Goings On | 01/26/2026 - Franklin Furnace

Contents for January 26th, 2026

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Marian Goodman, FF Alumn, In Memoriam

Weekly Spotlight: Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts and livestreaming via FF LOFT on Jan. 26, from 6-7PM.

Weekly Spotlight: Virtual public lecture, by Mihály G. Horváth, livestream via FF LOFT on Jan. 27, 6PM onwards

1. Franklin Furnace, Cai Foundation Archival Excellence inaugural awardee, now online at https://cai-foundation.org/programs/2025-archival-thinking

2. Paul Henry Ramirez, FF Alumn, at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, thru April 18

3. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, now online at Electronic Arts Intermix

4. Doug Sadownick, FF Alumn, new publication

5. Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumn, at Ohio State University, Columbus, opening Feb. 13

6. Jodie Lyn-Kee Chow, Asia Stewart, FF Alumns, at The Bronx Museum, thru June 29

7. Michelle Stuart, FF Alumn, new publication

8. John Cage, Aruna D’Souza, Peter Frank, Ken Friedman, Agnes Gund, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Hannah B. Higgins, James Hoff, Alison Knowles, Cornelia Lauf, Larry Miller, Barbara Moore, Charlotte Moorman, Brian O’Doherty, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Clive Phillpot, Yvonne Rainer, Gilbert & Lila Silverman, Kristine Stiles, La Monte Young, FF Alumns, now online in new publication

9. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, January news

10. John Cage, FF Alumn, at Ohio State University, Columbus, Jan. 30-Feb. 1

11. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at Chan Space, Manhattan, Feb. 6

12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Provincetown Harbor, MA, and more

13. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at San Jose Museum of Art, CA, opening April 10

14. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain, thru Jan. 30

15. Brooke Singer, FF Alumn, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Feb. 1

16. Linda Frye Burnham & Steven Durland, Bob & Bob, Dorit Cypis, Laurel Klick, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Nancy Buchanan, Richard Newton, Suzanne Lacy, Wayson Jones, FF Alumns, at 18th Street Arts Center & Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, Jan. 31

17. Pablo Helguera, Gregory Sholette, FF Alumns, at Creative Time, Manhattan, Feb. 12

18. Ralston Farina, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13

19. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at One on One Basement Cabaret, Manhattan, Feb. 9, and more

20. Max Schumann, FF Member, at Gallery 128, Manhattan, opening Jan. 28

21. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, new publication

22. Julie Gribble, FF Member, now online at KidLit.TV

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Marian Goodman, FF Alumn, In Memoriam

Please visit this link

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/obituaries/marian-goodman-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVA.YWT3.dyvxyR0yHjhn&smid=url-share

Thank you.

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Weekly Spotlight: Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts and livestreaming via FF LOFT on Jan. 26, from 6-7PM.

Upcoming LOFT performance: Adrianne Wortzel

January 26, 2026 6-7pm ET at Center for Book Arts @centerforbookarts.

Live Stream via the FF LOFT (Event information and RSVP link)

In “Random Excess: Linearity to Labyrinthian”, Adrianne Wortzel reads from and discusses her artist’s books in conversation with Corina Reynolds, Executive Director of the Center for Book Arts. In Wortzel’s artists’ books text and image are algorithmically reassembled to form shifting, concealed narratives inviting the reader to navigate meaning through chance and discovery. Her algorithmic and augmented-reality books transform autobiography into a maze of fragments, concealments, and unexpected connections. In this live reading and talk, the artist reveals how randomness, repetition, and obscurity shape new forms of self-portraiture.

Artist Biography:

Adrianne Wortzel artists’ books and electronic literature interweave elements of analogue techniques with computer-generated processes. Wortzel’s artist’s books and works of electronic literature have been collected by the Morgan Library & Museum, Pratt Institute Special Collections, Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection, Harvard Fine Arts Library, MIT Distinctive Collections, Yale Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, and UC Irvine Langson Library. Her books have earned the recognition of rare book dealers and publishers including Granary Books, Printed Matter, and Small Editions. Wortzel’s books have been featured at Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, New York Art Book Fair, BOOKSMART: Art on Paper, and CODEX International Book Fair and Symposium.

