Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Center for Historical Reenactments, “Na Ku Randza,” 2011. Public intervention in Center for Historical Reenactments’ neighborhood, Doornfontein, Johannesburg. Courtesy Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg. Photo: Sanele Manqele

Center for Historical Reenactments: After-after Tears New Museum Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - July 07, 2013 www.newmuseum.org


Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR) is an independent contemporary art platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Founded in 2010, CHR responds to the institution of art and its global histories, reflecting on a period of rapid and unequal urban and cultural development in South Africa. CHR’s past activities mobilized around historic events and sites from the apartheid era to explore how established systems of thought (or ideologies) still condition contemporary life.

With the support of a Museum as Hub Residency, CHR presents “After-after Tears,” an evolving, multifaceted exhibition that explores the lifespan of the organization and its operational strategies. The exhibition follows CHR’s decision to commit an institutional “death” in December 2012, ending its current project in order to foreclose the inevitable evolution of its experimental platform to more formal organization and to negotiate their growing international currency to different ends. CHR’s two years of activity (2010–12) can also be understood as a critical response to the infrastructure of a biennial, specifically the now defunct Johannesburg Biennale (1995, 1997)—activating sporadic but related events over two years instead of using the same period to organize a single exhibition open to the public for a few months. The platform asks what institutions are meant to look like, what they are supposed to do, who they should serve, for how long, and for how much money. The project utilizes the resources of the New Museum in New York to organize a gallery presentation that elucidates CHR’s working philosophy, while performances and public programs propose future directions for their activity. “After-after Tears” is organized by CHR members, Donna Kukama, Gabi Ngcobo, and Kemang Wa Lehulere, as well as associated members and invited guest contributors.


The East Village / Lower East Side 235 Bowery, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Thursday from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Friday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-219-1222
Reading Wednesday May 22, 2013

A Guerilla Reading by Stephen Burt MoMA Reading Wednesday May 22, 2013, 12:30 PM www.moma.org


Artists Experiment is a new initiative in the Department of Education that brings together contemporary artists in dialogue with MoMA educators to conceptualize ideas for developing innovative and experimental public interactions.

Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries
As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Poet Laureate" program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery.

Stephen Burt reads in front of Meret Oppenheim's Red Head, Blue Body (gallery 12, floor 5). Burt reads new poems, including "Fundamental Attribution Error (Meret Oppenheim + Stephanie)," "1978 Stephanie," "Day and Night Stephanie," and poems from Belmont and Parallel Play.

Painting and Sculpture I, Gallery 12, fifth floor


Midtown 11 West 53rd Street, New York NY, 10019212-708-9400
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Darren Waterston, Bestiary no. 27, 2012, gouache on paper. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.

A Swarm, a Flock, a Host - Mark Doty, Darren Waterston - An Art and Literature Series Event with an Accompanying Exhibtion Darren Waterston and Mark Doty New York Public Library Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.nypl.org


In this event National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty and acclaimed artist Darren Waterston have an in-depth discussion about their stunning new book, A Swarm, a Flock, a Host: A Compendium of Creatures.

Originating in the Middle Ages, bestiaries were illustrated volumes that described various animals—some real, some mystical. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. In this beautifully illustrated book, acclaimed painter Darren Waterston and distinguished poet Mark Doty come together to breathe new life into the medieval genre. Waterston’s precise and haunting silhouettes depict species from insect to bird to mammal, captured in motion as they hunt their prey, build their nests, or protect their young. Accompanying these illustrations are Doty’s poetic observations on the wonders of the animal world—its panoply of sounds and shapes, its dignity and its cruelty. Lovers of art, animals, and poetry will delight in this elegant volume that captures nature’s exquisite and terrible beauty.

Twelve original prints, created by Darren Waterston for the book, will be on exhibit during the event.

Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the event after the audience Q&A.

Darren Waterston, Bestiary no. 27, 2012, gouache on paper. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.Darren Waterston, Bestiary no. 27, 2012, gouache on paper. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.

Mark Doty is the author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, for which he won the National Book Award in 2008, and Dog Years, a New York Times bestseller. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines.

Darren Waterston has been exhibiting in the U.S. and abroad since the early 1990s. He received his BFA at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA and continued his training in Germany at the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin and the Fachhochschule für Kunst in Münster. Recent exhibition highlights include Forest Eater (2011), which Waterston conceived specifically for The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Splendid Grief: The Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr. (2009), an installation at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California; and The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense) (2007), at the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Waterston's paintings are included in numerous permanent collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He currently lives and works in New York City and is represented by DC Moore Gallery.

Darren Waterston, Leo, 2011, oil on wood panel. Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.Darren Waterston, Leo, 2011, oil on wood panel. Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.

Conceived and organized by Arezoo Moseni, and in its fourth year, Art and Literature Series events bring forth pollinations across the literary and visual arts with readings and discussions by acclaimed artists and authors.


