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September 18 - February 19, 2017 - This exhibition laid out the hidden, yet essential role of maintenance in Western society—and the radical implications of actively valuing rather than dismissing or hiding it. The accompanying publication, Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art features a major essay by Patricia C. Phillips; interviews by Tom Finkelpearl with four Sanitation Commissioners who ha...

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...

February 14 - November 6, 2016 - The exhibition, Bearing Witness: Drawings by William Gropper, will examine original drawings from the collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross, many of which are being exhibited for the first time. For Queens Museum visitors, issues of political hypocrisy, surveillance and censorship, human rights, mass genocide and immigration in his drawings; resonate with the cu...

The exhibition will be the first US survey of the art of China-born, Queens-based artist Zhang Hongtu. Zhang Hongtu left China in 1982 to find greater artistic freedom and is perhaps best known for his “Mao” series, a group of works responding to the ubiquitous images of Mao Ze Dong. Spanning the late 1950s to the present, the exhibition will unite more than fifty pieces, including pieces from the...

As urbanization reconfigures parts of Southeast Asia (SEA), natural landscapes have had to adapt to manmade architecture. Architectural Landscapes: SEA in the Forefront not only looks to natural landscapes that are transformed into urban spaces, but also focuses on local architectural landmarks that are slowly disappearing, leaving gaps in the cultural and social legacy of each country. Closed Mon...

The art of Robert Seydel (1960–2011) is a rare hybrid species of the visual and literary that dissolves boundaries between the lyrical and the narrative and the acts of reading and looking. In a body of work marked by an unrelenting sense of play, Seydel collapses the historical past with the notated, emotional present and mingles actual personages with fictional characters. Much of his work is ma...

Best known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic and enamel, New York based artist Thomas introduces a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty. Her work stems from her long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. Closed Monday and Tuesday The Museum will be closed on July 4, Thank...

Marking the second year of its Studio Program, the Queens Museum presents an exhibition featuring the works of twelve artists, who, working singly and in partnerships, have occupied studios at QM during 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. The exhibition will take place in the new wing of the Queens Museum. The artists’ studios will open to the public during the opening celebration and on July 31. Closed Mond...