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Finally made it to this very nice free art gallery. They have rotating exhibits and performances so check the website before going. Highly recommended!
This incredibly ugly series of new buildings for Columbia's new Manhattanville campus remove the soul from architecture, synthesise functionality over humanity. Devoid of any interior human links, decoration or even an attempt to link to the neighborhood architecturally, they boldly announce to Harlem Columbia's elitist attempt to stay the fortress they intend to be. The black box theaters inside the Lenfest Center are completely unsuitable for elderly people and are amazingly not ADA compliant. I had to help two seniors yo their seats down very steep stairs. In this day and age this should never have happened and Columbia should have made some attempt to recycle the architecture and the fabric of the old buildings they razed, not make a statement about their incredible lack of taste and civic commitment.
Great art gallery in wonderful building by Renzo Piano. Always interesting exhibitions such as the current "Dead Lecturer/distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980".
Gorgeous new space with limitations for the exhibits?
Saw the recent African exhibit and can write a full critique of the issues and limitations of any academic gallery catering to its student needs as their purpose. Endemic limits are inexperienced staff and student required curation meaning well but here flawed IMHO which maybe better top admin is responsible for. Revolving heads and turmoil of the art department may contribute to the issues I saw in the selection and even connection of subject etc plus allowance of commercial interests to be given reliance and publicity. I will not go further with details but at least put the darn exhibit catalogue online?
Saw the recent African exhibit and can write a full critique of the issues and limitations of any academic gallery catering to its student needs as their purpose. Endemic limits are inexperienced staff and student required curation meaning well but here flawed IMHO which maybe better top admin is responsible for. Revolving heads and turmoil of the art department may contribute to the issues I saw in the selection and even connection of subject etc plus allowance of commercial interests to be given reliance and publicity. I will not go further with details but at least put the darn exhibit catalogue online?
Excellent exhibit. Black citizenship in the age of Jim Crow. An amazing discussion of Jim Crow laws how they came to be, how the Supreme Court made bad decisions to reinforce them, and eventually how we got rid of them. I took a friend from Prague here and gave him a brief explanation of the civil war the run-up to it and the aftermath. It's a great backdrop for explaining a lot of American history.
This is gallery is doing very cutting edge art when it allows African Americans to make vital statements of historical moments in time. It's uncovering thought provoking and soul stirring moments, which erupts ones basic thoughts and meager opinions and or the lack of.
Education comes in many forms and it's very definitive existence is and has been buried in African and African American Art.
This art in any form, is an integral key to all learning.
This just simply means, to inform, to share, to teach the truth, which is heart engaging and freedom for all learn and to be.
Congratulations on your current exhibition it's beautiful and magnificently done.
Joyce Anne Judd
Education comes in many forms and it's very definitive existence is and has been buried in African and African American Art.
This art in any form, is an integral key to all learning.
This just simply means, to inform, to share, to teach the truth, which is heart engaging and freedom for all learn and to be.
Congratulations on your current exhibition it's beautiful and magnificently done.
Joyce Anne Judd
The darkness prevails and is completely inexplicable.
The gallery was purpose built in a made to order building (at no small cost) and so there is no reason it has no source of natural light.
This review is not for the exhibits nor the staff — no complaints there. The star was earned for the fact that the gallery is large and exists at all.
Testimony to the fact that the starchitect, like Piano, uses a lot of interns to iron out the pesky details in the blueprints and doesn't stay late at the office anymore. Columbia should have gone with someone who had preserved an eye for detail or at least basics because the gallery of dark is a black eye on Piano's firm.
The gallery was purpose built in a made to order building (at no small cost) and so there is no reason it has no source of natural light.
This review is not for the exhibits nor the staff — no complaints there. The star was earned for the fact that the gallery is large and exists at all.
Testimony to the fact that the starchitect, like Piano, uses a lot of interns to iron out the pesky details in the blueprints and doesn't stay late at the office anymore. Columbia should have gone with someone who had preserved an eye for detail or at least basics because the gallery of dark is a black eye on Piano's firm.
MFA Thesis show was amazing!