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08/29/2026

Today is the final chance to visit 归舟: Longings, Returns by Sim Chi Yin. Alongside the exhibition, Sim presented two nights of performance. She brought us into her fifteen-year-long research into her grandfather’s deportation and execution—a story that is shared by tens of thousands of others who were a part of the mass deportations in Malaya. Through this performance-installation, Sim both uncovers and rearranges archival histories, and reaches towards forms of return.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and watch the full excerpt. 🔗

🎥: Mick Bongiovi

This is the final week to visit Sim Chi Yin’s “归舟: Longings, Returns,” on view through this Saturday, August 29. Sim’s t...
08/25/2026

This is the final week to visit Sim Chi Yin’s “归舟: Longings, Returns,” on view through this Saturday, August 29.

Sim’s three-channel video installation embeds two goddesses in the triangular end of the gallery: Mazu, the protector of seafarers, and Guanyin, who represents mercy and compassion. These two Chinese folk figures look in and across the space, towards the wider end, where two other video channels play. A small effigy boat anchors the center of the installation. Modeled after vessels used in Chinese folk ritual practice—the piece has been modified to resemble the steamship “Van Riemsdyk” which Sim’s grandfather was deported on—for a symbolic final passage to the next world/life.

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1. Photo: Luis Corzo. 2–3: videos courtesy of the artist

08/04/2026

“I wish they understood what was, is no longer working. What is, hasn’t been born yet.”

Alexandra Delano’s reading is part of Alex Strada’s “Public Address” which included an intimate public program that brought artists and community members together to reflect on homelessness, migration, the arts and civic life in and beyond the city.

Expanding on the themes of Strada’s exhibition, this conversation emphasized how art creates space for critical dialogue.

Tap the link in our bio to watch the full video. “Public Address” is on view in Brooklyn throughout the summer.

DAAR—Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, an architecture/art practice convened by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, ...
06/26/2026

DAAR—Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, an architecture/art practice convened by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, is the inaugural recipient of the Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture.

Honoring the legacy of Storefront’s founder Kyong Park, the prize recognizes critical practices at the intersection of art, architecture, and politics, providing an unrestricted award of 25,000 USD. This award emerges from multiple stages of evaluation by a distinguished interdisciplinary jury composed of Negar Azimi, Thomas Keenan, Manuela Moscoso, Marina Otero Verzier, Eugenie Tsai, and Mabel O. Wilson.

A public ceremony celebrating the inaugural Kyong Park Prize will be held this Friday, June 26 at 7 pm as part of the Annual Gathering hosted by the Entity of Decolonization in Entity of Decolonization, Borgo Ex (Rizza), Sicily. This includes a lecture by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, introductions by José Esparza Chong Cuy and Marina Otero Verzier, and a conversation with DAAR and Kyong Park moderated by Manuela Moscoso and Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full statement.

Design: Natasha Jen / Pentagram Natasha Jen

On September 28, artists, architects, designers, and supporters will come together at the iconic Grand Central Oyster Ba...
06/23/2026

On September 28, artists, architects, designers, and supporters will come together at the iconic Grand Central Oyster Bar to celebrate the people and ideas shaping New York City’s culture at our annual Gala.

We are proud to honor architecture and design firm SO-IL, arts leader Deana Haggag, and artist Mel Chin. This event is one of our most important fundraising moments of the year, with all contributions directly supporting our future exhibitions and public programs.

Join the Storefront Circle, reserve a table, or purchase tickets at the link in our bio. 🎟️

Designed by Pentagram / Natasha Jen Natasha Jen, inspired by Grand Central Oyster Bar

Join us tomorrow, April 28 from 6:30–8 pm for a Listening Session. Inside the new exhibition “Black Fire!,” we will expl...
04/27/2026

Join us tomorrow, April 28 from 6:30–8 pm for a Listening Session. Inside the new exhibition “Black Fire!,” we will explore sonic archives and radical alternate imaginaries through vinyl, audio recordings, and soundscapes. Each host brings distinct practices rooted in sound, memory, and speculative world-making. Part conversation, part back-to-back set, the session invites audiences into an intimate encounter with the otherworldly frequencies embedded in archival and experimental sound.

We are joined by scholar of African Self-Liberation Mhoze Chikowero, Grammy-nominated creator and writer, Shana L. Redmond, scholar of African American and Africana Studies, Zoé Samudzi, and Thandi Loewenson, whose exhibition creates space for the session.

