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Saturday 09/29 3PM
Discussions

A Proposition by Fionn Meade: Day Two

Artist Jesse Jones joins Fionn Meade in the second session to trace aspects of “cinefication” in the work of Vsevolod Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht through to Jones’s own work involving the social and political history of cinema. Repeatedly an… Read more

Friday 09/28 7PM
Discussions

A Proposition by Fionn Meade: Day One

Repeatedly an unfaithful servant to the systematizing and unifying impulses of aesthetics and philosophy, Fionn Meade will present a Proposition that will consider how and when artworks enact critique, and why this discernment involves an indispensable… Read more

Thursday 09/27 7PM
Discussions

Panel Discussion: “What’s Wrong with Technological Art?”

In 1969, Robert Smithson wrote to György Kepes, “Technology promises a new kind of art, yet its very program excludes the artist from his own art. The optimism of technical progress results in political despair…. If technology is to have any… Read more

Sunday 09/23 3PM
Discussions

Independent Curators International and the New Museum present the Curator’s Perspective: Mami Kataoka

Mami Kataoka speaks 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… Read more

Saturday 09/22 3PM
Music / Performance

Tony Orrico: Penwald: 15: fourths and quarters

Tony Orrico is a visual artist, performer, and choreographer whose work merges the act of drawing with choreographic gesture and bio-geometrics. Evocative of the graphite wall drawings of Sol LeWitt, action painting, and Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man,”… Read more

Friday 09/21 7PM
Discussions

Art In Your Pocket

The computer we carry in our pockets is also an emerging platform for interactive screen-based art. Art In Your Pocket takes its name from a series of texts Jonah Brucker-Cohen wrote for Rhizome on art made for smartphones. This panel will assemble leading… Read more

Thursday 09/20 7PM-9PM
Membership Events

Annual Fall Council Cocktail Reception

Contemporary Council Members & Above

Council Members are invited to the renowned penthouse designed by architect Paul Rudolph for cocktails and lively conversation with the New Museum curatorial team as they share an overview of our upcoming season of exhibitions. RSVP to Lindsay Casale… Read more

Wednesday 09/19 7PM-8:30PM
Membership Events

Studio Visit and Garden Reception: Dustin Yellin

Deluxe Members & Above

Join Gary Carrion-Murayari, Curator, for a tour of artist Dustin Yellin’s space, a 24,000-square-foot Civil War-era warehouse in Red Hook, which houses his studio, a gallery, an artist-in-residence space, an office for his publication Intercourse, and… Read more

Tuesday 09/18 7PM
Membership Events

Opening Reception: “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery” and “Haroon Mirza: Preoccupied Waveforms”

Deluxe Members & Above

Join the artists and curators for the private previews of exhibitions “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” and “Haroon Mirza” before they open to the public on September 19. “Come Closer,” presented on the Fifth Floor, is an… Read more

Tuesday 09/18 6PM
Membership Events

Curatorial Walk-through: “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery” and “Haroon Mirza: Preoccupied Waveforms”

Producers Council Members & Above

Join the artists and curators for the private previews of exhibitions “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” and “Haroon Mirza” before they open to the public on September 19. “Come Closer,” presented on the Fifth Floor, is an… Read more

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