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Week of 10/21/2012–10/27/2012

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL NOW START AT 2 PM. “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” stages a dialogue between an artist and her muses. This conversation between exhibition curator Lynne Cooke and art historian… Conversations Trockel’s Cosmos: Lynne Cooke and Suzanne Hudson in Conversation Saturday 10/27/2012 2PM-3PM
Join fellow Producers Council Members at the home of Lisa Ivorian-Jones for a conversation with Jenny Moore, Associate Curator, and Lynne Cooke, Andrew Mellon Professor, CASVA, National Gallery of Art,… Producers Council Members & Above Membership State of the Art Discussion with Jenny Moore and Lynne Cooke… Thursday 10/25/2012 7PM-8:30PM
Since the first “nuit blanche” event in Paris in 2001, a tradition of free, nighttime art events has expanded to dozens of cities and drawn millions of participants worldwide. This global network of… Conversations “Nuit Blanche” as meaningful civic spectacle Wednesday 10/24/2012 6:30PM
Join the artist and curators for a private preview of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” before it opens to the public on October 24. The Museum’s presentation of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” has… Deluxe Members & Above Membership Opening Reception for “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos”… Tuesday 10/23/2012 8PM
Join the artist and curators for a private preview of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” before it opens to the public on October 24. The Museum’s presentation of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” has… Premium Members & Above Membership VIP Preview of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” Tuesday 10/23/2012 7PM
Join the artist and curators for a private preview of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” before it opens to the public on October 24. The Museum’s presentation of “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” has… Producers Council Members & Above Membership Curator-led Tour of “Rosemarie Trockel” Tuesday 10/23/2012 6PM

Week of 10/14/2012–10/20/2012

Special guest Alicia Hall Moran joins Malik Gaines for Day Two of Propositions. “The Race Speech” is a talk about Gaines’s ongoing research into race and gender as sites of representation, performativity,… Conversations A Proposition by Malik Gaines: Day Two Saturday 10/20/2012 3PM
“The Race Speech” is a talk about Gaines’s ongoing research into race and gender as sites of representation, performativity, and action. Drawing from his own scholarly writing and past performance… Conversations A Proposition by Malik Gaines: Day One Friday 10/19/2012 7PM
Arleen Schloss (b. 1943) has worked interchangeably in a variety of mediums since the 1970s, including performance art, sound poetry, new music, paintings, film, and video. Presented in spaces as varied… Screenings Arleen Schloss: an evening of Super 8 Film and Hi8 Video Thursday 10/18/2012 7PM

Week of 10/07/2012–10/13/2012

Author and art historian Terry Smith will be in conversation with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of Documenta 13, about his latest publication, Thinking Contemporary Curating. Published… Conversations ICI presents Terry Smith and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Thinking… Sunday 10/14/2012 3PM
Presented in conjunction with Rethinking the Imprint of Judson Dance Theater Fifty Years Later: Movement Research in Residence. Proposal: Collective as creative community. Collective as institution.… Conversations Movement Research in Residence with AUNTS Saturday 10/13/2012 3PM-4PM
The New Aesthetic is an ongoing research project by James Bridle, investigating the intersections of culture and technology, history and memory, and the physical and the digital. For this event, Bridle… Conversations Stories from the New Aesthetic Thursday 10/11/2012 7PM

Week of 09/30/2012–10/06/2012

How do we remember the past? What stands out the most in our memories? What do we forget? Discover “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” and learn how twenty artists documented, recorded,… First Saturdays for Families: How to Create a History Saturday 10/06/2012 10AM-12PM
New York nurtured many alternative art spaces in the 1970s and 1980s, crucial venues for fostering community and supporting young artists. Reflecting both local concerns and international movements, these… Conversations Alternatives in Retrospect: Artist-run Spaces in the 1970s and… Friday 10/05/2012 7PM
In 1984, Paul Tschinkel’s ART/new york issued the documentary video Graffiti/Post Graffiti. The film captures a unique moment in the intertwined narratives of graffiti and art history, as aggressive… Conversations Graffiti/Post Graffiti Screening and Panel Discussion Thursday 10/04/2012 7PM
Join Margot Norton, Curatorial Associate, for a studio visit with Cai Guo-Qiang. Working across a diverse spectrum of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, and fireworks, Cai’s work explores… Contemporary Council Members & Above Membership Studio Visit: Cai Guo-Qiang Thursday 10/04/2012 5PM-6:30PM
Join Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator, for a visit to the studio of Rachel Feinstein. See the work to be included in her upcoming show at Gagosian Gallery in Rome before it is shipped. Space is very limited.… Premium Members & Above Membership Studio Visit: Rachel Feinstein Tuesday 10/02/2012 7PM

