This May 9-20, MAD will once again participate in NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official annual citywide celebration of design. In its second year, NYCxDESIGN serves as a festival showcasing New York City’s diverse design community and highlighting its contributions to the fabric and economy of the five boroughs. NYCxDESIGN will feature hundreds of events across New York City with partners that include AIGA, BKLYN DESIGNS, Cooper-Hewitt, Collective 2 Design Fair, FIT, Frieze New York, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), and WantedDesign in addition to MAD, as well as NYC&Co, New York City Council; NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; NYC Department of Design and Construction; NYC Department of Parks & Recreation; NYC Department of Transportation; and NYC Economic Development Corporation.
MAD will present and participate in a range of programs, on site and throughout the city:
Visit Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, an exhibition exploring the many areas of 21st-century creativity made possible by digital fabrication. Out of Hand is the first major museum exhibition to examine this interdisciplinary trend through the pioneering works of more than 80 international artists, architects, and designers, with works ranging from sculpture and furniture to fashion and transport.
Re: Collection On view through September 7, 2014 Museum of Arts and Design Floor 3
MAD celebrates the fifth anniversary of its move to 2 Columbus Circle with the exhibition Re: Collection. The exhibition will survey Chief Curator Emeritus David McFadden's sixteen years at MAD through objects acquired during his tenure. Featured artists include Judy Chicago, Kim Schmahmann, James Turrell and Sebastian Brajkovic, among many others.
The first museum exhibition to explore how contemporary jewelry artists transform and add new meaning to the pervasive images of this digital age, Multiple Exposures features more than 80 artists from over 20 countries, including Gijs Bakker, Wafaa Bilal, Jiro Kamata, Otto Künzli, Kara Ross, Bettina Speckner, Joyce J. Scott, Kiff Slemmons, and Andy Warhol, among others.
NYC Makers Studio Visits Miriam Ellner Design Verre Eglomisé Saturday, May 10, 11am – 1pm 526 West 26th Street, Suite 702
Join MAD for a series of Studio visits, featuring makers from MAD’s upcoming summer exhibition NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial. Exemplifying the Museum’s ongoing commitment to craftsmanship across all creative fields, NYC Makers will spotlight the creative communities thriving across the five boroughs today through the work of 100 makers.
Attend EXPOSED: Contemporary Jewelers and the Photograph, a panel discussion exploring how photographs have been integrated into jewelry as tokens of memory, devotion, or mourning. Contemporary photo-based jewelry extends these traditional functions and forms, while enlisting new technologies and techniques to engage a great variety of personal and social concerns. In conjunction with the opening of Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography at MAD (On view May 14, 2014).
Participate in this roundtable that explores historic, contemporary and future possibilities for the creation of objects of criticism and investigates the possibilities for critical design as objects.
Hear Hoon Kim, the founder at Why Not Smile, a graphic design studio in New York City. Prior to forming Why Not Smile, Hoon has worked for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Practise, Samsung Design Membership, Crosspoint, spanning New York, London, and Seoul since 2000 and has been awarded as The Design Leader by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea and the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP).
Attend Designer City: How Innovative Solutions Transform Urban Life, a panel discussion examining innovative design solutions for urban issues, from more readable fonts on street signs to helping the city’s infrastructure withstand the next super storm. Moderated by Julie Lasky Deputy Editor of the Home section of the New York Times and featuring panelists from Pratt Institute, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Green Map System.
This afternoon-long workshop introduces students to how to use 3D printing in object and furniture design.
Art Museum Day Museum of Arts and Design Sunday, May 18, 2014 – all day
Visit MAD for AAMD’s Art Museum Day and receive free admission to a range of exciting education and family programs museum wide.
MAD OFF-SITE
Glenn Adamson at Collective 2 May 10, 2014, 1pm Skylight at Moynihan Station
MAD’s Director, Glenn Adamson, will lead a designer talk on Saturday, May 10 at 1pm focusing on the ongoing influence of Scandinavian design as part of Collective Conversations, an intimate series of discussions centered around design and the creative process. The series will be held at Collective 2 in a custom-built area by BroLab, a multidisciplinary practice that bridges art and design principles.
Lowery Sims at WantedDesign May 17, 2014, 5 – 6pm Terminal Stores, 269 11th Avenue
MAD’s Chief Curator, Lowery Sims will moderate a panel titled “Design and Production in Latin America: Engaging Craft and Community,” on Saturday, May 17 from 5pm to 6pm. Panelists will include Carlos Bobonis, Harry Washington, Rodrigo Bravo, Cecillia Suarez, and Ana Gonzales.
Jake Yuzna at PULSE May 10, 2014, 6pm The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street
Jake Yuzna, Director of Public Programs, will participate in PULSE Perspectives, a series of daily roundtable discussions that explore ideas within the contemporary art and the art market. Yuzna will co-lead an intimate conversation on curating with Kyle DeWoody, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Grey Area.
For more information on NYCxDesign and other programs across NYC visit nycxdesign.com.
Please review our health and safety protocols before you arrive. MAD strongly recommends all visitors six months and older are vaccinated against Covid-19 and visitors ages two and up wear face coverings, even if vaccinated. Thank you for your cooperation.
