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32-01 Vernon Blvd. Long Island City, NY 11106

718-956-1819 

http://www.socratessculpturepark.org  

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32-01 Vernon Blvd. Long Island City NY 11106

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A once abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite, Socrates Sculpture Park, is now a premier site for large-scale outdoor work exhibits. Hours: Daily 10am-sunset








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  • REEL PATRIOTS

    REEL PATRIOTS

    By Angela Ashman | Wed, June 27, 2012

    Raise your hand if you groaned when you realized you would not be getting a three-day weekend this Fourth of July. To make it up to you, Rooftop Films is presenting a completely free outdoor program of short films titled The American Experience,... More »

  • Dustin Wong

    Dustin Wong

    By Richard Gehr | Wed, June 27, 2012

    The former member of both Ecstatic Sunshine and the late, lamented Ponytail here delivers a solo electric guitar set as prelude to a program of short films. Once a loud and ragged expressionist, Wong has evolved into a tightly controlled weaver... More »

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  • 2012 | Best Artsy Dog Walk

    In 1986, sculptor Mark Di Suvero spearheaded a campaign to transform an illegal Queens dump site into an open-air exhibition space. A quarter-century later, you and man's best friend can stroll through the grassy expanse here surrounded by artworks that might use an entire Ford Mustang or swathes of birdseed as materials. Established artists such as Catherine Opie--whose fiery billboard straddles the steel entrance gates--mix with young unknowns who wrangle concrete slabs and... More »

  • 2002 | Best Aesthetically Pleasing Landfill

    In 1986 a group of artists led by Mark di Suvero transformed an abandoned strip of land by the East River in Queens from an illegal dump site into the SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, an outdoor studio and exhibition space for large-scale works of art. The park's current pieces range from conceptual (a tombstone with accompanying chalk inviting visitors to scrawl epitaphs) to formal (a stone sculpture involving a system of mirrors that defies explanation). The East River provides a lovely backdrop... More »

  • 2001 | Best Sculpture Park

    The homely old man of Greek philosophy may have enjoyed walking about with his pupils in this four-and-a-half-acre park, using the artworks (from the whimsical to the monumental), created by a varying roster of artists, to Examine Life or just the remains of a tattered soul. In the informal haven of SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, the pieces look comfortable, inviting you to examine them at your leisure. And nothing beats the backdrop to do so--Manhattan across the East River, surely the mother... More »

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