Contents for October 05th, 2026
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1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, Oct. 10
2. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Americas Society, Manhattan, Oct. 14
3. Gary Corbin, FF Alumn, now online at buzzsprout.com
4. Eugene Rodriguez, FF Alumn, at Foro Indie Rocks! Gallery, Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, opening Oct. 7
5. Terry Berkowitz, Kiyo Gutiérrez, Shaun Leonardo, Robert Longo, Debra Pearlman, Barbara Pollack, FF Alumns, at Christine Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, and more, Oct. 3
6. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Museum Library, and more
7. Emma Amos, Lucy R. Lippard, Howardena Pindell, FF Alumns, at Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, Sept. 13, 2026-Jan. 24, 2027
8. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Feb. 26, 2027-Jan. 2, 2028
9. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Oct. 8
10. Barbara Carrellas, Kate Bornstein, FF Alumns, at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, Manhattan, Oct. 13
11. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at SARAHCROWN, Manhattan, opening Oct. 16, and more
12. Jody Pinto, FF Alumn, at Art Lot, Brooklyn, Oct. 4 and more
13. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, now online at www.designisonefilm.com
14. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1231320708
15. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Parsons/The New School, Manhattan, Oct. 8
16. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at 42nd St. & 8th Avenue, Manhattan, opening Oct. 2
17. Audrey Kindred, FF Alumn, at 64th Street & Central Park West, Manhattan, Oct. 24
18. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, new publication
19. Maria Lisella, FF Member, now online at Ovunquesiamoweb.com
20. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 9
21. jc lenochan, FF Alumn, at Venice Biennale, Italy, thru Nov. 22, and more
22. Kenneth King, FF Member, now online at https://sl1nk.com/l3ymmrq
23. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Oct. 5 and more
24. Nina Sobell, Mary Campbell, Maggie Ens, FF Alumn, at Ilon Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 10, and more
25. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at Mimosa House, London, UK, Oct. 8-Dec. 5, and more
26. WHOOP DEE DOO, FF Alumns, at Wassaic Project, NY, Oct. 24 and more
27. Paul Zelevansky, Josely Carvalho, at 315 W.39th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 9-10
28. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 9
29. Jane Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Older Adults Center, Manhattan, Oct. 30
30. Josh Harris, FF Alumn, now online in Hell Gate Cultural Newsletter
31. András Böröcz, FF Alumn, at Elza Kayal Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 16
32. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
33. Cheri Gaulke, Anne Gauldin, FF Alumns, at SONY Pictures, Culver City, CA, Oct. 10
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1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, Oct. 10
NEW DATE! Due to rain Cuerpxs en Resonancia will take place on Oct. 10.
MexFest Presents Cuerpxs en Resonancia: Cognitive / Affective Body — Repetition to Repair + Story Circle
Saturday, October 10 | 3 – 5pm
Free with RSVP
Cuerpxs en Resonancia: Cognitive / Affective Body — Repetition to Repair + Story Circle
Artists: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib and Mónica Palma
At Socrates Sculpture Park, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, and Mónica Palma collaborate on a communal participatory gathering prompted by the subject of Earth, as in soil, land, mud, humus…
For this, Nicolás facilitates a circle, based on both Restorative Justice and Healing Circle models he is familiar with, while Mónica guides us in co-sculpting a collective object made out of the same elements informing our conversation: Tierra/Earth. This can include seeds, small rocks, and fallen leaves gathered respectfully from around the park. This always-in-progress object serves as an organic “talking stick,” indicating who is meant to talk at each given time, and also when to pause for silence. During this session, we move as a group through our past-present-future by ways of memories and stories.
ABOUT Cuerpxs en Resonancia is a three-part bilingual series of participatory performances, communal rituals, workshops, and artistic offerings organized by MexFest, curated by Arantxa Araujo and Xtian Ávila, and hosted at Socrates Sculpture Park during Hispanic Heritage Month. The series intentionally pairs Mexican artists with artists from across the Latinx diaspora, creating interdisciplinary collaborations that generate new artistic relationships, shared methodologies, and spaces for cross-cultural dialogue. Together, the three offerings explore the physical, cognitive, and energetic dimensions of the body through movement, sound, storytelling, visual art, and collective care.
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2. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Americas Society, Manhattan, Oct. 14
Panel Discussion: Instituto de la telenovela
Join us in person on Wednesday, October 14 at 6 PM for a panel discussion on Instituto de la telenovela: Entre la gloria y el olvido (Institute of the telenovela: Between glory and oblivion), a project by Pablo Helguera commissioned by Americas Society for the exhibition Telenovela. Moderated by Tatiana Marcel, associate curator of Art at Americas Society, the conversation will feature the artist alongside Julieta González, head of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Ana Janevski, curator in the Department of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art.
Wednesday, October 14, 6–8 PM
680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Registration is required
This event is in-person, free, and open to the public.
Early arrival is suggested as space is limited, and entry is not guaranteed for late arrivals.
This program centers on Pablo Helguera’s Instituto de la telenovela (2002–present), which serves as the cornerstone for the exhibition’s exploration of telenovelas as a cultural, social, and artistic phenomenon. Through an audiovisual installation comprising multiple screens amid elements of a telenovela set, the 2026 iteration examines the cultural impact of telenovelas from a Pan-American perspective. Each monitor displays a video of a melodramatic scene written and directed by Helguera, filmed with local actors in different Latin American cities—including Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro—each representing a parallel reality shaped by its unique context.
To learn more about Pablo Helguera’s Instituto de la telenovela: Entre la gloria y el olvido (Institute of the telenovela: Between glory and oblivion), please visit our programs website.
The program’s recording will be available on our website and on the Art at Americas Society YouTube channel.
This public program is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition Telenovela, on view until March 27, 2027, at Americas Society.
