Stan Douglas, “22 April 1924” and “7 August 1934” from Penn Station’s Half Century,” 2020 Ceramic ink on glass. Officials say the new hall harkens back to the former glory of the original Penn Station, an architectural marvel torn down starting in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden. Ceramic link on glass. 'There is no doubt that the curse has fallen on us,' Chamberlain observed. He has exhibited to acclaim around the world, and has shown at the Tate in London and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Christopher Phillips gave a guided tour at the gallery of Stan Douglas: DCTs and Scenes from the Blackout. Here’s a first look. Stan Douglas’ free virtual talk on January 28 centers on his new permanent public commission Penn Station’s Half Century, 2020, a captivating photographic series that reconstructs nine remarkable but forgotten moments from the history of the original Pennsylvania Station (1910-1963).The artist has created this monumental site-specific artwork for the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall in New York … In celebration of the honor, an exhibition of Douglas's work was presented at the Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden. The resulting images pay tribute to McKim, Mead & White’s original station, and to the layers of human experience that bring our civic spaces to life. One of nine photographic panels from “Penn Station’s Half Century.” Commissioned by Empire State Development in partnership with Public Art Fund for Moynihan Train Hall. As we wrap up, I ask him how much of the work is play for him, and he frowns slightly. Sunlight is not typically associated with the dingy basement vibe that envelops commuters passing through Penn Station. Trudging below the low ceiling and fluorescent lights of New York City’s outdated Penn Station is now a thing of the past. Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator of Photography at MoMA, New York and Chair of the 2016 Hasselblad Award Jury, says of Douglas's work: Douglas's engagement with the histories of still and moving images, sociological approach to staged and performative work, and critical attention to the apparatus of photography—in terms of historic styles, processes and vintage equipment, and the most sophisticated digital languages of contemporary technology—are transformational. Stan Douglas in the New Moynihan Train Hall. } Curated by Rebecca Cleman from Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and Ava Tews at Anthology Film Archives, the February 16 program of ON THE AIR presents works created by artists for public television, and also includes films by Ernie Kovacs, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Chris Burden, Dara Birnbaum, and others. Kehinde Wiley's hand-painted, illuminated … “We experience the world through technical images all the time, and we’re not physically present. This article is from our Autumn 2020 issue. To be the first to know about upcoming Stan Douglas exhibitions, Stan Douglas, 22 April 1924 and 7 August 1934, from Penn Station’s Half Century, 2020. Moynihan Train Hall is attracting global attention with work by artists including Kehinde Wiley and Stan Douglas. Measuring fifty-five feet-long, the three panels, like much of Wiley’s work, honor the average youth of the city, turning Black and Latinx … Stan Douglas, one of Canada’s most feted visual artists, turns 60 at the top of his game. It’s not simply the means to turn an idea into art, it’s part of the pulse of his thinking. In this case it turns out that there never was any such 'ancient Chinese curse,' despite the fact that Western politicians have made reference to it in speeches for over a hundred years. Images: Stan Douglas. ©Stan Douglas. Take Black vaudeville entertainer Bert Williams: “He was the first Black person to appear in the Ziegfeld Follies, the first Black man to direct a silent film, the first Black man to have a Broadway play produced. You have to take ownership. After extensive research, Douglas recreated archival photographs using actors dressed for the part. The publication features a newly commissioned essay by Noam Elcott, Associate Professor at Columbia University, as well as an interview with Stan Douglas by Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator at Museum of Modern Art, New York and Chair of the 2016 Hasselblad Award Jury. Douglas's work, titled Penn Station’s Half Century, draws on archival research to reconstruct nine remarkable but forgotten moments from the history of the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963) that capture the serendipity and poignancy of daily life. Photo by Zac Casto. Join Stan Douglas for a conversation hosted by Public Art Fund about his new permanent public commission Penn Station’s Half Century, 2020, a photographic series that reconstructs nine remarkable but forgotten moments from the history of the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963).. Thursday, January 28, 5 PM RSVP here. Certainly, his fascination with technology—both as artistic expression and its effect on the way we perceive reality—permeates everything Douglas creates. Here’s a first look. But that just means that we have to take more responsibility as creators of images. “I tell my students, unless your name is Malcolm X, I don’t want to hear about your autobiography. The complexity is mind-boggling. See Douglas’s work in Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern, London, and I Was Raised on the Internet at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, both on view through October 14, 2018. Stan Douglas has mined the history of the original Penn Station, giving heroic pictorial life to narratives from different moments in time using today’s most advanced digital technologies. Stan Douglas's innovative stage