Contents for June 8th, 2026
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Weekly Spotlight: **FIRST FIFTY VOICES**
1. Malcom-x Betts, FF Alumn, at Domino Park, Brooklyn, June 24-25
2. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, at Sargent’s Daughters, Manhattan, thru July 10
3. Nao Bustamante, FF Alumn, at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, June 20
4. Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumn, June news
5. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, at Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Turkey, opening June 24
6. John Baldessari, Gilbert & George, Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
7. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at White Rabbits Books, Manhattan, June 18 and more
8. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Provincetown Theater, MA, June 21
9. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at 245 Bowery, Manhattan, July 13-25, and more
10. Helen Lessick, FF Alumn, at Museum Mile, Los Angeles, CA, June 20
11. Justin Allen, Toni Dove, Joan Jonas, FF Alumns, at e-flux, Brooklyn, June 9
12. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, Philip Douglas Fine Art, Hudson, NY, opening June 13
13. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, now online at Instagram.com
14. Kathy Brew, Linda Montano, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, at Widow Jane Mine, Century House, Rosendale, NY, June 27
15. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at San Art Gallery, Brooklyn, July 23-Aug. 29, and more
16. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru June 26
17. Lance Horne, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, June 9
18. Maciej Toporowicz, FF Alumn, at Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, NY, June 8-22
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Weekly Spotlight: **FIRST FIFTY VOICES**
Club 90 + Carnival Knowledge, 1984 / freedom of expression
In 1984, Franklin Furnace supported a collaboration few institutions would have touched: Carnival Knowledge, the feminist art collective, working with Club 90 — the first support group for women in the adult film industry. Among them was Veronica Vera. The next year, Veronica testified before a U.S. Senate committee for freedom of expression — testimony that became part of the Meese Report — and went on to spend decades as an artist and First Amendment advocate. Four decades later, here’s what that FF moment still means to her:
“Franklin Furnace [was] a pivotal moment in my life — performing in 1984 with my Pornstar Support Group, Club 90, for Carnival Knowledge. We all grew, we all had a fabulous time, and that [was] just an amazing moment in all of our lives. Franklin Furnace is a gift to the community and the art world.”
That’s the whole point of the Furnace: to make room for the artists and ideas the rest of the world thinks it’s not ready for — and standing with them when the fight for free expression reaches Washington. It took nerve in 1984, and it takes nerve now.
Stand with the institution that says yes when others say no — a contribution of any size keeps keep us going: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/franklin-furnace-archive-inc/first-fifty-campaign
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1. Malcom-x Betts, FF Alumn, at Domino Park, Brooklyn, June 24-25
https://www.dominopark.com/events/malcolm-x-betts-kat-sotelo
Malcolm-x Betts: Falling castles and broken dreams
Malcolm-x Betts, an artist whose work explores embodiment, liberation, and Black imagination, presents an improvisational dance performance. Navigating the architecture of Domino Square, Betts’s work asks: who does this labor serve? This improvisational, somatic offering functions as a portal to honor personal history within a complicated system.
In a series of unfoldings that attempt to reach for otherwise. What is imagined unfolds into a deconstruction of the proposal. An unfurling into the abyss of what is seen, unseen, referenced or imagined at the end of the day everything is broken.
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2. Willie Cole, FF Alumn, at Sargent’s Daughters, Manhattan, thru July 10
Please visit this link
https://www.sargentsdaughters.com/mindbodyandsoul
Thank you.
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3. Nao Bustamante, FF Alumn, at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, June 20
Iconic Chicana artist Nao Bustamante ushers us back into the 1970s with Brown Disco. Cutting through the noise and chatter with a steady pulsing beacon, Brown Disco will take up the Mid City streets in ode to iconic brown spaces such as the iconic nightclubs of The Arena, La Plaza, and Catch One, inviting past and present black and brown bodies onto the street dance floor to illuminate it with the glow of queer utopia.
The Art Parade is a large-scale public celebration marking the opening of the David Geffen Galleries. In a public procession on Museum Row/Wilshire Blvd, the parade showcases mobile sculptures, costumes, banners, inflatables, music, and movement-based works that activate public space through collective artistic expression. For more information please visit this link:
https://www.lacma.org/event/art-parade?mc_cid=c6880a9b84&mc_eid=78eb53e84b
Thank you.
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4. Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumn, June news
PERFORMANCE – WORLD PREMIERE | Athens, Greece
SNF Nostros 2026 is a global forum dedicated this year to the theme of “Humanity at the Core” featuring David Byrne, Gorillaz, Willem Dafoe, Até, and other practitioners across the humanities and science.
Marisa Morán Jahn joins with Be My Skin, an aesthetically evocative and humorous performance in which she assumes two alter egos — a Pleistocene-era Neanderthal nurse (Ramona) with a thick New York accent and Sitra, Queen Hapshetsut’s beloved nurse-priestess from ancient Egypt. Through a cosmology that weaves colorful imagery, punchy graphics, and pop culture, Be My Skin invites the audience to celebrate the human impulse to care, nurse, and heal throughout history.
Following the performance, Jahn is joined for participatory components and dialogue with Sarah Szanton, Dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Dr. David Fakunle II, Assistant Professor at the Morgan State University School of Community Health & Policy, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and moderator André Nogueira, Director, Design Nucleus, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
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OPENING RECEPTION + TALK | San Antonio, Texas
Tues, June 9, 6-7 pm: “Getting Tipsy with Artist Marisa Morán Jahn”
On view at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) on view through November 2027, TIPSY is a site-specific installation by Marisa Morán Jahn that explores the role of art and “spirits” (drinks made from distilled and fermented plants) in shifting perspective and communing with others/the divine.
