Contents for October 26th, 2026
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Weekly Spotlight: Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library, Main Branch, Manhattan, November 4
1. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Lyon Biennale, France, thru Dec. 15
2. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/live/n_ey7IBh4_U
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, FF Alumn, online at TraumaInformedNY.org, Nov. 7, 14, 21
4. Yunjia Yuan, FF Intern Alumn, at Accent Sisters, Manhattan, opening Nov. 7
5. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, at Shrine, Manhattan, opening Oct. 30
6. Ed Woodham, Cash Cow, FF Alumns, on 23rd and 14th Streets, Manhattan, Nov. 7
7. Fiona Templeton, FF Alumn, at Torn Page, Manhattan, added date Nov. 3
8. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, now online at musee-orsay.fr/en
9. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, now2 online at NYTimes.com
10. Rev. Billy, FF Alumn, at Earthchxrch, Manhattan, Oct. 31 and more
11. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Howl Happening, Manhattan, Oct. 28
12. Cynthia Karalla, FF Member, at Tooker Gallery, Newburgh, NY, opening Nov. 7
13. Cherrie Yu, FF Alumn, at Abrons Art Center, Manhattan, Nov. 12-14
14. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Center for Contemporary Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, thru Jan. 31, 2027, and more
15. Marni Kotak, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, thru Nov. 28
16. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at White Rabbit Books, Manhattan, Nov. 2
17. Vernita Nemec, Jodie Fink, Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumns, at Viridian Artists, Manhattan, thru Nov. 7
18. Jim Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at DiscoPie.com
19. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at SVA, Manhattan, Oct. 29, and more
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Weekly Spotlight: Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library, Main Branch, Manhattan, November 4
Martha Wilson and Anne Turyn present two ground-breaking publications documenting 1970s-1980s New York Avant-Garde performance and bookmaking.
Wed. Nov 4, 2026 6:00pm EST
Lenox & Astor Room, Room 216
The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
42nd Street & 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10018
Artist and Franklin Furnace founder Martha Wilson (www.MarthaWilson.com) will discuss her new book, Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace, a 50th-anniversary celebration of the legendary arts institution Franklin Furnace. This visually rich volume captures five decades of boundary-breaking art and the ongoing fight to defend creative freedom. Further, it chronicles stories by individuals from arts groups across the U.S.A. who also fought in the Culture Wars of the Reagen 80s. Anne Turyn, a New York-based fine art photographer, will share Top Stories, a prose periodical that she edited and published from 1978 to 1991. Over the course of twenty-nine issues, it served as a pivotal platform for experimental fiction and art through single-artist issues and two anthologies. Primarily featuring female artists, though in Turyn’s words a few men “crept in as collaborators,” Top Stories was recently rereleased by Primary Information.
This event is organized in collaboration with https://10x10photobooks.org/
To join | Please register for an In-Person Ticket at this link: https://events.leapevents.com/event/martha-wilson-anne-turyn
Doors will open around 5:30 PM. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist whose five-decade career spans photography and performance exploring female subjectivity through role-playing and impersonations of other people’s personae. In 1976, she founded Franklin Furnace, a New York artist-run space dedicated to exploring, promoting, and preserving artists’ books, installation and performance art, video, and online art. Her work is in museum collections including MoMA, the Met, Whitney, Centre Pompidou, and the Albertina.
Anne Turyn is a fine art photographer based in New York City. Turyn attended Antioch College (BFA), the University of Buffalo (MFA) and the CUNY Graduate Center (MA Linguistics). She was part of the Hallwalls community in Buffalo, NY, where she founded and edited Top Stories, a prose periodical and chapbook series featuring one artist per issue (1978-1991). Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Kunstverein Amsterdam, among others.
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1. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Lyon Biennale, France, thru Dec. 15
HECTOR CANONGE, FF Alumn, opens new exhibition project “VESTIGES DE L’EPHIMERE” for the program Résonance in the 18th edition of the Lyon Biennale, October through December 15, 2026, Lyon, France.
Hector Canonge returned to Lyon, France, fro the production of his latest project that will take place at various sites during the Biennale de Lyon Art Contemporain (October 15 to November 30). Canonge’s “VESTIGES DE L’EPHEMERE” (Remnants of the Ephemeral) is a collaboration with artist Wilson Tapia, and reflects on the relation of corporal actions and the urban terrain’s architectural conformation. Through a series of public interventions in the traditional Traboules of the city of Lyon, the project functions as a catalyst for the creation of a multidisciplinary exhibition, public workshops and academic lectures on the nature of participatory performative actions and psychogeographic experience.
