Second Sundays Archive

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View our archive of past Second Sundays programs.

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Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer
Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 3:00pm

Given the frequent headlines about global warming, how can we make sense of this often overwhelming information and make a difference?  

 

Answers may lie in concerted, conscious collaboration between artists and scientists that joins hard science with interpretive media. Civic Action artist Mary Miss and leading scientist Eric Sanderson discuss how interpretive media and collaboration between artists and scientists can help us to better understand and respond to global warming.  Moderated by playwright Jeremy Pickard.

 

Presented in collaboration with PositiveFeedback, an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University; the Center for Creative Research at NYU; and the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities. 

 

 

Photo:  Urania Mylonas

Artists Town Hall
Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 3:00pm

As a complement to Civic Action: AVision for Long Island City, four artist team leaders or participating members of their teams will share their ideas and visions for the future of Long Island City.  Audience will have an opportunity to address artists.  Moderated by Guest Curator, Amy Smith-Stewart.

 

For more about the exhibition Civic Action, click here.

Curator's Tour of Special Exhibition with Amy Smith-Stewart
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 3:00pm

Guest Curator Amy Smith-Stewart will lead a tour of Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City and discuss the project and exhibition, a response to the changing developed environment in Long Island City.  A seasoned curator and founder of the curatorial project Smith-Stewart, she is presently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and the Sotheby’s Institute, New York.  

 

For more information about the exhibition, click here.

 

As space is limited, please reserve your spot on this tour by sending an email to RSVP@noguchi.org with the subject "December 11 Curator's Tour."  Please include your name(s) and telephone number.

On the Water's Edge
Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 3:00pm

The East River shoreline in Western Queens is one of the few major stretches of waterfront in New York City where community access is not blocked by a highway or railroad.  As industry has moved out of the area, issues around what to do with the shoreline remain.  In a panel discussion bringing together a noted planner/architect, a community activist, and two artists involved in The Noguchi Museum/Socrates Sculpture Park project, Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City,  Diana Balmori, Katie Ellman, Natalie Jeremijenko, and George Trakas will discuss the reinvention of Long Island City’s post-industrial urban waterfront.  Moderated by Carter Craft, Principal of Outside New York.

 

For more information about the exhibition Civic Action, click here.

Music in the Garden/Galleries with Elizabeth Brown
Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 3:00pm

Composer/performer Elizabeth Brown will perform traditional shakuhachi solos as well as her own music.  A Juilliard graduate and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Brown is celebrated both in the U.S. and Japan for her luminous and dreamlike compositions combining eastern and western sensibilities.  

 

In the case of inclement weather, the performance will be held in an interior gallery instead of the Sculpture Garden.  

 

For more information about Elizabeth Brown, click here. 

 

Photo by Peter Schaaf

Music in the Garden featuring Todd Reynolds and Ken Thomson
Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 3:00pm

Daredevil digital violinist Todd Reynolds (Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Ethel) and woodwind maestro Ken Thomson (Gutbucket, Signal, Asphalt Orchestra), two long-time Bang on a Can co-conspirators internationally recognized as both virtuoso instrumentalists and composers, will come together in a program of solos and duos, featuring fresh-inked work, selections from their most recent CD releases, and made-up-on-the-spot musical collaborations.

 

Music in the Garden is presented through partnership with Bang on a Can

With its unparalleled musical sensibility, Bang on a Can is one of the world's best recognized and most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music. Founded in 1987, the group commissions, performs, creates, presents, and records, striving to expose new audiences worldwide to exciting and innovative music. Cantaloupe Music is the celebrated record label created in 2001 by the founders of Bang on a Can.

Music in the Garden featuring Ashley Bathgate
Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 3:00pm

One of the newest members of Bang on a Can's All-Stars, cellist Ashley Bathgate will present a diverse program of works by Michael Gordon, Daniel Wohl, Evan Ziporyn and Andrew Norman.

 

American cellist Ashley Bathgate has gained international renown as both a classical and contemporary musician.  Bathgate is the recipient of a grant from the New York Philharmonic Players Fund and top prizes at the Lois Lyman Concerto Competition, the Hugo Kauder Memorial String Competition, and the Yale University of Music Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition.  In spring 2011, Bathgate released a collaborative album through Albany Records featuring music by Martin Bresnick.

 

Music in the Garden is presented through partnership with Bang on a Can

 

With its unparalleled musical sensibility, Bang on a Can is one of the world's best recognized and most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music. Founded in 1987, the group commissions, performs, creates, presents, and records, striving to expose new audiences worldwide to exciting and innovative music. Cantaloupe Music is the celebrated record label created in 2001 by the founders of Bang on a Can.

 

Photo Credit: Steve Taylor

 

Music in the Garden featuring So Percussion
Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 3:00pm

So Percussion (Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting) will join with Grey McMurray on guitar to perform work-in-progress excerpts from their next major theatrical work. A celebration of diversity, community, and collaboration, this project is an exploration of their outermost artistic boundaries, as well as a re-examination of comfort zones.

 

For more information about So Percussion, see www.sopercussion.com.

 

Music in the Garden is presented through partnership with Bang on a Can

 

With its unparalleled musical sensibility, Bang on a Can is one of the world's best recognized and most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music. Founded in 1987, the group commissions, performs, creates, presents, and records, striving to expose new audiences worldwide to exciting and innovative music. Cantaloupe Music is the celebrated record label created in 2001 by the founders of Bang on a Can.

 

 

 

 

Music in the Garden featuring Toby Twining
Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 3:00pm

Guggenheim Fellow award recipient, composer and recording artist Toby Twining has received critical acclaim for music that brings together a new choral sound with hi-resolution/microtonal harmonies and innovative instrumental techniques. His ensemble, Toby Twining Music, has recorded three albums: Shaman (BMG Classics, 1993); Chrysalid Requiem (Cantaloupe Music, 2002) and Eurydice (Cantaloupe Music, 2011). Several of Twining's instrumental works have been recorded by the avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan and cellist Matt Haimovitz and have received considerable radio and concert exposure.  For more information, see www.tobytwiningmusic.com. 

 

Music in the Garden is presented through partnership with Bang on a Can

 

With its unparalleled musical sensibility, Bang on a Can is one of the world's best recognized and most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music. Founded in 1987, the group commissions, performs, creates, presents, and records, striving to expose new audiences worldwide to exciting and innovative music. Cantaloupe Music is the celebrated record label created in 2001 by the founders of Bang on a Can.

 

 

Artist's Talk with Niho Kozuru
Sunday, May 8, 2011 - 3:00pm

Japanese artist Niho Kozuru will lead a discussion about her playful, cast-rubber sculpture Transplanted (2011), constructed from molds of wooden architectural elements. Transplanted was made for the Sheldon Museum of Art, in Lincoln, Nebraska, which commissioned the artist to create a work to stand in dialogue with Isamu Noguchi’s two-part granite and marble sculpture Song of the Bird (Bird Song) (1958), in the Sheldon’s collection. Noguchi and Kozuru’s sculptures, which share common design elements and a towering verticality, are both on view in the Sheldon Museum’s Great Hall.

 

Niho Kozuru is a fifth-generation artist in a family of renowned ceramicists in Fukuoka, Japan. Her work has been seen in numerous exhibitions and may be found in collections across the United States and in Japan. She is the recipient of the Corning Glass Foundation Award (1993) and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant (2009), among other honors.

 

Ms. Kozuru, who currently works in Boston, received her BFA from the Parsons School of Design and her MFA from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.

 

For more information about the artist, please see www.nihokozuru.com.