5. Mel Chin: All Over the Place at Queens Museum

The Queens Museum and No Longer Empty have come together to co-produce Mel Chin: All Over the Place, featuring more than 70 works, including drawings, sculptures, and videos. Kicking off with an opening reception at the Queens Museum on Sunday, April 8th, the exhibition will proceed to “spill out of the Museum” over the summer and onto various sites across New York City. This includes Times Square, where a 24 x 34 x 60-foot installation evoking the hull of a shipwreck and a 21-foot tall animatronic figurehead of opera star Jenny Lind will be on view. The piece will address this city’s complicated history regarding the shipping of guns and slaves.

The exhibition will be organized around key themes that have resonated throughout Chin’s career, including Chin’s “understanding of democracy as a two-faced ideal, issues of climate change, legacies of colonialism and racism, and their relation to the circulation of goods, and ideas.” Mel Chin: All Over the Place will be on view from April 8th to August 12th, 2018 at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.