February 2010
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February 27: Marina Abramović book signing
February 27: Marina Abramović book signing
Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010 Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
AT P.S.1
In advance of her MoMA retrospective, Marina Abramović : The Artist is Present, the artist will sign copies of the exhibition monograph and latest publications in the Bookstore.
In conjunction, Abramović has invited Davide Balliano to present, But I Wasn’t Young...
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Living Under the Same Roof-- exhibition at the...
Living Under The Same Roof: The Marieluise Hessel Collection and the Center for Curatorial Studies is the result of an intensive research and teaching program organized by Ana Paula Cohen during her time as Curator-in-Residence at the Center for Curatorial Studies. Each year the Center invites an outside curator to work with our graduate students to investigate the Marieluise Hessel Collection and...
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2010 Brucennial-- feb.25, 350 W. Broadway
I think the Brucennial is like—in the life of the people—it’s like an anniversary in the life of people. The people, they need moments to celebrate themselves and that’s what a Brucennial is. The Brucennial happens every two years, or really, you know, whenever we feel like it, and it’s a moment of celebration of the history of the people—of the reason why the people exist, of the nature of the...
January 2010
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Morton Subotnik in conversation with Andy...
FEBRUARY 14 (sunday) (FREE) at the Wyoming Building. at 5:00PM
Dialogue: Morton Subotnick talk with electronic-music pioneer Morton Subotnick, whose career goes back to the 1960s and includes some of the most important early work with modular synthesizers in the popular realm. Anecdotal talk focuses on Subotnick’s work, both as it plays into history and as it has evolved into the present. In...
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Tour of LaMonte Young's Dream House in TriBeCa
FEBRUARY 11 (Thurs) 6:00pm Free. meet at 5 East 3rd Street (wyoming building).
Walking Tour: Dream HouseUnsound leads a walking tour to composer LaMonte Young’s Dream House in Tribeca. A discussion of the installation, in process now for 17 years, will help provide context at the Wyoming Building, followed by an experience of the work on-site, in a loft with plush carpeting, pillows on the...
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A musical homage to Andy Warhol's "Empire"
FEBRUARY 6. ((Free!)) Le Poisson Rouge (158 bleecker st.) at 12:00-8:00 (i can only assume they mean noon)
As a part of Unsound Festival, “Empire” (Jan Jelinek, Andrew Pekler, Hanno Leichtmann) will be performing an 8-hour musical showcase to Warhol’s iconic “Empire” - a single shot of the Empire State. Part concert, part installation, the concept fits into the...
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BLOG THIS! Blogging the contemporary arts, a panel...
JANUARY 15 (friday). 6:30 PM. at X-INITIATIVE (548 W. 22nd St in Chelsea) FREE
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Moderator: Robin White
Panelists:
Barry Hoggard, Bloggy, ArtCat, Culture Pundits: blogger, collector, entrepreneur
Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City: news and opinion blogger, writer
William Powhida: artist, blogger
Kelly Shindler, Art21: educational blogger
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Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary...
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
JANUARY 15-APRIL8 at the Drawing Center (35 Wooster St.) (Opening JANUARY 14, 6-8PM)
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). One of the most important figures in twentieth-century music, Xenakis originally trained as an engineer and was...
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MUSINGS: Foofwa d’Imobilité/Neopost Ahrrrt (US...
Musings Involuntaries 1-6 Choreographed and performed by Foofwa d’Imobilite
JANUARY 21-24 Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 3:00pm ($17, $10 rush tickets) At DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers)
Musings should have been a duet and will bear the mark and weight of absences, hence its subtitle: “solitary duet.” The piece is...
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BYOA (Bring Your Own Art)
FEBRUARY 3. Free. X-Initiative.
Please save the date for our closing event celebrating the end of X Initiative: Join us on FEBRUARY 3rd for BRING YOUR OWN ART, a 24-hour event inspired by Walter Hopps’s Thirty-Six Hours, an event that the legendary curator organized in the Museum of Temporary Art in Washington, DC in 1978, where Hopps installed anything that anybody brought to the museum....
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Sharon Hayes at X-Initiative (UPDATED)
The details are not out yet, but Sharon Hayes (cooper prof.) will be doing a performance/ dictating some kind of event at X-Initiative in chelsea on JANUARY 9 as a part of a weekly event series in conjunction with one of the current exhibitions Ecstatic Resistance.
this is all I know:
please mark your calendar for these upcoming events from the weekly series in conjunction with our current...
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The Universe Resounds: Kandisnky, Synesthesia, and...
at the Guggenheim Museum (1071 fifth ave.— 88th st. and 5th ave.) JANUARY 12. 2-7 PM. ($10/$7 for students)
for tickets and more info:
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/adult-and-academic-programs/public-programs/universe-resounds
Here’s a list of the schedule of events (bold= my recommendations)
2 pm
Introductions Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and...
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Art Education: A Study. (a panel discussion)
January 10. 7-9 PM. FREE. at Cabinet Magazine’s event space 300 Nevins St, Bklyn.
with Bruce High Quality Foundation (Cooper alums/ 2010 Whitney Biennial participants!!), Colin Lang, Robert Linsley, Mira Schor, and Howard Singerman
Cabinet presents “Art Education: A Study,” a panel discussion on the relationship between art and pedagogy. Too bohemian for the establishment,...
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Walid Ra'ad on Bernd and Hilla Becher →
JANUARY 11 ($6/$3) at Dia Chelsea (535 West 22nd) 5:30-7:00 PM
Walid Ra’ad, a professor of photography and video at The Cooper Union (on sabbatical this year) will be Lecturing on the legendary photographer/ educators Bernd and Hilla Becher.
NEW FORMAT FOR EVENTS LIST!
So, I decided that a blog format for my events calendar would be a lot better and more flexible because I keep hearing about events going on even after I send out the email, so, now I can add more without sending you a million emails— I’ve also made a Google Calendar that I will soon post a link to so you have the events in a handy and organized calendar format!
jenny
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CABINET // Discussion: "The Art of Teaching," with... →
JANUARY 7, 7-9 PM. FREE
at Cabinet Magazine’s event space in Brooklyn at
300 Nevins St. (you can get there on the R by getting off at Pacific)
If you’re in New York for this (Cooper Kids!!) I highly recommend going.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: any Cabinet event is a good event!
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A Proposition by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Maps for the... →
HANS ULRICH OBRIST at The New Museum at 235 Bowery — January 16th and 17th (sat and sun).
$10
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator, critic, and the author of A Brief History of Curating.