This remarkable 2024 wall calendar is filled with breathtaking photographs curated from French Artist JR's exhibit Unframed Ellis Island.

The exhibit lives on Ellis Island’s South Side. Enjoy these beautiful images all year long while knowing you are doing your part to help preserve these historic buildings for generations to come!

The installation, “Unframed — Ellis Island,” by the French artist JR, brings the landmark hospital buildings, its patients and staff members, to grainy but wrenching life. There are nearly two-dozen, carefully chosen pieces, all were made from archival photos taken in and around the hospital, 100 or so years ago. “The idea is to respect the architecture,” JR said, moving past a wheat-pasted tableau where a woman’s hat hovers amid tree limbs seen through a broken window. “I let the walls decide what part of the image should appear.” The installation is site-specific. Doctors float over the broken white tiles of the surgical theater; a young woman seems to rest on the one remaining wiry bed frame; nurses laugh across the lockers in a linen storage room. The work, which is accessible by a guided HARD HAT TOUR, will remain up “until it decides to disappear.”

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