Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Saturday, July 28, and Sunday, July 29, free, 2:00
718-592-9700
www.queensmuseum.org
On Saturday and Sunday, Taiwanese artist Chin Chih Yang will bury himself under a barrage of thirty thousand aluminum cans, making a statement about art, the environment, recycling, and overconsumption. The longtime New Yorker will present “Kill Me or Change” in front of the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, a follow-up to his 2007 installation in Union Square Park, “123PollutionSolution,” in which he collected thirty-five thousand cans and ten thousand MetroCards and placed them in a rectangular arrangement on the ground. While you’re at the museum, you should go inside as well, where a five-dollar suggested donation will let you see such special exhibits as “Ada Bobonis: Stages, Mountains, Water” and “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World” and such long-term shows as “A Watershed Moment: Celebrating the Homecoming of the Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System” and the spectacular “Panorama of the City of New York.”