Contents for March 24th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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L. Scott Helmes, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Democracy Handbag, FF Alumn, at Zebulon, Brooklyn, April 6, and more
2. Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at BalletToThePeople.com
3. Ayana Evans, FF Alumn, at Loyola University, Chicago, IL, opening April 3
4. Cynthia Carr, FF Alumn, wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
5. Paco Cao, FF Alumn, now online at https://music.imusician.pro/a/KRPGYWqo
6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, in the South Bronx, Mar. 30
7. Rossella Matamoros, FF Alumn, now online at rossellamatamoros.com
8. Tony Whitfield, FF Alumn, at SVA, Manhattan, thru April 5
9. Vito Acconci, General Idea, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Alan Kaprow, Pope.L, Suzanne Lacy, Rosemary Mayer, Yoko Ono, Sanja Ivekovic, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumns, at Maps Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, March 25
11. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA, thru May 11
12. Julie Lemberger, FF Alumn, at Dance Book Fair, Manhattan, Mar. 30
13. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, new publication
14. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, now online at AntoninoLavela.it
15. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 28
16. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, opening Mar. 28
17. Charlemagne Palestine, FF Alumn, at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, March 27
18. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at LUXFER Galerie, Ceska Skalice, Czech Republic, thru May 31
19. Galinsky, FF Alumn, live online with Muhammad Ali Center, March 26
20. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, now online at TheGuardian.com
21. Barbara Rosenthal, Barry Wallenstein, FF Alumns, at Jefferson Market Library, Manahattan, Mar. 25
22. Doug Skinner, Norman Conquest, FF Alumns, new publications
23. Gilbert & George, Jenny Holzer, LigoranoReese, Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, James Sienna, Nancy Spero & Leon Golub, FF Alumns, at New York Public Library Main Branch, Manhattan, thru Aug. 2
24. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, now online at aedrafinearts.com
25. Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, Spring news
26. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
27. Stanley Moss, FF Member, new publication
28. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at City Lights, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 27 and more
29. ABC No Rio & FF Alumns, at Emily Harvey Foundation, Manhattan, opening April 10
30. Martha Wilson, Laurie Anderson, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
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L. Scott Helmes, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.honsafamilyfuneral.com/obituaries/Leslie-Scott-Helmes?obId=27068261
Thank you.
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1. Democracy Handbag, FF Alumn, at Zebulon, Brooklyn, April 6, and more
Weirdo Night
Zebulon
April 6
EARLY SHOW!!!
5:30 doors / 6:00 show
starring
Holland Andrews
Chloe Coover
EJ Marcus
and
Weirdo Night in New York
The Bell House, Brooklyn
April 17
7PM DOORS / 7:30 SHOW
front bar opens 6PM
THIS WILL SELL OUT!
starring
OHYUNG
Miguel Alejandro Castillo
Joy Guidry
Francesca D’Uva
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2. Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at BalletToThePeople.com
Please visit this link:
https://ballettothepeople.com/2025/03/16/inventive-new-collaborations-in-counterpointe-12/
Thank you.
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3. Ayana Evans, FF Alumn, at Loyola University, Chicago, IL, opening April 3
CHICAGO!!! NEW EXHIBITION ALERT! Opening April 3rd, 5pm-6:30pm CST at the Ralph Arnold Gallery of Loyola University; 1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
AND AND AND on April 10th @ 6 pm, I will perform my latest activation of Operation Catsuit, also at the Ralph Arnold Gallery.
**Curated by the incomparable Jessica Lanay Moore (@hanginthere_kitty) This programming is part of Lanay Moore’s artist & scholar residency at Loyola University Chicago 2024-25.
Jessica’s words are better than mine, so here is more info on the show from them:
“I have the crazy-wild honor to curate @ayana.m.evans in the mini-solo exhibition HOW OFTEN ARE YOU PHOTOGRAPHED WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION? Focusing on surveillance, bodily autonomy, the policing of race and gender and how that policing violates a right to opacity, I worked with Ayana to curate her first Operation Catsuit performances at @themuseumofmodernart and the @brooklynmuseum, her DIVA photograph series, and her collaborative project CELLULITE with @tsedaye and @domduro 🌸 The exhibition is up at the Ralph Arnold Gallery from April 3rd to May 10th.
