Contents for November 09th, 2026
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Peter Baren, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Ianumeh, FUND recipient 2026-27, live online Nov. 10
1. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Metrograph, NY, Nov. 15
2. Veronica Vera, FF Alumn, at NYU, Nov. 16
3. Frank Bowling, David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, Adam Pendleton, Howardena Pindell, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY thru Mar. 15, 2027
4. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, Autumn news
5. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, at Gordon Robichaux, Manhattan, opening Nov. 8
6. Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, at Governor’s Island, NY, thru May 2027
7. Fred Wilson, FF Alumn, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, thru Sept. 6, 2027
8. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, new website LaughAndFlow.com
9. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, named 2026-27 Joe’s Pub Vanguard Artist, and more
10. Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez, FF Alumn, at Centro, Manhattan, Nov. 14
11. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Magenta Plains, Manhattan, opening Nov. 12
12. Andrea Polli, FF Alumn, Fall/Winter news
13. Kenneth King, FF Member, at MoMA PS1 Long Island City, thru March 15, 2027
14. Leslie Lowe at Allied Project Space, Manhattan, thru Nov. 29, and more
15. Fred Hatt, FF Alumn, at Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, thru Nov. 29
16. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY, Nov. 12-21
17. Hannes Egger, FF Alumn, at Palazzo Morosini-Strozzi, Venice, Italy, Nov. 20-23
18. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteColumns.org thru Dec. 11
19. Jennifer Andrews, FF Alumn, at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10
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Peter Baren, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
With unbearable pain in our hearts, we share with you that our beloved father, an extraordinary performance artist, Peter Baren, passed away on 2 november 2026.
Met ondraaglijke pijn in ons hart, laten wij jullie weten dat onze geliefde vader, een buitengewone performance-kunstenaar, Peter Baren, op 2 november 2026 is loverleden.
As Peter wished, the funeral takes place in a small circle.
Naar de wens van Peter is de uitvaart in kleine kring.
Condolences/Condoleances: inmemoryofpeterbaren@gmail.com
Luka Samo & Nezza Barendse
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Weekly Spotlight: Ianumeh, FUND recipient 2026-27, live online Nov. 10
Upcoming FUND performance: Ianumeh (FUND 2026-27)
“The Force Within”
November 10th, 2026
Livestream from Lagos Nigeria
4:00pm to 4:30pm ET
RSVP: https://luma.com/1apbzkkb
The Force Within explores our ability to turn inner potential into action. Using the body, firewood, flames, smoke, and a large cooking pot, the artist creates a striking performance about human strength and transformation.
Balancing burning firewood on their head, the artist carries and sustains the fire through careful movement and physical endurance. Just as fire needs to be gathered, lit, and tended, our potential needs action to come to life.
Through this powerful encounter between the body and fire, The Force Within invites us to consider: What are we capable of bringing to life through our own actions?
The Artist in His Own Words:
My name is Umearigolu Casmir Chukwuebuka, or Ianumeh. I’m a Nigerian performance and conceptual artist. I work with large-scale wearable sculptures and immersive performances that explore societal structures, technology, and the human. My work aims to challenge and provoke conversations about the future of African identity and systems.
Through my performances and sculptures, I want to imagine a speculative future, showing how culture and human behavior might evolve. I strive to create works that are visually striking, but also carry meaningful commentary.
Participating in this is an opportunity to engage with an international audience, gain critical feedback, and connect with curators and also my fellow artists. It will allow me to expand the impact of my work, push my practice, and continue to explore Africa’s potential futures in meaningful ways.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art 2026-27, supported by SHS Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the Board, Members and friends of Franklin Furnace.
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1. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Metrograph, NY, Nov. 15
LORRAINE O’GRADY
Rivers, First Draft, Rehearsal Raw Cut (Lorraine O’Grady, 1982/2026)
SPECIAL Screening and Conversation with Zawe Ashton and Catherine Morris
metrograph, new york
Sunday, November 15, 2026 | 3:45 PM
We are excited to share an upcoming special program dedicated to Lorraine O’Grady, presented by Metrograph in collaboration with the Lorraine O’Grady Trust and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery on Sunday, November 15, in New York. The evening brings together never-before-seen footage of O’Grady’s performance Rivers, First Draft (1982/2026) and Meeting Lorraine O’Grady (2017), a short film commissioned by Tate Modern and directed by filmmaker and actor Zawe Ashton.
