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Week of 02/26/2017–03/04/2017

Join us for a family workshop offered in conjunction with the exhibition “Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work,” on view at the New Museum through April 9, 2017. For over thirty years, Raymond Pettibon… First Saturdays for Families: Time Travel Saturday 03/04/2017 10AM-12PM
Join us for a tour focusing on Raymond Pettibon’s appropriation of iconic historical images. Pettibon reimagines indelible photographs like Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Napalm Girl and Joe Rosenthal’s… Tours New Perspectives Tour Friday 03/03/2017 12:30PM

Week of 02/19/2017–02/25/2017

On Members Bring a Friend Day, Standard Members and above receive one complimentary guest pass per Membership to see our winter exhibitions. Please RSVP by February 22 to membership@newmuseum.org or 212.219.1222… Standard Members & Above Membership Bring a Friend Day Saturday 02/25/2017 11AM-6PM
Versions is a new realities conference dedicated to exploring the creative landscape of virtual, augmented, mixed, and physical reality. Versions is co-organized by the New Museum’s cultural incubator… Conversations Versions: A New Reality Conference Saturday 02/25/2017 9AM-6PM
Join Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, along with New Museum curators and artists involved with the Museum for a lively annual luncheon at… Producers Council Members & Above Membership Annual Luncheon with the Director Friday 02/24/2017 12:30PM-2PM
Join us for a tour focusing on Raymond Pettibon’s appropriation of iconic historical images. Pettibon reimagines indelible photographs like Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Napalm Girl and Joe Rosenthal’s… Tours New Perspectives Tour Friday 02/24/2017 12:30PM

Week of 02/12/2017–02/18/2017

Members will enjoy a special discount of 20 percent at the New Museum Store on February 18. Certain exclusions apply. A distinctive downtown shopping destination, the New Museum Store specializes in… Standard Members & Above Membership Members Shopping Day Saturday 02/18/2017 11AM-6PM
In the spirit of current calls for a general strike against the current administration on February 17, we conceive of this event as a day of critical and necessary reflection and planning. We offer this… Conversations The Critical Matter of Performance: Duets, Part 2 Friday 02/17/2017 2:30PM-5:30PM
In the spirit of current calls for a general strike against the current administration on February 17, we conceive of this event as a day of critical and necessary reflection and planning. We offer this… Conversations The Critical Matter of Performance: Duets, Part 1 Friday 02/17/2017 11AM-1:30PM
The New Museum, in partnership with the NYU Center for the Humanities and the Sense of Performance Project at Yale University, presents the inaugural New Museum Colloquium from February 16 to 18, 2017.… Conversations The Critical Matter of Performance: Screening and Long Table Thursday 02/16/2017 7PM-9PM
Mateo López’s “Undo List” at the Drawing Center in SoHo is the Colombian artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the US. The multidisciplinary installation will feature works on paper, sculpture,… Premium Members & Above Membership Artist-Guided Tour with Mateo López: “Mateo López: Undo List” Monday 02/13/2017 7PM

Week of 01/29/2017–02/04/2017

Livestream for this event will be available at 11:30 a.m. -> This event features information sessions with lawyers, activists, and grassroots organizers on issues of bodies under duress: civil disobedience,… Conversations Body Politic: From Rights to Resistance: Session Two Sunday 02/05/2017 3PM-6:30PM
Livestream for this event will be available at 11:30 a.m. -> This event features information sessions with lawyers, activists, and grassroots organizers on issues of bodies under duress: civil disobedience,… Conversations Body Politic: From Rights to Resistance: Session One Sunday 02/05/2017 11:30AM-2PM
Livestream for this event will be available at 2 p.m. -> With the in-house development of Webrecorder —an initiative that puts high-fidelity web archiving and playback capabilities into the hands of… Conversations Digital Social Memory Saturday 02/04/2017 2PM-5:30PM
Join New Museum educators for a special First Saturdays for Families, which will reimagine the cityscape around us. Families will explore a variety of questions focused on the city and city life. If streets… First Saturdays for Families: Talking Streets Saturday 02/04/2017 10AM-12PM
Acknowledging that schools, museums, community centers, and other learning environments exist within, rather than apart from, the power structures of the world at large, how might teachers actively create… Professional Development Seminar for Educators: Making Safer… Monday 01/30/2017 9:30AM-3PM

Week of 01/22/2017–01/28/2017

Organized by the New Museum and A Blade of Grass, this event celebrates the launch of Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good (edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon)… Conversations Public Servants in the Future Imperfect Thursday 01/26/2017 7PM

