Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 116

museumsfrart B29 COVER STORY A museum for the people Dtar Park Aw 43M41-U44 AYVIUi Pctar Boytc Photographs works in Hack and white and color through April library 34 School St 51643-2765 E11P0RT "A Trio of Images" paintings by Sharon Way-Howard Winona McKenna and Jackie Zagon through May 2 a jil-5 pm daily (closed Monday) Phoenix 13a Main St 431-7760611 "inner and Outer Landscapes" works by Aytac Aydogan Edwards 2-4 pan Sundays through April 25 Unitarian Bay 51 Browns Lane 631-2964459 EAST HAMPTON "Two Artists" new large-scala East End landscapes by photographer Ken Robbins with a new series of landscapes in oil by Waiter Us stead he places enormous faith in the exhibition ability to make objects speak by surrounding them with boldly painted walls videos interactive computer screens and wall texts in English and Spanish The most recent makeover wrought by the chief designer Matthew Yokobosky is the' Hall of the Americas which reopens this weekend with objects that have been mostly out of sight for the past three years ment of the museum to art scene and the growth of the art scene said Charlot-ta Kotik chief curator for contemporary art The museum has had the good sense to recognize that as an established institution in a burgeoning borough it can serve as both receptacle and catalyst To put together Kotik and her assistant curator Tumelo Mosaka trooped around to hundreds of studios in Red Hook Greenpoint Williamsburg MUSEUM from B3 and into an informal amphitheater surfaced in wood planks This stoop Lehman said evokes the boardwalk at Coney Island or the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights plaza and lobby strike a balance between preservation and transformation The dome is stepped in glass risers like ghostly traces of the vanished grand staircase Today's visitors can simply amble down foe gentle pitch into foe ground-level entrance Once inside the glass membrane rli original limestone temple-front looms through the transparent ceiling like an artifact in an exhibition It is surely this ever-present piece of the past that persuaded the Landmarks Commission to approve radical intervention with uncharacteristic unanimity At ground level the veneer of masonry disappears revealing the raw brick barrel vaults beneath so the entrance has a distinctly post-industrial and very Brooklynite combination of proletarian brick shiny steel and virtually invisible glass If the new exterior represents foe architectural manifesto of a populist museum trapped in the body of an august institution the real work of reinvention has been going cm inside created a receptacle that will make it possible to do all sorts of crazy things and dignified things" Polshek said Reinstalling thn collection For several years in foe decorous galleries beyond foe new lobby curators have been reinstalling foe collection department by department trying to achieve a balance between seriousness and pizzazz A year ago foe museum reor-ganized its Egyptian collection one of the most important in the world hauling works out of storage and arranging some in chronological order others in thematic groups Lehman does not rely on art to articulate its own appeaL In- League's Membership Challenge Show through April 91 library 111 Park Ave 514-432-7200 MAHHASSET National League of American Pen Women: Spring Membership Art Exhibit through May 25 lm-3 pm Monday-Friday 10 am-noon Sunday Shelter Rock Gallery Unitarian Uniwrsal-ist Congregation 41 Shelter Rock Rd 516627-6560 MATT1TUCK "Congressional High School Art Competition presented by East End Arts Council through April 23 library Main Street 631-727-0900 I4ELVHLE "Art-trium" works by Mary Mendoza Sandy Nemer-off and collaborative