Sentences with phrase «west side pier»

When the fair moved to the 69th Regiment Armory in 1999 it acquired its current title, the Armory Show, which it kept despite moving to a West Side pier in 2001 (the fair expanded to a second pier, for modern art, in 2009).

The main gallery on the first floor is devoted to a figure still little known to the art world at large, Alvin Baltrop (1948 - 2004), a photographer who, from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, took thousands of pictures of West Side piers that were gay cruising spots.

The brief history of this dockside utopia is the subject of a rousing and evocative show at the Hunter College Art Galleries, one of several recent spotlights on the sometimes - illicit art and activities of the West Side piers in the 1970s and»80s.

There's Alvin Baltrop's beautifully cruise - y photos of Manhattan's West Side piers and the men who loved to love there, James Nares's seminal 1976 film Pendulum, and Henry Flynt's documentation of SAMO graffiti around downtown.

VOLTA NY 2016 opens to the public on Wednesday, March 2nd (8 pm) at the west side piers adjoining the main Armory Show (Pier 90, 92, and 94) and will be on view through Armory Arts Week, concluding March 6th.

Founded in 1994 and initially hosted at the 69th Regiment Armory in Kips Bay (the same location chosen for the famous International Exhibition of Modern Art, i.e. the 1914 Armory Show), the fairs organizers moved to the west side piers in 2001.

Not exact matches

Your tour concludes with a drive back to the pier along the island's west coast, also known as the «Platinum Coast» due to the many exclusive properties and five - star hotels on this side of the island.

The long - popular park on the far west side of Montgomery is set for a makeover that will bring exciting new improvements — boat dock, floating pier, an additional shelter, expanded permeable paver parking and new trails that will form a network to those in Stuart Sports Complex and along Orchard Road.

It would run east to west and would be positioned about 250 feet north of the ends of the two federal piers that protrude into the lake from the mainland at Olcott on either side of the mouth of Eighteen Mile Creek.

Last Thursday, I ventured to the west side of town for the kickoff of Hudson RiverRocks — a series of free concerts on the pier.

We walked along the string of whitewashed stone cottages that stretch either side of the pier and sat eventually down on a bench enjoying a soft ice cream in the rare sun looking out across Loch Broom, the longest sea loch in the north - west Highlands.

Last summer, Alvin Baltrop's groundbreaking photographs documenting 1970s gay subculture around the ruined piers of Manhattan's West Side were shown at Galerie Buchholz in New York.

For years, the Armory Show has taken over two piers on Manhattan's far west side, with Pier 92 focused for the most part on historical art and Pier 94 devoted to contemporary work.

Pier 54 likewise took place on a derelict pier, for which the High Line Art has invited 27 contemporary artists — all women — to realize projects that respond to the location and engage with the changing landscape of the West Side waterfront.

In fact, Art New York conjured Art Miami so strongly that it felt as if towering palm trees, balmy weather and a row of art fairs waited outside instead of lines of taxis and concrete stanchions dividing the pier's entrance from the roaring West Side Highway and its heavy traffic.

As always, the show takes place at piers 92 and 94 on Manhattan's West Side, along the Hudson, with 139 galleries on pier 94 selling contemporary art and 56 exhibitors on pier 92 showing modern art.

Pier 92 has historically been the quieter of The Armory Show's two piers on Manhattan's west side.