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.
Cory Arcangel "Continual Partial Awareness"
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[0]- 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.
"An Evening and an Afternoon of Dance on Camera"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle in conversation" Artist talk
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"Target First Saturdays for Families: Contemporary Portraiture"
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- 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 (...)
Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer "All Hallow’s Eve"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Rancid Nourishment Discussion
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- 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 (...)
Night School Public Seminar 9 "Natascha Sadr Haghighian"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"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 (...)
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 (...)
"All-day POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi" Workshop
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Ei Arakawa "Kissing the Canvas"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Target First Saturdays for Families "Six Degrees (6°)"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Kalup Linzy and Dynasty Handbag "Amplify the Avatar"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Night School Public Seminar 8 "Rirkrit Tiravanija"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"New York: Past, Present, and Possible Future" Discussion
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- 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; (...)
Exhibition Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Michael Stickrod
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"Exhibition Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Michael Stickrod" Artist Talk
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Night School Public Seminar 7 "Paul Chan: Waiting for Godot in New Orleans"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"Target First Saturdays for Families: Landscapes for the Future" Program
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"The Scale of Intervention" Exhibition
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Ben Wittner "Arabesque"
[0] [0]- 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, (...)
"The Sawa Workshop: Video Art Screenings"
[0] [0]- 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. (...)
"Clare Davies on Open Studio Cairo" Discussion
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism" Discussion
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 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 (...)
Dina Ramadan Discussion
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 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 (...)
Artists Conversations
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"Radio Action III" Performance
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Target First Saturdays for Families
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"The Mystery of Claywoman" Film Screening
[0] [0]- 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, (...)
"Get Weird" Performance
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- 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. (...)
"The Tao of 9 Second Avenue" Film Screening
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"After Nature" Exhibition
[0] [2]- 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 (...)
"Museum as Hub" Artist Talk
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- 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 (...)
"The Technology Readings:A Night of Comedy"
[0] [0]- 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, (...)
"Museum as Hub" Exhibition
[0] [1]- 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 (...)
Ei Arakawa "Untitled rehearsals and performances"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
"Target First Saturdays for Families Double Album"
[0] [0]- 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) (...)
My Barbarian "Post-Paradise, Sorry Again"
[0] [0]- 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, (...)
"2008 Altoids Award" Exhibition
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Rhizome Commissions 08 Conversation with eteam, Steve Lambert, Evan Roth, and Rafael Rozendaal
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- 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, (...)
A Discussion About Abstraction with Thomas Nozkowski and Dana Schutz
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Paul Chan "Tin Drum Trilogy followed by a Q&A with the artist"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Andrew WK "Get Weird"
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Professional Development for Teachers Part II, “What’s It to Me?”
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Dongducheon "A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision"
[0] [0]- 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. (...)
Double Album Exhibition
[0] [2]- 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 (...)
Paul Chan "The 7 Lights"
[0] [4]- 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 (...)
Tomma Abts Exhibition
[0] [3]- 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, (...)
"SANAA: Works 1998-2008" Exhibition
[0] [1]- 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 (...)
"Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries" Exhibition
[0] [0]- 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 (...)
Jeffrey Inaba "Donor Hall"
[0] [1]- Media: Graphics - Installation
- 2007-12-01 - 2008-11-09
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 (...)
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