Sentences with phrase «armory drill hall»

As for Lisson Gallery and Mary Boone Gallery, the two exhibitions came together at the same time with Jeffrey's mostly because I don't have the time in my schedule to travel frequently to New York, although I'll be coming also for next year's Public Art Fund and an exhibition at the Armory Drill Hall.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, United States — A barely audible «swish» was the only sound that broke the pin - drop silence at Marc Jacobs, as models — many of them dressed in parachute - silk tracksuits, layers of acid - bright garments based on old patterns plucked from the designer's archives strapped in by fanny packs — turned the four corners of the bare 55,000 - square - foot drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory, with its 80 - foot high ceilings and unlacquered wood floors.

Legendary director Robert Wilson's music - theater hybrid, which follows the life and work of avant - garde performance artist Marina Abramovic, will have its U.S. premiere in the Armory's impressive 55,000 - square - foot Drill Hall.

Past projects include: PLAN B, Rudolf Stingel, Summer 2004, Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Prada Marfa, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, permanent installation, Marfa, TX; Greeting Card, Aaron Young, The Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory, September 2007; Electric Fountain, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Rockefeller Plaza, Spring 2008; Whitney Biennale, presented by APF and the Park Avenue Armory, March 2008; Prospect 1.

By any standards, Ryoji Ikeda has been given an all - access pass worthy of rock star status: A pair of 40 - foot tall screens for his black - and - white visuals; all 55,000 square feet of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall to fill with his stripped - down, sonic sounds; and the blessing of the Park Avenue Armory's president and executive producer, Rebecca Robertson, to get loud.

The Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory is proud to host ground breaking work that pushes beyond traditional limits in an extraordinary setting.

Park Avenue Armory is an arts institution dedicated to work that benefits from the freedom of the building's vast drill hall and its constellation of magnificent period rooms.

The season reflects and strengthens the Armory's mission, dedicated to advancing new forms of artistic expression, catalyzing open collaboration between artists, and creating immersive and thought - provoking experiences for audiences within its soaring Wade Thompson Drill Hall and historic period rooms.

It continues with works from the world's leading innovators in the arts, as they break through thresholds of space, memory, sound, and genre — from Philippe Parreno who, in his largest exhibition in the U.S. to date, transforms the presentation of visual art into an evolving sensory journey; to Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, and Jamie xx as they create a new contemporary ballet; to avant - garde performance artist Laurie Anderson who, through a site - specific installation in the Armory's drill hall, will expand upon her work with storytelling and technology to create a site - specific environment that serves as a meditation on time, identity, surveillance and freedom; and finally to Igor Levit and Marina Abramović as they interpret Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations, to create a concentrated durational performance that reflects upon music, time, space, emptiness, and luminosity.

The Cunningham dancers warm up and then perform in various situations — as Cunningham called the galleries and the especially constructed stages for each «Event» — including Richard Serra's steel sculptures, Dan Flavin's neon light installations, Sol LeWitt's Minimalist white boxes and the vast Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

Artist Taryn Simon has created a major new work for Park Avenue Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall, co-commissioned by the Armory and Artangel, London.

Installation with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron Hansel & Gretel at Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Park Avenue Armory, NYC, NY.

New York multimedia artist Taryn Simon rules the Park Avenue Armory this month with An Occupation of Loss, a sprawling and ambitious new work created specifically for the Armory's cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall.

Animating the Armory with the sights, sounds, and movement of renowned interdisciplinary artist Nick Cave, The Let Go will transform the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a dance - based town hall that brings together visitors to participate in a collective act of catharHall into a dance - based town hall that brings together visitors to participate in a collective act of catharhall that brings together visitors to participate in a collective act of catharsis.

Turner Prize - winning artist Martin Creed takes over Park Avenue Armory's entire first floor — from its expansive Wade Thompson Drill Hall and adjacent bunkers, to its historic period rooms and corridors — with the largest U.S. survey of his work and the most extensive single - artist installation at the Armory to date.

HOPELESSNESS will extend the Armory's history of presenting collaborative works that employ music and visual art to take full advantage of its soaring drill hall.

Goldberg is the final presentation of the Armory's 2015 season, which encompassed site - specific installations, commissions, and cross-disciplinary collaborations across a range of art forms including: FLEXN — an evolution of the Brooklyn - born street dance flex co-directed by Peter Sellars and dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; H -LCB- N) Y P N (Y -RCB- OSIS, Philippe Parreno's largest exhibition in the U.S. to date, a multi-sensory journey within the monumental interior of the Armory's drill hall; the U.S. premiere of the new contemporary dance Tree of Codes by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, and Jamie xx; HABEAS CORPUS, a penetrating new work by Laurie Anderson in collaboration with Mohammed el Gharani; and the third annual recital series featuring the U.S. premiere of The Night Dances by Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder - Atherton, a concert of songs from World War I by Ian Bostridge, a performance of Viennese lieder by Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber, and more.

