Contents for February 19, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Leonard Steinbach, FF Member, In Memoriam
Weekly spotlight: 2024-25 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Application Information Session
- David Cale, FF Alumn, wins a Grammy Award and more
- Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, at Tate Modern, London, UK, thru Sept.
- Ayan Evans GOODW.Y.N., Nile Harris, Tsedaye Makonnen, FF Alumns, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, April-June
- Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at Q.E.D., Astoria, Queens, NY, March 14
- Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Amy Khoshbin, FF Alumns, at CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, thru June 7
- Cindy Sherman, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
- Jeanette Andrews, Jane Hammond, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL, thru May 12
- Claudia Demonte, FF Alumn, at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY, thru May 16
- Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Manchester Art Gallery, UK, opening Mar. 7 and more
- Anna Banana, AA Bronson, K8 Hardy, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, now online at NewYorker.com
- Tei Blow, Nile Harris, Sharon Hayes, Guadalupe Maravilla, FF Alumns, receive 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts artists’ grants
- Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at Bellevue College, WA, thru April 11
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Leonard Steinbach, FF Member, In Memoriam
Leonard Steinbach 1952 – 2024
Leonard Steinbach, 71, passed away unexpectedly on January 19, 2024, while preparing to attend a jazz performance – one of at least five cultural events he would attend in any given week. He was big-hearted, out-spoken, vibrant, gregarious, modest guy who radiated friendship. He was an active sponsor of the arts. His loss deeply saddens his family, friends, and colleagues.
Born on July 11, 1952, in New York City, Len graduated from Stony Brook University and pursued graduate studies at New York University. He was recognized worldwide as a pioneering Technology Strategist Consultant, and thought leader for various museums and institutions, including positions as Chief Technology Officer at the Guggenheim Museum and Chief Information Officer at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He was a Lecturer in Graduate Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Fellow in Cultural and Heritage Management for City University of Hong Kong, Consultant for Museum Systems for the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, the Walters Museum in Baltimore, and Adjunct Faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he received two American Alliance of Museums Media and Technology MUSE awards. He was also an avid supporter of the ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, among other progressive causes. Based in New York City, he was a loyal champion of numerous independent galleries and performance spaces, including Central Booking. His networking skills tangibly connected both emerging and established artists to bolster numerous visual art, theater, and music careers.
In addition to his active professional life, Len had a passion for travel, most recently attending the Fringe Festival in Scotland, and going on a safari in Africa. He was also an avid collector/restorer of vintage transistor and tabletop radios. Mentored by his father, Len could disassemble, reassemble, and repair 60s-era electronics by age nine. His lifelong adventures informed his indefatigable spirit, from countless visits to the 1964 New York World’s Fair, to the Woodstock Music Festival, to organizing a party on the Brooklyn Bridge, and daring to skydive to celebrate his sixth decade of life.
He was the older of two children born to Julie and Gerson Steinbach in New York City. Condolences may be sent to his surviving, younger sister, Sharon Steinbach, 401 East 65th Street, #6G, New York, NY 10065.
Contributions may be made in his memory to the art, culture, social justice, and Jewish causes that matter most to you.
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Weekly Spotlight: 2024-25 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Application Information Session
Interested in being one of our 2024-2025 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Recipients? For this info session, we are joined by multidisciplinary artist, Franklin FUND Recipient and 2023-24 FUND panelist Amy Khoshbin, Franklin Furnace Ken Dewey Director Harley Spiller and Program Manager Xinan Helen Ran.
The Info Session will provide details about new funding opportunities, how to apply for a Franklin Furnace FUND support, and helpful tips on grant-writing and answers to questions regarding different sections of our guidelines.
