NYAB Events - The New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum of Contemporary Art - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

“Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2011-12-14 - 2012-02-05
“Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” is a project that includes an exhibition, the presentation of Beirut Art Center’s Mediatheque, and a series of events. The exhibition, entitled “Due to unforeseen...More »
Spartacus Chetwynd "Home Made Tasers"
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2011-10-26 - 2012-01-01
The New Museum will launch a new pop-up program in its adjacent street-level storefront space at 231 BOWERY called ‘Studio 231.’ This series, overseen by Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director...More »
Carsten Höller "Experience"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-10-26 - 2012-01-22
The New Museum presents the first New York survey exhibition of the work of the artist Carsten Höller (b. 1961, Brussels, lives and works in Stockholm). Over the past twenty years, Höller has created a...More »
“Museum as Hub: Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet!” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing
- 2011-10-12 - 2011-12-04
“Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet” is an exhibition, reading room, and discussion space inspired by the energy and politics of radical, independent Black periodicals published during the first...More »
Elena del Rivero "[Swi:t] Home: A CHANT"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-09-07 - 2011-10-02
The New Museum presents New York-based artist Elena del Rivero’s [Swi:t] Home: A CHANT (2001-2006) in the lobby gallery to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy on September...More »
"Ostalgia" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2011-07-14 - 2011-10-02
The New Museum presents “Ostalgia,” an exhibition that brings together the work of more than thirty artists from twenty countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. Contesting the format...More »
Charles Atlas "Joints Array"
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- Media: Video installation - Media Arts
- 2011-07-14 - 2011-08-28
“Joints Array” is a multimedia installation by the groundbreaking video artist Charles Atlas (b. 1949, St. Louis, Missouri). For more than forty years, Atlas has explored the possibilities of filmed movement...More »
Gustav Metzger "Historic Photographs"
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-05-19 - 2011-07-03
“Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs” is the first US solo museum exhibition of the influential eighty-six-year-old artist and activist Gustav Metzger, and highlights his long engagement with historical...More »
Apichatpong Weerasethakul "Primitive"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2011-05-19 - 2011-07-03
“Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive” will be the first New York exhibition devoted to the work of the internationally acclaimed Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. "Primitive" (2009)—which...More »
David Medalla "Cloud Canyon no. 14"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-05-13 - 2011-07-03
Designed by David Medalla (b.1943) for the New Museum, "Cloud Canyon no. 14" (1963/2011) is one of the London-based artist’s signature “bubble machines.” These works are described by Medalla as the first...More »
Neil Beloufa "Kempinski"
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- Media: Film
- 2011-05-12 - 2011-07-15
Shot in Mali, Neil Beloufa’s "Kempinski" (2007) is a science fiction documentary featuring interviews with local inhabitants as they imagine their visions of the future. Through a series of striking tableaux,...More »
Museum as Hub: “The Incongruous Image—Marcel Broodthaers and Liliana Porter” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints
- 2011-05-11 - 2011-07-03
“Museum as Hub: The Accords” is a multipart project exploring new forms of curatorial practice and international collaboration. Building on experimentation, critique, and play, the exhibition proposes...More »
Elizabeth Price "Choir"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2011-05-11 - 2011-12-15
Elizabeth Price’s Choir (2011) is a new work by the London based artist. The video brings together a range of visual and auditory material to reflect on spaces of assembly and performance. Price uses archival...More »
OMA / Rem Koolhaas "Cronocaos"
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Media Arts
- 2011-05-07 - 2011-06-05
“Cronocaos” is an exhibition about the increasingly urgent topic of preservation in architecture and urbanism by OMA / Rem Koolhaas and organized by the New Museum. First presented at the 2010 Venice Biennale,...More »
"After Hours: Murals on the Bowery" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing
- 2011-05-07 - 2011-07-02
For “After Hours: Murals on the Bowery,” taking place on the occasion of the Festival of Ideas for a New City, seventeen international artists create site-specific paintings on roll-down security shutters...More »
Shirana Shahbazi Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2011-02-09 - 2011-06-19
Shirana Shahbazi’s work engages with photographic genres, investigating how they are transformed and circulated. Her images are crisply rendered adapting the style of commercial photography, which gives...More »
Lynda Benglis "Phantom"
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-02-09 - 2011-06-19