Doors open 5:30 pm

Free Event


Midtown Fifth Avenue at 42nd St, Stephen A. Schwarzman Bldg, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, New York NY, 10018
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Clint Jukkala, Soaker, 2013, acrylic and oil on canvas, 42 x 36 inches © Courtesy of the artist & BravinLee Programs

FLOATER Clint Jukkala, Alexander Kroll, Evan Nesbit, Erik Olson, Eric Sall and Amanda Valdez BravinLee programs Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 28, 2013 www.bravinlee.com


Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, and consistency that exist within the eye’s vitreous humor. They may appear as spots, webs, fragments, or threads that float slowly before the observer’s eyes. In this exhibition, BravinLee programs presents the work of six painters, whose abstracted imagery is located between the familiar and peculiar, revealing spatial ambiguities and vague references. Most of the work emerges out of abstraction and plays with its conventions and classifications, much like the floater that moves about your field of vision. The show includes work by Clint Jukkala, Alexander Kroll, Evan Nesbit, Erik Olson, Eric Sall, and Amanda Valdez.

Clint Jukkala received a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1995 and an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University in 1998. He is represented by Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, and his work has been included in recent exhibitions at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and ZieherSmith Gallery in New York. He has also shown at Envoy Enterprises and Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York.

Alexander Kroll has shown his paintings and drawings extensively across the U.S. at galleries and institutions including: CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles; James Harris Gallery, Seattle; ACME, Los Angeles; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, among others, and he has an upcoming exhibition at Fredric Snitzer in Miami. Kroll has taught painting widely at universities including: Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Cal State Long Beach, and Yale University.

Evan Nesbit lives and works in Nevada City, California. A recent graduate of the Yale M.F.A. program, Nesbit has had solo exhibitions at Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco and Motus Fort in Tokyo. He was in a two-person exhibition this fall at Storefront, Bushwick.

Erik Olson is a Canadian artist who has exhibited with Michael Gibson in Ontario, Doug Udell in Vancouver, and Skew Gallery in Calgary, as well as several other galleries in Canada. He has been the recipient of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts project grant several times.

Eric Sall graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1999 and earned an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. Awards include a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. His work belongs to permanent collections including: the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico; and the Saatchi Collection, London.

Amanda Valdez received her M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City and B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her most recent solo exhibition was “Taste of Us” at Denny Gallery. She has exhibited in several group shows in New York and throughout the United States. She has been the recipient of a Yaddo Artist-in-Residency, MacDowell Colony Artist-in-Residency, and the 2011 College Art Association M.F.A. Professional-Development Fellowship, and she is a contributing arts editor at Dossier Journal and Bomb Magazine.

For more information, please contact BravinLee programs at 212.462.4404 or info@bravinlee.com.


Chelsea 526 West 26th Street #211, New York NY, 10001 212-462-4404 info@bravinlee.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013

Skeletons on a Bender Amy Yao 47 Canal Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.47canalstreet.com


The East Village / Lower East Side 47 Canal Street, 2nd Floor, New York NY, 10002 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
646-415-7712 info@47canalstreet.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Marcella Hackbardt, Reflection, 2010, Digital C-print

In The Zone Curated by David Gibson Jenny Carpenter, Carrie Elston Tunick, Marcella Hackbardt, Sandy Litchfield, Karen Marston, Rachelle Mozman, Julie Schenkelberg and Mary Ann Strandell Station Independent Projects Curated by David Gibson Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 23, 2013 www.stationindependent.com


In The Zone explores the various emotional territories that have become a popular way of expressing who we are, and how we live, at any given moment. Zones, which began to be used in the mainstream press, became popular after WWII ("Occupation Zones") and the Korean War (Demilitarized Zone") when it became necessary to demarcate areas along a boundary that were either shared by many groups or were summarily off-limits to any one group. It existed previously in areas of study such as Geography and Sports. This particular version refers to an athlete who is so immersed in the moment, that like an actor he ceases to be a person and becomes a cog in system of ultimate purpose.

Being "in the moment" is a quality of experience common to artists; beyond mere dedication to craft or idiosyncratic vision, it becomes necessary to project our immersion in subject matter, background context, and formal intentions so that the spectator can share in our degree of portent equally. The artwork will infect them, creating a state of contingency between its own qualities and aspects of their own experience. They may walk away bemused or challenged, but in the end they will have had their own moment; they will have been transported to a new zone as the strongest art does this well.


The East Village / Lower East Side 164 Suffolk St, New York NY , 10002 Thursday - Sunday from 12:00 AM to 6:00 PM
512-773-2478 melissa@stationindependent.com
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013

Glittering Images: An Evening with Camille Paglia in Conversation with Carrie Rebora Barratt The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:00 PM www.metmuseum.org


Camille Paglia, author and Professor, University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Introduced by Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections and Administration.