If you’re in #chicago PULL UP.”
Ayana Evans
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4. Cynthia Carr, FF Alumn, wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. Paco Cao, FF Alumn, now online at https://music.imusician.pro/a/KRPGYWqo
I never imagined this would happen. Today I present my first song at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice; a version of the famous poem “Vivo sin vivir en mi” by Teresa de Avila, performed in collaboration with Andrea Messina and recorded at Roman Hinkypunk studios.
Available on multiple music platforms. I include a link to the same:
https://music.imusician.pro/a/KRPGYWqo
Thank you.
Paco Cao
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6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, in the South Bronx, Mar. 30
Join Lisa Ortega & Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel for
Reclaiming Spaces in the South Bronx
A walking tour for Bronxites
Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon, 2025
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx
To join this free experience and to received specific directions as to where to meet, contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com
Revolutionary Boricua Lisa Ortega guides Nicolás through some of the sites that she, together with neighbors and activists around Southern Boulevard, have regained access to for community purposes. Once condemned, padlocked or out of reach for collective use, some of the lots that Lisa and Nicolás will visit with you are today playgrounds, vegetable gardens and sports courts. This walk on March 30th in the South Bronx evolved from conversations about tourists’ buses, mostly with Spanish visitors, arriving in the area and stopping by for a quick selfie at “The Bronx” mural on Westchester Avenue where the popular Double Discount department store used to be. What brings people from outside to this section of our borough still perceived by those not from here as a “ghetto”? How does a tour for Bronxites look like and what benefits will it yield in terms of remembering and honoring those who have done the work?
One specific story that prompted this walk was shared with Nicolás by Lisa, and it relates to an unhoused person sleeping below “The Bronx” mural. This person was threatened to be removed because of an outsider’s call to the police so tourists could use the backdrop for their “I was there” selfies. What does it mean to reclaim spaces for communities in a South Bronx that even some of its local politicians have been giving the green light to developers to gentrify…because as Nicolás heard someone say “…it is “cheap”? How do communities in this culturally vibrant area of our city continue to hold onto the spaces reclaimed and keep them RADICAL?
Lisa Ortega is a revolutionary Boricua, Mother of 4, Grandma of 5. She is a recovering addict being clean for 35 years and has been organizing for 31 years. She is a devout atheist and anarchist. She believes strongly that “people power” will ultimately bring about a full revolution…replacing politicians, police, and all other forms of oppression.” Organizing is not an option but a way of life”. Liberation of all is the final destination.
This event will be documented through video and photographs. Those attending must be okay with this.
To join for this walk for Bronxites on March 30, 12 noon and to get directions as to where to meet, please contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com
ABOUT: PERFORMING THE BRONX
Since 2015 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has invited a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved home borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces, as well as in the Bronx’s public realm, and focus on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods in our part of the City. Performing the Bronx is an expansion of Nicolás’s ongoing in honoring, recovering, reclaiming and remembering herstories/histories/theirstories of the area’s neighbors and trailblazers that run the risk of being effaced by time, lost in the midst of neighborhoods in flux, or dismissed by dominant discourses that often position themselves at the center of the conversation.
Past participants: Arthur Avilés, Bill Aguado, Benny Bonilla, Mili Bonilla, Caridad De La Luz ‘La Bruja’, Dr. Drum, Ana ‘ROKAFELLA’ García, Reverend Danilo Lachapel, Wanda Salamán, and Rhina Valentin
Performing the Bronx as a whole has been supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Casita Maria’s South Bronx Culture Trail 2020, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. It has also received love, space and support from Mothers on the Move, BronxNet TV, The Andrew Freedman Home, and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.
The 2025 chapters of Performing the Bronx with Lisa Ortega, and Charles Rice-González are presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement.
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7. Rossella Matamoros, FF Alumn, now online at rossellamatamoros.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.rossellamatamoros.com/absence–creativity-2024.html
Thank you.
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8. Tony Whitfield, FF Alumn, at SVA, Manhattan, thru April 5
Please visit this link:
https://sva.edu/features/witness-march-20-april-5-in-the-sva-flatiron-project-space
Thank you.
