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Week of 11/08/2015–11/14/2015

The second in our “Temporary Arrangements” series, “Dad Band” is organized by Sacha Yanow. In “Dad Band,” Yanow covers and lip-synchs to some of her father’s favorite music from the 1950s… Performances Temporary Arrangement: Sacha Yanow Friday 11/13/2015 7PM

Week of 11/01/2015–11/07/2015

November 2–7, 2015: Open Studio Rehearsals with Director JJ Lind Presented as part of X-ID REP, an open studio research project organized in conjunction with the New Museum’s Fall 2015 R&D Season:… Performances X-ID REP Open Studio Rehearsals with Director JJ Lind Saturday 11/07/2015 11AM-6PM

Week of 10/25/2015–10/31/2015

October 26–31, 2015: Open Studio Rehearsals with director Kareem Fahmy Presented as part of X-ID REP, an open studio research project organized in conjunction with the New Museum’s Fall 2015 R&D… Performances X-ID REP Open Studio Rehearsals with Director Kareem… Saturday 10/31/2015 11AM-6PM

Week of 09/27/2015–10/03/2015

Please note: a limited number of rush tickets will be available at the door, starting one hour before each performance. This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Sunday 10/04/2015 3PM
Please note: a limited number of rush tickets will be available at the door, starting one hour before each performance. This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Saturday 10/03/2015 7PM
Please note: a limited number of rush tickets will be available at the door, starting one hour before each performance. This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Saturday 10/03/2015 3PM
Please note: a limited number of rush tickets will be available at the door, starting one hour before each performance. This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Friday 10/02/2015 7PM
Please note: a limited number of rush tickets will be available at the door, starting one hour before each performance. This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Thursday 10/01/2015 7PM

Week of 09/20/2015–09/26/2015

This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of the Crossing the Line Festival 2015 and the New Museum R&D Season: PERSONA. American writer, choreographer, and… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Sunday 09/27/2015 3PM
This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of the Crossing the Line Festival 2015 and the New Museum R&D Season: PERSONA. American writer, choreographer, and… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Saturday 09/26/2015 3PM
This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of the Crossing the Line Festival 2015 and the New Museum R&D Season: PERSONA. American writer, choreographer, and… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Friday 09/25/2015 7PM
This event is copresented with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of the Crossing the Line Festival 2015 and the New Museum R&D Season: PERSONA. American writer, choreographer, and… Performances Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson: Chambre (New York City… Thursday 09/24/2015 7PM

Week of 09/13/2015–09/19/2015

Organized as part of the New Museum Fall 2015 R&D Season: PERSONA. During this daylong public event, actors will audition before a panel of directors and playwrights to become part of the New Museum’s… Performances X-ID REP Company Auditions Sunday 09/20/2015 11AM-6PM
Bringing together a community of archivists, artists, and filmmakers, “Let’s piece our knowing together” is a panel discussion that explores queer archives and what it means for unauthorized and… Performances Let’s piece our knowing together Saturday 09/19/2015 3PM
“Temporary Arrangements” is a unique concert series that invites artists to form one-night-only bands and stage their premiere—and, by definition, also final—performances at the New Museum. Curated… Performances Temporary Arrangement: Anna Oxygen Friday 09/18/2015 7PM

Week of 08/30/2015–09/05/2015

The New Museum presents the world premiere screening of Chelsea Knight’s Fall to Earth, a new work for video produced as part of the Spring 2015 New Museum R&D Season: SPECULATION. Chelsea Knight works… Performances Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth (World Premiere Screening) Wednesday 09/02/2015 7PM

Week of 08/02/2015–08/08/2015

DELQA is open to the public August 6–9, 2015. Throughout history, from Bach to Björk, musicians have sought out technology as a means of adding new dimensions to their performances. Today, technology… Performances DELQA Thursday 08/06/2015 11AM

Week of 07/05/2015–07/11/2015

On view at Red Bull Studios New York 220 West 18th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues July 10–30, 2015 Wednesday–Sunday from 12 to 7 p.m. What happens when creativity meets technology? The unusual… Performances NEW INC Showcase 2015 Friday 07/10/2015 12PM-7PM

