Socrates Sculpture Park

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Socrates Sculpture Park
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Socrates Sculpture Park is an outdoor museum and public park where artists can create and exhibit sculptures and multi-media installations. It is located one block from the Noguchi Museum at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, New York City. In addition to exhibition space, the park offers an arts education program, artist residency program, and job training.

History and description

Socrates Sculpture Park is located atop the mouth of the buried

Rudolph Giuliani as a permanent city park after a developer attempted to erect luxury apartments and a marina on the site after the park's lease had expired.[3]

In 2005, the park was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the

Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.[4][5]

Socrates Sculpture Park Broadway Billboard 2012

At the Socrates Sculpture Park's main entrance hangs a 10-by-28-foot (3.0 by 8.5 m) billboard structure that has been an ongoing installation since 1999. The original billboard was a mirror image of the street created by artist Mathieu Borysevicz built by ongoing volunteer Ross H. Radtke, a mechanical engineer and neighbour.

New billboards are installed once or twice per year. Artists work with printmaking and photography to create an image that greets visitors as they enter the park and sets the tone for the current show. The billboards are in conjunction with each spring exhibition.[6] The park has numerous workshops and public programming. Many artists lead tour programs of current exhibitions, there are summer art projects, and various free public events, such as yoga and capoeira on Saturdays and outdoor movie screenings on Wednesdays that begin in mid-July and end in mid-August.[7] GrowNYC runs an Astoria Farmer's Market in the park every Saturday during the summer months.[8]

In January 2019, the Park announced its plan to construct and install permanent staff offices made out of shipping containers. This would be the park's first permanent on-site structure.[9]

Artists who have exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park

Socrates Sculpture Park offers emerging and established artists an opportunity to make a temporary or permanent public sculpture in a New York City park.[10] In 2018, Virginia Overton became the first female artist to have a solo exhibition at the Socrates Sculpture Park.[11] Other artists who have shown work at Socrates Sculpture Park include:

Governance

The current executive director of the park is John Hatfield, former deputy director of the

New Museum of Contemporary Art.[15] Some former executive directors of the park include Alyson Baker (2000–2011),[16] Kathleen Gilrain (1995–2000),[17] and Eve Sussman (1993- ).[18]

Board of directors [19]

See also

  • Landfill in the United States

References

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  2. ^ McGill, Douglas C. (August 27, 1986). "A Sculpture Park Grows in Queens". The New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Martin, Douglas (December 6, 1998). "Queens Sculpture Garden Is Made a Permanent Park". The New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  4. ^ Roberts, Sam (July 6, 2005). "City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  5. ^ "Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces Twenty Million Dollars in New York City Grants" (Press release). Carnegie Corporation of New York. July 5, 2005. Archived from the original on March 10, 2008.
  6. ^ ""Broadway Billboard". Socrates Sculpture Park. Archived from the original on May 22, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  7. ^ "Lonely Planet Socrates Sculpture Park". Lonely Planet. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  8. ^ "Green Market at Socrates Sculpture Park". Boro Magazine. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  9. ^ Sackman, Meghan (January 16, 2019). "Plans for Staff Offices at Socrates Sculpture Park, Made of Shipping Containers, Move Forward". astoriapost.com. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  10. ^ "Exhibitions". socratessculpturepark.org. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  11. ^ Franklin, Sydney (July 11, 2018). "Virginia Overton's site-specific work at Socrates Sculpture Park rethinks raw construction materials". archpaper.com. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  12. ^ "Maren Hassinger". socratessculpturepark.org. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  13. ^ "Planeta Abuelx". socratessculpturepark.org. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  14. ^ "Ebb of a Spring Tide". socratessculpturepark.org. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Socrates Sculpture Park appoints New Museum's John Hatfield as new Director". artdaily.org. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  16. ^ "Alyson Baker named ninth Director". e-flux. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  17. ^ "Smack Mellon Staff". Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  18. ^ Kimmelman, Michael (August 6, 1993). "Outdoor Sculpture in Review". The New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  19. ^ "Board". Retrieved July 11, 2019.

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