The New Museum will present a major exhibition of works by Lynda Benglis, the renowned American artist’s first museum retrospective in over twenty years. Benglis is an artist whose work continues to challenge...More »
"Museum as Hub: The Accords" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-02-09 - 2011-07-03
Two exhibitions conceptually linked in their development will be presented on the fifth floor of the New Museum in addition to simultaneous manifestations initiated by Museum as Hub partners in Cairo,...More »
George Condo "Mental States"
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-01-26 - 2011-05-08
George Condo has been a singular voice in American and European art for almost three decades. Born in 1957 in New Hampshire, he studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts in...More »
David Wojnarowicz "A Fire in My Belly"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2010-12-06 - 2011-01-23
David Wojnarowicz is a widely respected artist whose first U.S. retrospective was held at the New Museum in 1999. The film, "A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress" (1986-87) is a poetic meditation on...More »
Isa Genzken "Rose II"
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-11-13 - 2011-11-13
Standing twenty-eight feet tall, acclaimed German artist Isa Genzken’s Rose II (2007) is the second sculpture to be presented as part of the New Museum’s ongoing Façade Sculpture Program since the building’s...More »
"Free" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2010-10-20 - 2011-01-23
Today, culture is more dispersed than ever before. The web has broadened both the quantity and kind of information freely available. It has distributed our collective experience across geographic locations;...More »
Haegue Yang "Voice and Wind"
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- Media: Installation - Furniture - Other
- 2010-10-20 - 2011-01-23
The New Museum presents the first New York solo exhibition by Haegue Yang (b. Seoul, 1971). One of the leading artists of her generation, Yang has participated in numerous exhibitions internationally,...More »
“The Last Newspaper” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2010-10-06 - 2011-01-09
The New Museum presents “The Last Newspaper,” a major exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines. The exhibition will animate...More »
"Museum as Hub: Bidoun Library Project" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Other - Media Arts
- 2010-08-05 - 2010-09-26
The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along these shelves are pulp fictions and...More »
Brion Gysin "Dream Machine"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2010-07-07 - 2010-10-03
The New Museum will present "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine," the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK - died 1986, Paris). Working...More »
Amy Granat "Light 3 Ways"
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2010-06-23 - 2010-09-19
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical alteration. Her practice though, is wide-ranging, and...More »
Rivane Neuenschwander "A Day Like Any Other”
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Film
- 2010-06-23 - 2010-09-19
Covering a decade of the internationally admired artist’s work, “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other” will span the fourth, third, and lobby galleries of the New Museum. It will spotlight the artist’s...More »
"AOL’s 25th Anniversary Celebration: The Project on Creativity" Party
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- Media: Art Party
- 2010-05-26 - 2010-05-26
The Project on Creativity: AOL, in celebration of their 25th Anniversary year, is partnering with legendary American artist Chuck Close to launch the Project on Creativity. The project, which kicks off...More »
"A Proposition by Matthew Barney: Ancient Evenings Storyboards" Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-05-21 - 2010-05-21
Matthew Barney’s proposition will consider his current project in development: "Ancient Evenings." As part of this program, Barney will share the storyboards for the seven-act performance and video sequences...More »
"Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context REDUX" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2010-03-26 - 2010-07-25
The New Museum presents "In and Out of Context: REDUX," the third and final stage of the "Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context," exhibition. For this final stage, artists Ayreen Anastas, Julieta Aranda,...More »
"Imperfect as they are" Video Art and Home Movie Night
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- Media: Video installation
- 2010-03-19 - 2010-03-19
PowerShovel/Superheadz, in association with the New Museum, along with Tokion, are presenting a night of art from the world’s most innovative video artists. Using the Digital Harinezumi camera (the Japanese...More »
"The Headless Conference" Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-03-19 - 2010-03-19
The lectures, documentaries, and didactic displays that have accompanied the presentation of Headless at art institutions share little of the heady cloak-and-dagger suspense found in the fictional texts...More »
"Art Museums, Private Collectors, and the Public" Symposium
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-03-13 - 2010-03-13
On March 13, 2010, the New Museum will host a daylong symposium on the past, present, and future of the cooperation between private collectors and public institutions. The first session will focus on the...More »
"Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-03-03 - 2010-06-06
“Skin Fruit” will be the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This will also...More »
"H BOX" Film Program
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- Media: Film
- 2010-02-01 - 2010-02-27
Since 2006, H BOX has commissioned four artists annually to produce single-channel works in video. A changing selection of eight to ten of those works has been presented since late 2007 in a roaming screening...More »
Nikhil Chopra “Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX”
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- Media: Drawing - Installation - Performance Art
- 2009-10-28 - 2010-02-14
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live performance. As the Victorian draughtsman...More »
Urs Fischer "Marguerite de Ponty"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-10-21 - 2010-02-07
Zurich-born, New York-based artist Urs Fischer will be the first artist to take over the entire New Museum on the Bowery. For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum to date, Fischer...More »
"No Age performs The Bear" Film & Music Performance
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- Media: Film - Performance Art
- 2009-10-16 - 2009-10-16
No Age is an enthusiastic Los Angeles duo that, according to the New Yorker, “buzzes with a warm verve and the promise of impending rumpus.” Their dynamic, energetic songs sweep from hazy, delirious murk...More »
Dorothy Iannone "Lioness"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2009-07-22 - 2009-10-18
American-born, Berlin-based artist Dorothy Iannone, now, at the age of seventy-five, will have her first solo show in a US institution at the New Museum this summer. This long-overdue exhibition will feature...More »
Emory Douglas "Black Panther"
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- Media: Graphics - Illustration
- 2009-07-22 - 2009-10-18
Some of Emory Douglas’s images are nearly forty years old, but they are still as powerful as when Douglas first created them. They are dangerous pictures, and they were meant to change the world. Emory...More »
Rigo 23 Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2009-07-15 - 2009-10-11
For over twenty years, artist and activist Rigo 23 has challenged the status quo and advocated for social and political change through his murals, interventions, sculptures, paintings, drawings, performances,...More »
David Goldblatt "Intersections Intersected"
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- Media: Photography
- 2009-07-15 - 2009-10-11
Over the last fifty years, David Goldblatt has documented the complexities and contradictions of South African society. His photographs capture the social and moral value systems that governed the tumultuous...More »
Bill T. Jones " Visionaries Series"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-04-24 - 2009-04-24
The Visionaries Series at the New Museum spotlights leading international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design, and related disciplines of contemporary culture, whose innovations are shaping...More »
"The Generational: Younger Than Jesus" Inaugural Triennial Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Installation - Digital - Performance Art
- 2009-04-08 - 2009-07-05
For “Younger Than Jesus,” the first edition of “The Generational,” the New Museum’s new signature triennial, fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be presented. The only exhibition of its kind...More »
Lidwien van de Ven "Freedom of Expression"
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- Media: Film
- 2009-03-28 - 2009-03-28
In this special presentation by Lidwien van de Ven, the artist will screen her work Freedom of Expression and host related discussions considering issues of “Islamaphobia,” right-wing populist thinking...More »
"An Aesthetic Investigation of Space Part of New Silent: Experimental Geography" Panel Discussion
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-03-21 - 2009-03-21
Creative Time curator Nato Thompson will lead a discussion on Experimental Geography with Lize Mogel and Damon Rich, two artists who participated in his exhibition (for Independent Curators International)...More »
"Museum as Hub: Be(com)ing Dutch at a Distance" Series
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- Media: Other - Art Talk
- 2009-03-14 - 2010-06-30
This is the second in a series of conversations organized by Museum as Hub Fellow Ivet Reyes Maturano in conjunction with the exhibition Museum as Hub: Be(com)ing Dutch at a Distance. Ramon Hulspas...More »
Johan van der Keuken "I love $, 1986"
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- Media: Film
- 2009-03-07 - 2009-03-07
In 1984–85, Johan van der Keuken took his camera across the globe, from Amsterdam to New York to Hong Kong, ending in Geneva. The object of his investigation was money, in particular the maniacal drive...More »
Urban China "Informal Cities"
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- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-11 - 2009-03-22
This is the exhibition of Urban China, the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism published in China. The magazine's global, cross-disciplinary network of correspondents and collaborators merge rigorous...More »
Jeremy Deller "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq"
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- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-11 - 2009-03-22
