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New Art, New Ideas http://www.newmuseum.org The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art.

Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

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11/11/2022

The multidisciplinary Brazilian artist Zahy Guajajara—from the Tentehar-Guajajara people—creates video works that examine contemporary indigenous identities and experiences amidst ongoing struggles for land rights and against ecological exploitation in the aftermath of colonial invasion.

Now on view alongside "Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces" and “Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg: The Shadow of Spring”—read more here: https://bit.ly/3UNUXCq

Image: Zahy Guajajara, Karaiw a’e wà (The Civilized), 2022 (still). Video, color, sound, 14:30. Commissioned by MAM-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the exhibition “Nakoada: Strategies for Modern Art.” Courtesy the artist and Candombá

11/10/2022

Fall forward at the New Museum with three new exhibitions opening today—plus, we're open late for our weekly pay-what-you-wish evening from 7–9 p.m.!

See the first-ever New York museum survey of work by Theaster Gates, a site-specific installation by Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg, and a selection of recent video works by Zahy Guajajara.

Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/2QJFXGI

Images: Theaster Gates, A Heavenly Chord, 2022. Leslie speakers, Hammond B3 Organ, sound, dimensions variable. © Theaster Gates. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Jim Prinz Photography; Courtesy Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg; Zahy Guajajara, Karaiw a’e wà (The Civilized), 2022 (still). Video, color, sound, 14:30. Commissioned by MAM-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the exhibition “Nakoada: Strategies for Modern Art.” Courtesy the artist and Candombá

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11/09/2022

🌀 How can vibration generate transformative experiences?

Featuring newly commissioned sculptures, installations, embroidery pieces, and sound works developed separately and in collaboration by artists Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg, “The Shadow of Spring” investigates the phenomenon of vibration in an immersive environment that explores the multifaceted relationships between bodies and soundwaves. Opening tomorrow!

Get your tickets today: https://bit.ly/2QJFXGI

11/04/2022

🔊 Opening on November 10, “Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg: The Shadow of Spring” investigates the phenomenon of vibration and its capacity for generating transformative collective experiences. The first ever collaboration between artists Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg, this exhibition explores how different rhythms and sound frequencies affect individuals and groups in sites such as dancefloors, s*x clubs, religious temples, and art spaces.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3sScRbh

11/03/2022

Celebrate the opening night of "Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces" with a discussion between Theaster Gates and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, at the New Museum on November 10!

Join the artist for an evening of conversation focusing on his work in the areas of sculpture, social practice, collaborative performance, and collective archiving.

Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/3h9Fq1u

11/02/2022

New YouTube Playlist drop: The Psychic Life of Power

Borrowing its title from philosopher Judith Butler, this playlist brings together conversations between a group of dynamic thinkers who explore the psychic effects of navigating a social landscape dominated by entrenched structures of racial and gender discrimination, latent historical trauma, and expansive media technologies.

Take a watch here: https://bit.ly/3fxUSUH

10/31/2022

Happy Halloween

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10/29/2022

🏆 Congratulations to Paul Chan and and Amanda Williams on being named 2022 MacArthur Fellows!

In 2008, artist Paul Chan premiered his series “The 7 Lights" at the New Museum in his solo exhibition of the same title. Begun in 2005, Chan’s ambitious series combines obsolete computer technology with hypnotic imagery to create a series of enigmatic encounters with light and darkness. And we were honored to have Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams participate in the 2016 of IDEAS CITY in Detroit.

Images: Courtesy the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

10/28/2022

Youth Spectrum Arts (YSA) applications are now open! YSA is a stipend-supported, afterschool program for young people ages fifteen to nineteen. Building on the New Museum's history of critically engaging youth, YSA provides young people the opportunity to engage in contemporary art and culture, with a focus on gender, s*xuality, and q***r and trans community. Through workshops, artmaking, and discussion, participants connect with themselves, peers, and guest artists. Previous guest artists have included Rena Anakwe, Chitra Ganesh, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Chris Vargas, among others.

The program is free, plus YSA participants receive a stipend of $750! Applications due November 4, 11:59 p.m.

YSA meets every Tuesday from 4 p.m.–6 p.m. EDT from January 10 to June 13 2023, excluding school recesses. Additional sessions on second Saturdays for field trips and organized events will occur outside of the specified hours. Dates TBD.

https://bit.ly/3VsDZLa

10/27/2022

🎉 The holidays are coming up... let us host your party! Our iconic building on the Bowery features flexible spaces for any event, including our Sky Room with jaw-dropping, floor-to-ceiling windows.

