Checkmate will transform sTudio 6 gallery into a symmetrical world of fantasy and fun. Just like the game of chess where each game piece has its own method of moving across the board, each artist participating in this showcase expresses their own technique and uniqueness through painting or photography. In sTudio 7 gallery, patrons will enter into a season of delight. Spring into Flowers will bring the outdoor garden indoors. Budding blossoms, electrifying colors; experience the spectacular view of a variety of flowers that we like to call “flower art”.

Opening reception May 13. Artists: Natalie Jeremijenko and xClinic, Mary Miss, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and George Trakas. Co-organized with The Noguchi Museum and curated by Amy Smith-Stewart.

The LIC Arts Open is back for more. Putting Queens on the cultural map for a second year in a row, the festival takes over Long Island City and brings with it the new and noteworthy. We’ve got the cultural fix you’ve been looking for.

The photography of Audrey Gottlieb will be on exhibit in the Visitor & Administration Building Gallery of the Queens Botanical Garden. Artist’s Talk May 19.

Cartoons come to life at the New York Hall of Science during Animation, a 6,000-square-foot exhibition featuring characters from the Cartoon Network. The exhibition explores animation from concept to finished product — from storyboarding, character design, and drawing techniques to movement, timing, filming and sound. Larger-than-life graphics of popular Cartoon Network characters provide a colorful backdrop to the exhibition, which also explores the history of animation and features a screening room and a cartoon museum.

A world dance premiere musical.

Featuring the work of Puerto Rican artist Edwin Cadiz. Reception April 21 at 2 p.m.

Opening Reception: April 22, 5-7 pm. Bollinger made significant waves in the late 1960s, challenging the limits of sculpture and expanding thought regarding concept, materiality, and commodity. His works were made from primarily pre-fabricated industrial supplies, such as sawhorses, oil drums, rubber tubing and cyclone fence. Focusing on the gesture of construction and the physical limits of material, Bollinger’s work addressed ideas of gravity, balance and material nature. According to him his interests lay not ‘in the aesthetics of form but in the fact of form’. He frequently used water for as a material, transforming it into something sculptural with mass and form as it fills a plastic hose or a steel barrel. Bollinger summed up his attitude to the making of his work: ‘It is all very easy to execute, does not exist until it has been executed, ceases to exist when it has been taken down.’

Yegam Art Space is pleased to present Eco Friendly Art Project : Terra-fic Garden, new and recent workst of three artists, Jongil Ma, Youngmi Kim and Sisun Song.The show focuses on the social functions of art and how art should take a role in a social and cultural way for the public. The opening reception will take place on April 28th Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The installation Industry/Cinema is a split-screen work that juxtaposes images from industrial films and popular films made between 1896 and 1991. With specialized dual-channel headphones, visitors are able to toggle between the soundtracks, creating an ever-changing interplay between sound and image as they take an illuminating journey through film history.

Animation. a 6,000 square exhibit features characters from the Cartoon Network, including larger than life graphics, animation from concept to finished product, storyboarding, character design and drawing. 9:30 am–5 pm.

Free computer classes offered by the State University of New York Center for Academic and Workforce Development. Beginner and advanced Microsoft Office certification: Introduction to Excel, March 19 to April 24, each Monday and Tuesday, 10:30 am-12:30 pm; Introduction to Computers, March 19 to April 24, each Monday and Tuesday, 1:30-3pm; Computer Skills for the Workplace, May 7 to June 12, each Monday and Tuesday, 1:30-3pm; Excel Certification, March 21 to June 13, each Wednesday and Thursday, 6-8pm. 10:30am.

The festival will feature a DJ playing modern and traditional Greek music for listening and dancing. Students from the parish parochial school will perform Greek folk dances in traditional costume all four days. Greek food (souvlaki, gyro, pastitsio, moussaka, leg of lamb) and pastries such as baklava, galactobouriko (custard pie), finikia (honey cookies), kourabiedes (almond cookies topped with confectioners sugar), and loukoumades (fried dough topped with honey, similar to zeppole) are among the delicacies to be served. Also featured will be carnival rides for children and games of skill and chance for kids and adults. Jewelry, books, hand-crocheted clothing and linens, reproductions of ancient Greek statues and vases, DVDs and CDs featuring Greek music, hand-made arts and crafts, and religious artifacts will be available for purchase. A flea market featuring a wide variety of items, including antiques, will also be featured. 5 pm.

