Events - June 2008

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Friday, June 6, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Net Aesthetics 2.0

Part of New Silent
 
Discussions, New Media

Convening leading artists, critics, and curators, this panel looks at the state of Internet art today, in light of the expansion of the Web and the increasing prevalence of new technologies. For the second in a series of... more

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Sat, Jun 7, 2008 | 10:00 AM – Sat, Jun 7, 2008 | 12:00 PM

Target First Saturdays for Families: Enigmatic Abstraction

Part of Target First Saturdays for Families
 
Discussions

Unique colors, lines, and shapes are some of the formal elements painter Tomma Abts uses in her abstract compositions. Explore how this artist creates her meticulous and complex paintings through a guided discussion of t... more

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Saturday, June 7, 2008 | 3:00 PM

CANCELLED: Museum as Hub: Seeing “Neighborhoods” Anew: Art Institutions’ Enactment of the Transnational

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE NEAR FUTURE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO CHECK BACK AT NEWMUSEUM.ORG/EVENTS FOR DETAILS.How are art institutions re-envisioning communities and neighborhoods in transn... more

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Thursday, June 12, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Issues in Post-War Japanese Art—From Hiroshima to Peace Constitution: A Conversation with Shinya Watanabe and Hiroshi Sunairi

Part of Museum as Hub, Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

Moderated by Haeyun Park, Museum as Hub FellowIndependent curator Shinya Watanabe and artist Hiroshi Sunairi discuss the philosophical meaning of Article 9, the so-called Peace Constitution in Japan drafted by U.S. occup... more

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Friday, June 13, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Vangeline Theater and Ray Sweeten: Mesmerized

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Music/Performance

The artists in tonight’s program create dances and musical compositions that move at extremely slow speeds, aspiring towards profundity with near-microscopic subtlety. The culminating effect is mesmerizing and stunning... more

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Thursday, June 19, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 6: Space within space within space
Hu Fang and Zhang Wei

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Vitamin Creative Space functions as an alternative working model specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context. In order to operate independently from institutionalized funding, it is active both as an “indep... more

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Friday, June 20, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 6: Things to do while you’re alive
Zhang Wei and Hu Fang

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Accompanied by a slide show of Hu Fang’s recent pictorial collection of adverts, signs, and photos from the realm of public media, Hu Fang and Zhang Wei will spontaneously generate a narration of a "life journey&q... more

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Saturday, June 21, 2008 | 1:00 PM

“Homeland” and Collective Identity for Koreans in Japan

Part of Museum as Hub, Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

Koreans living in Japan (zainichi kankokujin in Japanese) have long been subject to discrimination and marginalization by Japanese society. Museum as Hub Fellow Haeyun Park discusses the internal division within the Kore... more

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Saturday, June 21, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Night School Public Seminar 6: Keywords School
Hu Fang, Zhang Wei, and Xu Tan

Part of Museum as Hub, Night School
 
Discussions

The “Searching for Keywords” project was initialled from a series of interviews of active people in Chinese society. By analyzing the content of these conversations, artist Xu Tan identified certain “keywords,” t... more

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | 2:00 PM

Gallery Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Lauren Kelley

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions, Film/Video

Lauren Kelley broadcasts her stop-motion animated videos across Houston’s public television network. Appropriately, her stories are visually and stylistically reminiscent of children’s programs that were launched in ... more

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Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Get Weird: DJ Rupture and 77Klash

Part of Get Weird
 
Music/Performance

Get Weird is standing tall in June, bringing a Brooklyn-style sound clash of dancehall, breakbeat, and hip-hop to the New Museum.DJ Rupture
BK-based DJ Rupture is the mind behind Soot Records, home to both African hip-h... more

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Friday, June 27, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Screening and Q&A: The Host (2006)

Part of Declassified, Exhibition Related, Museum as Hub
 
Film/Video

Written and directed by Bong Joon-ho
In Korean with English subtitles
119 minsAfter a careless U.S. military personnel commands his reluctant Korean assistant to empty hundreds of bottles of formaldehyde into the sewe... more

Exhibitions - June 2008

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March 28, 2008 - June 15, 2008

SANAA: Works
1998-2008

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April 9, 2008 - June 29, 2008

Tomma Abts

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April 9, 2008 - June 29, 2008

Paul Chan: The 7 Lights

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April 23, 2008 - July 6, 2008

Double Album: Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer

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May 8, 2008 - July 6, 2008

Museum as Hub: Dongducheon: A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision

Presented by Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea

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June 25, 2008 - October 12, 2008

2008 Altoids Award

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December 1, 2007 - November 9, 2008

Jeffrey Inaba

Donor Hall