Contact us today to schedule a tour 🤙

10/25/2022

Theaster Gates opens on November 10

⚡"Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces" opens November 10. Experience the work of one of the most compelling artists active today!

Highlighting the artist's continually inventive forms of production, and honoring the voices of the artists, writers, and collaborators who have shaped his world, this exhibition will be Gates’s first survey exhibition in a New York museum.

10/24/2022

“Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” opened at the New Museum on October 24, 2012.

First on view at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, this inventive and prolific exhibition challenged the standard retrospective of a major artist. The imaginary world of “A Cosmos” charted Trockel’s 30-year career in a way you may not expect, displaying her work next to items of fantastical, scientific, and erotic significance in order to challenge the interrelations between humans, nature, and the impact of our species on the natural world.

Learn more about “Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos” here: https://bit.ly/3F9OhtQ

Photos: Benoit Pailley

10/18/2022

YOUTH! Apply for Youth Spectrum Arts (YSA), a stipend-supported, afterschool program for young people ages fifteen to nineteen. Apply here: https://bit.ly/3VsDZLa

YSA enables young people to interact with contemporary art and culture, through a focus on gender, s*xuality, and q***r and trans community. Through workshops, artmaking, and discussion, participating youth connect with themselves, peers, and guest artists.

The program is free and YSA participants will receive a stipend of $750 to ensure broad access to the program. Participants will meet every Tuesday from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. EDT from January 10th to June 13th 2023, excluding school recesses.

10/17/2022

“Act first, think later—that way you have something to think about.” —Marcia Tucker
Today we honor the New Museum’s founder, Marcia Tucker, who passed away at the age of 66 on October 17, 2006.

Tucker’s above motto was a testament to her experimental yet rigorous approach to art, exhibitions, and institutions. Director of the New Museum for over 22 years, Tucker often welcomed art that was viewed as difficult and hard to grasp, challenging the art world to see what would happen when you stopped looking at things through white, male eyes. Tucker built a museum and a community dedicated to engaging with real-life issues and broadening conversations between artists and the public.

Learn more about Marcia Tucker’s exhibitions and the founding of the New Museum on our archive: https://bit.ly/2GQfpx8

10/14/2022

On October 16, Doreen Lynette Garner (AKA King Cobra) invites visitors who identify as Black femmes, those who currently or formerly identify as Black women, and those who were identified as Black women at birth to engage with her work, "Here hangs the skins of a surgical sadist!" (2022), which confronts the violent history and legacy of J. Marion Sims.

This piece facilitates a ritual catharsis of past and historical traumas by repurposing the material remains of a silicone skin replica of a bronze statue of Sims that once stood in Central Park. This activation serves as an extension of the work—which interrogates the abuse of power, the politics of redress and retribution, and ancestral revenge—and imagines ways of reckoning with the persistent forms of violence Garner’s work exposes.

Immediately following, join the artist and curator Vivian Crockett for a conversation, which will also include an opportunity for participants in the activation to debrief the experience.

This event is free with paid museum admission. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3CuGaoQ

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10/13/2022

Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca: on collaboration

⏲️ Final days to see “Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca: Five Times Brazil”!

To create their works, Wagner and de Burca typically collaborate directly with the groups they are filming to create the works themselves—from writing scripts to staging performances on camera. The resulting works are marked by economic conditions and social tensions present in the contexts in which they are filmed, giving urgency to new forms of self-representation through voice, movement, and drama.

Hear more from the duo on their collaborative process here.

10/12/2022

🔦 Closing on Sunday, Kapwani Kiwanga's site-specific, monumental installation on the Fourth Floor weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency through textile and sculpture.

The exhibition synthesizes Kiwanga's ongoing interest in revealing social and political content hidden within her materials: "Cloak" (2022) is comprised of a metallic veil and accompanying wall work which both have been sprayed with pulverized aluminum obtained by a complex process of melting down police floodlights. Layers of sisal make up her sculpture "Maya-Bantu" (2019)—a fiber native to Central America that was later cultivated by German settlers in Tanzania, where it became a staple of the local economy both under colonial rule and during the country’s early years of independence.

Don't miss your chance to see this show, rife with layers of references to marginalized histories and colonial economies.

