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Week of 05/26/2013–06/01/2013

“Don’t Stop” is a one-night event about the language of the early 1990s. This series of readings and performances by writers and artists will explore writing in the US from 1992–96, just before… Conversations Don’t Stop: Neophilia, Niche War, Expert Boxes, The Superbody,… Friday 05/31/2013 7PM

Week of 05/19/2013–05/25/2013

Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence. “Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance,… “Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation Sunday 05/26/2013 3PM-6PM
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence. “Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance,… “Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation Saturday 05/25/2013 3PM-6PM
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence. “Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance,… “Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation Friday 05/24/2013 3PM-6PM
Capacity is limited to fourteen people. Running time: 60 mins Dance artist Michelle Boulé and theater director Niegel Smith invite you to unravel the codes of museum engagement as we feel our way through… Conversations “Admission”: An Elastic City: NYC 1993 Walk Friday 05/24/2013 1PM
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence. “Sext Me if You Can” is an interactive performance installation taking place in the New Museum Lobby in full view of Museum visitors. For this performance,… “Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley: Performance and Installation Thursday 05/23/2013 6PM-9PM

Week of 05/12/2013–05/18/2013

“After-after Tears” explores the political dimensions of institutional suicide through reconsideration of temporality, duration, and history. Reflecting on the platform’s recent death, Gabi Ngcobo… Conversations A Proposition by Center for Historical Reenactments: After-after… Saturday 05/18/2013 2PM

Week of 05/05/2013–05/11/2013

In the fall of 1993, the art historian James Meyer curated a group show entitled “What Happened to the Institutional Critique?” at American Fine Arts gallery in SoHo. Responding to “the generalization… Conversations “What Happened to the Institutional Critique?”: James Meyer… Saturday 05/11/2013 3PM
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence. Contemporary artists like Pauline Boudry, Trajal Harrell, Sharon Hayes, Renate Lorenz, Allison Smith, and Wu Tsang engage expanded forms of re-enactment to destabilize… Expanded forms of Reenactment in Queer Performance: Holly Hughes… Friday 05/10/2013 7PM
Join Cecilia Alemani, curator of the Frieze Projects for a tour of the works commissioned as part of the Frieze Projects program for the prestigious art fair, Frieze New York, held on Randall’s Island.… Contemporary Council Members & Above Membership Tour of the Frieze Art Fair Frieze Projects on Randall’s Island Friday 05/10/2013 3PM
Capacity is limited to fourteen people. Running time: 60 mins Dance artist Michelle Boulé and theater director Niegel Smith invite you to unravel the codes of museum engagement as we feel our way through… Conversations “Admission”: An Elastic City: NYC 1993 Walk Thursday 05/09/2013 6PM
Enjoy a private screening of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel in the Sky Room with remarks by the director, Lisa Immordino Vreeland. The film covers Diana Vreeland’s fifty-year reign as the “Empress… Standard Members & Above Membership Sky Room Film Screening: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel Wednesday 05/08/2013 7:30PM

