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July 14 – 31, 2010

REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival at the New Museum

Film / Video, Family Programs

Celebrate the best and brightest in international children's cinema with an extravaganza of films from more than twenty-three countries!Take a celluloid carpet ride around the globe to see films that are inspiring, magical, one-of-a-kind—and definitely not available on DVD. These programs from REDCAT International Children's Film Festival include gentle shorts for tiny first-time movie-goers, ch... more >

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Friday, July 30, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Get Weird: Lee Ranaldo + Leah Singer and Nick Zinner

Part of Get Weird
 
Music / Performance

In honor of the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” at the New Museum through October 3, members of Sonic Youth and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs offer multimedia tributes to the Dreamachine. Guitarist Lee Ranaldo is a founding member of Sonic Youth. Artist Leah Singer works with video and photography to create improvised, pensive visual effects. Long-time artistic collaborators, Ranaldo and Singer... more >

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Thursday, August 5, 2010 | 7:00 PM

“Museum as Hub: Bidoun Library Project” Opening Event

Part of Exhibition Related, Museum as Hub

To mark the opening of “Museum as Hub: Bidoun Library Project,” the magazine Bidoun: Arts and Culture From the Middle East presents selected readings and video clips from the Bidoun Library collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum as an extension of the... more >

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Saturday, August 7, 2010 | 3:00 PM

Negotiating the Urgency of Alternative Art Spaces

Part of Museum as Hub
 
Discussions

How does the urgency behind the foundation of an alternative art space change over time? Alternative venues for younger art practitioners exist in numerous institutional forms. Often they are reactions to an immediate need in a specific context, born to fill a gap located by its founders. An alternative is always in opposition to something. But what is that? And what happens when the gap is no lon... more >

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August 12 – 14, 2010

FLicKeR, a documentary by Nik Sheehan

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Film / Video

With a custom-made Dreamachine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin—his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the twentieth century’s key counterculture f... more >

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August 19, 2010 – September 22, 2010

Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Film / Video

In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of contemporary Brazilian film and video that explores relationships between visual a... more >

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Saturday, September 4, 2010 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other

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

Explore the exhibition “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other” and discover how Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander merges painting, photography, film, sculpture, immersive installations, and participatory a... more >

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Thursday, September 9, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Initiation: Max G. Morton, Johanna Constantine, Sebastian Mlynarski, and F. Sean Martin

Part of Get Weird, Exhibition Related
 
Music / Performance

Initiation is the first in a series of performances seeking a psychonautic state of consciousness, paralleling the efforts of Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine. The centerpiece of the evening is a reading of Cut-Ups by Max G. ... more >

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Thursday, September 23, 2010 | 7:00 PM

Notations in the Flicker: Brion Gysin’s Text and Image Now

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions

The New Museum hosts two consecutive lectures on topics related to the exhibition “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine.” Emphasizing interdisciplinary, they link Brion Gysin’s work and legacy to contemporary systems and pra... more >

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Saturday, September 25, 2010 | 1:00 PM

Gysin’s Ghost: Poetry Marathon

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Music / Performance

Three generations of poets participate in a daylong poetry reading on the New Museum’s seventh floor. Invited are poets that knew Gysin personally, and who participated in the community surrounding concrete and sound ... more >