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SculptureCenter's New Building. Photo: Michael Moran. SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit, contemporary art museum located in Long Island City, Queens, New York City. It was founded in 1928 as "The Clay Club" by Dorothea Denslow. [1] In 2013, SculptureCentre attracted around 13,000 visitors. [2]
The sculpture garden is open to the public, and a visitor's booth is in operation during the spring and summer, according to the PepsiCo Web site, although a New York Times article reported that it was open from March to November. When the center is closed, visitors may get a map of the gardens from a security guard at the headquarters entrance.
The Noguchi Museum (chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum) is a museum and sculpture garden at 32-37 Vernon Boulevard in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, designed and created by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988).
A 1962 sculpture show at New York's Guggenheim Museum awakened an international art community to the breadth of Hirshhorn's holdings. Word of his collection of modern and contemporary paintings also circulated, and institutions in Italy, Israel, Canada, California, and New York City vied for the collection.
Four Continents is the collective name of four sculptures by Daniel Chester French, installed outside the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green in Manhattan, New York City. [1] French performed the commissions with associate Adolph A. Weinman .
In 1985, the Star Expansion Company donated two tracts of land for the center's 25th anniversary: 2,300 acres (930 ha; 3.6 sq mi) on nearby Schunnemunk Mountain, which is the backdrop for many of the center's monumental sculptures; and a 100-acre (40 ha; 0.16 sq mi) piece of farmland next to the center, which has been used to house new ...
The building One Times Square was built in 1904 as the headquarters for the New York Times. It’s been home to the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Celebration since 1907, when the first New Year’s ...
Louise Nevelson, Mayor Ed Koch and David Rockefeller at the opening of the plaza, 14 September 1978 (Archives of American Art). The space of what is today the Louise Nevelson Plaza had been previously occupied by German-American Insurance Company Building, designed by architects Hill & Stout in 1907 and completed in 1908. [9]