10/07/2022

Robert Colescott at the New Museum

LAST CHANCE ALERT 🚨 “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott” closes in just 4 days on October 9. Experience the art of one of America's most adventurous and subversive artists! Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/2QJFXGI

Deemed “seductive and disruptive” by the Financial Times, this show is a long-overdue celebration of one of the most consequential artists of our time. Including 40 paintings, the exhibition features some of Colescott’s most iconic works and explores the ways in which cultural identities are constructed through the language of painting.

10/04/2022

On October 6 at 3 PM, join educators (and sisters!) from the New Museum and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Zoom for a deep dive into Robert Colescott's iconic painting, "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from An American History Textbook" (1975). Bring yourself and your curiosity! Register for this *free* program here: https://bit.ly/3rpLbtF

On loan from the Lucas Museum and currently featured in “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott,” this work exemplifies Colescott’s mode of inserting Black figures into narratives that have historically excluded or falsely represented Black identities and bodies. Museum educators Jasmin Tabatabaee of the New Museum and Mariam Tabatabaee of the Lucas Museum will lead participants through close looking, questions, and group conversation considering the artist’s work and its broader context.

Image: George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook, 1975. Acrylic on canvas, 78 1/2 × 98 1/4 in. (199.4 × 249.6 cm). Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, 2021.45.1. © 2022 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

10/03/2022

🦎 THURSDAY AT 7PM: join artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo for a performative screening of her film "The Formaldeyhde Trip." Made in honor of human rights activist Alberta “Bety” Cariño, Rincón Gallardo's film is a fanstaic imagined journey detailing the activist's passage through the underworld after she was murdered in a paramilitary ambush in April 2010. A dynamic and experimental storyteller, Rincón Gallardo will mix live performance with video projections to expand upon her “mythical-critical surrealist” narratives.

Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3BJKhgB

09/29/2022

Tonight at 6:30 PM—don't miss Kapwani Kiwanga in conversation with our Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, as they discuss Kiwanga's solo exhibition "Off-Grid," now on view on the Fourth Floor. Reserve your seat here: https://bit.ly/3eQU2BN

09/27/2022

THURSDAY: Take a deeper dive into Kapwani Kiwanga's exhibition, "Off-Grid," as she discusses with practice with Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Massimiliano Gioni! Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3eQU2BN

Over the past decade, the Paris-based artist (b. 1978, Hamilton, Canada) has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures, and films that consider myriad subjects including marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga’s rigorously researched projects often take the form of installations that stage new spatial environments while exposing the ways in which bodies experience and inhabit structures of power.

Images: portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga: Michael Braun; photo:

09/26/2022

On October 6 at 7 PM, our current Screens Series artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo will present a performative screening of her film "The Formaldehyde Trip" (2017) in the New Museum Theater. A dynamic and experimental story-teller, Rincón Gallardo will mix live performance with video projections to expand upon her “mythical-critical surrealist” narratives, using pre-colonial myths to find anti-colonial poetic weapons against injustices of the present.

Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3BJKhgB

09/23/2022

Dive deeper into our summer exhibitions with monographic catalogues for "Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott," "Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Grid," and "Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca: Five Times Brazil"! Featuring new essays by curators and interviews with artists, these books are the perfect companion for a cozy fall day.

Read more and purchase here: https://bit.ly/3DLZArF

09/21/2022

Tomorrow's panel discussion and book launch for “El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture” by Chika Okeke-Agulu and the late Okwui Enwezor is SOLD OUT!

The talk will be recorded and shared in the coming weeks on our YouTube channel—follow here for updates.

Image: Portrait of El Anatsui. Courtesy of the artist, October Gallery, London, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

09/20/2022

Long known as the "father of modern gynecology, J. Marion Sims, an early-nineteenth-century physician, achieved many of his so-called medical advancements by conducting recurrent surgical operations without anesthesia on at least ten non-consenting, enslaved Black women, including Betsey Harris, Lucy Zimmerman, and Anarcha Wescott.

In her work, "Here hangs the skins of a surgical sadist!/To be physically assaulted by those who identify as Black women,/those who formerly identified as Black women,/and those who were identified as Black women at birth" (2022), Doreen Lynette Garner confronts the inhumane practices of Sims, facilitating a ritual catharsis of past and historical traumas by repurposing the material remains of a silicone skin replica of the bronze statue of Sims that once stood in Central Park.

See this work on view as part of "REVOLTED" through October 16.