Week of 01/15/2017–01/21/2017

Join us for a tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” in which we will consider the relationship of the body to architecture in Rist’s engagements with domestic space. Rist has referred to many of… Tours New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” Friday 01/20/2017 12:30PM
We will be livestreaming this event starting at 7 PM -> Join us for a special conversation between Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist and Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director of the New Museum, on the occasion… Conversations Pipilotti Rist in Conversation with Massimiliano Gioni Thursday 01/19/2017 7PM
Managing an artist’s career or estate requires extreme sensitivity and astute business skills. Often, outsider artists present dealers and scholars with a somewhat unique quandary of management and… Conversations From Obscurity to Prominence: The Discovery and Stewardship of… Wednesday 01/18/2017 7PM

Week of 01/08/2017–01/14/2017

Join us for a tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” in which we will consider the relationship of the body to architecture in Rist’s engagements with domestic space. Rist has referred to many of… Tours New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” Friday 01/13/2017 12:30PM
New Museum and Rhizome present a conversation in conjunction with “First Look: Artists’ VR,” an exhibition of newly commissioned works for mobile virtual reality. At this special event, a selection… Conversations First Look: Artists’ VR Thursday 01/12/2017 7PM
Join art writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris for a special Outside the Box gallery talk on “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.” Outside the Box offers a roster of gallery-based talks given by a variety… Tours Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Laura McLean-Ferris on “Pipilotti… Thursday 01/12/2017 3:30PM

Week of 01/01/2017–01/07/2017

Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Students of ASL are welcome. The tour is complimentary with paid Museum admission. Due to… Tours American Sign Language (ASL) Tour Sunday 01/08/2017 3PM
Join us for a family workshop offered in conjunction with the exhibition “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,” on view at the New Museum through January 15, 2017. Over the past thirty years, Rist has achieved… First Saturdays for Families: Crafting Eternity Saturday 01/07/2017 10AM-12PM

Week of 12/18/2016–12/24/2016

This month’s New Perspectives tour will examine how Pipilotti Rist’s work explores and rejects assumptions of a separation between the body and its environment. In particular, we will discuss how Rist’s… Tours New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”… Friday 12/23/2016 12:30PM

Week of 12/11/2016–12/17/2016

What happens when consensus fails? When the collective makes the wrong choice? In an age of mediated celebritocracy, Is democracy doomed? While answers are hard to come by, some coping mechanisms, as… Performances My Barbarian: PoLAAT Outro: Pre-Apocalypse Friday 12/16/2016 7PM
This month’s New Perspectives tour will examine how Pipilotti Rist’s work explores and rejects assumptions of a separation between the body and its environment. In particular, we will discuss how Rist’s… Tours New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”… Friday 12/16/2016 12:30PM
What happens when consensus fails? When the collective makes the wrong choice? In an age of mediated celebritocracy, Is democracy doomed? While answers are hard to come by, some coping mechanisms, as… Performances My Barbarian: PoLAAT Outro: Pre-Apocalypse Thursday 12/15/2016 7PM

Week of 12/04/2016–12/10/2016

Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Students of ASL are welcome. The tour is complimentary with paid Museum admission. Due to… Tours American Sign Language (ASL) Tour Sunday 12/11/2016 3PM
Watch the livestream for this event —> The New Museum and Rhizome jointly present the second edition of Open Score, an annual symposium that explores the state of art and technology today. Convening… Conversations Open Score Saturday 12/10/2016 1:30PM-6PM
Members will enjoy a special discount of 20 percent at the New Museum Store on September 21, October 13, November 25, and December 10. Certain exclusions apply. A distinctive downtown shopping destination,… Standard Members & Above Membership Members Shopping Day Saturday 12/10/2016 11AM-6PM
This month’s New Perspectives tour will examine how Pipilotti Rist’s work explores and rejects assumptions of a separation between the body and its environment. In particular, we will discuss how Rist’s… Tours New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”… Friday 12/09/2016 12:30PM
Join Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, for a private visit to the SoHo studio of artist Michele Oka Doner. Oka Doner is perhaps best known for her… Contemporary Council Members & Above Membership Studio Visit: Michele Oka Doner Thursday 12/08/2016 6:30PM
Join artist Rachel Rose for a special Outside the Box gallery talk on “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.” Outside the Box offers a roster of gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers… Tours Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Rachel Rose on “Pipilotti Rist:… Thursday 12/08/2016 3:30PM

