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FILTER Times Square pavilion New York City

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FILTER Times Square pavilion New York

April 28, 2022

CLB Architects and EMIT present FILTER at Design Pavilion / NYCxDesign Festival

The steel and wood pavilion will be on view in Times Square, NYC from May 7-15

Design: CLB Architects

Rendering of FILTER in the heart of Times Square, NYC: image : CLB Architects

New York, NY, April 26, 2022 –– Created for Design Pavilion and the NYCxDesign Festival, FILTER carves out space for quiet recentering within the frenetic energy of Times Square. Designed as both a monumental object and an ephemeral experience, the pavilion establishes a new node in the heart of New York City’s urban fabric – reorienting that experience toward the natural, rather than the man-made. Evoking the rugged Wyoming landscape from which it originates, FILTER draws the visitor into an engagement of its flowing folds of weathered steel and timber. At the pavilion’s center, a lone tree embodies the ecological cycles and serves as a counterpoint to the Manhattan’s urbanity.

Designed by CLB Architects, the pavilion’s chapel-like design facilitates a new understanding of place, providing each occupant the chance to explore their own relationship with the natural world. The structure’s concept began as a simple diagram – a folded sheet of paper, carefully sliced, and able to stand on its own. Eric Logan, Partner at CLB, translated this exercise into full-scale existence through a design composed of a series of standard-sized, half-inch hot-rolled steel plates, or “chaps,” arranged to form a 24-foot diameter, 20-foot-tall ellipsoid.

FILTER, located between West 46th and 47th Streets at Times Square, appears to be a foreign object. Fluid shards of naturally-weathered steel invite close inspection, and a gentle ramp leads around the perimeter, offering views of the space held within. The noise, bustling crowds, and glaring lights of the city are filtered out, and the newly-centered visitor is left in solitude, inhabiting the urban “pause.” As Logan explains, the structure presents “an offering, it [FILTER] changes the environment and creates its own.” A bench of reclaimed fir offcuts is folded into the interior, encircling a live, 20-foot-tall tree. The tree’s dense canopy only partially obscures the sky beyond, inviting occupants to look upward and lose themselves in contemplation.

Each element of the structure was designed with attention to its sustainability, portability, and longevity, beyond the duration of the NYCxDesign installation. EMIT, based in Sheridan, Wyoming, is responsible for the steel prefabrication and is the exhibit patron. The steel was weathered to develop a protective rust patina evocative of the Rocky Mountain West. The lightly-charred and textured timber elements were crafted from salvaged Glulam beams by Spearhead, sustainable wood technologists based in British Columbia.

These systematized and structurally self-supporting components were first sent to Greeley, Colorado for test assembly, and then disassembled and shipped to New York City to be erected by New York-based contractors Dowbuilt. Utah-based Helius oversaw lighting design, incorporating fixtures by B-K Lighting and coordinating with New York-based contractors Apollo Electric. An organic Exclamation Plane tree, donated by Raemelton Farm in Adamstown, Maryland, completes the design.

Following the closure of the NYCxDesign festival, the tree will be donated to the New York City non-profit The Battery Conservancy, and the pavilion will be carefully disassembled and transported back to Wyoming to continue its life as a public sculpture at EMIT’s headquarters and enjoyed for generations to come. When it completes its cycle and reaches its final resting point in Sheridan, FILTER’s patina will reflect the accumulations of both dry western air and East Coast salinity. Forging connections across geography and intimately centered on occupant experience, FILTER makes a place of its own.

Free and open to the public, FILTER will be open daily, May 7-15, 2022, from 11:00am – 9:00pm.

FILTER Times Square pavilion New York City – Building Information

FILTER Project Team / Sponsors CLB Architects (Architect) EMIT (Exhibit Patron, Steel Supplier and Fabricator) Spearhead (Wood Supplier and Wood Fabricator) Dowbuilt (Builder) KL&A, Inc. (Structural Engineer)

HELIUS (Lighting Designer) B-K Lighting (Light Fixture Provider) Raemelton Farm (Tree Provider) Apollo Electric (Lighting Contractor)

CLB Architects

CLB is an architecture and interior design firm based in the Rocky Mountain West, and specializing in the design of residential, commercial, and arts related projects. Since the firm’s founding 30 years ago in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, CLB has evolved to now encompass projects across the United States.

Each endeavor is guided with the firm’s philosophy – inspired by place. With offices in Jackson, Wyoming and Bozeman, Montana, the firm has grown to a staff of 50, led by partners Eric Logan, Kevin Burke, Andy Ankeny and Darcey Prichard. The firm’s work has recently been documented in the book, Inspired by Place, which was published by ORO Editions. www.clbarchitects.com

EMIT

EMIT Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2000 and from the beginning, set out to design, engineer, think critically, work their tails off and most importantly, build! With facilities in Sheridan, Wyoming and Greeley, Colorado, EMIT produces a high mix of solutions leveraging their Material Processing, Fabrication, Coatings and Mechanical/Electronics Assembly talents that carry to multiple industries. They build Catalytic Converters, Commercial Buildings, Conveyor Systems, Engine Control Systems, Automotive Accessories and so much more. https://ift.tt/6elmEdo

Design Pavilion

Design Pavilion is New York’s Premier Public Design Exhibition, showcasing exciting and important design innovations about our future to a mass audience of millions including local businesses, design industry professionals, and local and international consumers.

Design Pavilion is host to a series of experiential installations featuring established and emerging designers, architects, brands, and visionaries from around the world. Their messages on the future are further supported by more in-depth discussion by thought leaders at the Design Talks NOW. www.design-pavilion.com

NYCxDESIGN

NYCxDESIGN is a not-for-profit organization committed to empowering and promoting the city’s diverse creative community. NYCxDESIGN organizes exceptional year-round programming, including its annual international festival.

At NYCxDESIGN, our mission is to support, empower, and grow the city’s incredible design sector. The festival attracts 300,000+ national and international visitors to the city, generating significant economic activity across the boroughs with hundreds of events about design and innovation, creativity, culture, inclusivity, sustainability, and resiliency. Diversity, purpose, cultural placemaking, economic opportunity, and creativity are core to the not-for-profit’s values. www.nycxdesign.com

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America’s design community comes into its own

A heated plagiarism scandal that rocked design discourse, a splashy return to 1970s maximalism, and independent design came out on top. With New York City’s annual NYCxDesign festival now officially concluded, these are just some of the lasting impressions from two weeks that were chock full of events, launches, and installations.

