Storm King Reopens for the Art-Starved (original) (raw)
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Mark di Suvero’s newly exhibited “E=MC2,” which is nearly 100 feet tall, at Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley. The open-air museum is welcoming members and will reopen to the public on July 15.Credit...Bryan Derballa for The New York Times
critic’s Notebook
The pastoral sculpture park in New York’s Hudson Valley opens its gates, with new works by Mark di Suvero, Kiki Smith and Martha Tuttle — and new precautions.
Mark di Suvero’s newly exhibited “E=MC2,” which is nearly 100 feet tall, at Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley. The open-air museum is welcoming members and will reopen to the public on July 15.Credit...Bryan Derballa for The New York Times
- July 9, 2020
CORNWALL, N.Y. — This week Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that all regions of New York except New York City have entered the fourth and last phase of reopening, which authorizes museums, historical sites and other cultural institutions to welcome visitors once more.
Not so fast. From Albany to Suffolk County, almost all of the state’s regional museums have declined to open immediately, and are using these next weeks to prepare to exhibit art under new sanitary conditions — and the new financial constraints that result from them.
Where to go this summer, for the art-starved? You want to be careful, you want as much space as you can get, and more than anything you want to be outdoors. Right now that means your smartest move is the immense Storm King Art Center, a sprawling sculpture park here in the Hudson Valley, which reopens to the public on July 15 after a preview this weekend for members and front-line health care workers. This Arcadia of large-scale and site-specific sculpture, about 70 minutes north of Manhattan in Covid-thinned traffic, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, offering a restorative dose of nature and culture for those in the grip of agitated cities and glaring screens.
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A portion of “Schunnemunk Fork” by Richard Serra at Storm King Art Center. The meadow grasses and wildflowers have grown high around a suite of four weathered steel plates that now nearly disappear into the brush.Credit...Bryan Derballa for The New York Times
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A landscaper mows “Storm King Wave Field” by Maya Lin. “This undulant non-site, neither properly architecture nor properly sculpture, feels more solemn today than it might have in years past, more of a burial ground than a surf,” our critic says.Credit...Bryan Derballa for The New York Times
Storm King usually opens to the public every April, but the sculpture park used the spring to develop safety protocols and slightly rejigger its program. A visitor center with a small suite of indoor galleries won’t open this year; large group visits are barred, various public programs are suspended, bike rentals are unavailable. To visit you need to book a time slot in advance, and you’ll need a car or a taxi, since there won’t be the usual shuttle service from the Metro-North station in Beacon. The on-site cafe is closed, though restrooms are open.
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