09/19/2022

“...the Museum isn’t here to establish an arts district or create something new but actually is entering into a very long story.”— Ethan Swan, curator

On this day in 2012, “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” opened at the New Museum! This exhibition featured artworks by over fifteen artists who lived and worked on or around the Bowery in New York. During the three decades highlighted in the exhibition, the Bowery was commonly identified with the furthest extremes of metropolitan decline. While landlords and civil services abandoned the neighborhood, the newly cheap rents and permissive atmosphere drew the art scene downtown—thus creating a concentrated space for collaboration and inspiration amongst painters, photographers, and performers who lived in the lofts along the Bowery.

Of the many impressive works in the exhibition, the door to Keith Haring’s studio at 235 Broome Street was a standout. This image shows us the backside of the front door which is nearly covered in drawings, doodles and tags from Haring and several of his friends, including Fab Five Freddy, Futura 2000, and Haze. After Haring left, the door remained in use and intact for over 20 years thanks to the preservation efforts of its subsequent tenants.

Learn more about “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989” at the New Museum here: https://bit.ly/3S3Nrmk

Image: Exhibition View: "Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery 1969–1989," 2012. Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner

09/18/2022

Robert Colescott: Go West

Robert Colescott often addressed concepts of identity and racial bias from a personal perspective through family narratives, including portraits of himself and family members. In "Go West" (1980), Colescott illustrates the story of his parents’ migration from New Orleans to the Bay Area during the Great Migration after World War I in 1919, depicting them in profile on either side of a map of the United States. The painting is rife with symbolism: two adult birds tend to two baby birds in a nest—representing Colescott and his brother—with clouds containing objects that symbolize each parent.

See "Go West" before “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott” closes on October 9.

09/15/2022

🎤 Artist talk alert! Join us on September 29 for a conversation with artist Kapwani Kiwanga and Massimiliano Gioni. Learn more about the artist's research-driven practice, including her decision to avoid the use of any artificial light to illuminate the exhibition, and experience Kiwanga's spatial intervention, "Off-Grid," now on view on the Fourth Floor.

Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/3eQU2BN

09/14/2022

Join us on September 22 for a book launch panel discussion celebrating “El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture” by Chika Okeke-Agulu and Okwui Enwezor 📘

Okeke-Agulu will be joined for a panel discussion moderated by Massimiliano Gioni and featuring Jason Farago of The New York Times, and Julian Lucas of The New Yorker, who will discuss the artistic practice and life of world-renowned, Ghanaian-born sculptor El Anatsui. Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3LfGlbN

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Robert Colescott at the New Museum

LAST CHANCE ALERT 🚨 “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott” closes in just 4 days on October 9. Experience the art of one of America's most adventurous and subversive artists! Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/2QJFXGI Deemed “seductive and disruptive” by the Financial Times, this show is a long-overdue celebration of one of the most consequential artists of our time. Including 40 paintings, the exhibition features some of Colescott’s most iconic works and explores the ways in which cultural identities are constructed through the language of painting.

Robert Colescott: Go West

Robert Colescott often addressed concepts of identity and racial bias from a personal perspective through family narratives, including portraits of himself and family members. In "Go West" (1980), Colescott illustrates the story of his parents’ migration from New Orleans to the Bay Area during the Great Migration after World War I in 1919, depicting them in profile on either side of a map of the United States. The painting is rife with symbolism: two adult birds tend to two baby birds in a nest—representing Colescott and his brother—with clouds containing objects that symbolize each parent. See "Go West" before “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott” closes on October 9.

Ilya Vidrin: More and Less

🎟️ Don't miss the world premiere of "More or Less," a new performance created by the New Museum's 2022 artist in residence, Ilya Vidrin! Performances on September 9 and 10 will take place in the New Museum Theater. Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3AkKmq5

Ilya Vidrin: More or Less

Culminating their 2022 artist residency with our Department of Education and Public Engagement, Ilya Vidrin presents "More or Less"—a performance with seven performers continuing their formal inquiry into somatic partnering 👯 Taking place on September 9 and 10—get your tickets today at the link in our bio. Video: "Ilya Vidrin: More or Less,” 2022. Photos: Lo K. Clayton

Somatic Partnering Workshop

🤲 Ready to move your body to expand your mind? Try New Museum artist-in-residence Ilya Vidrin's Somatic Partnering Workshop, a program that consists of guided physical practice, shared reflection, and facilitated dialogue through dance! This unique approach includes exercises in relational movement, including touch, proximity, and mutual gaze. No prior dance experience required; all bodies and physical abilities welcome. This event will take place tomorrow, Friday July 15, at 2:00 p.m.—get tickets at the link in bio. @ilya.vidrin

