Contents for March 31st, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Shirin Neshat, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
2. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at Coney Island, Brooklyn, April 5
3. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, April 5
4. Marisa Moran Jahn, FF Alumn, at National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, IL, opening April 4 and more
5. Slaven Tolj, FF Alumn, now at Galerie SC, Zagreb, Croatia, thru April 5
6. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan, April 12-Sept. 7
7. Yali Romagoza, FF Alumn, at Siren Arts, Asbury Park, NJ, thru May 10
8. Dan Kit Kwong, FF Alumn, now online at SmithsonianMag.com
9. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, new publication, at The Strand, Manhattan, April 22, and more
10. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at Village Hall, Hastings on Hudson, NY, April 27
11. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, spring events
12. Marisa Moran Jahn, Shaun Leonardo, Lucy Lippard, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, April 10
13. Carole Naggar, FF Alumn, at Palais de la Femme, Paris, France, April 4-6, and more
14. Georgia Lale, FF Alumn, at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center of National Library of Greece, Kallithea, April 4-13
15. Heather Woodbury, FF Alumn, now online at substack.com
16. Tom Murrin, FF Alumn, at Howl! Happening, Manhattan, opening April 11
17. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles, opening April 11
18. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
19. Stella Waitzkin, FF Alumn, at John Michael Kohler Art Preserve, Sheboygan, WI
20. Adrian Piper, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
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1. Shirin Neshat, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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2. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, at Coney Island, Brooklyn, April 5
COMING SOON
THE KEEPERS at Coney Island
Saturday, April 5, 2025
The Keepers/Coney Island is an environmental performance art intervention created by longtime NYC cultural provocateur, Ed Woodham – scheduled for Saturday, April 5. 2025, beginning at sunrise at the Coney Island beach near West 12th Street and continuing at several different Coney locations until 11am. Woodham is the founder/director of the twenty-year-old annual NYC visual and performance public art festival, Art in Odd Places that takes place each October across 14th Street Manhattan since 2005.
The Keepers/Coney Island – a durational still performative group action – aims to bring attention to the blatant disregard of Coney Island’s history, ethos, and longtime residents by Thor Equities. This billionaire developer is advancing to replace the Coney Island that the world has come to know and love, with a massive casino, hotel, and convention center that would cast shadows over the amusement area. The Casino would create unsafe conditions, bring crime, – and destroy not only the cultural landscape but the quality of life of the thousands of residents.
The future of Coney Island USA, the non-profit arts organization that is home to the Coney Island Museum, the world-famous Coney Island Circus Sideshow that produces the Mermaid Parade, could be put at risk. The Mermaid Parade, the nation’s largest art parade and one of New York’s most iconic and beloved events could be gone forever!
The Keepers appear when life is out of balance with nature in response to the gentrification and rapid mass development of urban areas where the importance of the mixed-use district, the history of the area, and the natural environment has been ignored. The Keepers are a life form living on the border between animal and plant consciousness. They disrupt conventions, identities, and norms. The Keepers are aberrations in response to the rapid mass redevelopment of urban areas where the importance of the diverse community, chronicled past of the neighborhood, and the natural environment has been disregarded.”
Over the years, The Keepers have been spotted at various gentrified global sites in New York City at Penn Station neighborhood; Gowanus, Brooklyn; and Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens; several sites in Sydney and western Australia; Krakow, Poland, and Asbury Park, NJ.
This project is organized in partnership with the Coney Island, USA, and Coney Islanders Against the Casino. The Keepers /Coney Island is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Coney Island USA exists to defend the honor of American popular culture through innovative exhibitions and performances. Presenting and producing exciting new works, our approach is rooted in mass culture and the traditions of P.T. Barnum, dime museums, burlesque, circus sideshows, vaudeville, and Coney Island itself. Preserving and championing a set of uniquely American visual and performing art forms, we seek to create an international forum for cultural preservation and discourse, and where Coney Island represents these impulses, we strive to make it once again a center for live art and entrepreneurial spirit.
Website: https://www.coneyisland.com/
Coney Islanders Against the Casino is a coalition of concerned Coney Island residents and businesses founded by Ronald Stewart and Jeanny Hernandez championing the preservation of the Coney Island community and the protection of the historic buildings and landscape of the area.