Week of 11/27/2016–12/03/2016

Join us for our second annual family “Science Fair,” an interactive showcase of projects from NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for practices at the intersection of science, art, and technology.… First Saturday for Families: Science Fair Saturday 12/03/2016 10AM-12PM
This month’s New Perspectives tour will examine how Pipilotti Rist’s work explores and rejects assumptions of a separation between the body and its environment. In particular, we will discuss how Rist’s… Tours New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”… Friday 12/02/2016 12:30PM
New Museum invites you to join Visual AIDS on World AIDS Day for the premiere of “COMPULSIVE PRACTICE,” the organization’s twenty-seventh annual Day With(out) Art project. “COMPULSIVE PRACTICE”… Screenings COMPULSIVE PRACTICE: Day With(out) Art 2016 Premiere Thursday 12/01/2016 7PM
Join dance artist, actor, singer, and educator K.J. Holmes for a special Outside the Box gallery talk on “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.” This talk will be a journey into Rist’s newest work, 4th Floor… Tours Outside the Box Gallery Talks: K.J. Holmes on “Pipilotti Rist:… Thursday 12/01/2016 3:30PM

Week of 11/20/2016–11/26/2016

Members will enjoy a special discount of 20 percent at the New Museum Store on September 21, October 13, November 25, and December 10. Certain exclusions apply. A distinctive downtown shopping destination,… Standard Members & Above Membership Members Shopping Day Friday 11/25/2016 11AM-6PM

Week of 11/13/2016–11/19/2016

Architecture tours are led by New Museum docents and focus on the Museum’s building, which was designed by the architectural firm SANAA. Architecture tours are complimentary with paid Museum admission.… Tours Architecture Tour Sunday 11/20/2016 3PM
Join Ariane Lourie Harrison and Seth Harrison of Brooklyn-based design firm Harrison Atelier for a special Outside the Box gallery talk on “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.” Harrison Atelier’s work… Tours Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Harrison Atelier on “Pipilotti… Thursday 11/17/2016 3PM
Co-presented with PEN America as part of New Museum’s Fall 2016 R&D Season: DEMOCRACY “Violations” is a response to Google’s recent deletion of author Dennis Cooper’s blog (for “violations… Conversations Violations: An Evening of Interpretive Readings of Dennis Cooper’s… Wednesday 11/16/2016 7PM

Week of 11/06/2016–11/12/2016

Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Students of ASL are welcome. The tour is complimentary with paid Museum admission. Due to… Tours American Sign Language (ASL) Tour Sunday 11/13/2016 3PM
Please note: Capacity for this event is limited. Advanced RSVPs are no longer being accepted for this event, though others will be admitted as capacity allows. Check-in begins at 12:30pm at 231 Bowery… Scamming the Patriarchy: A Youth Summit Sunday 11/13/2016 2PM-6PM
Join Natalie Bell, Assistant Curator, and Shaun Leonardo, Manager of School, Youth, and Community Programs, for a visit to the Sunset Park studio of artist Adam Pendleton. Pendleton is a conceptual artist… Premium Members & Above Membership Studio Visit: Adam Pendleton Thursday 11/10/2016 7PM
This election day, join a professional development seminar for high school teachers, part of the New Museum’s Fall 2016 R&D Season: DEMOCRACY. This Season reflects on the potential redemption of a government… Professional Development Seminars for Educators Tuesday 11/08/2016 9:30AM-3PM

Week of 10/30/2016–11/05/2016

Join us for a family workshop offered in conjunction with the exhibition “My Barbarian: The Audience is Always Right”, on view at the New Museum through January 8, 2017. Working at the intersection… First Saturday for Families: Heap of Costumes Saturday 11/05/2016 10AM-12PM
This event is currently at capacity. A standby list will begin at 6 p.m. the day of the event with sign up in-person only. Is eight years a history? My Barbarian’s Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT)… Performances My Barbarian: Post-Party Dream State Caucus Thursday 11/03/2016 6:30PM
Envelop yourself in Pipilotti Rist’s vibrant projections on a private curatorial tour of ““Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest””“:https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/pipilotti-rist-pixel-forest… Premium Members & Above Membership Private Curatorial Tour: “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” Wednesday 11/02/2016 6:30PM

Upcoming Events

Event Downtown Artists: Neighborhood Tour 11/16 11AM
Event Downtown Artists: Neighborhood Tour 11/23 11AM
Event Open Studios | NEW INC Workshares 11/21 7PM
Event Live Virtual Workshop: Reflections on Aging, Waiting, and Embodiment 11/19 3PM
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