28
May/11

HOLIDAY MONDAYS: QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART

28
May/11

Sung Hwan Kim’s “From the Commanding Heights…*” is on view at the Queens Museum, which is offering free admission on Memorial Day

Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Monday, May 30, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
718-592-9700
www.queensmuseum.org

The Queens Museum is usually closed on Monday, but on May 30 it will open its doors, offering free admission to its exhibits, free family-friendly tours, free open studio time, free refreshments, and more. Current special exhibitions include “Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights…*,” comprising video and related drawings and sculpture by the Seoul-born, New York-based artist; “Not the Way You Remembered,” a group show of works incorporating unusual materials; “Future Perfect: Re-Constructing the 1939 New York World’s Fair”; Egyptian artist Hassan Khan’s four-channel video “The Hidden Location”; Indian-born Niyeti Chadha’s site-specific “A Script for a Landscape,” which deconstructs and reconstructs space in the museum’s second-floor gallery; and “Ghana Think Tank in Corona: Developing the First World,” which is set up in a multimedia-equipped trailer. As always, be sure to stop by the long-term exhibits “The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass” and “A Watershed Moment: Celebrating the Homecoming of the Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System” as well as the spectacular “Panorama of the City of New York.”