Transportation: At 9:00 am, a private shuttle bus from Manhattan to the Museum will leave from the SW corner of 54th Street and Park Avenue (in front of Lever House). Buses return to Manhattan at 11:00 am and noon.

About the exhibition: The Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park, working with strategic advisors Beckelman + Capalino, Claire Weisz, and others, have brought together four artist-led teams and charged them with re-envisioning the neighborhood in which the two institutions are located. In recent years, this area—which is at the border of Long Island City and Astoria—has seen the construction of large-scale buildings that appear to have been designed without regard for infrastructure capacity, traffic, parking, or the resulting loss of affordable housing, thereby threatening the character of the neighborhood. This project, called Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, is intended to initiate dialogue about the changing landscape of the area among community stakeholders, public agencies, and others, and to ensure that the voice and vision of artists have a substantive role in the planning process. The projects created by the four teams, including drawings, models, photographs, texts, and other material, will be on view at The Noguchi Museum from October 12, 2011, through April 22, 2012. Large-scale prototypes for aspects of the projects will be shown at Socrates Sculpture Park from May to August, 2012.