Queens Museum of Art : Installation [44]

Some views of the installation of A Book About Death, curated by Louise Weinberg. (November 1 - 15, 2009). Click the image for largest possible view. Photographs by Louise Millman.

Louise Weinberg invited artists to contribute single works by mail to the Queens Museum exhibition and the response was in the hundreds.  Works came from all over Europe, the US and of course Mexico which heartily celebrates El Dia De Los Muertos throughout the country.

The exhibition included works from A Book About Death, the posters from the Emily Harvey Foundation exhibition in NYC, as well as videos and Phil Shinn's presentation slide show about euphemisms used when discussing death.  That slide show can be seen in its entirety below.

Louise Weinberg dedicated this chapter in A Book About Death to the memory of Moki Cherry, Minnie Weinberg and Nancy Spero. Here, in this space, we would like to add Rebecca Lipkin, who was a great friend, a bright and beautiful light and who left us way too early.

Queens Museum of Art Poster [41]

Artist and curator Louise Weinberg asked me if I could produce a poster for The Queens Museum of Art.  Above is the result, with wonderful typography help from David Rager, a designer who produced one of the original posters for the exhibition at The Emily Harvey Foundation.  You are free to download and print this out; the high resolution PDF will scale quite large.

This image is from my series, A Perfect Friend.

If you are in Queens this weekend, please attend the opening.  More than 100 new works have been mailed in to the Queens Museum over the last week.  "And there are more coming everyday," said Louise.  Photographs of the installation will be posted soon.

In the meantime...

DOWNLOAD THE QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART POSTER FOR A BOOK ABOUT DEATH.

The Day Of The Dead/Dia De Los Muertos : ABAD At The Queens Art Museum [36]

The exhibition of A Book About Death at The Queens Art Museum opens on November 1 and runs through November 15, 2009. Go to the Queens Art Museum web site, leave a comment, participate, plan to visit. 

Many thanks to artist Louise Weinberg for organizing this exhibition of A Book About Death in conjunction with celebrations around Dia de lost Muertos. She has also called for artists to contribute new works to the exhibition and has created a workshop for the show in Queens. So...cross the bridge!

Click the image to enlarge and read, or go to the Queens Art Museum site.