Contents for November 03rd, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Alison Knowles, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Xxavier Edward Carter, FF FUND recipient 2025-2026, at Maritime hotel Penthouse NY, 9AM-2PM on Nov. 6
Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace now online, at ItsInQueens.com
1. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, opening Nov. 8
2. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 3
3. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Old Stone House, Brooklyn, Nov. 3
4. Suzanne Lacy, Lucy R. Lippard, FF Alumns, at New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fee, Nov. 7
5. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, now online in the Spalter Digital collection
6. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Nov. 13
7. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail .org
8. Martha Rosler, Gregory Sholette, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Nov. 9
9. Nina Yankowitz, FF Alumn, at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, thru Feb. 26, 2026 and more
10. Nancy Garruba, FF Alumn, new publication
11. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at East End Arts, Riverhead,NY, thru Dec. 13 and more
12. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumn, at Marlene Meyerson JCC, Manhattan, Nov. 18
13. Lynne Yamamoto, FF Alumn, new publication
14. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, Nov. 1-23
15. Virginia Maksymowicz, FF Alumn, at DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, thru Nov. 23
16. Joshua Fried, FF Alumn, now online at WalkOnTheWildSideNYC.substack.com
17. Becca Blackwell, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 20
18. Joyce Kozloff, FF Member, at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Nov. 8 and more
19. Aaron Landsman, Clarinda Mac Low, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Nov. 4
20. Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, now online at LaborArtReview.net
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Alison Knowles, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
We miss the brilliant, warm, beaming, loving, engaging, amusing Alison Knowles. She made everyday things beautiful. She was a wonderful artist and friend and, for us lucky family members, a force of steady love. She died peacefully yesterday morning, at home in her beloved loft.
Her last words: “I have a beautiful family.” I think she meant everyone: family, chosen family, friends, Fluxus family. You know who you are. Have to say I agree. Rest in peace Ma.
April 28, 1933-October 29, 2025. 92 1/2 years to the day.
Hannah Higgins
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Weekly Spotlight: Xxavier Edward Carter, FF FUND recipient 2025-2026, at Maritime hotel Penthouse NY, 9AM-2PM on Nov. 6
Upcoming FUND performance: Xxavier Edward Carter (FUND 2025-2026) @_xxavierismyname_
“In The Event Of”
Thursday, November 6, 2025. 9AM-2PM
Maritime Hotel Penthouse 363 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011
Project Description:
Conceived as a wake, this performance is set in the Maritime Hotel Penthouse. The performance begins with a breakfast meeting on the terrace of the suite. Breakfast is served while the audience is welcomed to the space (Capacity 30). Xxavier will give a brief introduction on the conception of the work. Objects created for the funeral rites are staged around the hotel room. Speakers play an audio essay by the artist. The funeral rites begin. Xxavier is groomed before the audience then enters the sarcophagus. At 12PM the procession begins at street level. 10 people navigate the sarcophagus along a planned route to Little Island. Lunch is served while Xxavier recites the poem, In The event Of, from inside the sarcophagus. This concludes the public portion of the performance.
Artist Bio:
Xxavier Edward Carter (b.1986 Dallas, Texas) is a Transdisciplinary Artist of Black and Mvskoke descent. The eldest child of professional athlete (Russell Carter) and saleswoman (Melody Missick), embodiment and communication were foundational to his upbringing as well as flexibility in new environments. Xxavier attended Stanford University on a football scholarship, receiving a BFA in Studio Art after studying Political Science and English. After 7 years of art world immersion Xxavier returned to Dallas to receive his MFA from Southern Methodist University, the alma mater of his father.
Through a commitment to the concepts of returns, community, ecology, humanity, abstraction, and poetry, Xxavier has established his career through the intimate connections made sharing his work and the philosophy that has molded his practice. He is currently the Head Artist and Engineer of Goldfish Dreams, an artistic publication and production house based in Dallas, Texas.
Credit:
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2025-26, supported by SHS Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive. The project is also supported by Robert Waterston, Ebony Carter, Tina Dozier and Chrythia Dozier, from the Southside Veterinary Clinic.
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace now online, at ItsInQueens.com
Please visit this link
https://itsinqueens.com/newsflash-franklin-furnace-art-group-celebrates-50-years-moves-to-queens/
Thank you.
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1. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, opening Nov. 8
In 1968 Robert Smithson declared: “A great artist can make art by simply casting a glance.” Our forthcoming exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, takes him at his word. “Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson”invites eighteen artists to join him on the floor as partners who resist, improvise, and extend the rhythm of his thinking.
