Ceramixed Plates" Available at Bloomingdale's Pop-up Shops Benefitting the New Museum
On December 1, the new building for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, will be opened, coinciding with its 30th anniversary. The daring and highly recognizable structure, designed by Japanese architects Sejima & Nishizawa (SANAA), symbolizes and reaffirms the leading role the New Museum plays in its field.
The New Museum Store attracts attention to the occasion through pop-up shops at Bloomingdale's flagship-store as well as its Soho unit. Part of Bloomingdale's "Season for Art - Artragious Fall 2007", and run by New Museum personnel, the pop-up shops present a selection of the New Museum Store's finest giftables, editions and books from its extensive stock. 90% of the proceeds will go directly to furthering the New Museum's artistic and educational programs, which will be greatly enlarged in its new building.
Apart from presenting books and editions by noted artists like Mike Kelley, Jack Pierson and Zoe Leonard, the New Museum Store stays true to the New Museum's credo of presenting the under-represented: in its range of "artist-made products" it treads where few museum shops dare to tread, directly supporting emerging artists. Two of those, Dutch artists Hans Booy & Paulus Fugers are proud that two of their "Ceramixed Plates" are part of this offering. Their faux Delfts Blau porcelain plates, hand-painted and inscribed with "Include Me Out", thematize social (self)exclusion, sexuality and multiculturalism.
The New Museum was founded in 1977 by curator Marcia Tucker. Today it is the most important museum for contemporary art in New York, with an excellent world-wide reputation for curatorial daring and progressiveness. It stresses and exemplifies the internationality of art, and focusses on emerging artists and under-represented themes, media and developments.
Bloomingdale's is America's only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store; and a division of Macy's, Inc. Founded in 1872, it currently operates 39 stores.
The New Museum pop-up shops can be found between Sept.6 and Nov.6 at:
-2nd floor of the Bloomingdale's Flagship Store
59th Street & Lexington Avenue
1000 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022
Mon - Sat: 10am - 10pm
-Bloomingdale's Soho
504 Broadway
Mon - Sat: 10am - 7pm
Tulip Enterprises is a Berlin art collective working with a Pop-art philosophy. It consists of Hans Booy & Paulus Fugers who collaborate on art production, murals, self-organized art shows and art presentations in public and in galleries, clubs and deserted buildings. They work in a wide range of techniques, from Kinetic Art and projections to Folk Art, installation, painting and collage. The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart owns a major billboard painting. Books like "Flyersoziotope" and "Mein Schwules Auge IV" feature their work.
Tulip Enterprises' colorful web site offers an extensive overview of their work, essays, and a diary that offers reviews and art news: www.tulip-enterprises.de
Contact:
-Artist: Paulus Fugers (artist): +49(0)172 3118431
-New Museum press director: Gabriel Einsohn. Phone: +1 212 219 1222 - 217.
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