Contents for February 02nd, 2026
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Theodore S. Berger, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Info Session on Zoom, February 4, 7-8pm ET
1. Robert Atkins, Cynthia Carr, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Marlon Riggs, James M. Saslow, Julia Scher, Sarah Schulman, Andres Serrano, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, FF Alumns, new publication release at LGBT Center, Manhattan, March 1
2. Kris Grey, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, FF Alumns, at 601 Artspace, Manhattan, Feb. 7
3. Robbin Ami Silverberg & András Böröcz, FF Alumns, at 10th CODEX Artist Book Fair, Oakland, CA, Feb. 7-10 and more
4. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
5. Marian Goodman, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Yale University, New Haven, CT, Feb. 4 and more
7. Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, FF Alumns, at Norrebro Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 30-May 17
8. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
9. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, awarded 2026 Religion and the Arts Award
10. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, Mar. 21-Apr. 25
11. Constance DeJong, Joan Jonas, FF Alumns, at Judson Memorial Church, Manhattan, Feb. 13
12. Eric Bogosian, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Feb. 7
13. Max Gimblett, FF Member, at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, opening Feb. 7
14. Lance Horne, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, March 1
15. Gabrielle Hamilton, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, Jan. 25
16. Jeffrey Schrier, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley MoCA, Peekskill, NY, opening Feb. 7
17. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, Feb. 12
18. Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, at Jim Kempner Fine Art, Manhattan, Feb. 12
19. Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, new publication
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Theodore S. Berger, In Memoriam
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our friend and colleague Theodore S. Berger. Ted died peacefully on Thursday January 29th, surrounded by his family and friends. He remained steadfast as an advocate for the arts and social justice. Funeral services: Monday February 2nd, at 11 am Congregation B’Nai Jeshurun Sanctuary, 257 W. 88th St. (Between West End Avenue and Broadway). Burial Tuesday February 3 at 1 pm. Lincoln Park Cemetery 1469 Post Road Warwick RI 02888
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Info Session on Zoom, February 4, 7-8pm ET
Upcoming Info Session: February 4, 2026, 7-8pm ET.
Interested in being one of our 2026 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Recipients? For this info session, we were joined by multidisciplinary artist, 2017 Franklin FUND Recipient and panelist Verónica Peña (http://www.veronicapena.com/), Franklin Furnace Ken Dewey Director Harley Spiller and Program Director Xinan Helen Ran.
The Info Session provided details about different funding opportunities, how to apply for a Franklin Furnace FUND support as an early career artist, and helpful tips on grant-writing and answers to questions regarding different sections of our guidelines.
Zoom RSVP: https://shorturl.at/M6Y3Q also link in Instagram bio
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1. Robert Atkins, Cynthia Carr, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Marlon Riggs, James M. Saslow, Julia Scher, Sarah Schulman, Andres Serrano, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, FF Alumns, new publication release at LGBT Center, Manhattan, March 1
Amarna Books & Media is pleased to announce the publication of AIDS, Art & the
Origins of the Culture War by art historian and journalist Robert Atkins.
AIDS, Art & the Origins of the Culture War: Selected Writings of Robert Atkins presents three-and- a-half decades of articles and essays about contentious assaults on the rights of individuals, institutions and, by extension, all Americans. A staff columnist for the Village Voice during the 1980s and 90s, Atkins produced both eye-witness reporting and thoughtful analysis dating from the 1987 debut of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, DC to the most recent review in the book, his 2019 essay about Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag.
The book is organized thematically and divided into three sometimes overlapping sections: “AIDS: The Body Politic Under Pressure,” “Making Sense of Censorship,” and “Queer Expressions & Icons.” They are supplemented by a new and comprehensive essay, “When the Culture War Became the Culture,” a stunning survey of post-World War II US society. Dozens of images of both controversial artworks and newsmakers, help weave a complex tapestry of social change. Shorthand for the conservative shift of the US political landscape over the past half-century, the Culture War seems always to have been with us. Yet its remarkable growth and seeming ubiquity can obscure its meaning and origins. To understand them, Atkins asserts, the apparently everlasting struggle must be considered a single, rather than plural, phenomenon.
No matter the ostensible variety of Culture-War conflicts that have ranged from attacks on
supposedly blasphemous contemporary artworks and even the nudity of Michelangelo’s David, or allegedly offensive books about slavery or gay families in school libraries, each of these
controversies shares the fundamental aim of replacing secular and multi-racial US society with
one governed by Christian Nationalist principles. Anita Bryant’s 1977 campaign to reverse Miami’s gay rights ordinance was not only among the first such assaults, but demonstrated the
unprecedented, post World-War II modus operandi of US citizens denying other citizens their
voices and Constitutional rights.