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Weekly Spotlight: Virtual public lecture, by Mihály G. Horváth, livestream via FF LOFT on Jan. 27, 6PM onwards

Upcoming LOFT Event: Lettrism in America – An Avant-Garde’s Journey Overseas presented by Mihály G. Horváth

Jan 27, 6-7pm ET

Live Stream via the FF LOFT (Information and RSVP link)

A public lecture on the history of the American reception and impact of one of the most radical Parisian late avant-gardes: the Lettrist movement.

The LOFT lecture focuses on Lettrism’s journey overseas, with special regard to the retrospective exhibition held at Franklin Furnace: Letterism and Hypergraphics: The Unknown Avant-Garde 1945–1985, presented between October 4 and December 7, 1985. The exhibition became a key reference point in the Anglo-Saxon reception of Lettrism, and its catalogue (which was just translated into Hungarian on the occasion of Franklin Furnace’s 50th Anniversary Edition program series) was among the most popular early English introductions to the movement.

About the presenter:

Mihály G. Horváth is Budapest-based scholar and experimental filmmaker. He is the founding curator of Celluloidra Revolverrel and a visiting lecturer at the Film Studies Department of the Institute of Art Theory and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). His research focuses on the postwar French late avant-garde, with particular emphasis on the Lettrist Movement and the Situationist International.

Outside his research on the philosophy and history of the Parisian late-avant-garde, he experiments with moving-image based mixed media works and making noise. He is currently enrolled in the Media Design Programme of the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design.

The lecture was supported by the 2025-2.1.1-EKÖP-2025-00012 University Research Scholarship Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, and the Pannónia Mobility Programme, both conducted at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design.

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1. Franklin Furnace, Cai Foundation Archival Excellence inaugural awardee, now online at https://cai-foundation.org/programs/2025-archival-thinking

Franklin Furnace is grateful to Cai Foundation for sharing the proceedings at the 2026 Archival Thinking: Artist Archive Symposium and the Archival Excellence awards at this link: https://cai-foundation.org/programs/2025-archival-thinking

Thank you very much.

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2. Paul Henry Ramirez, FF Alumn, at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, thru April 18

Dear friends, I’m delighted to announce my exhibition The Atrium Project: 10 Years, 10 Stories at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, a group exhibition featuring the following outstanding artists: José Lerma, Firelei Báez, Angel Otero, Joiri Minaya, Aliza Nisenbaum, Pepe Mar, Sarah Zapata, Lucía Vidales, and Edra Soto.

I hope you’ll have a chance to check it out! -PHR

On View November 6th, 2025—April 18th, 2026

The Atrium Project: 10 Years, 10 Stories Launched in 2016 by then–Kemper Museum Curator Erin Dziedzic, the Atrium Project was created as a platform for emerging and mid-career Hispanic and Latine artists. Each year, one artist has been invited to create a site-responsive work for the Museum’s central atrium, activating a large, prominent convening space with bold new directions in subject or scale.

Developed over the course of a year, each commission begins with an artist’s visit to Kansas City—an experience that often subtly informs the final work. The series provides space for experimentation, storytelling, and reflection, grounded in both personal vision and place.

To mark the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Atrium Project, this exhibition brings together for the first time work by the nine previous participating artists: José Lerma (2016–17), Firelei Báez (2017–18), Paul Henry Ramirez (2018–19), Angel Otero (2019–20), Joiri Minaya (2020–21), Aliza Nisenbaum (2021–22), Pepe Mar (2022–23), Sarah Zapata (2023–24), and Lucía Vidales (2024–25), with Edra Soto’s commission debuting in 2026.

Across these projects, shared themes emerge: gathering as spiritual and social act; tracing layered histories; and exploring material, memory, and identity through personal and communal lenses. The Atrium Project: 10 Years, 10 Stories celebrates a decade of artistic innovation and the Museum’s ongoing commitment to supporting artists at pivotal moments in their careers, while looking ahead to what comes next.

