Weaving In & Out, Tuesday, June 15th, exhibition open to public from 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM at Tapestry in East Harlem. We were wondering what type of retail space would debut at the new green residential building on East 124th Street and 2nd Avenue and it turns out a temporary art gallery will arrive next week. The latest thing to happen with the (empty) new condominium ground floor retail seems to be pop-up galleries. The exhibit, called Weaving In & Out, will be organized by No Longer Empty, a nonprofit that seeks out empty retail spaces and transforms them into art events.Weaving In & Out, is a collaborative exhibition that explores the interactions between this particular space and its surrounding physical and cultural contexts. "Weaving" appears in the title as a metaphor for the interconnected artistic actions, and the intertwining of people, projects and ideas here." The exhibition and accompanying programming were organized in collaboration with The Artist Pension Trust, Art for Change, El Museo del Barrio, Trash Patch and The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc.
The Tapestry building is at 245 East 124th Street with the 4,5,6 at 125th Street the nearest trains to this location. General exhibition days and times: Wed - Sat., noon - 7:00pm through August 28th. Photo by Ulysses. www.NoLongerEmpty.org
pop-up galleries are a great idea for empty retail space
ReplyDeleteAgreed...there is one on 45th & Lexington that is always pretty eye opening.
ReplyDeleteare people living in that building yet? Seems pretty lifeless looking from the outside
ReplyDeleteThank you Ulysses for posting the opening.
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