Discussions | Family Programs | Film / Video | Music / Performance

Discussions

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Saturday, August 7, 2010 | 3:00 PM

Negotiating the Urgency of Alternative Art Spaces

Part of Museum as Hub

How does the urgency behind the foundation of an alternative art space change over time? Alternative venues for younger art practitioners exist in numerous institutional forms. Often they are reactions to an immediate ne... more >

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Thursday, September 23, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Notations in the Flicker: Brion Gysin’s Text and Image Now

Part of Exhibition Related

The New Museum hosts two consecutive lectures on topics related to the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine.” Emphasizing interdisciplinary, they link Brion Gysin’s work and legacy to contemporary systems and pra... more >

Family Programs

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July 14 – 31, 2010

REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival at the New Museum

Celebrate the best and brightest in international children's cinema with an extravaganza of films from more than twenty-three countries!Take a celluloid carpet ride around the globe to see films that are inspiring, magic... more >

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Saturday, September 4, 2010 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other

Part of Exhibition Related, New Museum First Saturdays for Families

Explore the exhibition “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other” and discover how Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander merges painting, photography, film, sculpture, immersive installations, and participatory a... more >

Film / Video

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July 14 – 31, 2010

REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival at the New Museum

Celebrate the best and brightest in international children's cinema with an extravaganza of films from more than twenty-three countries!Take a celluloid carpet ride around the globe to see films that are inspiring, magic... more >

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August 12 – 14, 2010

FLicKeR, a documentary by Nik Sheehan

Part of Exhibition Related

With a custom-made Dreamachine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin—his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the twentieth century’s key counterculture f... more >

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August 19, 2010 – September 22, 2010

Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil

Part of Exhibition Related

In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of contemporary Brazilian film and video that explores relationships between visual a... more >

Music / Performance

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Friday, July 30, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Get Weird: Lee Ranaldo + Leah Singer and Nick Zinner

Part of Get Weird

In honor of the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” at the New Museum through October 3, members of Sonic Youth and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs offer multimedia tributes to the Dreamachine. Guitarist Lee Ranaldo is a fo... more >

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Thursday, September 9, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Initiation: Max G. Morton, Johanna Constantine, Sebastian Mlynarski, and F. Sean Martin

Part of Get Weird, Exhibition Related

Initiation is the first in a series of performances seeking a psychonautic state of consciousness, paralleling the efforts of Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine. The centerpiece of the evening is a reading of Cut-Ups by Max G. ... more >

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Saturday, September 25, 2010 | 1:00 PM

Gysin’s Ghost: Poetry Marathon

Part of Exhibition Related

Three generations of poets participate in a daylong poetry reading on the New Museum’s seventh floor. Invited are poets that knew Gysin personally, and who participated in the community surrounding concrete and sound ... more >