Organized by Jessica S. Hong, Chief Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

https://www.kemperart.org

https://paulhenryramirez.art/index.html

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3. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, now online at Electronic Arts Intermix

David Wojnarowicz: Motion Rhythms

Read Here:

https://features.eai.org/video-features/jymisrxbv4o0p2ekaxdtcolr5sk309

EAI is thrilled to publish a transcript of David Wojnarowicz: Motion Rhythms, a 2012 panel discussion centering an under-recognized aspect of Wojnarowicz’s art: his plans and preparations for soundtracks. Now publicly accessible on EAI’s microsite, the text is an invaluable resource that paints an intimate picture of how Wojnarowicz worked, and the efforts to preserve his extensive archive of finished and unfinished films.

David Wojnarowicz: Motion Rhythms convened Doug Bressler, member of 3 Teens Kill 4; Cynthia Carr, author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz; Brent Phillips, Media Specialist and then-Processing Archivist of Fales Library; and Tommy Turner, filmmaker and Wojnarowicz collaborator, to discuss the artist’s approach to film and music-making. They consider the making of Beautiful People (1988), with a soundtrack added by Wojnarowicz’s 3 Teens Kill 4 bandmate Jesse Hultberg in 2011, and A Fire in My Belly (1986-87), reminiscing on time spent with Wojnarowicz in that period and offering a critical framework for his creative process. By highlighting Wojnarowicz’s iterative methods, the panelists also address the unique challenges and importance of time-based art preservation as a form of memory work.

This transcript coincides with the addition of four new artworks by Wojnarowicz into EAI’s distribution catalogue: Heroin (1981), Sophie Breer’s Waje’s Cockabunnies (1981), which features Wojnarowicz’s “cock-a-bunnies,” live cockroaches with glued-on rabbit ears and tails, and two versions of ITSOFOMO (in the shadow of forward motion) from 1989 and 1991/2018, respectively. Each piece captures distinct qualities of Wojnarowicz’s capacious practice, showcasing his experimental spirit and affinity for collaging sound, image, and text to create arresting portraits of human emotion.

About EAI

Electronic Arts Intermix is a nonprofit resource that fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution and preservation of media art. Founded in 1971 by gallerist Howard Wise, EAI offered an alternative paradigm to support the burgeoning medium of video. EAI’s founding principles of access, community, and experimentation remain cornerstones of the work we do.

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4. Doug Sadownick, FF Alumn, new publication

The Book Is Out!

Hello friends,

After many years of therapy rooms, group process, writing, and revision, I’m glad to say that my new book is officially out in digital form:

Healing Gay Sex and Love: A Group Experience

This is not a traditional self-help book, and not quite a novel. It’s a work of psychological narrative fiction—written from inside the lived reality of a gay men’s therapy group—where sex, love, shame, loyalty, fantasy, and ethics are worked through in relationship as well as in theory.

Four gay men meet weekly under the guidance of a therapist known as Dr. Glitter. What unfolds is not advice, but process: confession, resistance, rupture and repair, erotic honesty, humor, and the slow work of integration. Plato’s Symposium and The Wizard of Oz make appearances—sometimes in drag.

The book grew out of a long question I’ve carried: What happens when the insights gained in therapy don’t stay private, but ask to be lived, tested, and shared in activism and community engagement?

In the story, that question takes the form of the men gradually carrying their work into the community, experimenting with what they call the G+Q MAP—an attempt to think through how healing might align with resistance, intimacy with ethics, and personal transformation with collective life. It’s a way of asking whether love, pleasure, solidarity, and even hot sex might belong not outside politics, but at the very center of what makes a life worth defending.

There are tears, high drama, fights, reparation—and yes, disco. Yes, singing. Yes, dancing. Social science has never quite managed to do “Ring That Bell” the way these men try to.

