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Annie Wachnicki
About
The New Museum is the only museum with a mission to promote new art and new ideas, and the only museum in New York City devoted exclusively to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the Museum was conceived as a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists whose works did not yet have wide public exposure or critical acceptance. The New Museum has an important and influential legacy and role to keep breaking new ground. A site of ongoing experimentation and questioning of what art and institutions can be in the 21st century, the New Museum continues to look to the future through programming that is open, fearless, and alive.
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Website
- http://www.newmuseum.org
Visitors can participate in free, docent-led public tours of the Museum's current exhibitions. During these highlights tours, visitors will engage in lively conversation about the work on display and the architecture of the building. Tours are FREE with admission tickets, take place on a first-come-first-served basis, and will last forty-five minutes. Please meet in the lobby-level Glass Gallery five minutes prior to the start time of the tour you wish to join.
Maximum size of group: 15
Wednesday through Friday, 12:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.
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Events & Exhibitions
Events
The Last Newspaper: Share Your Story
Sat, Nov 6, 2010
10:00 AM
FREE
StoryCorps short animation screenings at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Explore “The Last Newspaper,” an exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news. As part of this undertaking, partner organizations use on-site offices to present their research, engage in rapid prototyping, and stage public dialogues. One partner is StoryCorps, which gathers the life stories of Americans by having close friends and family members interview each other with the aim that young people gain a deeper understanding of the world around them. As part of New Museum First Saturdays for Families, share your story. In an action-based workshop led by StoryCorps staff, have a conversation with members of your family or close friends and discover what wonderful and unexpected stories can emerge by simply asking, “Tell me about your life.”
Also, watch a selection of StoryCorps original animation shorts, featuring some of StoryCorps’ best-loved stories. The series will take you from a conversation between a boy with Asperger's syndrome and his mom, to two Brooklyn characters remembering how they fell in love and learning how to let go, and other memorable places in between. Brilliant animators Mike and Tim Rauch will be available for a Q&A session following both screenings of the animations.
“Free” as in Freedom and “Free” as in Free Beer: Lecture and Walk with Artist Steve Lambert
Sat, Nov 6, 2010
3:00 PM
Free to Members, $8 General Public
Artist Steve Lambert will discuss the various definitions of “Free,” from human liberation, the law, freedom of movement, to economics. Tying together hippies, punk rock, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Free Software movement, the program will begin with a short lecture, followed by a short walking tour through the galleries and into the streets to see how these ideas apply in the real world.
A Proposition by Young Jean Lee: A Collaboration with the Audience
Fri, Nov 12, 2010
7:00 PM
Free to Members, $8 General Public
For Propositions, Young Jean Lee will bring the audience into her creative process as she explores the issues and themes in her current work in progress, UNTITLED FEMINIST MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SHOW (UFMTS). She will describe the inception and progress of UFMTS and guide a collaborative conversation, engaging the audience in the same style of brainstorming and discussion she uses with the actors of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company.
Part of a Proposition by Young Jean Lee: A Collaboration with the Audience
Sat, Nov 13, 2010
12:00 PM
Free to Members, $8 General Public
For Propositions, Young Jean Lee will bring the audience into her creative process as she explores the issues and themes in her current work in progress, UNTITLED FEMINIST MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SHOW (UFMTS). She will describe the inception and progress of UFMTS and guide a collaborative conversation, engaging the audience in the same style of brainstorming and discussion she uses with the actors of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company.
DIS Magazine Presents: Interpreting the Scrunchie
Sun, Nov 14, 2010
3:00 PM
Free to Members, $8 General Public
The first in a series of lectures organized by the online fashion magazine DIS, Interpreting the Scrunchie, David Riley offers an in-depth analysis of the controversial hair accessory. Drawing on patent documents, fashion, and pop culture, he traces its history from mass marketed phenomenon to object of derision among the fashion elite. David Riley is an artist and musician living in NYC, known for his involvement with the band Mirror Mirror and the collaborative group The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness. He has exhibited and/or performed at The Kitchen, Momenta, John Connelly Presents, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Andrew Edlin, Audio Visual Arts (AVA) and Index Art Center, as well as venues around the US and Europe.
New Style Curators
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
7:00 PM
Last year, the New York Times proclaimed, “The Word 'Curate' No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowd.” This panel, organized by Joanne McNeil, takes a look at “curation” online and how the word applies to social media and internet use. New-media companies sometimes hire “curators” to filter the web for specialized information and data. But missing from this analogy is the importance of context and preservation. Are we all curators of the web? How are sites like Tumblr and Delicious contributing to this trend? Does the internet even need curation? What can social media learn from the art world? More importantly, with everyone busy curating, who is making the original content online?