Camille Paglia, the renowned cultural critic whose audacious and groundbreaking Sexual Personae is one of the most highly praised and controversial works of recent art history, comes to the Met to discuss her newest book, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, and to examine the role museums, essential guardians of the centrality of art to contemporary life, must play in an America where awareness of the fine arts may be receding, as she puts it, "drastically and tragically in ways that people who live in cities with great museums don’t realize."

Camille Paglia is the author of Break, Blow, Burn; Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps & Tramps. She has also written The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock.

This lecture is supported by the Mrs. Joseph H. King Fund.

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium


The Upper East Side 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10028212-535-7710
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Procession in Colonized Territory, 2013, Archival pigment prints, fabric, felt, thread, 36 x 54 inches

There Are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World... Elektra KB BravinLee Programs Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 28, 2013 www.bravinlee.com


ravinLee programs is pleased to present an exhibition in the gallery's project room by Elektra KB of new works on paper, photography, and a selection of cloth pages of her 20 page, hand-sewn artist’s book.

The pages of the book, each a sewn and embroidered felt collage, depict guerilla warfare in a mythological, semi-autobiographical world parallel to ours: a female rebel army revolting against the forces of a tyrannical police state. The women are primitivist and often uniformed and weaponized--most wear only short petticoats and veils or ominous balaklava. They pose brazenly with machine guns and chainsaws in photo ops, but Elektra KB has rendered these weapons more like toys, and according to her rule-set for this alternative world, they shoot rays of light not ammo.

As in Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange,” Elektra KB’s world subsists on a complex play of invented language and iconography; however, her protagonists are righteous. “The Cathara Insurgent Women”—dancing warriors, rebels, heretics—fight against the shadowy forces of “The Theocratic Republic of Gaia”. The Insurgents call to mind simultaneously today’s feminists and activists like Susana Chavez, Medieval heretics, and the Aztecs in the era of Spanish conquest.

Throughout the pages of the book, shadows leak and flow together representing the forces of Neo-colonization: mass scale and conspiratorial violence and murder, repression of free speech, and the oppression and alienation of women. Threads hang loosely from these shadows and war iconography, representing catharsis, repression, Barbarism, and physical emancipation à la Freud’s Death Drive.

The title of the show is a modification of text, “There are men at the gates seeking a new world,” extracted from an essay in the first issue of a magazine produced by the late 1960s art group Black Mask (later Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers). The group, formed by painter Ben Morea and poet Dan Georgakas, declared that revolutionary art should be an integral part of life, as in primitive society, and not an appendage to wealth.

Elektra KB is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (2012). In 2013, her work has been exhibited in the group exhibitions “All The Best People” at 1 to 1 Gallery, New York, reviewed in Artforum (March 2013) by Carolyn Busta, and “Changing the World Through Art” at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. She will also have a solo exhibition in New York at Allegra LaViola Gallery, “The Cathara Insurgent Women vs. The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Beings,” opening May 29th, 2013, and a monograph of her work published by Tangled Wilderness/Combustion Books is due later this spring.

For more information, please contact BravinLee programs at 212.462.4404 or info@bravinlee.com.


Chelsea 526 West 26th Street, #211, New York NY, 10001 212-462-4404 info@bravinlee.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Momenta Spring Benefit 2013

MOMENTA ART SPRING BENEFIT 2013 Momenta Art Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:00 PM On View May 10, 2013 - May 22, 2013 www.momentaart.org


*Please purchase your tickets through our website. http://www.momentaart.org/momenta-art-spring-benefit-2013.html

Momenta Art is pleased to invite you to our eighteenth annual spring benefit: an evening including a raffle drawing and a silent auction. As in previous years, it will be an exciting evening to acquire artwork by highly talented emerging and established artists, as well as to celebrate our ongoing mission to support socially engaged and aesthetically sophisticated art.

Momenta Art's 2013 Benefit will present approximately 175 raffle artworks by both emerging and established artists. A raffle ticket guarantees you a work of art and entrance for two to the raffle drawing and silent auction on Wednesday, May 22nd. Tickets are limited to the number of artworks available. So please make sure that you purchase your tickets in advance.

In addition, Momenta Art will offer a number of higher-valued works for silent auction through Paddle 8. Bidding on these works will begin on May 10th and end on May 22nd at 7pm before the raffle begins. Silent auction artists will include Sarah Braman, David Diao, Mark Dion, William Powhida, Hunter Reynolds, Federico Solmi, and Mickalene Thomas.

As a not for profit exhibition organization, Momenta Art depends on the contributions of individuals like you, who value the importance of the emerging art scene where vital artistic and intellectual experiments are possible. We sincerely thank you for your generous support.