"The Formaldehyde Trip" (2017)

Artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo (b. 1979) creates performances, films, and video installations that interweave multiple fields of study, including Mesoamerican cosmologies, queer theory, critical pedagogy, and Latin American decolonial feminism. For her Screens Series—on view on our Lower Level through October 16—Rincón Gallardo presents her film "The Formaldehyde Trip" (2017), a mesmerizing vision displayed simultaneously on three monitors. Save the date for a performative screening led by Gallardo on October 6 at 7:30 p.m. __ Image: Naomi Rincón Gallardo, The Formaldehyde Trip, 2017. Photo: Fabiola Torres Alzaga #naomirincongallardo

While Faith Ringgold’s alter-ego from her “French Collection” series may have been comfortable posing nude, the artist herself was definitely not! In this clip, Faith Ringgold reminisces about her friendship with fellow American artist, Alice Neel, and how she almost became the subject of one of Neel’s famous nude portraits. Don't miss “Faith Ringgold: American People,” closing June 5! And if you're heading to the Bay Area, be sure to check out “Alice Neel: People Come First” on view at @deyoungmuseum! #AliceNeel #FaithRinggold #NudePaintings @faithringgold #womenartists

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🚨 Last chance: Join, gift, or renew a New Museum membership by Sunday, May 22 to unlock your complimentary gift inspired by the exhibition “Faith Ringgold: American People." https://newmu.org/join

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🎁 Need more Faith Ringgold in your life? Join, gift, or renew a New Museum membership by May 22 to unlock your complimentary gift inspired by the exhibition “Faith Ringgold: American People." Join today: https://newmu.org/join

Daniel Lie: Unnamed Entities

🌱 Become a part of the enviornment in "Daniel Lie: Unnamed Entities." Each visitor participates in the installation's invisible architecture filled with "other-than-human beings," such as bacteria, fungi, plants, spirits, and ancestors, all moving through natural cycles of life and death. In this video, hear from the artist about the forces at play in their powerful, evolving work in our Lobby Gallery. See "Daniel Lie: Unnamed Entites," closing June 5 — only at the New Museum. Get tickets: newmu.org/tix

NEW INC Demo Day

Demo Day is NEW INC’s annual showcase previewing the exciting creative projects and enterprises developed during the year. Sponsored by Meta Open Arts, this year’s event features twelve presentations from NEW INC’s Year 8 members and will explore topics ranging from cursed Internet aesthetics and immersive virtual design to community-oriented creative practice and radical collective economics. Now in its eighth year, Demo Day continues its tradition of introducing cutting-edge thinking to an audience of funders, creative directors, curators, and industry leaders. Featuring NEW INC members from the Art and Code cohort (partnered with Rhizome): Roopa Vasudevan, Cassie Tarakajian, Carrie Sijia Wang; the Collective Abundance cohort: Johann Diedrick, Eliza Evans, Laudi CoLab; the Future Memory cohort: R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O., Good Mirrors, Ariana Faye Allensworth; and the Extended Realities cohort: Peter Burr, Brandon Powers, Adelle Lin. The afternoon will close with a keynote from a special guest witness of the day.

💡 Preview what's next in art, design, and technology! Don't miss NEW INC's annual Demo Day, featuring exciting creative projects and enterprises developed by members of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, design, and technology. Sponsored by Meta Open Arts, this year’s program features twelve presentations and will explore topics ranging from cursed Internet aesthetics and immersive virtual design to community-oriented creative practices and radical collective economics. 🔗 RSVP to watch the livestream: https://newmu.org/xnbJyM

🎬 Premiering Faith on Faith! Join Faith Ringgold for an intimate look back at her groundbreaking career as an artist, educator, activist, and author. Inspired by the exhibition “Faith Ringgold: American People,” this short film also features artists Tschabalala Self and Hank Willis Thomas, who share their perspectives on Ringgold’s lasting impact and legacy. Don’t miss “Faith Ringgold American People,” on view through June 5 — only at the New Museum! Get tickets: www.newmu.org/tix

Ilya Vidrin and My'kal Stromile in "Considered Care"