"It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq" is an exhibition by Turner Prize-winning British artist Jeremy Deller that encourages public discussion of the history, present circumstances, and future of...More »
Daria Martin "Minotaur"
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- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2009-01-28 - 2009-03-22
Minotaur is a new film installation created by Daria Martin. It depicts a duet choreographed by the legendary dance and movement pioneer Anna Halprin based on the 1886 sculpture Minotaur by artist Auguste...More »
Mathias Poledna "Crystal Palace"
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- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2009-01-28 - 2009-03-08
Mathias Poledna's new work, Crystal Palace, is a 35mm film installation comprised of a small number of long, static shots of the montane rainforest landscape of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua...More »
Agathe Snow "Master Bait Me"
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- Media: Installation
- 2009-01-28 - 2009-03-08
Agathe Snow’s installation of magnetized rubber handballs rises in a single floating column, held together by magnetic force, jail-like bars, and a little magic. Surrounded by images the artist has obsessively...More »
"Be(coming) Dutch at a Distance" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Film - Art Talk
- 2009-01-15 - 2009-03-29
"Be(com)ing Dutch" is a large project developed over two years both inside and outside the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Consisting of debates, reading groups, artist's projects, exhibitions,...More »
Cory Arcangel "Continual Partial Awareness"
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-11-14 - 2008-11-14
Following the reception at Team Gallery (6 to 8pm, Friday, November 14th), Arcangel will unveil a new performance piece, Continual Partial Awareness, at the New Museum.More »
"An Evening and an Afternoon of Dance on Camera"
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- Media: Film - Performance Art
- 2008-11-07 - 2008-11-08
Deirdre Towers, Artistic Director of Dance Films Association and producer for the 36th annual Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, presents an evening (November 7, 7:30 p.m.) and an afternoon (November...More »
"Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle in conversation" Artist talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-06 - 2008-11-06
Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle talk about their practices and influences, artistic agency, art and politics, and the Bowery neighborhood. Rosler and Vidokle have collaborated and worked on many projects...More »
"Target First Saturdays for Families: Contemporary Portraiture"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-01 - 2008-11-01
Explore the exhibition "Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton,” the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of friends, family, and personal heroes in an American institution. Participate with your family...More »
Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer "All Hallow’s Eve"
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-10-31 - 2008-10-31
Tonight’s special Halloween program, curated by Janine Nichols, features the haunting experimental sounds of Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer in a playful holiday spirit. Brian Dewan, referred to as “a...More »
Rancid Nourishment Discussion
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-30 - 2008-10-30
The tales of huge windows and wide-open lofts bringing a community of Abstract Expressionist painters to the Bowery are an integral part of this neighborhood’s history. In contrast, Rancid Nourishment...More »
Night School Public Seminar 9 "Natascha Sadr Haghighian"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-23 - 2008-10-25
Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international...More »
Mary Heilmann "To Be Someone"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Furniture
- 2008-10-22 - 2009-01-26
The exhibition will include paintings as well as ceramic sculptures and furniture made by the New York-based artist over the last forty years. Heilmann (b. 1940) is one of the preeminent artists of...More »
"Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Dave McKenzie and Lisa Sigal, with curator Eungie Joo" Conversation
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- 2008-10-18 - 2008-10-18
Curator Eungie Joo leads a conversation between artists Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Dave McKenzie, and Lisa Sigal about their practices and work in the exhibition “Museum as Hub: Six Degrees.” The exhibition...More »
John Giorno "Book Release and Reading"
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- 2008-10-17 - 2008-10-17
Legendary New York poet, Bowery artist, and subject of Elizabeth Peyton’s work, John Giorno will read from his newly published anthology of collected works from his fifty-year career. Subduing Demons In...More »
"All-day POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi" Workshop
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- Media: Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2008-10-16 - 2008-10-16
Ginger Brooks Takahashi’s quilting forum or “POWERSTITCH” employs traditional craft to de-formalize the exhibition space as productive community space. An ongoing project since 2004, an army of lovers...More »
A.L. Steiner + robbinschilds "C.L.U.E."