Held less than a month after Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile—the world’s largest and longest-standing trade show dedicated to furniture and product design—NYCxDesign is our most comparable stateside counterpart, with several fairs and countless pop-up events spanning the city’s five boroughs. Yet despite the fact that New York is home to a higher density of design professionals than anywhere else in the country, NYCxDesign has often been regarded as an afterthought to industry insiders: Larger brands and furniture houses will often present the same collections just previewed in Milan, and often with activations much less grand than those presented abroad. (It’s hard to compete when Milanese pop-up venues are often ornate, centuries-old palazzos, open to the public just for the occasion.) What’s more, NYCxDesign has rarely been able to contain itself to a single, tidy week—last year, it ballooned to span nearly the entire month of May, making it a marathon event that might dissuade international visitors from being able to take the whole spectrum of events in a single visit.

[Photo: courtesy Jumbo]

All of those factors, however, also give NYCxDesign some distinct advantages: There’s no shortage of homegrown talent, and with the high cost of attending and exhibiting abroad, many local designers opt to go all in on their home turf. With cross-disciplinary collaborations, spirited debates, and a host of openings celebrating independent work, this year convinced us that American design may have finally, refreshingly, come into its own as a platform where designers can speak to a broader audience. This year’s edition of NYCxDesign genuinely felt like a cultural event, more akin to fashion week or a film festival than a staid trade show. Read on for our top five takeaways.

Egg Collective, Designing Women II. [Photo: Egg Collective]

Rise of the designer-curator

In the age of social media, are any of us not curators? This year saw a surge in a particular breed of multi-hyphenate—the designer-as-curator-and-exhibitor—with a number of independently organized group exhibitions in a show of tight-knit community. Last year, in the jarring wake of Trump’s presidential election, the all-women design trio of Egg Collective mounted a show of work by women designers in their downtown showroom, in a positive and constructive flex of dissent against the state of affairs. As a follow-up to the widely lauded effort, this year they teamed with Lora Appleton of Kindermodern on Designing Women II: Masters, Mavericks, and Mavens, featuring an international and cross-generational mix of mixed-media works by Nicola L., Mimi Jung, Mira Nakashima, Bari Ziperstein, and more.

Egg Collective, Designing Women II. [Photo: Egg Collective]

Eskayel, Next Level [Photo: courtesy Eskayel]

Manhattan was particularly hard-hit by the decline of brick-and-mortar retail this past year, with a string of closures in previously high-trafficked districts—look to the formerly boutique-packed stretch of Bleecker Street in the West Village for a prime example of how digital-first commerce has affected neighborhood streets IRL. The vacant storefronts are signs of a changing industry, and for some designers, a serendipitous boon. At a former Superdry clothing store on Broadway—one of several vacancies on the main thoroughfare in Greenwich Village—several studios banded together to present Next Level, a group show of work by their peers and friends, partly looking to channel the cultural fervor that completely overtakes Milan during their design week.

“[Eskayel] exhibited at Salone for the first time ever this past year, and it really opened my eyes as to what was possible,” said Nick Chacona, a partner at the Brooklyn rug studio Eskayel, one of the show’s organizers. “Events are so integrated into the city there, and we wanted to bring some of that approach here to New York.”

In East Williamsburg, the tongue-in-cheek design collective Jonald Dudd (no, that’s not a typo) curated Return of the Living Dudd, a group show housed in a recently abandoned, half-gutted 99 cent storefront. Framed as a “platform for dissenting objects,” it was easily the wackiest batch of works to surface all week—ranging from vessels with live-oozing goop in swirling shades of pink and green, to a seatless chair made of square bathroom tile—all placed in a collage-like disarray upon a swooping, cobalt-blue carpeted backdrop that evoked an appropriately internet-bred aesthetic. As the curators Lydia Cambron and Chris Held held forth: “Punx not dead.”

Jonald Dudd, Return of the Living Dudd. [Photo: Jason Mandella]

Their DIY ethos was a refreshing counterpoint to the hallowed halls of Jacob J. Javits Center—home to ICFF, the longstanding trade show anchor to NYCxDesign—and gave the corporate approach a run for its money. New York’s new class of designer-curator-whatever brought out some of the most compelling work of the festival.

Camille Walala [Photo: courtesy Industry City]

Fashion, design, and internet culture collide

Chunky geometries, tubular forms, furry surfaces, and supergraphic patterns were all out in droves this year. It was a signal that 1970s maximalism and a fashion-influenced approach to interiors are still driving many independent designers. Was a secret memo circulated to all of the cool young makers, or has the Internet given birth to a globalized ur-aesthetic? Seen at the various booths of design fairs WantedDesign, ICFF, and Sight Unseen alike, it stood up alongside the enduring popularity of midcentury and Scandinavian modern design. Seemingly more concerned with form than comfort or function, many of these works channeled an approach to furniture and interiors driven by fashion.

Kamarq [Photo: Travis Chantar/courtesy Kamarq]

The idea of how fashionable trends spread, particularly in our internet-driven society, became a topic of heated debate after Kamarq, a Japanese startup aspiring to be the “Netflix of furniture,” was forced to cancel its debut collection within hours of its launch, after copycat claims on Instagram went viral overnight. The designers of the collection, fashion personality and former Lady Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti, and PJ Mattan, a consultant behind brands like Hem and Bezar—neither of whom had previously ever designed furniture, and extolled the idea of a “fast fashion” approach to home interiors—suggested their tube-and-slab forms were so basic so as to allude authorship, while many others (including this writer) saw undeniable likenesses to a 2015 Matter collection by independent designer Ana Kras. The Wing cofounder Audrey Gelman, artist Katie Stout, musician Dev Hynes, and Hem founder Petrus Palmer were among the many creatives who commented to weigh in on the controversial topic that, fittingly, cemented Kamarq as a “fast fashion” brand indeed.

Vitra+Akris+Alexander Girard [Photo: courtesy Akris]

In general, the fashion world played a significantly direct influence in NYCxDesign this year, with trendy downtown boutiques Philip Lim, Creatures of Comfort, and Opening Ceremony among the many fashion fixtures that teamed up with local furniture designers as part of Sight Unseen‘s curatorial project Field Studies, which paired creatives across various disciplines to produce unique one-off pieces, with proceeds going to a range of charitable causes. Even the big brands got cuddly with the fashion world: Swiss furniture juggernaut Vitra launched a series of dresses and skirts with Akris, featuring iconic patterns by the legendary midcentury textile designer Alexander Girard.