Website: https://www.coneyisland.com/nocasino Email: nocasinoforconeyisland@gmail.com
Ed Woodham is an elder queer independent conceptual artist, curator, producer, and educator based in NYC. He has been active in community art, education, and civic interventions across media and culture for over forty-five years. He employs humor, irony, subtle detournement, and a striking visual style to encourage greater consideration of – and provoke deeper critical engagement – with the urban environment. Woodham created the project Art in Odd Places (AiOP) as a response to the disappearance of public space and personal civil liberties. Woodham has taught workshops in politically based public performances at NYU Hemispheric Institute for EMERGENYC, School of Visual Arts, and Art Students League in NYC. Website: https://edwoodham.com
For information about this project and high-resolution images please contact:
Ed Woodham, Email: edwoodham@gmail.com / Phone: 347-350-4242
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3. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, April 5
No Time For Fools April Care Cafe
April 1, 2025 5pm -7pm
La Mama, 74 East 4th Street, NYC
Everyday since January 20 has seemed like a Fool’s Day so why not make April Fool’s Day a day for some respite from foolishness and a replenishment of care?
Conceived by artist Lois Weaver in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, the Care Cafe is a place to be in company and conversation with others. Set up like a conventional caféwith small tables and chairs and some simple table activities, the Care Café asks us to turn up as we are, with no specific agenda or expectation, simply asking the question:
How can we maintain an attitude of care in an uncaring world?
La Mama is holding monthly Care Cafes so we can gather regularly to help each other find a way through this chaos.
Please join us on April 1st. You can RSVP but you can also drop in anytime between 5-7 pm
https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/performance/11610691
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4. Marisa Moran Jahn, FF Alumn, at National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, IL, opening April 4 and more
Wallpaper | Chicago
Friday, April 4, 2025
10–11 am: Grand Opening followed by reception
National Public Housing Museum: 919 South Ada St, Chicago
ReCreation is a series of floor-to-ceiling wallpaper I designed that celebrates a largely unknown moment in history characterized by citizen-led organizing in Baltimore’s Black community from the late 1960s through the 19070s. With permission from the Robert Breck Chapman archive, I remixed archival photos and set them against paper that I hand-dyed and monoprinted. A project that emerged from collaborative research with community developer Micah Campbell Smith and Dr. Sarah Szanton, Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the wallpaper captures the feeling of exuberance, solidarity, and joy described by the many older adults — and their younger family members — that we interviewed who lived through the era.
See More Wallpaper + Learn More
Participatory + Public Art | Chicago
Fri, April 4, 2025
10–11 am: Grand Opening followed by a reception
NPHM: 919 South Ada Street, Chicago, IL
Come play HOOPcycle and celebrate the Grand Opening of The National Public Housing Museum (NPHM)! Created with architect Rafi Segal, the HOOPcycle is a mobile art installation that recenters basketball’s history and brings its Meso-American roots to the forefront.
The HOOPcycle!
Panel | Abu Dhabi
Sunday April 27, 3 pm, MAS Auditorium
Join me at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi (April 27-29), a global gathering of decision-makers, artists, designers, and change-makers engaged in transforming societies. I’ll be speaking on a panel conversation about how to bring art closer to life with Elisabeth Millqvist, Director, Moderna Museet Malmö, Gina Duncan, cultural leader (formerly, Sundance and Brooklyn Academy of Music), moderated by Cyra Levenson, Deputy Director, Education and Public Engagement, Guggenheim Museum.
Exhibition | Venice Biennale
May 10 – Nov 2025
Palazzo Diedo, Venice, Italy
A model of Art-Tek Tulltorja, the former brick factory in Kosovo that I’m involved in transforming into a climate-forward art and technology district, will be featured at Palazzo Diedo in an exhibition at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibition features climate-related issues across design, engineering, and critical and historical thinking. Our teammates include architect and MIT Professor Rafi Segal, Alexander d’Hooghe (ORG Permanent Modernity, Brussels), Bekim Ramku (Office of Urban Drafters, Kosovo), and myself as a collaborating artist.
Writing
In 2010, I published/edited a book called Byproducts that investigated artists embedded within industries, governments, or corporations to produce works from within. The tensions within this artistic strategy (camouflage, parasite, the status of art) are germane today as they were for pioneers sixty years ago who were galvanized by social upheaval, ecological and class solidarity, and rapid changes in technology.