Speaker Biographies
Julieta González joined the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2024 as the head of visual arts. In her role, González works closely with Executive Director Gaëtane Verna, the curatorial and exhibitions team, and peers in the Departments of Performing Arts, Film, Learning and Public Programs, Advancement, and Marketing and Communications. González conceptualizes and enacts a robust exhibition calendar; engages with audiences; manages visual arts residencies; and nurtures collaborations across The Ohio State University, in surrounding communities, and within the international art world. A curator and museum professional, González brings three decades of experience to her role. She has organized or co-organized over 80 exhibitions, has edited or coedited several books, and has published numerous essays in catalogues and periodicals including Flash Art and Parkett. González was invited by Adriano Pedrosa to co-curate the 2026 exhibition Histórias latino-americanas at Museu de Arte de São Paolo, Brazil, where González has served as curator-at-large for modern and contemporary art. Previously, González served as the artistic director at the Instituto Inhotim, Brazil; as artistic director and chief curator at Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and as senior curator at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. She has also held curatorial roles at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; at Tate Modern, London; and at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela. González holds an MA in cultural studies from Goldsmiths, University of London; was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and previously studied architecture at Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, and at Ecole d’Architecture Paris-Villemin, Paris.
Ana Janevski is a curator in the Department of Media and Performance. She has organized more than 30 performances by artists including Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Trajal Harrell, Boris Charmatz, Jérôme Bel, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Rabih Mroué, among others. She has been involved in the programming of MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, where she curated Nora Turato: pool 5 (2022), Studio Residency: Okwui Okpokwasili (2022), David Tudor and Composers Inside Electronics Inc.: Rainforest V (variation 1) (2019), and Sung Hwan Kim: Temper Clay (2021, with Martha Joseph). She is currently preparing a retrospective of Joan Jonas (2024). Her collaboratively organized exhibitions at MoMA include Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018), with Thomas (T.) Jean Lax and Martha Joseph; Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection (2016), with Eva Respini and Sarah Suzuki; and Projects 100: Akram Zaatari (2103), with Eva Respini. From 2007 to 2011, she held the position of curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, where she curated, among many other projects, the large-scale exhibition and accompanying publication As Soon As I Open My Eyes I See a Film, which focused on Yugoslav experimental film and art from the 1960s and 1970s (2011). She regularly contributes to and co-edits publications on performance, the body, and the history of art in Eastern Europe. She received her MPhil at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and her MA at Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3.
Pablo Helguera is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s work focuses in a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction.
His work as an educator has usually intersected his interest as an artist. This intersection is best exemplified in his project, “The School of Panamerican Unrest,” a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between. Covering almost 20,000 miles, it is considered one of the most extensive public art projects on record as well as a pioneering work for the new generation of artworks regarded under the area of socially engaged art. His musical composition, “Endingness” has been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Helguera has exhibited or performed at venues such as the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; MoMA, ICA Boston; 8th and 11th Havana Biennal, PERFORMA, Manifesta, Zurich, Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires and many others. He is a Guggenheim fellow and recipient of the Creative Capital, Art Matters, and Franklin Furnace Grants. In 2011 he was named winner of the International Award of Participatory Art of the Region Emilia-Romagna in Italy. He has also received the Franklin Furnace and Art Matters grants. 2026 exhibitions include the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea in Valencia, the MCA Chicago, and the Americas Society, among others.
Helguera has worked since 1991 in a variety of contemporary art museums, including as head of public programs at the Education department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1998-2005) and from 2007 to 2020, director of adult and academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has organized close to 1000 public events in conjunction with nearly 100 exhibitions. In 2010, he was appointed pedagogical curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which took place in September, 2011. He is currently assistant professor of arts and entrepreneurship at the College of Performing Arts at the New School in New York. He is the author of many books, including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), The Parable Conference (2014) and A Journal of the Year of the Pharmacy (2021). He writes a weekly column titled Beautiful Eccentrics.
Commission Funders
Instituto de la telenovela: Entre la gloria y el olvido (Institute of the telenovela: Between glory and oblivion) by Pablo Helguera is made possible by TV Globo, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Pablo Echeverri, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, Saigón+ and Soleado Films, Universidad de los Andes, and Carolina Pinciroli.
Exhibition Funders
Telenovela has been made possible by generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Henry Luce Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Cowles Charitable Trust, and Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Significant in-kind support has been provided by Globo
Americas Society acknowledges the generous support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Amalia Amoedo, Ileana Anselin, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Virginia Cowles Schroth, Emily Engel, Blanca and Sunil Hirani, Isabella Hutchinson, Carolina Jannicelli, Diana López and Herman Sifontes, Elena Matsuura, Maggie Miqueo, Maria Mostajo, Antonio Murzi, Marco Pappalardo and Cintya Poletti Pappalardo, Gabriela Pérez Rocchietti, Carolina Pinciroli, Erica Roberts, Sharon Schultz, and Edward J. Sullivan.
Commission Credits
Project production by Tatiana Marcel
ARGENTINA
Script and General Director: Pablo Helguera
Codirector: Pablo Lapa
Director of Photography: Federico Bezenzette
Production Design: Carolina Stegmayer
Head of Production: Ramiro Villani
Hair and Makeup: Jennifer Blanco
Associate Producer: Federico Bezenzette
Cast: Ana Julia Angilello, Nacho Francavilla, Silvia Pérez, Antelo Rigali, María Zubiri
Acknowledgments: Carolina Cordero, Abel Guaglianone, Carlos Marín, Lucas Martínez Sarasola, Victoria McCarthy, Florencia Olivera, Lucrecia Palacios, Carolina Pinciroli, Teresa Riccardi, Adriana Rosenberg, Daniela Schwarzstein, Sebastian Vallejos
BRAZIL
Script and General Director: Pablo Helguera
Director: Bruno Safadi
Director of Photography: Henrique Sales
Production Design: Paulo Renato
Head of Production: Pedro Bonavita
Costumes: Flavia Azevedo
Hair and Makeup: Solange Roque
Associate Producer: Lucas Zardo
Cast: Camila Botelho, Jéssica Ellen, Juan Paiva, Miwa Yanagizawa
Acknowledgments: Leo Battistelli, Fernanda Christo, Ana Maria Maia Antunes, Vik Muniz
COLOMBIA
Script and General Director: Pablo Helguera
Codirector: Juan Pablo Garcés
Director of Photography: Juan Pablo Garcés
Production Coordinator: David Esteban Muñoz Velásquez
Cast: Natalia López Mejía, Verónica Tabares, Kenny Valderrama
Acknowledgments: Benedicta M. Badia, Juan Canela, Pedro Sebastián Carmona Carmona, Carolina Cerón Castilla, Gloria de la Pava, María Fernanda Duarte Montoya, Alexa Halaby, Beatriz López, Matías Maldonado, Lucas Ospina Villalba, Omar Rincón, Ana Sokolof, María Wills
MEXICO
Script and General Director: Pablo Helguera
Episode Director: Manuel Ángel Barajas Pérez
Director of Photography: Ventura Hernández González
First Assistant Director: Natalia Barajas
Art Direction: Isa Lara, Isabela Velázquez
Hair and Makeup: Cointa Ruth Salazar
Production Manager: Quique Alba
Cast: Astrid Mariel Romo, Miguel Santa Rita, Carla Suescun
Acknowledgments: Benjamín Cann, Eugenio Cobo Peña, Cecilia Gabriela, Enrique Guerrero, Kit Hammonds, Barbara Hernandez Rosas, Ruth Ovseyevitz, Aldo Sánchez Ramírez, Miguel Santa Rita, Patricia Sloane
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3. Gary Corbin, FF Alumn, now online at buzzsprout.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2625147/episodes/19752500-uncle-gary-s-two-cents-journey-episode-two
Thank you.
