New Museum Exhibitions

Adhocracy

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

The exhibition explores a new direction in contemporary design through twenty-five projects—presented through artifacts, objects, and films. In the place of standardized, industrialized perfection, the exhibition embraces imperfection as evidence of an emerging force of identity, individuality, and nonlinearity in design. As design welcomes the new technologies of the information age, the field...

Jeremy Bailey: Famous New Media Art Patent Office

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400

One such issue, arguably the most pressing, is whether the patent industry inhibits, rather than nurtures, innovation; another relates to the new modes of physical behavior, related to touch and interaction, that corporations seek to own. “Jeremy Bailey: Famous New Media Art Patent Office,” a new commission for the First Look series, satirizes these complex issues by creating patents for the ar...

Cathy Park Hong and Mores McWreath: The Rub

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400

“The Rub” is an e-chapbook of GIFs and haiku that explores shame and failure in stand-up and online comedy. Poems explore the viewer’s obsession with witnessing humiliation—whether harmless bloopers, online bullying, or abject sexual humiliation. The GIF, the perfect visual effect here, freezes failure into an infinite loop and captures theorist Sianne Ngai’s concept of a “noncathartic aestheti...

NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Please note: the Fifth Floor is closed for installation.

The social and economic landscape of the early ’90s was a cultural turning point both nationally and globally. Conflict in Europe, attempts at peace in the Middle East, the AIDS crisis, national debates on health care, gun control, and gay rights, and caustic partisan politics were both the background and source material for a number of yo...

Dina Kelberman: Smoke & Fire

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Kelberman’s original website features an ever-growing grid of gifs —each one an image of smoke or fire excerpted from an iconic cartoon . The project is hatched out of the artist’s obsessive online surfing—for this project, she located and sampled hundreds of cartoons out of the thousands that she chose—as well as out of a desire to order and rearrange the seemingly endless amount of informatio...

Walking Drifting Dragging

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500

The artists share a common preoccupation with walking, roaming, and drifting—moving slowly, close to the ground—and documenting their travels within highly personal terms that blend cartography with memory. All four have embarked on epic journeys, such as crossing an entire continent on foot or floating through the darkness of the Arctic for months—each one motivated by a different impulse or p...

Jon Rafman and Rosa Aiello: Remember Carthage

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500

An essay film in the tradition of experimental documentarians like Chris Marker or Harun Farocki, Remember Carthage takes the viewer on an epic journey in search of an abandoned resort town deep in the Sahara desert. However, one travels not through archival or personal images but through footage sourced from PS3 video games and Second Life, depicting ancient civilizations that seem at once fam...

Anna Lundh: Q&Q 2022

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500

“Will it still be reasonably easy to find a bookstore?” —Sae Harbingser
“What will happen to the ocean?” —Gillian
“Will North and South Korea be united?” —Armin
“Will people still take pictures of everything they eat/see/do?” —Julie Cirelli

These are just a few prompts from “Q&Q 2022,” a project by Anna Lundh that collects and shares questions from the public about what the future will be like ...

PaperRad: Welcome to My Homey Page

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The interface, which provides a glimpse into the prolific artistic production of this collective, was produced by New Museum affiliate Rhizome in conjunction with the preservation of the entire Paper Rad website in their online archive, the ArtBase. The project is set to launch on November 28, 2012.

One of the most important collectives to emerge in the last decade, Paper Rad exploded at the edg...

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Although remarkably inventive and prolific, Trockel has deflected any identifiable stylistic signature: films and videos, knit paintings, projects for children, ceramics, drawings, and collages, plus a panoply of sculptures in a range of materials, are among the myriad forms that comprise her practice. Nonetheless, certain constants underpin this diverse activity: contending notions of feminism...

Jonas Lund: Public Access Me

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400

“Public Access Me” is an advancement of a project Lund launched earlier this year called Selfsurfing that allows viewers to watch a live, auto-updating clone of his personal browser. Through Selfsurfing, viewers can follow Lund as he surfs the web—reading the news, working, shopping, etc.

“Public Access Me” is differentiated from Selfsurfing by an additional layer of access that Lund has opened...

