a recently acquired late 13th-century head also from the region of Strasbourg on the Upper Rhine. As a result of a new protective glazing program installed along the exterior wall, rare examples of Gothic stained glass are now illuminated by natural daylight, as they were originally meant to be seen.
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Childeren under 12 Free</Price>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2008/5705" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/5705">
  <Name>&quot;The Campin Room&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/0472F082">
    <Name>The Cloisters</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040</Address>
    <Phone>212-923-3700</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Subway: A train to 190th Street and exit the station by elevator. Walk north along Margaret Corbin Drive for approximately ten minutes or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop. If you are coming from the Museum's Main Building, you may also take</Access>
    <Area areaId="harlem_bronx">Harlem, Bronx</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:15:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
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    <ScheduleNote>November–February closing 4:45pm</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery houses Robert Campin’s Annunciation Triptych (known as the Merode Triptych), which has been one of the masterworks at The Cloisters for nearly half a century. The new installation highlights the phenomenon of late medieval private devotion. Two new wall cases allow the exhibition of devotional objects formerly seen in the Treasury, and two important 15th-century stained-glass panels—one representing Christ as the Man of Sorrows, the other the Virgin as the Mater Dolorosa—have been installed in the central windows. Acquired in 1998, these panels are on view at The Cloisters for the first time and contribute greatly to the private devotional theme. New, more discreet lighting has been installed and the gallery walls have been re-plastered to match the original color. ]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Childeren under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2007-06-29</DateStart>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/B4FD" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/B4FD">
  <Name>&quot;With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/556D6C14">
    <Name>The Museum of Chinese in America</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>215 Centre St., New York, NY 10013</Address>
    <Phone>212-619-4785</Phone>
    <Fax>212-619-4720</Fax>
    <Access>Between Howard &amp; Grand Sts. Subway: N/R/Q/W/J/M/Z/6 to Canal Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="lower_manhattan">Lower Manhattan</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 21:00, saturdays openinghour 10:00, sundays openinghour 10:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural heart of its new home designed by Maya Lin on Centre Street.  Metaphorically and literally, this “heart” will ground visitors, and be the focal point of the “new MOCA experience.”  This presentation is an innovative approach to museum and exhibition design.  It will facilitate a new way of interacting with content: through the evocative use of space that stirs visitors’ emotion and breaks down barriers to deeper learning and understanding.

The core exhibition presents the diverse layers of the Chinese American experience while examining America’s journey as a nation of immigrants—from an historical overview of Chinese immigration to the United States, to the individual stories that reveal what it has meant to be Chinese in America at different moments in time, to the physical traces and images left behind by past generations for us to consider, reflect and reclaim.

A key element of the exhibition is its dialogue with Maya Lin’s architectural centerpiece – a sky lit courtyard at the heart of the museum. The exhibit wraps around and engages with the courtyard, which represents the idea of China – a collective origin, which for many after the first generation, becomes a constructed, rather than an actual, memory. Not unlike the rooms of a Chinese house, each section of the exhibit is connected to the courtyard via portals. Each one containing films of people narrating personal life stories, demonstrating how history is propelled by individual moments of decision-making in the face of circumstances larger than themselves. External walls dialogue with the inner, in order to provide the larger historical context for Chinese American struggles and achievements.

Thematically and chronologically, the exhibit reveals the complex layers of the Chinese American experience through six modules:

1) Go East! Go West!  examines how the flow and exchange of goods and people helped shape the formation of new identities, ideas, and perceptions of both Chinese and Americans during the 19th century.

2) America: Staking Claims explores the political climate in America leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and its impact as the first federal law to restrict the immigration of a specific group based on nationality, defining in legal terms who could not “become American.”


3) Greetings from Chinatown shows how by the turn of the century, Chinatowns had sprung up in cities all across America forming an important economic and social network for Chinese Americans, as well as sites of cultural exchange in America’s urban centers.

4) Allies, Enemies? looks at how conflicts abroad dictated the fortunes of Chinese Americans at home.  While World War II brought about the eventual repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, China’s Communist revolution fueled Red Scare targeting of Chinese in America.

5) Seeds of Change presents the great shifts in Chinese American communities during the latter half of the 20th century. The landmark Immigration Reform of 1965 helped revitalize and diversify the Chinese population, and a second generation of Chinese Americans came of age in a time of cultural activism and community organizing.

