RAND HARDY INSTALLATION AT ONE LIBERTY PLAZA
Tribecan Rand Hardy has his sculpture Bluebird installed at One Liberty Plaza through Oct. 30. Bluebird, a new work commissioned by Arts Brookfield, can be likened to a boat traveling over water, including references to mythological watercraft and their role as aids in spiritual voyages. The title is a tribute to the speedboats piloted by renowned racer Sir Donald Campbell.
PS 150 PLANS ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE
P.S. 150 will be holding its annual Fourth Grade Rummage Sale on Friday, Oct. 18, 8a to 4p. Rain date is Oct. 28. Donations of gently used clothes, shoes, books, toys, housewares and sports equipment can be dropped off starting Oct. 7 from 8 to 9a or 2:30 to 3p at the school, 334 Greenwich. The funds will be used for scholarships for the fifth-grade graduation trip.
FERRANTE AT ART PROJECTS INTERNATIONAL
Through Oct. 26, Art Projects International will show new paintings by Mario Ferrante. This is the Argentinian artist’s first major solo show in the US, but he has created numerous public commissions, murals, sculptures and site-specific installations in Argentina and the United States. The gallery is at 434 Greenwich.
REFLECTION ON THE CHAIR AT R & CO.
Donald Judd, an artist who made his own furniture, said this about the chair: “A work of art exists as itself; a chair exists as a chair itself. And the idea of a chair isn’t a chair.” Collector and curator Raquel Cayre has spent the past year unpacking this statement and the culmination of her work is a show titled “Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong” at R & Company. Cory Arcangel, the Haas brothers, Daniel Arsham, Bunny Rogers and nearly 45 others now make up the stacked roster for Cayre’s study of what was once considered just another household item.
MONICA BILL BARNES DANCE AT THE WINTERGARDEN
Running today through Sunday, from 7 to 8:15p at the Wintergarden: Monica Bill Barnes & Company — a contemporary American dance company, will stage Days Go By, a large-scale, site-specific work that will embed performers throughout the space. Set to a soundtrack of forgotten tracks and one hit wonders, the performance “asks the audience to look closer at the heart warming, painstaking, heroic events happening to and around us each and every day.”