Originally performed in Central Park in 1982, Rivers, First Draft unfolds as a “collage-in-space,” bringing together Caribbean and New England heritage through simultaneous actions exploring three ages and aspects of the self. In Meeting Lorraine O’Grady, Ashton visits the artist at her New York home, where they discuss race, gender, and the challenges faced by Black women artists in an often-segregated art world, before revisiting the site of the original performance.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Zawe Ashton and Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and co-curator of O’Grady’s 2021 retrospective, Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, at the Brooklyn Museum.
tickets: https://metrograph.com/film/9999005090-lorraine-ogrady-rivers-first-draft-performance/
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2. Veronica Vera, FF Alumn, at NYU, Nov. 16
FF Alumn Veronica Vera at NYU, Monday, November 16, 6p.
Art & Obscenity: Adventures of a Sexual Evolutionary
Presented Monday, Nov. 16, 2026, 6pm At NYU School of Law, Greenwich Village.
Res Required: veronicavera@mac.com Subject 11/16 talk
In my support of freedom of sexual expression my art has been advanced by formidable opponents as well as staunch supporters. I never met anti-porn crusaders Catherine MacKinnon or Andrea Dworkin in person but we clashed during the Meese hearings beginning in 1984 when I testified in Washington D.C. about my experiences in pornography along side noted adult entertainment professionals, and then in 1993 at the University of Michigan Law School in a conference on prostitution, when my video docu-diary, Portrait of a Sexual Evolutionary which used footage from the D.C hearing as framework for my work in porn, was the focus of censorship that caused my work and the work of other artists curated by Prof. Carol Jacobsen to be excluded. Through text and archival visuals, including clips from my video “Portrait…” I will describe these incidents, the individuals involved, and the irony which brought us all together in the end.
Our champion in 1993 was Marjorie Heins, then head of the ACLU’s art censorship project. Attorney Heins will join me in the presentation and highlight the legal issues.
Veronica Vera
with pleasure,
Veronica Vera Cottingham, D.H.S.
Doctor of Human Sexuality
Author & Journalist
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3. Frank Bowling, David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, Adam Pendleton, Howardena Pindell, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY thru Mar. 15, 2027
MoMA PS1 presents Hard Art, a major exhibition that examines the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. Please visit this link for details:
Thank you.
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4. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, Autumn news
Does It Have Teeth? Fall News from Alice Wu
I’m so happy you’re here! I’m pleased to share the following with you
Another Lamp Show, 500 Capp St Benefit Exhibition, through November 28
Clothes, Not Fashion, White Columns Online Exhibition
Franklin Furnace: 50 Years of Free Expression at The Lab, Fri December 4, 7pm
Interpreting the Natural, Art Complex Museum, through January 17, 2027
Details below, or read on Substack https://alicewuart.substack.com/p/november-news-500-capp-st-ff-at-50-b8c
I am ever appreciative of your support for my practice, and I look forward to seeing you at a future event.
