QUEENS, NEW YORK.- The exhibition “Queens International” opens today at the  Queens Museum of Art and remains on view until November 3, 2002. As a reflection of the QMA commitment to the cultural diversity of the borough, the museum presents “Queens International”, an exhibition of more than forty artists and artist groups who live or work in Queens. Multiculturalism was an art world trend in the 1980s, but on the streets of Queens, the mix of international and local is an everyday reality. According to the latest census figures, Queens is the most culturally-diverse county in the nation. Over 50% of the households in Queens are headed by people not born in the United States and close to 160 languages are spoken in the borough. Queens International recognizes and highlights the borough’s residents and their extraordinary talents as one of its most valuable and distinctive resources. Reflecting a broad range of artistic and social concerns, the painting, photography, sculpture, video, and web projects in this exhibition demonstrate how, for an international artistic community, Queens is particularly fertile ground. The artists on this exhibition were selected by invitation, an open-call jury process, and word-of-mouth.