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4. Eugene Rodriguez, FF Alumn, at Foro Indie Rocks! Gallery, Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, opening Oct. 7
Eugene Rodriguez, FF Alumn, has work included in Aqui y Alla, el derecho de pertenecer at Foro Indie Rocks! Gallery, Zacatecas 39, Roma Norte, Cuauhtemoc 0600, CDMX, opening Oct. 7 at 5 pm. RSVP info@aquiyallapodcast.com
thru November 22, 2026
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5. Terry Berkowitz, Kiyo Gutiérrez, Shaun Leonardo, Robert Longo, Debra Pearlman, Barbara Pollack, FF Alumns, at Christine Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, and more, Oct. 3
ART AT A TIME LIKE THIS ANNOUNCES
TAKE ONE ACTION
A Public Art Campaign In Collaboration With Fall of Freedom
MOBILE ARTWORKS CALL FOR ACTION
THROUGHOUT NYC
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 2026
Public Kick Off Event
Cristin Tierney Gallery
49 Walker Street, New York
12:00 NOON
Please join us on October 3rd, when Art at a Time Like This launches Take One Action, a fleet of six mobile LED trucks bearing images and suggestions of actions to save democracy, traveling on the streets of New York City. Artists featured include: Marilyn Minter, Robert Longo, Shaun Leonardo, Sasha Stiles, Jonathan Allen, Marka27, Janet Biggs and Terry Berkowitz, Debra Pearlman, Autumn Savage, Kiyo Gutiérrez, and Julian Alexander.
On October 3 at 12 noon, the project will host a kick-off, open to the public with many of the participating artists in attendance and available for interviews, at one of the LED trucks parked in the heart of the Tribeca galleries (outside Cristin Tierney Gallery, 49 Walker Street). Maps and additional information will be available.
A truck will return there for the closing celebration and a public program at 6PM presented within Janet Bigg’s exhibition Path of Totality.
“I often hear people say, but what can we do? We believe that taking one small action can make a difference, create a snowball effect, and restore a sense of empowerment and hope,” says Barbara Pollack, Co-founder and Director of Art at a Time Like This.
Take One Action is a public art campaign, encouraging New Yorkers to participate in civic engagement, rather than fall into resignation. As the midterm elections approach, Take One Action presents images and messages by artists addressing patriotism, immigration, the climate crisis, and a call to participate. The messages promote support for organizations including: NPR, National Resources Defense Council, Ground Control, 5Call.org, and New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC.org).
Truck routes begin at:
Manhattan
Cristin Tierney Gallery, 49 Walker Street, Tribeca
at 12 noon
Columbia University
Broadway & West 116th Street
12 noon
Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street
11:00 am
Bronx
Grand Concourse and East 161 Street
12 noon
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Old Fulton Street
11:00 am
Queens
MOMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue
11:00 am”
Take One Action is a participant in Fall of Freedom, a nationwide campaign for freedom of expression taking place across the U.S. on the weekend of October 2 to October 4th.
For further information, visit https://artatatimelikethis.com/take-one-action
About Art at a Time Like This
Founded in 2020, Art at a Time Like This is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing a platform for artists and curators to respond to the 21st century’s most pressing social and political crises. To date, ATLT has produced 16 online exhibitions and six major public art interventions, including mobile truck displays at Art Basel Miami Beach and large-scale installations at EXPO Chicago.
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6. Barbara Carrellas, Kate Bornstein, FF Alumns, at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, Manhattan, Oct. 13
I’m celebrating my new book—“The Book of Ecstasy” in conversation with Kate Bornstein on 13 October at 7 pm at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, Manhattan’s only queer bookstore, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210. There will be great conversation, great community and a book signing! Join us! It’s free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-event-for-the-book-of-ecstasy-tickets-2001781470264
The Book of Ecstasy is my contribution to the ecstatic, enlivened, liberated future that so many of us yearn for. I hope in its pages you find validation, curiosity, and inspiration. I hope that it cracks open your assumptions about sex, desire, and orgasm. I hope it offers some creative solutions to what weighs down your heart. I hope that it aligns you more strongly with your values and authenticity. I hope that you take it into your life-building, community-building, and intimacy-building and create ecstatic outcomes.
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7. Emma Amos, Lucy R. Lippard, Howardena Pindell, FF Alumns, at Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, Sept. 13, 2026-Jan. 24, 2027
THE GIFT: EMMA AMOS WITH FRIENDS
NOW OPEN AT THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends centers on Amos’s monumental portrait series The Gift (1990–94), recently acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art. This suite of 48 watercolor portraits, painted from life, depicts women artists, writers, and curators in Amos’s intergenerational community. Ranging from renowned figures—Elizabeth Catlett, Anna Deavere Smith, bell hooks, Lucy R. Lippard, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, and Kay WalkingStick—to lesser-known individuals, the evocative paintings are united in a vast grid whose scale radiates the force of its subjects. The exhibition is curated by Emily Liebert.
In the accompanying catalog, Jordan Casteel says, “One of the things that I find most special about The Gift is that it reminds me of the kind of giving my mother has modeled throughout my life: a giving which comes from a village of women.”