Retrosuperfuture, Slash Objects [Photo: Sean Santiago]

The ecological imperative

The model of a circular economy—by which resources and materials are continually circulated, from by-product to manufacture, in order to drastically reduce waste—has been simmering within critical design discourse for the past several years. And while such thinking has begun to infiltrate even Milan’s luxury-focused design week, it emerged in top billing at NYCxDesign, where some of the most highly attended projects applied the progressive model toward working proofs of concept.

Kim Markel + Glossier [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

At the sunglasses shop Retrosuperfuture, architect-designer Arielle Assouline-Lichten of Slash Objects presented an installation inspired by traditional Japanese rock gardens, but traded stone for rubble-like mounds of shredded tires and recycled rubber. Designer Kim Markel, who often works with discarded plastic bottles to mold translucent, candy-like creations, paired with cosmetics brand Glossier to create a luscious armoire with pink-tinted panels made from the company’s packaging, saved and collected for months by its employees. For her spindly side tables, she lathes spun stone dust, the powdery composite waste left behind from stone cutting. And in Brooklyn, the MINI-backed design incubator A/D/O continued its recently launched, year-long program tackling the global clean drinking water crisis.

Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Zero-Waste Bistro. [Photo: Nicholas Calcott]

Communal dining proved to be the basis of a winning engagement at WantedDesign Manhattan, a smaller trade show of international exhibitors, where the Finnish Cultural Institute of New York hosted a working pop-up cafe called the Zero-Waste Bistro (full disclosure: this writer will be participating in a program with FCINY this year). Designed and built entirely with recycled materials, it also served a revolving tasting menu of delectable, prix-fixe meals minimizing scrap food waste, with dishes like coconut husk ice cream and chopped asparagus salad, from the chefs of the Helsinki-based concept restaurant Nolla. The project was co-curated by Harri Koskinen and Linda Bergroth, who also designed the space using recycled and compressed Just water bottles and TetraPak waste to dazzling effect, like a pointillist tableau or digital rendering made real. The pop-up bistro was, above all, a tasty sight and experience to behold. The future of design must be ecological, that much is sure—and, as the event’s sold-out seatings proved, style and taste need not go by the wayside to achieve an environmentally responsible outcome.

Coil+Drift, Home Unimprov. [Photo: Sean Davidson]

The performative power of objects

The demands of maintaining a creative practice in a highly digital, politically asinine time is not an easy task—which may be why many designers also took to physical works to explore performative and expressive narratives. While also exhibiting at ICFF as part of the curated Collective Concept presentation, Brooklyn-based designer John Sorensen-Jolink of Coil+Drift—a former dancer turned furniture and lighting maker—presented Home Unimprov at a Soho gallery. Bringing both sides of his work together, the show explored our bodily relationship to designed environments, combining live choreography and short films centered around a trio of conceptual chair designs.

Colony, Balance/Unbalance. [Photo: Alan Tansey]

Over at Colony, an independent design cooperative in Chinatown, founder and curator Jean Lin presented works by Fort Standard, Meg Callahan, Moving Mountains, and more, under the overarching theme of Balance/Imbalance, both physically and sensorially, through color, form, materiality, shape, and even sound. “Perfect balance is a lie, but magic can be found in the space between balance and imbalance,” says Lin, who last year organized a show around the theme of lightness, in response to the tumultuous and heavy American political landscape.

Kosmos Project, Future Illusions. [Photo: courtesy Kosmos Project]

At WantedDesign Manhattan, Polish design studio Kosmos Project presented Future Illusions, a collection of illustrative landscape rugs inspired by video games, complete with a participatory, choose-your-own-adventure element. The designs can be purchased as-is, or uniquely customized through a series of personality quiz-type questions that algorithmically generate a unique variation on a theme. The overall concept, the designers said, was to show both sides of the coin when it comes to big data–and ultimately make viewers more aware of their consequential choices.

The Principals + Ashley Olson [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

Toying with tech

While big consumer tech brands made a splashy arrival to Milan‘s traditionally furniture and interiors-focused design week last month—with high-profile activations from Google Home, to Sonos and even Instagram—in New York, technology found its way into design show with a decidedly more homegrown and experimental slant.

The Principals + Ashley Olson [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

At Sight Unseen’s highly curated satellite show of emerging talents, Drew Seskunas of The Principals teamed with musician Ashley Olsen to create a custom 3D printer. Sound waves of the singer’s voice were translated into physically rendered wax forms, which were then used to mold aluminum candlesticks—rigorously traversing from immaterial to material, it was an undeniably engaging experiment: call it design synesthesia. Hailing from Warsaw, UAU Project exhibited a more market-friendly approach to 3D-printed wares, with a colorful range of lights and small tabletop objects made from a reused corn byproduct. They were available for cash-and-carry, or, for a reduced price, as a digital file compatible with any desktop 3D printer.

Rich Brilliant Willing [Photo: courtesy Rich Brilliant Willing]

Darlings of the hospitality and contract market, lighting studio Rich Brilliant Willing wowed with a series of conceptual, working prototypes exploring the new formal possibilities of OLED technology and 3D-knit textiles. The team took a minimal, sculptural approach to thin, pliable strips of OLED, which read more like ambient surfaces or screens. Unlike traditional bulbs or LED diodes, partner Theo Richardson explained, OLEDs naturally emit soft, diffuse light—meaning no shade or additional element is required. Instead, the studio added its first experimentation with 3D-knit textiles into the mix, sheathing each of the OLED strips—molded and hanged to gently bend by the weight of its own heft—with translucent, graphic-patterned sleeves.

Design Within Reach, Hands at Work. [Photo: Charlie Schuck]

Not all young designers embraced new-fangled technology; some even eschewed it the name of mindfulness. At Hands to Work, the third edition of Furnishing Utopia, a now-annual group show sponsored by Design Within Reach, dozens of designers were commissioned to develop simple, useful items and tools with an intent to engage and transcend the tradition of Shaker design. The overall vibe was gleefully analog, as visitors were invited to engage in “sensory isolation,” and left to their devices in an all-white room containing only a tidy tray of gravel and an immaculately designed dustpan and brush. Among the wares displayed on the main exhibition floor: a wheeled planter by Jamie Wolfond, a basket bound with cable ties by Shigeki Fujishiro, and a wooden dish rack by Studio Tolvanen.

Hands to Work exhibit featuring @patkimpatkim Roomba cover that brings a new sense of life to robotic machines. Shot by @charlieschuck, styled by @natashafelker, creative direction by @ladiesandgentlemenstudio / also thanks to special support from @designwithinreach @norwaynewyork @_sightunseen_ / May 22 is the the last day to see the exhibit/ 158 Mercer, 9am-5pm #furnishingutopia #handstoworkexhibit #dwrxutopia

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All conveyed a cheerful attitude to hand labor and daily chores, with the exception of a tongue-in-cheek piece by designer Pat Kim: a handsome cherry wood casing for an automated Roomba vacuum, which amused visitors as it made the rounds and reminded us that not all labor is sacred.