The project’s program for Resonance 2026 will launch the exhibition of VESTIGES at the museum La Maison des Dauphins in La Tour du Pin, October 28, followed by a Conference on October 29, and public workshops on October 30. The finissage is scheduled for November 2026 where the performances will be presented at various Traboules in the historical center of the city of Lyon. The bienal is on view until December 2026.
More information: http://www.hectorcanonge.net
Email: canonge.productions@gmail.com
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2. Dan Kwong, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/live/n_ey7IBh4_U
The Manzanar Baseball Project Grand Opening Doubleheader took place on Saturday October 17th at Manzanar National Historic Site, in the high desert of Owens Valley, CA.
https://www.youtube.com/live/n_ey7IBh4_U
My performance piece, “Ghosts Among Us”, begins around 4:02:00 mark.
~ Dan
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, FF Alumn, online at TraumaInformedNY.org, Nov. 7, 14, 21
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful to teach course with:
New York State Office of Mental Health / New York State Trauma-Informed Network & Resource Center
To register/Para registrarse: https://events.traumainformedny.org/BBMFundamentalsSpanish2026
Breath-Body-Mind™ Spanish Fundamentals Course – FREE!
Learn practical breathing, movement, and meditation techniques to reduce stress and build resilience.
Instructors/Instructores: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Lina Hernandez, & Sonia Kleinman
Curso Fundamental de Breath-Body- Mind™ en Español – ¡GRATIS!
Aprenda técnicas practices de respiración, movimiento y meditación para reducir el estrés y fortalecer su bienestar.
Dates: Saturdays, November 7, 14, and 21, 2026
Time: 10am–2:30pm (all days)
Location: 320 Walnut St., Yonkers, NY 10701
Fechas: 7, 14 y 21 de noviembre de 2026
Horario: 10:00 a. m. – 2:30 p. m. (todos los días)
Lugar: 320 Walnut St., Yonkers, NY 10701
Childcare Available / Hay cuidado infantil disponible
New York State Office of Mental Health / New York State Trauma-Informed Network & Resource Center / Breath-Body-Mind Foundation
Hosted by: Organizado por: Neighbors Link and Dayspring Community Center
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4. Yunjia Yuan, FF Intern Alumn, at Accent Sisters, Manhattan, opening Nov. 7
I want to reach out and invite you to the opening of my upcoming exhibition, Songs of a Cricket, on November 7 at Accent Sisters in New York.
The project grew out of my father’s decades-long passion for keeping and fighting crickets in Shanghai. Bringing classical Chinese literature, oral histories, and the material culture of cricket fighting into conversation, the exhibition explores how this folk tradition has been remembered, interpreted, and passed down across generations.
Moving between historical records, personal memories, and contemporary reinterpretations, the exhibition also considers how the cricket’s story can be retold today. Songs of a Cricket, a novel that imagines cricket fighting from the cricket’s perspective, and artist Jianhao Zheng’s robotic crickets offer two distinct ways of rethinking this tradition, through speculative storytelling and contemporary technology.
Event Details
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 6:00–9:00 PM
Free and open to the public
– 6:00 PM: Doors open
– 6:30 PM: Reception
– 7:00–7:30 PM: Documentary screening, directed by Vince Li
Robot Cricket Fight: Sunday, November 8, 3:00 PM
Featuring robot crickets by Jianhao Zheng. Ticketed event: $10 https://luma.com/spu77p83
Location
Accent Sisters, 89 5th Ave, #702, New York, NY 10002
Exhibition Hours
– November 7: 6:00–9:00 PM
– November 8: 2:00–6:00 PM
– November 9: 2:00–6:00 PM
The exhibition is free to visit during opening hours. The November 8 robot cricket mock fight requires a separate ticket.
If you’re able to join us, please RSVP by replying to this email or through this link https://luma.com/accentisa-s1ds If you can’t make the opening, I’d be happy to welcome you during the exhibition’s regular hours.
Warmly,
Yunjia Yuan
why why Press
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5. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, at Shrine, Manhattan, opening Oct. 30
Linda Mary Montano
Flying the Coop
October 30 – December 5, 2026
Opening Friday, October 30, 6 – 8 pm
https://www.shrine.nyc/linda-mary-montano-flying-the-coop
Thank you.
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6. Ed Woodham, Cash Cow, FF Alumns, on 23rd and 14th Streets, Manhattan, Nov. 7
BE A PART!
Let the bells ring. Let the heavens part. Let the city prepare itself. Govern yourself accordingly.
