The Roof Garden Commission by Pierre Huyghe was my favorite exhibit. Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris) will install the third in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Huyghe has spent the past 25 years working across media to create ritualistic and immersive encounters with art. At the Met, his project will explore the continuous transformation of cultural and natural systems through a complex grouping of heterogeneous elements derived from the Museum’s collection, architecture, and its environs. A related installation, Pierre Huyghe: Human Mask, will present the New York premiere of Huyghe’s new 19-minute video, Untitled (Human Mask) , which portrays a mysterious creature’s resilience in the aftermath of natural and man-made disaster.

  
  

After visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art <http://www.metmuseum.org/> yesterday I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. There was so much to see, I woke up this morning at 6am and and went for a run in Central Park to decompress. The awe of being is such a big, buzy city along with seeing tons of art makes me appreciate the PNW that much more.    

   Time Square   The Met.

Opening: Thursday June 25th, 6-8 pm

On view: June 26th–July 3rd, 2015

Film screening and performance eventing: Sunday June 28th, 7-9 PM
Judith Charles Gallery | 196 Bowery

Website: fl0atingp0int.com
Curated by Paddy Johnson
Columbia University and Judith Charles Gallery are pleased to debut Floating Point, an exhibition of 49 of New York’s most promising young artists from the Columbia MFA program. The show includes work in all mediums—from browser bending video work to terrifying sculptural visions of the future to lush abstract painting.
Because the unifying thread of this exhibition is the shared space these artists make their work, the show’s title pays homage to that building. Floating Point, a computational term that refers to a formula or code that approximates a real number, was first used in what is now the Columbia studios in Watson Hall. (Between 1948-1954 they housed the IBM 610, first personal computer and between 1955-1968 NORC the first supercomputer. Both used the formula.) 
Perhaps more importantly though, Floating Point proves an apt allusion to art making processes that try to find a balance between ambiguity and precision. Unlike in computing, though, there’s no fixed formula to achieve such harmony. It is achieved only through working tirelessly in the studio a job these MFAers have done diligently every day for the past two years. 
Participating artists include: Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Cristina Camacho, Jenny Cho, Sam Cockrell, Carla Cisno, Kelsey Elverum, Devra Fox, Ector Garcia, Cy Gavin, Ilana Harris-Babou, Patrice Helmar, Mike Hewson, Brooke Holloway, Cary Hulbert, Bryan Jabs, Stephen Paul Jackson, Talia Link, Yujin Lee, Dana Lok, Coby Kennedy, Jonah King, Bora Kim, Emily Kloppenburg, Nicole Maloof, Julia Medynska, Ioana Manolache, Pablo Montealegre, Matthew Morrocco, Leah Moskowitz, JP Mot, Filip Nikoljski, Gina O’Connor, Justin Olerud, Ilaria Ortensi, Lorella Paleni, Ruth Patir, Sondra Perry, Julia Phillips, Vivian Qin, Meredith Sands, Lynn Spanke, Frank Spigner, Michael Stablein, Jr., Rachel Stern, Alex Strada, Victoria Udondian, August Vollbrecht, Cameron Welch, Jonathan Bruce Williams and Jiwoon Yoon