The immersive, interactive installation, Hansel & Gretel, fills the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall and extends into the first floor of the Head House, creating... Read More

Programs in the drill hall include the North American stage premiere of Louis Andriessen's De Materie, directed by composer Heiner Goebbels and featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble in a visually dramatic production incorporating music, dance, and spoken word; a new commission by visual artist and musician Martin Creed that marks his largest installation in the U.S. to date and reimagines the Armory's drill hall and period rooms in a surprising meditation on existence; a major new work by artist Taryn Simon that explores rituals of grief and mourning; and Circle Map, a program of ambitious spatial works by composer Kaija Saariaho that features the New York Philharmonic.

«One Armory programming strand has been to invite music and visual artists to stage concerts in the drill hall, beginning in 2013 with Stockhausen's OKTOPHONIE by Rirkrit Tiravanija, followed by Massive Attack and Adam Curtis and most recently Hélène Grimaud with Douglas Gordon's tears become... streams become...,» said Artistic Director Alex Poots.

The big thing, though, is that that the show leaves the Armory's vast drill hall space empty but for projections on the wall.

At New York's Park Avenue Armory this spring (through June 17), Tom Sachs is staging «Space Program 2.0: Mars,» filling the 55,000 - square - foot drill hall with his own reenactment of a trip to Mars.

The Grand Dame of art fairs, The Art Show's 30th edition, occupying the Park Avenue Armory's massive Drill Hall once again, presents 72 galleries, with several presenting solo shows by major woman artists.

9/13 Taryn Simon, «An Occupation of Loss» at Park Avenue Armory Through 9/25, Park Avenue Armory Eleven concrete pipes, each 48 feet tall, fill the Drill Hall.

The Back Door features a series of sculptural interventions, installations, and performances, including the first complete showing of Creed's films and video works and a major new commission for the Armory's drill hall.»

«Turner Prize - winning artist Martin Creed takes over Park Avenue Armory's entire first floor — from its expansive Wade Thompson Drill Hall and adjacent bunkers, to its historic period rooms and corridors — with the largest U.S. survey of his work and the most extensive single - artist... Read More

Commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory for the 55,000 - square - foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, New York.

DF The 2008 Biennial expanded from the Whitney into the Drill Hall and historic rooms at the nearby Park Avenue Armory.

With its immense 55,000 - square - foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall — modeled after 19th - century European train stations — and historic rooms designed by leading period designers Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Herter Brothers, Park Avenue Armory offers an amazing space to view cutting edge art + design.

WS explores McCarthy's artistic oeuvre: in the show we find his fantastical forests, large - scale installations that represent the interior / exterior model, an installation tableaux that synthesizes the body, object, and space; here, in the the Armory's massive Wade Thompson Drill Hall.

A grid of 56 computers use infrared cameras and specially designed infrared floodlights not visible to the human eye to crisscross the cavernous Drill Hall section of the Armory.

In the adjacent booth of Carl Solway Gallery, the installation artist Ann Hamilton (who not long ago filled the Park Avenue Armory's entire drill hall) is in residence, engaging visitors with the sort of interactive project that's become common at contemporary fairs like Frieze (coming to New York in May) and at the Armory, but that is rare here.

«Paul McCarthy's film - and - sculpture installation, «WS,» which fills the immense drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory, is basically a Yahoo epic, its satire framed in the language of Disney, Duchamp, 1950s suburbia, 21st - century greed and Craigslist pornography.

Ernesto NETO anthropodino, 2009 Installation view Park Avenue Armory, New York, May 14 — June 14, 2009 Commissioned by Park Avenue Armory for Wade Thompson Drill Hall

«Equal parts exhibit, amusement and play space, the Park Avenue Armory's first - ever commissioned art installation, Ernesto Neto's anthropodino, completely reimagines the cavernous drill hall.»

''... curvaceous, diaphanous, voluptuous, lissome... fleshy, glandular, uvular, uterine... inside the armory's vast drill hall, one of the largest unobstructed spaces in the city, the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has been hard at work... building a sprawling version of one of his signature biomorphic sculptures that requires all of those words and a few more to describe adequately.»

The show unveils sculptural interventions, paintings, installations and performances featured across the entire first floor of the Armory's head house including an intriguing new piece of work commissioned specifically for the Drill Hall.