Elmgreen & Dragset’s The Hive welcomes busy bees to Moynihan Train Hall (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Who: Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset), Nicholas Baume
What: Public Art Fund live discussion
Where: The Cooper Union on Zoom
When: Thursday, March 11, free with RSVP, 1:00
Why: On January 1, Moynihan Train Hall opened to the public with much fanfare, highlighted by site-specific commissions from Stan Douglas (Penn Station’s Half Century), Kehinde Wiley (Go), and Elmgreen & Dragset. The Hive, E&D’s inverted cityscape on the ceiling of the Thirty-First St. midblock entrance, has dazzled visitors, who stare up at ninety-one miniature buildings that contain seventy-two thousand LEDs and weigh more than thirty thousand pounds, part mysterious metropolis, part cave stalactites. The duo of Denmark-born Michael Elmgreen and Norway-born Ingar Dragset, who have been combining art, architecture, performance, and installation for more than a quarter of a century, will discuss the construction and meaning of The Hive in a free Public Art Fund conversation hosted by the Cooper Union on Zoom, straight from their Berlin studio. The event will be moderated by PAF director and chief curator Nicholas Baume. To catch Baume’s January 28 talk with Douglas, go here.