Events - May 2008

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Saturday, May 3, 2008 | 10:00 AM

Target First Saturdays for Families: In Shadow and Light

Part of Exhibition Related, New Museum First Saturdays for Families
 
Family Programs

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Dark and light, shadows and silhouettes, tell a story in the exhibition “Paul Chan: The 7 Lights.” Explore the show with your family, and then create playful silhouettes and experiment with light t... more >

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Saturday, May 3, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Robert King Wilkerson and Rigo 23: The Righteous Voice

Film / Video

Robert King Wilkerson, a member of the Black Panther Party who spent thirty-two years in Angola Prison, twenty-nine of them in solitary confinement, will discuss the use of speech and the voice under the pressure of comp... more >

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Thursday, May 8, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Museum as Hub: Artist Talk and Discussion, “Dongducheon: A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision”

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

Insa Art Space curator Heejin Kim moderates a conversation with Sangdon Kim, Koh Seung Wook, Rho Jae Oon, and siren eun youg jung, the four artists commissioned for the Museum as Hub presentation “Dongducheon: A Walk t... more >

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Friday, May 9, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Limits of the Visible

Part of New Silent
 
Discussions, New Media

Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen takes us on a road trip through the world of hidden budgets, state secrets, on covert military bases, and more, guiding us through a landscape that military and intelligence insiders c... more >

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Saturday, May 10, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Museum as Hub: Theodore Hughes, “Everyday Life, Violence, and the State of Exception”

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

As a “camptown” (kijich’on), Dongducheon enters a constellation of narratives figuring South Korea-US relations as marked by neocolonialism, militarism, Cold War developmentalism, sex work, and commodity fetishism.... more >

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 4:00 PM

Professional Development for Teachers
Part II, “What’s It to Me?”

Discussions

New Museum Education Department staff Cathleen Lewis, Marc Mayer, and Cris Scorza will lead a session exploring visual inquiry and object-based learning in the New Museum’s galleries, and developing lesson plans around... more >

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Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Get Weird: Andrew WK

Part of Get Weird
 
Music / Performance

Experimental party starter Andrew WK makes a special solo appearance for May’s Get Weird event. On the heels of his explosive post-frat live shows across the globe, WK has been, of late, handling production duties for ... more >

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Friday, May 16, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Paul Chan: Tin Drum Trilogy followed by a Q&A with the artist

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions, Film / Video

The New Museum presents the New York premiere of Paul Chan’s Tin Drum Trilogy: RE:THE_OPERATION (2002), BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (2003), and NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT (2005), followed by a Q&A with the artist. A... more >

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Saturday, May 17, 2008 | 3:00 PM

A Discussion About Abstraction with Thomas Nozkowski and Dana Schutz

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

In conjunction with the current exhibition by Tomma Abts, Kraus Family Senior Curator Laura Hoptman will moderate a discussion on abstraction as a method and idea with artists Thomas Nozkowski and Dana Schutz.  Thom... more >

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Thursday, May 22, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Rhizome Commissions 08
Conversation with eteam, Steve Lambert, Evan Roth and Ben Engebreth, and Rafael Rozendaal

Part of New Silent
 
Discussions, New Media

The Rhizome Commissions Program was founded in 2001 to provide support to emerging artists working with new technologies. The forty-four works commissioned to date represent some of the most innovative, pioneering effort... more >

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Thursday, May 29, 2008 | 7:00 PM

Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor, The Politics of Spectacle

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Film / Video

Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor, The Politics of Spectacle
Screening: Le fond de l’air est rouge (The Grin Without a Cat), 1977
Director: Chris Marker, Running time: 180 minA Grin Without a Cat is Chris ... more >

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Friday, May 30, 2008 | 7:30 PM

Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor, The Politics of Spectacle

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Film / Video

Screening: The Case of the Grinning Cat, 2004, followed by moderated discussion with Jake Perlin, Assistant Film Curator/BAMCinematek
Director: Chris Marker, Running time: 58 minsIn his newest film, The Case of the Grinn...... more >

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Saturday, May 31, 2008 | 3:00 PM

Night School Public Seminar 5: Okwui Enwezor

Part of Night School, Museum as Hub
 
Discussions, Film / Video

Okwui Enwezor lectures on the politics of the spectacle. Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws up... more >

Exhibitions - May 2008

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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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March 28, 2008 - June 15, 2008

SANAA: Works
1998-2008

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April 9, 2008 - June 29, 2008

Tomma Abts

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April 9, 2008 - June 29, 2008

Paul Chan: The 7 Lights

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April 23, 2008 - July 6, 2008

Double Album: Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer

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May 8, 2008 - July 6, 2008

Museum as Hub: Dongducheon: A Walk to Remember, A Walk to Envision

Presented by Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea

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December 1, 2007 - December 31, 2009

Jeffrey Inaba

Donor Hall

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December 1, 2007 - July 19, 2010

Ugo Rondinone

Hell, Yes!