Amy Sherald says, “We as women are more powerful together, so I feel like there is symbolism here around the strength in community and gathering.”
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8. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, Feb. 26, 2027-Jan. 2, 2028
I’ve been holding this news in my heart for so long, and now that it’s officially on the Smithsonian website, I can finally share it!
I am so incredibly happy that Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe is coming to SAAM’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC!
The exhibition began at Museum of Arts and Design in New York in 2025, traveled to Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and will now make its third stop at SAAM.
I’m incredibly grateful to Saisha Grayson-Knoth, Curator of Time-Based Media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, who is bringing Empathic Universe to the Renwick and shaping this next iteration, and to Alexandra Schwartz, who originally curated the exhibition at MAD and began this incredible journey with me.
February 26, 2027–January 2, 2028
Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
#SayaWoolfalk #EmpathicUniverse #RenwickGallery #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum ContemporaryArt
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9. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Oct. 8
Thursday, October 8 at 7pm
Mano de hierro (Iron Hand)
Performance by Carlos Martiel
details and rsvp here: https://www.the8thfloor.org/newevents/mano
Mano de hierro (Iron Hand) reflects on the current political climate in the United States, where power in its most raw and despotic form threatens a new reconfiguration of the world order through coercion and war, openly violating international human rights and global sovereignty. This performance denounces U.S. imperialism and the global mandate of irresponsibility toward human life under the current administration of Donald Trump. Learn more and RSVP for the performance here.
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10. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Museum Library, and more
Dear Friends,
I hope this letter finds you well and happy this fall!
I am very pleased to share some exciting news – my artist’s book SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story 10-volume paperback set has been accepted into the Brooklyn Museum Library Collection, and both its Collectors Edition and paperback set have been accepted into the Georgetown University Rare Books and Art Collection.
SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story (Collector’s Edition), 2016, Adrianne Wortzel
SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story is an algorithmically rendered, partly fictionalized autobiography of an artist. As in a medieval Book of Hours, various genres of original writings are represented: diary entries, dreams, academic papers, fictive prose, poetry, plays, and video and installation scripts. Numbered and fragmented into their indigenous paragraphs, they have been subjected to a scrambling coded algorithm, providing a kaleidoscopic reading of potentially 100’s of 1000’s of possibilities. The artist’s character seeps through a text where every paragraph is a subtext.
The collector’s edition consists of four objects: a hardcover book, two “obscured” volumes; one “mummified” and one with folded pages as well as a “scrambled” portrait of the artist, which uses the same algorithm to scramble the text. Only one of each volume exists, with completely unique folds, and algorithmic configurations of text.
SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story (Paperback Edition), 2016, Adrianne Wortzel
The paperback consists of 10 different paperback volumes, sold as a set. The Paperback is arranged by the dewey decimal system comprising volumes 700.100 – 709.109, each with its own unique hexadecimal color. The catalogue number 700 designates artists’ autobiographies.
Warm regards,
Adrianne Wortzel
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11. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at SARAHCROWN, Manhattan, opening Oct. 16, and more
Dear friends,
Hope you are enjoying the fall season and getting outside before we head into winter.
I have a solo show opening next month at SARAHCROWN at her new location on Lafayette Street. The show continues my exploration of the relationships between non-human species and the ways these interdependencies can contribute to the protection, healing, and repair of damaged ecosystems. It also draws from my personal experiences with internal bodily health and cancer intimately forming connections between the permeability of the body and a trans-corporeal nature of living things.
I’d love to reconnect and have you see the show.
Rachel Frank: Wild Dreams
SARAHCROWN
Opening Reception October 16, 6-8 PM
On View: October 14 – November 14, 2026
110 Lafayette St #201, (New Location)
New York, NY 10013
Please save the date and hope to see you at the opening on the 16th!
Rachel
Animal Care Manager/Rehabber, Wild Bird Fund, NYC
Wild Dreams Solo Show at SARAHCROWN
Opening Friday, October 16, 6-8 PM
October 14 – November 14, 2026
Rachel Frank: Wild Dreams
SARAHCROWN
110 Lafayette St #201 –New Location
New York, NY
I Will Never Enter This Room at Underdonk
Curated by Claude (AI), organized by Marcos Valella
Opening Friday, June 5, 6:00 —8:00 pm
June 5 – June 28, 2026
Underdonk
297 Grand St, 3rd Floor
New York, NY
Precog Magazine: Oroboros
I have an article with images from my Chrysalids series in the current issue of Precog Magazine.
Transformations on the Periphery
Precog Magazine
Oroboros Volume 9
The Hidden World of the Oystercatcher for Audubon Magazine
As part of Audubon’s Aviary Series, I was commissioned to make a sculpture for their digital and print magazine. I chose the American Oystercatcher.
The Hidden World of the Oystercatcher
Audubon Magazine
Words by Jessica McKenzie and Photos by Sydney Walsh
Fall 2025
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12. Jody Pinto, FF Alumn, at Art Lot, Brooklyn, Oct. 4 and more
Jody Pinto
Body/Land Exchange
August 28, 2026—March 7, 2027
Announcing two forthcoming activations of the work by the artist: Sunday, October 4, 2026, 3 PM
Sunday, November 15, 2026, 3 PM
Rain or shine!
Body/Land Exchange
Two structures face each other. They are alike yet different. They are connected by a body-land exchange. It is a transfusion of rain through a sluice system. They are dependent upon each other for life. A second exchange occurs when the project is watered by hand. It is alive — it has thirst.
— Jody Pinto
Art Lot presents Body/Land Exchange, in partnership with moCa Cleveland on the occasion of the artist’s first retrospective, Jody Pinto: Body/Land. Drawing on her series of architectural sculptures from the late 1970s, Pinto constructed a pair of “living” structures connected by a weather-responsive trough system, each dependent on the other and their environment in a shared ecology of survival.
For over fifty years, Pinto has developed a radical body of work spanning sculpture, drawing, ephemeral outdoor installations, activism, and public art. Emerging during the Land art movement in the 1970s, she built sensorial, provisional works outdoors, often activated by weather conditions and visitors. In 1987, she completed the work for which she is best known: Fingerspan Bridge, a permanent fixture sited along a hiking trail in Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia. Since the 1990s, Pinto has been commissioned as an artist on more than fifty international public projects including bridges, parks, train stations, waterfronts and gardens. Across these varied works, she explores the experience of passage, the performance of being in public, and the generative possibilities of collaboration and entropy.