artists Stefla Cassio and Barbara Miller through May 15 9 am-5 pm Monday-Friday Atrium 25 Melville Park Rd 631-271-4423 OAKDAIi "Artist Project: Tlie Living Classroom" installation by Barbara Confmo including City" chronicling the contemporary urban experience through AprH 25 10 am-4 pm Wednes-day-Saturday noon-4 pm Sunday Anthony Giordano Gallery Dowling College Idle Hour Boulevard 631-2463016 PORT WASHINGTON "Tropical Paradise" Nik and watercoiors by Ruth DanidSk through April am-7 pm weekdays 10 am -5 pm weekend Haven Art 29 Haven Ave 5169466765 gallery talk and demonstration 7:30 pm Tuesday "Robert Toedter Artworks" "Edith Seitzer" wall sculpture both through April library 1 Library Dr 516483-4400 QU0GUE "Bay Artists Alliance" works by June Ciancio Helen Giaquinte Barbara (Moeller and Constance Moms through April library Quogue Street 432-6(3-4224 MVCKHEAD "Best of Show and Peoples Choice 7003" new works by Pat D'Aversa Chris Slavropo-lis Rosamaria Karan Abate doses Sunday a -5 pm Wednesday-Saturday 10 am-3 pm Sunday Blue Door 40 Main St 631-2064166 a "AH About juried show featuring works by Denise Fehr doses tomorrow IS am-4 pm Monday-Saturday noon-5 pm Sunday East End Arts Council 133 Main St 631-727-19001 "Spring Celebration' works by East End Photographers Group through May 9 Image 119 Griff mg Aw 631-1269612 ROCKVILLE CENTRE "Artful Transformations" group show of watercoiors created through meditation through Apnl 21 10 am-t pm Monday-Saturday Moiloy Cottage 1000 Hempstead Aw 5166765000 SAG HARBOR Recent still-lifes florals and portraits by Lou Sprtalnick through May 1 11 am-5 pm Friday-Sunday The Light Registry 2 Rose St 411-725-2531 SELDEN "Congressional High School Art Competition" present -ed by East End Arts Council through April 23 Middle Country library 575 Middle Country Rd 631-727-0900 SETAUKET "Botanies" works by 12 artists inspired by nature including Bruce Liebermaa Keelin Murphy Joseph Reboli and Ty Stroudsburg opens with reception 2-5 pm Sunday through May 91 am-5 pm Tues-day-Saturday noon-5 pm Sunday Gallery Nortti 90 Country Rd 631-751-2674 SOUTHAMPTON Works by the abstract expressionist Herman Cherry through April noon-5 pm weekdays Avram Gallery Southampton College 239 Mon-tauk Aw 431-207-0234 STONY BROOK "Recent ods by Barron Krody recaption 2-5 pjn Sunday through May 13 19 am -4 pm Monday-Saturday noon-5 pm Sunday Christopher Gallery 131 Main St 631-6061601 FART 2 wwwnewsdaycom EA5DAY FR-DAY AFRIL16 2004 Lizan Tops Newtown Lane-431-3263424 "Selections From the Lahr Collection of 19th and 20th Century Master Photographs" works by Avedoa Atget Close Fisdd Mapplethorpe Man Ray Samarat Weegee many others closes Monday 11 arn-t pjn Thursday Sunday and Monday 11 ojiv-7 pun Friday 11 am-9 pjn Saturday Vend Park Place 131-324-3303 EAST HUS "Portrait of Eternal People: A Jewish Family Album' photography by Zion Ozerl through May 21 II am-5 pjn Monday-Thursday and Sunday am-4 pjn Friday Sid Jacobson JCC AM Forest Dr 5164061545 EAST SETAUKET "Different Strokes" works by Jeff Pulten Cody Dresser Sand! Woesrmer and Keel in Murphy through April 2k noon-7 pjn Wednesday-Fri-day noon-5 pjn Saturday and Sunday Spkinata 243 Main St UHWm FREEPOKT "The Hth Annual Juried Photography Show" presented by the Long Island Arts Council through AprH 29 library 144 Merrick Rd 514-379-3274 GARDEN CITY Works (painting drawing sculpture photography graphic design mixed media) by students in the Nassau Community College art department opens Wednesday through May 12 am-4 pjn Monday-Wednesday llarn-7 pjn Thursday noon-4 pjn Saturday Firehouse Gallery Nassau Community College 1 Education Dr 514-572-7145 "Chasing Waterfalls and Other Obsessions" recent paintings and works on paper by Emily Barnett through April