{"id":166,"date":"2009-01-26T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-01-26T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:32:00","slug":"p-s-1-moma-contemporary-art-center-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/p-s-1-moma-contemporary-art-center-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest and oldest institutions in the US dedicated to contemporary art, we checked out the non-profit P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center during our winter stay in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Situated in Long Island City in the borough of Queens, New York City, it&#8217;s a really fantastic gallery, and some of the work was exceptional.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, New York City: contemporary art institution\" border=\"0\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/newyork\/images\/ps1-art-long-island-05.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Created by the Buenos Aires artist, Leandro Erlich, the <i>Swimming Pool<\/i> is a devilishly clever installation that gives the appearance of fully clothed people moving under water.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, New York City: contemporary art institution\" border=\"0\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/newyork\/images\/ps1-art-long-island-15.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This fantastic piece by Norwegian artist B\u00d8rre S\u00e6thre was fantastic, with a beautiful white unicorn displayed in a glass box. As you moved closer to the box, that glass would turn opaque at certain angles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, New York City: contemporary art institution\" border=\"0\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/newyork\/images\/ps1-art-long-island-08.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Danish-Iceland artist Olafur Eliasson had installed a piece involving a large, slowly spinning circular mirror suspended from the ceiling (similar to his excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/london\/lon546.html\"><strong>Weather Project<\/strong><\/a> in the Tate Modern in London in 2003.) <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens, New York City: contemporary art institution\" border=\"0\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/newyork\/images\/ps1-art-long-island-11.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was my favourite piece. You enter into what looks like an ordinary room, and at first it seems that everyone is looking up an opaque panel.<\/p>\n<p>It was only after a few moments that I realised that I was actually looking straight up at the open sky, so that the artist had effectively turned the sky into a piece of moving art.<\/p>\n<p>More photos here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/newyork\/ps1-art-long-island-city.html\">P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest and oldest institutions in the US dedicated to contemporary art, we checked out the non-profit P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center during our winter stay in New York. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[34,97,96],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-stuff","tag-art","tag-gallery","tag-queens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ps1-art-long-island-05.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}