Contents for September 22nd, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Agnes Gund, FF Member, In Memoriam
1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, thru Jan. 11, 2026
2. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Manhattan, opening Oct. 1, and more
3. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, at Giorno Poetry Systems, Manhattan, Oct. 2
4. Alvin Eng, Lizzie Olesker, FF Alumns, at Torn Page, Manhattan, Sept. 28
5. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, at City Winery, Boston, MA, Sept. 30 and more
6. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, at Little Island, Manhattan, thru Sept. 28
7. Ron Littke, FF Alumn, at Big Eddy Film Festival, Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg, NY, Sept 27
8. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at WNYC.org and more
9. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at givebutter.com
10. Barbara Nitke, FF Alumn, now online at Spotify.com
11. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Photo Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, thru Feb. 1, 2026
12. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at mcusercontent.com
13. Leslie Wayne, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Francis J. Greenberger Award
14. Petah Coyne, FF Alumn, at Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, thru Mar. 14, 2026
15. Paul Lamarre,Melissa Wolf, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, Oct. 11
16. Jill Sigman, FF Alumn, at Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ, Nov. 13
17. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at 125 Maiden Lane, Manhattan, opening Sept. 30
18. Glenn Lowry, Marina Abramović, Alanna Heiss, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
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Agnes Gund, FF Member, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, thru Jan. 11, 2026
Please visit this link:
https://www.elmuseo.org/exhibition/coco-fusco-tomorrow-i-will-become-an-island
Thank you.
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2. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Manhattan, opening Oct. 1, and more
Please visit these links:
https://leslielohman.org/exhibitions/david-wojnarowicz
https://phillyfringe.org/events/the-waterfront-journals-by-david-wojnarowicz
https://wojfound.org/exhibition/the-missing-children-show-kentucky-1985/
Thank you.
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3. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, at Giorno Poetry Systems, Manhattan, Oct. 2
Kay Gabriel perverts her friends
Thursday,
October 2, 2025
222 Bowery, NYC
7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
Tickets: $10
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Limited capacity
Perverts collages my dreams with others’ dreams. It’s an exercise in collective capacity—in people producing together a shared, sometimes outrageous language that no one person could assemble on their own.
It’s a choral, book-length poem with a hard-on for (1) excessive conviviality and (2) people doing things together. So we’re going to read it together, too. Twenty people or so, without whom the poem wouldn’t exist in the way that it does, read from Perverts, to an audience of perverts, that’s you, dear.
—Kay Gabriel
Over the last few years, Kay Gabriel sent a wide range of people a simple prompt—“send me your dreams.”
Kay took what she received and used it to write a book—it’s called Perverts (Nightboat, 2025). Conceived as a piece of collaborative writing, the book combines Kay’s own words and dreams with those of others, turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause.
For this event, Kay has invited a cast to bring Perverts to life, some of whom contributed dreams to the book. She’s assigned each person their parts to read—making this almost like a play, not quite a reading.
The readers are:
Aaina Amin
Morgan Bassichis
Alexa Jo Berry
Kyle Dacuyan
Patrick DeDauw
Heather Glynis
Rainer Diana Hamilton
Nile Harris
Stephen Ira
Sunny Iyer
Zora Jade Khiry
Shiv Kotecha
Kyle Carrero Lopez
Ty Mitchell
Liam O’Brien
Lena Pervez Afridi
Tracy Rosenthal
Jasmine Sanders
David Velasco
and
Kay Gabriel
Kay Gabriel is a writer and organizer. She’s the author of A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat, 2023). With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). She is the Editorial Director at The Poetry Project and lives in New York.
Giorno Poetry Systems is generously supported by Teiger Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Westridge Foundation, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Aurora Music Foundation, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Galerie Almine Rech, kurimanzutto, the GPS Advisory Council, and Club 222 members.