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9. Vito Acconci, General Idea, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Alan Kaprow, Pope.L, Suzanne Lacy, Rosemary Mayer, Yoko Ono, Sanja Ivekovic, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, FF Alumns, at Maps Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Please visit this link:
https://mapsmuseum.com/en/events/opening-weekend/
Thank you.
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10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, March 25
WE WON’T GO BACK: CELEBRATING NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Tuesday, March 25th, 7 pm @ Anthology Film Archives
This program of shorts organized by Kathy Brew – including works by several artists affiliated with the29.art, with support from Women Make Movies – examines issues of conformity among women, challenges gender stereotypes, and advocates for female agency. The works, presented chronologically, span from 1989 to 2024, and underscore the fact that a woman’s right to control her own body remains critical in these dangerous times.
https://mailchi.mp/bd47795d9798/womens_history
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11. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA, thru May 11
AGNES DENES
at
DESERT X 2025
March 8 – May 11, 2025
Coachella Valley
We are extremely pleased to announce Agnes Denes’s participation in Desert X 2025 in the Coachella Valley. Her work, The Living Pyramid, a monumental sculpture and environmental intervention, is currently on view at Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage, California.
Originally commissioned in 2015 by Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, The Living Pyramid was the artist’s first major site work in New York City since 1982 when she created the now iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation on two acres in lower Manhattan. It unites Denes’s powerful environmental interventions with her ongoing exploration and invention of pyramidal structures—a central theme in her work throughout her long and distinguished career. Spanning 30 feet at the base and standing 30 feet high, its towering, curving form echoes the organic architecture that first appeared in the artist’s pyramid drawings of the 1970s. She writes:
The Living Pyramid, planted with growing material, renews itself just as evolution does to our species. The rigid angle becomes an arc to aspirationally reach above. It is not just planting, but the planting of a paradox, a structured edifice of soil and foliage, not on a farm or field but in the heart of a busy mega-city or various parts of our world. It is planting the seed into soil and human minds.
The Living Pyramid brings mathematics and plant-life into wondrous harmony, engineering accuracy and stability mixed with the daily changes of growth. Again, my obsession with blending nature and the human intellect is at play, visualizing opposite forces to exist in harmony creating the powerful paradox that governs this art form and gives it such strength.
Denes intends the work to be presented throughout the world, representing the ecologies of each individual site. In 2017 it was featured in documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany where vegetables were planted together with local grasses and flowers. Recreated in 2022 at the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, the work was planted with a lush profusion of indigenous foliage. In 2023, it was installed indoors for the first time at the Hayward Gallery in London as a central part of the exhibition Dear Earth: Art in a Time of Crisis.
At Desert X, for its first presentation in a desert landscape, it features a variety of native succulents and grasses that will continue to grow and change throughout the run of the biennial.
Curated by artistic director Neville Wakefield and co-curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, Desert X 2025 reflects on the desert’s deep time evolutions, revealing a profound reverence for the enduring spirit of this harsh yet resilient region that challenges us to glean wisdom from its vast knowledge.
Leslie Tonkonow Art Works + Projects
401 Broadway, Suite 411
New York, NY 10013
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12. Julie Lemberger, FF Alumn, at Dance Book Fair, Manhattan, Mar. 30
The American Dance Guild presents the first . . .
Dance Book Fair
An afternoon to celebrate and support recent publications in dance!
Sunday, March 30, 2025 from 3:00–6:00 p.m. at Peridance Center in NYC
(126 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003)
This is a free event open to the community to browse recent publications in dance, buy new books, and chat directly with authors. You may come and go throughout the duration of the event as you please!
https://www.americandanceguild.org/bookfair
Modern Women: 21st Century Dance coloring book, an artist book in the FF collection will be among the titles available.
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13. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, new publication
The Box and Primary Information are pleased to announce the release of Barbara T. Smith’s I Am Abandoned, which documents a little-known, but visionary performance by the artist! Taking place at Caltech in 1976, the performance featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (known today as two of the earliest chatbots) alongside a staging of Francisco Goya’s The Naked Maja (1795–1800) and The Clothed Maja (1800–1807), in which the artist projected an image of the famous painting on top of a female model.