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Exhibition and Fundraiser for David Ireland House at 500 Capp St, San Francisco:: 500 Capp St aka the David Ireland House is a special place in SF! Now you have a chance to support 500 Capp St while collecting my newest work, which I created especially for Another Lamp Show. https://500cappstreet.org/another-lamp-show/ https://www.instagram.com/500cappstreet/ You can also visit on Friday and Saturdays 12-5pm until 11/28, or shop the selection of 120+ artist-made lamps online. https://500-capp-street-foundation.square.site/
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Interpreting the Natural at Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts through January 17, 2027:: Guest curator Donna Dodson selected a range of my freestanding, wall-mounted, and hanging sculptures for this show. Arranged to emulate the experience of strolling through a classical, Ming-era Chinese garden, the works on view are examples of my ongoing fascination with translating my sketches into fabric and glassine paper; while a newer material exploration, the glassine works extend the formal concerns and construction techniques I use in my textile-based pieces. https://artcomplex.org/scholars-rocks/
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Please save the date! Friday December 4 at The Lab in San Francisco:: On behalf of the venerable Franklin Furnace Archive, I invite you to join us at The Lab in San Francisco, on Friday, December 4, from 7-9pm for a very special event with Martha Wilson, with remarks by David Senior SFMOMA Director of Library, and performance artwork by Selby Sohn. It’s a book release and a celebration of the 50th year of Franklin Furnace. All are welcome! It’s an honor for me to produce this event, as I got my start working in the arts at Franklin Furnace in the late 1990s. Martha Wilson continues to be an inspiration and mentor to me; she put me in my first group exhibition back in 1998, and has been championing me ever since. Franklin Furnace continues to do the important work of supporting freedom of expression in the arts. Doors open 630pm and admission is free; RSVP not required but encouraged so we can be sure to have enough seating and refreshments for all. Festive dress also encouraged. You can also pre-order the book with discount, and donate to Franklin Furnace. Please distribute widely, and many thanks for your support in all my endeavors! xo Alice
Learn more about Franklin Furnace: https://franklinfurnace.org/
Event info for December 4: https://www.thelab.org/projects/2026/12/4/ff-in-sf-a-celebration-of-50-years-of-free-expression-with-franklin-furnace
RSVP link to December 4: https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oemxqm-ff-in-sf-a-celebration-of-50-years-of-free-expression-with-franklin-furnace-4th-dec-the-lab-san-francisco-tickets
Pre-order Martha Wilson’s book here, with discount: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/EYSUBJMYP2BYW
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Clothes, Not Fashion:: I’m also very glad to have a piece included in the online-only exhibition Clothes, Not Fashion, curated by Gemma Cirignano for White Columns, New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit art space. All artists who do not have NYC gallery affiliation may apply for inclusion in the registry; get on their email list to be notified of annual application dates. My work has been in their Artist Registry since 2024. Guest curator Gemma Cirignano put together the work in this show from registry artists and wrote a beautiful exhibition text. https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/white-columns-online-38-clothesnot-fashion-curated-by-gemma-cirignano
And, this just in! I’m going to be in Fight and Flight 2, Museum of Craft and Design. Co-curated by Ariel Zaccheo and Kathy Lam, this exhibition, opening in early February 2027, is part of the programming for Northern California’s inaugural Further Triennial. https://sfmcd.org/exhibitions/fight-and-flight-2/
Does It Have Teeth?
studio newsletter and writings by Alice Wu 吳佳蓉
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5. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, at Gordon Robichaux, Manhattan, opening Nov. 8
Janet Olivia Henry: Retroactive
Frederick Weston: I’m in Here Somewhere
November 8, 2026–January 10, 2027
Opening Sunday Nov. 8, 12-6pm
Frederick Weston’s third exhibition at Gordon Robichaux, I’m in Here Somewhere, is a dramatic installation anchored by two significant, rarely exhibited works. Expanding across the width of the gallery’s longest wall, Blue Yonder (2010) exemplifies the formal, conceptual, and poetic concerns that underlie Weston’s Blue Bathroom Blues collages and poems, which he explained were “informed by dream images and the many meanings of blue.” The largest and most elaborate of these works, Blue Yonder, is a panorama of disparate images: fragments of water, sky, lightning, and clouds mingle with hallucinatory optical patterns, pharmaceutical advertising, and HIV statistics to evoke renewal and transcendence. Comprising six abutting foamcore boards, the collage spans the exact width of Weston’s bedroom wall, where he created it shortly after moving into a private apartment following his years living in SROs.
I’m in Here Somewhere/Oops Upside My Head (2005) is a life-size plaster mask of Weston’s face that the artist created during his time at VillageCare’s HIV day-treatment program in New York City. Painted with loving detail and uncanny realism, the self-portrait conjures a death mask or mourning portrait that conveys Weston’s physical and metaphysical presence. Installed on the wall of the gallery opposite the large collage, the sculpture gazes pensively out into the sublime blue field—a memorial to the artist’s eternal vision.