Week of 04/28/2013–05/04/2013

Free with Museum admission Capacity is limited. To guarantee your attendance, please RSVP here. Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence. What might a radical queer approach to teaching radical queer… Queer(ing) Performance Pedagogy: Roundtable with Holly Hughes Sunday 05/05/2013 3PM
Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC is an independent documentary directed by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau. The film explores the history, culture, and social impact of New York’s summer… Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC Saturday 05/04/2013 8PM-10PM
Capacity is limited. To guarantee your attendance, please RSVP here. Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence and Performing Beyond Funding Limits. The NEA 4, in collaboration with four curators who… Performances Performing Beyond Funding Limits: Final Presentations Saturday 05/04/2013 4PM
With support from the New Museum Education Department, Elastic City has launched the pilot of Willing Participant (willingparticipant.org). On Sunday April 28 from 12–4 p.m., the public was invited to… Conversations Elastic City: Willing Participant Saturday 05/04/2013 3PM
The Reanimator Lab, presented by Rhizome.org, is a community-sourced, hand-drawn animated GIF factory where you can make collaborative animations with your friends. Found, short-looping animations are… Rhizome Presents: The Reanimator Lab Saturday 05/04/2013 11AM-3PM
Join New Museum educators for a special First Saturdays for Families in collaboration with the 2013 IDEAS CITY Festival, a biennial festival created to explore the city and to effect change. Explore the… First Saturdays for Families: Our Bowery Saturday 05/04/2013 10AM-12PM
Artists, architects, poets, technologists, historians, community activists, entrepreneurs, and ecologists share their ideas of Untapped Capital and invite participants to actively shape their city. The… IDEAS CITY Festival: StreetFest and Projects Saturday 05/04/2013 9AM-11:59PM
Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence and Performing Beyond Funding Limits. The NEA 4, in collaboration with four curators who supported their work during the culture wars of the ’90s, were asked… Performances Performance Beyond the Limits: Short Works Friday 05/03/2013 7PM
Free with Museum admission Capacity is limited. To guarantee your attendance, please RSVP here. Presented as part of NEA 4 in Residence. Karen Finley investigates artists’ strategies for thinking… The Money Shot: Roundtable with Karen Finley Friday 05/03/2013 1PM
The Old School is transformed into an educational hive for animated discussion and problem solving. IDEAS CITY and partners present a diverse lineup of workshops that explore Untapped Capital, such as… IDEAS CITY Festival: Workshops and Projects Friday 05/03/2013 9AM-11:59PM
Online sales have closed, but Conference tickets will be available for purchase at the door at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. The Conference is dedicated to the exploration of Untapped Capital. It will… Conversations IDEAS CITY Festival: Conference and Projects Thursday 05/02/2013 9:15AM-11PM
Online sales have closed, but Conference tickets will be available for purchase at the door at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. The Conference is dedicated to the exploration of Untapped Capital. It will… Conversations IDEAS CITY Festival: Conference Wednesday 05/01/2013 7:30PM

Week of 04/21/2013–04/27/2013

With support from the New Museum’s Education Department, Elastic City is pleased to announce the launch of Willing Participant. All of us are, at some point or another, shaken by tragedies and hardship.… Conversations Elastic City: Willing Participant Sunday 04/28/2013 12PM-4PM
An independent curator and writer based in Mexico City, Montserrat Albores Gleason will present a Proposition that considers how curatorial practice can intervene in the triangulation of law, power, and… Conversations A Proposition by Montserrat Albores Gleason Saturday 04/27/2013 3PM
In this lecture and screening, artist Peggy Ahwesh will discuss the technology and aesthetics of PixelVision, a black-and-white video camera that recorded and played images and sound on audiocassette tape.… Screenings The Art of PixelVision: A lecture and screening by Peggy Ahwesh Friday 04/26/2013 7PM
Join Margot Norton, Assistant Curator, for a studio visit with “NYC 1993” featured artist Andres Serrano. Serrano’s work consistently explores the limits of media and subject matter ̶ most notably… Contemporary Council Members & Above Membership Studio Visit: Andres Serrano Tuesday 04/23/2013 6:30PM

Week of 04/14/2013–04/20/2013

Rhizome’s Seven on Seven Conference will pair seven leading artists with seven influential technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new—be it an application, social media,… Rhizome’s Seven on Seven Conference Saturday 04/20/2013 12PM-6PM

Week of 04/07/2013–04/13/2013

Sister Spit is a literary performance cabaret featuring novelists, memoirists, Magic Marker artists, poets, torch song singers, performance artists, and others who use their work to tell radical stories… Sister Spit: 2013 New York City Tour Sunday 04/14/2013 3PM
Recent critical discourse has generated a proliferation of terms to designate contemporary practice: “the pedagogical turn,” “the discursive turn,” “the social turn,” “the participatory turn,”… Conversations MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: Institutions After Art Saturday 04/13/2013 4PM
The model of the Museum as Hub took shape in a context where institutions were increasingly finding value in being networked, operating in discrete but interwoven parts, or through affiliations across… Conversations MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: Networked Institutions/Institutionalized… Saturday 04/13/2013 2PM
The density and interconnectedness of the international art community is generating new mappings of influence and dialogue. This occurs increasingly as artists and institutions choose partners around shared… Conversations MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: Choosing Your Neighbors Friday 04/12/2013 7PM
The first panel of the Museum as Hub conference, “How Do You Feel (About Institutions)?,” lays the groundwork for the discussions that follow by presenting institutions not as ossified, inflexible… Conversations MUSEUM AS HUB CONFERENCE: How Do You Feel (About Institutions)? Friday 04/12/2013 4:30PM
For more information, please contact springgala@newmuseum.org. Annual Spring Gala Wednesday 04/10/2013 6:30PM

