CREATIVE TIME

40+ artists, curators, and thinkers present their work at a two-day conference (9 & 10 Oct) in The Great Hall of The Cooper Union
Tickets already sold out, look out for the live cast.CREATIVE TIME

The night School at NY New Museum

Screening: Le fond de l'air est rouge (The Grin Without a Cat), 1977: Night School Public Seminar 5: The Politics of Spectacle

Directed by Chris Marker. Running time: 180 min
Thursday, May 29 | 7:00 PM* | Free

A Grin Without a Cat is Chris Marker's epic film essay on the worldwide political wars of the 1960s and 70s: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. From 1967 - the year Marker argues was the key turning point - the film is a sweeping, global contemplation of a defining ten years' political history.

Screening: The Case of the Grinning Cat, 2004 followed by moderated discussion with Jake Perlin: Night School Public Seminar 5: The Politics of Spectacle

Directed by Chris Marker. Running time: 58 mins
Friday, May 30 | 7:30 PM | Free with Museum admission

In his most recent film, Chris Marker reflects on French and international politics, art, and culture at the start of the new millennium. This engaging record of Marker's cinematic peregrinations throughout the city chronicles strikes, memorials, election campaigns, celebrity scandals, international political incidents, and a seemingly endless variety of political protests. The commentary running throughout The Case of the Grinning Cat offers the learned and witty reflections of the filmmaker, now in his early eighties, on the contemporary and historical implications of these varied events and personalities.

The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion with Jake Perlin, Assistant Film Curator/BAMCinematek and founder of The Film Desk.

Lecture by Okwui Enwezor: Night School Public Seminar 5: The Politics of Spectacle

Saturday, May 31 | 3:00 PM | Free with Museum admission

Okwui Enwezor lectures on the politics of spectacle. Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute. He is Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography, New York and previously Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Enwezor is Artistic Director of the 7th Gwangju Biennale, opening September 2008.

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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. This month's seminar is conceived by Okwui Enwezor.

All events are in the New Museum theater. Events are free or free with Museum admission but tickets are required.

Tsang Kinwah @ New York

Always like about this young man who worked at Videotage and Visual Art Centre when he was a fresh graduate from Chinese University back in 2001.
Check out this video on his solo show at Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York.

New face of New Museum @NY opens on 1st Dec

Design for New Museum of Contemporary Art. Design + Visualization: Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA. Site Photography: Christopher Dawson.

On December 1st, the New Museum will open the doors to our brand new building at 235 Bowery (at Prince Street). The new New Museum will be the destination for contemporary art in New York and beyond.

Click here to see a complete calendar of opening events.