Paul Chan: April 30

Wednesday, April 30, 6:30pm
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

Paul Chan first gained critical attention for a series of rich and complex digital animations. One such animation, Birds...Trash...The Future (2004), was projected onto both sides of a hanging screen and collaged references from Goya to Notorious BIG to the Bible, generating an apocalyptic landscape serenaded by the songs of birds and mobile phones. Chan has also produced a number of single-channel videos, drawings, writings and, more recently, a series of digital projections. These projections, collectively called The 7 Lights (2005-07), unfold through a series of interconnected installations, which include drawings, texts and collages. 1st Light (2005), for example, begins and ends with a prismatic pool of radiant colored light projected onto the floor that tracks the course of a day from dawn to night. As the day comes, shadows both static and moving appear: a telephone pole and a street lamp, surrounded by floating shadows of familiar objects, such as phones, computers, and cars. As this tranquil scene progresses it is disrupted by images of rapidly falling human figures, then slowly fades into night. Much of Chan's work, like the Lights series, is not pointed in its politics, but instead acts like a stage on which aesthetic, philosophical and everyday symbols interact, become unhinged or are recontextualized. Chan is also well known for his political interventions—in 2002 he broke US sanctions and federal law to visit Baghdad, and in 2004 he garnered police attention for The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention, a free map distributed throughout New York to help protesters to get in or out of the way of the RNC. Most recently Chan collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative Time to produce a site-specific outdoor presentation of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in New Orleans. On April 30th he will present The Spirit of Recession as part of the Public Art Fund's Spring Talks program.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm

Sam Durant: April 30

Wednesday, April 30, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St)

In conjunction with The Hugo Boss Prize 2008, select finalists speak about their work and issues in the contemporary art world. A curator introduces the programs and receptions with the artists follow. Sam Durant explores the formation and interpretation of history in his projects, which often focus on power relations and moments of conflict within the United States. $10 ($7 for members, students, and seniors).

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Kiki Smith: April 30

Wednesday, April 30, 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The New School, Swayduck Auditorium
Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue

Sculptor and conceptual artist Kiki Smith is known for her depictions of the human body, fragmented and whole, which she uses to express the hidden sides of our physical and psychological selves. Her work is in numerous prominent museum collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Major solo shows have been organized by the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva (1990); Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts (1992); Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (1995); and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2003). Smith lives and works in New York City.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=13756

Eduardo Sarabia: April 25

Seminars with Artists, Multiple Edition: Eduardo Sarabia
Friday, April 25 at 7 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art

Sarabia's staged, semi-fictional events, revolving around the artist's Mexican heritage, are meticulously documented to transform the exhibition space into a site for satirical storytelling.

Multiple Edition is conceived as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Each emerging artist in the series is commissioned to create 200 multiples that will be given away to the public-free of charge-at the event. This program is free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays from 6 p.m. to 9 pm. Space is limited.

http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=events&page=at_whitney_publicseminars#event_85

Fiona Banner: April 25

Friday, April 25, 2008, 6:30 pm
MoMA,Cullman Education and Research Building
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater)

Using feature films or real life experiences as a source, Fiona Banner creates text-based drawings, sculpture, and sound. She retells stories in her own words, revealing the ways people fictionalize or mythologize imagined or real events through their own accounts. Born in Liverpool, Fiona Banner studied fine art at Kingston Polytechnic, and completed an MA at Goldsmiths College in London. This conversation is moderated by Connie Butler, Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art. $10/ $8/ $5

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7512&ref=calendar

Gretchen Skogerson: April 25

Friday, April 25 at 2 pm
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Gretchen Skogerson
Whitney Museum of American Art

Skogerson's video work and interactive installations include DRIVE THRU (2006) and The American Disaster Series, an ongoing group of abstract, experimental shorts that, according to the artist, "reflect a portion of the unease within the contemporary American psyche."