Please join us at our opening reception on Saturday, 8 November 2025.
Robert Smithson with Leonor Antunes, Nairy Baghramian, Daniel Boyd, Tony Cragg, Tacita Dean, Pierre Huyghe, An-My Lê, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Ana Mendieta, Delcy Morelos, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Giuseppe Penone, Tavares Strachan, Álvaro Urbano, Adrián Villar Rojas, and James Welling.
Image: Robert Smithson gathering material for Nonsite “Line of Wreckage,” Bayonne, New Jersey (1968). Photograph: Nancy Holt. © Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
#RobertSmithson #MGGLA
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2. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 3
Please visit this link:
https://publictheater.org/performances-jp/2025/t/taylor-mac-matt-ray-the-hang-album-release-show
Thank you.
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3. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at Old Stone House, Brooklyn, Nov. 3
On MONDAY 3 November 2025
we will be gathering from 6-8pm
at the OLD STONE HOUSE in Brooklyn – organized by Magggie Weber
to handwrite in silence the Constitution of the United States.
You and friends are welcome to join us.
All materials will be supplied.
We very much look forward to seeing you.
This will be session 167 since we began the practice
on 20 January 2017.
Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Morgan O’Hara
OLD STONE HOUSE
The Old Stone House is located in the Park Slope neighborhood of
Brooklyn, New York and is situated in the J. J. Byrne Playground at
Washington Park on Third Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues.
336 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
F train to 4th Avenue & 9th Street, 10 minute walk.
education@theoldstonehouse.org
info:
www.handwritingtheconstitution.org
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4. Suzanne Lacy, Lucy R. Lippard, FF Alumns, at New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fee, Nov. 7
Don’t miss an inspiring evening with two groundbreaking figures in contemporary art and activism. Lucy R. Lippard, acclaimed writer,curator, and feminist pioneer, joins Suzanne Lacy, Los Angeles–based artist and leader in socially engaged public art, for a dynamic conversation about their friendship, shared history, and lifelong commitment to social change through art.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Reserve your seat: my.nmculture.org/47524/51001
Presented with support from James L. Cahn & Jeremiah J. Collatz.
LUCY R. LIPPARD
Writer, activist, and sometime curator, Lippard is the author of 30 books on art, activism,feminism, place, and land use, including Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Changeand Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics and Art in the Changing West. Aco-founder of numerous feminist and activist organizations, she has received nine honorary degrees and many awards. Lippard lives off the grid in rural New Mexico, where for 29 years she has edited the monthly community newsletter El Puente de Galisteo.
SUZANNE LACY
A Los Angeles–based artist and pioneer of socially engaged public performance art,Lacy creates installations, videos, and performances addressing sexual violence, poverty, incarceration, labor, and aging. Her projects span the globe, from England and Colombiato Spain and the U.S. In 2019, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented her career retrospective. Her ongoing project Uncertain Futures explores gender, age, race, disability,and class through the experiences of women over 50. Lacy is a professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design and a resident artist at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA.
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5. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, now online in the Spalter Digital collection
Please visit this link:
https://spalterdigital.com/artists/adrianne-wortzel/
Thank you.
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6. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Nov. 13
Let’s get together
10 poets, 5 mins each, FREE EVENT – Come have a tea, coffee, cocktail or glass of wine and browse great books and great people!
Galinsky presents POETRY IN NEW YORK now in it’s fourth year at the acclaimed NYC venue BOOK CLUB BAR. This is NOT an open mic, all artists are curated and book ahead of time.
Thursday NOVEMBER 13TH! A terrific line up of NY poets!
1st artist hits the mic at 8pm!
10 Curated POETS perform 5 Minutes Each – this month includes: Jada Henry, Toney Jackson, Stevie Latham, Andrew Einhorn, Natou, Daemond Arrindell, Ron Bass and with live fine art by Dig Ferreira all hosted by Galinsky with band leader Ian McFarland.
The show is PAY WHAT YOU CAN / FREE and all donations, here on Eventbrite and live at the venue, are accepted – your generosity at any level is valued. The show starts at 8pm and the Book Club cafe is a fine place to relax before and after the show.
Full bar and light snacks are available throughout the night, come early, stay late! Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street, NYC.
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7. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
My review of two shows at Ricco-Maresca Gallery, which specializes in self-taught artists, appeared in the Brooklyn Rail this week.
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/10/artseen/morris-hirshfield-brooklyn-tailor
Sarah Theresa Lee’s show What Big Eyes You Have is a lovely supplement to Morris Hirshfield’s playful explorations into both folk art and Surrealism. It is called Morris Hirshfield: Brooklyn Tailor.