Open: a film by Jake Yuzna
Fri, Nov 19, 2010
7:00 PM
$10 Members, $12 General Public
The first American film to receive the Teddy Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, Open presents the new forms of love and sex emerging at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Partially based on the life and work of Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Open follows a love triangle between a pandrogynous couple and a young intersexed person, with that of a transman and queer man’s budding relationship. Starring real trans, intersexed, and queer actors, and featuring an original score by the Detroit based group ADULT, Open emotionally showcases the expanding possibilities for humanity.
Hot Type/Fresh Ink/New Blood
Sat, Nov 20, 2010
3:00 PM
Free to Members, $8 General Public
This panel discussion on the production of two weekly newspapers at the New Museum for the duration of the exhibition “The Last Newspaper” includes Max Andrews, Mariana Canepa Luna, Alan Rapp, and Kazys Varnelis, who consider the periodicals in terms of content, process, design, and mission. Max Andrews and Mariana Canepa Luna co-direct Latitudes, an independent curatorial office based in Barcelona, Spain. Since 2005, Latitudes has collaborated with artists and institutions in the conception, organization, and production of exhibitions, public commissions, conferences, and editorial and research initiatives. Recent projects include “Portscapes,” a series of ten commissions in the Port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. They are the co-editors of the weekly journal that will, upon compilation, serve as the catalogue for “The Last Newspaper.”
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Voice and Wind: Haegue Yang
Sat, Dec 4, 2010
10:00 AM
FREE
Explore the installation Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Voice and Wind (2009)—a labyrinthine system of stacked venetian blinds, industrial fans, and scent atomizers that transforms the New Museum’s lobby gallery into an immersive experience. Flooded with natural light, the artwork evokes shadows of places and experiences not physically present.
Sensory stimuli trigger our memory. The smell of wet soil is unmistakable. Wind and sunlight on our faces may help us remember a fun day. Enter Yang’s sensory environment and have a conversation with members of your family or close friends and discover what wonderful and unexpected memories are evoked from a sensory experience with an artwork. Then participate in an action-based workshop and produce a work of art inspired by the memories evoked by the exhibition.
For more information about New Museum First Saturdays for Families, e-mail familyprograms@newmuseum.org.
An evening with WAGE (Working Artists and the Greater Economy)
Thu, Dec 9, 2010
7:00 PM
Free to Members, $8 General Public
WAGE works to draw attention to inequalities that exist in the arts, and how to resolve them. In conversation with April Britski, Executive Director of CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des Artistes Canadiens), representatives from WAGE will discuss issues the exhibition “Free” with curator Lauren Cornell, and practices for paying exhibiting artists at institutions in the US and Canada.
Get Weird: Deakin / Prince Rama
Fri, Dec 10, 2010
7:00 PM
$12 Members, $15 General Public
As a Member of Animal Collective, Josh Dibb has participated in the most compelling, visionary, and emotive musical exploration of the decade. Performing solo as Deakin, Dibb has discovered a hazy, textured new landscape for this wandering. Utilizing guitar, loops, samples and vocals, Deakin builds a delicate balance between discord and ambience. Crackling with emotion, songs engulf him in chiming, clockwork sounds. From within this nebula, Deakin’s voice emerges, clear eyed and focused, while earthy, foot-stomp rhythms unfold slowly and powerfully, reaching towards an expression beyond language.
Conversation with Kickstarter
Sat, Dec 11, 2010
3:00 PM
Free to Members, $8 General Public
Founded by Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen in 2009, Kickstarter is “a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.” Essentially, the start-up company provides an online fundraising platform for artists, musicians, filmmakers, curators, etc., to source money and momentum by mobilizing contributions around big, new ideas. It relies on the viral and collective possibilities of the web; one of its main beliefs is that “a good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.” What underlies Kickstarter's straightforward premise is a powerful alternate model of funding for the arts: one that enables creators, of all stripes, to realize their projects without the support of the grants, galleries, or the larger art world apparatus. It also raises certain fundamental questions: such as, does art lose its mystique if it is financing is laid bare? How do artworks exist outside the parameters of the art world? Is art, in 2010, at home in mass culture? For this panel, artists, curators. and critics will assemble to discuss the merits and challenges of this new model for art creation.
Independent Curators International and the New Museum present The Curator’s Perspective: Weng Choy Lee
Sun, Dec 12, 2010
3:00 PM
FREE with Museum Admission
On Sunday, December 12, Weng Choy Lee will speak at The Curator’s Perspective, an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, including the artists they are excited by, exhibitions that have made them think, and their views on recent developments in the art world.
UNTITLED FEMINIST MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SHOW
Thursday, December 16, 7 p.m.
Friday, December 17, 7 p.m.
Saturday, December 18, 3 p.m.