As part of the Whitney Biennial 2008, Open Studio events invite the public to engage with Biennial artists and their work in the galleries through performance and participation. Open Studio programs are free with Museum admission and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets may be reserved at the Museum Admissions desk or online

http://www.whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=events&page=at_whitney_publicopen#event_14

Night School: Seminar 4: April 24-26

Night School, Public Seminar 4
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Thursday, April 24, 7:30pm
Contemporary Models of Agency, part 1: A lecture by Maria Lind

Friday, April 25, 7:30pm
Contemporary Models of Agency, part 2: A lecture by Tirdad Zolghadr

Saturday, April 26, 3pm
Whose Image? – An artist talk by Carey Young

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. See links for more information about individual lectures. Free with Museum admission but tickets are required.

Proto-Cinema: April 22

Proto-Cinema: Contemporary Art and the Geometry of Motion
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 6:30pm
MoMA, Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater)
Cullman Education and Research Building

From Warhol's conceptual use of filmmaking in Empire to Olafur Eliasson's incorporation of cinematic effects in his environments and installations, the mechanics of the projected and perceived image have played a significant role in the art of recent decades. This program explores how contemporary artists address the interstice between film and photography by deconstructing the mediums through various conceptual uses, and how such elements are incorporated into exhibitions. Participants include Kerry Brougher, Acting Director and Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Anthony McCall, artist. The program is moderated by Klaus Biesenbach and Roxana Marcoci, organizers of the exhibition. ($10/$8/$5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7511&ref=calendar

The Colors of the Brain: April 18 & 19

In collaboration with the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) of Columbia University and Studio Olafur Eliasson, this three-part program reviews and critiques contemporary cultural theories of color that have emerged from artistic and scientific practice. The program follows a progressive, three-platform model, each session taking place at a distinct venue associated with what could be understood as the "production of reality": the museum, the university, and the artist's atelier. Discussions and presentations will seek to build a contemporary epistemology of color based on current and recent artistic and scientific experiments and cognitive research on color perception, with an emphasis on the role that color plays in the physical environment. The MoMA portion of the event (Friday, April 18) features Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator of Media, and Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizers of the exhibition; Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA; and Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAAP, Columbia University. The Friday evening session at the Museum will be followed by a day-long symposium at Columbia University. The subsequent session at Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin will be webcast live in May 2008.

Friday, April 18, 2008, 6pm (Sold out)
MoMA, Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7387&ref=calendar
Note: Though tickets are no longer available, audio should be posted here following the event.

Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:00 a.m.
Columbia University GSAPP
No reservations are required. For location and event details, please visit www.arch.columbia.edu/events

Friday, May 9, 2008
Webcast from Berlin

Carol Bove: April 18

Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Carol Bove
Friday, April 18, 2008, 2 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art

"I have a sense of history being contained by objects," says Bove, whose shelf-based displays and room-sized environments of found and made objects subtly evoke the concomitant narratives of the 1960s.

As part of the Whitney Biennial 2008, Open Studio events invite the public to engage with Biennial artists and their work in the galleries through performance and participation. Open Studio programs are free with Museum admission and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets may be reserved at the Museum Admissions desk or online

http://www.whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=events&page=at_whitney_publicopen#event_14

Olivier Mosset, Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler: April 17

Thursday, April 17 at 7 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art

Painter Mosset and filmmakers Granat and Heitzler have collaborated on T.S.O.Y.W.-- a dual-screen projection that allegorically traces one man's compulsory and ultimately futile search for his object of desire. $6/$8 for general admission.

http://whitney.org/www/programs/eventInformation.jsp?EventTypeID=1#ad-calendar

Synthetic Times: Media Art Now: April 14 & 15

To complement the exhibition "Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008," a Beijing Olympics Cultural project opening at the National Art Museum of China in June 2008, media art pundits debate imminent topical issues revolving around the exhibition themes: Beyond Body; Emotive Digital; The Recombinant Reality; and Here, There and Everywhere. With an introduction by Zhang Ga, artistic director and curator. The evening event kicks off a pre-exhibition symposium (April 15) held at Parsons, the New School for Design, and EYEBEAM, in conjunction with the National Art Museum of China. (image above is is from MISSION ETERNITY by etoy)