Read the digital edition

The book is available now in digital form:

EPUB — mobile-friendly, adjustable text (ideal for phones and tablets)

PDF — fixed-page layout for readers who prefer a print-style format

You can start reading immediately here:

[Get the digital edition]

(The paperback and hardcover editions are coming soon.)

Taking it off the page

I’ll also be hosting a reading and open conversation on Saturday, January 31, from 1:00–3:00 pm, in DTLA and via Zoom.

If you’d like to attend, please RSVP!

Thank you for reading, and for being part of this long conversation.

This book was written slowly and with care. I’m glad it’s finally finding its way into the world.

Warmly,

Douglas

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5. Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumn, at Ohio State University, Columbus, opening Feb. 13

Please visit wexartss.org for full information.

Thank you.

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6. Jodie Lyn-Kee Chow, Asia Stewart, FF Alumns, at The Bronx Museum, thru June 29

Please visit this link:

https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/seventh-aim-biennial/

Thank you.

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7. Michelle Stuart, FF Alumn, new publication

MICHELLE STUART

Lora Reynolds is pleased to announce Boats: Horizons before the Mast, a book about the boat sculptures Michelle Stuart began making in the 1980s that were the subject of an exhibition at LRG in 2021. Colm Tóibín contributed a story to the book. FÖDA Studio designed it. Punchpress produced it.

Two versions of Boats will be available for purchase:

An edition of 100 perfect-bound paperbacks

And a special edition of 18 hand-bound hardcover artist books, signed by Michelle Stuart, each in a clamshell housing and accompanied by an archival inkjet print of one of the sculptures in the book.

“The boat is a beautiful metaphor for everything,” Stuart says.

Watch a trailer for the forthcoming documentary about her work, Michelle Stuart: Voyager here https://vimeo.com/405932615?fl=pl&fe=sh

Details can be found on our website at www.lorareynolds.com.

Lora Reynolds Gallery | 1126 West 6th Street, Austin, TX 78703

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Over 25 Franklin Furnace alumns appear in a marvellous new book on Fluxus that has been published open access by Routledge:

Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation, edited by Hanna Hölling, Aga Wielocha, and Josephine Ellis.

People can download a copy here:

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/iCLHNfXVGD

Libraries are free to place it on their servers, and everyone is welcome to share it widely.

About the book:

This is the first book to address the care and preservation of Fluxus works, reimagining the afterlife of Fluxus by positioning conservation as an evolving, interpretive and generative framework.

Fluxus radically transformed artistic practice by challenging the entrenched preconception that artworks endure, unchanged and confined to a singular physical manifestation. Moving beyond conventional, object-based approaches, this interdisciplinary volume brings together artists, scholars, conservators and curators from diverse cultural and theoretical perspectives to explore how the ephemeral, participatory and intermedial forms of Fluxus demand an expanded vision of conservation—one grounded in activation. By reframing conservation as a critical, decolonial and creative inquiry, Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation redefines Fluxus as a living force continually remade through acts of care, interpretation and participation. It ultimately calls for a fundamental shift in how we preserve, interpret and transmit the experimental art practices of the recent past.

Offering fresh ways to engage with the legacy of Fluxus through the intersecting lenses of conservation, art history, performance studies and museology, this book will appeal to academics and students across these fields, as well as to curators and practitioners invested in the futures of contemporary art.

Please share. Thank you.

Ken Friedman

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9. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, January news

Hey wild ‘n wise guise

Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure, a survey show of inflatables, costumes, chapeaux, films and ephemera is opening Sculpture Center, October 29th thru April 27th, in Long Island City, one short block from Court Square station. Later in the run, a Patalogue for the occasion featuring photos, lass writes, drawings and various note/a/bulls weighing in will be revealed at a launch party featuring Pat’s Aeronautic Space Accumulations (PASA) including a massive inflated rocket ship, attendant AstroNut, and bespoke silver headgear for all that enter that Space Station in Queens. Will keep you pasted on the publication event date. In another stupefying quack of fate, I will be included in the Whitney Biennial opening March 8th, probably in the tall ’n small categories. Size matters.

