Summer Break

Not publishing much art action right now, but we'll be hot again at the end of June. Please check back then!

Eat, Sleep, and Pray: May 28

Eat, Sleep, and Pray: Everyday Rituals and Contemporary Art
Thursday, May 28, 6:30 pm
MoMA, Cullman Education and Research Building, Theater 3

Ever closing the gap between art and life, many contemporary artists incorporate everyday rituals, from kissing to cooking to teaching and talking, into their performances. As a result, they transform the environments in which they situate their work—and the people whom they engage—into parts of the work itself. Join artists Tino Sehgal and Lee Mingwei as they discuss their practice. Glenn D. Lowry, director of The Museum of Modern Art, moderates a discussion. Tickets $10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/1814

Gary Simmons + Henry Louis Gates, Jr: May 28

Gary Simmons in conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Thursday, May 28, 7 pm
Whitney Museum

Artist Gary Simmons joins cultural historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for a conversation on narrating history, imagined communities, and the power of art to shape identity.

http://www.whitney.org/www/educational_programs/public_programs.jsp

Tom Klinkowstein: May 26

Tom Klinkowstein
Tuesday, May 26, 6:30pm
Drawing Center

In conjunction with the FAX exhibition, artist Tom Klinkowstein speaks with curator João Ribas in the Drawing Room.

http://www.drawingcenter.org/events_public_01.cfm

Hakan Topal: May 26

Tuesday, May 26, 7pm – 9pm
Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
FREE. No RSVP necessary

In this roundtable discussion, artist Hakan Topal will present the artist collective xurban's work, including their current research on the idea of neighborhood and local community in relation to post-industrial cities in various part of Europe. The presentation will form the basis for an active discussion of the subjects addressed by xurban, including regional conflicts, military spatial confinement, urban segregation, and "neo-liberal" exclusion strategies.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspace.php

Younger Than Pontius Pilate: May 22

Younger Than Pontius Pilate
Friday, May 22, 6:45pm
The National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Ave. at 89th St.

Four young writers: Colleen Asper, Becky Brown, Nora Griffin and Ben Larocco join David Cohen to review the New Museum's Younger Than Jesus. Followed by an end of the season party.

http://artcritical.com/REVIEWPANEL/index.htm

Eleanor Antin: May 19

Artist Talk + Screening
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 6:30 pm
EAI, 535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor

Eleanor Antin has worked in film, video, photography, installation and performance for four decades. In the 1970s, Antin produced a series of feature-length narrative videos starring hand-painted paper dolls. Performing with a cast of two-dimensional characters, Antin tackled major issues of the day, while lampooning contemporary gender roles and cultural stereotypes. Antin will speak about this series and screen excerpts from works including The Adventures of a Nurse (1976), The Nurse and the Hijackers (1977) and The Angel of Mercy (1981). A Q&A with the artist will follow.

http://www.eai.org/eai/publicProgramArtists.htm?id=117

Optical Drama and Residual Modernities: May 19

Panel Discussion: Optical Drama and Residual Modernities
Tuesday, May 19, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

The Americas Society hosts a panel discussion on the role of the moving image in constructing discourses of modernity. Speakers include: Mauricio Dias, Artist, Walter Riedweg, Artist, Beatriz Jaguaribe, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, John Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gabriela Rangel, Curator, Dias & Riedweg...and it becomes something else, and Heike Arzápalo, Independent filmmaker, (Moderator) This event is free and open to the public.

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=505

Nancy Davenport on On Kawara: May 18

Nancy Davenport on On Kawara
Monday, May 18, 2009, 6:30 pm
Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street

Nancy Davenport, who was born in 1965 in Vancouver, lives and works in New York. Her recent solo shows include exhibitions at DHC/Art Fondation pour l’art Contemporain, Montréal (2008); Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York (2008); and MIT List Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2004). Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors. Tickets are available at the lecture only. For reservations call 212 293 5583 or artistsonartists@diaart.org

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

Simon Starling: May 18

Simon Starling
Subjective Histories of Sculpture III
Monday, May 18, 6:30pm
SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves St, Long Island City

(Due to illness this event was rescheduled from May 4)

Sculpture is a medium-in-motion, eluding concise definition. As artists continuously re-invent its rules, materials, and conventions, we are challenged to incorporate new understandings of what, in fact, constitutes a sculpture. Linked to urbanism, architecture, and acoustic and visual perception, it is a charged territory that mirrors political, social and technological developments. As part of exploring how contemporary artists think about sculpture, SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents the third series in this partnership examining artist-led lectures alongside its exhibition program. In this series, established mid-career artists present specific works, bodies of work, texts, or even personal anecdotes, taken from inside and outside sculpture, and inside and outside “art” to tell their own story of sculpture’s history. These subjective, incomplete, partial, mis-remembered, or otherwise eclectic histories together examine sculpture’s evolving strategies, behaviors, dreams, and mistakes over the course of human civilization. The third lecture in this series is delivered by British conceptual artist Simon Starling, winner of the 2005 Turner Prize.

http://www.sculpture-center.org/eventsEvent.htm?id=11907