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This week: 01/13–01/19

Architecture tours are led by New Museum docents and focus on the Museum’s building, which was designed by the architectural firm SANAA. Architecture tours are free with Museum admission. No preregistration… Tours Architecture Tour Sunday 01/20/2019 3PM (Additional Dates)

Week of 01/27–02/02

“Nari Ward: We the People” presents the first New York museum survey of the work of Nari Ward (b. 1963, St. Andrew, Jamaica). The exhibition, occupying the second, third, and fourth floors of the New… Teen and Family Programs Professional Development Workshop for Educators Monday 01/28/2019 9:30AM-3PM
Join Rhizome to celebrate the launch of The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology. This richly illustrated volume retells the history of net art from the 1980s to the present through thematic essays, interviews,… Performances All Our Visited Links Thursday 01/31/2019 7PM
Join us for a Family Day drawing inspiration from the exhibition “Mariana Castillo Deball: Finding Oneself Outside,” on view at the New Museum from January 22 to April 14, 2019. Often drawing from… Teen and Family Programs First Saturdays for Families: Mapping the Outside Saturday 02/02/2019 10AM-12PM

Week of 02/03–02/09

Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Following the tour, participants are invited to join us for light refreshments. The tour… Tours American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted Tour Sunday 02/10/2019 3PM (Additional Dates)

Week of 02/10–02/16

Returning to Sharon Hayes’s legendary performance The Lesbian, staged outside the New Museum in 1998, this panel discussion will take up the figure of the lesbian culturally, politically, historically,… Conversations Lesbian is dead! Long live lesbian! Friday 02/15/2019 7PM
Join us for a special screening of never-before-seen archival footage on the occasion of “Nari Ward: We the People.” The footage, shot by artist Marcel Odenbach, documents the creation of the 1996… Conversations “3 Legged Race”: Harlem, Art, and Community Saturday 02/16/2019 3PM

Week of 02/17–02/23

Activating the collection of garments artist Jeffrey Gibson produced for his residency and exhibition “The Anthropophagic Effect,” this intimate event will feature a live set by DJ Kookum, as well… Performances The Spirits Refuse Without a Body Thursday 02/21/2019 7PM

Week of 02/24–03/02

In the premiere of this performance-lecture, commissioned and presented by New Museum affiliate Rhizome, artist Morehshin Allahyari illuminates her concept of digital colonialism in relation to the technology… Performances Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism Thursday 02/28/2019 7PM

Week of 03/03–03/09

Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Following the tour, participants are invited to join us for light refreshments. The tour… Tours American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted Tour Sunday 03/10/2019 3PM (Additional Dates)

Week of 03/10–03/16

Join us for a special conversation between artist Nari Ward and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum, on the occasion of Ward’s New Museum exhibition, “We the People.”… Conversations Nari Ward in Conversation with Massimiliano Gioni Thursday 03/14/2019 7PM
This conversation between curator and writer Glenn Adamson and art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson will situate the indigenous craft techniques that Jeffrey Gibson employs in his residency and exhibition… Conversations Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson in Conversation Saturday 03/16/2019 3PM

Week of 03/17–03/23

Before the launch of the first commercial ISP in the US, before the invention of the web, and before the term “net art” entered the lexicon, a rich history of artistic involvement with the internet… Performances Let’s Talk Net Art Thursday 03/21/2019 7PM

Week of 03/24–03/30

Join art historian Abbe Schriber for a special gallery talk on the exhibition “Nari Ward: We the People.” Outside the Box offers gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers over the… Tours Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Abbe Schriber on “Nari Ward:… Thursday 03/28/2019 3PM

Week of 04/07–04/13

Curator Kathleen Ash-Milby will discuss the history of the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York City, where she served as curator and codirector from 2000–2005. The gallery presented many… Conversations Gallery Talk: Kathleen Ash-Milby on “Jeffrey Gibson: The Anthropophagic… Thursday 04/11/2019 3PM
As part of the Education Department’s ongoing programs engaging art and social justice, the New Museum hosts its third Youth Summit, a day of workshops and celebration organized by artists, activists,… Teen and Family Programs Youth Summit Saturday 04/13/2019 2PM-8PM
Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Following the tour, participants are invited to join us for light refreshments. The tour… Tours American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted Tour Sunday 04/14/2019 3PM (Additional Dates)

Week of 04/14–04/20

Join artist Eric N. Mack for a special gallery talk on the exhibition “Nari Ward: We the People.” Outside the Box offers gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers over the course of… Tours Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Eric N. Mack on “Nari Ward:… Thursday 04/18/2019 3PM

Week of 04/21–04/27

Join us for the New York premiere of Out There, a concept video album and live performance by the band Princess that explores the roles men play and those they ought to be playing during the current cultural… Performances Princess Presents New York Premiere of Out There Thursday 04/25/2019 7PM

Week of 05/05–05/11

Nari Ward is known for transforming everyday objects, often gathered from the environment around his studio, to produce his site-specific installations. Ward’s selection of objects or materials—baby… Conversations Alchemy: Found Material in Contemporary African-American Art Thursday 05/09/2019 7PM
Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Following the tour, participants are invited to join us for light refreshments. The tour… Tours American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted Tour Sunday 05/12/2019 3PM (Additional Dates)

Week of 05/12–05/18

Join poet Ishion Hutchinson for a special gallery talk on the exhibition “Nari Ward: We the People.” Outside the Box offers gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers over the course… Tours Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Ishion Hutchinson on “Nari Ward:… Thursday 05/16/2019 3PM

Week of 05/26–06/01

This conversation between legendary fashion historian Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and artist Jeffrey Gibson will explore relationships… Conversations Valerie Steele and Jeffrey Gibson in Conversation Thursday 05/30/2019 7PM

Week of 06/02–06/08

In a special closing performance for Jeffrey Gibson’s residency and exhibition “The Anthropophagic Effect,” fifty performers will be brought together for a drumming event to give names to our current… Performances To Name An Other Saturday 06/08/2019 3PM
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Past events

2019

A livestream of the conversation will be available here. Join the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA) for a special evening with Chris E. Vargas and a selection of the artists commissioned by… Speculative Monuments: Show and Pray Tell with MOTHA’s Commissioned… Thursday 01/17/2019 7PM
Join us for a Family Day drawing inspiration from the exhibition “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” on view at the New Museum from September 26 to January 20, 2019. Often drawing inspiration from found and… First Saturdays for Families: Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral Saturday 01/05/2019 10AM-12PM

2018

This event is currently at capacity, but a standby list will begin at 11 a.m. the day of the event. Sign-up for the standby list will be in person only, and we will admit as many people as capacity allows.… No Excuses: Maggie Nelson on Sarah Lucas Thursday 12/13/2018 7PM
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Current exhibitions

Exhibition Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
 09/26 through 01/20
Exhibition MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing
 09/26 through 02/03
Exhibition Screens Series: Virginia Lee Montgomery
 01/08 through 03/03
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