Visionary outsider folk artist and international influencer & provocateur of uncertain jurisdiction, CA$H COW, hereby issues a call for performers, personalities, and persons of distinction, notoriety, or otherwise uncertain standing to participate in the upcoming New York City public action and video, “Pennies from Heaven.”
On Saturday, November 7, this most unconventional dignitary of the contemporary world shall make a rare and consequential appearance upon two of Manhattan’s principal thoroughfares, 23rd and 14th Streets. An assembly of citizens is summoned to take their places along the footpath and participate in the video and photographic record of this extraordinary occasion. All are welcome!
Seeking protestors, aerialists, clowns, advisors, enthusiasts, models, chefs, skaters, mechanics, doctors, environmentalists, drag queens, expatriates, teachers, nomads, CEOs, empaths, web developers, rabbis, extroverts, dentists, bears, priests, go-go dancers, cartoonists, puppeteers, panhandlers, stock traders, bikers, sex workers, florists, poets, icons, nurses, realists, prancers, administrators, nuns, fruits, guards, activists, numismatists, musicians, magicians, philosophers, fortune tellers, accountants, eccentrics, visionaries, skeptics, mystics, and other assorted members of the human pageant.
Come one, come all. Your presence is requested for a public action, video, and photographic documentation of these strange and uncertain times. No particular qualifications are required beyond a willingness to participate and the ability to appear in public without causing an international incident.
Saturday, November 7
12–1pm on 23rd Street, beginning at First Avenue and ending at Tenth Avenue.
1–2pm on 14th Street, beginning at Eleventh Avenue and ending at Avenue A.
Those wishing to secure a place in this momentous affair may send correspondence to artinoddplaces@gmail.com, or simply present themselves on the day. History shall be in attendance. Spectacle is anticipated. Loose change may be involved.
New York City, consider yourself advised.
#CashCow #PenniesFromHeaven #ArtInOddPlaces #NYC #PublicArt
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7. Fiona Templeton, FF Alumn, at Torn Page, Manhattan, added date Nov. 3
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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8. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, now online at musee-orsay.fr/en
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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9. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, now2 online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Rev. Billy, FF Alumn, at Earthchxrch, Manhattan, Oct. 31 and more
On Halloween, Oct. 31, 2026, we are moving back into our old Earthchxrch space for one week (corner Ave C & 36 Loisaida Ave, E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009). Think of it as a cave in the wilderness, with a nice warm fire. We believe its a good week to be together, or be ready together, in a state of eager creativity.
Join us on Halloween for an evening social hour before the zombies crawl, on Sunday Nov 1st for old school Earthchxrch at 5pm, and every weekday from 11-11 for anything you can imagine plus actions every day at 5PM.
This is a weeklong Happening with daily adventures at OpenAI HQ at the Puck Building. We welcome your participation, do you want to have a coffee klatch or teach us about phenomonology? Would you like to do some vocal improvising? Please, we welcome you. This is regenerative culture….time to get to work!
Check in a few days for more detailed scheduling but please make time to come by, more than once!, you can add your entry to the time capsule, do some life drawing, talk deeply about the dream you had last night and then go do an action against the Totalizing AI Monoculture sweeping the land. We do not consent!
Upcoming shows Sundays Dec 6, 13, 20 at the 15th St. Quaker Meeting House at 7 PM.
The Church of Stop Shopping is a 501-c-3, your donations are tax deductible. For more information on making a donation please contact Savitri or go to revbilly.com/donate.
Mail to POB 1556 NY NY 10013
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11. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Howl Happening, Manhattan, Oct. 28
Penny Arcade will be hosting and reading this wednesday October 28th 6:30pm
with poet and publisher Danny Rosen of Lithic Press presenting the NYC Lithic Press poets including Basil King, Uche Nduca , Yuko Otomi , Frank Rubino
The reading will be presented Wednesday October 28th 2026
at Howl Happening
6 East First St
Doors open 6pm
Reading 6:30-8:30 pm
Everyone welcome!
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12. Cynthia Karalla, FF Member, at Tooker Gallery, Newburgh, NY, opening Nov. 7
Artist Cynthia Karalla
Presents Negative / Positive
at Tooker Gallery in Newburgh
Exhibition opening November 7 explores how accidents, failures, and unexpected events can become the source of artistic discovery.
NEWBURGH, NY — Artist Cynthia Karalla will present Negative / Positive, an exhibition of photographic and mixed-process projects born from accidents, disruption, and unexpected turns, at Tooker Gallery, 195 Front Street, Newburgh, New York, on Saturday, November 7, 2026, from 2 to 7 p.m.