Part I
Monday, April 14, 2008. 7pm
MoMA, Titus 2 Theater, 11 West 53 Street
Greetings by Barbara London. Introduction by Zhang Ga. Speakers include: Fan Di’an, Alex Adriannsens, Caroline Jones, Arthur Kroker, Erkki Huhtamo

Part II
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 9:30am
Tishman Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th St.
Symposium and Panels
Full details available here

Part III
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 8pm
Eyebeam, Center for Art and Technology, 540 W. 21st Street
Greetings by Amanda Crowley and Performances by eyebeam resident artists
After Party to follow at 9pm

For more information visit: http://www.mediartchina.org/organization.

Matthew Buckingham and Eve Sussman: April 14

Cinema Studies: History in Slow Motion
Monday, April 14, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
MoMA, Cullman Education and Research Building
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater)

Artists Matthew Buckingham and Eve Sussman discuss how they use history, history painting, and avant-garde cinema to create provocative multimedia installations about contemporary life. Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk and the Film desk.
http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7397&ref=calendar

Art and Money: April 14

Artforum at The New School: Art and Money
Monday, April 14, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St

Art and Money explores contemporary art’s production, presentation, and acquisition during a radical expansion of public interest and market forces. Is the current boom another chapter in an older, modernist history, or is it truly unprecedented? How did contemporary art, of seemingly endless supply, become so dear? How did Ai Weiwei become more valuable than Tiepolo? What roles do narcissism and trophy-gathering play? Why has contemporary art reached so far beyond traditional borders, and how does that affect the world’s artists? Who gets rich, who stays poor, and who decides? The forum complements a special issue of Artforum devoted to the same topic.

This event will be moderated by Tim Griffin, Editor of Artforum. Panelists include: Amy Cappellazzo, Co-Head, Christie’s Contemporary Art; Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Chair, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Jeffrey Deitch, Director, Deitch Projects; Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director, Museum of Modern Art; and Yinka Shonibare, artist.

$10; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=15158

The Rodney Graham Band: April 11 & 12

The Rodney Graham Band live
featuring the amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon!
with an opening set by Lois
Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, 2008, 8pm

This spectacular event marks Graham's first New York concert, and provides two don't–miss nights of his signature blend of rock and roll psychedelia with folk music earnestness. Tickets are available online or by calling 212-980-4575. Advance purchase is suggested as seating is limited.

http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/08/graham/graham-08.html

Gender and Film: April 11

The Feminist Future Series
Gender and Film: Resituating the Past in the Present
Friday, April 11, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
MoMA, Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2

Building upon the landmark two-day symposium The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts, which was held at The Museum of Modern Art in January 2007, The Feminist Future Series brings together international leaders in contemporary art, art history, and other disciplines who have shaped current thinking on art, gender, and related topics.

This program addresses gender and film, emphasizing the exploration of feminist issues through filmmaking from the 1970s to the present. Through presentations and discussion, Chantal Akerman, filmmaker, Trinh Minh-ha, filmmaker, writer, composer, and professor of rhetoric and of gender and women's studies, University of California, Berkeley, and Laura Mulvey, critic and professor, Department of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London discuss their own practices, the historicization of feminism and film, and the cultural and social contexts that inform the creative process of filmmaking. Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk and the film desk.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=7393&ref=calendar

How the Internet is Re-shaping National Politics: April 11

Election '08: How the Internet is Re-shaping National Politics
Friday, April 11, 2008, 7:30pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Grassroots organizations like MoveOn.org and Meetup.com played a significant role in the lead-up to the 2004 presidential election. Campaign '08 has thus far been a very different project, with some of its most crucial points playing out across YouTube.com, viral marketing, and blogs. For Election '08, leading critics, artists, and media strategists will address the increasing role the Internet and digital technologies have come to play in national politics and focus specifically on the ways new media have been used for advocacy in the run-up to the election.