In Pinto’s new outdoor sculpture Body/Land Exchange, two monolithic structures build on her Heart Chambers sculptures from 1978, sited at the ICA Philadelphia at UPenn and the Art Institute of Chicago. Working with students and using cinder blocks and metal duct work, the artist built structures to house fabric bundles containing red pigment. When it rained, the structures appeared to bleed from their metal channels, or “arteries,” as Pinto called them— an indication of living forces within. In her newest version, a ritual performance of watering also activates the work.
As founder of Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) in 1973, Pinto played a foundational role in the feminist movement against sexual violence, channeling her experience into a sustained artistic inquiry that examines interdependent effects of oppression, corporeal violence, and environmental extraction. Driving this transdisciplinary practice is Pinto’s idea of “body/land,” a formulation that connects bodily and environmental systems such as veins and irrigation, hair and plant growth, and cycles of injury and healing.
— Marie Catalano, co-curator of Jody Pinto: Body/Land
Jody Pinto (b. 1942, New York, NY) lives and works in New York, NY. Her work was recently featured in Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX (2023) and Underground at MoMA (2022-2023). Pinto’s work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and in exhibitions at Artpark, Lewiston, NY; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia; the New Museum, and the Queens Museum (both in NY). From 1971-74 she founded and directed Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR), the longest-operating rape crisis center in Philadelphia, PA. She has collaborated on over 50 public works including for bridges, gardens, parks, and transit systems and is the recipient of numerous awards and grants for this work, including the NEA Federal Design Achievement Award, A.I.A. Honor Award: National Design for Transportation Award, Art in Public Spaces and two National ASLA Design Honor Awards. Her extant public works include Fingerspan Bridge (1987) in Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia PA, Tree of Life (1992) at Papago Park, Phoenix, the redesign of Santa Monica State Beach and Palisade Park in Los Angeles (2001), the Fort Lauderdale International Airport (2002), Land Buoy (2014) in Philadelphia, PA and the Rio del Rey Bridge in Phoenix, AZ. Pinto received her BFA from Pennsylvania Academy for Fine Arts (PAFA) where she later taught for four decades.
Documentation now online.
Art Lot is proud to present Body/Land Exchange in partnership with moCa Cleveland. This exhibition takes place in tandem with Jody Pinto: Body/Land, the artist’s first retrospective and first solo museum exhibition hosted by moCa Cleveland, curated by Marie Catalano and DJ Hellerman. More information here.
Art Lot
206 Columbia St.
Brooklyn, NY 11231
@artlotbrooklyn
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13. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, now online at www.designisonefilm.com
Kathy Brew is pleased to announce that her “evergreen” documentary, DESIGN IS ONE: LELLA & MASSIMO VIGNELLI, has an updated website that highlights the fact on the home page that the film is now available on these streaming platforms — Amazon Prime, Google Play and Apple TV. Worth seeing for those interested in the principles of design, applicable to so many creative ventures, and now even more important since the Vignellis (whose work is in the collection of MoMA) are no longer with us. www.designisonefilm.com
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14. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1231320708
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
“…the moon might be considered earth’s child.”
PZ, September 30 2026
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15. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at Parsons/The New School, Manhattan, Oct. 8
I’ll be doing a live event for my new book at Parsons/The New School:
Thursday, October 8, 7 pm
Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated by R. Sikoryak
Parsons/Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Kellen Auditorium, Room N101
at 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
Free and open to the public
A Visual Presentation and Discussion
Cartoonist R. Sikoryak will present his new graphic novel, Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated. This unique title features the unabridged text of the Declaration of Independence, alongside the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, in a double-sided book, rendered in the bright, bold, and iconic styles of over 100 different American comics, cartoons, and graphic novels from over a century.
In a profusely illustrated talk, R. Sikoryak will show the development of his graphic novel: how it grew out of his previous books Constitution Illustrated and The Unquotable Trump; how he researched American history; and how he reinterpreted 100 years of American cartoons.
The severing of colonial ties to Great Britain has never been more vividly manifested than in the skillful hands of Sikoryak, who doesn’t hesitate to dream up Jeffy from Family Circus as Thomas Jefferson and Mr.Magoo as a British loyalist. King George III is deliciously portrayed as pop culture’s most famous villains, such as Thanos, The Joker, Scar from The Lion King, and many more. Sikoryak also skillfully adopts the styles of such comic artists as Will Eisner of The Spirit, Allie Brosh of Solutions and Other Problems, Morrie Turner of Wee Pals, Mark Beyer of Amy and Jordan, and Floyd Gottfredson of Mickey Mouse. The Civil War era pays homage to Black Panther, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Jerry Craft’s New Kid, Justice League, and many more.
Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated is an entertaining multilayered history lesson for buffs of the American Revolution and American comics.
The talk will be followed by a Q & A, discussion, and signing.
https://parsons.edu/sheilacjohnsondesigncenter/visit/
https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/declaration-illustrated/
Cartoonist R. Sikoryak is the author of Constitution Illustrated, Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn and Quarterly). He’s adapted the classics for various anthologies, including The Graphic Canon and RAW. His comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Onion, MAD, and more. He’s done storyboards and character designs for Augenblick Studios on various animated projects. Sikoryak teaches in the illustration department at Parsons School for Design and previously at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Since 1997, he’s presented his live comics performance series, Carousel, around the United States and Canada. He lives in New York City with his spouse, Kriota Willberg.
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16. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at 42nd St. & 8th Avenue, Manhattan, opening Oct. 2
TIGHTROPE: THE MIDTERM ITCH at WhiteBox Portable @MTA, curated by Juan Puntes, WhiteBox Artistic Director.
MTA 42 St-8 Av Subway Station Above the A, C, E Lines (Downtown Direction)
Opening Reception: October 2, 5:00–8:00 PM
Exhibition: October 2–November 3
Election Night Gathering, Poetry Readings & Performances: November 3, 6:00–10:00 PM
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17. Audrey Kindred, FF Alumn, at 64th Street & Central Park West, Manhattan, Oct. 24
Come to the Ethical Street Fair for Social Justice on October 24, 12-5. @ west 64 street between Broadway & Central Park West.
