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With its world-class opera, ballet, philharmonic and film programming, Lincoln Center is already a microcosm of what makes New York so goddamn great. And the iconic venue is celebrating that very fact with its latest addition: from multidisciplinary artist Josh S. Rose comes Lincoln Center Arrival Tableau, NYC, a sweeping new multimedia installation that immersively captures the center's performers, students and audiences—from casual filmgoers outside Alice Tully Hall to backstage with the professional dancers of the New York City Ballet—turning the entire westside campus in a living and loving portrait of New York’s performing arts community.
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The 140-foot digital mural spans photography, video and "physical intervention," on view in David Geffen Hall and across Lincoln Center’s public video installation network along 65th Street, "capturing the shared experiences between everyday life and performance," per a press release.
The staggering piece will feature imagery set in and among the center's vast array of cultural institutions, including The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Film at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Theater, The Juilliard School, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, School of American Ballet and The Metropolitan Opera.
“Within the tableau is a play of performance as well as life behind the stage or even out of the venues and onto the streets,” says Rose. “This, for me, is the special part of New York City and why Lincoln Center is such an incredible institution. There is no place in the world where what happens on stage is so well-reflected with what happens on the street. The city is always a kind of stage for the people who live here. Manhattan has a special kind of verticality to it that makes middle grounds feel like backgrounds, emulating a proscenium wherever you go. The city itself is a performance. It’s the world stage and the regular lives of New Yorkers are somehow heightened by the fact that their life journeys meld onto the stages that live in their own city.”
