Contents for February 17th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Walter Robinson, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Jaye Rhee, FF Alumn, at Locust Projects, Miami, FL, thru April 5
2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, Gilda Pervin, FF Alumns, at the 2025
3. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online at Bookarts.uwe.ac.uk
4. Tom Murrin, FF Alumn, at HOWL! Happening, Manhattan, opening April 4
5. Nina Sobell, Joseph Nechvatal, Arleen Schloss, FF Alumns, at Galerie Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, France, opening March 8
6. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at Kasmin Gallery, Manhattan, extended thru Feb. 20
7. Bee (Beverly) Naidus, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at Santa Fe Art Institute, NM, Feb. 21, and more
8. Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, at 601 Artspace, Manhattan, opening Feb. 21
9. Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Shoebox, Los Angeles, CA, opening March 1
10. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at WhitehotMagazine.com
11. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1057059304
12. Ann Messner, FF Alumn, at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, opening Feb. 22
13. Barbara Pollack, FF Alumn, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 14
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Walter Robinson, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit these links:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-writer-walter-robinson-obituary-2606724
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/arbiter-critical-pleasures-is-gone/6798
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/arts/walter-robinson-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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1. Jaye Rhee, FF Alumn, at Locust Projects, Miami, FL, thru April 5
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, Gilda Pervin, FF Alumns, at the 2025
Training Institute for Arts-in-Healthcare and Creative Aging, The Creative Center, Manhattan, Mar. 3-8
To register go to: https://www.thecreativecenter.org/institute-2025
For full event schedule: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62a16804a6b68b09daa8ab41/t/67a616493f9e6a28d34fd6fc/1738937930699/2025+Training+Institute+Full+Program+Schedule.pdf
Virtual event schedule: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62a16804a6b68b09daa8ab41/t/67a6169ae344747eb8ce22a4/1738938011227/2025+Training+Institute+Virtual+Program+Schedule.pdf
THE 2025 TRAINING INSTITUTE
Creating a Culture of Connection Through the Arts
This year’s attendees can anticipate immersive days featuring experiential skill-building, embodied learning, and insightful discourse.
Through a diverse range of talks, panel presentations, and art workshops, our team of experienced staff and presenters will offer contemporary knowledge, first-hand experience, and expert insight into this exciting field.
By the end of the program, participants will have gained valuable knowledge on implementing and sustaining high-quality arts programming in settings for individuals living with cancer, chronic illness, their caregivers, and older adults across the aging spectrum.
LEADERS IN THE FIELD WILL SHARE PRESENTATIONS COVERING AN ARRAY OF TOPICS, INCLUDING
Innovation at the Intersection of Art and Medicine with NYC Health + Hospitals and The Creative Center
Hospital Artist-In-Residence Programming & Best Practices
The Utilization of Storytelling for Transformation in Arts, Culture & Health
Developing Your Work with People Living with Dementia and their Care Partners: The Arts & Minds Approach
Honest Aging: Your Body, Mind and Soul
Coordinating Engagement and Education in Museum Access Programming
To Live and Work as an Older Adult Artist in NYC: Studio visits to the home and workplace of two older adult artists.
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3. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online at Bookarts.uwe.ac.uk
Essay on gender pronouns in “Book Arts Newsletter,” London / online
Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alum, essay on gender pronouns in “Book Arts Newsletter,” London / online
https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/pdf/newspdfs/165.pdf
“A Crack in the Sidewalk, “Barbara Rosenthal’s roving column, appears in the Feb/March issue of “Book Arts Newsletter.”
Entitled “E Created the Heavens: A Novel Approach to Gender in English,” the essay formalizes words and sounds that Rosenthal has been jockeying for decades. And the article is illustrated by photos of decades worth of manuscript pages from the drafts of her books in which she crafted these constructions.
Click the link and scroll down this issue, chock full of lots about the books and writings of artists, to read Barbara Rosenthal’s full article, but here’s the gist of three strategies:
1. The “[sic]” Strategy
2. Two Plural Strategies
a. They/their/them
3. The Reduction-to-E Strategy
He/She = E
Him/Her = Em
His/Hers = Es
Himself/Herself = Emself
OLD: “He/She/They flew the plane to Boston.”
“Leslie’s parents gave him/her/them the present.”
“The apartment used to be his/hers/theirs.”
“That’s his/her/their hat.”
“The doctor decorated the waiting room by himself/herself/themself.”
NEW: “E flew the plane to Boston.”
“Leslie’s parents gave em the present.”