Social Justice Artists! Want to volunteer with “greening” Halloween through RRR costume construction & wild imagination-fashion? Join the Ethical Explorers Space — to volunteer, contact: akindred@nysec.org
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18. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, new publication
ello,
I made Situationist Funhouse, a signed and numbered artist book with an augmented-reality overlay activated by scanning its cover.
It is an edition of 30; 25 copies are available, with five held back for curators and archives. The work begins as a book and becomes a small, unstable exhibition in the phone—a continuation of my interest in systems, participation, and the contradictions of cultural consumption.
You can see it and purchase a copy here:
Best,
G.H. Hovagimyan
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19. Maria Lisella, FF Member, now online at Ovunquesiamoweb.com
Please visit this link:
https://ovunquesiamoweb.com/summer-2026/review-of-at-the-hour-of-now/
Thank you.
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20. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 9
Please Join us Friday Oct 9th, 7pm
for the NYC Book Launch of LETTER BOX: The Geometry of Loss Written by Rick Black, Visualized by Warren Lehrer
CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS
28 West 27th St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, 10001
The night will begin with a multimedia performance/reading by Lehrer, followed by a conversation between Lehrer and CBA Director Corina Reynolds, followed by a signing and refreshments.
Admission is Free. Seating is limited.
rsvp: https://shop.centerforbookarts.org/products/letter-box-the-geometry-of-loss-1
LETTER BOX: The Geometry of Loss is a deeply moving and beautiful book that addresses how a person can deal with personal loss, feel the bottomless pain, yet manage to move on. Written by former New York Times reporter Rick Black, it is the story of a young man’s coming to grips with the unexpected death of his mother from cancer and other traumatic memories from his years as a reporter in the Middle East. The sparse poetic prose—which consists of only a few words per page—is choreographed for the page by visual literature pioneer Warren Lehrer. His typographic settings give delicate and surprising form to the interior, emotional and metaphorical underpinnings of Black’s words. Together, the writing and visuals create an impactful, beautiful, and distinctively cinematic book experience. LETTER BOX is a vehicle for readers to process their own emotions through a visual and literary odyssey. Published by the Center for Book Arts and EarSay. Hardcover, smyth-sewn, 200 pages, 6.5 inches square, printed on archival paper. $35,
“A minimalist but cumulatively powerful meditation on deep grief.” Kirkus Reviews
“This marvel of a book reads itself to you as you turn the pages. It is, in reality, a box of letters that spells ‘G-R-I-E-F’ in a way that is poem, angel’s song, recipe. In LETTER BOX, art and language dance as you understand that you, too, can put your own letters, words, memories into the box. We have all experienced loss, been stymied by grief. LETTER BOX opens its arms to you as you place your grief inside.”Bob Holman Poet, Poetry Activist and Chronicler, Founder: Bowery Poetry Club
“There is something quite profound and generous in LETTER BOX—a choreography between word, form, silence, image, and geometry—that speaks in ways language alone cannot. After reading it, shapes, colors, feelings, vibrations, and sensations are still moving within me, alongside specific and nonspecific memories of grief and trauma I’ve either encountered personally or professionally, in my clients, or within the collective field. Many will find themselves feeling seen, felt, recognized, understood, and thus gently accompanied through its pages, inviting readers into a collective realm of loss and support for their own paths of integration and healing.”Selma Quist-Møller Lead Psychologist on Post Traumatic Growth, Reimagine
“LETTER BOX is a poignant collaboration between Rick Black’s tender personal story of love and loss and Warren Lehrer’s boldly cinematic visual treatment. Lehrer activates, magnifies, and interprets Black’s words with an abstract beauty and metaphoric resonance that allows their emotional power to jump in, out, and through his elegant graphic architecture —and right into our hearts.”Alan Berliner Filmmaker, Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, DOC NYC Visionary Award
“Warren Lehrer has been making history for many years. He was among the early pioneers of graphic design history scholarship and he creates “visualized books” that come from and create their own history. LETTER BOX: The Geometry of Loss is his latest typo-text opus… Part memoir, part artists’ book, ‘part health and wellness resource,’ this design-centric book is a vehicle for readers to process their own emotions through a visual and literary cacophony… Rick Black’s sparse poetic prose—only a few words per page—is directed on the page by Lehrer… resulting in illustrations that are illuminations of heart and mind.” Print Magazine, Steven Heller
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21. jc lenochan, FF Alumn, at Venice Biennale, Italy, thru Nov. 22, and more
Denniston Hill’s installation Chimera, with work by jc lenochan, is located in the Central Pavilion at the Giardini (Sestiere Castello, 30122 Venice, Italy) as part of the 61st International Art Exhibition (In Minor Keys), and it is on view from May 9 through November 22, 2026.
and
Hank Willis Thomas Selects the NJ Arts Annual
Dates: September 2 through December 20, 2026
Location: Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901The 62nd edition of the New Jersey Arts Annual features an intergenerational group of 16 contemporary artists selected from over 800 submissions
Lavett Ballard (Willingboro)
Ana Benaroya (Jersey City)
Aaron Boucher (Jersey City)
Storm Cuff (East Orange)
Christina Freeman (Lawrence Township)
Sylvan Hamburger (Highland Park)
Donté K. Hayes
Caren King Choi
jc lenochan
Jackie Neale
Chelsea Odufu
Miguel Romero-Trejos
Jesse Satterfield
Sasha Stiles
Kimisha Turner
Roberto Visani
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22. Kenneth King, FF Member, now online at https://sl1nk.com/l3ymmrq
Anticipating how reading that increasingly merges video and print is morphing into electronic books, my new YouTube movie Faster Than Sight (19’36”) performs what couldn’t happen on stage nor page: it combines comic characters (who have some surprising insights into AI and politics!), dance, and text. Here’s the link:
YouTube channel: Kenneth King Media
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23. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Oct. 5 and more
Barbara Rosenthal
MON. OCT 5, 4pm
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53 St. Theater 1, T1.
Tickets:https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11638
Pregnancy Dreams,” color, 1979. 4mins. Super-8 to digital.
Directors Bill Creston and Barbara Rosenthal; text and performance Barbara Rosenthal; Concept; Camera; Editing; Costuming, Bill Creston.