Giorno Poetry Systems
222 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
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4. Alvin Eng, Lizzie Olesker, FF Alumns, at Torn Page, Manhattan, Sept. 28
LAUNDRY CYCLES with Alvin Eng, Lizzie Olesker & Lynne Sachs
Sept 28 2pm – 4pm, Torn Page, 435 W 22nd St, Manhattan
Looking forward to sharing the stage with several artists I have long admired, playwright/actor Lizzie Olesker, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and actors Tony Torn and Ching Valdes-Aran. We will be coming together for Laundry Cycles––an afternoon of book readings and signing and live performances at Torn Page, 435 W 22nd St, Manhattan on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2-4pm.
Lizzie & Lynne’s new book, Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry, is an expansion of their powerful performance work, “Every Fold Matters.” Tony and Ching will reprise their roles from the stage performance.
Keeping with the laundry theme, Alvin will be reading from his memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town. He will also be performing new songs and monologues from my solo acoustic punk raconteur performance work-in-progress, “Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk).”
Hope you can join us for this event! for more info please visit TornPage.org
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5. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, at City Winery, Boston, MA, Sept. 30 and more
Murray Hill, FF Alumn, at City Winery Boston September 30
and
at City Winery Philadelphia, October 1
and
at Den Theater, Chicago, November 9
for tickets please visit MrShowBiz.com
Thank you.
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6. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, at Little Island, Manhattan, thru Sept. 28
Please visit this link:
https://littleisland.org/event/galas/2025-09-06/
Thank you.
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7. Ron Littke, FF Alumn, at Big Eddy Film Festival, Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg, NY, Sept 27
Videos by Ron Littke’s workshops with 4th and 5th grade students at Sullivan West will be shown at the Big Eddy Film Festival on Saturday, September 27 at 10 am at the Tusten Theater in Narrowsburg, NY. The videos were made through Franklin Furnace’s 2024-25 SEQuential Art for Kids education program, supported by The Art Shop Fund, The MIlton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Council District 35, and the Board of Directors, Members, and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
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8. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at WNYC.org and more
Please visit these links:
https://www.wnyc.org/story/cubanamerican-artist-coco-fusco-receives-her-first-us-museum-survey
And
https://www.vulture.com/article/artist-coco-fusco-exhibition-el-museo-del-barrio-interview.html
Thank you.
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9. Devora Neumark, FF Alumn, at givebutter.com
This upcoming Tuesday, to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the United Nations and the 10 years since the Global Compact on Refugees was adopted, Home Ground Lab is launching our micro-grant fundraising campaign to fund 10 refugee-led projects of beauty in the built environment around the world. Gardens that feed both body and soul. Murals that tell stories of resilience. Gathering spaces where community comes alive again. https://givebutter.com/beautybelongseverywhere
Home Ground Lab is a community-driven research, art, and storytelling initiative co-directed by Devora Neumark, PhD and Stephanie Acker, MPA, advancing beauty, justice, and aesthetics in the built environment, especially in shelters, temporary accommodation, and other housing in crisis contexts.
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10. Barbara Nitke, FF Alumn, now online at Spotify.com
Please visit this link:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZHEInvL1PalygsL5eOcfC
Thank you.
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11. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Photo Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, thru Feb. 1, 2026
L IS FOR LOOK
CHILDREN’S PHOTOBOOKS
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin » Enzo Arnone » Dominique Darbois » Claire Dé » Robert Doisneau » Reinhard Matz » Duane Michals » Sarah Moon » Franticek Skala » Emmanuel Sougez » Tomi Ungerer » William Wegman » Ylla
19 September 2025 – 1 February 2026
Opening: Thursday 18 September 2025 18:00
PHOTO ELYSEE
Place de la Gare 17 . CH-1003 Lausanne
Mon, Wed 10am-6pm, Thu 10am-8pm, Fri-Sun 10am-6pm PHOTO ELYSEE
Co-produced by the Institut pour la photographie in Lille and Photo Elysée, L is for Look explores children’s photo books, from their industrial boom in the 1930s to the present day. Although this type of publication remains marginal in the publishing landscape, it bears witness to the evolution of our perception of photography, the history of education, and the status of children in Western societies over more than a century.
