Events - February 2008

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Friday, February 1, 2008 | 7:00 PM

After the Red Square: Guest Lecturer Mikhail Iampolski on Post-Communist Russian Film

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions
 
Multimedia available  

The contemporary, post-communist situation is mostly understood as a time after the full and final victory of the market over all the attempts to put this rule into question. Accordingly, art is equated to the art market... more

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Saturday, February 2, 2008 | 3:00 PM

After the Red Square: Boris Groys on Eastern European Post-Communist Art

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions
 
Multimedia available  

The contemporary, post-communist situation is mostly understood as a time after the full and final victory of the market over all the attempts to put this rule into question. Accordingly, art is equated to the art market... more

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Thursday, February 7, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Ambitions: Jeffrey Inaba, Mark Wigley, and Richard Flood in Conversation

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

This event about philanthropy, education, architecture, and other forms of influence was co-presented by New Museum and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. It took place in co... more

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Friday, February 8, 2008 | 7:00 PM

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible

Part of New Silent
 
New Media
 
Multimedia available  

Rhizome's New Silent Series looks at the ways digital technologies have fundamentally altered our lives and experiences of urban space. Featured projects by Stamen Design, J. Meejin Yoon, and Christian Nold blur the bou... more

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Thursday, February 14, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Performances by Nautical Almanac and Stefan Tcherepnin, Two Artists in "Unmonumental: The Sound of Things"

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Music/Performance

Nautical Almanac is an experimental band that was founded in Michigan in 1994 by Carly Ptak and Twig Harper. They emerged from a Midwestern scene of noise outfits that transformed junk-from alarm clocks to toys-into home... more

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Friday, February 15, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Under The Skin: New Video From Poland

Part of Declassified
 
Film/Video

The Declassified series presented a program of recent videos curated by KamilMalinowski, including work by Yael Bartana, Bogna Burska, KrzysztofFranaszek, Anna-Maria Karczmarska, Anna Konik, Tomasz Kozak, KatarzynaKozyra... more

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Saturday, February 16, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Michael Bell-Smith, William Boling, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, and Nina Katchadourian Discuss "Montage: Unmonumental Online"

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions, New Media

Rhizome Curator-at-Large Marisa Olson led a conversation with four artists from "Montage: Unmonumental Online." The artists gave a brief presentations of their work and joined in a roundtable discussion of their diverse ... more

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | 1:30 PM

Mapping Power in the City: Lize Mogel, Alexis Bhagat, and Elise Youn

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Artists and cartographers Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat lead an informal conversation about the use of mapping in the cultural sphere, examining several of the maps in their recent collaborative project, An Atlas of Radic...... more

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Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Hisham Bharoocha and Telepathe

Part of Get Weird
 
Music/Performance

The opening night of Get Weird will present two pioneering figures in the world of downtown music. Hisham Bharoocha and Telepathe have establishedthemselves as true mavericks, each creating experimental music that takes ... more

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Friday, February 22, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Rare Excerpts from Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, Selected by Glenn O'Brien

Part of Art on the Bowery
 
Film/Video

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted the public access television show TV Party. Equal parts party, talk show, video art, concert, and political action, TV Party took live television to a place it had never been befor... more

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Saturday, February 23, 2008 | 12:15 PM

Unmasked: A Marathon of Artists' Videos and Films Contesting Systems of Rule

Discussions, Film/Video

Organized by Elise Youn and Carlos Motta
Unmasked: A Marathon of Artists' Videos and Films Contesting Systems of Rule was a two-day screening of recent film and video works that employ conceptual documentary filmmaking st... more

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Saturday, February 23, 2008 | 3:00 PM

TV Party: The Documentary

Part of Art on the Bowery
 
Film/Video

Directed by Danny Vlnik
(91min, color, video transfer)
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted the public access television show TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein from the band Blondie and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, ... more

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Sunday, February 24, 2008 | 12:15 PM

Unmasked: A Marathon of Artists' Videos and Films Contesting Systems of Rule

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Film/Video

Free with Museum admission
Organized by Elise Youn and Carlos Motta
Unmasked: A Marathon of Artists' Videos and Films Contesting Systems of Rule is a two-day screening of recent film and video works that employ conceptual ... more

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | 12:30 PM

Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art SCREENING

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Film/Video

Screenings related to Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art, Night School Public Seminar 2.  This seminar consisted of four lectures and three related days of screenings; see full event descrip... more

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Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 12:30 PM

Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art SCREENING

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Film/Video

Screenings related to Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art, Night School Public Seminar 2.  This seminar consisted of four lectures and three related days of screenings; see full event descrip... more

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Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School, Public Seminar 2
Martha Rosler
Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions
 
Multimedia available  

Free but tickets are required*
General Public reserve tickets here
Members reserve tickets here
The early history of autonomous video art is a pivotal point in the internal culture wars of the art world. Starting in the lat... more

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Friday, February 29, 2008 | 12:30 PM

Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art SCREENING

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Film/Video

Screenings related to Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art, Night School Public Seminar 2.  This seminar consisted of four lectures and three related days of screenings; see full event descrip... more

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Friday, February 29, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School, Public Seminar 2
Martha Rosler
Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art

Part of Night School
 
Discussions
 
Multimedia available  

The early history of autonomous video art is a pivotal point in the internal culture wars of the art world. Starting in the late 1960s through the early 1970s, artists with quite diverse practices experimented with the n... more

Exhibitions - February 2008

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December 1, 2007 - February 24, 2008

Museum as Hub: An Introduction

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December 1, 2007 - March 23, 2008

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

BLACK ON WHITE, GRAY ASCENDING

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December 1, 2007 - March 30, 2008

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century

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January 16, 2008 - March 30, 2008

Collage: The Unmonumental Picture

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February 13, 2008 - March 30, 2008

The Sound of Things: Unmonumental Audio

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February 13, 2008 - March 30, 2008

Montage: Unmonumental Online

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February 6, 2008 - March 30, 2008

My Barbarian

The Golden Age

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December 1, 2007 - April 6, 2008

Unmonumental

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February 27, 2008 - May 4, 2008

Museum as Hub: Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries

Presented by Museum Tamayo Arte Conemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

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December 1, 2007 - November 9, 2008

Jeffrey Inaba

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