Queens museum MoMA PS1 is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and it’s commemorating the milestone with a full slate of programming and free admission for all visitors.<\/p>\n
The Long Island City institution began offering free admission on Jan. 1 after a $900,000 donation from entrepreneur Sonya Yu, becoming New York City\u2019s largest free museum. Admission was previously only free for New Yorkers; other visitors were subject to a suggested admission fee of $10.<\/p>\n
The programming, meanwhile, begins in force on April 18 with a 50th anniversary block party featuring various family activities, local food vendors, musical performances across the museum\u2019s campus, and more.<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll coincide with the opening weekend of PS1\u2019s building-spanning \u201cGreater New York\u201d survey of over 50 multidisciplinary New York artists, now in its sixth edition. A ticketed party for the survey, with live music and DJ sets, will be held on April 24.<\/p>\n
Other half-century programming will include an outdoor commission in the courtyard by artist Precious Okoyomon, a survey of Black artists working in abstraction, an archival exhibition on fashion at PS1, a 50th Anniversary Gala on May 12, Printed Matter\u2019s NY Art Book Fair in late September and a special season of the museum\u2019s beloved Warm Up summer music series.<\/p>\n
Warm Up, which started back in 1998, is \u201cthe longest running music series in a museum,\u201d according to a PS1 press release.<\/p>\n
PS1 has come a long way over the past 50 years. The museum occupies the site of what was formerly a public school, which had been decommissioned in 1963 and subsequently fell into disrepair. In 1971, curator Alanna Heiss established The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, a group that focused on repurposing the city\u2019s myriad abandoned structures as artist spaces.<\/p>\n
In 1976, she opened the PS1 Contemporary Art Center, and it quickly gained traction as an influential alternative New York art space.<\/p>\n
The MoMA portion of its name was added in 2010, a decade after it merged with the eponymous modern art museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens museum MoMA PS1 is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and it’s commemorating the milestone with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-186338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}