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morganbelarus · 8 years ago

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NYCxDesign: Why all-female shows are popping up all over New York

New York (CNN)On the tails of Milan's massive design week in April, New York City's citywide festival of design, NYCxDesign -- which runs through May 24 -- kicked off with a spate of shows giving voice to female talent in an industry that remains notoriously male-dominated.

"I feel like this is happening a lot now. People are organizing themselves everywhere," said Hilda Hellstrm, a sculptor and co-founder of Den Nya Kvinnogruppen (The New Women's Group), an all-female artists' collective in her native Sweden.

A 'Room' of one's own

This month, Hellstrom is displaying her work, alongside 20 other women artists and designers, at "Room With Its Own Rules" (through July 15), the last in a series of four shows curated by Matylda Krzykowski at New York's Chamber gallery.

The prospect of organizing the final show centered on women artists and designers, Krzykowski says, rose from an undeniable sense of necessity.

"The goal is to influence and make people aware and consider the imbalances that still persist, but not forcefully," she said, noting that the rosters of many of the design world's top companies and galleries still comprise mostly men.

"We just have to give more space to women, and then naturally the space will be shared more democratically. In the end, we hold all the potential. It's just a matter of redistributing visibility."

While Krzykowski's first three installations were inspired by "Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?" -- a 1956 collage and commentary on postwar consumer culture by Richard Hamilton -- "Room With Its Own Rules" stems from Hamilton's 1992 update to that piece, in which an image of a male bodybuilder has been replaced by a woman of color.

It struck Krzykowski as a sort of "sociological report" and promise for progress in the creative world that has largely remained unfulfilled, and thus ripe for examination.

Diversity over protest

But If "Room With Its Own Rules" offers any statement about female creativity, Krzykowski suggests it is one that defies singularity, and instead imagines a post-patriarchal society in which an all-female show is neither necessary nor seen as progressive.

It's not a show of protest or empowerment, she says, but simply a show featuring "21 different women, with 21 different narratives," an international, multi-generational portrait of creativity in a given time.

Still, Kryzkowski's heady approach begs the question: How have women moved forward in the design world, and what challenges remain?

"I would prefer if we didn't need to have all-female shows, but I will be a part of them until we don't need to have them anymore," said artist Katie Stout, who created an oversize, pink fiberglass-and-resin table, cheekily titled the "Executive Wage Gap Desk," for the installation.

"I feel very lucky that I get to do what I want to do," she adds.

In the last year alone, Stout has shown globally at fairs including Design Miami and the Venice Biennale.

"Of course there are challenges, and sometimes it's hard to know if things are harder because I'm a woman. Obviously, I'm unaware of opportunities I haven't been given because I wasn't given them, but sometimes I do wonder about that."

An unstoppable force

Designer Lindsey Adelman, who has achieved a level of renown both Stateside and abroad with her sculptural, bauble fixtures, says she can't recall an occasion in which she's exhibited in a show without men, but welcomes the rising momentum in the city.

"It's a force that's unstoppable," said Adelman. "Now that we all know who each other are -- a lot of us have followed one another's work, but hadn't met -- we know that the other women are out there, each doing their thing. It gives you so much confidence."

For others, such as Johanna Grawunder -- an architect-designer who worked with Italian master Ettore Sottsass for a number of years -- all-female shows have not always provided an apt venue for empowerment.

"I've never wanted to do all-women shows because it almost felt like being placed in a ghetto. It never felt like an honor, but more of a sideline," she said.

However, she feels optimistic by the strain of feminism presented by Krzykowski and younger generations: "When Matylda wrote me, her approach about so much more than just being a woman. In fact, I didn't even realize it was an all-female show until quite a ways into it."

Egg Collective

Downtown at its Soho showroom, the independent design studio Egg Collective presents another stellar show of works by an entirely female cast.

"Designing Women" (through May 26) features works by 16 New York-based female artists and designers, including fiber pieces by Dana Barnes, hanging tassel pendants by lighting designer Bec Brittain, and a rust velvet chaise by Syrette Lew of Moving Mountains.

Twenty percent of sales from each piece will benefit Girls Inc., a nonprofit whose mission advocates gender equality and increased opportunities for women.

"It's hard when we have someone leading our country who is able to normalize talk about women that shouldn't be normalized," said Egg Collective co-founder Hillary Petrie, who was inspired to organize the exhibition after the Women's Marches that followed President Trump's inauguration.

"It almost feels like we're being pushed back, and we don't want that to happen. There's also a need to redefine the language and not be put into a box of feminist design, or having to say 'This is done by a female.' In fact, it's just design."

A number of museum exhibitions are also underlining a spectrum of female creativity.

At the Museum of Modern Art, "Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction" spotlights female artists from the midcentury.

Uptown, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum -- itself founded by women -- proudly displays a gallery of permanent-collection works guest-curated by comedian and design devotee Ellen DeGeneres.

At the Brooklyn Museum, "A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum" commemorates the 10th anniversary of its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art with a year-long series of shows, including a monographic presentation on painter Georgia O'Keefe (through July 23).

Call it political synergy, or a collective clapback to the polarizing political administration, but one thing is for certain: All is not well in the state of current American politics, and New York's creative community is standing up to support underrepresented voices in art and design.

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Discover the 2020 Launch Pad Design Studios, Presented by WantedDesign Manhattan

Although this year’s WantedDesign Manhattan festivities are cancelled, we are still going to celebrate design and the design studios that made it onto our radar from this year’s Launch Pad participants!

If you don’t know what Launch Pad is, it’s an international platform presented by WantedDesign and Design Milk that gives emerging designers the opportunity to introduce new concepts and showcase prototypes of furniture, home accessories, and lighting to NYCxDESIGN’s audience. Every year, there are two winners, one selected for the Furniture/Home Accessories category and one for the Lighting category. In its 8th year, Launch Pad has nearly doubled to include 51 international, emerging designers and design brands exhibiting. Participants hail from the 11 countries of Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, Uruguay and the US. New in 2020 is a program in which WantedDesign will send select designers from the US to exhibit at Design Week Mexico later in the year. The symbiotic exchange continues to fuel the ongoing growth of the design industry’s international community.

Without further ado, here are this year’s Best of Launch Pad winners, as well as a selection of design studios and independent designers who participated. See here for the full list.