Bushwick / Ridgewood 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY , 11206 Friday - Monday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
718-218-8050 info@momentaart.org
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Joell Baxter, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I (two), 2013, Screenprint 8.25" x 16.5" image, 18.5" x 26.5" sheet edition of 6

EDITIONS '13 Joell Baxter, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jonggeon Lee, Steven Millar and Alison Elizabeth Taylo Lower East Side Print Shop Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 17, 2013 - July 14, 2013 www.printshop.org


Opening reception and catalogue launch:
Wednesday, May 22, 6 - 8 pm

On view May 17 - July 14
M - F, 10am - 6pm; S & S, 12 - 6pm
Free and open to the public

Catalogue essay by Deborah Cullen, Director and Chief Curator, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University.

Featuring Printshop-published projects by:
Joell Baxter
Sebastiaan Bremer
Jonggeon Lee
Steven Millar
Alison Elizabeth Taylo


Hell's Kitchen 306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor, New York NY, 10018 Monday - Friday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
212-673-5390 info@printshop.org
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Above image: collaborative tile mural-in-progress by Danissa, Gelsomine, and Odette, with mentor Natalia Nakazawa

Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship program Smack Mellon Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 16, 2013 www.smackmellon.org


Student Artists: Suma Akter, Odette Blaisdell, Damarcus Bruno, Isabel Burns, Ashley Clarke, Kayla Daniels, Zori Davidson, Azure Garrett, Raihannah Jefferson, Taliana Katz, Jennifer Leon, Dennis Metoyer, Jahsiah Mussig, Malik Perry, Caitlyn Radcliffe, Gelsomine Reme, Danissa Santos, Maat Silin, Tania Velazquez

Artist Mentors: Michael Paul Britto, Susan Hamburger, Natalia Nakazawa, Sage & Coombe Architects (Andrew Kao, Christo Logan, Mark Long, Sara Murado), Emilie Shapiro/Liloveve Jewelry, Phillip Shung

Smack Mellon is pleased to announce the opening of Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program. The exhibition presents the work of students who participated in the 2012-2013 session of Art Ready, Smack Mellon’s arts mentorship program for high school students interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts. Working with professional painters, architects, installation artists, jewelry designers, graphic designers, video artists, and photographers, the student artists created an impressive range of work in a variety of media. This includes: collaborative video animations; paintings and drawings of portraits and scenes from both life and the imagination; clothing and shoes embellished with students’ designs; fantastical sculpted clay figurines; and a group mosaic mural incorporating found objects. One group of students worked with a jewelry designer to mold and carve their own rings; another collaborated with professional architects on a three-dimensional installation; and another group worked with graphic designers on their own magazine and documentary about the communities of Brooklyn.

Art Ready is a mentorship program designed to give students the opportunity to experience firsthand what it is like to be a professional working in a visual arts discipline. Students are exposed to a wide variety of artists and arts professionals, participate in mentorships, and visit museums and galleries. This year, the Art Ready group took field trips to such cultural venues as the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and No Longer Empty’s How Much Do I Owe You? exhibition at the Clock Tower in Queens. Individual mentor groups’ excursions included the International Center of Photography, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Open Studios, Manhattan’s Jewelry District, and behind-the-scenes tours of HBO’s studios and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Students also participated in a special group workshop on college portfolio prep, led by teaching artist Sonya Blesofsky. For a preview of the exhibition work-in-progress, and to read about students’ and mentors’ experiences, visit the Art Ready blog: smartready.wordpress.com.

Art Ready is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, and with generous support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the David and Minnie Berk Foundation, and Smack Mellon’s Members.

Space for Smack Mellon’s programs is generously provided by the Walentas Family and Two Trees Management.


DUMBO 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn NY, 11201 718-834-8761 info@smackmellon.org
Editor's Pick
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Lee Krasner, UNTITLED, 1984, Oil charcoal and paper collage on canvas, 46 x 58 inches, 116.8 x 147.3 cm © Courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery- New York

62 Years Later: Gender Politics in the Arts Robert Miller Gallery Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM www.robertmillergallery.com


Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to present 62 Years Later: Gender Politics in the Arts a special panel discussion investigating gender politics within the art world 62 years after Lee Krasner’s first solo exhibition. Moderated by economist and founding President of Center for Talent Innovation Sylvia Ann Hewlett the panel features Lauren Flanigan, RoseLee Goldberg, Anne Pasternak, Laurie Simmons, and Heather Watts.


62 Years Later is organized on the occasion of the gallery’s current exhibition (Untitled) Hybrid, a reflection on the legacy of Lee Krasner’s contributions to contemporary artistic practices featuring work by Polly Apfelbaum, Alisa Baremboym, Sarah Cain, Leidy Churchman, Joanne Greenbaum, Julia Hechtman, and Dona Nelson curated by Boston University Art Gallery Director Kate McNamara.

