Events - October 2008

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Friday, October 3, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Kalup Linzy and Dynasty Handbag: Amplify the Avatar

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Music/Performance

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 insight to cr... more

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Saturday, October 4, 2008 | 10:00 AM

Target First Saturdays for Families: Six Degrees

Part of Target First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

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 the New Museum's... more

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Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Ei Arakawa: Kissing the Canvas

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Music/Performance

with Ronnie Bass, Young Prada, Eleanor Erdman, Nancy Garcia, ChaseGranoff, Alix Pearlstein,Patrick Pryce, Georgia Sagri, Sakura Shimada, Andrew Smith, and morePerformance
Sunday, October 5, 3 p.m.and a rehearsal open to... more

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Friday, October 10, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Next Level

Part of New Silent
 
New Media

Bringing together prominent game designers, artists, and critics, Next Level takes a look at the recent rise of indie gaming: a vibrant new culture of individually made and self-distributed video games that blur the line... more

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Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Rhizome Commissions '08

Part of New Silent
 
Discussions, New Media

The last 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 Commissions Program has... more

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Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM

All-day POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Music/Performance

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 cannot fail h... more

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Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Get Weird: Eric Copeland and Legends

Part of Get Weird
 
Music/Performance

Founding member of Black Dice and one of the most creative and continually developing forces in the New York music scene, Eric Copeland has spent the last three years amassing and twisting a variety of sounds on his own,... more

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Friday, October 17, 2008 | 7:30 PM

John Giorno: Book Release and Reading

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Music/Performance

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 America: Select...... more

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Saturday, October 18, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Dave McKenzie, and Lisa Sigal in conversation with curator Eungie Joo

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

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 begins as a... more

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Thursday, October 23, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 9: Sleepwalking in a dialectical picture puzzle Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Thomas Keenan and Avery Gordon

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Day 1
40 minutes between the boards
An introduction by Natascha Sadr HaghighianA series of blackboards are installed in the auditorium. Objects sketched in chalk on the boards serve as coordinates for a forty-minute th... more

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Friday, October 24, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 9: Sleepwalking in a dialectical picture puzzle Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Thomas Keenan and Avery Gordon

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Day 2
40 minutes between the shelves, Part 1
A conversation with Thomas Keenan The corridors of a nearby store serve as the matrix for a conversation and critical reflection on presenting and representing as two differ... more

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Saturday, October 25, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Night School Public Seminar 9: Sleepwalking in a dialectical picture puzzle Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Thomas Keenan and Avery Gordon

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Day 3
40 minutes between the shelves, Part 2
A conversation with Avery Gordon The corridors of a nearby store serve as the matrix for a conversation on subjugated knowledges and how research is related to one's abili... more

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Thursday, October 30, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Rancid Nourishment

Part of Art on the Bowery
 
Discussions

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 intends to explor... more

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Friday, October 31, 2008 | 7:30 PM

All Hallow’s Eve with Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Music/Performance

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 modern day Alan Lo... more

Exhibitions - October 2008

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July 17, 2008 - October 5, 2008

After Nature

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June 25, 2008 - October 12, 2008

2008 Altoids Award

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October 8, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton

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September 25, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Museum as Hub: Six Degrees

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October 8, 2008 - January 11, 2009

A.L. Steiner + robbinschilds

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience)

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October 22, 2008 - January 26, 2009

Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone

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December 1, 2007 - July 19, 2009

Jeffrey Inaba

Donor Hall

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December 1, 2007 - July 19, 2009

Ugo Rondinone

Hell, Yes!