Amy Khoshbin is an Iranian-American Brooklyn-based artist, activist, and educator. Her practice, as an artist and pedagogue, builds bridges between disparate communities to counteract fear with a collective sense of empowered radical acceptance. She pushes the formal and conceptual boundaries of artmaking to foster progressive social change through performance, social practice, video, rap music, installation, tattooing, teaching and writing. She has shown at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Times Square Arts, Artpace, The High Line, Socrates Sculpture Park, VOLTA Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, Arsenal Contemporary, National Sawdust, BRIC Arts, and festivals such as River to River and South by Southwest. She has received residencies at spaces such as The Watermill Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Project for Empty Space, Anderson Ranch, and Banff Centre for the Arts. She has received a NYFA Grant, Franklin Furnace Fund and a Rema Hort Mann Grant. Khoshbin received an MFA from New York University in Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Film and Media Studies at University of Texas at Austin. She has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, House of Trees, Tina Barney, and poet Anne Carson among others.
Registration link
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkcuysrT0uE9J10BCr8zsnISblyq4HjYXG#/registration
2024-25 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art
https://franklinfurnace.org/grants-and-funding/the-fund
Amy Khoshbin
Thank you.
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1. David Cale, FF Alumn, wins a Grammy Award and more
Amazing news! The box set that I designed for “The Birdsong Project” has received a Grammy Award for Best Box Set!
(Just finding out. No-one told me!)
And
at Ambassadors Theatre, London, UK, beginning March 9
David Cale’s play, “Harry Clarke,” directed by Leigh Silverman, and starring Billy Crudup, will open at the Ambassadors Theatre on London’s West End beginning March 9 and will run till May 11, 2024. The production marks English-born Cale’s U.K. debut.
https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/harry-clarke/ambassadors-theatre/
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2. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, at Tate Modern, London, UK, thru Sept.
Please visit this link:
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/yoko-ono
Thank you.
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3. Ayan Evans GOODW.Y.N., Nile Harris, Tsedaye Makonnen, FF Alumns, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, April-June
Dear friends and colleagues,
I hope you are well and having a lovely winter.
I’m delighted to invite you to CPR’s 2024 Spring Season! This season at CPR, artists are working between movement, writing, humor, desire, and ritual – with new work and research by our 2024 Artists-in-Residence and an expansive network of artists, organizations, and guest curators.
I hope you’ll have an opportunity to visit us this spring to discover new work by these incisive, playful, and radical artists. The full season calendar is below.
Warmly,
Alex Rosenberg
CPR’s 2024 Spring Season
OPEN LAB
Performance Series – Anh Vo: introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất)
Mondays, February 19 & 26 and March 4, 11, 18, & 25 at 6 P.M.
OPEN STUDIOS
Noise x Movement: Qiujiang Levi Lu, Lucie Vítková with Leo Chang, and Kwami Winfield, curated by Leo Chang
Thurs, February 22 at 7 P.M.
OPEN DOOR
Starr Reading Series (Co-Presented with The Bushwick Starr)
Tues, February 27 at 7 P.M.: Deneen Reynolds-Knott
Weds, February 28 at 7 P.M.: Aeon Andreas
Thurs, February 29 at 7 P.M.: Utkarsh Rajawat
Tues, March 5 at 7 P.M.: Avi Amon
Weds, March 6 at 7 P.M.: Genevieve Simon
OPEN LAB
Book Launch: Being Work with Dorothy Dubrule, effie bowen, Paul Hamilton, and Mireya Lucio
Thurs, March 14 at 7:30 P.M.
OPEN STUDIOS
Leroy Presents: a look at what’s cooking with Peter BD, Lex Brown, and Yoshie Sakai, curated by Azikiwe Mohammed
Sun, March 24 at 5 P.M.
OPEN LAB
Sermon with Nocturnal Medicine
Weds, April 3 at 7:30 P.M.
OPEN LAB
Letter Writing as Performance, Response, and Fuel for Protest with GOODW.Y.N.
Tues, April 9 from 6:30–8:00 P.M.
OPEN STUDIOS
Money Ruined the World: Nicolas Baird, A.L. Steiner, cy x (as hell hooks), and agustine zegers, curated by Anna Muselmann
Tues, April 16 at 7:30 P.M.
OPEN AiR
x: this is not a cult
Sat, May 4 at time TBC
OPEN AiR
Rebecca Patek: Tough Titties
Thurs, May 16 at 7:30 P.M.
OPEN AiR
Malcolm-x Betts: what happens when things become undone?
