Carriage Trade - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Carriage Trade. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
-
“Social Photography X” Exhibition
Presented against the backdrop of the twin meltdowns of a social media platform and a cryptocurrency, this 10th anniversary show of Social Photography comes at a time when the progressive reputation enjoyed...More »
-
The Yes Men Exhibition
The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep. Guy Debord, The Society of the...More »
-
Muntadas “Closed / Locked”
For those that remained in New York City in the early spring of 2020, it was like inhabiting a ghost town. Street life evaporated and daily life took place almost exclusively indoors. Relief from the deafening...More »
-
“Social Photography IX” Exhibition
Now in its ninth year, Social Photography brings together cell phone pictures of participants from a wide range of disciplines, generations, and places. In the spirit of broad access to cell phone image...More »
-
“Hearts and Minds” Exhibition
So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there. -Lyndon B. Johnson Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of...More »
-
‘Everybody Dies!” Exhibition
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. -Euripides Death don’t have no mercy. -Reverend Gary Davis The logic of unnecessary suffering and death is guaranteed by the...More »
-
“Social Photography VIII” Exhibition
-
“The Wooster Group” Exhibition
When an emancipation occurs, lots of things are liberated, some good, some bad. 1 Ron Vawter I love that two-dimensional TV world. It’s not ambiguous, like film; I can feel the surface. 2 Elizabeth...More »
-
“Social Photography VII” Exhibition
First presented in 2011, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have become both a tradition and an ongoing survey of cell phone camera use. What began as a novelty medium seven or eight years...More »
-
“The Village” Exhibition
“Be seeing you.” Salutation from The Prisoner The Village draws its inspiration from the 1960’s science fiction television show The Prisoner, created in 1967 by actor/director Patrick McGoohan. The...More »
-
“carriage trade book fair”
books, ephemera, zines Christine Burgin New Directions Common Notions INK CAP PRESS Division Leap Kai Matsumiya Office Space 2* prompt: Small Editions PDF null The Home...More »
-
Denise Scott Brown “Photographs, 1956 - 1966”
I’m not a photographer. I shoot for architecture - if there’s art here it’s a byproduct. -Denise Scott Brown Carriage trade presents the exhibition Denise Scott Brown Photographs, 1956 -1966, the...More »
-
“Archive / New York, 1950-1970” Exhibition
Presenting an informal archive of black and white photographs alongside cell phone pictures from Social Photography VI, the exhibition Archive / New York, 1950-1970, offers visual connections between...More »
-
“Social Photography VI” Exhibition
First presented in 2011, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From a novelty medium existing between...More »
-
“Social Photography VI” Exhibition
First presented in 2011, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From a novelty medium existing between...More »
-
“The Earth is Flat” Exhibition
Suspicion, vengeance, and irrationality have become the new norm. As in previous times of radical social change, zealotry and demagoguery surge as faith in the established order recedes. The collective...More »
-
“Picture City III” Exhibition
Existing as much in fantasy and imagination as in its complex and contradictory realities, the “big city” draws millions of visitors every year who revel in its Oz-like qualities. Providing a stimulating...More »
-
Bill Owens “American Icons”
Bill Owens is perhaps most well known for his iconic Suburbia project documenting the daily life of his friends and neighbors in a northern California suburb in 1972. Treating middle class experience as...More »
-
“Social Photography V” Exhibition
First presented in 2011 and now in its fifth iteration, carriage trade’s Social Photography exhibitions have catalogued the rapid transformation of cell phone photography over the last several years. From...More »
-
“American Interior” Exhibition
“The facts we hate, we’ll never meet walking down the road, everybody yelling, ‘Hurry up, hurry up!’ But I’m waiting for you, I must go slow, I must not think bad thoughts. When is this world coming...More »
-
“Cutting Through the Suburbs” Exhibition
As the site of one of American consumerism’s largest expansions, the suburbs faced its greatest test in the 1970’s, when the postwar suburban fantasy collided with the reality of gas shortages, “stagflation,”...More »
-
“Social Photography III” Exhibition
Social Photography III is the third installment of a carriage trade benefit exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. Emphasizing no particular theme beyond how the cell...More »
-
João Enxuto and Erica Love “Anonymous Paintings”
Recovered from the depths of the online art platform known as Google Art Project, João Enxuto and Erica Love’s Anonymous Paintings betray the ambiguities inherent in the experience of visual art in the...More »
-
“The Pathos of Things” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2013-03-09 - 2013-05-19
Shop for a product. Buy the product. Touch the product’s screen. When things do mostly what we wish, they become invisible. When they frustrate our expectations, they’re dispensed with. In a world of objects...More »
-
"Family Portrait" Exhibition
As the subject of An American Family, one of television’s first reality shows, the Loud family exemplified the "Margaret Mead effect" of the mediation of experience, where representation begins to influence...More »
-
"Archival Portraits" Exhibition
Traditionally highlighting the unique personality of a subject, the genre of portraiture is at odds with the increasingly disparate quality of our current experience of the self. The popularity of social...More »
-
"Color Photographs from the WPA (1939-1943)" Exhibition
Largely forgotten until the mid-seventies when they resurfaced in the Library of Congress archives, the color photographs of the Works Project Administration (1939-1943) document the later period of FDR’s...More »
-
"Social Photography II" Exhibition
Social Photography II is the second installment of a carriage trade benefit exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. Emphasizing no particular theme beyond how the cell...More »
-
"Pop Patriotism" Exhibition
Offering artifacts of popular culture placed alongside the work of artists skeptical of America's renewed devotion to its flag, the exhibition POP Patriotism addresses the implications of this recent return...More »
-
Henry Codax Exhibition
-
"Picture No Picture" Exhibition
No one seems to be sure what the decline of modernism’s cultural influence, beginning sometime in the 1950’s and 60’s, has led to. The return of narrative and ornament in the art and architecture of the...More »
-
Jef Geys "Woodward Avenue"
carriage trade presents "Woodward Avenue" by Jef Geys, a project first developed and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. This exhibition is a variation of Geys’ Quadra Medicinale, at the...More »
-
"Social Photography" Exhibition
Organized to benefit upcoming programming at carriage trade, Social Photography is an exhibition focusing on the relatively new medium of cell phone photography. As cell phone cameras become more ubiquitous,...More »
-
"Another Green World" Exhibition
The exhibition Another Green World intends to draw parallels between the genre of landscape and the current preoccupation with "green" in popular culture. While the romanticism of 19th century landscape...More »
-
"Mistaken Identity" Exhibition
While the genre of portraiture tends to feature clearly defined subjects, the portrait show Mistaken Identity focuses instead on the uncertainties of facial recognition and how misperception might affect...More »
-
"The Cult of Personality/Portraits and Mass Culture" Exhibition
As the U.S presidential campaign kicks into high gear, the exhibition The Cult of Personality, Portraits and Mass Culture investigates the relationship between celebrity and political personas within the...More »
-
"Market Forces Part II: Consumer Confidence" Exhibition
The first three exhibitions in the space beginning February 2008 will address the political and economic climate both locally and nationally, as the pace of the U.S. presidential election accelerates....More »
-
"Market Forces Part I: Consuming Territories" Exhibition
The first three exhibitions in the space beginning February 2008 will address the political and economic climate both locally and nationally, as the pace of the U.S. presidential election accelerates....More »