MAD Announces Its Summer Programs, Kick Off May 20

Highlights of MAD's May programs include the popular MAD Family Day on Saturday, May 15, where children and their families are invited to spend a funfilled day of art making at the Museum; special workshops on how to make your on bamboo bike frames, on Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16; an Artist Talk on Thursday, May 20, with ArtNews Executive Editor Robin Cembalest and internationally celebrated artist Xu Bing, featured in MAD's current exhibition Dead or Alive and more.

For children and their families, MAD presents its hands-on craft workshops, Studio Sundays, Sundays from 2:00-4:00pm.

For more information on MAD's programs in May click here. The Museum of Arts and Design is located at 2 Columbus Circle. For information, contact 212.299.7790 or log on to www.madmuseum.org. All programs are subject to change.

MAY 2010 PROGRAMS SCHEDULE:

MAD Family Day
Saturday, May 15th, 11:00am-2:00pm
All ages 5 and up welcome. Admission $30 per family, $25 for members.
All materials provided. No reservations required, but space is limited. For more information, call 212.299.7780.
MAD's Family Day is a day-long program filled with activities designed for youngsters and their adult companions. In conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Dead or Alive, which showcases mind-blowing artworks made from organic materials, MAD'S Family Day offers hands-on craft workshops, including sessions how to make bicycles from organic bamboo, galleries tours, and a special children's film series.

Hands-on workshops with Bamboo bikes
Saturday, May 15th and Sunday, May 16th 2010 at 11:00am
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission.
In conjunction with its design exhibition, Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle, featuring over twenty hand-built bicycles by some of the best known builders in the field, the Museum offers workshops on building bamboo bikes conducted by the Bamboo Bike Studio. A builder will demonstrate how to assemble bike frames made from Bamboo.

Photo Booth
Opens Saturday, May 15th 2010
The Museum is setting up a digital photo booth just outside of the Museum building in conjunction with MAD's bicycle exhibition, Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle, displaying over twenty hand-built bicycles designed by internationally renowned bicycle builders. A photo booth will give visitors the opportunity to take a picture of themselves with their "best" friend. Photos can then be downloaded from the Museum's website photo gallery.

Studio Sundays: 3D Landscapes in a Book
Sunday, May 16th at 2:00pm
$10 per individual, includes admission and all materials.
No reservations required, space is limited. Info: 212.299.7780
Many artists have been inspired by the location of MAD, 2 Columbus Circle. Participants of this hands-on family workshop will create a three dimensional fold-out landscape using a variety of pop-up paper
techniques.

In Conversation-Artist Talk: Artist Xu Bing speaks with ARTnews Editor
Robin Cembalest
Thursday, May 20th at 6:30pm
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission; reservations required. For more
information email groups@madmuseum.org
Internationally celebrated artist Xu Bing, featured in the exhibition Dead or Alive, sits down with Robin Cembalest, Executive Editor of ARTnews, to discuss his practice and body of work. Bing's large- scale installation, Background Story 3, takes a prominent place in the exhibition.

Live Lit @ MAD: "Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy" by Melissa Milgrom
Thursday, May 27th at 7:00pm
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission.
Melissa Milgrom presents from her book Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy wherein she dutifully tracks taxidermy from its 19th-century heyday (the beneficiary of a natural history boom), to its nadir as a reviled predilection in the age of PETA and conservation.