Rooted in Karalla’s background in Hermetic philosophy and alchemy, Negative / Positive explores the transformative moment when something that appears broken, unsuccessful, or unwanted becomes the beginning of something new.
Rather than following a predetermined artistic plan, Karalla allows life to enter her studio. A damaged photographic negative, an accident, a period of forced inactivity, or even a disappointing purchase can become the starting point for an entirely unexpected work of art.
“I do not plan my work,” Karalla explains. “The mistake was the method.”
The exhibition brings together projects including Flash & Failure, Days of the Untitled, Bleached, Cracked Ribs, Age of Beauty, and It’s Craigslist, Toots! Each emerged from an unanticipated circumstance that redirected the artist’s process and opened new possibilities.
In Bleached, Karalla experiments with the destructive effects of unknown chemicals on photographic negatives, challenging the traditional impulse to protect and preserve the photographic image. Cracked Ribs originated during recovery from an accident, when boredom and breathing exercises became the unlikely conditions for a new photographic series. In It’s Craigslist, Toots!, an experience involving a Craigslist purchase that went wrong ultimately developed into one of her biggest Positives.
Across these projects, Karalla embraces uncertainty, allowing materials and circumstances to shape the outcome. Her work reflects a larger philosophy: that meaning is not always inherent in what happens to us, but can emerge through how we respond.
“For me, the movement between negative and positive is more than a method of making art. It is a way of looking at life,” Karalla says. “Not in perfection, but in transformation. Not in controlling the outcome, but in allowing life to participate.”
With Negative / Positive, Karalla invites viewers to reconsider the role of failure, damage, and disruption—not simply as obstacles, but as opportunities for discovery and new ways of seeing.
The exhibition offers a timely reminder that creativity does not always begin with a vision. Sometimes, it begins when things do not go as planned.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Exhibition: Negative / Positive — Cynthia Karalla
Opening: Saturday, November 7, 2026
Time: 2–7 p.m.
Venue: Tooker Gallery
Address: 195 Front Street, Newburgh, NY 12550, on the Hudson River
Telephone: 718-704-6954 / 718-614-1935
Artist website: https://karalla.com
Media Contact: Paige Tooker
For further information, images, or interview inquiries, please contact the artist. Cynthia Karalla / ck@karalla.com / 212-860-8900
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13. Cherrie Yu, FF Alumn, at Abrons Art Center, Manhattan, Nov. 12-14
Hello dear friends,
I want to invite you to the premiere of my new work, Daily Diversions, at the Abrons Art Center’s playhouse theatre this November 12, 13 and 14. Link to tickets here.
I started exploring the ideas in this work back in 2023, through an invitation to perform at Essex Flowers Gallery on the lower east side. In the past few years, I continued develop the work and explore the movement vocabularies around it, through a two-week residency at the Joyce studio in 2024, and then through the Van Lier Fellowship at Movement Research in the same year, who led to a work in progress showing in September 2024 at the judson church. In fall 2025 I return to this work through the performance AIRspace residency program at Abrons, and through one year’s research and development, we are so excited to share the final performance with the world! More details below:
Daily Diversions by Cherrie Yu
performed by: Ariel Herrera, Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez, Chelsea Hecht, Angelina Laguna, An Kong, Natalia Gasio, Anton Berman, Oliver Skelcher and Cherrie Yu
sound design: Johann Diedrick and Isaac Silber
scenic design: Matt Shalzi and Theo Heath
performance dramaturg: Iris McCloughan
research dramaturg: Lai Yi Ohlsen
costume: Paulina Olivares
“Daily Diversions is a performance work about community building through the practice of table tennis, created in collaboration with table tennis players from around the world and a multigenerational group of dancers during Cherrie Yu’s Performance AIRspace Residency . Daily Diversions explores the shared vocabulary between postmodern dance and everyday athleticism.”
see you there!
Cherrie
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14. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Center for Contemporary Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, thru Jan. 31, 2027, and more
Hikmah
06 September, 2026 — 31 January, 2027
Inaugural Exhibition
Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Kimsooja, Archive of Mind, 2016, participatory site-specific installation consisting of clay balls, 19m elliptical wooden table, and 16 channel sound performance by the artist, Unfolding Sphere, 2016. Courtesy of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), Hyundai Motor Company, and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Byung Cheol Jeon.
Hikmah marks the opening of the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent) and is rooted in the concept of wisdom as it relates to material intelligence and higher levels of consciousness. The exhibition also draws upon the building’s layered past, first as an Imperial-era structure, then as a Soviet-era tram depot and diesel station, offering a space of movement and holding a very particular architectural memory. Reimagined by Studio KO, the building has been sensitively restored using vernacular methods and materials, crafts, and design from across Uzbekistan, weaving together the country’s diverse geographies and cultural vocabularies.