6pm Afterparty :
Faces & Names 159 W 54th St, NY, NY 10019 (bar: (212) 586-9311
(email RSVP, please, but not imperative; guests welcome; cash bar)
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in “Long Live the Underground!: Diaries, Notes and Sketches”. This landmark showcase features nine thematic programs and works by 100 filmmakers celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and 60th anniversary of the Millennium Film Workshop
In Pregnancy Dreams, Barbara Rosenthal, nude and nine months pregnant, reads from her Journal dreams about death, filthy bathrooms, impeccably dressed men, and other parallels. Greeted by calls of outrage when it premiered at the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (BACA) in 1979, the film has gained an increasingly receptive audience throughout the years.
Rosenthal is slouched nude in a blue butterfly chair in their raw, top floor Chelsea loft on a sweltering hot August day, 9 months pregnant with her daughter, Ola Creston. It was recorded by Bill Creston as a test for their upcoming Lamaze delivery, shot in assorted Super-8 film stocks which is aparrant as the scene textures vary almost line by line. She had asked Bill if she should put something on, and he’d reached into their costume box and pulled out the velvet fake-pearl choker she had worn during the ten years as a go-go dancer she’d retired from at pregnancy. She reads aloud the bizarre and poignant dreams she had been writing at that moment in her Journal (a practice she has maintained since age eleven, 98 volumes of which are currently in her archives at Queens College.
“Pregnancy Dreams” was an extremely controversial piece at the time, and when it was shown at BACA: Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association, the audience reacted with overwhelming horror and disgust, loudly castigating her for publicly screening her nude, pregnant body, a shocked reaction which took these two idiosyncratic but unassuming artist-filmmakers by great surprise. Not until ten years later, when Demi Moore appeared nude and (much less) pregnant on the cover of NY Magazine, did such a thing become “acceptable” to those who follow received morality such the like.
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24. Nina Sobell, Mary Campbell, Maggie Ens, FF Alumn, at Ilon Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 10, and more
I’ll be giving a talk at Ilon Gallery, 204 W. 123rd Street, Manhattan, about my rarely seen sculptures done during Rivington School Days through to now. It will be part of the show Uptown Downtown Women Artists of Rivington School on October 10 at 6:00-7:00, Mary Campbell and Maggie Ens will follow after me – on there now through November 8 the last day. I will also be giving a short talk about the Rivington School on Nov 8 at 6:00 along with other artists. and Gloria McLean will do dance, Eileen Doster poetry and Sarah Ferguson will also be talking about Rivington School.
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25. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at Mimosa House, London, UK, Oct. 8-Dec. 5, and more
Mira Schor, F.F. Alumni, Survey exhibition: WET/London, first UK solo exhibition by renowned feminist painter Mira Schor, curated by Daria Han. October 8 through December 5, 2026. Mimosa House, 47 Theobalds Rd, London WC1X 8SP, United Kingdom
Features paintings, drawings, and paper works spanning Schor’s career from her time in the 1970s Feminist Art Program at CalArts to the present.
Key Highlight: Anchored by a new site-specific painting commissioned for Mimosa House’s six-meter fireplace wall, engaging with the symbolism of the domestic hearth as a site of feminist public address.
Related Event:
Artist Talk and Panel: Monday, October 12, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM at The Courtauld (Vernon Square, London). https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/mira-schor-artist-talk-and-panel
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26. WHOOP DEE DOO, FF Alumns, at Wassaic Project, NY, Oct. 24 and more
This Halloween season…Experience TWO new shows!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24: WHOOP DEE DOO at Wassaic Project
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7: WHOOP DEE DOO at Storm King Art Center
Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Saturday, Oct 24, shows between 4-7:00pm
WHOOP DEE DOO presents a haunted music box installation and performance in collaboration with students from Wassaic’s local high school, the Varsity Art Club, and a very special guest group! Our shows will run from 4-7pm, and afterwards, stay for the Wassaic Project Monster’s Ball!
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Wassaic Project
17 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY 12592
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
Saturday, Nov 7, shows at 1:30pm & 3:30pm
WHOOP DEE DOO is ecstatic to present our previously postponed show from the boiling hot days of July, now ready and better than ever for November 7th! Bring warm clothes and dancing shoes, and we will provide the hot apple cider! Huge thanks to Storm King Art Center, the Newburgh Free Library, and Friends of the Library for partnering to produce this project with us!
PERFORMERS
The Sad Witch Collective
NatyaMudra
Señor Pelon
Bboy Natural
Students from the Newburgh Performing Arts Academy
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Storm King Art Center
1 Museum Rd, New Windsor, NY 12553
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27. Paul Zelevansky, Josely Carvalho, at 315 W.39th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 9-10
Open Studios, 315 W. 39th Street, Manhattan,
October 9, 6-9 pm
October 10, 1-6 pm
Paul Zelevansky, studio 807B
Josely Carvalho, studio 402
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28. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 9
FF Alumn Warren Lehrer presenting the launch of his new book:
Letter Box: The Geometry of Loss
Written by Rick Black, Visualized by Warren Lehrer
Friday October 9 at 7pm
Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street 3rd Floor
NY, NY, 10011
Reservations recommended – Seating is limited.
Admission is Free. Seating is limited.
rsvp: https://shop.centerforbookarts.org/products/letter-box-the-geometry-of-loss-1
Can’t come? buy a book here: https://earsay.org/shop/
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29. Jane Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Older Adults Center, Manhattan, Oct. 30
The Traveling Tap Museum
OCTOBER 30, 2026 · 1:30PM · OLDER ADULTS CENTER ·
310 GREENWICH ST · FREE!
BOO! The Traveling Tap Museum returns! Get ready for some jazz, rumba, soft-shoe and old dances from the tap masters – dancing to the strings of the ukulele. Join us! No reservations required.
Joining Jane will be dancers Max Pollak, Sarah Safford, Cartier Williams and Karen Callaway Williams.
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30. Josh Harris, FF Alumn, now online in Hell Gate Cultural Newsletter
Here’s what else is going on in the cultural capital:
GOING NUCLEAR… Last Wednesday, a room full of downtown scenesters, Gen X artists, and tech pessimists headed to East Williamsburg for a totally singular viewing experience from Nuclear Cinema, a deeply hip (and I mean that in a good way!) screening series founded by filmmaker Oluwasegun Oyetunde in 2025.
