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MAYOR BLOOMBERG, GOVERNOR PATERSON AND LOCAL OFFICIALS OPEN FIRST SECTION OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK

Portion of Pier 1 on the Brooklyn Waterfront - the First of Six Piers to be Developed as Part of the Park - Opens with New Promenade, Lawns, a Playground and the "Granite Prospect"

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Governor David A. Paterson and local officials today opened the first portion of Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Pier 1 includes the first of the park's waterfront promenades, lawns, a playground and the "Granite Prospect," a set of steps built from granite stones where park goers will be able to sit and enjoy the scenery. Earlier this month, the Mayor and Governor announced an agreement that gives the City the primary responsibility of developing the entire 85-acre park. Once completed, it will stretch along the Brooklyn waterfront from Atlantic Avenue to Jay Street, north of the Manhattan Bridge. The Mayor was joined at the announcement at Pier 1 by State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, Assembly Member Joan L. Millman, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Council Member Steven Levin, Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert C. Lieber, Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Empire State Development (ESD) Chairman and CEO designate Dennis Mullen and Executive Director Peter Davidson, Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation President Regina Myer, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Executive Director Christopher O. Ward, and Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Chairman David Kramer.

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The metamorphosis from private collection to public museum is an extraordinary transition. For the Guggenheim, this occurred in 1937, when Solomon R. Guggenheim established a foundation empowered to operate a museum that would publicly exhibit and preserve his holdings of nonobjective art. Today the Guggenheim is a museum in multiple locations with access to shared collections, common constituencies, and joint programming. Nevertheless, it is the permanent collection that constitutes the very core of the institution, no matter how far-reaching the foundation’s activities may be.

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A death-centric mindset drew friends Kara Tanaka and Marco Rios into collaboration for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The resulting exhibit Death's Boutique gave rise to a broader evaluation of alternative burial techniques and premeditated ends. The duo traveled to Sweden in exploration of an environmentally friendly method of human decomposition and continued on to Lithuania to fathom its impetuous standing for highest suicide rate.

Rios' witty wordplay and gruesome humor morphed the somber and impersonal first impression of the exhibit. For the postmortem process, fanciful and slightly over-sized poly-jet resin instruments, such as his "Affectionate Cranial Scoop," were reminiscent of ancient Egyptian embalming tools. But I'm sure not too many Egyptians would have employed Rios' "Heart Extractor" since that particular organ was an afterlife essential. Yet, the artist's use of a 3D printer for sculptural execution seemed quite impersonal. I want to take my time to inspect and feel the physical effort and emotional intensity in a work. An image manipulated through CAD and printed in successive layers is less enticing. Once I get the joke, I'm gone.

Tanaka focused on the environmental benefit of freeze-dried remains through her adeptly named series "Social Leveler (When Immortality Became Uncouth)." Twelve identical pink sugar sculptures clustered in the middle left of the gallery and reached from three to eight inches in height as they sat atop individual pedestals. From the left wall protruded a much larger "Social Leveler (LeMoyne Deluxe)" to set the scene. One could almost imagine the body being submerged in liquid nitrogen within this metal coffin-esqe container and coming out as the pink powdery remains Tanaka so skillfully recreated. Was that too much? I promise it looks a lot milder than it sounds.

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A death-centric mindset drew friends Kara Tanaka and Marco Rios into collaboration for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The resulting exhibit Death's Boutique gave rise to a broader evaluation of alternative burial techniques and premeditated ends. The duo traveled to Sweden in exploration of an environmentally friendly method of human decomposition and continued on to Lithuania to fathom its impetuous standing for highest suicide rate.

Rios' witty wordplay and gruesome humor morphed the somber and impersonal first impression of the exhibit. For the postmortem process, fanciful and slightly over-sized poly-jet resin instruments, such as his "Affectionate Cranial Scoop," were reminiscent of ancient Egyptian embalming tools. But I'm sure not too many Egyptians would have employed Rios' "Heart Extractor" since that particular organ was an afterlife essential. Yet, the artist's use of a 3D printer for sculptural execution seemed quite impersonal. I want to take my time to inspect and feel the physical effort and emotional intensity in a work. An image manipulated through CAD and printed in successive layers is less enticing. Once I get the joke, I'm gone.

Tanaka focused on the environmental benefit of freeze-dried remains through her adeptly named series "Social Leveler (When Immortality Became Uncouth)." Twelve identical pink sugar sculptures clustered in the middle left of the gallery and reached from three to eight inches in height as they sat atop individual pedestals. From the left wall protruded a much larger "Social Leveler (LeMoyne Deluxe)" to set the scene. One could almost imagine the body being submerged in liquid nitrogen within this metal coffin-esqe container and coming out as the pink powdery remains Tanaka so skillfully recreated. Was that too much? I promise it looks a lot milder than it sounds.

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