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Approval Matrix
“Marco Brambilla’s video installation Civilization, which was show in 3-D inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.”
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New York Magazine
“The buildings of the Bowery and Nolita were lit by an otherworldly glow on Saturday night, as the neighborhoods became blank canvases for an installation art project.”
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Domus
“At the recent Festival of Ideas for the New City, an account of its major events, including DrawThinkTank: Emerging Territories of Movement, Audi Urban Futures Initiative, and Flash:Light ‘I move therefore I am’…”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/02/arts/design/20110503-festival-ss-2.html
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ArtObserved
“The festival, by delivering many conferences, shows, and street performances, created a very unique and somewhat mesmerizing ambiance to the neighborhood…”
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Nearsay
“On Saturday evening, May 7, Nuit Blanche New York will present Flash:Light, a series of light-based public installations, at venues scattered along the Bowery and Mulberry Street including Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the New Museum…”
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The New York Times
“On the Bowery, Afterhours Art Security gates along the Bowery will play host to an art installation that will only be visible at night and on Sunday…”
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Art Log
“The inaugural Festival of Ideas for the New City is bursting with lectures, events, art installations, and interactive programming…”
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Urban Platform
“An artist-driven antidote to light-based advertising and the sterilization of public space, the event represents a new platform for artists working in light, sound, performance, and projection art…”
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Haute Living
“Audemars Piguet was the proud sponsor of FLASH: LIGHT, an event that took place on Saturday night at old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. For one night only, the country’s oldest cathedral was converted into a beautiful nighttime environment of provisional, site-specific public art…”
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WWD Fashion
“The highlight of the show will be co-founder Jeff Grantz’s animated light installation, but the artist also partook in the creation of the larger-than-life timepiece that will take over the front of the cathedral — incorporating Audemars Piguet’s classic movements and branding within the gears and mechanisms of its timepieces…”
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TimeOut New York
“Flash:Light” Nuit Blanche New York, which staged an epic festival in Greenpoint last fall, gives more than 20 virtuosos the opportunity to use the city as a canvas…”
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Art Listings Professional
“Flash:Light (www.Flashlightnyc.org) will transform the iconic New York City neighborhood of Mulberry Street into a spectacular nighttime environment…”
Society for Environmental Graphic Design
“The notion of space grows more and more nuanced as evolving technologies are allowing us to “augment” or “virtualize” reality…”
We Heart New York
“As part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, Nuit Blanche (the folks behind last year’s Bring to Light show) put on a night of site-specific illuminated art…”
Sparked
“Taking over the Bowery on the Lower East Side, StreetFest is part of Festival of Ideas for The New City led by The New Museum…”
The Huffington Post
“This week a major cultural initiative will be launched…”
Core 77
“The panel discussion on the Heterogeneous City brought together five different accounts of heterogeneity in New York City …”
The L Magazine
“This week the New Museum’s first ever Festival of Ideas for the New City commandeers every public space and institution…”
The Local East Village
Adrian Fussell, Vivienne Gucwa, Michael Pearce, Tim Schreier, members of The Local East Village Flickr Group share their images of the Festival of Ideas for the New City.