Week of 06/14/2015–06/20/2015

Presented as part of “Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth,” a project of the R&D Season: SPECULATION. “This chapter depicts and performs an active oscillation between different conceptions of silence.… Performances Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth, Chapter 5 — “Silence”… Saturday 06/20/2015 1PM-3PM

Week of 06/07/2015–06/13/2015

On Sunday June 14, the participants of New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas will host a public program featuring media theorist Orit Halpern, writer and designer Edward Keller, and the… Performances New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas around… Sunday 06/14/2015 1PM-3PM

Week of 05/31/2015–06/06/2015

Presented as part of “Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth,” a project of the R&D Season: SPECULATION. “Two singers perform a duet…[their voices] oscillating between conflict and harmony. Microtonal… Performances Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth, Chapter 4 — “Violence”… Sunday 06/07/2015 1PM-3PM

Week of 05/24/2015–05/30/2015

The second day of the Festival will animate a basilica and a gym with dance battles, poetry slams, urban-design pitches, sound and video environments, hot-air balloons, games, and mobile art spaces. It’ll… Performances IDEAS CITY: Friday Schedule Friday 05/29/2015 10AM-3AM

Week of 04/26/2015–05/02/2015

Titled Timeless Alex (2015), Eduardo Navarro’s newly commissioned work for the 2015 Triennial: “Surround Audience” departs from the conditions of experience determined by the human body to consider… Performances Eduardo Navarro Sunday 05/03/2015 4PM-6PM
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Conceived as a “living graphic novel,… Performances DISCOTROPIC: Ep. 3 Sonic Sunday 05/03/2015 2:30PM
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Conceived as a “living graphic novel,… Performances DISCOTROPIC: Ep. 3 Sonic Sunday 05/03/2015 2PM
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Conceived as a “living graphic novel,… Performances DISCOTROPIC: Ep. 2 Rhythmic Decay Sunday 05/03/2015 1:30PM
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Conceived as a “living graphic novel,… Performances DISCOTROPIC: Ep. 2 Rhythmic Decay Saturday 05/02/2015 2:30PM
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Conceived as a “living graphic novel,… Performances DISCOTROPIC: Ep. 2 Rhythmic Decay Saturday 05/02/2015 2PM

Week of 04/19/2015–04/25/2015

Presented as part of “Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth,” a project of the R&D Season: SPECULATION. “We want to tell you our two stories: latent and manifest. This is our hysterical story (hysterical… Performances Chelsea Knight: Knight + Knight Latencies, with Autumn… Sunday 04/26/2015 3PM

Week of 04/12/2015–04/18/2015

Presented as part of “Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth,” a project of the R&D Season: SPECULATION. Please note: Entry to this event is permitted during breaks between intervals of shooting. Each interval… Performances Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth, Chapter 3 — “Resistance”… Saturday 04/18/2015 1PM-3PM

Week of 04/05/2015–04/11/2015

Geo Wyeth is known for evocative, narrative songs and high-energy, empathic performances and video, which often center on the modulation and manipulation of voice and body. Dark, queer, and sharp-edged,… Performances If you wanna make the world a better place, premiere… Saturday 04/11/2015 3PM

Week of 03/22/2015–03/28/2015

Presented as part of “Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth,” a project of the R&D Season: SPECULATION. Please note: Entry to this event is permitted during breaks between intervals of shooting. Each interval… Performances Chelsea Knight: Fall to Earth, Chapter 2 — “Blasphemy”… Saturday 03/28/2015 1PM-3PM

Week of 03/01/2015–03/07/2015

For Fitness Guide (2011), featured in the Triennial, Geumhyung Jeong modified a series of exercise machines, readjusting key parts and activating them in a durational performance. The performance begins… Performances Fitness Guide Performance by Geumhyung Jeong Sunday 03/08/2015 3PM
For Fitness Guide (2011), featured in the Triennial, Geumhyung Jeong modified a series of exercise machines, readjusting key parts and activating them in a durational performance. The performance begins… Performances Fitness Guide Performance by Geumhyung Jeong Saturday 03/07/2015 7PM
As part of a series of talks and performances that will take place at The Island (Ken) (2015)—an installation by the artist collective DIS—Chus Martínez, curator and Head of the Institute of Art at… Performances DIS Whet Talks: Chus Martínez on the Metabolic Era Saturday 03/07/2015 4:30PM
For Fitness Guide (2011), featured in the Triennial, Geumhyung Jeong modified a series of exercise machines, readjusting key parts and activating them in a durational performance. The performance begins… Performances Fitness Guide by Geumhyung Jeong Friday 03/06/2015 7PM