Children’s photobooks have benefited from the emergence of new image-centered teaching methods. Photography is finding its way into all areas of children’s literature, from picture books to fiction, including works with educational, pedagogical, or creative aims. By renewing this publishing genre, it is also opening up to new and original forms, thanks to the collaboration of graphic designers, artists, illustrators, and authors.
The exhibition brings together around 100 international works, with an emphasis on original photographic creation, in order to highlight this heritage, its characteristics and its contemporary dimensions. Women photographers have played a major role in the history of children’s photobooks, at the intersection of two fields long perceived as feminine: education and children’s portraiture. This dynamic triggered the emergence in the 1970s of a new publishing genre dedicated to shaping children’s perspectives.
L is for Look also provides an opportunity to find out what goes on behind the scenes of creating photobooks, from the shoots to the original mock-ups of the works on display. Designed in collaboration with the mediation departments, the exhibition includes books available for consultation and interactive experiences designed for young and old alike.
After its initial presentation at Photo Elysée in the fall of 2025, L is for Look will embark on a European tour that will continue until 2028 at the Institut pour la photographie in Lille, after taking in five partner institutions:
the Museum Folkwang in Essen,
the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles,
the Photographers’ Gallery in London,
the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) in Luxembourg,
and Foto Arsenal in Vienna.
The exhibition is supported by the Fondation Coromandel, the Fondation Bru, and the Federal Office of Culture.
Exhibition co-produced by the Institute for Photography of Hauts-de-France and Photo Elysée.
L IS FOR LOOK
© 8 Sep 2025 photography now UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Ziegelstr. 29 . D–10117 Berlin
Editors: Claudia Stein & Michael Steinke
contact@photography-now.com. T +49.30.24 34 27 80
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12. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at mcusercontent.com
Dear Friends,
It’s a beautiful end of Summer, I hope everyone had a good one.
I was compelled to augment my Substack article “When Styles Talk” as a very interesting and powerful continuation happened with my WHITE SANDS-flip paintings which I was working on this Summer. Below is a short overview of this event.
It’s exciting to come back from the countryside to New York City where my life and work continues in the studio.
Do stay in touch as we head into the Fall.
Warmly,
George
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13. Leslie Wayne, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Francis J. Greenberger Award
Congratulations to Leslie Wayne, FF Alumn, on her 2025 Francis J. Greenberger Award.
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14. Petah Coyne, FF Alumn, at Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, thru Mar. 14, 2026
Petah Coyne
How Much A Heart Can Hold
Lowe Art Museum
University of Miami, Florida
Through March 14, 2026
About the Artist
Petah Coyne is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer. Since the 1980s, Coyne has received critical acclaim for using intricate, unorthodox material—trees, human hair, scrap metal, wax, silk flowers, religious statuary, and taxidermy—to create sculptures that are both precise in their attention to detail and baroque in their emotional range. Literature, film, art history, and the depths of an individual’s soul are all springboards for Coyne’s incessant and unrelenting imagination. In Coyne’s hands, materials, like our lived experiences, are endlessly re-purposed and reborn into something new.
Coyne’s sculptures and photographs have been the subject of more than 30 solo museum exhibitions. Her work resides in numerous permanent museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finland; and many others. She is the past recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Anonymous was a Woman, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1953, the artist currently lives in New York City.
Coyne is represented by Gallery Lelong, NYC
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15. Paul Lamarre,Melissa Wolf, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, Oct. 11
Hello to all the Plato’s Cave artists and friends !
If you happen to be in New York City area Saturday October 11, 2025 – 5:30 sharp you’re invited to a special evening, with refreshments and a performance by Composer-Performer Ilmārs Šterns. Ilmārs is Artist in Residence at EIDIA House Plato’s Cave from October 5 to 13, 2025, visiting from Bern Switzerland.