This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is strongly encouraged. Sign up at the link in our bio. 🔗

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“Black Fire!” by Thandi Loewenson is now open and on view through June 27!Tomorrow, Children ages 4–12—and their guests—...
04/24/2026

“Black Fire!” by Thandi Loewenson is now open and on view through June 27!

Tomorrow, Children ages 4–12—and their guests—are invited to a Spooky Action Workshop at the gallery from 2–4 pm. Artist and educator Niceli Portugal () will guide this program, where participants will use scrap materials and simple assembly techniques to create their own shadow puppets and bring them to life through a light projection. After the workshop, participants will build short shadow performances exploring the boundaries between fiction and collective narratives.

Next week:
🔥 4/28, 6:30–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Mhoze Chikowero, Shana L. Redmond, and Zoé Samudzi () (*Limited Capacity)

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Thank you for joining us yesterday for the opening of “Black Fire!” by architect and researcher Thandi Loewenson, during...
04/23/2026

Thank you for joining us yesterday for the opening of “Black Fire!” by architect and researcher Thandi Loewenson, during which she gave a performance on alien encounters.

More events will activate aspects of the exhibition in the coming days:

This Saturday, from 2–4 pm join us for a child-focused workshop where participants will create their own shadow puppets and bring them to life through a light projection. (Limited capacity)

Next week:
🔥 4/28, 6:30–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Mhoze Chikowero, Shana L. Redmond, and Zoé Samudzi () (*Limited Capacity)
Explore sonic archives and radical alternate imaginaries through vinyl, audio recordings, and soundscapes. The evening will open with a guided introduction before giving way to a call-and-response exchange between the hosts, who each bring distinct practices rooted in sound, memory, and speculative world-making. Part conversation, part back-to-back set, the session invites audiences into an intimate encounter with the otherworldly frequencies embedded in archival and experimental sound.

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()
Partake in a performance and live publishing event that reframes the gallery as a darkroom studio. Thandi Loewenson and Zimbabwean author Tinashe Mushakavanhu transform the space into a site of literary production with readings, live acts of making, and copies produced in the space for one night only. The evening will spill onto the street and culminate in an open mic night of otherworldly encounters.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Opening this Wednesday from 6–8 pm with a performance by , “Black Fire!” presents a critical yet atmospheric examination...
04/20/2026

Opening this Wednesday from 6–8 pm with a performance by , “Black Fire!” presents a critical yet atmospheric examination of UFO archives tied to Zimbabwe, reflecting on what these uncanny stories of extraterrestrial encounters reveal about notions of race and the alien.

A series of events accompany this new exhibition:

🛸 4/25, 2–4 pm: Spooky Action: Child-Focused Shadow Workshop
Drawing on Black Fire!’s connection to light, shadow, and imagination, join us for a child-focused, hands-on shadow puppet workshop.

🔥 4/28, 6:30–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Zoé Samudzi (.t.samudzi) and Mhoze Chikowero (*Limited Capacity)
Explore sonic archives and radical alternate imaginaries through vinyl, audio recordings, and soundscapes.

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()
Partake in a performance and live publishing event that reframes the gallery as a darkroom studio.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Shown here: Cynthia Hind records, Archive for the Unexplained, Sweden

04/09/2026

Join us Wednesday, April 22, from 6–8 pm for the opening of “Black Fire!” by artist and architect Thandi Loewenson (), during which she will give a performance lecture.

Black Fire! examines the intersecting geographies of race and the alien imagination, spanning from colonial captivity narratives to the anxious frontiers of settler colonialism across Zimbabwe. In her longstanding research, Loewenson traces the figure of the alien through meticulously indexed and archived sighting histories. Together these archives expose UFO mythology as an uncanny continuation of colonial history, and an expression of alternative cosmologies emerging from Indigenous knowledge and worldviews.

A series of programs will expand on the exhibition by reframing the gallery as a darkroom studio, open mic and listening room, and printing machine, destabilizing the threshold between inside and outside:

🔥 4/23, 6–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Zoé Samudzi (.t.samudzi) and Mhoze Chikowero

🛸 4/25, 12–2 pm: Child-Focused Spooky Action Shadow Workshop

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Audio: Vana Vakatiza (The Children Ran Away), Light Machine Gun (LMG) Choir, and Cynthia Hind, “Tribal Reactions in Africa,” year unknown, recording held by the Archives for the Unexplained

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