New York Center of Photography and the Moving Image

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580 8th Ave, 7th Floor
Manhattan, NY 10018
212-354-3825
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Description:

The New York Center of Photography and The Moving Image, also to be known as NY Center of Photography and The Moving Image, or simply NYCPMI is an emergent new museum with a mission that includes the exhibition, screening and collecting of important, unique works of contemporary photography, film and video art by established, mid-career, and emerging artists of outstanding talent from around the world.

NYCPMI will also conceive and present exhibitions drawing from its rapidly expanding permanent collection, which is comprised of an impressive blend of photographic, cinematic and video works of art, currently numbering more than 600 pieces dating from the second half of the 20th century, through the first decade of the 21st century. As part of its ambitious ongoing long-term acquisition program, NYCPMI is committed to adding up to 1,000 new works annually to its permanent collection.

The ultimate aim of our program is to assist, recognize and promote the most talented affiliated as well as independent artists working in the creative mediums of photography, film and video art. NYCPMI will fulfill it's mission through collaboration with professional galleries, other institutions, individuals and organizations worldwide.

NYCPMI will edit and publish it's own web magazine on contemporary photography, film and video within it's official website, www.nycpmi.org. The aforementioned site will be launched 4th March 2011 in conjunction with the inaugural opening of NYCPMI. Content will include news, reviews and feature articles on contemporary photography, film and video art, as well as profiles of personalities from those mediums.

The www.nycpmi.org magazine will also publish monthly listings of exhibitions and screenings, as well as other special events relevant to the NYC contemporary photography, film and video art community. Another important section of the NYCPMI web magazine will showcase previews of short films and videos, together with commentary and/or reviews, as well as interviews of the artists.

H. P. Garcia is the Founding Director of NYCPMI.

Members of the NYCPMI Advisory Board include Henry Rasmussen; Founding Publisher and Editor of Black & White and Color magazines, Kim Levin; the respected art critic and curator, Jonathan Goodman; the New York-based poet, writer and critic who specializes in contemporary art. He has written for magazines such as Art in America and Sculpture. He currently writes for the Internet journal ArtCritical.com and the magazine Art Asia Pacific. He also teaches at two New York City art schoolsPratt Institute and the Parsons School of Design, A.D. Coleman; photography art writer extraordinaire, former photography critic of The New York Times and international photography museum curator, Milton Fletcher; an independent curator of photography film and video and a writer at the Aperture Foundation, Kan Jeff Baysa; the writer, art critic and independent curator, Simon Esterson; Curator of Photography at the Tate Modern in London, and Whitney May; an Assistant Curator at MoMA. Other members of the NYCPMI Advisory Board will be announced shortly.

NYCPMI is ensconced at 580 Eighth Avenue, between 38th and 39th Street in Manhattan, where it currently occupies 8,000 square feet of space on the 6th and 7th floor. As part of the center's plans for fast expansion, NYCPMI will be adding two more floors by the Autumn of 2011, with an additional one by the spring of 2012 for a total of 20,000 square feet on 5 levels.

Hours:

Monday:
Tuesday: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Wednesday: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Thursday: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Friday: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Sunday:

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