Best of Launch Pad 2019, Furniture/Home Accessories: Design Machin

Best of Launch Pad 2019, Lighting: Studio Sunny Kim

Inedito Winner 2019 for Design Week Mexico: Platalea Studio

Cody James Norman

Desz Studio

Jaeyeon Park

Kai Ming Yang

Karyn Lim

Li Chen

Lucy Wang

Metisse Maison

MUAR Diseño

Studio Lizan Freijsen

Studio Wood

UME

Wudo Studio

Zihe Gong

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curatorialista · 5 years ago

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Corona Virus Times in 5 Lines (and more)

There’s a virus with weird DNA It has us all staying away Coronavirus Highly contagious Not funny, but we’re shut in all day.

We’ve been hit by a pandemic of historical proportions that’s changed our culture and our lives. It’s changed everything: art, families, people, time, and the way we think.

Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, last December, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has upended numerous cities and countries across the globe. Among the various sectors that have been heavily affected is the art world—an industry fueled by perpetual itinerancy as well as social gatherings of mass scale and close proximity. As the public health crisis escalates, art organizations have shut down events, have announced postponements, or are carefully trying to trudge forward. Here is a continually refreshed list of major events and institutions that have made such decisions due to the virus, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic:

[Last updated at 2:52 PM on March 23]

CANCELED EVENTS

Metropolitan Opera House, New York: The theater has canceled the rest of its 2020 season.

Frieze New York: The fair has canceled its ninth edition, which was originally scheduled for May 6–10. The satellite event Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center will still be held but will be moved to the summer.

Park Avenue Armory, New York: All performances of Deep Blue Sea, originally scheduled to run April 14–25, have been canceled.

Cleveland International Film Festival: Originally scheduled for March 25–April 5. The event will be back next year.

Brooklyn Academy of Live Music, New York: All live programming has been suspended through March 29.

Lincoln Center, New York: All programming has been suspended for the month of March.

LA Art Book Fair: Originally scheduled for April 3–April 5.

TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands: Originally scheduled for March 7–March 15. The fair opened as planned but called off the event on March 11 after an exhibitor tested positive for the virus.

South by Southwest, Austin, Texas: The thirty-fourth annual festival was originally scheduled for March 13–March 22.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC: All events have been canceled through the end of March.

Yale Architecture: The school announced on March 11 that it is suspending all events and programming through at least April 5.

London Book Fair: Originally scheduled for March 10–March 12.

Salon du Livre Paris 2020: Originally scheduled for March 20–March 23.

Tucson Festival of Books, Arizona: Originally scheduled for March 14–March 15.

Jingart, Beijing: Originally scheduled for May 21–May 24.

Art Central Hong Kong: Originally scheduled for March 18–March 22.

Art Basel Hong Kong: Originally scheduled for March 19–March 21.

RESCHEDULED EVENTS

Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2): Originally scheduled for May 16–October 11, the exhibition has been postponed.

Biennale de Sydney: The twenty-second edition of the exhibition, which opened on March 14, has closed. Organizers are teaming up with Google to launch a virtual edition of the biennial for the public, which will remain live until the physical exhibition is able to reopen.

Manifesta 13, Marseille: The biennial which was set to open on June 7 has been indefinitely postponed. Organizers have also closed the event’s two project spaces in Marseille—Espace Manifesta 13 at 42 La Canebière and Tiers QG at 57 rue Bernard du Bois—until at least April 15 and closed the show at its headquarters in Amsterdam until further notice.

TEFAF New York: Originally scheduled for May 8–11, the fair will now take place October 31–November 4, with a preview day on October 30.

Cannes Film Festival, France: Originally scheduled for May 12–May 23, the festival will announce new dates in the coming weeks.

sonsbeek 20→24, Arnhem, the Netherlands: Originally scheduled for June 5–September 13, the twelfth edition of sonsbeek will now be held in 2021.

1-54 New York: Originally scheduled for May 8–10, the fair will now take place in 2021.

Photo London: Originally scheduled for May 14–17, the fair will be held in the fall.

Object & Thing, New York: Originally scheduled for May 7–10, the fair has been moved to November 13–15.

MIA Photo Fair, Milan: Originally scheduled for March 19–22, the fair will now be held September 10–September 13.

Art on theMART, Chicago: The fair’s spring launch has been postponed.

Glasgow International: Originally scheduled for April 24–May 10. The visual arts festival will be restaged in 2021.

NYCxDESIGN: The May festival will instead present programming in October.

Sotheby’s: The auction house has closed its auction houses in Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Milan, New York, Paris, and Zurich until further notice and has announced changes in its spring sales schedule.

The Met Gala: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has indefinitely postponed its biggest annual fundraiser. The event, which is one of New York’s biggest annual fashion events, was supposed to take place on May 4.

Christie’s, New York and Europe: The auction house has postponed sales scheduled for March and April. New dates have yet to be determined.

Phillips: The auction house has postponed all of its sales and events globally until May.

Art Brussels: Originally scheduled for April 23–April 26. The fair will now take place June 25–June 28.

SP–Arte, São Paulo: Originally scheduled for April 1–April 5. New dates have yet to be announced.

Affordable Art Fair, Brussels: Originally scheduled for March 20–March 22. New dates have yet to be announced.

Affordable Art Fair, New York: Originally scheduled for March 26–March 29. New dates have yet to be announced.

Eye of the Collector, London: Originally scheduled for May 13–May 16. The inaugural fair will be staged September 8–September 11.

Dallas Art Fair: Originally scheduled for April 16–April 19. The fair has been moved to October 1–October 4.

ART COLOGNE: Originally scheduled for April 23–April 26. The fair will now be held November 19–November 22.

Paris Photo New York: Originally scheduled for April 2–April 5. New dates to be announced.

Sharjah Art Foundation’s 2020 March Meeting, UAE: Originally scheduled for March 21–March 23. The event will be postponed until further notice.

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, California: Originally scheduled for April 10–April 12 and April 17–April 19. The festival will now take place October 9–October 11 and October 16–October 18.

DRAWING NOW Art Fair, Paris: Originally scheduled for March 26–March 29. The fair has been moved to May 29 through June 1.

Berlin Gallery Weekend: Organizers have downsized the event, which is scheduled for May 1–May 3, and have moved large-scale programming to September 11–September 13, coinciding with Berlin Art Week.

The Photography Show and the Video Show, Birmingham, UK: Originally scheduled for March 14–March 17. The event will now be held September 19–September 22.

MiArt, Milan: Originally scheduled for April 17–April 19. The fair will now take place September 11–September 13, with a VIP preview day on September 10.

