Regarding Henry
Fri, 22 May 2009 13:22:00
This year marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s first trip in the ship Half Moon up the river that now bears his name. New Yorkers are celebrating the occasion with events and exhibits across the state all year long. Some of the most notable:
The Glory of Dutch Bulbs: A Legacy of 400 years
Through June 7
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
The Glory of Dutch Bulbs exhibit, presented by Henry Hudson 400 and the New York Botanical Garden, features more than fifty thousand rare Dutch bulbs—including the tulip ‘Duc van Tol’ of 1595, the oldest in Holland’s famed collection—arrayed in the New York Botanical Garden’s crystal palace, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. This unprecedented indoor exhibition—inspired by the lavish gardens at Keukenhof, near Amsterdam, renowned for its vibrant spring displays—celebrates 400 years of Dutch supremacy in bulb cultivation. The spectacle will focus on tulips for the initial two weeks followed by five extravagant weeks of dazzling lilies, alliums, irises and narcissuses.
A Walking Tour Of 17th-Century Dutch New York
Through Dec. 31
The New Amsterdam Trail
To make historic Dutch Manhattan come alive for the greatest number of people, Henry Hudson 400, with the Dutch National Archives and the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy at Federal Hall, have joined forces to create the multi-platform, self-guided walking tour, “The New Amsterdam Trail.”
The trail may be accessed in a number of ways. It may be downloaded to a handheld mobile device for a self-guided walk or experienced online as an interactive virtual tour. The tour is also available as a printed brochure available at tourist sites around the city.
Dutch Barges on the Hudson
Sept. 1-20
Early on September 1, 2009, a fleet of distinctive Dutch flat-bottom boats will sail with great fanfare into New York Harbor. The distinctive “bottoms”—low-slung skûtsjes, fishing boats, barges—are direct descendants of the sailing ships that plied Dutch coastlines in the 17th century, immortalized by the country’s painters, and closely related to the first ships built in New York.
New Amsterdam Festival
Sept. 10-20
Governors Island, New York
This one-time-only performance art festival will bring together 150 artists from the Netherlands and New York to create art installations, open-air performance and other art projects. Governors Island will become a temporary art colony, including the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a temporary theater street with nostalgic theater tents, bars, restaurants and an antique merry-go-round.
www.newamsterdamfestival.com.
New Amsterdam Village
Sept. 5-15
Bowling Green Park
Broadway and Beaver streets, New York
Traditional Dutch canal houses, open-air stages and windmills will be constructed to present a traditional version of Holland (yes, wooden shoemaking included). For a more contemporary portrait, a greenhouse will demonstrate innovations and energy-saving technologies developed in the Netherlands, a global leader in the industry.
Peekskill Celebration
Sept. 7-13
1008 Park Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
Established in 1997, the annual Peekskill Celebration is the largest festival in the Hudson Valley, attracting over 30,000 people from the New York City metropolitan area to the shores of the majestic Hudson in mid-summer. Festivities showcase the city’s historic and colorful maritime heritage of the Hudson River.
Albany’s Hudson 400 Celebration
Sept. 26
Albany Riverfront Park at the Corning Preserve
Mayor Jerry Jennings and the City of Albany invite you to experience the 17th Century! Take a trip back in time to when Dutch settlers and Native Americans began creating Albany.
Exhibits
Hudson Valley: Spanning the Banks
Through June 7, 2009
Albany Institute of History & Art
125 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
For 25 years, New York photographer Harry Wilks has been looking at this world from different viewpoints: from the roofs of New York’s skyscrapers to the perspective of a concrete barrier and the vantage point of a highway guardrail. Using a Widelux swing-lens camera, Wilks captures panoramic slices of the Hudson River Valley, from New York City to the Hudson Highlands, where mundane structures along roadways, industrial wastelands and abandoned gardens assume sculptural properties.
Fashioning Felt
Through Sept. 7
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presents the exhibition “Fashioning Felt,” a comprehensive overview of the varied uses of felt in contemporary design with installations by two of today’s leading hand-felters, American designer Janice Arnold and Dutch designer Claudy Jongstra. Fashioning Felt will also spotlight a number of other innovative Dutch designs, including Tord Boontje’s Little Field of Flowers carpet, LAMA Concept’s Cell LED carpet and felt jewelry by Brigit Daamen.
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson
Through Sept. 27
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson, presented in collaboration with the New Netherland Project in Albany and the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam, will employ rare 16th- and 17th-century objects, images and documents from major American and Dutch collections to bring the transatlantic world to life and reveal how Henry Hudson’s epic third voyage of exploration planted the seeds of a modern society that took root and flourished in the New World.
Aernout Mik
Through July 27
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019-5497
This exhibition presents a series of discrete installations by Aernout Mik (Dutch, b. 1962), placed in both non-gallery and gallery spaces throughout the Museum. Mik—whose work encompasses motion picture, sculpture, architecture, performance and social commentary—interrogates the nature of reality and subverts the traditional relationship between viewer and viewed.
Dutch Treats: Highlights from the collection of George Way
Through Sept. 6
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Building C
1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301
The center is organizing an exhibition of art works collected by George Way, a native Staten Islander who has amassed a unique collection of fine 16th- and 17th-century Dutch paintings, drawings, etchings and furniture.
Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered
Through Sept. 13
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
The Museum of the City of New York and Foam (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam) present Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered. Guest-curated by Kathy Ryan, photo editor of The New York Times Magazine, the exhibition will mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival in Manhattan and feature the work of contemporary Dutch photographers.
Hudson River Panorama
Through January 2010
Albany Institute of History & Art
125 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
This unprecedented year-long exhibition commemorates Henry Hudson’s 1609 exploration of the river that bears his name and the remarkable narrative of the people, events and ideas that have shaped this magnificent region.