The publication includes a full transcript of the “conversation” between the two programs; documentation and ephemera from the performance; Smith’s reflections on the night; and an afterword by scholar and artist Mashinka Firunts Hakopian.
Rather than simply celebrate new technology, Smith sought to challenge what she saw as a “built-in problem” that “computers were only a new example of the male hypnosis.” In collaboration with computer scientist Dick Rubinstein, she enlisted the computer science teams at Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to mount a conversation between a program named DOCTOR, which was designed to be a surrogate therapist, and another named PARRY, which was trained to mimic a paranoid schizophrenic patient.
To revisit I Am Abandoned today is to see the artistic and truly liberatory potential that art can have when it intervenes in new technologies. Much like the original performance, in which the model grew alienated from the proceedings, what gradually emerges are the stakes these new technologies present. Against today’s backdrop of AI and a still male-dominated tech field, Smith’s early work with emerging technologies, and in this case chatbots, is prophetic and hints at the contemporary conversation around the gendered and racialized machinic biases of our current computational landscape.
Preorder your copy from Primary Information here.
Available at major booksellers on April 18th.
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14. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, now online at AntoninoLavela.it
Please visit this link:
https://www.antoninolavela.it/2025/03/aviva-rahmani-visionary-at-intersection.html?m=1
Thank you
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15. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 28
Lucio Pozzi
Cornucopia
The Bielefeld Watercolors
Hal Bromm Gallery
90 West Broadway
New York NY 10007
28 March/marzo – 10 May/maggio 2025
Opening/ Inaugurazione :
Friday 28 March 6 PM / venerdì 28 marzo ore 18:00
In 1982 Kunsthalle Bielefeld exhibited 400 pieces of mine, drawn from many families of works, occupying the whole Philip Johnson building. One room was dedicated to small watercolors ranging between reductive and complex, abstract and figurative imagery, with one additional ink drawing from when I was seventeen, depicting nuclear war. They are here presented in their original frames. Even the catalogue was a work of art because at the printers I mixed the colors in the tray of the offset machine while it was printing 8 designs inserted in the book, so that each volume is different and unique.
Nel 1982 la Kunsthalle Bielefeld espose 400 miei lavori, tratti da molte famiglie di opere, occupando l’intero edificio di Philip Johnson. Una sala era dedicata a piccoli acquerelli che spaziavano tra immagini riduttive o complesse, astratte o figurative, con in aggiunta un disegno a inchiostro di quando avevo diciassette anni, raffigurante la guerra nucleare. Sono qui presentati nelle cornici originali. Anche il catalogo era un’opera d’arte perché in tipografia mescolai i colori nel vassoio della macchina offset mentre stampava 8 disegni inseriti nel libro, in modo che ogni volume fosse diverso e unico.
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16. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, opening Mar. 28
EIDIA House – Melissa P. Wolf and Paul Lamarre announce the continuing exhibitions at PLATO’S CAVE with artist Alberto Casais—number thirty three in this series since 2009.
Alberto Casais BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY
Exhibition: March 28 – April 30, 2025
Opening Reception Friday March 28, 6-8pm
Come out. Mark your calendar.
“Growing up as a kid in Yonkers in the late 70’s/80’s, I spent my youth playing in the open streets of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. At the time, the city’s landscape was barren with an air of the forbidden. My cousin used to carry his Polaroid camera with him wherever we went. He took photos of the garbage and abandoned buildings. We used to laugh at him; none of us could understand why anyone would want photos of trash. One day, after leaving my art studies behind, I was painting and listening to the band Suicide. It brought back memories of those broken neighborhoods that once were our playground (and my cousin’s photos). I realized that there was a beauty to be found in that war-torn landscape that was New York. I’ve tried ever since to capture that damaged beauty in my painting.
In my new body of work, I bring the past into the present, examining absence and change which creates possibilities for the future. Behind a closed shop, an empty building, and city streets are love songs to what was, along with a glimmer of hope of what could be.”
Alberto Casais
We first came to know of Casais’ works at Fortnight Institute Gallery on 4th Street (the Theatre street) in the East Village in December 2017.