Week of 09/23/2012–09/29/2012

Artist Jesse Jones joins Fionn Meade in the second session to trace aspects of “cinefication” in the work of Vsevolod Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht through to Jones’s own work involving the social… Conversations A Proposition by Fionn Meade: Day Two Saturday 09/29/2012 3PM
Repeatedly an unfaithful servant to the systematizing and unifying impulses of aesthetics and philosophy, Fionn Meade will present a Proposition that will consider how and when artworks enact critique,… Conversations A Proposition by Fionn Meade: Day One Friday 09/28/2012 7PM
In 1969, Robert Smithson wrote to György Kepes, “Technology promises a new kind of art, yet its very program excludes the artist from his own art. The optimism of technical progress results in political… Conversations Panel Discussion: “What’s Wrong with Technological Art?” Thursday 09/27/2012 7PM

Week of 09/16/2012–09/22/2012

Mami Kataoka speaks at the Curator’s Perspective, an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, including the artists… Conversations Independent Curators International and the New Museum present… Sunday 09/23/2012 3PM
Tony Orrico is a visual artist, performer, and choreographer whose work merges the act of drawing with choreographic gesture and bio-geometrics. Evocative of the graphite wall drawings of Sol LeWitt, action… Performances Tony Orrico: Penwald: 15: fourths and quarters Saturday 09/22/2012 3PM
The computer we carry in our pockets is also an emerging platform for interactive screen-based art. Art In Your Pocket takes its name from a series of texts Jonah Brucker-Cohen wrote for Rhizome on art… Conversations Art In Your Pocket Friday 09/21/2012 7PM
Council Members are invited to the renowned penthouse designed by architect Paul Rudolph for cocktails and lively conversation with the New Museum curatorial team as they share an overview of our upcoming… Contemporary Council Members & Above Membership Annual Fall Council Cocktail Reception Thursday 09/20/2012 7PM-9PM
Join Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator, for a tour of artist Dustin Yellin’s space, a 24,000-square-foot Civil War-era warehouse in Red Hook, which houses his studio, a gallery, an artist-in-residence space,… Deluxe Members & Above Membership Studio Visit and Garden Reception: Dustin Yellin Wednesday 09/19/2012 7PM-8:30PM
Join the artists and curators for the private previews of exhibitions “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” and “Haroon Mirza” before they open to the public on September 19. “Come… Deluxe Members & Above Membership Opening Reception: “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery” and… Tuesday 09/18/2012 7PM
Join the artists and curators for the private previews of exhibitions “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” and “Haroon Mirza” before they open to the public on September 19. “Come… Producers Council Members & Above Membership Curatorial Walk-through: “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery”… Tuesday 09/18/2012 6PM

Week of 09/09/2012–09/15/2012

Presented in conjunction with Rethinking the Imprint of Judson Dance Theater Fifty Years Later: Movement Research in Residence. Prior to tonight’s program, Movement Research (MR) will solicit questions… Conversations Proposals for Rethinking the Imprint of Judson Dance Theater… Sunday 09/16/2012 3PM
To mark the closing of “Pictures from the Moon: Artists Holograms 1969–2008,” the New Museum will gather individuals from the fields of technology and art to discuss the history, present condition,… Conversations Pictures from the Moon: A Symposium on Holograms and Art Saturday 09/15/2012 2PM-4PM
Join Richard Flood, Director of Special Projects and Curator at Large, for a tour of artist Izhar Patkin’s East Village home and studio. Formerly a vocational school, the unique dwelling now houses Patkin’s… Premium Members & Above Membership Inside Design: The Home and Studio of Izhar Patkin Monday 09/10/2012 7PM-8:30PM

Week of 09/02/2012–09/08/2012

Moving image technologies have transformed the visual arts in myriad ways. As movie cameras and film stock became widely accessible outside of the studio system in the 1960s, artists began to explore the… Screenings “Ghosts on the Screen”: The Deadman, 1989, and … Saturday 09/08/2012 3PM
A private, Members-only screening of Corinna Belz’s Gerhard Richter Painting will take place in the Sky Room before its DVD release on September 27. German artist Gerhard Richter has spent over half… Standard Members & Above Membership Film Screening: Gerhard Richter Painting Friday 09/07/2012 8PM
Pauline Oliveros and Doug Van Nort perform with FILTER, an artificially intuitive software agent that listens and responds to the performing musicians transforming the duo to a trio. Pauline Oliveros… Performances Pauline Oliveros with Doug Van Nort and FILTER Friday 09/07/2012 7PM
Carlos Motta invites Chitra Ganesh, Andrea Geyer, Ryan Inouye, Thomas Lax, and Alex Segade to read passages from their favorite texts that have shaped contemporary queer culture. Conversations Carlos Motta and Friends: Collective Reading Thursday 09/06/2012 7:30PM