With the performance starting at 6:00, we are not privy to its exact nature, only to say Šterns takes inspiration from American composers / performers Meredith Monk and Robert Wilson.
Please RSVP single or plus 1 to: <eidiahouse@earthlink.net> , or call: 646 226 6478
“Informed by the interplay of sound, movement, and bodily experience, I create immersive performances that explore the connections between the body and music. I employ a transdisciplinary approach that intertwines vocal expression with body movement, crafting a vibrant exchange where sound and movement engage with one another. I invite audiences to explore the physicality of sound in novel ways.” Ilmārs Šterns
Ilmārs Šterns Composer-Performer Musical & Choreographic Arts M.A. & M.Ed. www.ilmarssterns.com
EIDIA House / Plato’s Cave 14 Dunham Place Brooklyn, NY, USA 11249
at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge
buses: B-62, B-32, B59 trains: L, at Bedford – walk toward the bridge trains: J, M, Marcy stop – walk west to the river
You recall, Dunham Place is only one block long. 1/2 block from Kent Ave between Broadway and So. 6th St.
Look forward to seeing you.
Warm Regards,
Paul Lamarre & Melissa Wolf
@eidiahouse
PS: The food will be prepared by Melissa and Paul based on recipes from our book/video series FOOD SEX ART the Starving Artists’ Cookbook—which is filled with great dishes that we personally refer to often.
Please pardon any duplications. Thank you.
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16. Jill Sigman, FF Alumn, at Art House Productions, Jersey City, NJ, Nov. 13
I am excited to be back in the studio for a new project. Go Between is a performative practice in which I make drawings by dancing with soil. I collect soils from charged sites— places in the historical narrative of this land and places in my own personal narrative and lineage. I bring them into the studio and dance with them, on them, through them.
What does the soil remember? The marks that are left on the paper are the imprints of my dialogue with the soil. I am documenting with my body. I am searching for remedies in the soil. These explorations have led me to see soil as an antidote to the colonial maladies of extractivism and chronic insatiability, as a surrogate for lost ancestral places and landscapes, and as an embodiment of queerness. These artifacts of my soil dances invite us to connect our own personal and communal threads and remember our connectedness to each other.
Go Between grows out of the Re-Seeding project in which I explore what it is to be a non-Indigenous person on occupied land. I have been joined in my studio research by composer/guitarist Cristian Amigo, composer/vocalist Kristin Norderval, and materials consultant, Paula Walters Parker.
A bird-eye close up of Jill’s feet covered in dirt on a sheet of drawing paper. The drawing paper shows signs of dirt smears and artistic topography.
Jill sits at a corner of drawing paper and creates a dirt drawing using her body. A shovel and pail sit at the top of the paper.
I am continuing my artistic research in residency with Kristin Norderval at Galerie Bart in Amsterdam this month. I’ll also be performing a version of Go Between in November at FOCUS, an innovative choreography series presented by Art House Productions and Kenia Rosete Dance. Big thanks to Kenia for her curation! Please note: I will only be performing at the November FOCUS event, but encourage you to go to both if you can!
Go Between
at Art House Productions
345 Marin Blvd, Jersey City
Thursday, November 13
7:30pm
Tickets here:
Thank you.
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17. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at 125 Maiden Lane, Manhattan, opening Sept. 30
Hi beautiful people,
I would love to invite you to the opening of my new installation OFFERING at 125 Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan.
https://teiartinbuildings.com/exhibitions/offering/
The show is curated by Tessa Ferreyros and sponsored by Time Equities Inc. Art-in-Buildings. Also on view will be Langdon Graves: Mental Model. Come have a drink with us!
OFFERING
Opening Tuesday, September 30th, 6-8pm
125 Maiden Lane – New York, New York
Through January 23, 2026
I’d love to walk you through the show on the 30th or in the coming weeks. 🙂
Cheers,
Eve
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18. Glenn Lowry, Marina Abramović, Alanna Heiss, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you
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