Jonathan Horowitz: Your Land/My Land: Election ’12

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The exhibition is being staged simultaneously at seven museums across the United States and provides a space for people to gather, watch coverage of, and talk about the presidential election.

“Your Land/My Land: Election ’12,” 2012. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner

The title references the song “This Land is Your Land” written by folk musician Woody Guthrie in 1940, orig...

Judith Bernstein: HARD

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The exhibition at the New Museum will include a selection of works ranging from the ’60s through the present, including a new site-specific rendition of Bernstein’s SIGNATURE PIECE , painted in explosive gestural strokes directly onto the Lobby Gallery windows. For Bernstein, this piece, presented in counterpoint to her large-scale images within the gallery, proclaims her presence and confronts...

Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Drawing upon the New Museum’s Bowery Artist Tribute archive and the online archive of Marc H. Miller, 98bowery.com, this exhibition features original artwork, ephemera, and performance documentation by over fifteen artists who lived and worked on or near the Bowery in New York.

Coleen Fitzgibbon installing the exhibition “Income and Wealth” at 5 Bleecker Street, 1979. Courtesy Coleen Fitzgibbon...

Haroon Mirza: Preoccupied Waveforms

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Mirza uses simple industrial materials to radically transform the perceptual experience of architectural space. Over the past ten years, Mirza has deployed a range of analog and digital devices to create dynamic compositions of sound and light. His performances, kinetic sculptures, and immersive installations have made him one of the most celebrated young international artists working today. Mi...

Aboveground Animation: 3D-Form

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Featured artists include Barry Doupé, Kathleen Daniel, Ryan Whittier Hale, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Beyond Pixar, Adult Swim, or the default avatars of video games, these works explore possibilities for 3-D human forms. Their casts of improbable people are hatched out of personal history or emotion—through a longing for intimacy or an uncertainty for the future. Experimental and short-form, all...

Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz: Image Atlas

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Image Atlas investigates cultural differences and similarities by indexing top image results for given search terms across local search engines throughout the world. Visitors can refine or expand their comparisons from the sixty countries currently available and sort by Gross Domestic Product or alphabetical order. Through an incredibly simple interface, the Image Atlas raises profound question...

Ghosts in the Machine

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400

“Ghosts in the Machine,” 2012. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Benoit Pailley

Occupying the Museum’s three main galleries, the exhibition examines artists’ embrace of and fascination with technology, as well as their prescient awareness of the ways in which technology can transform subjective experiences.

International in scope, the exhibition spans more than fifty years and incorporates work...

Pictures from the Moon: Artists' Holograms 1969–2008

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The 1960s ushered in new technologies and new frontiers for image production. The development of laser technology in 1962 enabled the creation of holograms that displayed three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional surface. Artists were drawn to holography, hailed as a medium of the future that turned space inside out, for its spatial, volumetric, and sequential qualities, and to the creative...

Carlos Motta:
We Who Feel Differently

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Through an exhibition, series of events, and an opening symposium, the project seeks to invigorate discussion around a queer “We” that looks beyond tolerance or assimilation toward a concept of equality that provides for greater personal freedom. The project draws from Motta’s evolving database documentary wewhofeeldifferently.info, which proposes “difference” as a profound mode of possibility ...

New Museum Exhibitions

Adhocracy

Jeremy Bailey: Famous New Media Art Patent Office

Cathy Park Hong and Mores McWreath: The Rub

NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

Dina Kelberman: Smoke & Fire

Walking Drifting Dragging

Jon Rafman and Rosa Aiello: Remember Carthage

Anna Lundh: Q&Q 2022

PaperRad: Welcome to My Homey Page

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos

Jonas Lund: Public Access Me

Jonathan Horowitz: Your Land/My Land: Election ’12

Judith Bernstein: HARD

Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989

Haroon Mirza: Preoccupied Waveforms

Aboveground Animation: 3D-Form

Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz: Image Atlas

Ghosts in the Machine

Pictures from the Moon: Artists' Holograms 1969–2008

Carlos Motta:We Who Feel Differently

Carlos Motta:
We Who Feel Differently