Hype to see you there.

Pat (pant, prat, Patio) Oleszko

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10. John Cage, FF Alumn, at Ohio State University, Columbus, Jan. 30-Feb. 1

Please visit wexarts.org for complete information.

Thank you.

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11. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at Chan Space, Manhattan, Feb. 6

“Here on Earth” Artist Talk on Friday, Feb. 6th from 6-8p at Chan Space NY, 219 East 60th Street

Join me for a discussion about care, collaboration and craft hosted by Here on Earth. I will present about my studio practice, with a special focus on my MTA art commission “Manahatta Waterways: a Sanctuary”; and overview my research on the “other” and three ways of making: video installation, glass sculpture and social software.

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12. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Provincetown Harbor, MA, and more

The Cold Warmth public art installation, US/Greenland & US/Canada Flags, Provincetown Harbor, August 28th, 2025 – please visit this video link:

youtube.com/watch?v=xZfIii1EXNc&feature=youtu.be

Greenlandia: The Cold Warmth Game Plan and flag

The US President to receive the Nobel Piece Prize

The Arctic’s famous resident, Santa Clause, to be protected under house arrest

Contact: Jay Critchley

Democracy of the Land

reroot@thecompact.org

774 840-0458

January 19, 2026

Martin Luther King Day

With Greenland on the cusp of becoming part of the US global realignment strategy, The Cold Warmth, The Whiteness House’s game plan has emerged for its Arctic neighbor, Greenlandia, assuring American present and future carbon energy and technology needs.

A new flag design has been created by Homeland Security that combines the two countries’ flags in a true marriage.

The Whiteness House document, obtained by Democracy of the Land, with its late night renaming of the Arctic country Greenland to Greenlandia, lays out a strategy to expand its footprint on the contested island while ensuring the land’s most famous person, Santa Claus, will be protected under house arrest to prevent his kidnapping and deportation by the Chinese or Russians.

The president wrote in an early morning post on Truth Social:

It’s a win-win for all. I’m very fond of the people of Greenland, Greenlandia, we’ll treat them well, give them a good price, and I’ll finally be rewarded for my peacemaking with the Nobel Piece Prize. I thank Maria for her noble gesture, but I now got what I want. Long overdue!

Make Greenlandia Great Again.

In a later post he wrote:

There is also great potential for opening up the icecap for development, The Gateway to the Glaciers!

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13. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at San Jose Museum of Art, CA, opening April 10

Sonya Rapoport exhibited at Franklin Furnace in 1979 (Objects on My Dresser: Pictorial Linguistics), and the Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust is grateful to share current news with the Franklin Furnace community.

Rapoport’s work was recently included in Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991, curated by Michelle Cotton (MUDAM Luxembourg and Kunsthalle Wien, 2024–25). Featuring Shoe-Field (1982–89), including drawings on computer printout paper, artist books, and performance ephemera, the exhibition included an ambitious recreation of a computer-mediated interactive installation first presented at a home computer store in Berkeley in 1982. This required careful historical and technical collaboration with curators and preparators, beginning with reading data from a 40-year-old floppy disk. Participants in the public events each went home with a printed Shoe Psyche Plot representing their relationship to their shoes, visualized as an ASCII image. The catalog for Radical Software will be deeply informative to readers interested in women, art, and computing.

Rapoport’s work will be featured in the exhibition Motherboards at the San José Museum of Art, opening April 10, 2026, which explores the foundational contributions of women’s work to the technology industry.

The Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust aims to make Rapoport’s work accessible and maintains a living archive at sonyarapoport.org

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14. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain, thru Jan. 30

Marina Abramović

Balkan Erotic Epic

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain

January 24-30, 2026

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce the opening of Marina Abramović’s Balkan Erotic Epic, a large-scale performance that fuses the ancient myths and legends of the Balkans with folkloric traditions and eroticism at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Born in the Balkans and deeply influenced by its spiritual practices, Abramović revisits folklore related to the rituals of the region, rediscovering the past and presenting it in a new light. The work is structured as a series of performative acts that intertwine elements of combining dance, song, and ritual to explore desire, spirituality, cultural tradition, and our connection to nature. The piece stands out for its powerful visual vignettes of provocative and highly symbolic imagery, which seek to alter and challenge perception.