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- Media: Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-10-08 - 2009-01-11
C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) is a collaboration between artists A.L. Steiner and robbinschilds (Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins), AJ Blandford, and Kinski. Like a living organism, C.L.U.E....More »
Elizabeth Peyton "Live Forever"
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-10-08 - 2009-01-11
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton" is the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton's work in an American institution. The survey will include more than 100 works made over the past fifteen years. Peyton's oeuvre...More »
Ei Arakawa "Kissing the Canvas"
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-10-05 - 2008-10-05
Toying with notions of art production, Ei Arakawa works with numerous participants to create energized performances that he broadly refers to as "market." For this exhibition, he has collaborated with...More »
Target First Saturdays for Families "Six Degrees (6°)"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-04 - 2008-10-04
The Bowery, the neighborhood of the New Museum, inspired artists Dave McKenzie, Lisa Sigal, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Martha Rosler, and Anton Vidokle to create unique works of art. Take a stroll around...More »
Kalup Linzy and Dynasty Handbag "Amplify the Avatar"
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- Media: Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-10-03 - 2008-10-03
Working as one-person production houses for music, video, and performance, the artists on tonight’s double-bill combine consumer-grade digital technologies with ample doses of absurdist humor and critical...More »
"Museum as Hub: Six Degrees" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2008-09-25 - 2009-01-11
In "Museum as Hub: Six Degrees" artists use the real estate of the New Museum as organizing principle, departure point, vista, and classroom to imagine the changing relevance of the Museum and its environs....More »
Night School Public Seminar 8 "Rirkrit Tiravanija"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-09-25 - 2008-09-27
Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international...More »
"New York: Past, Present, and Possible Future" Discussion
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-09-20 - 2008-09-20
This panel will engage New York’s landscape at three distinct moments in history. Eric W. Sanderson, leader of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mannahatta Project, will discuss Manhattan island in 1609;...More »
Exhibition Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Michael Stickrod
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-09-13 - 2008-09-13
Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between...More »
"Exhibition Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Michael Stickrod" Artist Talk
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- 2008-09-13 - 2008-09-13
Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between...More »
Night School Public Seminar 7 "Paul Chan: Waiting for Godot in New Orleans"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-09-11 - 2008-09-13
November 2007, Paul Chan collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative Time to stage five free site-specific performances of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in two New Orleans...More »
"Target First Saturdays for Families: Landscapes for the Future" Program
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-09-06 - 2008-09-06
The state of our planet is constantly changing. Explore how artists in the exhibition “After Nature” respond to, question, and create work that invites us to think about landscapes of the future. Participate...More »
"The Scale of Intervention" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2008-09-05 - 2008-09-05
Co-organized by Conflux, an annual festival dedicated to pyschogeography, and moderated by the founders of the celebrated street-art Web site Wooster Collective, this panel will look at possibilities for...More »
Ben Wittner "Arabesque"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-09-04 - 2008-09-04
Graphic designer Ben Wittner presents graphic design from the Arab world and Persia. The graphic design studio eps51— which consists of Wittner and Sascha Thoma—transferred their headquarters to Cairo,...More »
"The Sawa Workshop: Video Art Screenings"
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- Media: Video installation - Art Talk
- 2008-08-28 - 2008-08-28
Artist Ayman Ramadan and independent practitioner of arts and cultural programs Aida Eltorie present short videos produced in Cairo during a three-week workshop at Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art....More »
"Clare Davies on Open Studio Cairo" Discussion
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-23 - 2008-08-23