presentation Helen Lawrence was created in collaboration with screenwriter and producer Chris Haddock and director Kim Collier. Now, more than a half century after the original Beaux-Arts style train station was razed, Penn Station has regained some of its former splendor with the opening of the new Moynihan Train Hall on January 1, 2021. Join Stan Douglas for a conversation hosted by Public Art Fund about his new permanent public commission Penn Station’s Half Century, 2020, a photographic series that reconstructs nine remarkable but forgotten moments from the history of the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963). #DZDialogues, Image: Stan Douglas, Lucas Zwirner, and Jason Moran recording Dialogues in New York, 2018. By continuing to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies and our, Discover further exhibitions by gallery artists in and around Venice, Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. “I can put things in motion that even surprise myself.”. His whole project was to wipe out the use of blackface on Black people, and he did this by really anticipating the Harlem Renaissance and pan-Africanism by introducing various kinds of Blackness into his theatre—people from the Caribbean, people from Africa. Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station Elmgreen and Dragset, Kehinde Wiley, and Stan Douglas. “This turned into ‘Stan Douglas, the son of a neurologist and a well-read housewife,’” he says, clearly still incredulous. These vivid evocations of the city’s forgotten history include Bert Williams (singer, comedian, and the first African-American to direct a motion picture) instigating an impromptu vaudeville show with fellow performers stranded in the station during an epic snow storm of 1914, the final moments of affection between soldiers and their loved ones before being deployed in 1941 for duty during World War II, and the soundstage from director Vincente Minnelli’s 1944 love story The Clock, staring Judy Garland. Stan Douglas, “22 April 1924 and 7 August 1934,” from “Penn Station’s Half Century,” 2020. There were these youth gangs that were present in the city, and they’d be selling marijuana at a place called the Brass Doors—where the theatre is now at Byng.”, He was one of only two Black kids at the school. Penn Station’s new Moynihan Train Hall, opened today, is only a gateway to a rail system that needs major investment and repair. See the Art by Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas, and Other Art Stars That Might Actually Make You Want to Go to New York's Penn Station Penn Station unveiled its long-awaited Moynihan Train Hall on … Friday, April 6, 5 PM Nine photographic panels installed in four niches. Douglas’ massive stitched-together photographic panels hang along one wall of the lounges. There are cranes and massive overhead diffusers and a large technical crew, including a VFX specialist glued to a monitor, checking every tiny detail. Is it good enough? “Where’s the frog?” Douglas is staring at two men, one all done up in an elaborate devil costume, complete with forked tail, the other in a sandy-coloured onesie, holding a large leonine head. And the cleaning staff, looking a little bored, dusted Stan Douglas’s faux historic photos showing re-enactments of events that occurred in the demolished Penn Station. We can’t just say, 'Oh, this happened to be there when I was there.' These longtime friends and collaborators discuss what it means to awaken ideas through the language of improvisation and exceed viewer expectations. Yes, there are more general images of people arriving in the city for work, saying goodbye to loved ones, and—in truly meta fashion—a mock-up of behind the scenes on the Judy Garland picture The Clock, set in Penn Station and shot on a set in Hollywood. Elmgreen & Dragset have dreamed into being an imaginary cityscape that descends from the ceiling and radiates the dynamism and energy of a contemporary megacity. "This is one of the many digital initiatives we are embarking on, to both engage with new audiences and further our artists’ voices." He is notoriously private, a photographer resistant to his own image being captured, and produces work that is at once cerebral and technically complex. Inside the Agrodome, it does indeed feel like a movie set. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. { Take this project: from 50 years of station concourse history, Douglas has pulled a handful of stories to depict. Kehinde WileyAnd the Stan Douglas And artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset We have key pieces prominently on display in the new $ 1.6 billion train hall scheduled to open on Friday, providing an expansion of Concourse space at Penn Station and serving customers of Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road. callback: cb With a working title of Penn Station’s Half Century, the project was one Douglas was asked to pitch for along with two other selected artists. At once suspect and rich in meaning, this kind of uncertain artefact suggests potential lines of exploration that are worth pursuing at present, especially when the 'interesting times' it evokes seem to be with us once again. Vancouverites only have to look up as they enter the atrium of the Woodward’s Building to see his 2009 piece Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, a 13-by-eight-metre photograph enclosed in glass depicting the Gastown Riot. "Penn Station’s Half Century,"2020 is commissioned by Empire State Development in partnership with Public Art Fund for Moynihan Train Hall ©Stan Douglas. Ceramic ink on glass. Read the most recent art news from Kooness Magazine, the best resource for contemporary art. He wanted to bring some nuance to the point of view in the States that you are Black or you’re white.”, Then there’s Angelo Herndon, an African American union organizer from Atlanta, charged with insurrection: “He was something of a folk hero. “Years ago, I was interviewed by Time magazine, and the interviewer asked about my parents and wondered if they were artistic,” he recounts. In addition, MACK published a new book about Douglas's practice. Penn Station’s Half Century by Stan Douglas Photograph: ©Stan Douglas. “The thing that annoyed me most was when people asked me where I was from and I would say Vancouver and they would say, ‘No, where are you really from?’ It was constant.” (In his 1991 micro short I’m Not Gary, Douglas shows a white man passing a Black man on a Vancouver street. He contributed a text to Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio, published on the occasion of Douglas’s tenth solo presentation at David Zwirner in 2011. As well as a 92-foot-high skylight, it also features art installations by Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset and a nursing room for new mothers. "While this year marks an important milestone for the gallery, we continue to look and move forward, whether it be opening a new gallery or exploring new mediums," says David Zwirner. Commissioned by Empire State Development in partnership with Public Art Fund for Moynihan Train Hall. Canadian artist Stan Douglas staged hundreds of people dressed in early 20th century clothing to recreate historic scenes from the original Penn Station, like the arrival of Black labor organizer Angelo Herndon in 1934. The spacious, 255,000 square foot commuter hub is named in honor of the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a transit champion who first proposed the project decades ago. Things are captured that you can’t control—which is what is so amazing about it. “My main problem,” he continues, “is that people want to think that art is a symptom of the artist’s personality, and their biography is the key to the work, whereas I think the work, when it enters into circulation, it becomes part of the social conversation, and it can change that conversation, transform that conversation, and the artist’s intention is often only a small portion of what that conversation is.”. At the onset of the new year, one of New York City’s most maligned public transportation hubs—Penn Station—got a major upgrade. Five thousand people showed up to see him arrive in Penn Station.”, That people had to physically journey to the station to catch a glimpse of a celebrity (Celia Cooney, the so-called Bobbed Haired Bandit, is another featured real-life character that the public swarmed there to spot) is interesting to Douglas. “It was a different neighbourhood back then,” he tells me when we meet at Crab Park the week after the PNE shoot. Watch Video Artist Stan Douglas Remix History to Reimagine the Present. “I had never thought about it in that way,” he shrugs. Christopher Phillips is guest curator at The Walther Collection and adjunct professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. “My friends were the children of UBC professors or bikers. It was only the first of many indignities. The space is so much smaller than the station it is standing in for, each image is being shot in three parts, the extras, camera, and lights having to be turned and moved around specific fixed points so things match up when they are composited. The hall he designed Architectural firm SOM, Also connected to subway lines, although they are a bit far. The series of photographic panels are located within four seating alcoves in The Ticketed Waiting Room. This is not something he would normally agree to—it’s a lot of time and effort, and, frankly, he is successful enough to not need the hassle—but he was instantly attracted to the idea. Bail was set at several thousands of dollars—an impossible sum in 1935—but there were so many contributions by the public, as low as 25 cents, he was able to get out. On January 1, … “Hi, Gary,” says the former, becoming visibly agitated that his greeting is ignored. 22 April 1924 and 7 August 1934, from Penn Station’s Half Century, 2020 For tickets and more information visit newportjazz.org. Hard at it and clearly enjoying himself. Others have written far more eloquently than I ever could about the signature pieces by Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and especially Elmgreen & Dragset's stunning "The Hive", but my biggest takeaway was that this was public art that actually made me feel something! We suffer one disturbance and shock after another.' Since the inaugural presentation at The Arts Club Theatre Company, Vancouver in March 2014, Helen Lawrence has been hosted by the Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich; Edinburgh International Festival; Canadian Stage, Toronto; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; and deSingel, Antwerp. Douglas, who turns 60 in October, was born in Vancouver, growing up in Point Grey and attending Lord Byng high school. Images: Stan Douglas. I’m shown impenetrable drawings filled with numbers and lines of vision that relate to a grid marked out across the floor to help keep track of where characters are in relation to the camera. Stan Douglas has created a photographic installation for the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station in Manhattan. “I thought it would be amazing if I could show historical scenes pulled from real life.”. “It starts with an idea, which turns into some kind of road map, and a plan, and when I shoot, then it’s play,” he says after some thought. Our public spaces desperately need that — and it is an element sorely lacking from the WTC PATH station. He stands on one leg, the other stretched out behind him, his body perpendicular to the floor, arms spread wide. “I want to have something in place so I don’t come away with nothing. Along an 80-foot (24 m) stretch of wall, Stan Douglas's photographic panels, Penn Station's Half Century, depicts passengers of the original Penn Station. } Stan Douglas, 22 April 1924 and 7 August 1934 from Penn Station's Half Century, 2020 (Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner / Photo … He tries to rotate his three airborne limbs but loses balance and, laughing, returns to the vertical. Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset have major pieces prominently displayed in the new $1.6 billion train hall set to open Friday, offering an expansion of Penn Station’s concourse space and serving customers of Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road. Trudging below the low ceiling and fluorescent lights of New York City’s outdated Penn Station is now a thing of the past. We are inside the PNE Agrodome on a sweltering July day. When the interview was published, he was appalled. The series is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Broadcasting: EAI at ICA at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (February 2–March 25, 2018). Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. A stained-glass triptych from Kehinde Wiley is sure to draw visitors. The exhibition was his first in the country and featured new abstract works, as well as an overview of past series and key iconic photographs. Photography especially is a kind of collaboration with the real—you don’t really know what is going to happen until you see the final product. The “Ticketed Waiting Room” at Moynihan, with custom-molded walnut benches and Canadian photographer/artist Stan Douglas’ photo murals dramatizing scenes from the demolished Penn Station, is clearly the most luxurious waiting area for commuters and intercity coach travelers in the country. In the nine large-scale images installed in niches, Penn Station’s Half Century mixes historical images with renderings of the new Moynihan Train Hall, connecting the present day with what once was. Join us and The Cooper Union virtually this Thursday, January 28, at 5pm as we welcome Stan Douglas to # PAFtalks.The artist will discuss his captivating site-specific work at the new Moynihan Train Hall, "Penn Station’s Half Century," created by weaving together hundreds of images of staged costumed performers and digitally recreated interiors of the original demolished Penn Station (1910-1963). “We need the frog. 525 West 19th Street, New York. But, while it is easy to become overwhelmed by the process behind his work, step back and you see a very particular world view: the form is front and centre, but the content is no less radical. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. Completed at the end of 2020, the new Moynihan Train Hall has opened with an array of site-specific art commissions that honor the building’s past, and are helping to shape its future. (function() { The expansion of Penn Station’s concourse has an acre of glass that lets the sun pour down, and installations by Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset. The photographic installations of Stan Douglas honor the sites’ past. And anyway, he reiterates, the conversation should be focused on the work. He is protective of his personal details, partly because he thinks the work should stand for itself and partly because he was burned early on. Stan Douglas in Conversation . This guided tour coincided with The Photography Show presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD). The Exhibition will focus on the work of artists who challenge existing habits of thought and open up our readings of objects and images, gestures and situations. As part of a collaboration with … RSVP Now. The city of New York inaugurated its latest artistic projects. Location: Virtual Date & Time: Thursday, January 28, 5–6 PM EST Stan Douglas’ free virtual talk on January 28 centers on his new permanent public commission Penn Station’s Half Century, 2020, a captivating photographic series that reconstructs nine remarkable but forgotten moments from the history of the original Pennsylvania Station (1910-1963).The artist has created this monumental site … Watch Video Artist Stan Douglas Remix History to Reimagine the Present. Using today's most advanced digital technologies, Stan Douglas's epic photographic series recreates the original Penn Station and brings to life in uncanny detail nine historical moments. Where is the frog?” a member of the production team yells, before a chap clad in skin-tight, bright green velour ambles down from the bleachers. Ceramic ink on glass. Elmgreen & Dragset have dreamed into being an imaginary cityscape that descends from the ceiling and radiates the dynamism and energy of a contemporary megacity. The public got its first glimpse inside Penn Station’s new train hall at the historic Farley Post Office Building during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on ... Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset. Image: Arsenale, Venice. Moynihan Train Hall Brings Art to Penn Station . ); listeners: [], In addition to its 92-foot-high skylight, Moynihan features installations by artists Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset. Thursday, January 28, 5 PM. Using today's most advanced digital technologies, Stan Douglas's epic photographic series recreates the original Penn Station and brings to life in uncanny detail nine historical moments. Join Stan Douglas on January 28 for a conversation hosted by Public Art Fund and Cooper Union about his new permanent public commission Penn Station’s Half Century, 2020, a photographic series that reconstructs nine remarkable but forgotten moments from the history of the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963). In October 1963, the wrecking ball came for Pennsylvania Station—an urban landmark by any