“Activate NY” Exhibition
Abrons Arts Center
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ACTIVATE NY explores the role of art in the current resurgence of populist activism and includes artworks and installations by Sol LeWitt, Kristyna and Marek Milde, Occupy Oakland, William Powhida, Lisa Ruyter, Catherine Tafur, and B. Wurtz. Organized by Kristian Nammack.
Tuesday Artist Talks 7 – 9pm Main Gallery
Moderated by ACTIVATE NY curator Kristian Nammack
Nov 5th - Marek and Kristyna Milde on the NY Exchange Library and Situationist art.
Nov 12th - Lisa Ruyter and Catherine Tafur on art directly addressing politics via visual language.
Nov 19th- B. Wurtz on materiality, with a further discussion of Sol LeWitt’s Sentences on Conceptual Art.
Wednesday Book Club 7 – 9pm Activist Lounge (Upper Main Gallery)
Moderated by Andrew Russeth of the New York Observer
Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20 - We will be reading Ben Davis’s recently published 9.5 Theses on Art and Class.
[Image: Lisa Ruyter, Arthur Rothstein “Detour sign, Chillicothe, Ohio,” (2013)]
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Schedule
from October 25, 2013 to November 24, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-10-25 from 18:00 to 20:00