👯 We're excited to share that movement artist and researcher Ilya Vidrin has been named the New Museum's 2022 artist-in-residence! Vidrin explores embodied philosophical inquiry to understand and practice care through movement. Through workshops, conversations, and performances with trained and untrained dancers, Vidrin’s residency will explore the possibility of communicating aspects of physical trust, empathy, consent, and agency in partnering studies. 📆 Save the date to join an upcoming residency event! Thursday, June 9: Panel Discussion Friday, July 15: Somatic Partnering Workshop Friday, September 9–Saturday, September 10: Live Performances Learn more: https://newmu.org/ilyavidrin2022 Ilya Vidrin and My'kal Stromile in Vidrin’s "Considered Care," 2021. Video: Sue Murad

"Faith Ringgold: American People" at the New Museum

Faith Ringgold's impact far exceeds the confines of the art world. Celebrate the life and work of this living legend in "Faith Ringgold: American People," on view through June 5! 🎟️ Reserve tickets: newmu.org/tix

Underground Railroad conductor and American hero Harriet Tubman passed away #onthisday 109 years ago. Honor her enduring legacy with Shani Peters, co-founder of @theblackschool, reading Faith Ringgold's "Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky" in today's edition of Faith Ringgold Story Time. "Faith Ringgold: American People" bears witness to the rich complexity of American life and illuminates the historic struggles and achievements of Black heroes like Tubman, among many others. Now on view at the New Museum; tickets at the link in bio 🔗 @shanipeters #FaithRinggold #FRStoryTime #HarrietTubman #otd #womenshistorymonth #womenshistory #americanhistory

Faith Ringgold, one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation, has produced a body of work that bears witness to the complexity of the American experience. Bringing together over fifty years of work, "Faith Ringgold: American People," is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this groundbreaking artist’s vision. Celebrate opening night with us tomorrow, February 17 with pay-what-you-wish admission from 7—9 p.m.! Timed tickets strongly encouraged: https://newmu.org/tix

🥖 🎨 Bringing together over fifty years of work, "Faith Ringgold: American People" is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this groundbreaking artist’s vision. Newly installed on the Fourth Floor, Ringgold's historic "French Collection" story quilt series will be exhibited together for the first time in over twenty years, only at the New Museum! Experience the art of this American icon tomorrow night with pay-what-you-wish admission from 7-9 p.m. https://newmu.org/tix

Artist, author, educator, activist. Faith Ringgold’s art bears witness to the rich complexity of American life and illuminates the historic struggles and achievements of Black Americans. Experience the art of an American icon in "Faith Ringgold: American People," opening Thursday, February 17! 🔗 Learn more at the link in bio! #FaithRinggold #framericanpeople

If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

📚 It's story time! We’re bringing Faith Ringgold’s beloved children’s books to life in this new video series featuring special guest readers. We're excited to launch the inaugural episode in celebration of both #BlackHistoryMonth and Rosa Park’s birthday today! Listen along as OlaRonke Akinmowo, Creator/Director of @thefreeblackwomenslibrary, reads "If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks." Don't miss "Faith Ringgold: American People," opening February 17!

Featured in the 2021 Triennial, Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho's "waves move bile" (2020) is an installation of five internally illuminated sculptures and a multi-channel soundtrack. The sculptures’ forms are based on the allegorical monument "Colonies d’Asie" (Colonies of Asia), which sits outside the central train station in Marseille, France and depicts a nude, supine, Indochinese woman surrounded by the material spoils of colonial conquest. With "waves move bile," the artists have taken the colonizer’s representation and transformed her into a multiplied ghostlike presence inspired by a figure from Southeast Asian folklore, referred to as the "Mananangaa"l in the Philippines and the "Ahp" in the former French colony of Cambodia. Traditionally representing ideas of otherness or suspicion, Lien’s and Camacho’s spirits are instead powerful reminders of resilience and survival in the face of colonial history, racism, and violence. #AmyLien #EnzoCamacho #NewMuTriennial #softwaterhardstone #coloniallegacies Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, "waves move bile," 2020. Installation view: "2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone," New Museum, New York, 2021.

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Perception and representation are central to Sandra Mujinga’s artistic practice, which spans video, sound, installation, and performance. Her work often considers visibility within a social context, specifically the lived experience of Blackness. Mujinga continues this exploration in “Pervasive Light,” a three-channel video, showing images of a cloaked figure emerging in and out of total darkness, with a propulsive soundtrack composed by the artist. The subject on screen remains unidentifiable, alternately present and invisible, refusing the direct gaze of a viewer. Mujinga considers how Black bodies can harness invisibility for safety and posterity. The movements of the figure in “Pervasive Light”—shimmering against the black background—register as intermittent, liquid textures and on-screen marks. Unable to be fully captured or seen, Blackness as a state of being becomes both a field of projection and a space of autonomy. @iamsandramujinga #NewMuTriennial #softwaterhardstone #mediatedbodies Sandra Mujinga, “Pervasive Light,” 2021 (installation clip). Three-channel video installation, color, sound; 16:15 min. Installation view: "2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone," New Museum, New York, 2021.