Together the two shows usher us from the WWII era to the world of the contemporary. Thank you.
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8. Martha Rosler, Gregory Sholette, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Nov. 9
LET’S FIGHT BACK TOGETHER:
LABOR ART REVIEW
LAUNCH PARTY
NOVEMBER 9th 2025
THE FRANCIS KITE CLUB
6:30 – 9:30 PM
@Francis Kite Club
40 Loisaida Ave, NYC 10009
Dearest Labor/Art friends, comrades and colleagues,
We invite you to the first ever launch of the 2nd edition of Labor Art Review. The new edition will be visible the week of our opening! Mark you calendar and come help us celebrate a publication that connects the labor movement and activist artist community.
We will be serving up live music by Rabbistravinsky and a Labor/ Hip Hop dance mix with DJ Jojo, and free delicious vegetarian food (cold appetizer plate from Ayat the Palestinian restaurant up the street) and other local vendors. Cash bar to support LAR’s efforts and the Francis Kite Club.
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9. Nina Yankowitz, FF Alumn, at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, thru Feb. 26, 2026 and more
Nina Yankowitz 58 years retrospective exhibition IN THE OUT/OUT THE IN at Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Tampa Florida. The links below are to a video overview of the exhibit and another link to some photo images. Now Installed at Parrish art Museum, Southampton NY Oct 9 2025 thru Feb 26 2026
Retrospective St Petersburg Museum Nina Yankowitz reel with Bob Dylan music Nyartprojects link
https://nyartprojects.com/Videos/1_Yankowitz_MFA_Promo.mov
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10. Nancy Garruba, FF Alumn, new publication
Announcing a new publication by Nancy Garruba, FF Alumn, “The Vanishing of Rose B.”
For more information please visit these links:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-garruba/the-vanishing-of-rose-b
Thank you.
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11. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at East End Arts, Riverhead,NY, thru Dec. 13 and more
I have minimalist works in two group exhibitions, one on the North Fork and the other just outside of Washington, D.C., opening next month. I invite you to come take a look!
Anne Sherwood Pundyk
FLUID PATTERNS:
WATER AND A CHANGING CLIMATE
The exhibition, curated by Marta Baumiller and Rainer Gross, explores water as a vital resource and a disruptive force through art.
Opening November 1, 4 – 7 pm.
November 1 – December 13, 2025.
East End Arts
Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery,
East End Arts Council
133 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY
and
STILL LIFE/NATURE MORTE
An exhibition based on the theme of the still life genre of painting.
Opening November 13, 6:00-7:30 pm
November 5 – December 14, 2025
Adah Rose Gallery
3766 Howard Ave
Kensington MD 20895
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12. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumn, at Marlene Meyerson JCC, Manhattan, Nov. 18
Special Film Screening of Maintenance Artist
At the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
November 18, 2025
“Forty-six years after she embedded with the Sanitation Department, Ms. Ukeles’s populist convictions, her belief in the dignity of labor, her wariness of feminist art committed narrowly to liberating women from the male gaze speak with a power to the tensions between class and gender politics roiling the country right now.”
Ginia Bellafante, “The ’70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to ‘Garbage Men,’” New York Times, June 2025
After its celebrated premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, Maintenance Artist, a documentary film about artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, is being welcomed by rave reviews across the country. We’re delighted to share news about upcoming screenings including a special one in NYC at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on November 18.
Maintenance Artist directed Toby Perl Freilich explores the groundbreaking work and career of Ukeles which included decades of close association with Ronald Feldman Gallery. This event offers a unique opportunity to view Ukeles’s visionary praciice and lifelong engagement with maintenance, care, and public service on the big screen.
For tickets and additional information, please visit the link below:
For an exclusive discount on tickets, come visit Ronald Feldman Gallery.
tickets here: https://www.mmjccm.org/event/film-maintenance-artist
Maintenance Artist will also be shown at The Boston Jewish Film Festival on November 16 and at the Jewish Museum in New York on November 13.
Related Ukeles’ work is currently on view alongside 28 other artists at Ronald Feldman Gallery in our current show: Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs. https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs
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13. Lynne Yamamoto, FF Alumn, new publication
“Inhabit” is an archive of my interrelated projects concerning diasporas, histories and place. Accompanying essays by Lawrence Chua, Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Lucretia Knapp, Susan Kunimatsu, Margo Machida and Kerri Sakamoto. Hand-bound book produced by Small Editions in an edition of 30 and enclosed in a paper case. For more information, please message me or visit lynneyamamoto.com
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14. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, Nov. 1-23
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I hope this letter finds you well and in good spirits.