It 1 am-7 pjn Monday-Saturday Adeiphi University Canter Gallery 1 South Ave 514477-4460 GLEN COVE "The Jew as Other A Century of English Caricature from the Israel Solomons Collection through April 951 am-4dl pjn Monday-Friday 11 am4 pjn Sunday Holocaust Welwyn Preserve 1U0 Crescent Beach Rd 516571-9040 GREAT NECK Works by Art Guild of Port Washington through June 30 Gallery Upstairs at the Frame Factory 731 Middleneck ltd 514-402-7444 GREENPORT "Some Works From Jamaica" (works by Juliet Thomburn Irako Esias Baker Donovan "Akete" Chevers Tukula Ntama and Orah-El through April 2k noon-5 pjn Saturday and Sunday kehous 414 First St 431-477-1745 HEWIETT Calligraphic art by Island Scribes through May 1 library 1125 516374-1967 HUNTINGTON "Verge" paintings by Gwen Hardie through May 12 11:30 am-5 pm Wednesday-Sat-urday Alpati 2 Carver St 631-423-4433 "The Somnambulist" paintings by Kevin Larkin with "Through the Years welded metal sculptures by Elsa Blum through April 251 11 am-5 pm Tuesday-Sunday (until 9 pjn Friday) bj spoke 299 Main St 631-549-5106 The colonnaded court is now awash in purple midnight blue gold and orange Each column sports a polychrome coat of paint and the walls are splashed with murals evoking an assortment of Indian tribes As the eye pans across the gallery it travels from brilliant sunrise at one end to dusk at the other No dusty dioramas here in Brooklyn American Indian artifacts perform in a set piece of extravagant theater In keeping with its good-neighbor policy the museum is also mounting Open House: Working in Brooklyn" a showcase of 200 local artists This is not the first foray into the artistic thickets but it is by far the most ambitious "The scope of the show reflects the commit- HJjAI HtiUf kuL OAtfib CONSTRUCTION WORKERS hurry to get the Brooklyn Museum's new glass lobby ready for its unveiling this weekend The museum is at 200 Eastern Pkwy DUMBO Bedford Stuyvcsant and Sunset Park often guided by artists who recommended each other Mosaka pointed out that unlike Manhattan Brooklyn really does have a community of artists rather than an agglomeration of isolated egos Their camaraderie reinforces foe sense of the Brooklyn Museum as a neighborhood fixture fostering the creativity and attracting a walk-in crowd While Lehman has encouraged make that ordered the curators to act locally Polshek dearly has the more magniloquent ambitions of the late 1800s in mind No amount of right-thinking liberalism could turn the limestone temple on Eastern Parkway into a jolly community center and the architects didn't try Instead they crafted a new sort of monument a weightless antechamber leading from the street to the sanctum and introducing the present to the past ink animal prints by Katharine Trunk through April library 1 Bluegrass Lane 516731-5721 LOCUST VAUfY "Art for Art's Sake" multimedia artworks by Julia Antal through April 24 library 171 Buckram Rd 516471-1637 LONG BEACH "Letter Number Symbols' long Beach Art pm Monday-Friday Main Street Petite Gallery 213 Main St 631-271-1423 "Members' Exhibition' photography by artists through April 25 49 pjn Friday noorv4 pjn Saturday noon-5 pjn Sunday Stepping Stone 354 New York Ave 631-547-6243 1EWTT0WN Acrylic and pen and noond pjn Tdesday-Friday 2-4 pm Saturday Inter-Media Art Center (IMAC) 370 New York Am 631-549-2717 "Masters Show" works by winners from the past year's landscape portrait and photography Juried exhibitions at the Huntington Arts Council opens Monday through Juno 14 9 am-5 "Duplicity' photographic installation by Alii Rufrano examining the nuda figure through May 2 69 pjn Friday noon pjn Saturday noon-5 pjn Sunday Foto Fotot 372 Now Voric A 631-549-9440 "Accumulations: Photographs Since the works by Joan Harrison through April 23.