6) Made in America!? explores how globalization has transformed American culture as much as the circulation of American culture has influenced peoples and nations outside the U.S., and while globalization promotes new and complex versions of national identity, it also creates conditions for expressions of ethnicity and identity politics.
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  <Price free="0">Adults $7, Seniors and Students $4, Children under 12 in groups less than 8 and MOCA Members and on Thursdays Free. </Price>
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  <DateEnd>0000-00-00</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2009/F02A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/F02A">
  <Name>&quot;Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/AE192502">
    <Name>The Museum of Modern Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>11 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019</Address>
    <Phone>212-708-9400</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Between 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.  Subway: V/E to 53rd Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="midtown">Midtown</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:30:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, from January through June 2010.</ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In order to provide the context for understanding the problems and issues that the teams were required to address during the workshop phase of &quot;Rising Currents,&quot; the exhibition will begin with a background presentation of the Latrobe Team’s project, including its final master plan and schematic proposals, a detailed atlas of the New York and New Jersey Upper Bay, historical images, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) generated maps examining the current layers of density, transportation networks, topographic and bathymetric data, 100- and 500-year flood zones, and Category 1, 2, 3, and 4 hurricane storm surge zones, as well as projected flooding based on incremental sea level rise. At the center of the exhibition will be the physical and digital models and drawings produced by the four teams, whose members will also be involved in designing the exhibition with members of MoMA’s Department of Exhibition Design and Production.  The exhibition, therefore, not only will present innovative work for design interventions in the New York/New Jersey harbor and estuaries, but also will contribute a new model of exhibition with public participation in every level from the workshop through to the final exposition. Included in the exhibition will be designs for soft infrastructure solutions for a site that encompasses Lower Manhattan, by Adam Yarinsky, Principal at Architecture Research Office (ARO), who worked on the Palisade Bay research study with Guy Nordenson and Catherine Seavitt. &quot;The Rising Currents&quot; exhibition inaugurates a new series of Architecture and Design exhibitions at MoMA called &quot;Issues in Contemporary Architecture,&quot; which will focus on timely topics in contemporary architecture with an emphasis on the urban dimension in order to increase public dialogue around seminal issues in architecture.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $20, Seniors $16, Students $12, Children and Members and on Friday 4pm–8pm Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-24</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-08-10</DateEnd>
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  <DaysBeforeEnd>144</DaysBeforeEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/122F" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/122F">
  <Name>&quot;Back on the Map - Revisiting the New York State Pavilion at the 1964/65 World's Fair&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/35073509">
    <Name>The Center for Architecture</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address> 536 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-683-0023</Phone>
    <Fax>212-696-5022</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 3rd and Bleecker Sts., Subway: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W 4th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
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    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The New York State Pavilion was considered one of the best architectural designs at the 1964/65 World’s Fair and is certainly one of the most iconic of structures to survive. Back on the Map: Revisiting the New York State Pavilion at the 1964/65 World’s Fair, explores the design and afterlife of Philip Johnson’s Pavilion and its main exhibit: a large-scale, terrazzo pavement of the Texaco Road Map of New York State.

With less-than-serious references to flying saucers and a colorful circus tent, Johnson’s Pavilion embodied the technological prowess of the period as well historical and pop culture references that would come to define Post Modernism in the years to follow. Built as a temporary structure for the Fair, the Pavilion and its Pop Art map pavement have suffered from over 40 years of exposure and vandalism. The culmination of conservation and reuse studies by the City of New York Department of Parks &amp; Recreation and The School of Design and Architectural Conservation Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, this exhibition seeks to inform and engage the public about the significance and future of this 1960s masterwork.

Back on the Map is part of the Center for Architecture’s Helfand Spotlight Series, which features current topics in New York architecture. The exhibition is sponsored by Oldcastle Glass and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and the World Monuments Fund.