Open Studio Cairo is an international residency program in downtown Cairo exploring creative approaches to sound. Seventeen cultural practitioners from over ten different countries spent two weeks in the...More »
"The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism" Discussion
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- 2008-08-16 - 2008-08-16
As scientific consensus about global warming gains traction with the public, this panel explores how such knowledge—and the environmental strategies it prompts—should be expressed visually. With Dr. Cameron...More »
Dina Ramadan Discussion
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- 2008-08-14 - 2008-08-14
Scholar Dina Ramadan discusses the journal Sawt el-Fannan (The Voice of the Artist)—a self-proclaimed pioneering publication in the field of Egyptian art criticism, first produced in 1950—as a departure...More »
Artists Conversations
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-08
This is the second in a three-part series that features presentations by artists awarded grants through Rhizome's Commissions Program. Founded in 2001 to support artists working with technology, the Rhizome...More »
"Radio Action III" Performance
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-08-07 - 2008-08-07
Join free103point9, in collaboration with Radio Web MACBA (RWM) and Barbara Held, for a live performance celebrating Radio Action III, an online radio program produced for RWM and the next free103point9...More »
Target First Saturdays for Families
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Art Talk
- 2008-08-02 - 2008-08-02
Visit “Museum as Hub: Antikhana,” an exhibition organized by Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo, Egypt. Inspired by the Townhouse Gallery’s neighborhood, the artists included in this exhibition...More »
"The Mystery of Claywoman" Film Screening
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- Media: Film - Performance Art
- 2008-08-01 - 2008-08-01
Claywoman is a 500-million-year-old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. She has traveled the universe searching for souls to heal and planets to save. The Mystery of Claywoman,...More »
"Get Weird" Performance
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-07-18 - 2008-07-18
Get Weird is a monthly series of performances featuring experimental and freaky jams. Expect anything from dusted-off salsa to psychedelic harmonies, performed by unknown legends and young-gun mavericks....More »
"The Tao of 9 Second Avenue" Film Screening
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- Media: Film - Performance Art
- 2008-07-18 - 2008-07-18
The Tao of 9 Second Ave is a film that documents the life of an extraordinary building on the Lower East Side of New York City. It was known to some as the Church of All Nations, to others as CUANDO, to...More »
"After Nature" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2008-07-17 - 2008-09-21
Unfolding as a visual novel, “After Nature” depicts a future landscape of wilderness and ruins. It is a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture—an epic of humanity coming apart under the pressure...More »
"Museum as Hub" Artist Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-07-12 - 2008-07-12
William Wells, Director of the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, moderates a conversation with Susan Hefuna, Ayman Ramadan, and Tarek Zaki, three of the artists included in the Museum as Hub project...More »
"The Technology Readings:A Night of Comedy"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-07-11 - 2008-07-11
A group of Internet-addicted New York comedians perform readings on the joys and pitfalls of a technology-saturated culture. The evening will include Chelsea Peretti, Amy Poehler, John Roberts, Joe Mande,...More »
"Museum as Hub" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2008-07-10 - 2008-09-21
The concept of neighborhood in Cairo stretches far beyond a simple geographical designation on the city map. Cairo’s neighborhoods are urban structures that have incorporated the specific characteristics...More »
Ei Arakawa "Untitled rehearsals and performances"
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-07-09 - 2008-10-05
Toying with notions of art production, Ei Arakawa works with numerous participants to create energized performances that he broadly refers to as "market." For this exhibition, he has collaborated with...More »
"Target First Saturdays for Families Double Album"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-07-05 - 2008-07-05
The playful sculptures, installations, and drawings of artists Daniel Guzmán (born 1964, lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico) and Steven Shearer (born 1968, lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada)...More »
My Barbarian "Post-Paradise, Sorry Again"
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-07-03 - 2008-07-04