First presented in Manchester at Factory International, Balkan Erotic Epic will travel to the Ruhrtriennale in Bochum, Germany from September 3-9, 2026 and to the Park Avenue Armory in New York from December 8-20, 2026. Balkan Erotic Epic will also be featured at the Berliner Festspiele in two parts, an exhibition at Gropius Bau from April 15 to August 23, 2026 and a live stage edition from October 14-17, 2026.

Abramović states, “Balkan Erotic Epic is the most ambitious work in my career. This gives me a chance to go back to my Slavic roots and culture, look back to ancient rituals and deal with sexuality, in relation to the universe and the unanswered questions of our existence.”

For additional information on Balkan Erotic Epic, please visit liceubarcelona.cat

For additional information on Marina Abramović, please visit skny.com

For all other inquiries, please email Lauren Kelly at Lauren@skny.com

For media inquiries, please email Adair Lentini at Adair@skny.com

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15. Brooke Singer, FF Alumn, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Feb. 1

Dear friends,

I invite you to “This is Not an Artist Talk!” — an event I am organizing at the Francis Kite Club in the East Village on Sunday, February 1 (doors open 5 PM // event at 6 PM). Please reserve a spot by emailing thisisnotanartisttalk@gmail.com.

This is Not an Artist Talk! is a space for artists to share their research and inspirations: an artist talk without the art. Join us for the first “Not an Artist Talk” on February 1st, when Jenny Perlin weaves stories from literature, history, and science, contemplates the strange beauty of not knowing, and describes adventurous, absurd, bold, and futile pursuits of knowledge from the 18th century to today. Come early or stay late and get your free temporary tattoo–designed for the occasion by artist Heather Kelly–while mingling with friends, art lovers, and the curious.

Hope to see you there!

Brooke

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The Performance Art Museum and 18th Street Art Center, along with Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and the Getty Research Institute, invite you to join

High Performance Editors Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland for

Ready, Set, Go!

The official launch event for High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027).

Saturday, January 31, 2026

1:00 pm Reception & Exhibition Viewing

Dorit Cypis: CoLab: Performing for a Better World

Steven Durland: Inflation Gauge

2:00 pm High Performance Cover Artists Program

Bob & Bob, Francisco Letelier, Laurel Klick, Los Angeles Poverty Department, May Sun, Nancy Buchanan, Paul McCarthy, Project Row Houses, Richard Newton, Sisters Of Survival, Stephen Seemayer, Suzanne Lacy, Terry Wolverton – Lesbian Art Project, and Wayson Jones.

3:00 pm Communal Meal by SPROUTIME & Eden’s Snacks

Sounds by dj MxF

18th Street Arts Center

& Highways Performance Space

1639 18th Street

Santa Monica, CA 90404

Metro E (Expo) Line

Stop: 17th Street/SMC

Street Parking

RSVP at https://forms.gle/HmS7HbnhkVWu7a1aA or hey@pamuseum.org

This project was made possible in part with AoR Microgrant support from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs.

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17. Pablo Helguera, Gregory Sholette, FF Alumns, at Creative Time, Manhattan, Feb. 12

How Do We Study in Public? by Social Practice CUNY, Creative Time New York, NY, Thursday, Feb 12 from 6 pm to 8 pm EST, 59 East 4th Street, 7th Floor, NYC 10003

What happens when institutions face systematic destruction? Five leading social practice art educators confront the present.For over two decades, Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera, Tom Finkelpearl, Pablo Helguera, and Gregory Sholette have developed projects that simultaneously exploit and critique pedagogical methods and structures. Organized by Gregory Sholette and Tom Finkelpearl, this event brings all five together on February 12 to confront a pressing question: What becomes of counter-institutional pedagogies when the institutions housing them face fundamental transformation—not through progressive reimagining, but through systematic defunding and ideological assault? What have we learned, and what new critiques does this unsettling moment demand? Under fast-changing circumstances, exactly how do we study in public?

