Long-Bin Chen: Composers at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

April 24th, 2014

Find yourself face to face with some of the world’s greatest composers at the Kimmel Center’s most recent art installation. Internationally acclaimed Taiwanese artist Long-Bin Chen’s unusually realistic sculptures, aptly named “The Composers,” is the second of public art installation in the Kimmel Center Plaza. The sculptures are on loan until June from the West Collection through a partnership with SEI.  The first exciting installation, Jonathan Schipper’s “The Slow and Inevitable Death of American Muscle,” simulated a head-on collision of two-muscle cars and was on display for 90 days. [Read More]

Fantastic Food + Delightful Drinks + Nonstop Networking = Queens Taste 2014

April 23rd, 2014

The Queens Economic Development Corporation, the Queens Tourism Council and lead sponsor Fairway Market are proud to announce that the borough’s premiere food-and-networking event, Queens Taste 2014, will take place at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, 135-20 39th Ave. in Flushing, from 6 pm to 9 pm on Tuesday, April 29. [Read More]

Queens celebrates 50 years since iconic 1964 World’s Fair

April 23rd, 2014

50th Anniversary of the Opening of the 1964 World’s Fair: Queens Theatre, formerly the Theaterama of the NYS Pavilion, is one of the few remaining World’s Fair structures. Yesterday’s Open Gate Event, Flushing Meadows Corona Park attracted over 5,000 people. [Read More]