Notes related to New York

NEW INC, New Museum's Cultural Incubator, Announces DEMO2024 Art and Technology Festival. Hosted by WSA and Water Street Projects the festival will take place from June 5 to 7, 2024. Keynote Speakers Include Andrew Thomas Huang, Gabriel Massan, Precious Okoyomon, New York City Council Member Chi Ossé, and Mahfuz and Chloe Sultan.

Exhibited for the first time since entering the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Regina José Galindo’s Tierra (2013) explores connections between the exploitation of labor, resources, and human life in Guatemala.

Argentine artist Marta Minujín will restage her iconic 1985 photo-performance Payment of the Argentine Foreign Debt to Andy Warhol with Corn, the Latin American Corn, at Americas Society, in collaboration with Jewish Museum. The event is free and open to the public and will take place on March 26, 2024, 6pm at Americas Society. Registration required.

White Shoes is Nona Faustine exhibition at Brooklyn Museum, where the artist, using her own body, interrogates the question “What does a Black person look like today in those places where Africans were once sold, a century and a half ago?” using her body.

The Brooklyn Museum announced open call for Brooklyn artists to participate in a major upcoming exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 200^th anniversary. Deadline to apply: April 7^th, 2024.

Magali Lara: Interior Landscapes is the artist’s exhibition at The James B. Duke House, together with the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and ISLAA.

The Center for Art, Research and Alliance’s spring 2024 exhibition presents an intergenerational, feminist dialogue between artists Paloma Contreras Lomas (b. Mexico, 1991) and Ines Doujak (b. Austria, 1959). The show opens March 2 and will remain on view through May 12, 2024.

Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak at Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York is the artist first major institutional solo exhibition, organized in partnership with Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.

Americas Society opened Part II of El Dorado: Myths of Gold, an exhibition showcasing artworks by more than 60 artists that challenge, reinforce and question the continuity of the myth of El Dorado into the present.

The New Museum announced that 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence Camilo Godoy will convene participatory workshops, an open rehearsal and dialogue, and NewMu Teens programs throughout February 2024, culminating in the premiere of a new work, "Camilo Godoy: renacemos a cada instante," on February 24, 2024. 

Spiral for Shared Dreams is Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo’s exhibition at MoMA, presenting 11 handmade atarrayas, or fishing nets, denouncing the impact of hydroelectrical dams and other infrastructure on water bodies.

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith at Whitney Museum puts the artist's life on display alongside his art and collections.

El Museo del Barrio announced the second rotation of its permanent collection exhibition Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección.

El Dorado: Myths of Gold is an extensively researched, impeccably installed exhibition featuring one-hundred objects and artworks from the Pre-Columbian period to the 21^st century by sixty artists.

The New Museum announced Camilo Godoy as its 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence. The annual Artist Residency supports an artist or collective working at the intersections of performance, pedagogy, and participatory art to develop and present new work.

The Jewish Museum will present the first exhibition in the United States of Marta Minujín, a defining force of Latin American art whose trajectory intersected with the major artistic developments of the postwar period while reflecting a singular spirit and vision infused by her sharp intellect, irreverent humor, and performative presence.

Judy Chicago: Herstory brings together six decades of the artist’s work. Hosted by The New Museum in New York, the show includes an exhibition-whithin-the-exhibition spotlighting women essential to the history of art and Chicago’s own practice.

Argentina Performance Art (APA), with the support of LATEA Theater and Grace Exhibition Space, will curate a three-night series to address critical and essential South American issues through the power of performance art.

Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño is the first comprehensive career survey in New York City of multidisciplinary artist, educator, and advocate for Central American culture and history, Muriel Hasbun.

The Museum of Modern Art announced Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, an exhibition dedicated to both realized and unrealized projects that address ecological and environmental concerns by architects who practiced in the United States from the 1930s through the 1990s.

The Brooklyn Museum and the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s Social Justice Fund Launch the Brooklyn Arts Leadership Collaborative. The Collaborative aims to boost Brooklyn’s arts and culture ecosystem by supporting programs and leadership development in eight BIPOC-led organizations.

Americas Society presents the first part of El Dorado: Myths of Gold, a two-part group exhibition exploring the legend of El Dorado as a foundational myth of the Americas.

apexart is accepting proposals for its NYC Open Call from October 1-31, 2023. Five winning proposals will become exhibitions presented at apexart as part of the 2024–25 exhibition season. Curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of location or past experience, are invited to submit a proposal.

The intensive program is designed to guide artists through every step of the process of making a book. The objective is to have a physical maquette or artist book ready to present to publishers or to self-publish upon completion of the course, as well as to establish a practice and community to support them going forward. Deadline to apply: October 6^th, 2023.

Within the 225 galleries exhibiting over 800 artists, Latin American galleries mark their presence in the 2023 edition of The Armory Show. From September 8 to 10^th, the New York Art Fair returns for its third year at the Javits Center.

The Art Omi: Architecture residency program invites ten early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency on Art Omi’s campus in New York City. Deadline to apply: October 15^th, 2023.

María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold is a monographic exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of a visionary voice in photography, immersive installation, painting, and performance. On view since September 16^th, 2023.

The 2023 edition of The Armory Show features 225 leading international galleries exhibiting, representing more than 35 countries and showcasing over 800 artists. The New York fair returns for its third year at the Javits Center on September.

The artist-led organization For Freedoms presented Listen Until You Hear, an exhibition in Fotografiska New York featuring artworks by Hank Willis Thomas, Cassils, Maia Ruth Lee, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Eric Gottesman and Kameelah Janan Rasheed.