In contemplation of Krasner’s struggles in becoming fully recognized as an important figure in the male-dominated Abstract Expressionist movement, this panel discussion will explore the ebb and flow of the art community’s dynamic relationship with gender.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is president and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation, a nonprofit think tank where she chairs a Task Force focused on fully realizing the new streams of talent in the global marketplace. She is the author of 10 Harvard Business Review articles, 12 critically acclaimed nonfiction books including Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets and Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor (Harvard Business Review Press, Sept. 2013), and is ranked #11 of the world’s top business thinkers. Her writings have been widely published and she’s a featured blogger on HBR.org. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her PhD in economics at London University.

Lauren Flanigan is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the 1980s. Named by TIME Magazine as "the thinking man's diva" and awarded by ACSAP and the Center for Contemporary Opera for her commitment to performing the works of living composers, Flanigan has firmly established herself as a unique musical presence in the world today. She has been featured on the Live from the Met telecast of I Lombardi (opposite Luciano Pavarotti) and the Live from Lincoln Center telecasts of The Richard Tucker Gala, Lizzie Borden, and Central Park, which was written for her. She has performed at many of the world’s leading opera houses including La Scala, Teatro San Carlo, Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. Last year Flanigan was given a prestigious yearlong creative residency at The Park Avenue Armory, during which she founded the group Not Your Mothers Kurt Weill Ensemble and was given 25 Weill songs cut from movies and shows to arrange and perform. Two of those programs called Unknown/Unsung: The Music of Kurt Weill are regularly performed to sold out houses at The Neue Galerie. Flanigan is also the founder and the director of Music and Mentoring House, a not-for-profit organization providing upscale affordable housing and hands on mentoring to students studying in the arts in NYC. Most recently, Flanigan was selected to be part of a world premiere performance of Beauty Intolerable, a collection of love songs composed by Sheila Silver based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, co-presented by American Opera Projects, The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, ClaverackLanding, and Symphony Space.

RoseLee Goldberg is Founding Director and Curator of Performa, the leading organization for the research, production and presentation of visual art performance, which launched the Performa biennial to great international acclaim in New York in 2005. Former director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at the Kitchen in New York, she pioneered the study of performance art with her book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979 and available in 12 languages. Other books include Laurie Anderson, and Performance Since the 1960s. She is the recipient of the Agnes Gund ICI Curatorial Award, and is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters presented by the French government. She is Clinical Professor in Art History at New York University where she has taught since 1987.

Anne Pasternak, the President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, joined the organization in the fall of 1994, with the goal of presenting some of the most adventurous art in the public realm. Creative Time began commissioning innovative art in New York City in 1972, introducing millions of people every year to contemporary art while making sure it plays an active role in public life. Just a few years ago, Creative Time began working nationally making it the only national public arts organization with programs that have reached from New York to New Orleans, from Denver to Dallas, and from PA to LA. Renowned projects under her direction range from exhibitions and performances in the historic Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, sculptural installations in Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall, sign paintings in Coney Island and skywriting over Manhattan to the Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated the former World Trade Center site six months after 9/11. She has worked closely with such artists as Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Steve Powers, Cai Guo Qiang, and many more. In addition to her work at Creative Time, Pasternak curates independent exhibitions, consults on urban planning initiatives, and contributes essays to cultural publications. She lectures extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and she served as a guest critic at Yale University.

Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Since the mid-70’s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins and occasionally people, to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. Her photographic based works are collected by many museums including in New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim as well as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center and the Hara Museum, Tokyo. In 2006 she produced and directed her first film titled "The Music of Regret", starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel and the Alvin Ailey 2 Dancers with cinematography by Ed Lachman. The film premiered at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has been screened at many international museums and film festivals including the Whitney Museum. Simmons was featured in Season 4 of the PBS series "Art 21: Art in the Twenty- First Century". Her most recent exhibitions were at Salon 94 Bowery, NYC, Wilkinson Gallery, London Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, The Gothenburg Museum in Sweden and Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. Her book titled “The Love Doll” was published last January. Simmons lives and works in New York City and Cornwall, Connecticut with her husband, the painter Carroll Dunham.

Heather Watts was born in Los Angeles, and was brought to New York to study at the School of American Ballet on a Ford Foundation scholarship. She was invited to join New York City Ballet by George Balanchine in 1970, and he promoted her to Principal Dancer in 1978. During her career at NYCB, Watts worked closely with Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, dancing leading roles in virtually all of the company's ballets, and both Balanchine and Robbins created roles especially for her. In addition to her career at NYCB she traveled extensively as a guest artist, and was an acclaimed international star. Since her retirement from the stage in a gala performance in 1995, Watts has been a contributing cultural editor at Vanity Fair magazine, has served as a panelist for the NEA, and serves on the Artists Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors. She taught academic courses in 2006 and 2007 on Balanchine’s life and work at Harvard University, and she received two Derek Bok awards for distinguished teaching. She was the Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer in Dance at Princeton University for 2011-12, and also recently co-created a new seminar for the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd St Y. Among the many awards that Watts has received are the Jerome Robbins Award, the Dance Magazine Award, the Lions of the Performing Arts Award from the New York Public Library. In 2012, she received a Doctorate in Fine Arts honoris causa from Hunter College.


