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.
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Image: Naomi Rincón Gallardo, The Formaldehyde Trip, 2017. Photo: Fabiola Torres Alzaga
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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
Get a free gift when you join the New Museum
🚨 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
Get a gift when you become a New Museum member!
🎁 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.
❄️ Happy Holidays from the New Museum! We hope you're having a safe, festive, and artful holiday season!
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.
Gift artfully
🎁 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.