These ‘knockout’ small oils on canvas, ‘abstractified’ deserted burnt-out buildings of the Bronx with their modest minimal contrasting color pallet are simply stated, honest renderings of lost memories of a lost time. This gave us the clue—the ground work for understanding Casais’ way of seeing. Those detrital storefronts you see now and then in Manhattan, any of the other Boroughs, or in New Jersey or Detroit—as a mater-of-fact in any major cosmopolitan city across the States—this is the fodder that drives Casais to paint.
In keeping with how EIDIA House participates in the art world, what is refreshing about Casais’ approach is that he’s more than comfortable breaking with norms. He has no website, does not maintain a CV, but you can find him on Instagram @albertocasais. A self-taught artist, Casais offers up a few of his influences: Colin Campbell Cooper, John Sloan, Fredrick Childe Hassam, Johann Berthelsen, Edward Hopper, Rackstraw Downes, Bill Rice, Dike Blair and Duncan Hannah.
Plato’s Cave at EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place
Brooklyn, NY 11249
646 226 6478
@eidiahouse
Located at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge, EIDIA House is easily accessible by car, bus (B-62), or L, J, and M trains
Hours 12-6pm, Wednesday – Saturday (or by appointment)
EIDIA House is a 501c3 sponsorship of Fractured Atlas. Tax-deductible contributions are accepted.
Visit: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/eidia-house Or visit: https://eidia.com click DONATE
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17. Charlemagne Palestine, FF Alumn, at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, March 27
Artists Space and Empty Gallery invite you to a performance by Charlemagne Palestine
Thursday, March 27th
10pm
Empty Gallery, Hong Kong
Free, RSVP to contact@emptygallery.com
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18. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at LUXFER Galerie, Ceska Skalice, Czech Republic, thru May 31
Dear friends,
I’m pleased to be presenting CANCEL COLLECTION opening Saturday 22.03 at LUXFER Galerie in Ceska Skalice, Czech Republic, curated by Petra Zachovalova.
Cancel Collection is a body of work that I have been building since 2011. It originally had the title “Spaced Memory” (some of you may know it from way back then!)
Through research, I have found erased places that are built over and forgotten, and where the memory of what was there once has been erased or “cancelled” from the collective memory of the surrounding society. The work reactivates these locations of historical social trauma through performance and video, aiming to provoke a consciousness of the <presence of absence>. Over many years, with many remarkable collaborators in Serbia, Romania, Moldova, Kosovo, and most recently, with new sites in Czech Republic (2024).
Many thanks to Galerie LUXFER for hosting this solo show featuring highlights of these 13 years of work.
Cancel Collection runs until May 31st, opening March 22, from 6pm, please find all details below.
It would be a pleasure to see you there!
Warmly,
Elana
Dear audiences,
We would like to invite you to the opening of the exhibition by US-American artist Elana Katz. The opening will take place at Luxfer Open Space, Maloskalicá 40, Česká Skalice on Saturday, March 22nd from 6pm.
CANCEL COLLECTION
Elana Katz
Opening: Saturday 22.03, from 6 PM
Exhibition duration: 22. 3. 2025 – 31. 5. 2025
Curator of the exhibition: Petra Zachovalová
The exhibition “Cancel Collection” presents a significant body of work by American conceptual artist Elana Katz, living in Berlin, which moves on the border of performance art, documentation and social intervention. In the years 2011–2018, Katz systematically mapped and artistically processed places of collective trauma in post-socialist Eastern Europe, mainly in the regions of former Yugoslavia, Romania and Moldova. Luxfer Open Space will present key videos from the artist’s seven-year work.
The artist’s second solo exhibition at Luxfer Open Space brings together video installations, films and photographs from an extensive performative body of work that addresses themes of current and past collective memory, external and internal identity, and reveals the often taboo aftermath of the Holocaust. Elana Katz participated in a residency at Luxfer Open Space in the summer of 2024 and presented two newly created video portraits of the disappeared Jewish history of Náchod at the exhibition.
