Luis Márquez, “Untitled,” exhibition print from original negative, 1940 (courtesy Luis Marquez Archive, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Monday, February 21, free, 11:00 Am – 4:00 pm
718-592-9700
www.queensmuseum.org
The Queens Museum of Art, which is usually closed on Mondays (and Tuesdays), will open its doors on Presidents’ Day, offering free admission from 11:00 to 4:00. Among the special programs will be family-friendly tours and arts & crafts workshops as well as free refreshments. Currently on view through March 6 is “Luis Márquez in the World of Tomorrow: Mexican Identity and the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair,” comprising more than eighty photographs taken by Luis Márquez, who served as the Mexican Pavilion’s official photographer and art adviser, in addition to costumes that were displayed at the pavilion and other historical artifacts and memorabilia. The Queens Museum also has several long-term installations, including “The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass,” “A Watershed Moment: Celebrating the Homecoming of the Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System,” and “The Panorama of the City of New York,” a spectacular up-to-date, nearly ten-thousand-square-foot architectural rendering of all five boroughs, containing approximately nine hundred thousand individual models of apartment buildings, parks, cultural institutions, bridges, airports, and other structures.