[Photo: ACL/PennDesign]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-03-31</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/3D1A" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/3D1A">
  <Name>&quot;Design USA: Contemporary Innovation&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/B813076B">
    <Name>Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>2 E 91st St., New York, NY 10128</Address>
    <Phone>212-849-8420</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>Corner of 5th Ave., Subway: 4/5/6 to 86th Street or 96th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="upper_east_side">Upper East Side</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays closinghour 18:00, sundays closinghour 18:00, sundays openinghour 12:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Fashion</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Developed in collaboration with the renowned firm 2x4, Design USA focuses on innovation through the lens of technology, material, method, craft and transformation.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Adults $15, Seniors and Students $10, Members and Children under 12 Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2009-10-16</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-04-04</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/4161" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/4161">
  <Name>&quot;Modernism At Risk&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/35073509">
    <Name>The Center for Architecture</Name>
    <Type>Cultural Center</Type>
    <Address> 536 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012</Address>
    <Phone>212-683-0023</Phone>
    <Fax>212-696-5022</Fax>
    <Access>Between W 3rd and Bleecker Sts., Subway: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W 4th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="villages">Villages</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>saturdays openinghour 11:00, saturdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Modernism represents the defining movement of twentieth-century architecture and design; yet, every day, important works of modern architecture are destroyed or inappropriately altered. The solutions for protecting them can be as individual as the threats that endanger them. These threats range from physical deterioration to perceived economic or functional obsolescence to public apathy. Often, the greatest challenges to saving modern buildings can be the innovative design and technical features that help define them as significant achievements in the history of architecture.

While there is no single response that can prevent the loss of every endangered modern site, the architects and designers working today play an increasingly critical role in demonstrating that these buildings can be economically and functionally viable and continue to serve useful purposes as places to live, work, learn, gather, and worship. The advocacy role of good design becomes increasingly important as the building materials and systems of many modern structures that stem from the classical period of modernism through the postwar boom reach the end of their physical life span. Saving modern landmarks is important because they enrich a community’s sense of place – providing continuity between its past and important buildings of our own times.

[Photo: Grahm Balkany]]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2010/6EBF" href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2010/6EBF">
  <Name>Antony Gormley  &quot;Breathing Room II&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/EEDD4AC1">
    <Name>Sean Kelly Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>528 W 29th St., New York, NY 10001</Address>
    <Phone>212-239-1181</Phone>
    <Fax>212-239-2467</Fax>
    <Access>Between 10th and 11th Ave. Subway: C/E to 23rd Street or A/C/E to Penn Station 34th Street</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_28_above">Chelsea 28th - 33rd</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The relation between consciousness and space has been explored by Antony Gormley's work for 30 years: investigating the body as the bounding box of mind, and architecture as an enclosing structure for the body. Testing these two conditions is the concern of BREATHING ROOM II, Antony Gormley's third exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery.

Alternating between 15,000 watts of brilliant light and no light at all, the main gallery contains the work of the show's title: a 3 dimensional drawing in space that describes 36 cubic meters with a photo-luminescent space-frame, stretching it along different axes and repeating it five times to make a nesting set. The work hovers between being architecture and being an image of architecture.

The viewer becomes the subject in an experiential field that oscillates between the meditative and the interrogative. On a repeated cycle, brilliant halogens come on for short bursts and then plunge the viewer and space into darkness in which the subject is implicated in a visual field framed by unstable but insistent glowing perspectives that allow free movement around and within them.

In this installation the artist provides a ground in which the viewer's present experience is extended and tested through a deconstruction of spatial ordering allowing the viewer to become a self-observing figure in a disorientating ground. This intervention with the viewer's sense of spatial ordering continues with the other freestanding works in the exhibition – 3 of Gormley's newest sculptures, in which the orthogonal structure and absolute geometry of the built environment, both compressed and extended, is applied to a new investigation of the abstract body.
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-26</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-01</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Name>&quot;Envelope&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.nyartbeat.com/venue/7231EE35">
    <Name>Pratt Manhattan Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>144 W 14th St., 2 Fl., New York, NY 10011</Address>
    <Phone>212-647-7778</Phone>
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    <Access>Between 6th and 7th Ave., Subway: L to 7th Avenue, 1/2/3/9 to 14th Street.</Access>
    <Area areaId="chelsea_east">East Chelsea</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
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  <Media>3D: Architecture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents &quot;Envelopes,&quot; a sustainable architecture exhibition that includes brand new work that examines the architectural skins of buildings and their role as a sensorial space that envelopes the body. The exhibition will run from March 5 through May 5, 2010 and will be celebrated with an opening reception on Thursday, March 4 from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition and opening reception are FREE and open to the public.

The exhibition is guest-curated by Christopher Hight, an associate professor at Rice University's School of Architecture. His inspiration for the exhibition title and concept originated from the parallels between the envelope of a building and the envelope of the human skin; the building envelope repeats the metaphor of the building as a body and as a prosthetic second skin that allows human beings to exist within a hostile environment. The work in the show explores relationships between systems -- human, animal, plant, and energy flow -- as a site for architectural innovation in the 21st century.]]></Description>
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  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2010-03-05</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2010-05-05</DateEnd>
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 <Party type="1" date="2010-03-04" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
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