One essay, a conversation with art historian Claire Bishop, philosopher Stephen Wright, and myself about the work of APG (Artists Placement Group) has been newly republished in a catalogue accompanying an exhibition by the ever-inspiring Barbara Steveni at Modern Art Oxford (March 1-June 8, 2025). You can download the PDF here or order the book from the publisher to find that essay long with gems by Billy Klüver (E.A.T.), Luis Jacob, Pedro Reyes, Joseph del Pesco, Michelle Kuo, Paul Ardenne, and others.
Recent Performance
Excerpt from a recent performance as part of Catch, an Obie-winning curated series that ArtForum aptly calls “a crash course in what performance looks like today.” The installation, created from household items (fans, kitchen trashbags) was created by myself in collaboration with some of my students from Parsons. Ours was a (profoundly funny) performance Learn more and laugh.
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5. Slaven Tolj, FF Alumn, now at Galerie SC, Zagreb, Croatia, thru April 5
Slaven Tolj
Uzvratni Posjet
https://www.sczg.unizg.hr/kultura/eventi/slaven-tolj-uzvratni-posjeti-izlozba-u-galeriji-sc
21.3. – 5.4.2025
Galerie SC
Zagreb, Kroatien
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6. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Museum of Arts and Design, Manhattan, April 12-Sept. 7
Please visit this link:
https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/saya-woolfalk?mc_cid=324766f4b9&mc_eid=b4eb71ed91
Thank you.
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7. Yali Romagoza, FF Alumn, at Siren Arts, Asbury Park, NJ, thru May 10
I’M PRESENT: MY BODY, BEYOND THE EPHEMERAL
My solo exhibition!
March 29 – May 10, 2025
at @sirenartsap , Asbury Park, NJ
This show brings together performance, fiber-based sculpture, and self-portraiture to explore themes of presence, disappearance, and the body as an archive of survival and resistance.
I can’t wait to share this work with you.
What will my body say—beyond the ephemeral?
#YaliRomagoza #CuquitaLaMuñecaCubana #PerformanceArt #TextileArt #FeministArt #SirenArts #ImPresent #BeyondTheEphemeral #LatinxArt #MigrationAndArt
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8. Dan Kit Kwong, FF Alumn, now online at SmithsonianMag.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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9. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, new publication, at The Strand, Manhattan, April 22, and more
Dear friends- my new book – The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity- launches April 22 at The Strand (w Shiv Kotecha)and April 23 at Greenlight (w Linda Villarosa) – you need to reserve seats, and links are in the chat.
https://www.strandbooks.com/events/event42225
and
https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/sarah-schulman-and-linda-villarosa
Thank you.
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10. Isabella Bannerman, FF Alumn, at Village Hall, Hastings on Hudson, NY, April 27
Sunday April 27th, 3-5 PM,
with the working title:
“A Month of Sundays” – Cartoons dedicated to the day of rest. by Isabella Bannerman
It will be at the Hastings on Hudson Village Hall, sponsored by the Hastings Village Arts Commission.
7 Maple Avenue
Hastings on Hudson, NY
10706
Isabella Bannerman
https://www.isabellabannerman.com
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11. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, spring events
Greenport, NY:
Group Exhibition
Passing the Brush: Feminist Art NOW
March 28 – May 11, 2025
Opening reception Friday, March 28, 6 – 8 pm
Floyd Memorial Library
539 First Street
Greenport, NY
and
Mattituck, NY:
Studio Tour
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Hosted by North Fork Contemporary
Get Tickets Here: https://northforkcontemporary.org/
and
Columbus, Ohio:
Artists and Writers Panel Discussion
Thursday, May 1, 7 – 9:00 pm
The discussion will be moderated by artist Allison Chapman and will include writers Maggie Smith and Amy Turn Sharp, and artists Amanda Love and Anne Sherwood Pundyk.
Art Access Gallery
540 S Drexel Avenue
Columbus, OH
As Part of the Current Exhibition
Unbound: Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Amanda Love
March 7 – May 30, 2025
Reserve Your Seat Here: https://www.artaccessgallery.com/
and
Jamesport, NY:
East End Beacon Article on Artists’ Talk
February 22, 2025
Sponsored by North Fork Contemporary
Read Story Here: https://www.eastendbeacon.com/beneath-the-surface-of-an-artists-life/
Copyright © 2025 Anne Sherwood Pundyk, All rights reserved.