Bryant’s successful assault on gay and Lesbian Americans was soon followed by attacks on
artists and people with AIDS. What linked this trifecta of targets? They belonged to disparate, little-known and sometimes feared groups. Scant public understanding and support made their members low-hanging fruit for media-savvy political and religious figures. By 9/11 these battles had grown constant, yet never reached the level of coordination (and chutzpah!) of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guide for a second, increasingly authoritarian and lawless Trump administration.
Noted author and activist Sarah Schulman describes the book as bringing “us directly to the
specificity of the AIDS experience…The deeply personal details of dying, surviving and witnessing. Atkins’ work eclipse subsequent clichés and makes the reader see the visual life of this disaster, resisting its waning memory.” En masse, Atkins’ acute readings of politics, media, technology and political struggle help account for the combative character of US society today and imply what we might learn from the past to help modify our fractious present.
826 NORTH 23 RD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19130 Phone: 862.224.1415
BOOK LAUNCH: March 1, 2026. 1 pm, Bureau, Room 210, LGBT Center, 208 W 13 th St, NYC
Sarah Schulman & Jackson Davidow join Robert Atkins in conversation about art & activism
Robert Atkins is a UC Berkeley-trained art historian, journalist, curator, and educator. A former
columnist for the Village Voice, he has written for more than 100 publications worldwide. Among his many books is Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression, published by the New Press. He has curated exhibitions at far-flung venues from Sao Paolo, Brazil to New York and co-curated From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, the first international traveling exhibition of AIDS art. A pioneer of online art production and commentary, he is a fellow of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and producer of Artery: the AIDS Arts Forum. He is also a founder of Visual AIDS, the producers of “Day With(out) Art” and the “Red Ribbon”.
More information about Atkins and the book is available from Thomas Edward West of Amarna
Books & Media (publisher@amarnabooksandmedia.net), and author Robert Atkins
(rdatkins@gmail.com) www.robertatkins.net. Atkins is also available for interview, signings and
lectures, which are especially relevant prior to November’s election.
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2. Kris Grey, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, FF Alumns, at 601 Artspace, Manhattan, Feb. 7
An Incomplete Haunting: The Past Is Not Past
Saturday, February 7, 2026
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge Street
4:30 – 6:00pm
Save the date and join us for an afternoon of conversation within our current exhibition, An Incomplete Haunting, curated by Rachel Gugelberger. Artists Yevgeniy Fiks, Kris Grey, Miguel Luciano, and Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere will offer deeper insight into their respective practices and their works on view, while reflecting on and responding to our current socio-political climate.
Yevgeniy Fiks will read from and discuss “Can a Homosexual Be a Member of the Communist Party?,” a 1934 letter from British journalist and Communist Harry Whyte to Joseph Stalin, protesting the Soviet Union’s re-criminalization of male homosexuality.
Kris Grey’s sculpture Capital T — made with materials salvaged from the Stonewall National Monument Visitors Center during its renovation — uncovers, resurrects, and transforms historical materials into meaning. Grey will share archival images alongside a poem, inviting us to playfully traverse time and bringing queer histories into the present.
Miguel Luciano will speak about his works on view, which span Puerto Rico’s Spanish colonial past to the social justice activist Young Lords of the 1960s-70s and beyond, reflecting on the importance of engaging with the past to better understand the present.
Nevarez & Tevere will share the behind-the-scenes process and conceptual framework of their project, Layers of the City, which includes songwriting, collaboration, and spatial occupation and addresses the economic forces that contribute to the loss of community diversity.
Learn more about the exhibition: https://601artspace.org/AN-INCOMPLETE-HAUNTING
601Artspace is proud to participate in #FallOfFreedom, a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression and solidarity. Follow @falloffreedom to learn more.
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3. Robbin Ami Silverberg & András Böröcz, FF Alumns, at 10th CODEX Artist Book Fair, Oakland, CA, Feb. 7-10 and more
Dobbin Books will participate in the 10th CODEX Artist Book Fair in the Bay area, February 7 – 10, 2026
Please come visit us at Table #187!
— Robbin Ami Silverberg & András Böröcz
Marriott City Center, 101 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607
Saturday, February 7, 2026:
12:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday, February 8, 2026:
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Monday, February 9, 2026:
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Tuesday, February 10, 2026:
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
And, Silverberg has artist books in two different exhibitions that are open in the Bay Area during Codex:
— Bookness, at Kala Institute Art Gallery, 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley
— Who is America at 250?, at San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island Street, SF
Robbin Ami Silverberg
Dobbin Mill / Dobbin Books
robbin@robbinamisilverberg.com
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4. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
Please visit this link:
https://hyperallergic.com/art-problems-how-to-get-into-whitney-biennial
Thank you.
