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MoMA PS1 at Long Island City, Queens, New York
July, July, July it never seemed so, it never seemed so strange
Summer 2007
This year's canopy Liquid Sky isn't nearly as much fun as last year's, in fact it actually looks so better in most of the photos than it does in real life. Personally the whole thing by Ball-Nogues just felt kind of slight and not nearly as promising as the original renderings. Inside the museum the current exhibitions are better than last year although that's not saying as much as it normally would.
Summer 2006
This is BEATFUSE! by OBRA, and despite all of the capital letters, it’s pretty damn good. The arches and the water create a great cover for the still sparse summer Warm Up crowds, and its presence in the PS1 courtyard feels just about right. This is definitely the best of the Warm Up installations I’ve seen so far and probably the first one I’ll be sad to see uninstalled after Labor Day.
Summer 2005
PS1’s summer installation in the courtyard this year is SUR by Xefirotarch, which sounds like a made up name of a firm if you ask me. The installation kind of feels like a dinosaur crawled through Long island City and decided to die right in the middle of the courtyard. That is all I have to day about that.
Summer 2004
This year’s canopy at PS1 is called Canopy by nArchitects, and while it’s name may be second rate its design is pretty interesting. The canopy is all bamboo, and creates some interesting spaces as it hovers and touches down in the courtyard.
Summer 2003
If you go on out to PS1 in Long Island City this summer, you can see a crazy looking canopy that’s there on purpose. Called Light-Wing, it was designed by Emergent and is there all summer long as part of Warm Up, a summer Saturday dance party that PS1 is desperately trying to turn into a thing.