Janet Olivia Henry: Retroactive
Frederick Weston: I’m in Here Somewhere
November 8, 2026–January 10, 2027
Gordon Robichaux
41 Union Square West, 925 & 907
New York, NY 10003
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6. Todd Ayoung, FF Alumn, at Governor’s Island, NY, thru May 2027
Hello All,
This exhibition opened over the summer and is up till May of next year.
Fun trip to Staten Island by ferry boat:
https://www.makerspace.nyc/makerpark
Best,
Todd
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7. Fred Wilson, FF Alumn, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, thru Sept. 6, 2027
Thank you.
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8. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, new website LaughAndFlow.com
Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, PhD, FF Alumn, Launches Integrative Wellbeing Website: Laughandflow.com
Gigi’s new website, Laugh & Flow (https://laughandflow.com/), features wellbeing education offerings that integrate creativity, contemplation, and embodied practices. The site also includes information about her upcoming introductory qigong workshop at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Osher Center for Integrative Health on December 20, highlighting the benefits of qigong as a moving meditation for cultivating and transforming energy, enhancing creativity, and deepening presence.
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9. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, named 2026-27 Joe’s Pub Vanguard Artist, and more
The Vanguard Residency is a yearlong curatorial residency that celebrates the career of a singular artist who has contributed to American life and pop culture and is a part of the Joe’s Pub family of artists. This artist also sustains and leads their own artistic community while creating a body of work that stands apart from their peers.
The 2026-2027 Joe’s Pub Vanguard artist is groundbreaking entertainer and activist Murray Hill.
MURRAY HILL VANGUARD RESIDENCY PERFORMANCES:
November 5 | James Tom is… Emotionally Repressed!
November 21 | Murray Hill: Showbiz!
December 15-19 | A Murray Little Christmas (NEW DATE JUST ADDED!)
January 11 | The Anania Show
January 30 | Jenny Hagel
March 17 | Storm Marrero
May 15 | Pressure K
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10. Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez, FF Alumn, at Centro, Manhattan, Nov. 14
Estimados colegas,
Registration is now open for Archiving Home: A Community of Practice. Join us on November 14th from 10am to 5pm to learn about non-traditional diasporic archival practices & engage with the emotional, spiritual, and personal side of archiving.
Archiving Home: A Community of Practice is a collaborative initiative between CENTRO, the Dominican Studies Institute, and the Haitian Studies Institute that brings together archivists, cultural workers, and community memory practitioners engaging with diaspora- and ethnic studies-focused archives. Through shared-meals, public workshops, and collective zine-making, Archiving Home participants explored the technical and ethical challenges of working with bilingual materials, sustaining community-centered approaches, and bridging institutional practice with the lived experiences and cultural production of diasporic communities.
Part showcase, part workshop, part happening, this culminating event will highlight the work of Archiving Home participants while inviting broader dialogue and engagement with the community and other practitioners. The day will include roundtable discussions, a collaging workshop, and stations for zine-making, DIY archiving, and digitization.
Please share with anyone interested in diasporic archiving!
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/archiving-home-a-community-of-practice-tickets-1997794268436
Saludos,
Cristina
Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez
Head Librarian, Interim
Archival Collections Manager
Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Library & Archives
Hunter College Silberman Building
2180 Third Avenue, 5th Fl
New York, NY 10035
Tel: 212-396-7877
Email: cf3285@hunter.cuny.edu
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11. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Magenta Plains, Manhattan, opening Nov. 12
William Wegman: Please Stand By
Lower Level
November 12–December 19, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 19, 6–8 PM
Please note that the opening reception will take place one week after the exhibition opens
Shaping culture like few technologies before it, television played a key role in America’s post war consumer boom, beaming the country’s newfound cornucopia of goods and services into millions of living rooms across the country. Initially housed in large, box-like furniture, the television screen took its place among an explosion of novel domestic appliances, stealthily transmitting America’s new mandate of perpetual consumption to its growing audience.
