![]() ![]() ![]() Housing advocates say it is a symptom of deeper problems.Ĭity budget cuts: Mayor Eric Adams raised the specter of cutting critical municipal services in response to what his budget director called worsening economic conditions.Ĭolumbia in Tel Aviv: Columbia University’s plan to open a new center in Tel Aviv is drawing criticism from close to 100 faculty members who say the university should reconsider the move because of Israel’s human rights record and political crisis. Housing vouchers: Some renters are being inexplicably cut off from the city’s voucher program, a crucial tool for stemming homelessness. But with this art program, we’re trying to inspire people who wouldn’t necessarily come to see the sky.” We have a lecture series of leading astronomers from around the world who come here to use the canvas of the planetarium to show their work. “We really want to be a space for adults, too. “We’re known for our programming for young learners - children, in other words,” he said. He said the idea was to broaden the center’s appeal - perhaps counterintuitively, in a world where marketers and advertisers often chase younger audiences. Hoffman said the installation inaugurated an art program as the center celebrates its 30th anniversary. “What Erlich has done in his whole career is take quotidian things like the facade of a building and make you look at it in a different way. “The whole city was full of these buildings before they developed construction techniques for higher ones,” he said. Hoffman said the facade represented “your standard small city building.” And, as if to emphasize the stagelike quality of his installations, Erlich calls the people who walk across the floor image, interacting with architectural elements, “spect-actors.” That would be people in places they could not go or positions they could not assume in real life. And the work itself plays with bringing something extraordinary out of something we are very much used to seeing.” ![]() “A New York facade could be many different things, but basically, it gives you something local. “It’s like a Frankenstein facade, meaning it takes elements from different buildings,” he said. In Denmark, in Buenos Aires, in Montevideo - every time the facade is different.”įor the New York facade, he said that he drew on “my memories of New York.” “I’ve created 18 different facades, and every time it’s a look at the context of the venue. The installation was the work of the Argentine-born artist Leandro Erlich, who has done similar pieces in such places as Buenos Aires, London ( an off-site commission for the Barbican Gallery on an empty lot) and Paris, as well as in Niigata Prefecture in Japan, which hosts a regional art festival. It weighs 10,000 pounds and took 20,000 hours to complete. Alongside the facade installation is “The Politics of Eternity,” by the Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin. When it opened in 2017, Hoffman pointed out that his planetarium is next to a park 370 acres larger than Central Park. That would be the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, the twinkly destination for generations of middle-school field trippers. The one in Manhattan can fit inside our planetarium.” ![]() “We are very happy that we have the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, even if everyone thinks the one in Manhattan is bigger. “We have a long, complicated relationship with New York City here in New Jersey,” said Paul Hoffman, the president and chief executive of the science center. ![]()
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