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5. Marian Goodman, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at Yale University, New Haven, CT, Feb. 4 and more
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel included in New issue of THE PERCH, “SOCIAL,” to be released February 4, 2026, at Yale
During the public presentation of THE PERCH, “SOCIAL,” Nicolás will read his essay “Breathing a Kinder World / Breath-Body-Mind™ Practices for All who Care”
The Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) in the Yale University Department of Psychiatry announces the release of the latest issue of THE PERCH, a creative arts journal with a mental health theme.
The new issue, titled “SOCIAL,” will be launched in person and online at an event at Yale on February 4, from 2 to 4 pm. At the event, the journal’s editors and authors will speak and read from their work. They will be joined by John Krystal, Chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Nancy Navarretta, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
The theme of the new issue explores the role of social support in promoting wellness and recovery from mental health challenges. The issue—202 pages in length—features poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, visual art, and scholarly contributions that reflect the many dimensions of social connection. Contributors include people with lived experience, family members, caregivers, and scholars. THE PERCH celebrates a wide range of original voices.
The lead editors of SOCIAL are author Charles Barber, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale, and Chyrell Bellamy, Professor of Psychiatry. The journal was designed and produced by Jeanne Criscola, Professor of Graphic/Information Design at Central Connecticut State University. THE PERCH is co-produced by the College of Letters at Wesleyan University and Central Connecticut State University.
The launch event will be held at the PERCH offices, 319 Peck Street, Erector Square, Building 1, New Haven, CT 06513.
To join online via Zoom, use this link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/95256588242?from=addon
For more information, contact: Graziela Reis at graziela.reis@yale.edu
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7. Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, FF Alumns, at Norrebro Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 30-May 17
Marina Abramović, Laurie Anderson, Miranda July
‘In The Presence Of Others’
EXHIBITION of audio-works, April 30 – May 17, 2026 Nørrebro Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://www.nbt.dk/forestillinger/in-the-presence-of-others/
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8. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
In Case You Missed It!
Now Online
My “Artists Talk on Art”
Conversation is on YouTube
Video of my Artist Talk
From January 26th Now on
“Artists Talk on Art” YouTube Channel
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9. Rev Billy, FF Alumn, awarded 2026 Religion and the Arts Award
We are honored to be awarded The 2026 Religion and the Arts Award by The American Academy of Religion, the largest organization of religious scholars and theologians in the world.
For over two-decades, the Stop Shoppers have brought attention to the ways in which neoliberal capitalism ritualizes desire and shapes subjective horizons through (largely metaphorical and preconscious) consumer aesthetics, with profound negative consequences for the plights of labor, libidinal freedoms, cultural possibility, and, most urgently, the planet. Importantly, they also theorize, use, and embody religion and art to suggest modes of active resistance. — from the AAR
Thanks to the AAR Jury for recognizing our strange and out-of-category project and thanks to George Gonzales ( author of The Church of Stop Shopping & Religious Activism) for his nomination. Read more HERE and if you want to buy that book, discount code NYUAU30 at checkout.
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10. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, Mar. 21-Apr. 25
SOCIAL MALPRACTICE ART
An ONLINE workshop with artist Ed Woodham
5 Saturdays, 1-3pm EST
March 21 to April 25, 2026
Social Malpractice Art is a collaborative workshop exploring how art can operate quietly and effectively within complex civic and cultural landscapes. Through guided prompts, participants develop subtly coded works and modest public actions – from concept to realization – that engage audiences while questioning power. Designed to create new work with clarity, care, and intention in the present moment.
Visit this link for more information and to register: https://sva.edu/academics/continuing-education/professional-development/related-courses/social-malpractice-art-26-cs-vsc-2719-ol
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11. Constance DeJong, Joan Jonas, FF Alumns, at Judson Memorial Church, Manhattan, Feb. 13
On Friday, February 13th at 7pm, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative will celebrate its 65th anniversary at Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square S., New York, NY)! We will honor Nan Goldin, Joan Jonas, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, John Waters, and the Jack Smith Archive at Gladstone, and pay tribute to Ken and Flo Jacobs. This gala benefit will be emceed by Ruby McCollister and feature performances by Kinlaw, Isaiah Barr, and Brittany Bailey (performing Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A), as well as original DJ sets by Stretch Armstrong and UMFANG.