As part of the first generation of artists born into a world of television, William Wegman’s early video works seem charmed by the wonders of creating one’s own “TV shows.” With new technology that allowed anyone with the basic video equipment access, a decidedly low stakes game could be played by artists within a medium that had become dominated by corporate interests almost from its inception. Exploring some of the same themes and subjects found on mainstream television (family, relationships, pets) but within a spare “set” in the studio, Wegman’s videos offered a stark contrast to the orgiastic frenzy of fast paced commerce and seamless messaging characteristic of mainstream TV.
With a boundless appreciation for the unlikely and the absurd found in popular culture, Wegman returned to painting in the 1980s and in the ‘90s he began an ongoing series of paintings which incorporate imagery from his ever-expanding postcard collection. Introduced to the canvas as found, small- format pictures, the orphaned images are anchored by illusionistic painted imagery that significantly expand their standard 4” x 6” size. Like the postcard paintings, which source widely disseminated popular imagery, the paintings of TV’s for Wegman’s Please Stand By depict icons of popular culture. But where the post card images fuse with the surface of the canvas as their illusionistic properties are repurposed on top of and within a flat picture plane, the work in this exhibition at last arrives at the source of popular imagery itself.
If today’s flat screen television sets are the equivalent of Malevich’s black square (or rectangle) when turned off, Wegman’s silent but expressive television sets reemerge from a defining era of America’s somewhat contested past. With their greenish grey screens staring blankly back at the expectant viewer (echoing the spare but captivating 1960s phenomenological experiments of Light and Space artist Robert Irwin) framed by the familiar panels and decor when “television” was synonymous with “family room,” the once highly dimensional objects that funneled endless hours of stories, products, and newsworthy events now appear on a flat canvas. The screen muted, it plays a dual role of expressing a blank “end of painting” narrative while simultaneously acknowledging the once ubiquitous era of broadcast television and the modern era from which it emerged.
As digital culture dispenses with the unifying nature of broadcast TV in favor a two-way technology that tracks our cultural and commercial interests, where “offers” appear before we’ve asked for them, and programs merge billions of data points into mono narratives that channel our consciousness like Brave New World ’s soma, an analog resurgence seems to be afoot. What began as an updating of modernist efficiency culture which lulled the user into a sense of mastery over newer, smaller devices providing faster delivery of all our wants and needs, today’s hyper-individualistic algorithms funnel us into ever tighter, isolating feedback loops.
With a growing awareness of the darker side of digital culture’s nebulous, self-reinforcing shadow world, where the fabricated and the real have become indistinguishable, the contours of the glass, wood, and fabric box that once graced living rooms across the country has a newfound appeal. Standing in this room filled with pictures of TVs without pictures, the shadows of the image world gone silent, the “blanks” are profoundly liberating, offering possibilities we can only imagine, in place of the endless flickering of images that often divert our attention from the depth of experience possible in the world right in front of us.
–Excerpted from William Wegman’s Television by Peter Scott, included in the exhibition catalog William Wegman, Please Stand By.
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12. Andrea Polli, FF Alumn, Fall/Winter news
ANDREA POLLI STUDIO FALL/WINTER 2026
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Andrea Polli’s pioneering internet artwork addressing weather and climate in the digital age is being presented in a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art curated by Christiane Paul with an associated book from Yale University Press. The exhibit opens November 21st.
Polli’s Spectrospira (2024-2025) will be featured in Lampshow at Relay in Santa Fe from November 7th to 28th. Spectrospira is a cast blown glass vessel with metallic titanium surface detailing visualizing sound wave data. More details about this work in this research article (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3800645.3812785).
Polli’s Foam Glass Vase (2024)
blown glass artwork will be presented at the Albuquerque Sunport airport as part of the New Mexico Glass Alliance celebration of contemporary glass art.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
In July, Polli presented a site specific projection of Power Drop at the Miet Artist-in-Residence in Haps, Netherlands. This animated projection was presented on the facade of Miet’s iconic greenhouse studio as part of her two-month artist’s residency at the center. Power Drop is an art/science work that visualizes infrasound wave data generated by Niagara Falls over time. More information about the art/science of Power Drop and video preview here (https://vimeo.com/1082962414).
