January 10, 2010 / Long Island City - LIC. The Sculpture Center of LIC opened a new exhibit this weekend, entitled 'Leopards In The Temple'. The theme encompasses ritual practices, existentialism, alchemy and material transformation ... which is afterall, what sculpture is all about.

In this report we provide an overview of the exhibit including photos taken at the reception on opening night. Click here to view the full report of the opening night of Leopards In The Temple at the Sculpture Center in LIC Queens.

LIC Space - Long Island City LIC

LIC Space Kicks Off Fall Art Season

September 1, 2009. Aaahhh, the fall is finally upon us. Warm dry sunny weather and the Queens fall art season has already begun. Last night LIC Space hosted a closing reception for the fall preview at one of its three spaces. The reception included cheese and wine, as the attendees were surrounded by oil paintings and metallic sculptures. It was an interesting crowd, to say the least, and it looks to be a fun venue.

This report also tells the tale of an enterprising woman who came to New York to make her rendezvous with destiny. She's been working hard the past eight years to help find space for fellow artists to enable them to continue their journey into the vast unknown we call the future. Click here to read a full report including plenty of photos of the lic space reception in long island city.

Secret Theatre - Long Island City LIC - White Box Festival

Secret Theatre White Box Festival

Original & Entertaining Theatre In LIC

Long Island City / July 13, 2009. For years Long Island City residents have passed the Brasil Coffee Distributors sign atop gates that have served as a legitimate loading dock. Little did they realize that lurking behind these gates, the secret activities of notorious kingpin Richard Mazda were in full swing. Alcohol, guns, sex and drugs ... click here for a full report about the activities of the Secret Theatre in Long Island City. This is the first week [of three] for the White Box Film Festival in Long Island City. The Secret Theatre produces and performs original dramas and comedies and is also the resident theatre of the Queens Players acting group.

Isamu Noguchi Museum - Long Island City LIC Queens NYC

Noguchi Museum Of Sculpture - Long Island City

This is a brief introduction to the Isamu Noguchi Museum of Long Island City. The museum is dedicated to preserving the works of Noguchi, a famous Japanese American sculptor who lived much of his life in Manhattan and Long Island City. The museum has a presentation room [small classroom style theater] as well as a Japanese style sculpture garden. It is located in Long Island City near the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens New York. Click here to read a brief report with photos of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City Queens.

PS1 Art Museum - Long Island City LIC

PSI Art Museum Long Island City

PS1 Museum Of Contemporary Art has evolved into a world class modern art museum located in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens NY. The museum became a MOMA affiliate in 2002 and continues its tradition of bringing interesting and thought-provoking art to the borough of Queens, NY. Click here to view the rest of the story on PS1 Contemporary Art Museum in LIC Queens.

NY Irish Center - Long Island City LIC

New York Irish Center - LIC / Long Island City Queens

The New York Irish Center is located in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens NY. The center is the host to a vibrant community cultural center serving Irish immigrants, Irish Americans and non-Irish members of the Long Island City community. Click here to view the full report on the New York Irish Center in LIC Queens.

Gantry Park & Queensbridge Park - Long Island City LIC

Gantry Park and Queensbrigdge Park - Long Island City LIC

Gantry Park and Queensbridge Park are located along the east side of the East River in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens NY. Click here to view the full report on Gantry Park and Queens Bridge Park in LIC Queens

Valerie Green / Dance Entropy - Long Island City LIC
Valerie Green and Dance Entropy enthralled the audience at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City neighborhood of Queens NY. The modern dance performance event included works by the troupe, all of which were choreographed individually or collaboratively by Valerie Green. The original music and garments added to the theatrical event.

Silver Cup Studios - Long Island City LIC
We stopped by to check on the Writers' Guild Of America strike at Silver Cup Studios in Long Island City on Wednesday, November 7th, just a day after a number of television and other media outlets broadcast and published coverage of the strike. Here's what we found...

Crane Street Studios - Long Island City LIC
This is a video of an exhibit we visited at the Crane Street Studio Open House in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens NY. Crane Street Studios are also known as 5 Pointz which is a graffiti building that houses artists' studios in the Long Island City section of Queens NY.

Flux Factory - LIC Long Island City

Flux Factory Flexes

LIC / Long Island City Queens / March 5, 2010. At long last I made a connection with the Flux Factory. They’d been on my radar for about two years, during which time I had made several feeble attempts to contact them via email and telephone. Over the course of those two years, I remotely watched them wrangle through ‘life threatening’ issues like finding a new space, as their former ‘factory’ had been committed to another purpose, and for a while they ran a ‘virtual factory’.

The Flux Factory is an amalgam of artists that seems to operate as a sort of socialistic whole. Yeah, I’m not sure exactly what that means either, but intuitively I think it's an apt description. Click here to read the full story about the Flux Factory in the LIC / Long Island City neighborhood of Queens.

LIC / Long Island City Attractions

Long Island City / LIC Attractions

Things To Do In Long Island City LIC

LIC / Long Island City / Queens Buzz. Long Island City LIC is home to quite a variety of art museums, galleries and performance centers. The neighborhood is also blessed with a number of quite good parks, including the recently refurbished Gantry State Park and the Socrates Sculpture Park along the Astoria neighborhood border.

Click here to view our section containing stories about many of Long Island City attractions & things to do in LIC.