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ART 3092 lauren's spring 2019 independent study
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Visit to Mana Contemporary

We visisted Mana Contemporary, a cultural center in Jersey City, New Jersey, that homes various services, spaces, and programming for artists, collectors, performers, dancers, curators, designers, and more. Founded by the moving company mogul Moishe mana, its 1920’s-era one-million square foot building structure is home to one of the largest all-inclusive contemporary creative communities in the world. Under the guidance of Professor Linda Norden, we were fortunate enough to receive a private tour of Mana Contemporary; with no other tourists or guests in the building, world-class exhibits were empty enough for us to explore independently at our own pace, and we were frequently welcomed into arbitrary studios we wandered by. We toured Dan Flavin: cornered fluorescent light, Fred Sandback: Sculpture, Arnulf Rainer: Crosses and Angels, and Andy Warhol: The Original Silkscreens. We peered inside many studios, most notably ThreeAsFour (who we had seen in New York Fashion Week at the Guggenheim) and the studio of the late Walter De Maria.




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The Armory Show
To top off an already fantastic week, we all received tickets to the Armory Show. The Armory Show is New York City’s biggest and best annual art fair, and is a popular destination for roughly 65,000 artists, curators, critics, and the public alike to view, discover, and collect the world’s most significant art of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Located at Manhattan’s Piers 90, 92, and 94, it featured not only local and international galleries, but wide scale public programs and various other artistic programs. While we all attended separately or in smaller groups, it gave us the opportunity to explore the incredibly wide collection of art presented at the show. Each pier seemed to get larger and diverse than the one before, and we left in awe, with a few handfuls of cards and tons of inspiration.
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Follow up reading for Project Gif: will galleries and museums embrace gif art? by artnet News
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