standard and the impetus for landmark preservation ever since. Just a few days into 2021 and New York City has already set an architectural milestone with the opening of Moynihan Train Hall, the long-awaited extension of the much-maligned Penn Station. Now, more than a half century after the original Beaux-Arts style train station was razed, Penn Station has regained some of its former splendor with the opening of the new Moynihan Train Hall on January 1, 2021.. Similarly, the artist’s Monodramas feature brief, dislocated events—a car and a school bus nearly collide at an intersection, only to drive away; a pedestrian on the street greets an Afro-Canadian man who responds, "I’m not Gary. Commissioned by Empire State Development in partnership with Public Art Fund. Artists in the News . A conversation about collaboration and the obsessive power of good music—touching on Netflix, Kendrick Lamar, and what it’s like to play with Miles Davis. 13 hours ago 1 . Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset have major pieces prominently displayed in the new $1.6 billion train hall set to open Friday, offering an expansion of Penn Station’s concourse space and serving customers of Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road. Sunlight is not typically associated with the dingy basement vibe that envelops commuters passing through Penn Station. Located inside the old … Yet at a moment when the digital dissemination of fake news and 'alternative facts' is corroding political discourse and the trust on which it depends, it is worth pausing whenever possible to reassess our terms of reference. Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and the […] on: function(evt, cb) { Pictured above: Selected works from the Hasselblad exhibition. “That’s a very different relationship to reality,” he proffers. It comes after new Moynihan Train Hall at New York City's Penn Station was opened last month. “But that’s exactly what I do.”. The twelve short video sequences were shown on a nightly basis and without any introduction, and feature narrative fragments unfolding in ordinary or banal settings. At the 31st Street entrance, Elmgreen & Dragset created a sculptural group, The Hive, that depicts skyscrapers hanging from the ceiling. This summary sounds uncannily familiar today as the news cycle spins from crisis to crisis. Sunlight is not typically associated with the dingy basement vibe that envelops commuters passing through Penn Station. When his selection as Canada’s representative at the Venice Biennale was announced, he says, it was noted that his work involves making structuralist films using the apparatus of commercial cinema. To learn more about this artwork, please provide your contact information. So let’s talk about the work. Passengers sit in the ticketed waiting area, designed by the Rockwell Group; in the background is a detail from “Penn Station’s Half Century” by Stan Douglas. Using illuminated stained glass and inspired by classical frescoed ceilings, … 'We move from one crisis to another. About . But natural light spills across the new Moynihan Train Hall through its massive, 92-foot-high skylight ceiling and illuminates another surprise: permanent installations by some of the most celebrated artists in the world. In 2019, he received the $100,000 Audain Prize, awarded to Canadian artists of distinction. Elmgreen & Dragset have dreamed an imaginary global metropolis into sculptural being, upside down, radiating the city’s irresistible urban energy. It was designed to provide more space for the notoriously congested transit hub of Penn Station which, prior to the pandemic, welcomed 650,000 through its doors each day. Hence the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will be titled after a counterfeit curse.... in an indirect fashion, perhaps art can be a kind of guide for how to live and think in ‘interesting times.’ The 58th International Art Exhibition will not have a theme per se, but will highlight a general approach to making art and a view of art’s social function as embracing both pleasure and critical thinking. Douglas photographed live actors in period costume and seamlessly combined them with digitally recreated interiors of the demolished station. The Black man eventually turns and responds, “I’m not Gary.”). But the other stories he is depicting perhaps say more about who Douglas is. The expansion of Penn Station’s concourse has an acre of glass that lets the sun pour down, and installations by Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset. Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station Elmgreen and Dragset, Kehinde Wiley, and Stan Douglas. Discover further exhibitions by gallery artists in and around Venice. “My mother was a single parent, raised me by herself, worked every day of her adult life, and was the first assistant to the dean of science at UBC. A testament to New York’s creativity, diversity, and richly layered heritage, the three monumental commissions complement the new cutting-edge Train Hall, while embracing its civic character. window.mc4wp = window.mc4wp || { Douglas’s photo series, Penn Station’s Half Century, appears in four 22-foot-long panels on the wall spanning the ticketed waiting room adjacent to the main boarding concourse. } Stan Douglas was the recipient of the 2016 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. My only … The space, which has 92-foot skylight ceilings, will host a trio of blue-chip art installations by Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas, and artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. The series, “Penn Station’s Half Century,” is an homage to the original Penn Station, with Douglas drawing on archival research to … How does that affect our consciousness?”. 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