In the context of contemporary art, the exhibition represents a unique example of long-term artistic research that combines performative practice with critical reflection on social mechanisms of forgetting and displacement. Elana Katz’s work forces us to think about how we construct our collective stories and the value of silence about the traumatic past. The artist has lived and worked in Berlin since 2008 and is known for her impressive performances, which often last several hours and engage the audience in an intense dialogue with time and space.
LUXFER
Maloskalická 40
Ceská Skalice | Czech Republic
+ 420 606 678 679
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19. Galinsky, FF Alumn, live online with Muhammad Ali Center, March 26
JOIN ME FOR THE FIRST
ALI COMPASSION FORUM OF 2025!
ON ZOOM – ONE WEEK FROM TODAY – FREE
“At its core, the Muhammad Ali Index is about people—how we treat each other and how we create a more compassionate world.”
Join us for the first Ali Compassion Forum of the year featuring Robert Galinsky and Christopher Wolf – an inspiring, action-driven gathering happening online on March 26, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EST. RSVP now.
This quarterly forum brings together changemakers to explore the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in compassionate action. You’ll also hear firsthand how the Muhammad Ali Index is driving real impact in communities across the U.S. and beyond. We want these forums to ignite new ideas and empower you to creatively weave the Muhammad Ali Index into your organization and mission.
Featured Speakers & Themes: Christopher Wolf and Robert Galinsky
Compassion in Action: Robert Galinsky
We spotlight Robert Galinsky, founder of Galinsky Coaching and a Muhammad Ali Index Impact Partner. Robert leads transformative writing and performing workshops for teens at Rikers Island Jail and other detention facilities through Literacy for Incarcerated Teens. He will share how he weaves Muhammad Ali’s 6 Core Principles and the 2025 Compassion Report into his work – using creativity and storytelling to inspire justice-impacted youth and adults.
Compassion and Social Media: Christopher Wolf
Kicking off this year’s first forum is Christopher Wolf, a leading global expert on online hate and privacy. As Senior Counsel Emeritus at top global law firm Hogan Lovells, Wolf will share insights from the groundbreaking White Paper they prepared as part of the Impact Partnership for the Index on social media and content moderation. His perspective will spark a powerful conversation on the future of digital spaces and compassionate policymaking.
Engaging Impact Partners & Thought Leaders
We’ll close with a dynamic, facilitated dialogue featuring Impact Partners and thought leaders from across the country. This interactive session will explore:
• Compassion in action
• The power of compassionate leadership
• Innovative ways to integrate compassion into personal & professional spaces
This is more than a discussion – it’s an opportunity to connect, share insights, and amplify compassion in action.
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2024
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Location-virtual Zoom meeting: https://19291.blackbaudhosting.com/19291/Ali-Compassion-Forum—March-26-2025
Your voice is essential in shaping this movement. RSVP and be part of this transformative conversation. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Erin E. Herbert
Senior Vice President of Operations
MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER
Be Great :: Do Great Things
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20. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, now online at TheGuardian.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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21. Barbara Rosenthal, Barry Wallenstein, FF Alumns, at Jefferson Market Library, Manahattan, Mar. 25
XANADU PRESS PRESENTS
Spring Foreword! A triple book party featuring readings by
Bonny Finberg
Barry Wallenstein
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Live Music, Poetry
Publisher and collaborator Barbara Rosenthal will be joined by the authors of three new Xanadu titles!
Plus a jazz trio with Barry! Please join us.
Thanks to Super Librarian
Alyona Glushchenkova
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
from 6 to 8:00pm
Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Ave NYC
Fully Accessible. For more info: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2025/03/25/triple-launch-extra-va-ganza
This invitation brought to you by Live Mag!
SUBSCRIBE! https://store.livemag.org/
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22. Doug Skinner, Norman Conquest, FF Alumns, new publications
“Feeding Time” is now available from Black Scat Books!
This collection of Alphonse Allais’s short pieces, originally published
in 1897, shows the great French humorist at his best. You’ll find
clandestine train stations, incandescent leeks, the rules for attending
funerals with a bicycle, and proposals for celluloid money and explosive
confetti. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Doug Skinner, who
also drew the frontispiece.
