Upcoming Events at American Folk Art Museum
Fri Apr 26, 11:30 AM - Fri Apr 26, 7:30 PM
2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023
Community: Upper West Side
Description
This spring, celebrate your city at the American Folk Art Museum. Join us for a five-part series celebrating the contributions, communities, histories, cultures, music, and food of each of New York City’s five boroughs.
Event Details
This multi-day festival is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art (March 15–July 28, 2019).
This series is free and open to all.
Queens Day Activities:
1 pm New Perspectives with Teaching Fellows tour
3 pm Gallery Talk with James and Karla Murray, architectural & interior photographers, authors & artists
5:30 pm Free Music Fridays featuring Queens-based musicians
In addition to the activities at Lincoln Square, there will be a tour of the exhibition New York Experienced at the Self-Taught Genius Gallery, 47-29 32nd Place, Long Island City, Queens, at 11 am.
James and Karla Murray are husband-and-wife architectural and interior photographers, authors, and multi-media artists based in New York City. For the past twenty-five years, they have focused their lens on the streetscape through portraits of storefronts and shop owners, and have strived to capture moments of city life that often go undocumented but capture the spirit, energy, and cultural diversity of individual neighborhoods. They made it their mission to thoroughly document unique “mom-and-pop” stores when they began to notice the alarming rate at which the shops were disappearing. Their critically acclaimed books include Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York (2009), Broken Windows: Graffiti NYC (2009), New York Nights (2012), and Store Front II: A History Preserved (2015). The authors’ landmark 2009 book, Store Front, was cited in Bookforum’s December/January 2015 issue as one of the “Exemplary Art Books from the Past Two Decades” and heralded as “One of the period’s most successful New York books.” New York Nights was the winner of the prestigious New York Society Library’s 2012 New York City Book Award.
James and Karla Murray’s work has been exhibited widely in major institutions and galleries, including solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Clic Gallery in New York City, The Storefront Project Gallery in New York City, and Fotogalerie Im Blauen Haus in Muni
This series is free and open to all.
Queens Day Activities:
1 pm New Perspectives with Teaching Fellows tour
3 pm Gallery Talk with James and Karla Murray, architectural & interior photographers, authors & artists
5:30 pm Free Music Fridays featuring Queens-based musicians
In addition to the activities at Lincoln Square, there will be a tour of the exhibition New York Experienced at the Self-Taught Genius Gallery, 47-29 32nd Place, Long Island City, Queens, at 11 am.
James and Karla Murray are husband-and-wife architectural and interior photographers, authors, and multi-media artists based in New York City. For the past twenty-five years, they have focused their lens on the streetscape through portraits of storefronts and shop owners, and have strived to capture moments of city life that often go undocumented but capture the spirit, energy, and cultural diversity of individual neighborhoods. They made it their mission to thoroughly document unique “mom-and-pop” stores when they began to notice the alarming rate at which the shops were disappearing. Their critically acclaimed books include Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York (2009), Broken Windows: Graffiti NYC (2009), New York Nights (2012), and Store Front II: A History Preserved (2015). The authors’ landmark 2009 book, Store Front, was cited in Bookforum’s December/January 2015 issue as one of the “Exemplary Art Books from the Past Two Decades” and heralded as “One of the period’s most successful New York books.” New York Nights was the winner of the prestigious New York Society Library’s 2012 New York City Book Award.
James and Karla Murray’s work has been exhibited widely in major institutions and galleries, including solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Clic Gallery in New York City, The Storefront Project Gallery in New York City, and Fotogalerie Im Blauen Haus in Muni
