{"id":6963,"date":"2017-10-14T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:34:19","slug":"duke-riley-at-magnan-metz-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/duke-riley-at-magnan-metz-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Riley, The Armies of the Night at Magnan Metz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, from the decks of a decommissioned Navy ship, artist Duke Riley orchestrated dramatic light shows with over one thousand pigeons carrying LED lights on their legs. If the birds seemed anonymous as they put on a light show in the dark, their identities come into focus now at a two-gallery exhibition of related artwork, including a room of hand-painted and embroidered portraits of 1,000 birds. (On view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnanmetz.com\/exhibitions\/duke-riley-now-those-days-are-gone\">Magnan Metz Gallery<\/a>\u2019s pop up location at 524 West 26<sup>th<\/sup> Street and 521 West 26<sup>th<\/sup> Street through Oct 21<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6964\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/duke-riley-at-magnan-metz-gallery-2\/duke_riley-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6964\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/duke_riley-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duke Riley, installation view of \u2018The Armies of the Night,\u2019 embroidery and paint on canvas, 14 x 9 inches, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, from the decks of a decommissioned Navy ship, artist Duke Riley orchestrated dramatic light shows with over one thousand pigeons carrying LED lights on their legs. If the birds seemed anonymous as they put on a light show in the dark, their identities come into focus now at a two-gallery exhibition of related &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/duke-riley-at-magnan-metz-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duke Riley, The Armies of the Night at Magnan Metz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[7557,8,2619,117,2281,893,13,2282,1979,2283,2219,16],"class_list":["post-6963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-armies-of-the-night","tag-art","tag-birds","tag-chelsea","tag-duke-riley","tag-embroidery","tag-gallery","tag-magnan-metz","tag-paint","tag-pigeons","tag-portraits","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Oj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11818,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/11818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}