Polli’s Gyokuzoin (2025) a single channel animation visualizing vocalizations she recorded in Nara, Japan was presented in the courtyard of the iconic Ricardo Legorreta-designed Santa Fe Art Institute as part of Light in Mind, an exhibition of public light art throughout the Santa Fe Midtown Campus in conjunction with the CODA Summit on Public Art this Fall.
More information and preview animation here. (https://vimeo.com/1148139021)
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13. Kenneth King, FF Member, at MoMA PS1 Long Island City, thru March 15, 2027
SPACE CITY, the collaborative movie by filmmakers Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn, dancer/choreographer Kenneth King, composer William-John Tudor, and painter Richard Brintzenhofe originally premiered at Lincoln Center’s 1981 Dance Film Video Festival. It will now be part of the upcoming Museum of Modern Art’s/ MOMA, PS1 show “New York Fashion at PS1, 1980-80” opening on November 5, 2026 and running thru March 15, 2027 in Long Island City, NY. The costumes are by award-winning designer Ronald Kolodzie who will be featured, and the first scene of the movie was shot in PS1’s attic. Here’s the link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdiwTPwn1ks
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14. Leslie Lowe at Allied Project Space, Manhattan, thru Nov. 29, and more
Leslie Lowe (1952-2026)
Mystic in the Making
November 2- 29
Finissage reception
Nov. 29 Sunday 6-8pm.
Visiting hours 12-5pm. Monday – Thursday or by appointment.212 529 8815
Allied Project Space
368 East 8th St. Storefront West
Leslie Lowe was an essential part of the Downtown scene particularly ABC No Rio as painter and filmmaker, collaborating with Jack Waters to establish the roving film screening project Naked Eye Cinema.
Leslie’s devotion to the mystical and occult arts included a deep fascination with Egyptology and Santeria – from tarot readings to devotional candles to the incorporation of Santeria figures in her paintings. Couple that a love of larger than life personas such as Keith Richards, Elvis Presley and Maria Callas that were reflected in paintings, drawings and costumes including operatic figures such as Tosca or Marie Laveau. Exhibition will include paintings, drawing, monoprints, sketchbooks, diaries and devotional objets.
A potluck memorial celebration of Leslie will take place Sunday November 15 from 3-6pm. at Parkside Lounge 317 E Houston St. All are invited to attend.
Please RSVP to petercramer@alliedproductions.org
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15. Fred Hatt, FF Alumn, at Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, thru Nov. 29
My projection piece PHOTOTROPISM is included in the exhibition The Moving Image, presented by the Lace Mill Arts and the Woodstock Film Festival, opening Saturday, November 7, 5-9 pm at the Lace Mill in Kingston, NY, and on view Saturdays and Sundays noon-4 pm for the remainder of November. The show features moving image work by artists Nancy Ostrovsky, Carl Cox, Dakota Lane, Archil Pichkhadze, Sebastian Alaron, and JW Cornbroom, curated by JW Cornbroom. Exhibition will be open November 7 thru November 29, open Saturdays and Sundays 1-4 pm. The Lace Mill is at 165 Cornell Street, Kingston, NY. For a brief video sample of imagery from Phototropism please follow this link: https://vimeo.com/1240759650
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16. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY, Nov. 12-21
Greetings, Friends and Neighbors:
I’m pleased to be part of the production of LEGACY, written and directed by Shauna Kanter, to be presented by Voice Theatre in beautiful uptown Kingston NY.
LEGACY is a haunting music theatre piece based on a true story of one young American man’s cowardice and courage as he rescues a Jewish family out of Berlin in 1939. Using false papers David travels to Berlin to rescue Vera and her two daughters.
Live music is performed by noted clarinetist Margot Leverett, and myself, along with a vocal ensemble in the cast.
Performances take place at Bethany Hall, in the Old Dutch Church 272 Wall Street, in uptown Kingston, NY.