Tues, May 21 at 7:30 P.M.
OPEN STUDIOS
Oren Barnoy, Dominica Greene, Seta Morton, and Stevfni.XYZ, curated by Sarah Michelson
Weds, May 22 at 7:30 P.M.
TECHNICAL RESIDENCY
Nile Harris
May 28 – June 3 (closed to the public)
OPEN STAGE: SPRING MOVEMENT
Giving You the Best That We Got: The Ayana & Tsedaye Variety Show (with Tsedaye on Video)
Fri, June 14 and Sat, June 15 at 7 P.M.
OPEN AiR
Dorchel Haqq: Untitled Work-in-Progress
Sat, June 22 from 5–8 P.M. (Opening and Offering)
Sun, June 23 from 1–5 P.M. (Gallery Hours)
Free and open to the public.
For more information, please visit
Alexandra Rosenberg
Executive Director
pronouns: she/her
CPR – Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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4. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at Q.E.D., Astoria, Queens, NY, March 14
“Q.E.D” performance venue in Astoria. 27-16 23rd Ave, Queens, NY 11105 March 14, 2024, 7:30 pm et. with NY / Ireland icon Brendan Fay and others… in a working class New Yorker story series hosted by John McDonagh (WBAI) and Al Gonzales (retired from 140 Precinct, South Bronx).
Get tickets at
https://qedastoria.com/products/from-the-bqe-to-qed?event=2024-03-14T19:30:00
Hear from the people who keep NYC running: taxi drivers, artists, construction workers, cabbies, cops, firemen, community activists, — with a gripping story to tell. Every month will also feature a storyteller from the Fortune Society, giving a unique perspective of the ups and downs of life in NYC. Every second Thursday of the month, 7:30pm.
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5. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Amy Khoshbin, FF Alumns, at CUNY Graduate Center, Manhattan, thru June 7
Textures of Feminist Perseverance at James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center Thu, Feb 15, 2024 – Fri, Jun 7, 2024
https://centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/exhibitions/feminist-textures-of-perseverance-1
Opening reception February 28th, 6-8pm.
Thank you.
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6. Cindy Sherman, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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7. Jeanette Andrews, Jane Hammond, Robin Tewes, FF Alumns, at Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL, thru May 12
Smoke and Mirrors:
Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art
On View November 15 – May 12
As South Florida’s museums from Palm Beach to Miami present their highly anticipated offerings for Art Basel Season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is especially poised to lead the pack with a one-two-punch this year: the world premiere of the Tieger Award-winning exhibition Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art, and the sleek new high-speed rail station just blocks from the Museum’s front door, luring visitors with a quick escape off the beaten path from the art fairs. The new group show was originated by Kathleen Goncharov, the Senior Curator of the Museum.
This exhibition of works by 30 artists opens November 15 until May 12, and is anchored by an entire gallery of phantasmagorical installations by the globally acclaimed artist Tony Oursler, celebrated worldwide for asking the pressing question: what happens when the occult is confronted by its mirror image of technology? Among the 30 artists are: Urs Fischer, Alfredo Jaar, Jim Shaw, Faisal Abdu’Allah, Sarah Charlesworth, Christian Jankowski, Glenn Kaino, Michael Ray Charles, Gavin Turk, Kristin Lucas, Robin Tewes, Jacob Hicks, Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Mark Thomas Gibson, Jeanette Andrews, Stephen Berkman, Jane Hammond, and The Yes Men.
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8. Claudia Demonte, FF Alumn, at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY, thru May 16
The Psychology of Portraiture
Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College
A New Queens College Exhibition, “The Psychology of Portraiture,”
February 15 – May 16, 2024
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9. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Manchester Art Gallery, UK, opening Mar. 7 and more
Premiere: Uncertain Future
A Three-channel Film Installation
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK:
Opens March 7, 2024
Stories of Women, Work and Uncertain Futures is the third, and concluding, exhibition of Uncertain Futures, an immense collaborative work combining art, research and activism that spans five years. It explores paid and unpaid work by women over 50, focusing on gender, age, race, disability, class, and migration. Created with women from Manchester’s diverse communities, it aims to create civic, change and affect social policy. Project highlights include publication in the Gerontology Society of America Journal, selection for the Progress Report on the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing, 2021-2023, and policy recommendations as laid out in a new publication: Uncertain Futures: 100 Women, a research report on the inequalities facing women in Manchester around work.