With this book, Black Scat Books’ editor Norman Conquest and I complete
our Alphonse Allais library. It includes all eleven of the collections
Allais called his “Anthumous Works,” plus six additional volumes. See
blackscatbooks(dot)com for the details.
Allais’s work was praised by, among others, André Breton, René Magritte,
Umberto Eco, Rachilde, Marcel Duchamp. Harry Mathews, and the Collège de
‘Pataphysique. And here it is for English readers!
I’m also happy to announce my inclusion in “The Museum of the Inane,”
also available from Black Scat. I take my place among the other exhibits
with my rollicking tale in verse, “Dover and Larson.”
Ah, and Spring is here. I saw a robin today… Doug Skinner
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23. Gilbert & George, Jenny Holzer, LigoranoReese, Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, James Sienna, Nancy Spero & Leon Golub, FF Alumns, at New York Public Library Main Branch, Manhattan, thru Aug. 2
Please visit this link:
https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/dynamic-duos
Thank you.
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24. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, now online at aedrafinearts.com
Please visit this link:
www.aedrafinearts.com/single-post/richard-h-alpert-v-2
Thank you.
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25. Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, Spring news
Spring News 2025
Cut from the Same Cloth
Palo Alto Art Center
Cut From The Same Cloth: Textile & Technology, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, Exhibition closes April 6, 2025
This exhibition investigates the many unexplored relationships between craft and technology and demonstrates how contemporary art practice has seamlessly embraced both.
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Sympoeisis
Sympoiesis: Co-creating Sense of Place, University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, WY, April 25-October 15, 2025 Exhibition includes Borrowed Time (2023-24) and Vanishing Finish (2025)
This exhibition invites the public to see art as a process of collaboration across time, space, and ideas. The creation of art is not a solitary endeavor but a dynamic exchange where influences flow and evolve inspired this expansive museum-wide exhibition.
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Other News
Dress for Distress upside down American flag pin
“I wanted something simple and easily transferable, that would be a clear message about what side of history I am on. I served 6 years in the military and it would be the honor of a lifetime to serve 14+ more. But I will not do so under this corrupt administration. So I wanted something to put on my bag, or wear, that would convey the reality of the situation and help weed people out.” – Bueller, pin owner
Originally created in March 2017, when Trump’s first press secretary mistakenly wore his lapel flag pin upside down. “We knew from that moment,” Ligorano says, “we had a perfect ready-made artwork.” “It was,” Reese remembers, “a kind of Freudian slip. What was Sean Spicer really saying? That the country is headed for trouble.”
From our edition series https://Pureproductsusa.com
After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, Post-1960, Grollier Club, NYC Ground Floor Gallery April 23 – July 26, 2025
This exhibition displays Steve Clay’s and Granary Books’ substantial collection of visual, experimental, concrete, and sound poetry, as well as several Granary Books publications on this theme including works by Marshall Reese.
After Words is a thematic journey through the history of these experimental poetics—including concrete poetry, sound poetry, and other monikers—and their material forms.
Catalogue available.
The Lost Link Archive
A Women-Owned Bindery, Design, & Paper Company with Vin Buchan and Nora Ligorano
Granary Books is representing The Lost Link Archive consisting of decorative papers and surface designs by Vin Buchan and Nora Ligorano.
This collection traces the arc of Lost Link’s design work, including photographs, correspondence, catalogs of designs, sales records, notebooks, recipe books for paste paper production, comprehensive samples, ephemera, digital media, and the tools used to create Vin’s and Nora’s paste papers.
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26. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
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27. Stanley Moss, FF Member, new publication
The new edition of DiGanZi’s brand dictionary has just published. Pocket format, great price, super information. Available on books.by at the Second Guess Press page.
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28. Karen Finley, FF Alumn, at City Lights, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 27 and more
Join Karen Finley to celebrate her new book Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco – Published by City Lights Books
Book Signings:
San Francisco at City Lights Bookstore. Thursday, March 27th, 7pm PT
Los Angeles at Book Soup on Saturday, March 29th, 3pm PT
“We need Karen Finley more than ever.” “Lucky for us, she’s happy to oblige, with an expansive book tour stopping in San Francisco and Los Angeles!”
