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The exhibition explores a new direction in contemporary design through twenty-five projects—presented through artifacts, objects, and films. In the place of standardized, industrialized perfection, the exhibition embraces imperfection as evidence of an emerging force of identity, individuality, and nonlinearity in design. As design welcomes the new technologies…

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Adhocracy 05/04/13 - 07/07/13
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, Karen Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by “sexts” that she receives from participating patrons. Participation takes the form of a commission…

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“Sext Me if You Can” by Karen Finley:… Thursday 05/23/13 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 the New Museum’s “NYC 1993” exhibition. Participants will respond by warming up their senses, stretching their tastes, and singing the chords…

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“Admission”: An Elastic City: NYC 1993… Friday 05/24/13 1PM
“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 the 1996 publication of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, that brilliant and dystopian summation of a technophilic, drugged North America, in which time…

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Don’t Stop: Neophilia, Niche War, Expert… Friday 05/31/13 7PM

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