A new three-channel film, made with Manchester filmmaker Mark Thomas, highlights the multiple inequalities around work faced by women as they age. Excerpts from 100 interviews undertaken in 2021 are narrated within a theatrical space by a core group of project leaders. The layered voices and accounts confuse identities and verify the universality of these experiences. The film will be shown alongside a project manifesto calling for change made by the Advisory Group, a photograph of the 100 women interviewed and a documentary that outlines the research findings.
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
February 3rd – May 4th, 2024
L’altra sorgente (‘The Other Source’)
Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy
The Crystal Quilt is featured on the cover of Segno #294
December 17 – June 30, 2024
Shamans Communicating with the Invisible
Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
Organized by MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Mart – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, and METS – Trentino Ethnographic Museum of San Michele all’Adige. Curated by Mart curator Gabriele Lorenzoni and anthropologist Massimiliano Nicola Mollona.
April 12 – April 21, 2024
Love is a Verb festival
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
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10. Anna Banana, AA Bronson, K8 Hardy, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, now online at NewYorker.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Tei Blow, Nile Harris, Sharon Hayes, Guadalupe Maravilla, FF Alumns, receive 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts artists’ grants
https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/
Thank you.
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12. Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at Bellevue College, WA, thru April 11
Fibonacci Footprint leaves an Impression at Bellevue College
Bellevue College Gallery Space
February 9- April 11
Artwork by Kite Arner, Holly Ballard Martz, Mary Coss, Nichol Devoy, Lucia Enriquez, Melinda Hurst Frye, Cara Jaye, Amanda Manitach, Beverly Naidus, Debbie Tuepah
“Individually, we make isolated choices that may have only a tiny impact on CO2 levels, but that impact will echo almost forever.” Dale Durran – Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Belleuve, Washington, January 17, 2024 Ten Northwest artists explore Global Warming through paintings, sculpture, installation and video, each focusing on varying topics of climate concern: rising water, food systems, colonization, environmental pollution, and microplastics. The exhibition Fibonacci Footprint runs from February 9 through April 11 at Bellevue College Gallery Space this winter. The exhibit provides insight into the causes of lobal warming and what we can do to help heal the planet.
The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical phenomenon found in nature that has captivated the human eye and imagination for millennia. Its structure underlies patterns in everything from plant growth to musical compositions, it’s even woven throughout the human body. Its spiral form can also be used to describe the trajectory of an exponentially-expanding climate problem spiraling out of control. As the intertwined engines of capitalism and colonialism have wrought unchecked havoc on earth in recent centuries, we now find ourselves awash in the palpable effects of global warming.
Fibonacci Footprint approaches this new reality through the lens of art. Artists can say what scientists can’t. They bring feeling to the facts, translating data into knowledge, which in turn empowers change. This exhibit unpacks the difficult data, each work the result of thoughtful research aligned with passionate feeling. Some works were built through ongoing dialogue between artists and biologists, geologists and psychologists, some done in active collaboration with these scientists.
Rather than leave a sense of helplessness in their wake, the works ultimately offer a re-centering of agency. Corporations are not the only agents of action; the impact of individual actions are exponential as well. Healing also spirals outward. As the impacts of climate change infiltrate all aspects of society and everyday life, may our efforts equally expand in answer, and ripple ever outward, toward change.
The exhibit location is the Bellevue College Gallery Space https://www.bellevuecollege.edu/galleryspace/ (D271) located next to the library on the second floor of Building D. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 15th from 4-7 pm, and a closing reception on Thursday, April 11th from 4-7 pm. Gallery Hours: Monday 9:30-7, Wednesday 1-7, Thursday 12-2:15, Friday 9-1:30 and by appointment. Parking is available in Visitors Lot 12.
For high resolution images and additional info, please contact: fibonaccifootprint@gmail.com
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