Chelsea 524 West 26th Street, New York NY, 10001212-366-4774 rmg@robertmillergallery.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013
Christian Boltanski, la vie c'est gaie, la vie c'est triste, 1974 (still)

Christian Boltanski, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Yoshua Okón, Stuart Ringholt and Althea Thauberger apexart Curated by Kari Cwynar Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM On View May 23, 2013 - July 27, 2013 www.apexart.org


Naturist Workshop:
Artist Stuart Ringholt hosts a naked workshop at apexart
Sat, May 25: 11am Free with RSVP
more info

Kafka's Last Laugh:
Scholar Anca Parvulescu presents a letter from Kafka on laughter
Wed, Jun 5: 6:30 pm
more info

Featuring work by:
Christian Boltanski, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Yoshua Okón, Stuart Ringholt, and Althea Thauberger

An Unsolicited Proposal Program winning exhibition.


Tribeca / Downtown 291 Church Street, New York NY, 10013 Tuesday - Saturday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-431-5270 info@apexart.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013

A History of Contemporary Art in the Philippines by Tally Beck Tally Beck Contemporary Galler Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:30 PM www.tallybeckcontemporary.com


Reception begins 6pm;
talk begins about 7:30 pm



The East Village / Lower East Side 42 Rivington Street, New York NY, 10002646-678-3433
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Carrie Moyer

POUR: Panel Discussion With Angelina Gualdoni, Carrie Moyer, Carrie Yamaoka, Carolanna Parlato, Elisabeth Condon, Carol Prusa, and Tyler Emerson-Dorsch Asya Geisberg Gallery Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:30 PM www.asyageisberggallery.com


please RSVP to info@asyageisberggallery.com


Chelsea 537B West 23rd Street, New York NY, 10011212-675-7525 info@asyageisberggallery.com
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013

Storytellers and Mystics Cortney Andrews, Juka Araikawa, Daniel Arango, Jaqueline Cedar, Ted Gahl, Rubens Ghenov, Julie Leidner, Jennifer Sim, Jasmine Little and Lumin Wakoa Art Connects New York (ACNY) Curated by Jen Sim Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM On View May 22, 2013 - June 26, 2013 www.artconnectsnewyork.org


Sunset Park 220 36th Street, Suite B-515, Brooklyn NY, 11232 Monday - Friday from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
646-546-5334 info@artconnectsnewyork.org
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Image: Air Pressure (Face) 1971, 14:03 min, b&w, sound; Compression: Fern #1 1970, 5:46 min, color, silent (c) Dennis Oppenheim Courtesy Dennis Oppenheim ~studio

DENNIS OPPENHEIM: Form-Energy-Subject Screening + Conversation Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 6:30 PM www.eai.org


“Take the phenomenon of grabbing: instead of grabbing clay, you grab your stomach. For the first time, instead of imposing form manually, you are feeling what it is like to be made. You might have felt your hands picking up a piece of wood and staking it, but you have never felt what the wood felt.”

- Dennis Oppenheim, Studio International (November, 1971)

EAI is proud to present a screening and discussion on the films and videos of Dennis Oppenheim, focusing on the Aspen Projects, produced between 1970 and 1974. These rarely seen works mark the evolution of Oppenheim’s practice from public earthworks in the late 1960s to more intimate material investigations of his own body. In the early 1970s, Oppenheim was in the vanguard of artists using film and video as a means to examine themes relating to Body Art, Conceptual Art, and performance. In his works from this time, Oppenheim used his own body as a site to challenge the self: he explored the boundaries of personal risk, transformation, and communication through ritualistic performance actions and interactions.

The short pieces from Aspen Projects record performative actions that evolve as exchanges or interactions between Oppenheim's body and natural and man-made elements—leaves, wood, hair, compressed air, glass. In some pieces, these gestures involve a kind of self-negation; others work in reverse, as Oppenheim leaves imprints or traces of himself. As his actions unfold, the distinction between his living body and the inanimate and non-living materials he uses are leveled, erasing the differences and categories that stand between his face or fingernail and a fern or piece of wood. Continuing this line of inquiry, in the equally mesmerizing and disquieting work Disappear, Oppenheim attempts to will his hand to dematerialize. Intoning a hypnotic and mantra-like wish for disappearance and dissolution, he moves his hand faster than the camera’s mechanism can process images, turning it into an indeterminate blur. In 2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Returning to a Past State) and 2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Advancing to a Future State), both from 1971, Oppenheim investigates transference and communication through the body. Collaborating with his son Erik, in the Transfer Drawing pieces Oppenheim makes a drawing on his son's back; his son tries to copy this drawing through tactile sensation onto the wall. They then reverse roles. Writes Oppenheim, "I am drawing through him."