We convened at Signal, normally a nightclub that plays host to underground techno acts, to watch documentarian Ondi Timoner’s 2009 film “We Live in Public,” and then hear from the disturbingly prescient figurehead at its center, performance artist and onetime tech mogul Josh Harris, founder of Pseudo.com, the New York City-based enterprise that pioneered online streaming as entertainment.
“We Live in Public” chronicles the seemingly forgotten intersection (at least, I hadn’t heard of it) between the Dot Com boom and Manhattan’s late ’90s nightlife heyday. Harris, a genuine freak and visionary, threw wild parties in order to meet interesting people to populate his stable of internet-based talkshows; then, he conducted a series of human experiments on himself and a circle of eager participants.
The first was a 30-day stay in an underground capsule hotel-slash-bunker on the Lower East Side, complete with an interrogation chamber, a bottomless supply of food and drugs, and a fully equipped, unlicensed shooting range, where around 100 participants donned matching jumpsuits and agreed to live in bunks and in front of cameras filming them from all angles, in all situations, at all times. The project, called “Quiet,” devolved into hedonistic chaos within a few weeks, and concluded in a dramatic police raid on the eve of the new millennium led by then-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerikhimself. Even the bust was captured on camera, both by Timoner’s documentary crew and the dozens of running surveillance cameras Harris and his cohort had set up.
The second experiment Harris conducted was more personal. He and his then-girlfriend, a former Pseudo.com host named Tanya Corrin, installed a similar surveillance system into their own Manhattan loft and streamed their domestic life, interacting with viewers via chatrooms. That project, called “We Live in Public,” became a chronicle of their doomed relationship and Harris’s financial ruin thanks to a dip in the stock market that cost him all of his remaining money.
The film, which concludes with Harris living in Ethiopia to dodge debt collectors stateside, is an absolutely batshit watch—it is, essentially, the portrait of a man whose work predicted almost everything about the way people currently exist online, who nonetheless fell into relative obscurity and seclusion.
And the ensuing Q&A with Harris beaming in from Las Vegas, along with Pseudo.com co-founder Robert Galinsky, Ion Pack podcast host K.J. Rothweiler, and gallerist Katya Austin in-house, was just as wild. Thanks to a combination of technical difficulties and Harris’s prediction that AI will begin “culling” human beings in the next three years, what could have been a discussion about the movie tilted into a debate about humanity’s existential crisis.
As I left the screening, my mind ping-ponged between nostalgia for a New York City party scene I’d never known and mild trepidation about the future—it’s hard to imagine surviving anything like a “culling” as a digital journalist who can’t ride a bike. But most of all, as corny as it sounds, I felt grateful to be in a room of weirdos engaging with challenging art in the present.
—Katie Way
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31. András Böröcz, FF Alumn, at Elza Kayal Gallery, Manhattan, opening Oct. 16
Props
October 16 – November 20, 2026
Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 16, 6-8PM
Elza Kayal Gallery, 368 Broadway, Suite 409, New York
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a prop can be “anything that serves to support something or keep it in place.” In András Böröcz’s work things are rarely in place—he continuously and strategically misplaces the function of objects and subverts their relations to create a disturbance in the order of things.
Böröcz’s objects move among different tasks and ways of being—they are artworks, toys, fetishes, musical instruments. Pencils are carved to become comic and vulnerable human figures, or made into boxes that function as both rooms and theatre stages. Eggs and drums are becoming canvases, walnuts are carved and painted, and palettes are mushrooming on dead tree branches or on an old easel. Böröcz carves, draws, paints, assembles, and constructs his work from unusual raw materials as well as from found and readymade objects, and often uses the finished works as performance props.
A sculptor, performer, draughtsman, gardener, and builder, Böröcz studied painting at the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest and participated in the experimental workshops led by Miklós Erdély (1928–86), the leading figure of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde. He began his multimedia performance work in 1977, with painter László László Révész. Since 1986, Böröcz has been living in New York where he continues making and performing.
Böröcz’s practice is rooted in Dada performance and assemblage work, Duchampian conceptualism, and in Eastern European literary and theatrical traditions of the absurd, yet he creates objects and images with the precise facility and gift of a master craftsman. In both his object-based works and performances, he turns art making into a mock ritual—he plays the artist and performs, as some of his carved figures do, the artist’s labor in the studio as a deadpan satire.
The three-dimensional works form a theater of objects created through playful deconstruction and dis-assemblage. He makes, uses and misuses objects in his Williamsburg studio, in his garden or in front of an audience to imitate and upstage practices of art and everyday life. His clever, often melancholic and always profoundly amusing work also has political dimensions—Böröcz’s props propose freedom from the prescribed functions and protocols we live by and offer liberation from the impositions of mass-produced things that regulate how we do things with whatever is at hand.
Agnes Berecz
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32. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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33. Cheri Gaulke, Anne Gauldin, FF Alumns, at SONY Pictures, Culver City, CA, Oct. 10
All tickets must be purchased by Oct 6 at midnight due to Sony security protocols.
Celebrating 50 years of SCWCA — and the radical feminist performance history that continues to shape us.
On Saturday, October 10, Acting Like Women will be screened as part of the Southern California Caucus for Women Artists’ 50th Anniversary celebration.
Directed by Cheri Gaulke, the feature documentary revisits the groundbreaking feminist performance art of 1970s–80s Los Angeles and The Woman’s Building — a history shaped by artists who transformed their bodies, voices, and lived experiences into powerful acts of resistance.
ACTING LIKE WOMEN
Saturday, October 10
10:30 AM — Event begins
11:00 AM — Film screening
90-minute runtime
12:30 PM — Q&A with Cheri Gaulke & Anne Gauldin 🎤 Moderated by Meg Linton
Sony Pictures Studio, Madison Gate · Culver City, CA
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/acting-like-women-documentary-screening
Executive produced by Metabolic Studio, Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner. Featuring music by Billie Eilish, The Linda Lindas, Fanny, Phranc, Holly Near & The Dark Bob with original score by Miriam Cutler. Funders: Annenberg Foundation, California Humanities, The Chimaera Project , and numerous donors.
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