To celebrate the inauguration, Kimsooja will be showing Archive of Mind, a site-specific installation built with audience participation throughout. Audiences will be invited to sit at a large table and form spheres with clay with their hands and place them on top of the table. This leaves unspoken traces that become part of the collective material intelligence of memory and ritual.
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The Body Within Abstraction
26 September – 10 January, 2027
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
Kimsooja is participating in The Body Within Abstraction at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (26 September 2026 – 10 January 2027). Curated by Sabine Schaschl and Muriel Pérez, the group exhibition questions the long-held view that constructivist-concrete art leaves no room for the body, and looks at how the body shapes and structures non-figurative work. It brings together Heidi Bucher, Eva Fàbregas, Kimsooja, Dóra Maurer, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, Chiharu Shiota and Franz West. Kimsooja presents Meta-Painting and Bottari. Meta-Painting, unbleached canvases stretched over wooden frames and suspended in the space, shown with three bottaris made from the same fabric and placed on the floor. Set side by side, the empty surface, the wrapped bundle and the cloth that dresses the body are revealed as one material, and the body is present in the work quietly rather than as an image.
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A Needle Woman – Tokyo
10 October – 20 December, 2026
TOKYO ATLAS, Isle Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
This facility was once the city’s garbage collection site. Through redevelopment, the surrounding waterfront plazas and promenades have been improved, and the area has been reborn as an urban space that carries traces of its past. In this setting, where built structures, open water, remnants of earlier uses coexist, works planned for display include a video installation by Kimsooja and Sasaoka Yuriko, and the exhibition will feature installation works by Mori Keita, along with other artworks.
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Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2026
30 September – 15 November, 2026
Jinhae Station, Changwon, Republic of Korea
Deductive Object – The Grid is an attempt to expand the concept of “weaving,” which the artist has long explored through painting, sewing, and bottari practices, into a spatial discipline. Here, the grid is not merely a geometric order, but a canon existing within artist Kimsooja’s oeuvre, intersecting textile, architecture, and painting. Much like the structure of canvas where warp and weft cross, the grid functions as a fundamental principle that organizes the world and a form that generates relationships. In this project, the method of stacking bricks corresponds to the process of weaving fabric, realizing the canon of the grid in an architectural dimension through repetitive arrangement and accumulation.
Jinhae Station serves not merely as a background for the installation, but as a vital element constituting the artwork. In particular, the linear structure and repeating rhythm of the railway tracks naturally respond to the brick grid, evoking the structural nature of weaving. Rather than being a completed sculpture, the work anchors the horizontal railway track, situating the body between motion and stillness.
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LACMA Collection Exhibition
from 19 April 2026 (permanent exhibition)
David Geffen Galleries, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
In celebration of the inauguration of the new David Geffen Galleries of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kimsooja’s six-channel performance video of A Needle Woman – Patan, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, N’Djamena, Sanaa, Jerusalem is now on view as part of the museum collection exhibition. Filmed in some of the most challenging cities to travel to, this work portrays Kimsooja’s body in stillness as an axis of time that traverses through people and cities across the world.
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In Search of the Present
14 March, 2026 – 7 February, 2027
Group show at Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
Kimsooja uses reflective surfaces to create a space that challenges the traditional notion of painting via “non-making” and “non-doing”. The viewer, the space and the artwork merge into a single entity that has perception at its core. One of Kimsooja’s best-known works is the To Breathe series, in which she investigates light, color, breath and movement. Her work at EMMA continues the series, expanding the ideas about the nature of painting by painting with light, projected onto the mirrored platform from above to form a tableau of color.
UPCOMING
The Poetry of Gestures:
Conversation with artist Kimsooja
and curator Sara Raza
Wednesday, 21 October, 2026.
3PM, Le Monnaie de Paris – 11 Quai de Conti, Paris
As part of Asia Now Paris 2026 (19–23 October, Monnaie de Paris), Kimsooja will be in conversation with curator and art historian Dr. Sara Raza.
The conversation is part of I Open My Mouth and Speak Art, an interdisciplinary salon organised by Punk Orientalism Studio with artist Babi Badalov. Bringing together contemporary art, language, poetry, performance and music, the salon takes Badalov’s work with alphabets and hybrid languages as its starting point to explore migration, displacement, translation and belonging.