Málaga Film Festival: Originally scheduled for March 13–March 22. The twenty-third edition of the festival has yet to announce new dates.

Art Paris: Originally scheduled for April 2–April 5. The fair has been moved to May 28–May 31.

Venice Architecture Biennale: The opening of the seventeenth edition of the biennial has been pushed back three months; the event will now kick off on August 29 and run until November 29.

Art Dubai: Originally scheduled for March 25–March 28. New dates to be announced.

Lille Art Up!, France: Originally scheduled for March 5–March 8. It will now take place June 25–June 28.

Salon del Mobile, Milan: Originally scheduled for April 21–April 26. The exhibition has been moved to June 16–June 21.

Gallery Weekend Beijing: Originally scheduled to take place from March 13–March 20. The event will announce whether it will cancel this year’s edition or reschedule it on March 15.

Design Shanghai Fair: Originally scheduled for March 12–March 15. The fair will now be held May 26–May 29.

CAFAM Techne Triennial, Beijing: Originally supposed to begin on January 18, the inaugural edition has been suspended.

UNITED STATES: TEMPORARY MUSEUM AND GALLERY CLOSURES

NORTHEAST

Albright-Knox Northland, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. American Folk Art Museum, New York: Closed March 13–March 31. Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York: Closed March 14–March 24. Artists Space, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Brooklyn Museum, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: Closed for a minimum of fourteen days, beginning March 14. Casey Kaplan, New York: Closed until further notice. Center for Italian Modern Art, New York: Closed March 13–March 31. Chart, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. The Clark, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Closed until at least April 1. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire: Closed March 16–April 3. David Zwirner, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Dia Art Foundation, New York: Closed March 13–31. The Drawing Center, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York: Closed March 14–March 22. El Museo del Barrio, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine: Closed through April 5. The Frick Collection, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 12. Gagosian, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Grey Art Gallery at New York University: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Hauser & Wirth, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. The gallery will receive visitors by appointment only. The High Line, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. International Center of Photography, New York: Closed for at least two weeks, beginning March 13; the ICP’s school will close on March 15 and its classes will be moved online as of March 16. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston: Closed for a minimum of fourteen days, beginning March 13. Japan Society, New York: Closed March 13–March 31. Jewish Museum, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Judd Foundation, New York: Closed for a minimum of four weeks, beginning March 13. Kasmin, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Lehmann Maupin, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Lesley Heller Gallery, New York: Open by appointment only, beginning Sunday, March 15. Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire: On March 13, the residency program announced that current artists-in-residence will be assisted with early departures and no new fellows would arrive until the “danger of virus transmission is contained.” Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York: Closed March 12–March 26. Mana Contemporary, Jersey City: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams: Closed through March 31. MassArt Art Museum, Boston: Closed March 12–March 24. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York: Open by appointment only, beginning Sunday, March 15. Michael Werner Gallery, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Morgan Library and Museum, New York: Closed March 13–March 30. Museum of Arts and Design, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Museum of the City of New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Closed for a minimum of thirty days, beginning March 13. Museum of the Moving Image, New York: Closed March 14–March 29. Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and MoMA Design Stores, New York: Closed March 13–March 30. Nassau County Museum of Art, New York: Closed until further notice. Neue Galerie, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 12. New Museum, New York: Closed for a minimum of two weeks, beginning March 13. New York Historical Society Museum and Library: Closed March 13–March 31. Noguchi Museum, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 12. Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Closed from March 13 until at least April 1. Pace Gallery, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Perrotin, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Peter Blum Gallery, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Closed March 13–March 30. Pioneer Works, New York: Closed March 14–March 31. Portland Museum of Art, Maine: Closed through April 13. Queens Museum, New York: Closed March 13–March 20. Rhode Island School of Design Museum: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Rubin Museum of Art, New York: Closed March 13–March 31. SculptureCenter, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 12. signs and symbols, New York: Open by appointment only, beginning Sunday, March 15. The Shed, New York: Closed March 12–March 30. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Studio Museum in Harlem, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Swiss Institute, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Van Doren Waxter, New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Closed, beginning at 5 PM on March 13, for a minimum of fourteen days. The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut: Closed until further notice, beginning March 12. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut: Closed March 13–April 15.

MIDWEST

Akron Art Museum, Ohio: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Art Institute of Chicago: Closed March 14–March 27. Chicago Architecture Center: Closed March 14–March 31. Children’s Museum of Cleveland: Closed through April 5. Cincinnati Art Museum: Closed March 13–April 3. Cleveland Museum of Art: Closed March 13–March 30. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati: Closed March 13–April 3. Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Detroit Institute of Arts: Closed March 13–April 5. DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago: Closed until March 31. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Intuit: The Center For Intuitive And Outsider Art, Chicago: Closed March 15–March 31. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha: Closed March 16–April 6. Mana Contemporary, Chicago: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Closed March 13–March 29. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland: Closed March 16–April 6. Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago: Closed March 14–April 8. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri: Closed through April 3. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington: Closed until further notice. Smart Museum, Chicago: Closed March 15–March 30. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati: Closed March 13–April 3. The Arts Club of Chicago: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. The Renaissance Society, Chicago: Closed until further notice, beginning March 15. Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio: Closed March 15–April 3. Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Closed March 12–March 31. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Wexner Art Center at Ohio State University: Closed March 13–April 6.

SOUTH

Arkansas Arts Center, Riverdale: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Ballroom Marfa, Texas: Closed March 12–March 31. The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama: Closed until further notice. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Closed March 15–March 31. Chinati, Marfa, Texas: Closed March 12–March 24. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia: Closed March 14–March 29. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas: Closed March 16–March 31. Dallas Contemporary, Texas: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Denver Art Museum: Closed March 14–March 31. Frist Art Museum, Nashville: Closed March 16–March 31. The Gallery at University of Texas at Arlington: Closed until March 22. Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia: Closed until further notice, beginning March 17. Greater Reston Arts Center, Virginia: Closed March 13–March 16. High Museum, Atlanta: Closed until further notice, beginning March 12. Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond: Closed March 14–April 1. Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas: Closed for a minimum of four weeks, beginning March 13. Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Mana Contemporary, Miami: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami: Closed until further notice. Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia, Virginia Beach: Closed March 15–April 1. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: Closed March 14–April 4. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC: Closed March 14–31. New Orleans Museum of Art: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Oolite Arts, Miami Beach: Closed March 13–April 1. Pérez Art Museum Miami: Closed until further notice, beginning March 16. Salvador Dalí Museum, Saint Petersburg, Florida: Closed until March 31. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and New York: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Speed Art Museum, Louisville: Closed through March 31. Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia: Closed until March 31. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: Closed March 14–March 27. The Wolfsonian at Florida International University, Miami Beach: Closed unitl further notice.