Week of 08/26/2012–09/01/2012

Investigate “Ghosts in the Machine”—the New Museum’s latest exhibition that explores the relationship between humans, art, and machines—during New Museum First Saturdays for Families. Focus on… First Saturdays for Families: NEW Optics Saturday 09/01/2012 10AM-12PM

Week of 08/19/2012–08/25/2012

Moving image technologies have transformed the visual arts in myriad ways. As movie cameras and film stock became widely accessible outside of the studio system in the 1960s, artists began to explore the… Screenings “Ghosts on the Screen”: Invisible Adversaries, dir.… Saturday 08/25/2012 3PM
Dunes are a band from Los Angeles who have absorbed both the ocean swells and the worn cement of their hometown to create a romantic, brooding strain of post punk. The trio of Stephanie Chan, Mark Greshowak,… Performances Dunes + Household Friday 08/24/2012 7PM
“Other Arrangements” is a film program organized by Frédéric Moffet. This selection of short films and videos offers historical and philosophical perspectives on queer folks’ struggles with traditional… Conversations Other Arrangements: An Evening of Screenings Selected by Frédéric… Thursday 08/23/2012 7PM-12AM

Week of 08/12/2012–08/18/2012

Computer programming is the designing and writing of source code for computer software; code is the building block for every piece of technology around us. A growing, coordinated effort to build “code… Conversations Kitchen Table Coders Presents: Learn to Code From an Artist Saturday 08/18/2012 12PM-3PM
Computer programming is the designing and writing of source code for computer software; code is the building block for every piece of technology around us. A growing, coordinated effort to build “code… Conversations Kitchen Table Coders Presents: Learn to Code From an Artist Friday 08/17/2012 7PM

Week of 08/05/2012–08/11/2012

Moving image technologies have transformed the visual arts in myriad ways. As movie cameras and film stock became widely accessible outside of the studio system in the 1960s, artists began to explore the… Screenings “Ghosts on the Screen”: Since, dir. Andy Warhol,… Saturday 08/11/2012 3PM

Week of 07/22/2012–07/28/2012

Antipop Consortium is an alternative hip hop ensemble based in New York. Conceived in 1997 out of a series of daring collaborations at the “Rap Meets Poetry” sessions of the Nuyorican Poets… Performances Antipop Consortium Friday 07/27/2012 7PM
Start planning your outfit now for our summer White Party! Standard Members & Above Membership White Party Wednesday 07/25/2012 7PM

Week of 07/15/2012–07/21/2012

Join the New Museum for the sixth annual Block Party in Sara D. Roosevelt Park! Spend the afternoon participating in hands-on workshops for all ages and enjoying live performances. Afterwards, head over… New Museum Block Party 2012 Saturday 07/21/2012 12PM-5PM
Successful activism can be seen as the action of many around a host of related issues. Behind every iconic speech, memorable image, and oft-repeated slogan are a plethora of moments involving numerous… Conversations 30 Years In, 30 Years Out: AIDS Activism Today: QUEEROCRACY and… Thursday 07/19/2012 7:30PM
An evening devoted to an intergenerational conversation about art and technology between artist Otto Piene and exhibition curator Massimiliano Gioni. Otto Piene (German, born 1928) is a leading figure… Conversations Otto Piene in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni Wednesday 07/18/2012 7PM
“Ghosts in the Machine” surveys the constantly shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art through the work of over seventy artists. Deluxe Members & Above Membership Opening Reception for “Ghosts in the Machine” Tuesday 07/17/2012 8PM
“Ghosts in the Machine” surveys the constantly shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art through the work of over seventy artists. Premium Members & Above Membership VIP Preview of “Ghosts in the Machine” Tuesday 07/17/2012 7PM
“Ghosts in the Machine” surveys the constantly shifting relationship between humans, machines, and art through the work of over seventy artists. Producers Council Members & Above Membership Curator-led Tour of “Ghosts in the Machine” Tuesday 07/17/2012 6PM

Week of 07/08/2012–07/14/2012

Queer theology, feminist theology, and a host of new theological movements have transformed American religions but they have done little to disrupt the political economies of otherness. In a culture that… Conversations Jared Gilbert: Liberation Theologies for Secular Society Thursday 07/12/2012 7:30PM

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