Week of 03/31/2013–04/06/2013

The sky is an expansive and wondrous thing. Humans have gazed upwards for centuries, trying to chart, index, record, and understand its vastness and what lies beyond. It can represent hope, knowledge,… First Saturdays for Families: Looking at the sky Saturday 04/06/2013 10AM-12PM
Join Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator, for a visit to the studio of artist Sean Landers, best known for his use of personal experience as public subject matter and for utilizing diverse styles and media… Premium Members & Above Membership Studio Visit: Sean Landers Tuesday 04/02/2013 7PM-8PM

Week of 03/24/2013–03/30/2013

In Part One of “Stand Up,” acclaimed poet Cathy Park Hong will consider how humor can be an energetic mode of critique in relation to race and sexuality. Led by a series of questions—How can laughter… Conversations A Proposition by Cathy Park Hong: Stand Up Saturday 03/30/2013 2PM-5PM
Join Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator, for a tour of the studio of painter and pho- tographer Billy Sullivan in his Manhattan studio. RSVP to 212.219.1222 ×234 or membership@newmuseum.org. Premium Members & Above Membership Studio Visit: Billy Sullivan Tuesday 03/26/2013 7PM

Week of 03/17/2013–03/23/2013

A conversation between Hans Haacke and Irving Sandler on Haacke’s practice, including his contribution to the German Pavilion at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Organized in collaboration with ICI as part… Conversations “Germania”: Hans Haacke and Irving Sandler in Conversation Saturday 03/23/2013 3PM
Join us on Friday March 22 to start your midwinter break off right! Grab your friends and come for an evening of postapocalyptic disco exotica, relational aesthetics, and art that your parents might hate… Performances Teen Night Friday 03/22/2013 6:30PM-8:30PM
“Have you no sense of HISTORY, Davenport? Do you realize what this MEANS?! For the daughter of the President of the United States to arrive at an Opening Night War Party with two homosexuals?! Don’t… Conversations Waiting for Barbara by Dan Fishback: A Reading on the… Thursday 03/21/2013 7PM
Join Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, in the Sky Room of the New Museum for a discussion on the history of the Venice Biennale and his own preparations as Artistic Director… Producers Council Members & Above Membership State of the Art with Massimiliano Gioni Thursday 03/21/2013 6:30PM-8PM

Week of 03/10/2013–03/16/2013

Chimurenga is a cultural platform for writing, art, and politics founded by Ntone Edjabe in 2002. From its Cape Town offices, Chimurenga pursues a pan-African perspective through a range of endeavors,… Conversations PUBLISHING RESIDENCY: Chimurenga Saturday 03/16/2013 3PM
The New Museum invites its Corporate Members and their employees to view “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” while the Museum is closed to the public. Featuring over seventy-five artists… Private Viewing of “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and… Friday 03/15/2013 6:30PM-8:30PM
Join Richard Flood, Director of Special Projects and Curator at Large, for a tour of the luxurious midtown studio of jewelry designer James de Givenchy. De Givenchy launched his fine jewelry line, Taffin,… Deluxe Members & Above Membership Inside Design: The Studio of James de Givenchy / Taffin Tuesday 03/12/2013 7PM

Week of 03/03/2013–03/09/2013

One of the great challenges for anyone engaged with contemporary art is how to make sense of its immediate prehistory and implications. The recently published anthology Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present… Conversations Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present: A Roundtable… Sunday 03/10/2013 3PM
In conjunction with a presentation of his new film Remember Carthage (co-created by Rosa Aiello) through the New Museum’s First Look, artist Jon Rafman will give an overview of his work in moving image… Conversations Virtual Explorer: A talk with Jon Rafman Saturday 03/09/2013 3PM
’93 is marked as a significant year in the web with the launch of the image-based Mosaic browser. Yet in 1993, pre-www technologies still reigned supreme. Bulletin Board System (BBS), email, and usenet… Conversations The Internet Before the Web: Preserving Early Networked Cultures Friday 03/08/2013 7PM

Week of 02/24/2013–03/02/2013

Oftentimes we think of a portrait as a picture of ourselves or our family or friends. But a portrait can also be a sculpture, the mark our body leaves behind, words on a paper, or even a simple drawing.… First Saturdays for Families: What’s in a Portrait? Saturday 03/02/2013 10AM-12PM

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