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12. Marisa Moran Jahn, Shaun Leonardo, Lucy Lippard, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, April 10
Panel | NYC
Thurs, April 10, 5:30 pm
Francis Kite Club, NYC
To help launch Stephen Duncolme and Dipti Desai’s new book, The Activism of Art (OR Books), I’ll be speaking on a panel along with the authors, Shaun Leonardo, Betty Yu, and Avram Finkelstein. The book explores the social power of art through contributions by James Baldwin, Lucy Lippard, Herbert Marcuse, Audre Lorde, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rabindranath Tagore, John Dewey, John Berger, Augusto Boal, Franz Fanon, Raymond Williams, Jacque Rancière, Rosalyn Deutche, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Mikhail Baktin, Octavia Butler, and W. E. B. DuBois
RSVP https://www.franciskiteclub.com/
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13. Carole Naggar, FF Alumn, at Palais de la Femme, Paris, France, April 4-6, and more
Carole Naggar, FF Alumn, will be signing her books Obscura at Salon l’Autre Livre, April 4 and April 6, 3-5 pm at Palais de la Femme, 94 due de Charonne, 75011 Paris, France; and Entracte, April 5, from 3 pm, Libraire La Chambre Claire, 3 rue d’Arras, 75005, Paris. Merci.
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14. Georgia Lale, FF Alumn, at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center of National Library of Greece, Kallithea, April 4-13
INVITATION: “Lola Speak” exhibit and performance at SNFCC National Library of Greece
Lola Speak!
NIARCHOS FOUNDATION & WOW ATHENS
BIRTHDAY – performance – bedsheet donation
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 13:30 – 15:30
Open to the public
The artist is inviting the audience to donate their own bedsheets and participate in a series of group games for kids and adults. The washed sheets can be of any color, size and pattern.
Location: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public PC Space
LOLA SPEAK!– exhibit
Friday, April 4 – Sunday April 13, 2025
Open to the public
The exhibition “Lola Speak!” commemorates victims of femicide in Greece and internationally and challenges the victim blaming culture. Womxn all around the world are fighting for their right to make decisions for their own bodies, for equal pay, for safety and happiness. Our inner child wants to be happy, carefree and playful. Instead, we have to look behind our backs when walking home at night. And, for many of us, home is where we are most exposed, unprotected and stripped off our human dignity.
We fight, mourn, and most importantly celebrate life, so that we, our mothers, sisters and friends will lead lives of empowerment. Our unity changes the collective mindset and prompts the creation of social structures that will ensure equality beyond gender, race, physical challenges and immigration status.
The exhibited works were made with bedsheets donated by womxn that live in Greece, under the condition that they have used them to rest on them and dream of a safe world. The works’ visuals are referencing the Alphavitarion (ABC book) published in 1955, illustrated by K. Grammatopoulos.
Location: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Lobby and National Library of Greece Lobby
SNFCC Lead Donor: Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
WOW Athens 2025 Major Sponsor: Uber
Studio portrait: Elisabeth Smolarz, NYC, 2025
The WOW Athens 2025 festival is co-funded by the European Union through the Program “Attica” 2021–2027.
Georgia Lale is a visual artist and cancer fighter based in Brooklyn. Their work has been featured in art festivals such as Art in Odd Places (NYC), Venice International Performance Art Week (Italy), and Brussels Nuit Blanche (Belgium). Lale’s work has recently been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, Border Project Space, Collar Works, Smack Mellon, and Shiva Gallery, among others. They have been invited to discuss their practice by the Dedalus Foundation, MoMA, and Yale University. Their #OrangeVest performance was presented at the Greek Pavilion of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016. Georgia is represented by a.antonopoulou.art in Athens.
Copyright (C) 2025 Georgia Lale Art. All rights reserved.
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15. Heather Woodbury, FF Alumn, now online at substack.com
Please visit this link:
https://heatherwoodbury.substack.com/p/a-little-piece-of-heaven?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Thank you.