The Glory of Dutch Bulbs: A Legacy of 400 years
Through June 7
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
The Glory of Dutch Bulbs exhibit, presented by Henry Hudson 400 and the New York Botanical Garden, features more than fifty thousand rare Dutch bulbs—including the tulip ‘Duc van Tol’ of 1595, the oldest in Holland’s famed collection—arrayed in the New York Botanical Garden’s crystal palace, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. This unprecedented indoor exhibition—inspired by the lavish gardens at Keukenhof, near Amsterdam, renowned for its vibrant spring displays—celebrates 400 years of Dutch supremacy in bulb cultivation. The spectacle will focus on tulips for the initial two weeks followed by five extravagant weeks of dazzling lilies, alliums, irises and narcissuses.
A Walking Tour Of 17th-Century Dutch New York
Through Dec. 31
The New Amsterdam Trail
To make historic Dutch Manhattan come alive for the greatest number of people, Henry Hudson 400, with the Dutch National Archives and the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy at Federal Hall, have joined forces to create the multi-platform, self-guided walking tour, “The New Amsterdam Trail.”
The trail may be accessed in a number of ways. It may be downloaded to a handheld mobile device for a self-guided walk or experienced online as an interactive virtual tour. The tour is also available as a printed brochure available at tourist sites around the city.
Dutch Barges on the Hudson
Sept. 1-20
Early on September 1, 2009, a fleet of distinctive Dutch flat-bottom boats will sail with great fanfare into New York Harbor. The distinctive “bottoms”—low-slung skûtsjes, fishing boats, barges—are direct descendants of the sailing ships that plied Dutch coastlines in the 17th century, immortalized by the country’s painters, and closely related to the first ships built in New York.
New Amsterdam Festival
Sept. 10-20
Governors Island, New York
This one-time-only performance art festival will bring together 150 artists from the Netherlands and New York to create art installations, open-air performance and other art projects. Governors Island will become a temporary art colony, including the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a temporary theater street with nostalgic theater tents, bars, restaurants and an antique merry-go-round.
www.newamsterdamfestival.com.
New Amsterdam Village
Sept. 5-15
Bowling Green Park
Broadway and Beaver streets, New York
Traditional Dutch canal houses, open-air stages and windmills will be constructed to present a traditional version of Holland (yes, wooden shoemaking included). For a more contemporary portrait, a greenhouse will demonstrate innovations and energy-saving technologies developed in the Netherlands, a global leader in the industry.
Peekskill Celebration
Sept. 7-13
1008 Park Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
Established in 1997, the annual Peekskill Celebration is the largest festival in the Hudson Valley, attracting over 30,000 people from the New York City metropolitan area to the shores of the majestic Hudson in mid-summer. Festivities showcase the city’s historic and colorful maritime heritage of the Hudson River.
Albany’s Hudson 400 Celebration
Sept. 26
Albany Riverfront Park at the Corning Preserve
Mayor Jerry Jennings and the City of Albany invite you to experience the 17th Century! Take a trip back in time to when Dutch settlers and Native Americans began creating Albany.
Exhibits
Hudson Valley: Spanning the Banks
Through June 7, 2009
Albany Institute of History & Art
125 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
For 25 years, New York photographer Harry Wilks has been looking at this world from different viewpoints: from the roofs of New York’s skyscrapers to the perspective of a concrete barrier and the vantage point of a highway guardrail. Using a Widelux swing-lens camera, Wilks captures panoramic slices of the Hudson River Valley, from New York City to the Hudson Highlands, where mundane structures along roadways, industrial wastelands and abandoned gardens assume sculptural properties.
Fashioning Felt
Through Sept. 7
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presents the exhibition “Fashioning Felt,” a comprehensive overview of the varied uses of felt in contemporary design with installations by two of today’s leading hand-felters, American designer Janice Arnold and Dutch designer Claudy Jongstra. Fashioning Felt will also spotlight a number of other innovative Dutch designs, including Tord Boontje’s Little Field of Flowers carpet, LAMA Concept’s Cell LED carpet and felt jewelry by Brigit Daamen.
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson
Through Sept. 27
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson, presented in collaboration with the New Netherland Project in Albany and the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam, will employ rare 16th- and 17th-century objects, images and documents from major American and Dutch collections to bring the transatlantic world to life and reveal how Henry Hudson’s epic third voyage of exploration planted the seeds of a modern society that took root and flourished in the New World.
Aernout Mik
Through July 27
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019-5497
This exhibition presents a series of discrete installations by Aernout Mik (Dutch, b. 1962), placed in both non-gallery and gallery spaces throughout the Museum. Mik—whose work encompasses motion picture, sculpture, architecture, performance and social commentary—interrogates the nature of reality and subverts the traditional relationship between viewer and viewed.
Dutch Treats: Highlights from the collection of George Way
Through Sept. 6
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Building C
1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301
The center is organizing an exhibition of art works collected by George Way, a native Staten Islander who has amassed a unique collection of fine 16th- and 17th-century Dutch paintings, drawings, etchings and furniture.
Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered
Through Sept. 13
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
The Museum of the City of New York and Foam (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam) present Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered. Guest-curated by Kathy Ryan, photo editor of The New York Times Magazine, the exhibition will mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival in Manhattan and feature the work of contemporary Dutch photographers.
Hudson River Panorama
Through January 2010
Albany Institute of History & Art
125 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
This unprecedented year-long exhibition commemorates Henry Hudson’s 1609 exploration of the river that bears his name and the remarkable narrative of the people, events and ideas that have shaped this magnificent region.