Everyone welcome to attend to honor this year’s outstanding local high school senior scholarship winners. 6–9 pm.

RSVP by May 11. 6 pm.

Celebrate women’s health at Elmhurst Hospital Center. 6:30 pm.

RSVP. Celebrating Elmhurst Hospital Center. 6:30 pm.

Set on the last day of an art exhibition, Museum takes a look at the wacky and wonderful characters who inhabit galleries. Come see a seasoned cast of 18 actors play 44 characters in this dazzling new production of Tina Howe’s seldom-performed 1978 gem. Previews on May 12 and 13. 8 pm.

Checkmate will transform sTudio 6 gallery into a symmetrical world of fantasy and fun. Just like the game of chess where each game piece has its own method of moving across the board, each artist participating in this showcase expresses their own technique and uniqueness through painting or photography. In sTudio 7 gallery, patrons will enter into a season of delight. Spring into Flowers will bring the outdoor garden indoors. Budding blossoms, electrifying colors; experience the spectacular view of a variety of flowers that we like to call “flower art”.

Opening reception May 13. Artists: Natalie Jeremijenko and xClinic, Mary Miss, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and George Trakas. Co-organized with The Noguchi Museum and curated by Amy Smith-Stewart.

The photography of Audrey Gottlieb will be on exhibit in the Visitor & Administration Building Gallery of the Queens Botanical Garden. Artist’s Talk May 19.

The LIC Arts Open is back for more. Putting Queens on the cultural map for a second year in a row, the festival takes over Long Island City and brings with it the new and noteworthy. We’ve got the cultural fix you’ve been looking for.

Cartoons come to life at the New York Hall of Science during Animation, a 6,000-square-foot exhibition featuring characters from the Cartoon Network. The exhibition explores animation from concept to finished product — from storyboarding, character design, and drawing techniques to movement, timing, filming and sound. Larger-than-life graphics of popular Cartoon Network characters provide a colorful backdrop to the exhibition, which also explores the history of animation and features a screening room and a cartoon museum.

A world dance premiere musical.

Featuring the work of Puerto Rican artist Edwin Cadiz. Reception April 21 at 2 p.m.

Opening Reception: April 22, 5-7 pm. Bollinger made significant waves in the late 1960s, challenging the limits of sculpture and expanding thought regarding concept, materiality, and commodity. His works were made from primarily pre-fabricated industrial supplies, such as sawhorses, oil drums, rubber tubing and cyclone fence. Focusing on the gesture of construction and the physical limits of material, Bollinger’s work addressed ideas of gravity, balance and material nature. According to him his interests lay not ‘in the aesthetics of form but in the fact of form’. He frequently used water for as a material, transforming it into something sculptural with mass and form as it fills a plastic hose or a steel barrel. Bollinger summed up his attitude to the making of his work: ‘It is all very easy to execute, does not exist until it has been executed, ceases to exist when it has been taken down.’

Yegam Art Space is pleased to present Eco Friendly Art Project : Terra-fic Garden, new and recent workst of three artists, Jongil Ma, Youngmi Kim and Sisun Song.The show focuses on the social functions of art and how art should take a role in a social and cultural way for the public. The opening reception will take place on April 28th Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The installation Industry/Cinema is a split-screen work that juxtaposes images from industrial films and popular films made between 1896 and 1991. With specialized dual-channel headphones, visitors are able to toggle between the soundtracks, creating an ever-changing interplay between sound and image as they take an illuminating journey through film history.

American director Wes Anderson has built colorful, beautifully realized worlds in his seven feature films, from his stunning debut Bottle Rocket to his latest Cannes Film Festival opening feature, Moonrise Kingdom. Museum of the Moving Image will present a Wes Anderson retrospective including all of his features and the short Hotel Chevalier, as well as a special screening of Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons—a film that inspired Anderson. Each screening in the series will open with a personal video introduction by Wes Anderson.