Tickets for this event can be purchased here.https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/S4Y5GF65LNNBC
This gala is an opportunity to celebrate the legacy of the FMC, while also acting as a meaningful moment for us to fundraise for the organization and keep our mission of championing bold, experimental cinema alive.
We are also pleased to announce that Kelsey Bennett, Donna Deitch, Constance DeJong, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Tony Oursler, Rachel Rossin, Molly Soda, and Cécile Winckler have joined our host committee for this event. The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is grateful to have several iconic New Yorkers supporting our gala benefit and we thank our host committee for their involvement.
Join us for a vibrant evening of film, food, drink, and community!
Capacity is limited. For more information, naming opportunities, and other ways to get involved, please email: filmcoopgala@gmail.com.
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12. Eric Bogosian, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, Feb. 7
Artists Space is pleased to announce a new season of the Segue Reading Series, curated by Artists Space: Stella Cilman & Jay Sanders. The series begins Saturday, February 7 at 5pm with readings by Eric Bogosian and Bunny Rogers
https://artistsspace.org/programs/segue-reading-series-eric-bogosian-bunny-rogers
continuing throughout February and March.
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13. Max Gimblett, FF Member, at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, opening Feb. 7
Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,
We’re excited to share Where Dreams Come, an exhibition featuring a selection of Max’s new handmade, unique quatrefoil-shaped artist books, paintings, and works on paper, presented at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition opens February 7 and runs through March 21. The gallery’s press release is included below.
Warmly,
Matt Jones
Studio Manager
Max Gimblett Studio
@maxgimblettstudio
Max Gimblett — who recently celebrated his 90th birthday — is a painter, storyteller, teacher and Rinzai Zen monk. His third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery focuses on his calligraphic work on paper and books, and his use of the motifs of the lotus and quatrefoil to articulate his journey.
Stylistically, his painting practice is a hybrid of the New York school of abstract expressionism and traditional Sumi ink painting. Known for his masterful brushwork and eccentric and sophisticated color sense, Gimblett marries modernism with mysticism.
Conceptually, Gimblett’s work aligns with the Dharmic religions. His calligraphic practice is an all-mind/no-mind meditation that he describes as coming directly from his unconscious. In this exhibition, a series of drawings referring to the lotus (symbol for what is divine in humanity — purity and honesty, regeneration and enlightenment) evidence his spiritual aspirations.
Most significant is Gimblett’s decades-long use of the four-lobed quatrefoil as a talismanic emblem. A cross-cultural motif used in Mesoamerica before the Common Era, in Islamic architecture and design since the Middle Ages and adopted into European Gothic iconography, for Gimblett, the quatrefoil, which he first encountered as a boy in his Presbyterian Church, is a healing amulet… a “shield for the heart.” Central to this exhibition is a group of unique, handmade books of his calligraphy, each of which, when opened fully, forms this shape. Exquisite objects, the books, like his paintings, are meant as portals — created to move one to another place.
Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1935, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s and has since traveled, taught and exhibited extensively across the globe. Gimblett’s work is included in major museum collections worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki.
Hosfelt Gallery is located at 260 Utah Street, between 15th & 16th Streets. Wheelchair accessible entrance at 255A Potrero Avenue. For more information call 415.495.5454 or visit hosfeltgallery.com.
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14. Lance Horne, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, March 1
My new musical LUX is premiering in concert at Joe’s Pub with great guest singers from Broadway & beyond and an all-star band. It’ll sell out to the general public as soon as Joe’s announces the cast, and I want to give y’all the opportunity first. Come here what I’ve been up to under wraps and hear 15 fresh songs and “Last Day on Earth” as the finale. The music spans worlds from 1789 Paris, 1929 New Orleans, and Burning Man ca. now. The house is already half-full, and I’d love you to be there. For tickets please visit this link:
https://publictheater.org/performances-jp/2026/l/lance-horne-lux
Thank you.
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15. Gabrielle Hamilton, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, Jan. 25
Read Like the Wind/The Joy of Cooking/By Joumana Khatib
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertant Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton, Nonfiction, 2011
OK, let’s traffic in superlative: This is the best chef’s memoir I’ve read, and I’ve read whole bunch. Hamilton opened her restaurant, Prune, on the ground level of a tenement building on East First Street 26 years ago, and cultivated an insouciant, nearly all-female atmosphere that really did change, or at the very least predict, how we would go on to eat.