I am very pleased to share some exciting news.
My my video works, The Veils of Transference (2005) and The Sentient Thespian (2019) will be included in TECHNOLOGICAL PERSEVERANCE, a group exhibition of work by The School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA Computer Arts alumni and faculty.
I earned my MFA in Computer Arts from SVA in 1995, it’s an honor to return as part of TECHNOLOGICAL PERSEVERANCE. Both of these works ponder the irony of the intrepid human desire to be cyborgian and the robot’s fervently programmed desire to be human.
The exhibition will be on view at SVA Flatiron Gallery, from November 1st – November 23rd, 2025. I would be delighted if you could join us for the reception on Thursday, November 6th, 6 – 8 PM.
Technological Perseverance
Curated by Rochele Gloor
SVA Flatiron Gallery
133 West 21st St 10th Floor,
New York, NY 10010
Open 11/1 – 11/23, Monday-Saturday, 10 – 6 PM
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Warm regards,
Adrianne Wortzel
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15. Virginia Maksymowicz, FF Alumn, at DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, thru Nov. 23
Virginia Maksymowicz
solo exhibition
https://davinciartalliance.org/comparisons>
Comparisons October 30, 2025 – November 23, 2025
DaVinci Art Alliance
704 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
267-388-2835
Hours: Thursdays – Sundays, 11 am – 6 pm
Opening Reception: November 1, 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Closing Reception and Artist’s Talk: November 23, noon – 2:00 pm
Special Event: November 15, 1:00 – 2:30 pm (screening of the film “The Caryatid Hairstyling Project” by Dr. Katherine Schwab, followed by a hands-on demonstration of crown braiding by Stephanie Manzi)
In this ethereal installation, Virginia Maksymowicz transforms the gallery space into a sanctuary of floating figures each an homage to the cultural and symbolic weight carried by women across time.
Across her decades-long practice, Maksymowicz has made female forms that take up space. This latest work, featuring women from all cultural backgrounds represented on 8′ translucent silks, is not a deviation from that dimension, but an arrival at the apparent effortlessness of women’s work. By layering each figure with an architectural component, the artist highlights a cultural paradox: that a load-bearing object, or woman, might be expected to be weightless.
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16. Joshua Fried, FF Alumn, now online at WalkOnTheWildSideNYC.substack.com
Please visit this link:
https://walkonthewildsidenyc.substack.com/p/joshua-fried-pyramid-club-cbgb-tmbg
Thank you.
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17. Becca Blackwell, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 20
Please visit this link:
https://publictheater.org/performances-jp/2025/b/becca-blackwell-full-service-top
Thank you.
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18. Joyce Kozloff, FF Member, at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Nov. 8 and more
Please visit this link:
https://everson.org/explore/current-exhibitions/joyce-kozloff-contested-territories-1983-2023/
Thank you.
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19. Aaron Landsman, Clarinda Mac Low, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Nov. 4
Dear fellow aspirants to a better world –
ACDC (Aaron and Clarinda Do Care (a lot)) is doing a special election edition.
Electoral politics have been deeply disappointing lately (maybe always?), but there’s something really interesting (dare we say exciting?) going on here in our lovely city, and we want to observe and celebrate it with all of you, our best and brightest, our dearest and nearest.
Our friends at the beautiful Francis Kite Club, usually dark on a Tuesday, have agreed to open up special just for this ACDC, and project the wonky events on their big screen!
It would be so meaningful to spend time with you all and carouse–and carouse we shall, regardless of result. If there is some strange upset (and the desperate texts we’re receiving from one of the candidates (who shall remain nameless but rhymes with duomo) make us worry (but mostly make us snicker)), carousing will be all the more necessary.
Come by Francis Kite Club on TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4, between 5:30 and 9 pm
JOIN US!
Are you new to this list? Does none of the above make sense? Here is the deal:
AC/DC (Aaron and Clarinda _________) is a monthly informal gathering, formed in January of 2025, by Clarinda Mac Low and Aaron Landsman, longtime friends and neighbors, in which we either pay attention to, gently set aside, or ignore what’s going on in the world, and instead or in addition, pay attention to each other in real time. (NB: This time we are VERY MUCH paying attention to the world.)
Yes bring friends, partners, kids, etc.
Yes we will probably be there awhile!
Write back to let us know if you’re coming!
Much love and see you soon,
Aaron and Clarinda
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20. Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, now online at LaborArtReview.net
Please visit this link:
https://laborartreview.net/on-chinese-american-resilience-an-interview-with-betty-yu/
Thank you.
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