Claire Bishop is presidential professor of art history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her book Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship won the College Art Association’s 2013 Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. In 2024 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and published two books: Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and Merce Cunningham’s Events: Key Concepts. Her books and articles have been translated into twenty languages, and she is a Contributing Editor to Artforum.

The installation and performance artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics. Bruguera earned her MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder and director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta (Behavior Art School), the first performance studies program in Latin America. She is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at Harvard University.

Tom Finkelpearl organized fifteen shows at PS1 in the 1980s, managed over 100 public art commissions at the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in the 1990s, spearheaded a 50,000 square foot expansion as Director of the Queens Museum (2002-2014), and oversaw the city’s cultural policy and funding when he returned to DCLA as Commissioner (2014-2020). Since then, was a consultant for the Mellon Foundation (2020-21), and was appointed Social Practice Teaching Scholar in Residence at SP CUNY (2023-present). He co-curated a show of Christine Sun Kim’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2025) and Walker Art Center (2026). Currently he is working on his third book, Recast the Museum (working title) in collaboration with the artist Pablo Helguera.

Pablo Helguera is a visual artist living in New York. His work involves performance, drawing, pedagogy, installation, theater and other literary strategies. He has been head of public programs at various museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the MCA Chicago. He is the author of many books including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and The Parable Conference (2014). He is currently Assistant Professor of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at The College of the Performing Arts at The New School. He writes a weekly column titled Beautiful Eccentrics.\

Gregory Sholette is a New York City-based artist, author, educator, and activist. He is a co-founder of the collectives Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D, 1980-1988), REPOhistory (1989-2000), and Gulf Labor Coalition (2010-), as well as co-curator of Imaginary Archive, which documents a past whose future never arrived. His books include the highly cited Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2010), as well as Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (2017), The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (2022), and forthcoming from MIT Press, The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (2026). Together with artist Chloë Bass, he co-directs Social Practice City University of New York at the CUNY Graduate Center, a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative, where he is also affiliated doctoral faculty in Environmental Psychology.

About the Series

Produced by Social Practice CUNY, \ How Do We ______ in Public? is a free public programming series of four experimental events taking place across New York City throughout 2026. Organized by the SPCUNY core team of artists, educators, and scholars, the series responds to contemporary crises shaping the cultural field, including the defunding and targeting of public institutions and the erosion of shared civic space. Rather than offering prescriptive solutions, the series tests new forms of social practice in real time, foregrounding experimentation, solidarity, and public accountability.Across four interconnected programs, How Do We ______ in Public? asks how we study, move, keep secret(s), and continue together in public when the infrastructures that once supported those actions are fraying.

for more information and to RSVP please visit https://socialpracticecuny.org/in-public-2026/ and https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/how-do-we-study-in-public/

Thank you

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18. Ralston Farina, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13

Ralston Farina: Time // Time Reading Group

In conjunction with our current exhibition, Ralston Farina: Time // Time, Artists Space is organizing a reading group around the themes of Farina’s work. Meetings will take place on the evenings of January 30, February 6, February 13 and participants are encouraged to attend all three, if possible.

For further information, please email: nusheen@artistsspace.org.

Accessibility

Artists Space is fully accessible via a wheelchair lift and automated door in front of the entrance on 80 White Street. The cellar gallery can be accessed via the ground floor elevator. Artists Space welcomes assistance dogs, and has wheelchair accessible non-gender-segregated toilet facilities. If you have any further questions about access please email info@artistsspace.org.

Supporters

Lead support for Ralston Farina: Time // Time is provided by Arison Art Foundation.

Support for Artists Space exhibitions and programs is provided by Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, The Keith Haring Foundation, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Milton and Sally Avery Foundation, Lotos Foundation, The David Rockefeller Fund, and the Friends of Artists Space.