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🎁 Gift artfully this holiday season! When you give a loved one a New Museum membership (Dual/Family level or higher), we'll include a complimentary 2021 Triennial tote bag! New members can pick up their bag at the New Museum Store on their next visit. Don't wait! This offer is only valid while supplies last: https://newmu.org/gift

Day With(out) Art: Enduring Care

🔴 On World AIDS Day, the New Museum is proud to participate in Day With(out) Art, an international day for mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis. This year, join us at the New Museum for screenings of ENDURING CARE, a video program featuring newly commissioned works that highlight strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. From histories of harm reduction and prison activism to the long-term effects of HIV medication, ENDURING CARE centers stories of collective care, mutual aid, and solidarity while pointing to the negligence of governments and non-profits. Screenings of this program will take place in the New Museum Theater all day today, Wednesday December 1, beginning at 12 p.m. Screenings are free with Museum admission. 🔗 Learn more: https://newmu.org/qmXis2

2021 Visionaries: Jeremy O. Harris and Arthur Jafa

The New Museum is proud to present the 2021 Visionaries! Playwright, actor, and philanthropist Jeremy O. Harris and video artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa will meet for their first-ever public conversation on Friday, November 12 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: https://newmu.org/v21

Gabriela Mureb, "Machine #4: stone (ground)" (2017)

Brazilian artist Gabriela Mureb foregrounds physical experiences of continuity, rhythm, and repetition in her performance, video, kinetic sculpture, and sound works. By incorporating antique engines and other altered mechanics, Mureb appropriates industrial technology—originally intended to foster enhanced productivity—to create relatively futile, cyclical machines that question the meaning and value of these systems. "Machine #4: stone (ground)" (2017) consists of a small motor that activates an aluminum rod that repeatedly hits a stone in a steady staccato. The work was inspired by the popular Brazilian proverb, “Soft water on hard stone, hits until it bores a hole,” a saying that speaks to ideas of perseverance and transformation, and inspired the title for the Triennial. While it is one of the smallest works included in the show, the piece is a potent metaphor for determination, reciprocity, and revolution. Gabriela Mureb, "Machine #4: stone (ground)," 2017. Installation view: "2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone," New Museum, New York, 2021

Samara Scott installing "Gargoyle (Lonely Planet)" (2021)

In her large-scale, amorphous installations, Samara Scott repurposes, juxtaposes, and combines non-traditional materials and everyday debris, transforming them into vibrant, viscous abstractions. Layerde collages composed of the common substances that surround us—fabric conditioner, energy drinks, hair gel, old t-shirts, cigarette butts, broken jewelry—Scott’s installations call attention to the madness of global production and consumer waste, as well as the creative potential to transcend the shattered remnants of failed systems that permeate our culture. The next time you walk down Bowery, look for Scott's "Gargoyle (Lonely Planet)" (2021), installed directly on the New Museum façade. Created for the 2021 Triennial, "Soft Water Hard Stone," the work combines layers of liquid latex and silicone with the artist's signature array of flotsam and jetsam pressed up against the Museum’s tall glass windows. The shifting sunlight and the interior lights become the work’s collaborators, fluctuating its transparency, opacity, color, and luminosity throughout the day.

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Today is and going into the New Year, volunteering is the easiest way to get involved in the community! Check out the Museum of the Moving Image, the New Museum, or the Kaufman Arts District to see how you can give back to ❤️

Tomorrow is Community Day at the New Museum! Community members with proof of residency in the zip codes 10002, 10003, 10009, 10012, and 10013 can reserve a free ticket at the link below. Tickets are first come, first served. Click here:

Episode two of our new podcast, Artists in the World, is now live! We invite you to listen to a dynamic conversation between with artist Tishan Hsu and curator Ryan Inouye about the cognitive and physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives.

Tishan Hsu’s work examines the accelerated use of technology and artificial intelligence, its impact on the body, human conditions, and environment.

Ryan Inouye has held curatorial posts at the New Museum and Sharjah Art Foundation and is associate curator of Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International.

