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Lower Manhattan arts group back on its feet - Front Page - Brief Article

Art in America, Sept, 2002 by Stephanie Cash

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, nearly wiped out when its offices and studio spaces were destroyed by last year's terrorist attacks [see "Front Page," Nov. '01], is on the road to a full recovery with various cultural programs this fall, many in conjunction with other institutions. Works and documentary material by the nearly 140 artists who participated in the World Views residency program at the World Trade Center since its inception in 1997 are featured in "Microviews," at the Municipal Art Society in Midtown from Sept. 4 to Oct. 10. The selected works feature the Trade Center's public spaces, hallways, office suites and infrastructure. At 50 Murray St., a storefront space has been temporarily donated by the World-Wide Holding Corporation for "Looking In," a rotating show of 23 site-specific installations and performances by such artists as Eric Hongisto and Mathieu Borysevicz. The show is on view Sept. 3, 2002-Jan. 31, 2003. "Points of Entry" is a yearlong program of four shows at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum [97 Orchard St.] addressing issues of immigrant communities since Sept. 11. Mounted in the museum's storefront windows, the series kicks off with "The Burqa Project" by Jn. Ulrick Desert, for which the artist is creating Muslim veils from modern Western flags. Also underway is a Sept. 11 quilt project, modeled after the AIDS Memorial Quilt. For information, go to www.september11quilts.org.

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Central to LMCC's programming is the resurrection of its artist residency program, which was called World Views when it was located in Tower One of the World Trade Center [see A.i.A., Mar. '02]. The program

has been renamed New Views and is taking place, for now, in two locations: the World Financial Center, located across the street from the WTC site, and in studio spaces in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn that offer views of Lower Manhattan (spaces donated by Two Trees Cityscape Management Company). Since May, nine artists have been working in the WFC's Courtyard Gallery to create temporary site-specific works in response to the architecture, parks and businesses of the WFC, which sustained serious damage in the attacks. Works by Anne Beffel, Jane Benson, Curtis Cuffie, Charles Goldman, Elke Lehmann, Pia Lindman, Brian McGrath, Andrea Ray and Alex Villar will be on view throughout the complex from Oct. 30, 2002, to Jan. 17, 2003. Among the artists participating in the DUMBO residency program--which also incorporates the LMCC's program for cityscape painters--are Warren Neidich and Wolfgang Staehle. Open studios will be held on Oct. 5, 6, 12 and 13 [35 York St., 11th floor].

The city of Paris, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, has also created a six-month residency for New York artists, who receive a live-work space at the Cite Internationale des Arts, a monthly stipend and an exhibition. Yasser Aggour, Patty Chang and Jennie C. Jones were selected to participate. At press time, it was uncertain whether any of these residencies will continue in the same locations beyond the first cycle. An LMCC spokesperson said that the council is still determined to find a permanent location for its programs in Lower Manhattan.

Lower Manhattan arts group back on its feet - Front Page - Brief Article

Art in America, Sept, 2002 by Stephanie Cash

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