DOWNTOWN
CULTURE
WALK
Saturday, April 29, 2017
11am – 6pm
By SoHo Arts Network
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Downtown Culture Walk is a
self-guided walking tour presented
by the SoHo Arts Network (SAN),
highlighting the non-profit art
spaces in the SoHo and downtown
neighborhoods. SAN celebrates the
rich history of our unique creative
community and collectively shares
our distinct cultural contributions
with neighborhood residents and visitors. On April 29, members of SAN
will open their doors for Downtown
Culture Walk, inviting participants
to discover the non-profit art spaces
in the neighborhood. Walkthroughs,
talks, open hours, and other programming will be offered that day for
free or reduced admission.
— www.sohoarts.org
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The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim
Art Gallery
417 Lafayette St.
2. Center for Architecture AIA
New York Chapter
536 LaGuardia Pl.
3. The Renee & Chaim Gross
Foundation
526 LaGuardia Pl.
4. HarvestWorks
596 Broadway #602
5. ICP Museum
250 Bowery
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New Museum
235 Bowery
Dia: The New York Earth Room
141 Wooster St.
Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway 2F
Judd Foundation
101 Spring St.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
Center for Italian Modern
Art - CIMA
421 Broome St
12. Dia: The Broken Kilometer
393 West Broadway
13. The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St.
14. Recess
41 Grand St.
15. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay
and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster St.
16. apexart
291 Church St.
17. SoHo Photo Gallery
15 White St.
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1. The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim
Art Gallery
417 Lafayette St.
Open 11am – 6pm
Special Program 11am and 4pm
and their connections to social upheaval and
transformation. 10% discount in the ICP
Museum shop.
— www.icp.org
The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery will
present Paper Revelation, an exhibition of
contemporary works in, on, and of paper in
two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and
video formats by five Korean artists. Works
by Sup Ham, Jeong Min Suh, Ilhwa Kim,
Sung Hee Cho, and Won Ha will be on view
all day on the fourth floor gallery. The artists
explore the versatility of the centuries-old
Korean paper tradition while translating
their inspirations onto paper and altering the
nature of the medium. At 11am and 4pm,
there will be walkthroughs led by Assistant
Director, Ann Thurmond, of Paper Revelation as well as the installation of works by Po
Kim and Sylvia Wald on view in the seventh
floor gallery.
— www.waldandkimgallery.org
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2. Center for Architecture – AIA
New York Chapter
536 LaGuardia Pl.
Open 11am – 5pm
Special Program 11:30pm
At 11:30am, The Center for Architecture
will host a walkthrough of its current exhibition, Architecture of Independence: African
Modernism, which presents over 700 photographs, as well as archival materials, historical photos, newspaper clippings, postcards,
videos, plans, and sketches, documenting the
ambivalences of decolonization, its contradictions, and inconsistencies, but also its
ambitions, aims, and aspirations.
— www.cfa.aiany.org
3. The Renee & Chaim Gross
Foundation
526 LaGuardia Pl.
Open 11am – 6pm
Special Program 12pm
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation will
host open hours of the historic home and
studio of American sculptor Chaim Gross
(1904-91). The current temporary exhibition
on view is Building Identity: Chaim Gross
and Artists’ Homes & Studios in New York
City, 1953-74. At 12pm, a walkthrough
focusing on the historic installation of the
collection will be given by Interim Director,
Sasha Davis.
— www.rcgrossfoundation.org
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HarvestWorks
596 Broadway #602
Open 12pm – 6pm
Harvestworks will present Seven Futures by
Taeyoon Choi and Christine Sun Kim. For
this installation, the artists came up with
seven potential futures and gave form to
them as wind chimes with electronics and
motors. As each wind chime creates sound
in various speeds, they will gradually become
one collective and intersectional future, in
both controlled and abstract senses.
— www.harvestworks.org
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ICP Museum
250 Bowery
Open 10am – 6pm
The International Center of Photography
(ICP) Museum will offer $4 off general
admission tickets. The exhibition Perpetual
Revolution: The Image and Social Change will
be on view. Perpetual Revolution: The Image
and Social Change offers an examination of
endless new streams of provocative, powerful, and sometimes frightening media images
DOWNTOWN
CULTURE
WALK
New Museum
235 Bowery
Open 11am – 6pm
New Museum will host open hours of their
exhibition, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song For A Cipher. This exhibition brings
together a selection of works by British artist
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a 2013 Turner
Prize finalist and one of the most renowned
painters of her generation. Her lush oil
paintings embrace many of the conventions
of historical European portraiture, but expand on that tradition by engaging fictional
subjects who often serve as protagonists of
the artist’s short stories as well.
— www.newmuseum.org
7. Dia: The New York Earth Room
141 Wooster St.
Open 11am to 6pm
(Closed 3pm – 3:30pm)
Dia Art Foundation commissioned and
maintains Walter De Maria’s installations
The New York Earth Room (1977) and The
Broken Kilometer (1979) in New York City.
Both of these installations have been on
view for over 30 years. Visitors can experience these installations free of charge.