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The New Museum and Lehmann Maupin invite you to a book launch and a conversation on the occasion of the publication of Liza Lou, tonight at 7pm.

The comprehensive monograph features works from the entirety of Lou’s career. Learn more here:

Gates unites his artistic beginnings as a ceramics sculptor with the impressive amount of objects that he has acquired as an archivist. Titled “Young Lords and Their Traces,” it follows the lineage of his artistic and archival practice through multiple times and histories.

On view at the New Museum through February 5.

Open now at the New Museum: the first American museum survey of Creative Capital Grantee Theaster Gates!

“Young Lords and Their Traces” honors the radical thinkers who have shaped Gates's home city of Chicago and America as a whole. The exhibition spans over twenty years of his career, from paintings, sculptures, and videos, to performances and archival collections that together memorialize both heroic figures and more humble, everyday icons.

See it through February 5, 2023: https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/theaster-gates-young-lords-and-their-traces
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Witness the first collaboration of Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg at the New Museum, titled “The Shadow of Spring.” The exhibit investigates the phenomenon of vibration and how it is capable of generating collective transformative experiences. Learn more here:

Now Open: ‘Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces’ at New Museum, New York (until 5 February 2023)

Conceived as a response to mourning and loss, ‘Young Lords and Their Traces’ continues the artist’s exploration of objects and their personal significance and intimate histories.

Featuring tar paintings, sculptures, video, performances, and archival collections, the exhibition reflects on how collective forms of knowledge and remembrance are built across the material world.

Visit newmuseum.org to find out more.

Images: Theaster Gates, ‘Young Lords and Their Traces’ New Museum, New York © Theaster Gates. Photos © Dario Lasagni. Courtesy New Museum.

In "Young Lords and Their Traces", Gates honors the radical thinkers who have shaped his city and the United States as a whole. This presentation will comprise a selection of works including paintings, sculptures, videos, performances, and archival collections that together memorialize both heroic figures and more humble, everyday icons. Gates’s elevation of these quieter sources of knowledge, and his assertion that collecting is a form of devotion and remembrance, has made his work reverberate on both the local and international level. "Young Lords and Their Traces" demonstrates the emotional and critical depth of Gates’s consistently surprising art.

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Following the opening of "Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces," join co-curator Gary Carrion-Murayari tonight at New Museum, as he leads a discussion of the artist's life and work. Learn more here:

Today is which is exactly the excuse you need to venture out to the New Museum in Astoria. Explore the exhibits and make plans to come back when new ones pop up later this month! Learn more here:

We are partnering with the New Museum on the search for an ambitious, inventive, and collaborative Director of Education and Public Engagement to develop, implement, and oversee the full range of the Museum’s distinctive and award-winning education and interpretive programs, including programs in the Museum’s 180 seat theater, 120-person capacity Skyroom, and Fifth Floor classroom.

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MASP exibe ‘Fala da Terra’, vídeo que integrou a individual de Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca no New Museum, em Nova York. Saiba como assistir o filme no Brasil!

⚫ MASP apresenta a mostra ‘Sala de vídeo: Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca’, que marca a estreia nacional de ‘Fala da Terra’. O curta-metragem, em cartaz até o dia 13.11, exibe o trabalho do Coletivo Banzeiros, grupo de teatro composto por integrantes do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), que vivem e atuam entre as zonas rural e urbana de Marabá e Parauapebas, no sudeste do Pará.

⚫ Além da exibição no Brasil, a obra integrou a exposição dos artistas no New Museum, em Nova York.

⚫ Trabalhando em parceria há mais de uma década, Bárbara Wagner e Benjamin de Burca vêm produzindo filmes e videoinstalações em diálogo com outros artistas ligados ao som e à cena. A dupla já representou o Brasil na 58ª Bienal de Veneza, em 2019.

⚫ A obra ‘Fala da Terra’ busca entender os processos de construção da cultura e da identidade coletiva no Brasil do campo, onde questões de origem, sobrevivência e produtividade se movimentam em torno da terra.

⚫ A partir do imaginário rural tradicional, ‘Fala da Terra’ estabelece a importância da cooperação e da coletividade entre agricultores e atores, no roçado ou no camarim. Diante de uma alegoria de tipos sociais, estabelece-se o drama da atual disputa política brasileira, como se pudéssemos vê-la inteira ali, encenada.

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📷: Trecho de ‘Fala da Terra’, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, 2022

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