The New Museum announces its fall 2019 season of public programming. Highlights include talks and programs in conjunction with the exhibitions Hans Haacke: All Connected and Carmen Argote: As Above, So Below. This season, the Department of Education and Public Engagement also introduces its new mission, values, and methods, which include a focus on cultivating growth—aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual—through inquiry, and strengthening people’s connections with themselves, one another, and the wider world.
All programs take place at the New Museum.
Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker Book Launch and Panel Discussion
Thursday October 17, 7pm
In celebration of the publication of Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker (New Museum and Getty Research Institute, 2019), friends, colleagues, and curators, including Allan Schwartzman and Kemi Ilesanmi, will discuss the legacy of New Museum founding director Marcia Tucker. Moderated by Lisa Phillips, the New Museum’s Toby Devan Lewis Director, the conversation will reflect on Tucker’s bold vision and spirit of experimentation.
The Tempest Society: Screening and Conversation with Artist Bouchra Khalili
Saturday October 19, 3–5pm
Artist Bouchra Khalili will screen The Tempest Society (2017) and discuss the film along with her new artist book by the same title with curator and writer Omar Berrada. Commissioned by documenta 14 (Athens), The Tempest Society explores the forgotten heritage of Al-Assifa, an agitprop theater group of North African immigrant workers and French students active in Paris in the 1970s, considering its relevance to present-day economic and humanitarian struggles. This program is supported by Open Society Foundations.
Hans Haacke in Conversation with Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari
Thursday October 24, 7pm
Artist Hans Haacke will join Edlis Neeson Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni and Kraus Family Curator Gary Carrion-Murayari, co-curators of Hans Haacke: All Connected, in conversation to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Art + Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Sunday October 27, 1–5:30pm
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons address structural underrepresentation on Wikipedia, the world’s largest public digital knowledge base. The New Museum will host an afternoon of readings, conversation, and guided editing to expand the Wikipedia entries for feminist figures across the gender spectrum.
First Saturdays for Families: Carmen Argote
Saturday November 2, 10am–12pm
Taking inspiration from Carmen Argote’s exhibition, families are invited to participate in a hands-on art-making workshop in the Sky Room. New Museum First Saturdays for Families are free of charge and include New Museum admission for up to three adults per family.
Professional Development Workshop for Educators
Tuesday November 5, 9:30am–3pm
Educators will consider relationships between ecological, economic, and social systems through gallery tours and pedagogical experiments linked to Hans Haacke: All Connected. How might teachers and learners identify and make visible power dynamics in order to consider their position and agency within them?
All Systems Go: A Symposium on Art, Social Systems, and Cultural Action
Saturday November 9, 10am–5pm
This daylong symposium of artists, academics, and cultural leaders will investigate critical questions provoked by Hans Haacke’s wide-ranging career. The program will feature panels with Alexander Alberro, Andrea Fraser, Deana Haggag, Jae Rhim Lee, and Tatiana Schlossberg, among others. The symposium will also include guided tours of the exhibition Hans Haacke: All Connected and a keynote with Brian Wallis, investigating how Haacke’s legacy intersects with current conversations about institutional ethics and the climate crisis.
Raymond Pettibon: “Whoever Shows: Strike Uyp th’ Band!”
Thursday November 14, 6:30–8:30pm
For this program, copresented with Performa Biennial Consortium, artist Raymond Pettibon will be joined by fellow artists, musicians, and friends for a continuous reading of scripts originally produced for a series of low-fi videos focusing on radical subjects drawn from 1960s and ’70s American counterculture. Participants include Marcel Dzama, Karen Finley, Kim Gordon, David Rimanelli, Frances Stark, and Robert Storr, among others. This performance is directed by Raymond Pettibon and produced by Sozita Goudouna. The project is dedicated to the memory of Kevin Killian.
First Saturdays for Families: Hans Haacke
Saturday December 7, 10am–12pm
Taking inspiration from Hans Haacke: All Connected, families are invited to participate in a hands-on art-making workshop in the Sky Room. New Museum First Saturdays for Families are free of charge and include New Museum admission for up to three adults per family.
Experimental Study Program Celebration
Thursday December 19, 4:30–6pm
Teens in the fall 2019 season of the Experimental Study Program will celebrate and share what they have learned following nine weekly workshops with artists, peers, and New Museum staff exploring themes in Hans Haacke: All Connected.
The New Museum also hosts several regularly occurring gallery experiences that are free with Museum admission. New Perspectives tours, led by New Museum Teaching Fellows, connect the Fellows’ academic research with current exhibitions every Wednesday at 3pm. Architecture Tours explore the Museum’s SANAA-designed building on the third Sunday of each month. American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted Tours of current exhibitions take place on the second Sunday of each month and include free admission. Docent-led public tours of the Museum’s current exhibitions occur every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at 3pm, and every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday at 12:30pm and 3pm.