WEST

Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles: Closed March 12–March 31. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: Closed March 14–March 27. Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California: Closed March 17–March 31. The Broad, Los Angeles: Closed March 13–March 31. Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Seattle: Closed March 12–March 31. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Frye Art Museum, Seattle: Closed March 12–March 31. The Getty Center and Villa, Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. The gallery will receive visitors by appointment only. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Greater Los Angeles: Indoor spaces closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. MoPOP, Seattle: Closed until further notice, beginning March 12. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California: Closed until further notice, beginning March 15. Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California: Closed until April 28. Oakland Museum of California: Closed March 13–March 27. Palm Springs Art Museum, California: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, California: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. Portland Art Museum and Northwest Film Center, Portland, Oregon: Closed March 14–March 31. Roberts Projects, Los Angeles: Closed until further notice, beginning March 13. San Diego Museum of Art, California: Closed until further notice, beginning March 14. Seattle Art Museum and Asian Art Museum: Closed March 13–March 31. SFMoMA, San Francisco: Closed until March 28. Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles: Closed March 14–May 3. Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, California: Closed through April 5. USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California: Closed March 16–April 14. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City: Closed March 13–March 27.

GLOBAL UPDATES:

[List includes countries with the highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19]

Austria - All federal public museums have been closed and will remain shuttered until the end of March. The grand opening of the new Albertina Modern has also been postponed. As of March 11, the country has decided to close schools until April and has implemented border checks—travelers from Italy, the epicenter of the virus in Europe, will not be permitted to enter Austria. On Tuesday, the government banned gatherings of one hundred people or more.

[Update:] On Sunday, March 15, the government banned gatherings of more than five people. Restaurants have closed, and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is urging people to self-isolate. Parliament will meet in Vienna to vote on a $4.4 billion financial package.

Belgium - On Thursday, March 12, the federal government ordered the closure of schools, cafes, and restaurants and urged businesses and shops to reduce their hours in response to the coronavirus. Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes stressed that the country is not under lockdown—as of March 16 it reported that the number of coronavirus cases surpassed 1,000. The country’s culture ministry suspended all cultural activities that were scheduled to take place between March 14 and April 3. Among the institutions that have closed are the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, where the blockbuster exhibition “Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution,” billed as the largest exhibition ever dedicated to the Flemish Old Master, was on view; the Magritte Museum in Brussels; and S.M.A.K., Ghent’s municipal museum of contemporary art.

Canada - As of Wednesday, March 11, Canada reported having just over one hundred cases of the coronavirus. The majority of those who tested positive recently traveled to countries with outbreaks. Art Vancouver currently plans to stay on schedule, running from April 16 to April 19. The contemporary art fair welcomes approximately ten thousand people each year from around the world.

[Update:] As of March 16, Canada has 370 presumptive and confirmed cases and is closing its borders to most non-citizens. On Sunday, March 15, Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, urged Canadians to “act now and act together.”

China - While the spread of the coronavirus in China has slowed—the country still has more than eighty thousand confirmed cases—it is now concerned about the possibility of sparking a new wave of infections from Chinese nationals returning from trips abroad and foreigners traveling to the country. Arts institutions across the mainland remain closed, but many have committed their resources to opening online viewing rooms and launching digital exhibitions such as the M Woods Museum in Beijing, which has staged the online show “Art Is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum.” Curated by artistic director and chief curator Victor Wang, the show is a long-term visual project that will allow visitors to virtually visit both of its locations over the course of several weeks. According to The Guardian, experts are worried that the state, which has increased mass surveillance in an attempt to contain COVID-19, will not reduce the heightened government scrutiny once the number of cases starts to fall.

[Update:] The number of infectees in China has slowed. While the number of cases is more than 80,860, as of March 16, only sixteen new cases were reported. Some museums in the country have tentatively begun reopening. The government is now trying to roll out relief measures to counter the virus’s devastating impact on the economy.

Hong Kong - After months of political unrest due to the continuous, large-scale anti-extradition and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, the demonstrators were forced to curb their activism following COVID-19’s arrival in the region. The virus led to one of the first major cancelations when Art Basel Hong Kong pulled the plug on its 2020 edition. Earlier today, the fair announced the participants in its new Online Viewing Rooms, which will be live from March 20 to March 25. Hong Kong’s public museums have been shuttered since January 29, the same week that China was initiating a lockdown in Wuhan. Sotheby’s has since relocated its modern and contemporary auctions in Hong Kong to New York; they will take place in April.

France - The country, which has the second highest number of cases in Europe after Italy, is preparing for that number to continue to climb. Gatherings of more than one thousand people have been prohibited. The outbreak, which reached parliament, has also affected French Culture Minister Franck Riester, who tested positive for the virus on Monday, March 9. While fears of the coronavirus shuttered the Louvre for three days, the institution reopened last week after addressing the staff’s safety concerns. It is now going cashless and restricting entry to online ticket holders. Other major museums are still welcoming people but have capped the number of visitors; the Paris Philharmonie, the largest classical music venue in France, has canceled all upcoming events; and the Paris Opera, which suspended a series of ballets and other performances, is intending to continue to operate by filming programming behind closed doors. Madonna also announced that she has called off the last two dates of her “Madame X” tour. The Cannes Film Festival’s president, Pierre Lescure, said that the festival, which is supposed to take place from May 12 to May 23, will go on as planned. “We remain reasonably optimistic in the hope that the peak of the epidemic will be reached at the end of March and that we will breathe a little better in April,” he told Le Figaro.

[Update:] On March 13, the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay closed their doors to the public until further notice. The announcements followed new restrictions on public gatherings implemented by the Ministry of Culture. As of Friday, all museums and libraries cannot have more than one hundred people in attendance. Those who have already purchased tickets to the Louvre will be reimbursed.

Germany - All cultural institutions in Berlin—including the Berlinische Galerie, the State Museums of Berlin, and the Volksbühne—will shut down on Friday, March 13, and will remain closed until at least April 19. Art Cologne, which was slated to kick off in the third week of April has been pushed back to November. As of Thursday, the cases in Germany have surpassed two thousand. The German culture minister, Monika Grütters, has pledged financial assistance to arts museums and organizations as well as to artists and arts professionals. “It’s clear to me that the situation is a massive burden for the cultural and creative sectors and that small institutions and freelance artists could face considerable distress,” Grütters said in a statement. “I won’t leave you in the lurch!”

