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Sat, Nov 7, 2009
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Fourth-Floor Gallery and Seventh-Floor Sky Room (directions)

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Urs Fischer: Mesmerizing Environments

Part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families, Exhibition Related
 
Family Programs

Please note: During this exhibition strollers will not be permitted in the galleries. Please check them at coat check.

Join us for the first of two family programs dedicated to the exhibition Urs Fisher: Marguerite de Ponty. Urs Fischer will transform the New Museum's gallery spaces by creating a mesmerizing environment of towering monuments, tangled abstractions, and a labyrinth of mirrors. Immerse yourself in Fischer's universe, which is both spectacular and fragile, and then create a unique object that will transform the seventh-floor sky room (and later your bedroom or living room) in a unique and surprising way.

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

For more information about New Museum First Saturdays for Families, e-mail familyprograms@newmuseum.org.

Banner image: Urs Fischer, Noisette, 2009. Mixed mediums, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; and Sadie Coles HQ, London.

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“Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty” is made possible with generous support from the Brant Foundation; the Burger Collection, Hong Kong; the Steven A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation, Inc.; Dakis Joannou; Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann; Eugenio López; the LUMA Foundation; the Peter Morton Foundation; François Pinault; the Ringier Collection; Tony Salame; and the Teiger Foundation. Additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.

Support for the accompanying publication Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole is provided by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum and Mr Keet, LLC, New York.

Major support for New Museum First Saturdays for Families 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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Urs Fischer

Born 1973, Zurich, Switzerland/Lives and works New York City

Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973, and currently lives and works in New York City. He was included in Unmonumental, the New Museum’s inaugural exhibition for the SANAA-designed building in 2007. Fischer’s work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions in European museums, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam; and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His work was also included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.