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East
East
2021 Socrates Annual: Sanctuary Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Queens, NY 11106
Martha Tuttle: Outlooks; Rashid Johnson: The Crisis
Open through March 6, 2022
Storm King Art Center 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, NY 12553
Open through November 8
STORM KING ART CENTER
K YLE PETRE YCIK
For its annual open call exhibition, the Socrates Sculpture Park invited artists to submit proposals responding to the concept of sanctuary—now more meaningful than ever. In total, 11 projects were selected and installed at the waterfront site in early October. Making use of form, industrial materials, and sound,
the works offer diverging yet complementary interpretations of the curatorial theme. Only a few provide shelter, perhaps in the recognition that sanctuary, which was once invested with architectural meaning, is today a precarious geopolitical designation—lines on a piece of paper. Matt Hickman
Midwest
catch before they close in the coming weeks: Rashid Johnson’s The Crisis and Martha Tuttle’s Outlooks. And new as of this June are two works by Sarah Sze: Fallen Sky, a permanent sculptural commission that is the first for Storm King in more than a decade, and an accompanying multimedia installation, Fifth Season, on view in Storm King’s Museum Building. MH
Southwest
Multiple artworks Franconia Sculpture Park 29836 St. Croix Trail N., Shafer, MN 55074
Fall is a particularly lovely time to spend a full day traversing the 500 acres of pristine, art-studded landscape that compose Storm King Art Center in New York’s lower Hudson Valley. While Storm King’s vast collection of large-scale outdoor sculptures and site-specific commissions by Maya Lin, Sol LeWitt, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and others isn’t going anywhere, there are two special projects to
North Forest Lights Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, AR 72712
Open year-round
Open through January 2, 2022
IRONSIDE PHOTOGR APHY ALE X YOUNG
It’s a momentous year for Franconia Sculpture Park, a 50-acre open-air contemporary art museum and community hub in Minnesota’s St. Croix River Valley that’s complemented by public art programming, educational camps and classes, and a major artist residency program. This year the Midwest’s self-described “pre-eminent, artist-centered sculpture park” celebrates its 25th anniversary—a good reason for Minnesotans, neighboring Wisconsin-
ites, and art lovers from farther afield to visit this rural stretch of the North Star State. The museum grounds are free and open to the public 365 days a year. Artists with works currently on exhibit at Franconia Sculpture Park (and there are many) include Melanie VanHouten, Kyle Fokken, Daniel Shieh, Samantha Persons, and Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of architecture practice Dream the Combine. MH
Crystal Bridges’ otherworldly North Forest Lights exhibition opened at the top of September for its third annual run. Nestled deep in a patch of Ozark forest on the museum’s trail-laced, 120-acre grounds, North Forest Lights is an immersive light and sound experience that “invites people to reconnect with nature and art while making everyone feel part of it.” This year’s ultra-atmospheric experience includes five unique light and sound installations designed by the Montre-
al-based Moment Factory. While admission to the museum proper is free—current special exhibitions include Julie Alpert’s Altars, Keepsakes, Squiggles, and Bows and Selena Forever/Siempre Selena)—North Forest Lights is a ticketed attraction. Separately exhibiting (for free) in Crystal Bridge’s North Forest is The Bruising: For Jules, The Bird, Jack and Leni, an outdoor sculpture/“living greenhouse” conceived by artist Rashid Johnson. MH