Post-Paradise, Sorry Again is the culmination of My Barbarian’s Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT) workshops, a residency project at the New Museum in which the collective worked with local artists,...More »
"2008 Altoids Award" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Video installation - Art Competition
- 2008-06-25 - 2008-10-12
The New Museum and Altoids, the Curiously Strong Mints®, present an exhibition of the winners of the The Altoids® Award: Ei Arakawa of New York City; Michael Patterson-Carver of Portland, Oregon; Lauren...More »
Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-30 - 2008-05-31
Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute. He is Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography, New York and previously Adjunct Curator...More »
Rhizome Commissions 08 Conversation with eteam, Steve Lambert, Evan Roth, and Rafael Rozendaal
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-22 - 2008-05-22
The Rhizome Commissions Program was founded in 2001 to provide support to emerging artists working with new technologies. The forty-four works commissioned to date represent some of the most innovative,...More »
A Discussion About Abstraction with Thomas Nozkowski and Dana Schutz
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-17 - 2008-05-17
In conjunction with the current exhibition by Tomma Abts, Kraus Family Senior Curator Laura Hoptman will moderate a discussion on abstraction as a method and idea with artists Thomas Nozkowski and Dana...More »
Paul Chan "Tin Drum Trilogy followed by a Q&A with the artist"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-16 - 2008-05-16
The New Museum presents the New York premiere of Paul Chan’s Tin Drum Trilogy: RE:THE_OPERATION (2002), BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (2003), and NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT (2005), followed by a Q&A with...More »
Andrew WK "Get Weird"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-15 - 2008-05-15
Experimental party starter Andrew WK makes a special solo appearance for May’s Get Weird event. On the heels of his explosive post-frat live shows across the globe, WK has been, of late, handling production...More »
Professional Development for Teachers Part II, “What’s It to Me?”
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-14 - 2008-05-14
New Museum Education Department staff Cathleen Lewis, Marc Mayer, and Cris Scorza will lead a session exploring visual inquiry and object-based learning in the New Museum’s galleries, and developing lesson...More »
Dongducheon "A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision"
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- Media: Photography
- 2008-05-08 - 2008-07-06
The complex and contradictory national characteristics of modern Korea are condensed in the region of Dongducheon, the subject of Insa Art Space’s Museum as Hub presentation on the topic of neighborhood....More »
Double Album Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-04-23 - 2008-07-06
This exhibition brings together two artists - Daniel Guzmán (born 1964, lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico) and Steven Shearer (born 1968, lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada). Both artists work...More »
Tomma Abts Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-04-09 - 2008-06-29
The New Museum introduces the first major U.S. solo exhibition of paintings by London-based artist Tomma Abts (born Kiel, Germany, 1967). Abts creates paintings that confound expectation. Small, severe,...More »
Paul Chan "The 7 Lights"
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- Media: Drawing - Video installation
- 2008-04-09 - 2008-06-29
This exhibition features a new series of animated projections by the New York-based artist Paul Chan. Since 2005, Chan has been working on an ambitious series of seven video installations that present...More »
"SANAA: Works 1998-2008" Exhibition
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- Media: Architecture
- 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-15
The New Museum presents an exhibition of work by the highly regarded firm Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, designers of the institution's recently opened building on the Bowery. The exhibition...More »
"Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Installation
- 2008-02-27 - 2008-05-04
This project organized by Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo for the Museum as Hub addresses the topic of neighborhood from the unique perspective of our Mexico City partner organization. For Museo Tamayo...More »
Jeffrey Inaba "Donor Hall"
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- Media: Graphics - Installation
- 2007-12-01 - 2009-12-31
Jeffrey Inaba uses a radical approach to research and design to make opaque information come alive. Inaba has created Donor Hall for the New Museum’s lower-level hallway, a bold, immersive graphic environment...More »