Sunday, December 19, 3 p.m.
$17 Members, $20 General Public
In UNTITLED FEMINIST MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SHOW (UFMTS),/em>, Young Jean Lee will use her hilariously disorienting approach to attack the subject of gender politics and sexism. The show follows the adventures of a butch farm girl who gets transported to a magical fairyland and encounters fairy princesses and singing mermaids who overturn everything she knows about masculinity and femininity. The show’s assault of text, video, sound, music, and dance will seduce with subversive images of women, intensifying and proliferating a sense of female beauty and power that goes beyond the limited options we’ve all been trained to desire.
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Free*
Sat, Jan 8, 2011
10:00 AM
FREE
*Please note that New Museum “First” Saturdays for Families this month will take place on the second Saturday of the month due to the holiday on January 1.
Explore the exhibition “Free,” which includes work by twenty-three artists working across mediums: video, installation, sculpture, photography, the internet, and sound. The exhibition reflects artistic strategies that have emerged from the concept of free access to information and the notion of public space as it has been impacted by the internet.
Finding Photography
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
11:00 AM
FREE to Members, $8 General Public
This conversation with notable photographers and founders of websites, such as Tiny Vices, I Heart Photograph, and Unchanging Windows, explore how the web not only affects the discovery of new photography, but also its distribution, interpretation, and creation. With an emphasis on images and short text publishing encouraged by popular platforms like Tumblr, does photography lose depth? Does the continual circulation and re-presentation of photographs affect the work, itself? Is photography more resilient to change because we live in an image-saturated culture? Panelists present their projects and discuss these questions and more through audience Q&A.
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: George Condo: Mental States
Sat, Feb 5, 2011
10:00 AM
FREE
Explore the exhibition “George Condo: Mental States,” the first retrospective of twenty-five years of work by the American artist George Condo. Concentrating on painting, but including sculpture as well, the exhibition will offer a comprehensive survey of a career that has been innovative in his assimilation and appropriation of elements of Western artists from Velásquez to Picasso to Arshile Gorky. Condo’s work has explored the idea of “artificial realism,” which has given life to imagined characters.
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Lynda Benglis
Sat, Mar 5, 2011
10:00 AM
FREE
Explore this first museum retrospective of the seminal American sculptor Lynda Benglis. Benglis’s interest in process led her to expand the possibilities of a range of materials. Most recently, she has experimented with plastics, cast glass, paper, and gold leaf. Continuing to take the body and landscape as primary references, Benglis’s latest sculptures still have great immediacy and physicality, and sometimes even appear to defy gravity. … Read More
Exhibitions
The Last Newspaper
10/6/10 - 1/9/11
The New Museum will present “The Last Newspaper,” a major exhibition inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines. The exhibition will animate the Museum with signature artworks and a constant flow of information-gathering and processing undertaken by organizations and artist groups that have been invited to inhabit offices within the museum’s galleries. Partner organizations will use on-site offices to present their research, engage in rapid prototyping, and stage public dialogues, opening up the galleries as spaces of intellectual production as well as display. For visitors, “The Last Newspaper” will be a unique site of dialogue, participation, and critical thinking, posing new possibilities for a contemporary art museum experience. The exhibition is co-curated by Richard Flood, Chief Curator of the New Museum, and Benjamin Godsill, Curatorial Associate.
Free
10/20/10 - 1/23/11
Today, culture is more dispersed than ever before. The web has broadened both the quantity and kind of information freely available. It has distributed our collective experience across geographic locations; opened up a new set of creative possibilities; and, coextensively, produced a set of challenges. This fall, the New Museum will present “Free,” an exhibition including twenty-three artists working across mediums—including video, installation, sculpture, photography, the internet, and sound—that reflects artistic strategies that have emerged in a radically democratized cultural terrain redefined by the impact of the web. “Free” will propose an expansive conversation around how the internet has affected our landscape of information and notion of public space. The philosophy of free culture, and its advocacy for open sharing, informs the exhibition, but is not its subject. Instead, the title and featured works present a complex picture of the new freedoms and constraints that underlie our expanded cultural space.
Voice and Wind: Haegue Yang
10/20/10 - 1/23/11
The New Museum will present the first New York solo exhibition by Haegue Yang (b. Seoul, 1971). One of the leading artists of her generation, Yang has participated in numerous exhibitions internationally, and represented South Korea at the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009, but she has yet to exhibit in a New York museum. “Voice and Wind: Haegue Yang,” at the New Museum will feature the artist’s installation Series of Vulnerable Arrangements—Voice and Wind (2009)—a labyrinthine system of stacked venetian blinds, industrial fans, and scent atomizers that will transform the New Museum’s lobby gallery into an immersive experience. … Read More
