John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
ISG Productions led the content development for Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy. The exhibition explores President Kennedy’s commitment to the arts throughout his life, and the ways he promoted the arts while in office. The permanent exhibition opened in September 2022.
Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music, New York University
To commemorate Clive Davis’s contribution in establishing the Institute of Recorded Music at NYU, a permanent gallery was created in his name. ISG Productions inventoried Clive’s collections of memorabilia and papers and curated the initial temporary exhibition and the permanent exhibition about Mr. Davis and his illustrious career in the music industry.
New York, New York
ISG Productions collaborated with the family of Jean-Michel Basquiat to produce the exhibition, Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©, overseeing content development, design, audio-visual production, venue rental, operations, publication, marketing, pr and merchandise. The exhibition opened at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea, April 2022.
Photos by Ivane Katamashvili
The Commissioner of Media and Entertainment, New York, retained ISG Productions to project manage Spotlight on Broadway, a virtual “museum” of the history of Broadway. This citywide project includes short documentary films on each of the 40 Broadway theatres, a website, mobile application, and an on-site installation in Times Square. Project partners include the Broadway League, Times Square Alliance, The Museum of the City of New York, New York Public Library, the Shubert Organization, Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York.
Harley-Davidson Museum
ISG Productions collaborated on the overall content strategy, developed the exhibitions, and provided project management for the first-ever Harley-Davidson Museum. The firm identified, assembled, and managed a team of exhibition designers, media producers, and curators and provided interface with project architect and sub-contractors. For more than five years, ISG Productions worked with Harley-Davidson to allocate budget resources for and generally manage the establishment of the 150,000 sq.ft. museum, in which over 40,000 square feet of exhibition galleries celebrate the history and culture of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company.
Museum of Art and Design
For a traveling exhibition organized by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the firm provided project management services including design, fabrication, registration, and travel coordination to seven venues around the country.
For a traveling exhibition organized by The Finnish Cultural Institute-New York, the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Yale University School of Architecture, and the National Building Museum. The firm supervised the exhibition’s organization, management and tour to ten venues around the world.
National Building Museum
The Glide House, a prefabricated, modern, environmentally sustainable house designed in 2004, was a centerpiece of The Green House, the first major exhibition to explore the field of green residential design, which opened at the National Building Museum in 2006. ISG Productions conducted the product research and specified all the furniture, fixtures, and products for the Glide House display. After its showing in Washington DC, The Green House traveled throughout the United States.
Cleveland, Ohio
For the multi-media theater celebrating the accomplishments of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, ISG Productions managed content development, design, and fabrication
Open Road Tour
For its 100th anniversary, Harley-Davidson celebrated its brand and history by launching a world tour of events, exhibits, and concerts in ten cities around the world, including Los Angeles, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Barcelona, Hamburg, and Milwaukee. As part of the tour, ISG Productions conceived, developed and managed the production of some 80,000 square feet of exhibitions.