Dr. Sara Raza is the founder of Punk Orientalism Studio, a New York–based global curatorial platform. She is Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Center for Contemporary Art Tashkent (CCA) and a Core Critic at the Yale School of Art, and has held curatorial positions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern. She is the author of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion (2022).
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Celebrating the Ancient Capital:
A Journey Through Time in Nara
7 – 29 November, 2026
Kannon-in, Tōdai-ji Temple, Nara, Japan
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Les témoins oculistes:
The sense of sight in art
2 December, 2026 – 9 May, 2027
Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
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Full Throttle
5 December, 2026 – 11 April, 2027
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
For any inquiries, please reach out to info@kimsooja.com
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15. Marni Kotak, FF Alumn, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, thru Nov. 28
Marni Kotak
America on the Dark Side of the Moon
October 22 – November 28, 2026
Opening Thursday October 22, 6-8pm
Presented by Microscope at Grace Exhibition Space at 182 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009
Microscope is very pleased to present “America on the Dark Side of the Moon” as the seventh solo exhibition of works by Marni Kotak with the gallery. The show, which draws correlations between a mental health crisis the artist experienced and the current state of the country, will take place offsite, occupying the two floors of Grace Exhibition Space in the East Village, where Kotak constructed her newest installation.
The catalyst for the durational performance/installation, video, sculptures, paintings, and drawings on view is a manic episode during the first Trump administration where Kotak heard Richard Nixon’s voice say: “We’re Back! This is America on the dark side of the moon. Go write down your thoughts about it on a dollar bill.”
With urgency, and a sense of dark humor, Kotak’s works advocate for the “power of individuals to affect change by reclaiming their emotional response to the current political environment in the US,” one in which political leaders, oligarchs, corporations, judges and others operate with increasing impunity and authoritarianism, with little regard for the health, welfare, and existence of this country’s populace.
The performance/installation, “America on the Dark Side of the Moon,” condenses a half century of US politics, a period that nearly corresponds to Kotak’s lifetime, within a single setting: her darkened living room, dimly lit by an oppressive, glowing hand-painted moon. Pink Floyd’s 1973 album plays on a vintage record player. And, a video “We’re Back!” — juxtaposing news broadcasts of Nixon’s resignation, NASA’s Apollo missions, Trump’s addresses to the nation, and the recent Artemis II flights — loops on a Zenith console TV.
Each day of the show, which encompasses the midterm elections, Kotak draws on one-dollar bills that she has scattered across a grey-painted US flag rug, each representing one year of this country. In these drawings Kotak responds to the daily news and conversations she has with gallery visitors who she invites to share — over tea — their own current struggles. Once completed she affixes the drawing over its dark areas, which due to its size becomes more difficult as the show progresses.
Related works on view expand upon economic, political, and mental health themes of the performance/installation. A new medium-sized sculpture featuring a hand-painted metallic moon sits atop an Amazon delivery container. A two-channel video “American Left/Right Channels” (2025) constructs a dialogue from separate conversations the artist had with her father (a MAGA Republican) and her mother-in-law (a life-long queer woman’s rights activist), who are sitting in their respective living rooms in Massachusetts and Texas.
A series of back-lit vanity mirrors “My Time on the Dark Side of the Moon” (2024-26) represents the eight phases of the moon onto which the artist has hand-painted excerpts from actual diary entries she made between 2015 and 2020. Selections from “For What It’s Worth” (2016-present), an ongoing series of sharpie and acrylic on actual dollar bills of several denomitations or, more recently, on the artist’s own “Dark Side Dollars.” The series which began shortly with her Nixon hallucination in 2016, not only provides a record of White House actions over the past decade, but also Kotak’s mental breakdown and return to stability.
In the sculpture “Mad Me Victory” (2026), Kotak both exposes and embraces the depths of what she refers to as her “madness.” Among the actual objects and photographs from that time period that occupy a triangular shelf unit are what now read as prescient self-portraits of Kotak adopting various personas each tasked with saving the country from itself.
“Marni Kotak: America on the Dark Side of the Moon” opens Thursday October 22 and continues through November 28.
The exhibition is presented by Microscope Gallery at Grace Exhibition Space at 142 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6pm
For further information or high res images please contact the gallery at info@microscopegallery.com or by telephone at 347.925.1433
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Marni Kotak (b. 1974) is a multimedia and performance artist presenting everyday life being lived. She has received international attention for her durational performances and exhibitions, most notably “The Birth of Baby X” (2011) in which she gave birth to her son as a live performance and the subsequent related shows in 2012, 2017, and 2022; “Mad Meds” (2014) during which the artist slowly withdrew from psychiatric medications prescribed for postpartum depression; and in “Dancing in the Oval Office” (2019) for which she danced each day within a recreation of the White House Oval Office. Kotak’s works have also appeared at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile; Artists Space, New York, NY; Exit Art, New York, NY; White Box, New York, NY Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY; among others. She has performed extensively in the US and abroad.