Iran - Of all the countries in the Middle East, Iran has been hit the hardest by COVID-19, with over nine thousand confirmed cases—a number surpassed only in China. On March 12, the Iranian minister of cultural heritage, handicrafts, and tourism, Ali-Asghar Mounesan, ordered that all museums be shut down during the country’s new year Nowruz festivals, which begin on March 20 and last a couple of weeks. Museum hours will be severely restricted before then.

Italy - The country currently has the largest number of cases in all of Europe, with more than twelve thousand cases as of Thursday, March 12. The Italian government made an unprecedented decision on Monday, March 9, to restrict the movement of sixty million people. Nearly all commercial activity throughout the country has come to a halt—supermarkets and pharmacies remain open—bringing the economy to a near standstill. Major museums and historic sites, including the Colosseum, the Vatican Museums, the Galleria Borghese, the Uffizi, the Fondazione Prada, the Pirelli HangarBicocca, the Palazzo Grassi, and the Punta della Doganaare, are closed. According to the Washington Post, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, “Right now the whole world is looking at us.” He is telling Italians to leave their homes “only when strictly necessary.”

Japan - All Japanese museums are closed until March 17. The crisis reached the archipelago last month and continues to deepen, with over six hundred confirmed infectees. While it’s business as usual for many Tokyo galleries (including Perrotin, whose Jean-Michel Othoniel show will remain on schedule), Blum & Poe’s Tokyo outpost decided to postpone its Asuka Anastacia Ogawa and Kenny Schachter openings. “Masterpieces From the National Gallery” at the National Museum of Western Art has been delayed until further notice. Whether the capital will still host July’s Summer Olympics—a potential boon to the country’s now-devastated economy—remains uncertain, but plans have not changed yet.

Netherlands - In a sudden turnabout, organizers of the annual Dutch TEFAF fair in Maastricht announced on March 11 that it would shut down the event, which commenced on March 7 and was expected to run through March 15. The decision arrived after organizers of the fair—a premier showcase for works by Old Masters and a pillar of the local economy—learned that an exhibitor had tested positive for COVID-19. On March 12, the country called a ban on gatherings of over one hundred people, and Amsterdam museums, including the Rijksmuseum National Gallery and the Van Gogh Museum, decided to close.

South Korea - South Korea is testing more people for COVID-19 per capita than any other country. Although Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) reported a decline in the number of new coronavirus infections in recent days, galleries and museums, including the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the National Museum of Korea, remain closed until further notice.

Spain - Major museums—including the Museo del Prado, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza—in Madrid, where the country’s coronavirus is concentrated, are closed indefinitely. Other cultural destinations, including La Sagrada Familia, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Picasso Museum, and Fundació Joan Miró, in Barcelona are still open. The city’s Park Güell, the Antoni Gaudí–designed public park, which draws an average of fourteen thousand visitors a day, is also still open. Contemporary art institutions elsewhere, including Guggenheim Bilbao, are still open and are monitoring the outbreak.

United Arab Emirates - Earlier this month, Art Dubai organizers announced that the international fair would no longer be held from March 25 to March 28; new dates haven’t been decided yet. The fair averages around twenty-eight thousand visitors from around the world each year and will now be downsized to a localized program of yet-to-be-decided talks, shows, and events. Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March Meeting will probably not occur in March; organizers said it would reschedule its March 21–March 23 dates. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is still open, despite the UAE’s advisory against large crowds. The Middle East currently has over ten thousand confirmed cases of COVID-19, most of them in Iran.

United Kingdom - As of March 12, the BBC reports 596 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the UK. However, unlike in many other affected areas across Europe, major institutions, including the National Gallery, the British Museum, the ICA London, and the Tate Museums, will remain open as usual until government guidelines advise otherwise. The Art Newspaperreported on Thursday that one member of the Tate Modern staff is in self-quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19. A Tate spokeswoman told the publication that the employee does “not work in a front-of-house role” and that “all areas with which they have come into contact have been deep cleaned.” The Photography Show and the Video Show in Birmingham, originally slated to run from March 14 to March 17, has been postponed until September 2020 (exact dates TBA). At the time of writing, Masterpiece London is slated to go ahead as scheduled from June 25 to July 1.

[Update:] After facing criticism for not reacting quick enough to get in front of the coronavirus, as of Monday, March 16, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for everyone to work from home and to avoid restaurants and pubs. Museums and galleries are also beginning to close, including the South London Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, which are both shuttered until further notice, as well as David Zwirner’s, Gagosian’s, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac’s, Hauser & Wirth’s, Pace’s, and Sprüth Magers’s London outposts. On Tuesday, March 17, the Tate announced that all of its galleries are now closed and will be shut down until at least May 1. The announcement was followed by the closure of the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

United States - On Wednesday, March 11, President Donald Trump announced a thirty-day suspension of travel to Europe (with the exception of the UK). The ban, which goes into effect on Friday, March 13, has sent citizens abroad scrambling to book return flights. As of March 12, COVID-19 has sickened more than one thousand people in the US, and thirty-three people have died. Congress is expected to vote on a sweeping spending aid package on Thursday that will establish a national paid leave program, expand food assistance, and offer free testing for the virus. As of this afternoon, a series of institutions have announced temporary closures, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Shed, the Solomon R. Guggenheim, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Harvard Art Museums, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.

[Update:] As of March 16, most major museums nationwide—including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art—have shuttered for either a period of two weeks or until further notice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the national public health institute of the United States, has recommended all public gatherings be capped at fifty people for the next eight weeks. More than 3,700 people were confirmed to have COVID-19 at the time of publication, and the death toll has risen to sixty-nine people.

Combating the Coronavirus at Home:

The CDC advises household members to prepare for a coronavirus outbreak in their communities. Among the steps that should be taken are creating a list of nearby aid organizations, making an emergency contact list, inquiring about workplace action plans, preparing for temporary closures of schools or childcare facilities, and educating one’s family on preventative measures.

As of now, the CDC states that the best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to the virus, which is spread mainly from person to person, and recommends social distancing. It also urges people to disinfect their homes and to wash their hands with soap and water for at least twenty seconds after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing; before eating; and after visiting a public space. If soap and water are not readily available, hand sanitizer with 60 percent or more alcohol can be used as a substitute. If you are sick, stay home and do not go out unless it is to seek medical care. Since face masks are currently in short supply, the CDC says that only caregivers and people who are already ill need masks.

To learn more about what preventive measures you can take, you can visit the CDC’s website here.

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