— www.diaart.org
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Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway 2F
Open 11am – 6pm
Special Program 2pm
The Emily Harvey Foundation (EHF) will
host a special screening of Jean Dupuy’s early
collective performance concerts along with
a selection of his works from the EHF collection. Marking an extraordinary moment
of collaboration among some of the leading
artists of this generation, these “collective
performance” videos capture a unique and
radically interdisciplinary moment in the
history of the 1970s. In them, we witness
an intersection of means and talents, an
organized series of actions and contributions
wholly unlike the modes of collaborative
practice that came earlier (e.g. in Fluxus) or
later (the broader field of Art Performance as
we know it today).
— www.emilyharveyfoundation.org
9. Judd Foundation
101 Spring St.
Open 11am – 6pm
In 1968, Donald Judd purchased 101 Spring
Street, a five-story cast-iron building designed by Nicholas Whyte and constructed
in 1870. Serving as his New York home and
studio, 101 Spring Street is the place of origin for Judd’s ideas on permanent installation
and is the last surviving single-use cast-iron
building of its era in the SoHo Cast-Iron
Historic District. The first and second
floors of 101 Spring Street will be open for
self-guided viewing. Judd Foundation artist
guides will be on hand to answer questions.
— www.juddfoundation.org
10. Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
Open 11am – 6pm
Storefront for Art and Architecture will host
open hours of their current exhibition, Control Syntax Rio. In response to catastrophic
natural disasters, calamitous traffic congestion, and urban health epidemics in Rio de
By SoHo Arts Network
Janeiro, the Centro de Operações Rio (COR)
was designed as a corrective tool and as a
new command and control hub that would
allow the city to prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games. Curated by Farzin Lotfi-Jam and
Mark Wasiuta, the exhibition shows the city
of Rio structured through COR’s control
syntax and smart city command processes.
— www.storefrontnews.org
11. Center for Italian Modern Art
– CIMA
421 Broome St.
Open 11am – 6pm
Special Program 3pm
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA)
will host open hours of their current exhibition, Giorgio de Chirico - Giulio Paolini /
Giulio Paolini - Giorgio de Chirico, free of
charge. At 3pm, Annina Nosei, pioneer
SoHo gallerist, will be in conversation with
CIMA Fellow, Fabio Cafagna, on the history
and legacy of contemporary art in SoHo, and
Nosei’s relationship with the Italian art scene.
— www.italianmodernart.org
12. Dia: The Broken Kilometer
393 West Broadway.
Open 11am – 6pm
(Closed 3pm – 3:30pm)
See 7.
13. The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St.
Open 12pm – 6pm
Special Program 3:30pm
The Drawing Center will host open hours of
their exhibition, Exploratory Works: Drawings
from the Department of Tropical Research Field
Expeditions, free of charge. This exhibition
brings to light, for the first time, an archive
of images that illustrate the formation of our
modern definition of nature by William Beebe (1877–1962), one of America’s greatest
popularizers of ecological thinking and biological science. At 3:30pm, there will be an
exhibition walkthrough with Brett Littman,
The Drawing Center’s Executive Director.
— www.drawingcenter.org
speak directly to the LGBTQ experience.
Their early efforts yielded a unique archive
of work that would have otherwise been lost
or destroyed, making up the core of the Museum’s expansive collection. At 4pm, there
will be a walkthrough by Museum staff.
— www.leslielohman.org
16. apexart
291 Church St.
Open 11am – 6pm
Special Program 4:30pm
Tired of cooking the same old recipes?
Learn some tips and tricks to improve your
creativity in the kitchen in Outlaw Kitchen.
This demo-presentation will offer new ways
to bring flavorful herbs and herbal infusions
into your favorite dishes, oils, and beverages. This event is in conjunction with the
exhibition Outlaw Glass, organized by David
Bienenstock, which examines work from
leading functional glass artists.
— www.apexart.org
17. Soho Photo Gallery
15 White St.
Open 11am – 6pm
Special Program 5pm
SoHo Photo Gallery will present an exhibition of work by member David Kutz. At
5:00pm, there will be an artist talk by Kutz,
titled The Stranger’s Path. Inspired by an essay titled The Stranger’s Path by the renowned
American geographer, J.B. Jackson, and the
great panoramas of the early 19th-century,
this 21-foot long, 210-degree panoramic
work considers the commonality of the
modern travel experience.
— www.sohophoto.com
14. Recess
41 Grand St.
Open 12pm – 6pm
Artist Am Schmidt will be participating in
Recess’s signature program, Session, with a
project entitled Recess, May 21, 2014. Session
invites artists to use Recess’s public platform
to combine productive studio space with
dynamic exhibition opportunities. Sessions
remain open to the public from the first day
of the artist’s project through the last, encouraging sustained dialogue between artists
and audiences. The artist will be present at
Recess from 12pm to 6pm to discuss her
work in progress.
— www.recessart.org
15. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay
and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster St.
Open 11am – 6pm
Special Program 4pm
The inaugural exhibition in Leslie-Lohman
Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s newly
renovated and vastly expanded exhibition space, Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of
Collecting, is a historic collection show with
approximately 250 works on view. The exhibition presents a survey of the collection initiated by the Museum’s co-founders, Charles
Leslie and Fritz Lohman, who have spent
more than 50 years amassing artworks that
The SoHo Arts Network is a working network of
nonprofit art spaces in and around SoHo. We celebrate
the rich history of our unique creative community and
collectively share our distinctive cultural contributions
with the lives of residents and visitors.
— www.sohoarts.org