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Sat, Feb 7, 2009
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

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Target First Saturdays for Families: Discover a Rainforest

Part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

Explore Mathias Polenda’s Crystal Palace, a contemplative and lush film installation shot in the mountain rainforest in Papua, New Guinea, and accompanied by the soundtrack Sounds of Tropical Rainforest. Participate with your family in a hands-on workshop to create leaf prints and playful instruments to emulate sounds of the rainforest.

From 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., families are invited into our theater to view a 30-minute program of short films provided by Brooklyn International Film Festival's kidsfilmfest.

*Target First Saturdays for Families are free of charge. This program is designed for families with children 5 to 15 years old, and includes free New Museum admission for up to 3 adults per family. Children under 18 are always admitted free. No preregistration is required. Tickets are given out on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information about Target First Saturdays for Families, e-mail targetsaturdays@newmuseum.org.

Banner image: Mathias Poledna, still from Crystal Palace (detail), 2006. 35mm color film with optical sound, 28 min. Courtesy Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; and Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

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Sponsored by Target

Major program support is provided by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Endowment support is provided by The Keith Haring Foundation School and Youth Programs Fund and the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund. Additional endowment support provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

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Mathias Poledna

Poledna was born in 1965 in Vienna, Austria, where he studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst and the Universität Wien. He has had solo exhibitions in Vienna at the Galerie Meyer Kainer and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig; in Graz at the Grazer Kunstverein; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. Poledna’s work was included in group exhibitions at such institutions as the Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Tate Liverpool. His work was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2006, the Berlin Biennial in 2004, and Manifesta 1 in 1996.