Her exhibitions have been featured in Artforum, Art Pulse, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, Studio International, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Time Magazine, Washington Post, among many others. Kotak’s work also appear in books and publications including Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition: Space of Display within and beyond the Museum and Gallery, Bloomsbury Publishing (2025); The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption,” Bloomsbury (2022); Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations, Palgrave McMillian (2021); The Art of Feminism: Images that shaped the Fight for Equality, 1957-2017, Chronicle Books (2018); and Blackwells Companions to Contemporary Art: A Companion to Feminist Art, John Wiley & Sons (2019), among others. Kotak has appeared on Good Morning America (ABC), CBC Radio, NPR, ZDFKultur, and other broadcasts as well as in the documentary “The Art of Making it,” (2021) which appears on Amazon Prime. Marni Kotak received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College.
New Address
527 West 29th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 347.925.1433
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 12 – 6pm
or by appointmentimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-17-me-23477-story.html
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16. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at White Rabbit Books, Manhattan, Nov. 2
Welcome to this event!
https://whiterabbitsbooks.com/event/59-moments-of-tv-channel-59/
November 2, 2026
7 pm
200 w. 86 street
thank you.
Irina
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17. Vernita Nemec, Jodie Fink, Halona Hilbertz, FF Alumns, at Viridian Artists, Manhattan, thru Nov. 7
ART FROM DETRITUS
Recycling with Imagination
October 20–November 7, 2026
CLOSING RECEPTION
Saturday, November 7, 2026 | 4–6 PM
ARTISTS
Nancy Bardach | Catalina Baselli | Annaliese Bischoff | Zoe Brown-Weissmann | Aimee Bungard Ellen Burnett | Lindsay-Ann Chilcott | Irene Christensen | Ilna Colemere | James Ciosek l D’Ann de Simone | May DeViney | Angela DiCosola | Anne Dushanko Dobek | Jodie Fink l Debra Friedkin | Rachel Green | Anna Gordy | Donsha Harden |
Kari Adora Hauge l Barbara Herzfeld | Halona Hilbertz | Miho Hiranouchi | Kathleen King | Bernice Sokol Kramer Barbara Lubliner | Grete Marstein | Chippa Martin |Lynne Mayocole | Tom McIntire l Gail Robin Mitchell | Vernita Nemec | Carol Paik | Maryann Riker | Sue Rollins | Alan Rosner Gale Rothstein | Dani Schuller | Kathleen Shanahan | Dorothy Shaw | Katherine Ellinger Smith Leah K. Tomaino | Courtney Lee Weida | Richard Wollman | Larry Zdeb | Mia Loia Zoller
NEW YORK CITY. – Viridian Artists is pleased to present the 18th iteration of Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination. The exhibit extends from Tuesday, October 20, through Saturday, November 7, 2026. The Opening Reception will be Thursday, October 22, 6—8 PM, with a closing reception on Saturday, November 7, 4—6 PM.
Art from Detritus showcases artworks made from recycled, reclaimed, and discarded materials, with the aim of promoting environmental awareness and demonstrating the creative potential of waste. Art from Detritus is an ongoing series of juried and curated exhibitions founded by American artist and curator Vernita Nemec in 1994. Nemec organized the first Art from Detritus exhibition in Portland, Oregon in collaboration with the National Recycling Coalition and the National Audubon Society, to highlight the artistic possibilities of post-consumer materials.
The exhibition emerged during a period of growing public concern about waste management, recycling infrastructure, and environmental sustainability. Following the success of the inaugural show, Nemec has continued to curate Art from Detritus exhibitions in cities including New York, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, and Phoenix and has received supportive funding from the Puffin Foundation and the Kaufmann Foundation. Each iteration has featured artists working with discarded materials and trash such as paper, plastics, metal, fabric, and found objects, emphasizing the diversity of recycled material practices.
How did these artists come to make art with discarded materials? Each has an interesting story to tell, and the artworks themselves perhaps offer a clue as to their initial inspiration. Vernita Nemec, aka Vernita N’Cognita, the curator and organizer of the Detritus exhibits, is also an artist who often works with junk mail and plastic discards. She grew up in Painesville, Ohio, learning to value reusing, seeing her mother draw and make her grocery lists on used envelopes.
