March Incoming at the Queens Museum of Art

The Queens Museum of Art (QMA) has a heck of a lot going on these days. This Sunday is the opening for three new shows. Stop by for mariachi bands, cocktails, and free admission. How can you pass that up?

One exhibit in particular is near and dear to my eye -- photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao's images of Queens, New York. Last year his cinematic shots along the #7 subway won a prize from the NY Times.

Another exhibit has me anxious to see how it turns out. The awesome idea is to create a visual dictionary of mega-city Mexico City. The QMA's programming has taken such a distinct step-up in the last year or two that this exhibit might open our eyes to what the QMA's is and can be.

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Habitat 7 Chien's large-scale panoramic photos are of life in Queens. I'm looking forward to seeing his photo panoramas in the same building as the scale-model panorama of NYC. (Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Habitat 7, March 12 — July 9, 2006)

ABCDF: Portraits of Mexico City aims to be a visual dictionary of the grand metropolis Mexico City. Hundreds of images, sounds, objects, and films bring the city to life, letter by letter. Call it visual anthropology. (ABCDF: Portraits of Mexico City - March 12 - August 20, 2006)

Open Routines: Recent Projects by Pedro Lasch Mexican/New York artist Pedro Lasch's work strives to connect contemporary art to the Latino/Mexican community and experience vis-a-vis the U.S. (Open Routines: Recent Projects by Pedro Lasch, March 12 - July 9, 2006)

• New Exhibits at the Queens Museum of Art
• Opening - March 12, 2006, 3-6 p.m., free (normal admission is $5/$2.50 donation)
• All March Events at Queens Museum of Art
• Queens Museum of Art - Visitors Guide and Directions, Flushing Meadows Park (next to the Unisphere)

Photo Credit - Demetrio Carrasco, "Untitled"