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19. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at One on One Basement Cabaret, Manhattan, Feb. 9, and more

Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, invites you to her Featured Reading in the East Village, Monday, Feb 9, 7pm, in the “One Flight Up Reading Series” hosted by poet Wayne Kral.

She will read Chapter 11: Caroline’s Sketch Pad, from her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA

Motherhood seems to be getting a lot of attention recently, so here’s a chapter about a failed artist that some have deemed “the mother from Hell.”

Please come and enjoy (being disturbed, maybe). She rehearsed this performance a few times this week, and was afraid of getting carried away.

Here’s more info about the novel: wishforamnesia.com

and

WISH FOR AMNESIA: A Tale About a Family, and Time and Art and Science, Religion, Philosophy and Current Events

Deadly Chaps Press, New York, NY, 2015

ISBN 978-1-937739-92-8

Available for signing at the reading …$10, and for sale at Printed Matter: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/46759/ …..$ 15

316pp. 6″ x 9″ paperback, perfect-bound, printed spine, full color cover, offset, 58 surreal photographs, sustained literature.

“The closest thing we have to a Wallace Stevens!”…Stephen Paul Miller

“…satirical, fantastical, and philosophical….. We see the world…most rivetingly …. readers will find they can’t take their eyes away. They’ll also sometimes wonder what’s real and what’s not and exactly what kind of magic might be at work. A celebration of the dysfunctional that will keep readers turning pages.” KIRKUS (Starred and Recommended List)

“One Flight Up Reading Series” hosted by Wayne Kral

Other Readers: Julius Klein and Jennifer Juneau

One on One Basement Cabaret

76 E 1st St at 1st Ave, New York , NY 10009

free event; food and drinks available

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20. Max Schumann, FF Member, at Gallery 128, Manhattan, opening Jan. 28

Max Schumann

RECENT WORK

An installation of paintings including a Cheap Art Clearance Sale

Gallery Onetwentyeight is pleased to present “Recent Work” by Max Schumann. The exhibition will feature a survey of paintings made over the past two and half years since Schumann left Printed Matter, the non-profit artists’ bookstore where he worked for over three decades. The installation will also include a Cheap Art Clearance Sale, with hundreds of small scale, unique paintings priced in the range of $3 to $25 a piece. Most of the cheap art work is being offered on a first come – first serve, cash and carry basis.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 28, 6-8pm

Gallery hours:

Wednesday Jan 28 to Sunday Feb 1, 12pm – 7pm

Tuesday Feb 3 to Saturday Feb 7, 12pm – 7pm

Gallery Onetwentyeight

128 Rivington St

(bet. Essex & Norfolk)

NYC, NY 10002

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! More promo in my Instagram account: @maxschumann3333

THANK YOU!

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21. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, new publication

An entire chapter on Joseph Nechvatal’s 2002 computer-robotic assisted painting vOluptuary drOid décOlletage (66×120″) has been published in Francesca Franco’s new book Computational Art at the Venice Biennale (1970–2015), Springer Nature (Springer Series on Cultural Computing) Cham, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-032-04257-6

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22. Julie Gribble, FF Member, now online at KidLit.TV

Last year, we started a new effort to bring the kid lit community together and support even more authors and illustrators. We call it KidLit TV Sponsors and Super Fans.

You can find more details about becoming a KidLit TV Sponsor and how we can help create fun content to support your books at the link below.

https://www.kidlit.tv/KLTVSuperFans&Sponsors

Here’s where you can see our list of 2025 author and illustrator sponsors:

https://www.kidlit.tv/KLTVSuperFans&Sponsors2025

We’d love for you to join us this year! Just click the link below to get your application started.

https://www.kidlit.tv/JoinKLTVSponsors&SuperFans

Best,

Julie & The KidLit TV Team

Don’t forget to sign up for our NEWSLETTER!

https://www.kidlit.tv/newsletter

https://www.youtube.com/KidLitTV

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