Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway, NYC

Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway
@ Park Avenue Armory, NYC
December 3, 2010 – January 6, 2011

Park Avenue Armory wrote:Visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway brings new insight into one of the world’s most celebrated masterpieces in his multimedia reverie of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Set within a full-scale replica of the dome of Refectory of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan, the home of the original painting, a meticulously detailed facsimile of The Last Supper is brought to life through Greenaway’s ingenious manipulation of light, sound, and theatrical illusion. Visitors navigate a series of vivid audio-visual environments that provoke new ways of seeing this iconic work.

Leonardo’s Last Supper is part of Greenaway’s ongoing series Ten Classic Paintings Revisited in which the artist creates a dialogue “between 8,000 years of art and 112 years of cinema.” The Armory’s presentation marks the first time that one of Greenaway’s critically acclaimed artistic installations is mounted in the United States.

A short preview of Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision By Peter Greenaway:



Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065
212-616-3930
http://www.armoryonpark.org/index.php/

Open Hours
December 3, 2010 – January 6, 2011
Tuesdays – Sundays
11:00am – 8:00pm
(Showings are on the hour starting at 12:00pm and last approximately 45 minutes. Last showing of the day is 7:00pm)

Closed Mondays,
except Monday, December 27
11:00am – 8:00pm
Closed December 25 (Christmas Day)
Holiday Hours

(Showings are on the hour starting at 12:00pm and last approximately 45 minutes. Last showing of the day is 3:00pm except on New Years Day)
December 24 (Christmas Eve)
11:00am – 4:00pm
December 31 (New Years Eve)
11:00am – 4:00pm
January 1, 2011 (New Years Day)
11:00am – 8:00pm (last showing at 7:00pm)
Admission

$15 General Admission
$12 Park Avenue Armory Members, Students (with ID), Seniors,
Groups (12 or more)
FREE: Children 10 and under

FWIW, a pretty negative review the other day in the New York Times

"It is, however, a big, expensive, technological-bells-and-whistles-to-the-max dud, which is something."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/arts/design/06armory.html?scp=2&sq=leonardo%20da%20vinci&st=cse