Featured Event
DEMO2024
06/05/2024
11AM
Families
First Saturdays for Families: Monumental Landscapes
Cover Image:
“MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project,” 2018. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio
Join us for a Family Day drawing inspiration from the exhibition “MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing,” on view at the New Museum from September 26 to February 3, 2019. Families may visit the fifth floor to explore a scale model of Christopher Park, which President Obama designated as a national monument to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. In the Sky Room, families are invited to collectively design a park, adding monuments, plants, or other elements they would like to see in the imagined landscape.
This First Saturday is on December 1, World AIDS day and the annual Day With(out) Art—a national day of action in response to the AIDS crisis. Visitors may wish to attend “Stonewall is Not Here Yet,” an afternoon of readings organized by artist Sharon Hayes and Chris E. Vargas or Visual AID’s premiere of ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS, screening in the theater.
New Museum First Saturdays for Families are free of charge. This program is designed and recommended for families with children aged between four and twelve years, and includes free New Museum admission for up to two adults per family. Children under eighteen are always admitted free. No preregistration is required. Space is limited, and tickets are given out on a first-come, first-served basis. Your entire party must be present; tickets will not be given to partial parties.
Sponsors
Generous support for New Museum First Saturdays for Families is provided by the Keith Haring Foundation School, Teen, and Family Programs Fund.
This program is also made possible, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Additional support is provided by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation.
Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Support for “MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing” can be viewed here.