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Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Bright Giant

Part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

Is it an airplane? Is it a building? Discover how you and your family can be part of the Bright Giant. Join artists in residence LEWIS FOREVER and band members of Twin Shadow and help create a multigenerational megaband. Create a costume and become part of a collective, live music spectacle.

From 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., families are invited into our theater to view a 30-minute program of shor... more

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Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 7:00 PM

HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents: Armen Ra and Bora Yoon

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Music / Performance

HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents bring you an evening of music from the outer limits. World-famous thereminist Armen Ra debuts METAL, a multimedia cycle of five arias selected from the repertoire of Maria Callas. Special guests narrate the content of the arias while the theremin voices the melodies, set against a backdrop of metallic black-and-white footage of Callas, projected in extreme slo... more

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 | 3:00 PM

TropiChat: Conversations with Latin American Filmmakers: Fernando Eimbcke

Part of Special Engagement
 
Discussions, Film / Video

TropiChat, an ongoing series that features conversations with renowned Latin American filmmakers, presents a talk with one of Mexico’s most accomplished young filmmakers, Fernando Eimbcke. He will be discussing his work, including his acclaimed Minimalist debut feature film Temporada de patos (Duck season), as well as his follow-up, the award-winning deadpan dramedy Lake Tahoe, a Film Movement r... more

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 | 7:00 PM

David Goldblatt and Richard Flood in Conversation

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

Artist David Goldblatt will discuss his forty-year body of work documenting South Africa with the New Museum Chief Curator Richard Flood.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 history of his country’s segregationist policies and ... more

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Friday, July 17, 2009 | 7:00 PM

New Music Greats: An Evening with Rashaad Newsome

Part of New Silent

New York artist Rashaad Newsome creates powerful, original collage and performance through composite parts. His practice is based in sampling and interested in the ways picking apart and recombining culturally specific m... more

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Thursday, July 23, 2009 | 7:00 PM

Emory Douglas Introduced by Rigo 23

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, will discuss his work in the context of the current exhibition “Emory Douglas: Black Panther.” Douglas created the overall design of the Black Pa...... more

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Friday, July 24, 2009 | 7:00 PM

Get Weird: Tarek Atoui + U.S. Girls

Part of Get Weird
 
Music / Performance

Artist and musician Tarek Atoui opens his New Museum residency with his debut New York performance. He is joined by U.S. Girls.Constructed from hyperactive breakbeats, menacing drones, and disconcerting field recordings,... more

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Saturday, July 25, 2009 | 3:00 PM

Maysles Cinema at the New Museum presents Living With Conviction: A Black Panther Party Film Series

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Film / Video

In conjunction with the exhibition “Emory Douglas: Black Panther” at the New Museum, Philip Maysles of Maysles Cinema has selected a series of films illuminating the history and legacy of the Black Panther Party. The... more

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Sunday, July 26, 2009 | 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM

New Museum Block Party

Family Programs

The New Museum Block Party is a day of art activities and performances in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. First, enjoy a range of artist- and educator-led interactive projects and programs related to the neighborhood and the New... more

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Thursday, July 30, 2009 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

HOT! Festival and New Museum Presents: La JohnJoseph and Joseph Keckler

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Music / Performance

HOT! Festival and NewMuseum Presents bring you an evening of confession, digression, and song with two Josephs—from both sides of the pond.You Don't Know The Half Of It is La JohnJoseph's high-octane travel memoir... more

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Saturday, August 1, 2009 | 10:00 AM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: David Goldblatt’s Lens

Part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

Explore the work of South African photographer David Goldblatt and how he points out a connection between people (including himself) and the environment, and the way the environment reflects the ideologies that built it.... more

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Saturday, August 8, 2009 | 3:00 PM

Tarek Atoui: Empty Cans

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Workshops, New Media

During Tarek Atoui’s monthlong residency, he continues his Empty Cans projectand conducts a two-week music and technology workshop with New York City teenagersfrom the New Museum’s high school program, G:Class, in co... more

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Saturday, September 5, 2009 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Posters for the Future

Part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

Explore the exhibition “Emory Douglas: Black Panther.” This images in this show are nearly forty years old, but they are still as powerful as when Emory Douglas first created them: thought-provoking pictures, meant t... more

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Saturday, October 3, 2009 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Sign and Intervene

Part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

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, and zines. ... more