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Sat, Jul 19, 2008 | 12:00 PM – Sat, Jul 19, 2008 | 7:00 PM

New Museum Block Party 2008

Workshops, Family Programs

Sara D. Roosevelt Park
Chrystie Street between Delancey and Broome Streets
New York CityJoin us for the New Museum Block Party 2008, a day of art activities and performances on Saturday, July 19, 2008, from 12 to 7... more

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Friday, July 18, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Premiere screening of The Tao of 9 Second Avenue with performances by Akim Funk Buddha and Steve Ben Israel

Part of Art on the Bowery
 
Music/Performance, Film/Video

This premiere screening of The Tao of 9 Second Ave by Michael I Schiller is accompanied by special live performances by Steve Ben Israel and Akim Funk Buddha, who also appear in the documentary.The Tao of 9 Second Ave is... more

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Thursday, July 17, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Get Weird: IUD and Growing

Part of Get Weird
 
Music/Performance

IUD
Alongside her multi-instrumental and vocal work as part of celebrated band Gang Gang Dance, Lizzie Bougatsos—together with co-conspirator Sadie Laska—has created a blend of propulsive drumming and samples from a...


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Saturday, July 12, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Ei Arakawa: Dance, Not Yet Titled

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Music/Performance

with Ronnie Bass / Eric Angles / Young Prada, Katie Brown, EmmelynButterfield-Rosen, Eleanor Erdman / Kim Gordon / Nancy Garcia, ChaseGranoff / Jenn Joy, Alix Pearlstein, Beau H Rhee, Georgia Sagri / Maria Sagri,Sakura S... more

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Saturday, July 12, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Museum as Hub: A Conversation with Susan Hefuna, Ayman Ramadan, and Tarek Zaki, Moderated by William Wells

Part of Museum as Hub, Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

William Wells, Director of the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, moderates a conversation with Susan Hefuna, Ayman Ramadan, and Tarek Zaki, three of the artists included in the Museum as Hub project “Antikhana.”... more

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Friday, July 11, 2008 | 7:30 PM

The Technology Readings:
A Night of Comedy

Part of New Silent
 
New Media

A group of New York comedians perform readings on the joys and pitfalls of a technology-saturated culture. The evening will include Chelsea Peretti, Amy Poehler, John Roberts, Joe Mande, Anthony Atamanuik and Laura Kraff... more

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Thursday, July 10, 2008 | 7:00 PM

Museum as Hub: “Antikhana” preview featuring Ayman Ramadan’s project Koshary min Zamman

Part of Museum as Hub, Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

The New Museum is pleased to announce the opening of "Antikhana," the Museum as Hub project on the topic of neighborhood by the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo. The exhibition, organized by William... more

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Saturday, July 5, 2008 | 10:00 AM

Target First Saturdays for Families: Double Album

Part of Target First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

10AM - 12PMThe playful sculptures, installations, and drawings of artists Daniel Guzmán (born 1964, lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico) and Steven Shearer (born 1968, lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada) are br... more

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Friday, July 4, 2008 | 7:30 PM

My Barbarian:
Post-Paradise, Sorry Again

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Music/Performance

Post-Paradise, Sorry Again is the culmination of My Barbarian’s Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT) workshops, a residency project at the New Museum in which the collective worked with local artists, musicians, an... more

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Thursday, July 3, 2008 | 7:30 PM

My Barbarian:
Post-Paradise, Sorry Again

Part of New Museum Presents
 
Music/Performance

Post-Paradise, Sorry Again is the culmination of My Barbarian’s Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT) workshops, a residency project at the New Museum in which the collective worked with local artists, musicians, an... 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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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