“The apartment used to be es.”
“That’s es hat.”
“The doctor decorated the waiting room by emself.
OR EVEN, the more radical “one letter strategy,” which you might try to improve — the nouns work, but the pronouns work in speech but not in text.
“I flew the plane to Boston.”
“E flew the plane to Boston.”
“U flew the plane to Boston.”
“Leslie’s parents gave m the present.”
“The apartment used to be s.”
“That’s s hat.”
“The doctor decorated the waiting room by mself.”
4. Substituting genderless nouns
Names, relationships and professions can be substituted for. And certainly no need for the already archaic “ess,” examples “poetess,” and “sculptress.”
Written:
Mother/Father = Parent
Aunt/Uncle = Parent’s Sibling (or try “Unt)
Brother/Sister = Sib
Husband/Wife = Spouse
Son/Daughter = Child
Man/Woman = Person
She/He = example: Robin; The doctor
Ms./Mrs./Mr. = Mx. (or just leave it off. Or use the person’s professional honorific: Dr., Reverend; etc. https://formsofaddress.info/mx/
Spoken, directly addressing:
Madam/Sir = Comrade/Citizen/Friend/Buddy/Boss/Dude/Darlin’/Kiddo/Pal/Ace, etc. (or just “Pardon me, please.”)
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4. Tom Murrin, FF Alumn, at HOWL! Happening, Manhattan, opening April 4
Tom Murrin ‘The Alien Comic’ Opens at Howl! Happening
6 East 1st Street
Friday April 4, 6 to 9PM.
Jane Friedman and Howl! are thrilled to present this comprehensive, yet spontaneous and playful exhibition at Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street where Tom had performed when it was the La Mama Galleria. Our exhibition will include over 200 performance masks, props and costumes, alongside selected flyers, posters, scripts, photographs, press and unique ephemera from his performances in New York City, the USA, and around the globe.
“I’m talking about the political scene of the day, I’m talking about the weather, I’m talking about a dream I had, I’m talking about breaking up with a girlfriend, I’m talking about whatever I feel like talking about, but I’m making the props and the visuals fit along with it in some way, and then changing the visual as fast as I can.” – Tom, from an interview with Jim Moore.
Back in the 1970’s Tom first traversed the world as a street performance trailblazer; especially throughout Asia (India, Japan, Phillipines, Thailand). He presented daily shows in both outdoor public spaces, and indoor theater spaces for months. Howl’s exhibition will share documentation, press and posters from these early events along with a cornucopia of his archive illustrating his countless performances during the following decades.
Tom was a member of the first generation of La MaMa playwrights. He wrote four plays performed through La MaMa and produced by John Vacarro’s Play-House of the Ridiculous, including the offbeat hit, Cock Strong, which toured with Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa Troupe to Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. His plays Sport-Fuckers and Butt-Crack Bingo were produced at Theater for the New City and La MaMa and directed by David Levine.
His frenetic shows fashioned kooky narratives out of found objects and homemade masks and made him a longtime favorite in the downtown avant-garde arts scene – Bruce Weber, NYT.
Under the guidance of close friend, rock manager Jane Friedman, Tom began to perform under the name Alien Comic, opening for acclaimed punk bands in rock clubs such as CBGBs, Max’s Kansas City and Irving Plaza. He appeared in such downtown venues as The Pyramid, Mudd Club, 8BC, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Performance Space 122 (now PSNY), Dixon Place, Chandalier, Darinka and more. Tom was also the first performance artist to appear at the original Dixon Place in 1986. Beginning in the mid 80s, Tom performed in, and curated his monthly lunar celebration called The Full Moon Show, in which he and other artists thanked the moon goddess ‘Luna Macaroona’ for shining good fortune upon the world. It rotated among downtown spaces, then continued in his honor at Howl! Happening for six more years.
About Tom Murrin and our Tom Murrin Archive Exhibition
Howl! is the repository of the Tom Murrin Archive comprising handmade masks, costumes, scripts, correspondence, photographs, and tapes of his performances going back to the early 1970s. Murrin (1939 – 2012) also known as The Alien Comic and Jack Bump, was a pioneer whose life and work inspired both artists and audiences for over four decades. We look forward to seeing you at this celebratory exhibition.
Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project
6 East 1st Street
New York, NY 10003
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5. Nina Sobell, Joseph Nechvatal, Arleen Schloss, FF Alumns, at Galerie Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, France, opening March 8
March 8 and come to Paris! for the show of Women Artists of the Rivington School, Then & Now — Galerie Memorie de l’Avenir in the Belleville arrondissement — 45/47 Ramponeau, 20eme — I am in the first month of this big show of women artists connected thru activity in the Lower East Side art scene of the 80’s – and moving beyond -)45/47 rue Ramponeau, Paris 20e
https://www.memoire-a-venir.org
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6. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at Kasmin Gallery, Manhattan, extended thru Feb. 20
JUDITH BERNSTEIN: PUBLIC FEARS
Kasmin Gallery
509 West 27th Street, New York, NY
EXTENDED THRU FEB 20TH
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7. Bee (Beverly) Naidus, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at Santa Fe Art Institute, NM, Feb. 21, and more
Ruth Wallen and I are giving this talk below next week. And we’re having an open studio next week as well. https://sfai.org/event/feb-2025-open-studios/
Warmly, Bee (Beverly) NAIDUS
LASER Talk: Navigating Grief, Fear, and Denial in a Time of Ecological Unraveling with Bee (Beverly) Naidus and Ruth Wallen
Open Studios
Join us for two events at SFAI for the Community of Practice in partnership with SciArt Santa Fe. Our creative practices are part of the tool kit that can help us navigate the many challenges of our time. Even though the new iteration of corruption and ignorance in seats of power appear to be hellbent on destroying our ecosystems, artists as storytellers, vision makers, healers, deep listeners, collaborators, and tricksters can provide compasses for the unknown terrain we are encountering.
Date
February 21
Time
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Santa Fe Art Institute + Google Map
1600 St Michaels Drive, Building #31
Santa Fe, NM 87505 United States
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8. Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, at 601 Artspace, Manhattan, opening Feb. 21
Care / Condition / Control
Curated by A.E. Chapman
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge St, NYC
Feb 22 – April 27, 2025
OPENING WEEKEND
Friday, Feb 21 from 6-8pm – Opening Reception with a performance at 7pm by Armando Guadalupe Cortés.
Saturday, Feb 22 at 2pm – O’ Canada, a talk with Vancouver-based artists Rebecca Bair and Germaine Koh and curator A.E. Chapman.
Rebecca Bair
John Coplans
Armando Guadalupe Cortés
Cristina de Gennaro
Magdalena Dukiewicz
Oasa DuVerney
Jarrett Key
Germaine Koh
Greer Lankton
Meryl Meisler
Sara Messinger
Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman
Calli Roche
Joseph Rodriguez
Cindy Sherman
Melissa Stern
Trish Tillman
Humans are obsessed with hair. And hair is never just hair. It is quite literally how people frame themselves to signal their desired appearance to others. Individuals use hair as an expressive language to convey both their individuality and collective affiliations, and societies in turn regulate hair as a means to enforce and maintain social control.
The works in Care / Condition / Control subvert notions of hair as abject, superficial, and frivolous, exploring the tensions between hair’s provocative and mutable capacity for creative expression and the enforced suppression of that expression. By reclaiming hair’s potential for transformation, subversion, and celebration, these artists consider, critique, and reimagine what it means to care, condition, and control.
Find more about the exhibition here https://601artspace.cargo.site/admin/37215580.
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9. Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Shoebox, Los Angeles, CA, opening March 1
Kathy Nida and I worked on a piece together for this show. This was a collage, then Kathy worked her magic on it making it into a quilt. She sent me the outline drawing from one of her quilts and I made it into a collage. The show opens in LA at Shoebox March 1st. https://shoeboxprojects.com/
Thank you
Moya Devine
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10. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at WhitehotMagazine.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1057059304
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
“What is the point of this?”
said Monkey & Man:
PZ, FEBRUARY 15, 2025
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12. Ann Messner, FF Alumn, at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, opening Feb. 22
Dear friends
I am happy to be presenting a recent body of work, ‘the atlases’, at the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City in the exhibition Open Book(s). Ysabel Pinyol Blasi, director of Monira Foundation, has very generously given me an adjacent room to the group exhibition, so that the atlases can be shown as a collective body. Mana Contemporary is a short walk from the Pathtrain Journal Square stop. The opening will be Saturday February 22 from 4-6. The work will be installed at the Foundation until July 1.
I hope you will get a chance to see the exhibit.
Ann Messner
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13. Barbara Pollack, FF Alumn, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 14
Please visit this link:
https://www.janelombardgallery.com/exhibitions/75-facial-recognition-curated-by-barbara-pollack
Thank you.
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