Curator Jenny Jaskey will introduce the screening, focusing on the artist’s concern with the interpenetration of human and non-human life, and the collapse of assumed hierarchies between subjects and objects in his work. Oppenheim once likened his performances during this period to “plugging into the solar system, communicating with an element,” and his immersive investigations presciently anticipate contemporary questions around ecology, matter and human agency.

To discuss these concerns and the relevance of Oppenheim’s work for a current generation of artists, Jaskey will be joined by artists A.K. Burns, Ajay Kurian and Yve Laris-Cohen for an informal discussion in the second half of the evening. Burns’ practice explores the intersection of desire, power and language, taking the form of sculpture, video, collage or social actions. In recent works, Burns has focused on object tactility and the cultural implication of fetish. Cohen's performances layer bodies and objects, using strategies of repetition and endurance to map genealogies of material exchange. In his art, Kurian pursues new material languages and strategies that disregard divisions between nature, culture and human beings, creating conditions for exploring non-human agency within art.

Special thanks to Amy Oppenheim and the Oppenheim Studio for their assistance in organizing this program.
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Dennis Oppenheim was born in 1938 in Electric City, Washington. From 1966 until his death in 2011, he lived and worked in New York City. He received his B.F.A. from the School of Arts and Crafts, and an M.F.A. from Stanford University. He received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Oppenheim exhibited his works internationally in galleries and museums including solo shows at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg, Germany; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London, and the Joseph Helman Gallery, New York. He exhibited extensively in group shows at venues such as the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, Canada; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, Korea; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Tate Liverpool, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and the Venice and Sao Paolo Biennales. Oppenheim was commissioned by many venues, including Ballerup Kommune, Copenhagen; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Olympic Park, South Korea and the Busan Biennale, South Korea.

Jenny Jaskey is a curator and writer based in New York. Recent exhibitions include The End(s) of the Library, Goethe-Institut New York (2012-2013) with Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, R. Lyon, David Horvitz, Christian Philipp Müller, and The Serving Library; Haim Steinbach, The Artist’s Institute, New York (2012) and Jutta Koether: Mad Garland, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2012). She is co-editor with Christoph Cox and Suhail Malik of Realism Materialism Art, an upcoming publication on the ‘speculative turn’ in philosophy and aesthetics published by Sternberg Press.

A.K. Burns is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Burns is a founding member of the artists activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy), and co-editor of RANDY, an annual trans-feminist arts magazine. Burns’ solo and collaborative work has been exhibited and screened internationally. Her work is currently on view at the ICP Triennial through September 8th.

Yve Laris Cohen’s work has been performed and exhibited at locations including The Kitchen, SculptureCenter, Recess, Dance Theater Workshop, Abrons Arts Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Danspace Project, and Thomas Erben Gallery, in New York; as well as at The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson; and Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Laris Cohen was a 2010-2012 Movement Research Artist in Residence, and received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Visual Art Grant Award in 2011. He graduated with a BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2011.

Ajay Kurian is an artist and curator. Kurian has exhibited at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Harris Lieberman, Jack Hanley Gallery, Room East, and the Artist’s Institute in New York, as well as CAMRaleigh and White Flag Projects, St. Louis. In 2011, Kurian had a solo exhibition at Audio Visual Arts, New York. Kurian’s recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions Gran Prix, co-curated with Nudashank, Baltimore and Prolegomena at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, a collaboration with Shifter magazine. Kurian’s work will be included in EXPO 1: New York, at MoMA PS1. He is preparing for solo exhibitions at 47 Canal in New York and Jhaveri Contemporary in India, both in 2013.

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Chelsea 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York NY, 10011212-337-0680 info@eai.org
Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013

Pat Steir: Blue River National Academy Museum Opening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM On View May 23, 2013 - September 08, 2013 www.nationalacademy.org


The Upper East Side 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York NY, 10128 Wednesday - Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
212-369-4880
Screening Wednesday May 22, 2013

Federico Fellini: 8 1/2 New York Public Library Screening Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM www.nypl.org


Please join us on Wednesday, May 22 at 7 p.m. for a screening of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963, 138 min) in the first floor corner room of Mid-Manhattan Library.

This film is part of the series Three Auteurs of World Cinema. All screenings are FREE and each program includes an introduction to the film as well as a guided discussion afterwards. Seating is first-come, first-served and doors open at 6:30 p.m.

8 1/2 (1963, 138 min) is a semi-autobiographical comedy-drama directed by Fellini and co-written with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi. It stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director struggling with writer’s block. The title refers to the fact that Fellini considered it his eighth-and-a-half film. 8 1/2 won two Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design. In Italian with English subtitles.

Please contact Karen Ginman at karenginman@nypl.org or Thomas Knowlton at thomasknowlton@nypl.org if you have any questions.


Midtown Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10016
Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013
Pictured: Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter in Conversation with Vince Aletti SVA Theatre Lecture / Artist Talk Wednesday May 22, 2013, 7:00 PM www.sva.edu


Saul Leiter will discuss his photographic work with Vince Aletti, accomplished photography critic and reviewer for the New Yorker.