Register here: https://citylights.com/events/karen-finley/
and now online in the San Francisco Chronicle here: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/karen-finley-covid-anxiety-art-20057415/amp?
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29. ABC No Rio & FF Alumns, at Emily Harvey Foundation, Manhattan, opening April 10
ABC No Rio 45 Years
April 5th through 26th, 2025
Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, 2nd floor, NYC 10012
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM or by appointment
Reception: April 10th from 6:00 – 8:00 PM
WEBSITE https://abcnorio45.org/
hashtag – @abcnorio45
Instagram: @abcnorio45
Bluesky: @abcnorio45years.bsky.social
Open History Database: https://abcnorio45.org/db
Inquiries: info@abcnorio45.org
“Art Gangs” blog, ABC 45 Years post string: https://artgangs.blogspot.com/
Press Contact :
Alan Moore awm13579@yahoo.com tel. whatsapp 414 354 2219
Announcing ABC No Rio 45 Years, an exhibition and program of events for April 2025 at Emily Harvey Foundation that celebrates 45 years of ABC No Rio as a collectively-run community center for art and activism. The activities anticipate next year’s completion of No Rio’s new facility, currently under construction.
ABC No Rio 45 Years
April 5th – 26th, 2025
Emily Harvey Foundation. 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Gallery Hours – 12-6pm Tuesday – Saturday
and by appointment : contact Alan Moore – awm13579@yahoo.com
Reception Thursday April 10th 6-8pm.
From April 5th through 26th, 2025 “ABC NO RIO 45 Years” will be hosted at the Emily Harvey Foundation at 537 Broadway, 2nd floor in SoHo. The building was organized by George Maciunas as a Fluxhouse Cooperative in 1967, and stands as a representation of the social and esthetic objectives of the Fluxus movement towards a pragmatic and non-elitist conception of art.
The core activity at Emily Harvey Foundation will be an exhibition of artists who have worked at ABC No Rio over the decades, and made it an iconic Lower East Side cultural center. They will reassemble to exhibit work in this historical survey presenting artworks old and new, and documents that show the many facets of ABC including the founding Colab years, during which artists of that group and others mounted politically charged theme exhibitions. Ephemera from No Rio’s archives will include products of ABC’s photo and silkscreen workshops – the Food Not Bombs and Books Through Bars projects – and samples from the massive zine library. Our partner the MoRUS museum will contribute materials from their collection documenting the squatters’ movement which battled Giuliani’s police in the 1990s, and the community garden movement. Events will include poetry, discussions and presentations, and screenings of underground film, video, and documentaries. Musical presentations will include the internationally famous hardcore punk matinees, and concerts reflecting ABC’s commitment to avant garde directions in sound art.
Throughout the run of “ABC NO RIO 45 YEARS” there will be Intersections of panels, art, music, and screenings at The Clemente, Emily Harvey Foundation, Anthology Film Archive and other sites to be announced.
“ABC NO RIO 45 YEARS” will also function as a workspace and gathering place. A sub theme of the project is “GayBC No Rio” that explores the undercurrent of queer culture that has existed as a foundational and binding element in the history of radical art and activism.
“ABC NO RIO 45 YEARS” is collaborating with THE CLEMENTE at 107 Suffolk Street through HISTORIAS, an expansive citywide initiative that celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in New York City. ABC No Rio and The Clemente have intersected over the decades, currently with Clemente’s hosting of No Rio’s offices, zine collection, and archives during No Rio’s period in exile during construction – and in the past with Clemente hosting performances, exhibitions, screenings, artist studios, and special events.
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AT https://abcnorio45.org/
PARTNERSHIPS:
Allied Productions, Inc. providing sponsorship foregrounding No Rio’s incorporation and providing custodial consultation to ABC No Rio’s Visual Art archives and ephemera. Anthology Film Archives hosting screenings to be held in May 2025 MoRUS (Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space), loaning objects and offering to host related events.
ABC No Rio and The Solo Foundation
@abcnorio45
#abcnorio45years
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30. Martha Wilson, Laurie Anderson, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/arts/bam-brooklyn-academy-of-music.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Goings On for Artists is compiled weekly by Rohan Subramaniam, Archive Intern, Summer/Fall/Winter 2024/2025
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