Week of 02/22/2015–02/28/2015

The work of poet Steve Roggenbuck explores, in his own words, “the new forms that poetry, humor, and spirituality might take on the internet.” Presenting and distributing his work almost exclusively… Performances Launch of Steve Roggenbuck’s New Collection Saturday 02/28/2015 6PM
For the first event in a series of talks and performances that will take place at The Island (Ken) (2015)—an installation by the artist collective DIS—artist and comedian Casey Jane Ellison will interview… Performances DIS Whet Talks: Casey Jane Ellison on Female-Focused Artist Interviews Saturday 02/28/2015 4:30PM
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Reflecting the artist’s interest in the… Performances Premiere of DISCOTROPIC by niv Acosta Friday 02/27/2015 8:30PM
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Reflecting the artist’s interest in the… Performances Premiere of DISCOTROPIC by niv Acosta Friday 02/27/2015 7:30PM

Week of 02/08/2015–02/14/2015

Presented as part of “AUNTSforcamera” and R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY. An important interactive component of the installation of “AUNTSforcamera” at the New Museum includes a series of nine artist-devised… Performances “AUNTSforcamera” Artist-Devised Tour with Ben Van Buren (invited… Sunday 02/15/2015 5PM
As part of New Museum R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY, CLASSCLASSCLASS has organized PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, a series of fifteen artist-led classes open to adult dancers and non-dancers from the general public.… Performances CLASSCLASSCLASS: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE with Maria Bauman… Sunday 02/15/2015 1PM-5PM
Presented as part of “AUNTSforcamera” and R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY. An important interactive component of the installation of “AUNTSforcamera” at the New Museum includes a series of nine artist-devised… Performances “AUNTSforcamera” Artist-Devised Tour with Sable Elyse Smith Saturday 02/14/2015 5PM
As part of New Museum R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY, CLASSCLASSCLASS has organized PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, a series of fifteen artist-led classes open to adult dancers and non-dancers from the general public.… Performances CLASSCLASSCLASS: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE with Wendell… Saturday 02/14/2015 1PM-5PM
“Open Pole” began a series of pole-dancing classes and practice sessions that took place in the Fifth Floor Gallery as part of Gerard & Kelly’s research for “P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language,… Performances Open Pole Thursday 02/12/2015 7PM
As part of New Museum R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY, CLASSCLASSCLASS has organized PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, a series of fifteen artist-led classes open to adult dancers and non-dancers from the general public.… Performances CLASSCLASSCLASS: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE with Julie Goldberg Thursday 02/12/2015 2:30PM-5PM
As part of New Museum R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY, CLASSCLASSCLASS has organized PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, a series of fifteen artist-led classes open to adult dancers and non-dancers from the general public.… Performances CLASSCLASSCLASS: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE with Colin Stilwell Thursday 02/12/2015 11AM-1:30PM
As part of New Museum R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY, CLASSCLASSCLASS has organized PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, a series of fifteen artist-led classes open to adult dancers and non-dancers from the general public.… Performances CLASSCLASSCLASS: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE with Ni’Ja… Wednesday 02/11/2015 2:30PM-5PM
As part of New Museum R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY, CLASSCLASSCLASS has organized PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, a series of fifteen artist-led classes open to adult dancers and non-dancers from the general public.… Performances CLASSCLASSCLASS: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE with Aretha Aoki Wednesday 02/11/2015 11AM-1:30PM

Week of 02/01/2015–02/07/2015

Presented as part of “AUNTSforcamera” and R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY. An important interactive component of the installation of “AUNTSforcamera” at the New Museum includes a series of nine artist-devised… Performances “AUNTSforcamera” Artist-Devised Tour with Jessica Cook (invited… Sunday 02/08/2015 5PM

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