Leiter began his photographic work recording moments of urban life, becoming a pioneer in the art of color photography, in the 1950's. It is the color work which coordinates lyrical abstraction with the flux of New York City, and has been widely appreciated since the publication in 2006 of the monograph Early Color.

Saul Leiter's work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the National Gallery of Australia; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Yale University Art Gallery; and other prestigious public and private collections. He is represented by the Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Presented by Dear Dave, magazine as part of its series of conversations on contemporary photography.

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
RSVP: info@deardavemagazine.com


Chelsea 333 West 23rd Street, New York NY, 10011212-592-2980 SVATheatre@sva.edu
Performance Wednesday May 22, 2013

SpeakChamber Constance DeJong Bureau Performance Wednesday May 22, 2013, 7:00 PM www.bureau-inc.com


May 5 - May 25 2013
Opening reception for the artist:
Sunday May 5, 6 - 8 p.m. (no public performance - see schedule below)

Bureau is honored to announce the new production by seminal text and performance artist Constance DeJong, SpeakChamber. During the month of May, Bureau will be transformed into an intimate theater to host DeJong's hour-long spoken performance derived from a work of prose and accompanied by recorded sound and moving image.

DeJong has worked for over three decades on narrative form within the context of avant-garde music and contemporary art. The fiction in SpeakChamber focuses on the world of inanimate objects through styles and histories. We follow DeJong's story from dusty homes to salvation armies and from war-torn mountain ranges to luxury consignment shops. DeJong writes her narrative work specifically for the medium in which it will be presented, for the physical page or for the mouth as spoken in the present moment. In performance, her audience follows the captivating auteur, live, telling the story of objects through a continuous present moment.

DeJong is considered one of the progenitors of video and media art, what can be referred to as 'time based media'. She shapes her art of narrative with an intricate attention to content and literary form. Each detail is scrutinized so that every moment is an eternity and an expanse. The work is presented as a continuous present flowing from the mouth of the artist, in real time. The work thus stands both in contrast and in recognition of the contemporary attention-deficient media genre, which she has helped define. The work is one of continuous language paired with continuous video imagery that unfolds conjuring new images of some combined fiction derived from the seen image and heard text.

Nothing says impermanency like the relentless sequence of one word giving way to the next, each one dropping out of sight. -CDJ
Constance DeJong has exhibited and performed both locally and internationally over the past three decades at venues such as, the Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis MN; The Wexner Center, Columbus OH; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and in New York at The Kitchen, Threadwaxing Space, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Dia Center for the Arts. She composed the libretto for the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha in 1983 which has been staged at opera houses worldwide including the Metropolitan Opera, NY; The Netherlands National Opera, Rotterdam, NL and The Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. She has had several books of fiction published including Modern Love (Standard Editions, 1977) and I.T.I.L.O.E (Top Stories, 1983)

This exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition publication, SpeakChamber.
Public Performance Dates *

Friday May 10, 4 p.m.
Saturday May 11, 4 p.m. (full)
Sunday May 12, 4 p.m.

Friday May 17, 7 p.m. (full)
Saturday May 18, 4 p.m.
Sunday May 19, 7 p.m.

Wednesday May 22, 7 p.m.
Thursday May 23, 7 p.m.
Saturday May 25, 4 p.m.

*all performances require RSVP to office@bureau-inc.com
space is LIMITED: you will be emailed a confirmation if there is space
children not admitted


The East Village / Lower East Side 127 Henry Street, New York NY, 10002office@bureau-inc.com
Performance Wednesday May 22, 2013

WHITE ROAD DANCE MEDIA: EVERGREEN Abrons Arts Center Performance Wednesday May 22, 2013, 8:00 PM Additional Performances: Thursday May 23, 2013 from 8:00 PM
Friday May 24, 2013 from 8:00 PM
Saturday May 25, 2013 from 8:00 PM
www.abronsartscenter.org


Presented through the Abrons Access Program
TICKETS: $15

Evergreen is a new full-length live dance work from Marisa Gruneberg and white road Dance Media, marking wrDM's 10th year creating and performing in New York City.

Evergreen is a world pulled taut by symmetrical forms and fueled by overwhelming movements, quick­fire decisions, and interpersonal momentums. Additionally inspired by simulated environments, cycles of renewal and the concept of extreme dramatics in very small spaces, the performers challenge one another to fully inhabit a purlieu that is both calculated and undone, fragile yet enduring.

Performed by Sammy Donahue, Sydnie Liggett, Miranda Lyon, Emily Maurer, Hanna Olvera, Liz Riga, Jenny Stulberg, and Sarah Zitnay. Original score by Justin Sherburn, with costumes by Joseph Blaha.


The East Village / Lower East Side 466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street), New York NY, 10002212-598-0400 info@henrystreet.org