Clocktower Gallery and Clock Machinery Room
With Tony Guerrero, David Weinstein, and Marvin Schneider
Wednesday May 2, 2007
10AM SHARP
FREE
with coffee pastries

THIS TOUR IS NOW FILLED

Place :Crowned by one of the city’s few remaining mechanical clocks, the Clock Tower Office is one of a small group of city buildings to hold
landmarks for both its interior and exterior parts. Built by architect
Stephen D. Hatch from 1894-1898 and later extended by Mckim, Meade & White’s flamboyant palazzo-like pavilion, the Clock Tower Office houses a large main gallery in its top floors and a tower exhibition space originally intended to be architect Stanford White’s entertaining room. Following White’s murder and various habitations, the space went disused until 1973 when Alanna Heiss (who went on to found P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center), founded the Clocktower Gallery with three inaugural art exhibitions: Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, and James Bishop. The Clocktower Gallery soon became
la legendary alternative space and its distinctive location "in the sky near City Hall” made it an icon of one-person shows. It currently serves as the broadcast center of WPS1, P.S.1's Internet radio station.

Talk: As a very rare treat, New York City's Clock Master, Marvin Schneider, will open up the clock machinery room and give a winding demonstration followed by an informal presentation on maintaining the weights and chains of traditional clocks. Next, we will go down into the former Clocktower Gallery Studio space wherein P.S.1 Director of Exhibition Design and Installation Tony Guerrero who directed many projects over ten years at the Clocktower including the Artist Studio Program will tell guests about the famed history of the venue within the alternative space movement. Due to the increased security measures of the post-9/11 environment, the program was relocated to P.S. 1 in Long Island City as public access to the Clocktower space was heavily curtailed. WPS1 Art Radio Managing Director David Weinstein will fill in guests on the recent history of the space which has become home to a 24-hour streaming radio channel and on-demand archive of cultural programming.