Directions:
By Subway: Via # 7 Flushing
IRT, exit 111th Street Station. South on 111th Street to Park entrance
at 49th Avenue.
Follow yellow signs to the Museum, which is located next to the
Unisphere. A fifteen-minute walk.
By Car: Via the Grand Central
Parkway, exit at Shea Stadium and follow signs to the Museum. Free
parking.
By Bus: Via the following
lines:
Q48 to Roosevelt Avenue & 111 Street. South to Park.
Q23, Q58 to Corona Avenue & 51 Avenue. East to Park.
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Items
taking place at the museum:
(Posted with Perfmission from QMA)
- The Sixth NY Book Fair Expo
Sunday, October 9, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
The Sixth New York Book Fair Expo celebrates this year the richness and diversity of the languages of New York at the historical Queens Museum of Art. We are proud to present a distinguished group of Latino authors some of them living in the States and others coming from Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela and [...]
- Free Drop-In Family Workshop
Sunday, October 9, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
MetLife Second Sundays for Families gets Wonderstruck! - That’s right ladies and gentlemen, it’s MetLife Second Sunday time again, and this month we invite you to celebrate a day of exciting activities centered around the exhibition Wonderstruck in the Panorama: Drawings By Brian Selznick. Join the Family Tour of the exhibit, create your very own [...]
 BOO!! Spooktacular 2011
''WE’LL SCARE THE ART OUT OF YOU!''
Saturday, October 22 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Artists, Ghouls and Guests Transform the Museum for the 2nd Annual Halloween Spooktacular Benefit! Whether dressed in your ghoulish gowns or whimsical wardrobes, creative costumes are a must upon entry!
Fiendish Family Fun Includes:
* Spooky Scavenger Hunt
* Tickling Tarot Card Reading
* Scary Story Telling
* Hair Raising Photo Booth with Spine Chilling Backdrops
* Tempting Tricks and Treats for Kids and Adults
* Freakish Face Painting
* Preposterous Pumpkin Carving
* Show Off Your Ghoulish Good Looks in a Costume Parade
Ticket Price: $75/Family (Up to Six Family members-2 Adults):
$5 per additional adult or child.
Ticket Price Also Includes:
* One-Year Family Membership
* 20% Discount in the Gift Shop
Reeper Raffle Prizes:
* One signed copy of Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
* One two-week session QMA Summer Camp for one child
* $100 gift certificate towards Made-in-Queens merchandise from QMA gift shop
Boo Board:
* Commander Creepy: Jacquie Hemmerdinger
* Chief Scary Officer: Amy D’Amato
* Belma “Broomstick” Hammond
* “Eerie” Eileen Arabian
* Lori “Headstone” Diamond
* “Wicked” Catherine Wigdor
For more information please call Debra Wimpfheimer (718) 592-9700 x 141 or email dw@queensmuseum.org
- Don’t throw your films away - bring them to Home Movie Day!
Saturday, October 15, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Don’t throw your old Kodachrome and black & white family films away. Instead, bring them to the ninth annual International Home Movie Day, a free event held at Queens Museum of Art on Saturday, October 15, from 1 - 5 pm, films to be accepted for inspection one hour before event starts. [...]
- IM International Action & Speech for Living As Form (OFFSITE EVENT)
Saturday, October 15, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Immigrant Movement International
Action & Speech by Tania Bruguera
October 15, 3:00pm
Part the Creative Time Exhibition Living As Form
Essex Street Market
80 Essex Street, Manhattan New York
All are welcome to take part in the action.
- Sign-N-the City: Learn ASL in the Panorama
Sunday, October 16, 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
Sign-N-the City: Learn ASL in the Panorama
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Learn American Sign Language in the Panorama of the City of New York.
Michelle Santarpia, ArtAccess Educator, will host a tour inspired by our exhibition, Wonderstruck in the Panorama: Drawings by Brian Selznick. Visitors will have an opportunity to learn to sign while learning about the [...]
- IMMERSION: Artefacting into Dharavi, the Engine that Runs Mumbai
Sunday, October 16, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Please join us for the exhibition opening of IMMERSION: Artefacting into Dharavi, the Engine that Runs Mumbai, on view October 15-November 6, 2011.
Screening & Discussion: 1 - 3 pm
Exhibition Opening Remarks & Reception: 3 - 5 pm
Artefacting Mumbai, a three-month social immersion into Dharavi, Mumbai, Asia’s largest slum, comes in the form of an [...]
- Free Drop-In Family Workshop
Sunday, October 16, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
What is a City? - Alright, ladies and gents, here is what we are going to do. First, we make a great big list of as many different things we can identify in this great big city of ours. Next, we take giant sheets of paper and pack them full of every single thing that [...]
- Artefacting Detroit Reportback
Saturday, October 22, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
As part of special programming looking at art as a tool for urban research and experimentation, in connection with the current exhibition Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, we have invited the Artefacting Collective to do a walk-through of the exhibit, followed by a presentation of their own recent work in Detroit. Artefacting’s exhibit IMMERSION [...]
- Photography Master Class with Andrew Moore (Pre-Registration Required)
Sunday, October 23, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
On October 23, 2011, The Queens Museum of Art will host a free 1-day session for students of photography to coincide with the exhibit Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore. In this body of work, Moore locates both dignity and tragedy in the city’s decline, among postapocalyptic landscapes of windowless grand hotels, vast barren [...]
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