Research Catalog

Title

Alex Da Corte : as long as the sun lasts / Shanay Jhaveri, Jack Halberstam, Sheena Wagstaff.

Author

Da Corte, Alex, 1980-

Publication

• New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
• New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jhaveri, Shanay
• Halberstam, Jack, 1961-
• Wagstaff, Sheena
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
• Roof Garden Commission (Exhibition) (2021 : Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden (New York, N.Y.))

Description

63 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 19 cm

Summary

"Alex Da Corte (American, born 1980) has been commissioned to create a site-specific installation for The Met's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The Roof Garden Commission: Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts will be on view from April 16 through October 31, 2021. It is the ninth in a series of site-specific commissions for the outdoor space. Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, and lives and works in Philadelphia. After training as an animator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he received a BFA in Printmaking/Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and an MFA from Yale University. Working across a range of media including film, performance, painting, installation, and sculpture, Da Corte's practice is invested in deconstructing and reinventing those objects and cultural icons that are not only familiar and beloved, but also contested. His work was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale and the 2018 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. Museums that have mounted solo exhibitions include the Prada Rong Zhai (2020), Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne (2018), Secession in Vienna (2017), MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts (2016), and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam (2015). In March 2020, Da Corte reinvented Allan Kaprow's performance Chicken (1962) as part of Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde."--

Alternative Title

• Roof Garden Commission
• As long as the sun lasts
• Roof Garden Commission, Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts.

Subject

• Da Corte, Alex, 1980- > Exhibitions
• Da Corte, Alex, 1980-
• Da Corte, Alex, 1980- > Interviews
• Site-specific installations (Art) > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• Site-specific installations (Art)
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with The Roof Garden Commission: Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 16 through October 31, 2021"--Colophon

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 61).

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Sponsor's Statement -- Director's Foreword -- In Pursuit of a Hopeful Construction Shanay Jhaveri -- Stairway to Heaven Jack Halberstam -- Transfiguration: A Conversation with Alex Da Corte Sheena Wagstaff -- As Long as the Sun Lasts, 2021 -- Selected Exhibition History.

Call Number

JQC 22-46

ISBN

• 9781588397294
• 1588397297

LCCN

2021287034

OCLC

1241244506

Author

Da Corte, Alex, 1980- artist, interviewee.

Title

Alex Da Corte : as long as the sun lasts / Shanay Jhaveri, Jack Halberstam, Sheena Wagstaff.

Publisher

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]

Distributor

New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 61).

Added Author

Jhaveri, Shanay, author.

Halberstam, Jack, 1961- author.

Wagstaff, Sheena, author, interviewer.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Roof Garden Commission (Exhibition) (2021 : Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden (New York, N.Y.))

Added Title

Roof Garden Commission, Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts.

Research Call Number

JQC 22-46