Matt Irie and Dominick Talvacchio, Lamppost (rendering), 2009

So, okay, it’s cold outside, but that doesn’t mean you want your brain to freeze.  You can take a short art trip outside to Brooklyn’s Metrotech- a skip and a hop from most Brooklyn neighborhoods and enjoy an escape to another world. This is an art show where no one has be to be shushed or told not to touch.  On the contrary, kids can run around, under and even, through the art at the Public Art Fund’s exhibit, “Double Take.” This group exhibit is perfect for children because of its magical and sometimes silly qualities.  A lamppost (see photo above), folds over into the ground, leaving a large crater in its wake and a ghost plays peekabo among the bare winter trees. Four other artists showcase works that play with illusion: a bonfire that needs a flame and a chain link fence that dissolves into pixels.  Since the exhibit is up until September 10, 2010, you can experience the glow of the street lamp’s light at winter’s early dusk or admire the spongy grass the light plunges into in the summer months. 
Details: MetroTech Center is located in downtown Brooklyn between Jay Street and Flatbush Avenue at Myrtle Avenue.
Subways: A, C, F to Jay Street/Borough Hall, exit at Myrtle Promenade; R to Lawrence Street; Q to Dekalb Avenue.

*****Viewing hours are dawn to dusk daily for outdoor works and Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm, for Natasha Johns-Messenger’s ThisSideIn in the lobby of One MetroTech Center.

A Ghost at the Double Take Exhibit

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