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16. Tom Murrin, FF Alumn, at Howl! Happening, Manhattan, opening April 11
Tom Murrin “The Alien Comic”
With Purpose & Style
April 11 – May 25 2025
Opening Friday, April 11 6 – 9PM
(previously scheduled to open April 4, the exhibition now opens April 11, 2025)
Howl! Happening
6 East 1st Street, New York, NY 10003
Howl! is thrilled to present this spontaneous, playful, comprehensive exhibition of the art, performances and life of Tom Murrin ‘The Alien Comic’ (1939-2012) at Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street. Tom often performed in this space when it was the La Mama Galleria, making it the ideal venue for his first expansive show in 11 years. On display will be over 200 performance masks, props and costumes (many never shown before), plus select flyers, posters, scripts, photos and press from performances in New York City, across 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 R. Moore.
By the 1970’s Tom who was already in experimental theatre groups in Seattle, roamed the world as a performance trailblazer; traversing Asia, and staging daily shows in both outdoor public spaces, and indoor theater spaces. Our exhibition shares documentation & visuals from his early years as ‘Tom Trash’ along with a cornucopia of items from his archive illustrating his range of performance and street theater that covers four decades.
As a member of the first generation of La MaMa playwrights, Tom had four of his plays produced by John Vacarro’s Playhouse 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.
From the mid ’70s onward, Tom was part of, and curated The Full Moon Show, his monthly lunar celebration 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. Our exhibition intentionally opens on the Pink Full Moon weekend!
Under the guidance of close friend, rock manager Jane Friedman, Murrin 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, Dixon Place, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Performance Space 122 (PSNY), Chandalier and Darinka. He was also the first performance artist to appear at the original Dixon Place.
“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.
Beginning in 1999, Murrin, continuously active, began writing a riveting monthly column in PAPER Magazine that ran for 16 years. He covered the performance and stage scenes, individual actors, dancers, playwrights and directors, and upcoming theater works. Selections from his column, which brought attention to many up and coming artists, are included in the exhibition. Tom lived his motto “Performance Is Anything Done With Purpose And Style” until shortly before he passed.
We hope you are inspired to visit and make time to view a selection of Tom’s live performances which will play on a large monitor along with live photos from 2011 and an enlightening 2008 interview. A bench will be positioned for comfortable viewing.
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 more than 40 years. We look forward to seeing you at this celebratory show.
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17. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles, opening April 11
We’re excited to share a few updates celebrating Carolee Schneemann’s work and legacy.
On April 11, 2025, Carolee Schneemann opens at Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles
https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/carolee-schmeemann
marking her inaugural exhibition with the gallery. The show centers on Video Rocks—a multimedia installation inspired by a dream she had while visiting Los Angeles in the summer of 1985. It will be Schneemann’s first solo exhibition in the city.
Meanwhile, the restoration of Schneemann’s films is now complete, with new 16mm prints and 4K digital versions of Plumb Line, Red News, and Viet-Flakes freshly returned from the lab. To celebrate, Anthology Film Archives in New York will host a screening on April 29.
And in preservation news, we are pleased to announce that Schneemann’s home in New Paltz, NY, has officially joined the coalition of Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) as an affiliate site, ensuring its place in a network dedicated to artist legacies.
We hope you’ll join us for these upcoming events. Stay connected by following us on Instagram @schneemannfoundation or visiting the news page on our website.
Warmly,
Rachel Churner, director
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18. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/arts/design/joseph-kosuth-sean-kelly.html
Thank you.
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19. Stella Waitzkin, FF Alumn, at John Michael Kohler Art Preserve, Sheboygan, WI
Stella Waitzkin: “The Wreck of the UPS”
On view at the Art Preserve-
Artist Stella Waitzkin (1920-2003) moved to the Hotel Chelsea in 1969 and began casting old books in polyester resin, transforming them into vibrant sculptures that filled her apartment. This ever-growing installation, “Details of a Lost Library,” referenced both the lost-wax casting process and the lost content within the books. At the time of the artist’s passing, her home had become a mesmerizing library of unreadable books, a profound symbol of intellectual freedom.
In 2007, the Arts Center, in collaboration with the Waitzkin Memorial Trust and Kohler Foundation, acquired “The Wreck of the UPS.” The three-wall installation is on display at the Art Preserve carefully reassembled to mirror its original arrangement. JMKAC holds the largest collection of Waitzkin’s work, with over 700 individual pieces.
https://www.jmkac.org/art-preserve/
https://www.jmkac.org/artist/stella-waitzkin/
Stop by the today and experience Waitzkin’s art environment for yourself.
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20. Adrian Piper, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/arts/design/christophe-cherix-moma-director.html
Thank you.
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