Hamilton came from bohemian stock, the caboose of large, half-French family in Pennsylvania renowned for its lamb roast. You understand her eventual restaurant far better knowing that much of its inspiration came from Hamilton’s lean years traveling abroad and worrying about paying for her next meal. That’s when he learned to dream in even finer detail: “My hunger grew so specific I could name every corner and fold of it. Salty, warm, brothy, starchy, fatty, sweet, clean and crunchy, crisp and watery.”
I like Hamilton for dispelling any overly romantic, Byronic ideals of how chefs spend their hours; far fewer of them are devoted to coaxing miracles out of leeks and sunchokes than identifying Freon lines and catching up on payroll. If you’re looking to tap into an all-consuming love of food, listen to the woman who still loves preparing it for a crowd after disposing of maggoty rat corpses and shoveling human feces from the premises at the start of a 20-year lease.
Read if you like: Mary Karr, dreaming of Corsican vacations, “Running With Scissors.”
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16. Jeffrey Schrier, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley MoCA, Peekskill, NY, opening Feb. 7
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please join us Saturday February 7, 3-5 PM at Hudson Valley MoCA.
For this new exhibition the Museum selected my just completed 7 foot painting, “Kochleffel Hastening Enchantments’ Oblivion”.
For this work I re-envisioned an image from the Getty Center’s 1296 Rothschild Pentateuch (folio 447r) to reflect social media and AI’s proliferation of intrusive toxicity, on what can otherwise be a source of knowledge, enrichment, even serenity. Kochleffel, a yiddishism for mixing spoon, refers to someone, usually negatively “stirring the pot”.
for complete information please visit https://mailchi.mp/hudsonvalleymoca/november-at-hvmoca-j1vcxhgtru-8309266
All best,
Jeffrey
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17. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, Feb. 12
Please visit this link:
https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2215
Thank you.
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18. Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, at Jim Kempner Fine Art, Manhattan, Feb. 12
We’re debuting Deception on Thursday, Feb. 12 from 6-8 PM at Jim Kempner Fine Art.
Deception is a new fragrance edition distilled from the collected waters of the DemocracyICED sculpture last October.
Press release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EYBfPCGrVLryDkL8Ix8rlBNqO8Sm3NaZgCBOeyOyQHY/edit?tab=t.0
Video: https://vimeo.com/1153614333?fl=ip&fe=ec
Best to you both,
Marshall & Nora
Save the Date
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Deception New York City Debut
Jim Kempner Fine Art
Join us Thursday, February, 12 6-8 PM at Jim Kempner Fine Art for the Deception fragrance debut.
Deception is a new PureProductsUSA edition consisting of 101% Democracy collected from the melted waters of the DemocracyICED sculpture.
Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese will talk about their bottled liquid sculpture along with earlier works from the pureproductsusa series with Kathy Brew (Filmmaker/Artist/Curator).
Thursday, February 12, 6-8 PM
Maria Comstock announces Deception
Top Notes: Challenged elections
Allegations of voter fraud
Attacks on free speech
Heart Notes: Disappearing and deportation
of immigrants and asylum seekers
Defunding public health, social security
and the social safety net
Base Notes: Assaults on universities
and secientific research
Dismantling public databases
Tampering with public sources
of climate, labor and economic information
Jim Kempner Fine Art
501 West 23 Street, NYC. 10010
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19. Dahn Hiuni, FF Alumn, new publication
NEW RELEASE
From author Dahn Hiuni, MFA, PhD
Being an Art Museum Tour Guide: Insights & Practical Advice from the Vault
An engaging and accessible guide for aspiring art museum tour guides, docents, and museum educators. With a thoughtful mix of history, theory, and real-world advice, this book offers invaluable insights from a seasoned museum professional who knows the gallery floor firsthand.
Available on Amazon at https://a.co/d/9Pwufho
Dahn Hiuni is a multi-disciplinary artist and academic. He is a visual artist and graphic designer, as well as a performance artist and playwright. He has been widely exhibited and presented at such venues as P.S. 122, Franklin Furnace, Artists Space and Thread Waxing Space in New York, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and the Lancaster Museum of Art. Additionally, his writings, photography and graphic design have appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Playbill, and The Dramatist. Mr. Hiuni’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center and the Leslie-Lohman Museum.
As a longtime professor, Mr. Hiuni has taught a variety of studio art, graphic design, art history and art education courses at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, Hofstra University, Bucknell University, State University of New York at Old Westbury, Kutztown University, Shepherd University, Woodbury University, the National Theatre School of Canada, and at the UCLA and UC Berkeley Extension Programs. For many years, he also worked as a museum educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Mr. Hiuni holds an MFA in studio art and a PhD in Art Education, both from Penn State.
Dahn Hiuni, MFA, PhD
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