The panel will be moderated by Jason Pontin, Chief Editor of the MIT Technology Review; Panelists include Farai Chideya, host of NPR's News and Notes, and founder of PopandPolitics.com; Jonathan Askin, a strategist on Barack Obama's Technology Advisory Board and Professor at Brooklyn Law School; Beka Economopoulos, artist and founder of The Change You Want To See; and Liza Sabater, founder and publisher of Culture Kitchen and Daily Gotham. $6 Members, $8 General Public

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/168

Rashawn Griffin: April 11

Friday, April 11, 2008, 3 pm
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Rashawn Griffin
Whitney Museum of American Art

New York-based Griffin creates melancholic assemblages of personal effects, found objects, and organic materials to shape narrative architectural landscapes within the gallery space.

As part of the Whitney Biennial 2008, Open Studio events invite the public to engage with Biennial artists and their work in the galleries through performance and participation. Open Studio programs are free with Museum admission and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets may be reserved at the Museum Admissions desk or online

http://www.whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=events&page=at_whitney_publicopen#event_14

Ellen Harvey: April 10

Seminars with Artists: Ellen Harvey
Thursday, April 10 at 7 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art

Trained as both a painter and an attorney, Harvey balances an artist's sense of faith with a lawyer's skepticism, as she investigates art's simultaneous potential for beauty and failure. $6/$8

http://whitney.org/www/programs/eventInformation.jsp?EventTypeID=1#ad-calendar

Dara Friedman: April 9

Wednesday, April 9, 6:30pm
The New School
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

On April 9th Dara Friedman will present her movie, Musical, a 48-minute orchestration of 60 singing performances, commissioned by Public Art Fund, that took place on the streets of Midtown Manhattan for three weeks last fall. The composition uses a split screen and wide format allowing the singers to harmonize with themselves, sing unintentional duets, or even create dissonance. By producing a musical mis en scène in our cityscape a curious inversion happens by which the choreographed elements transform the happenstance of the street into a crafted stage. Dara Friedman is best known for her film and video installations in which she uses the techniques of structuralist filmmaking to depict the lushness, ecstasy, and energy of everyday life. She often distills, syncopates, reverses, loops or otherwise alters familiar sounds and sights, drawing attention to the distinct sensory acts of hearing and seeing. Whether her work portrays a series of narrative fragments or a single evocative scene repeated over and over, Friedman heightens the emotional impact by cutting directly to the film's climax in order to, as she puts it, "get to the part you really care about."

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm

Adult Education: Trash & the City: April 8

Tuesday April 8, 2008, 8PM
Union Hall
Union & 5th st., Brooklyn

Benjamin Miller, "Your Waste From Space: Looking Down at New York's Garbage Footprint"
Robin Nagle, "Lost at Sea: The Quiet Terrors of Trash, Then & Now
Michael Mandiberg, "10 Things I've Learned About Staten Island"
Gertrude Berg, "Experiments in Autonomous Trash Collection."

http://adult-ed.net/

Robert Morris: April 7

Monday, April 7, 6:30pm
Subjective Histories of Sculpture II: Robert Morris
Theresa Lang Center at The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, New York City

SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents a series of artist-led lectures: Subjective Histories of Sculpture II. This lecture series furthers SculptureCenter's exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture - its conventions, and its legacies.

http://www.sculpture-center.org/pe_ca_apr.html

Joe Scanlan on Sol LeWitt: April 7

Joe Scanlan was born in Circleville, OH, in 1961 and now lives and works in New Haven, CT. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2007); the Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2007); the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindoven (2003); and The Jewish Museum, New York (2000). Drawing Series…, an exhibition of LeWitt’s early wall drawings, is on view at Dia:Beacon through September 2008.

Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors.

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html