Critic Ed McCormack called Nemec’s “Endless Junkmail Scroll” an encapsulation of the philosophy of aesthetic ecology that prompted her to found the Art from Detritus movement (art made from recycled materials).
Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination is an exhibit at the forefront of aesthetic ecology. It speaks to the ongoing problem of waste and the destruction it causes to our environment. More than 40 emerging, established, and under-known artists have come together to show their environmental concerns creatively. They have transformed objects formerly considered to be potentially trash into objects of beauty with economic and cultural value, aka Art with a capital A.
The central premise of Art from Detritus is that discarded materials can serve as both medium and message. The exhibition highlights:
environmental concerns related to waste and overconsumption
the aesthetic and conceptual potential of reclaimed materials
the role of artists in modeling sustainable practices
Art from Detritus remains one of the longest-running recycled-material art initiatives in the United States. Its emphasis on sustainability, accessibility, and community engagement has influenced subsequent eco-art exhibitions, zero-waste art programs, and environmentally focused artist residencies. Nemec’s leadership in the series has also shaped her broader reputation as a pioneer of recycled material art and a significant figure in the intersection of environmentalism and contemporary artistic practice. The series has provided a platform for hundreds of artists whose practices engage with sustainability, environmental critique, and material reuse.
For more information, please contact:
Lola Shepard, Director
212-414-4040 | ViridianArtistsInc@gmail.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6 PM
Instagram: @viridianartists
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18. Jim Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at DiscoPie.com
Please visit this link:
http://www.discopie.com/PaintingsNew.html
Thank you.
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19. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at SVA, Manhattan, Oct. 29, and more
Two different shows in NYC this week!
Thursday, October 29: SVA x Carousel with School of Visual Arts comics faculty
Saturday, October 31: Carousel for Kids! at P&T Knitwear
Details below:
SVA x Carousel
Comics Performances and Picture Shows
Featuring readings by the faculty of SVA BFA Comics!
Josh Bayer, Lauren Simkin Berke, Evan Dahm, Austin English, Gideon Kendall, T. Motley, Josh Neufeld, Lydia Nguyen, Seth Tobocman
Hosted by R. Sikoryak
Thursday, October 29, 2026 7:00 – 8:30 pm
School of Visual Arts
The Amphitheater, room 311
209 E 23rd St, New York NY
FREE and open to the public
Carousel For Kids!
P&T Knitwear welcomes R. Sikoryak and Brian Michael Weaver for their Halloween cartoon show, Carousel for Kids!
Featuring special guest artists, reading their stories: Vikki Chu, Caitlin Du, Veronica Mang, and Dave Roman!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/carousel-for-kids-tickets-2003315653046
Each RSVP comes with a free mini comic book. And it’s on Halloween, so come dressed for success!
Doors open open at 11am, with the show starting at 11:30.
Parents, come early and grab a coffee from the P&T Cafe!
Saturday, October 31, 2026 11:00am – 12:30pm
P&T Knitwear Bookstore
180 Orchard Street
NY, NY 10002
About the artists:
Vikki Chu is an illustrator and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. www.vikkichu.com
Caitlin Du is a Chinese cartoonist and illustrator who draws with ink on paper, creating stories with a sense of absurdity, humor, and subtle melancholy that tastes like expired childhood. Caitlin’s comics has been featured in the Comics Journal and the Comics Beat. You can find her regularly tabling at fairs including MoCCA Arts Fest, Small Press Expo, Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, and more! www.caitlindu.com
Veronica Mang is a writer and illustrator of books for children, including her picture book debut Copland: A Story About America and the Secret Spy Society chapter book series, both published by Viking Children’s Books. www.veronicamang.com
Dave Roman is the author/illustrator of Unicorn Boy, winner of The Week Junior’s graphic novel of the year, and the acclaimed Astronaut Academyseries. He co-wrote American History: The Latin Remix alongside legendary actor John Leguizamo and is the co-creator of Teen Boat! Race for Boatlantiswith John Patrick Green. Dave teaches at the School of Visual Arts and worked as an editor at Nickelodeon Magazine. Dave draws a webcomic called Pup & Duck, lives in New York City, and is always on the lookout for the perfect waffle. You can find Dave online at yaytime.com, youtube.com/daveroman, and Instagram @yaytime
Brian Michael Weaver is an illustrator, cartoonist, and children’s book creator whose work combines comics, humor, and visual storytelling. He has created hundreds of picture puzzles and illustrations for Highlights magazine, and his work has appeared in children’s books, educational materials, and projects for PBS KIDS. He loves drawing crowds of oddball characters, silly situations, and little jokes hidden in the details. www.brianmichaelweaver.com
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