New York City’s The Skyscaper Museum is pleased to announce the opening of its New York Modern exhibition, which “looks back at prophecies of the skyscraper city in the early 20th century when the first dreams of a fantastic vertical metropolis took shape.” From lampoonery at the turn of the 20th century to a rapidly built reality 20 years later, visions of structures to touch the heavens came from the cartoonists’ pens and architects’ pencils to grace all forms of print and film media. New York Modern, which runs through March 2008, is the first in a year-long cycle of three related exhibitions, entitled Future City: 20 | 21, which will compare American visions of skyscrapers with an exploration of Chinese cities today. The second exhibition of the cycle focuses on Hong Kong and New York, and the third, “China Prophecy,” explores the 21st-century skyscraper city of Shanghai. For more information, visit the Skyscraper Museum Web site.
(Pictured from the exhibition is “New York 1999,” New York World. December 30,1900.)