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April 21–August 14, 2016 - The exhibition features eighteen works that highlight the artist’s ability to inventively transform ordinary, everyday materials into art. With wit and ingenuity, he creates boom box sculptures that play music and activate the space, turning it into an immersive sound environment. The work is programmed with playlists that go on sequentially throughout our public hours. ...

April 19 - October 31, 2016 - This exhibition is nearly 30 feet high, the sculpture is fabricated from a deconstructed red barn and seems at first to be a genuine house, but is in fact a scaled-down structure consisting of two facades propped up from behind with scaffolding. A large-scale sculpture by acclaimed British artist Cornelia Parker, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two e...

April 16 - July 24, 2016 - This exhibiton opens with Meiji-era photographs and nineteenth-century cartes de visite to explore the way that photographs can distill and preserve identity and serve as placeholders for people, places, eras, and cultures. The exhibition also investigates a modern network of cultural connections. There are links between individuals within the same social circle and link...

April 14 – October 9, 2016 - This exhibition features more than 200 works by this distinguished artist, showcasing her keen eye for the absurdities and insecurities that permeate daily life including many situations that are particular to New York City. The exhibition was originally organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and is a co-presentation of the Museum of the...

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez is the subject of a solo exhibition that features his drawings of many different kinds of garments, prototypes for fantasy shoes, his well-known instamatic photographs, portraits of various fashion world luminaries and archival photographs and various other objects. The artist’s daring exploration of race, gender and the body through fashion are key elements of th...

April 10 - January 1, 2017 - The Queens Museum will launch a multi-faceted exhibition in collaboration with renowned writer, historian, and activist, Rebecca Solnit. Solnit is the author of 15 books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, the power of stories, and hope. The roots of this project are found in her remarkable trilogy of Atlas books which propose creative mapping as a ...

April 10- July 31, 2016 - A tradition since 2001, Queens International is the Museum’s biannual exhibition of artists living or working in Queens. While each iteration has its own curatorial team and vision, what remains constant is the central aim of highlighting and contextualizing the artistic vibrancy of the borough through contemporary cultural productions in all media.

April 10 - July 31, 2016 - On this first album’s 40th anniversary, the Queens Museum and the GRAMMY Museum are partnering to present an unprecedented two-part exhibition celebrating the lasting influence of punk rock progenitors the Ramones.While the exhibition’s two parts will share many key objects drawn from more than 50 public and private collection across the world, each will explore the Ramo...

April 9 - July 17, 2016 - At the turn of the twentieth century, works of art depicting majestic landscapes, Native Americans, cowboys and cavalry, and animals of the Western plains and mountains were collected eagerly. Through bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, the exhibition Imaging the American West explores the popularity of artworks with American Western themes.

April 8 - November 27, 2016 - The selection of work for this exhibition then took a formal direction, involving all of the members our curatorial team. Nancy Weekly, Tullis Johnson, Heather Gring, Bill Menshon, Tom Holt, Robert Cutrona, Patrick Robideau and I set out to create something that was greater than a simple encyclopedic representation of each artist – an honorific remembrance.