Thursday Nov 12 – 7PM
Saturday Nov 14 – 2PM and 7PM
Thursday Nov 19 – 7PM
Friday Nov 20 – 7PM
Saturday Nov 21 – 2PM and 7PM
Follow link below for tickets and details.
https://www.voicetheatre.org/legacy-2
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17. Hannes Egger, FF Alumn, at Palazzo Morosini-Strozzi, Venice, Italy, Nov. 20-23
DUST
Hannes Egger
20–23 November 2026
Spazio Malvasia – Palazzo Morosini-Strozzi
Cannaregio 4505, Venice
Opening hours: 3–7 pm
Curated by Valentina Muzi
Following its initial presentation, DUST by Hannes Egger continues in Venice with a second chapter of the project, hosted by Spazio Malvasia from 20 to 23 November 2026.
At the centre of the installation is an old desk, an everyday object associated with work, memory and human presence. On it, a small saucer holds dust: the fine residue of a building destroyed by war. This is not a representation of ruin, but what remains of it as matter—a physical trace in which architecture, private life and violence intertwine.
A drone moves through the space, lifting the dust and dispersing it into the surrounding environment. Freed from its container, the material spreads across the exhibition space and reaches the audience, transforming dust into a mobile archive of destruction.
In this second chapter, the drone’s mechanical movement activates a seemingly inert material, turning the exhibition space into a site of passage and dispersal. Those who move through the installation thus come into metaphorical contact with what remains of the destruction.
DUST explores whether the memory of an event can continue to exert its effects even when the event itself lies far in the past, through a minimal and almost invisible material. Dust becomes what remains: a presence that extends beyond the site of the ruin, leaving traces on bodies, in spaces and in memory.
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18. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteColumns.org thru Dec. 11
Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, White Columns Online, Clothes, not Fashion
October 30 – December 11, 2026
Betty Beaumont is featured in the current online exhibition, Clothes, not Fashion, on view at White Columns until December 11, 2026. Curated by Gemma Ciriqnano, the exhibition comments on the hyper-consumptive nature of the modern fashion system. In 1967, semiologist Roland Barthes published The Fashion System, an analysis on French fashion magazines. Barthes argues that each article of clothing contains three garments: real clothing (the physical object and its invisible labor), image-clothing (the photograph or illustration), and written clothing (the description or rhetorical code). “Building upon Barthes’ rhetoric of fashion, the artists in Clothes, not Fashion, Betty Beaumont, Hatty Buchanan, Lu Heintz, Kathleen King, Pol Morton, Noah Pica, Ido Radon, Claire Watson, and Alice Wu, explore identity, waste, labor, and exploitation through the recuperation of real clothing, the reimagination of image-clothing, and the reinterpretation of written clothing. Through the use and reimagining of everyday materials, Beaumont encourages viewers, as Gemma Cirignano states in the exhibition’s press release, to “slow down and recognize clothing not as an algorithmic trend, duplicable design, or disposable commodity.” The exhibition emphasizes that clothing is more than a fleeting fadencouraging consumption and disposal; garments can also serve as tangible expressions of lived experiences, personal narratives, and acts of resistance.
Beaumont is featured twice in the exhibition. The first work, Landfill Bound (2022), is a large installation that highlights the fashion industry’s waste and its environmental consequences. The work visualizes this accumulation of waste through a large, constructed pile of clothing. It is accompanied by Words Matter, the pink satin hanger series. The text refers to the environmental disaster caused by the textile industry focusing on: water, emissions, and consumption. The second work featured by Beaumont is Prêt-A-Porter (2019). Combined with tags naming contributors, highly designed and produced bags are affixed to wire clothes hangers, acting as surrogates for both the garment and the individual. Appropriating the language of branding, this
sculptural assemblage questions society’s notions of value and identity.
Click here to see the exhibition.
Betty Beaumont has received numerous grants and awards including the Distinguished Alumni Award (University of California, Berkeley), the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Gottlieb Foundation and Creative Capital grants, and National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships. In addition to exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Japan, South Korea, South America, Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S., Beaumont has shown internationally at museums including the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo and Kyoto), Bibliotheca Nacional de Cuba José Marti (Havana), and in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, Katonah Museum, and MoMA PS1. Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, SUNY Purchase, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University. She has produced work in a variety of media including photography, sculpture, installations, public interventions, and new media.
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19. Jennifer Andrews, FF Alumn, at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10
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