To create the artwork, Jahn interviewed SAMA’s curators to learn about how folks “got tipsy” back in the day. For example, Hathor, ancient Egypt’s goddess of love, beauty, sex, and drinking, flooded the Nile with beer. As Lynley McAlpine, Assoc Curator of Provenance Research notes, “Fertility is the core of both sexiness and motherliness, right? In a period when there’s large infant mortality, you want them conjoined, as opposed to, say, more puritanical representations of women in which it really makes much less sense.” Other delightful tidbits from the interviews include the Mayan Lord known as “Fat Cacique” (A.D. 770s) and his power-sharing ritual of hallucinogenic enemas.
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OPENING KEYNOTE | Irvine, CA
Tuesday, June 16 (11 am PT): “Imagination, Impact, and Epistemic Justice”
Marisa gives the Opening Keynote address at ISLS (International Society of Learned Sciences), Barclay Theatre, UC Irvine.
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PUBLIC ART, ART, DESIGN | Chicago
Earlier this year, the City of Chicago awarded a $5M grant towards the capital construction of Carehaus in the South Side of Chicago! Carehaus, the U.S.’ first intergenerational, care-based co-housing project, is a simple yet innovative concept that combines quality housing, intergenerational care, social integration, and neighborhood revitalization. By providing safe, dignified, and low-cost housing whose designs enable residents to share resources, Carehaus’ model enables individuals and families to live together, age locally, share care, and thrive — while easing the nation’s housing and care crisis. Co-founded by Marisa Morán Jahn, Rafi Segal, and Ernst Valery, Carehaus leverages the power of art, design, and architecture in strengthening cultural vitality and esteem.
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Along with new teammate and collaborator, impact strategist Caitlin Casperson, the team is busy preparing designs for the permit with the goal of opening in late 2028. The team has recently been participating in industry convenings at the intersection of housing, public health, and care at Harvard and Stanford University, helping to build this exciting new field. http://carehaus.net
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PUBLIC ART | Milan, Italy
Created by architect Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn, HOOPcycle Milano is a MesoAmerican + contemporary basketball court on wheels designed for and in Italy. In April, the HOOPcycle premiered at Milan Design Week 2026 (Salone) in partnership with the City of Milano and Corvetto Basket Academy with the support of Dole Italia. This summer and onwards, HOOPcycle Milano will continue to transform urban areas into places of play.
And as well, the first HOOPcycle (created with The National Public Housing Museum) will be toodling around its home in Chicago this summer.
Learn more: http://hoopcycle.art
Thank you
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5. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, at Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Turkey, opening June 24
Yoko Ono: Insound and Instructure
opening June 24, 2026
at Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Turkey
https://sakipsabancimuzesi.org/en
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6. John Baldessari, Gilbert & George, Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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7. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at White Rabbits Books, Manhattan, June 18 and more
I am starting a series of screenings in different communities. The first one is at White Rabbit:
https://whiterabbitsbooks.com/event/59-seconds-ai59-video-festival-screening/
June 18, 7pm
200 West 86 Street, Manhattan.
Next screening in Brussels, Belgium:
July 6, 19:30,
dinA, Nieuwbrug 3 Rue du Pont Neuf, 100 Brussels
https://index.nadine.be/the-59-seconds-ai59-video-festival
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8. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Provincetown Theater, MA, June 21
Provincetown Community Compact Celebrates Its Stories;
Five storytellers share their experiences
Sunday, June 21, 2026 at the Provincetown Theater
Contact: Jay Critchley
Provincetown Community Compact celebrates its 33nd year with five storytellers who participated in its programs. Provincetown Community Compact Celebrates Its Stories will be held on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at the Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford Street. Curtain is at 7:00 pm with a social hour at 6:00 pm catered by Angel Foods, with donations from Hog Island Beer, Truro Vineyards, ScottCakes and The Lobster Pot.
The Compact’s third annual story night is directed by Compact board member Gail Strickland and features five individuals who have participated in its programs. Three of the storytellers are from The Compact’s Think-ubator program, which provides fiscal sponsorship and strategic support for potential organizations and individuals with ideas and dream projects.
Storytellers and their Compact connection are: Lauren Shea, West End Racing Club; Emma Fillion, After Hours; Ethan Herschenfeld, Swim for Life; Pastor David Brown, Health Beyond Faith; and, Ginny Binder, Micro Neighborhood Alliance (see image attached)..
The fundraising event will raffle off three, two-night stays in C-Scape Dune Shack. For more information and tickets contact this link https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/Wiym274ALuqS_XBzGd5aXg
“The Compact’s mission of nurturing community is more relevant now than when we began thirty three years ago. We are grateful to be part of a supportive, safe and thriving community,” states Jay Critchley, founder and Compact Director.
The Provincetown Community Compact is a non-profit organization established in 1993 to nurture community in Provincetown and the Outer Cape. Its mission is to enhance the well-being of the community through projects that incorporate the arts, the environment and the economy. It has helped develop dozens of individual Outer Cape projects and birthed twelve non-profits, including: Provincetown International Film Festival, Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Provincetown Commons, Summer of Sass, Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion Fund, Wellfleet Porchfest, Wellfleet Porch Fest and Pilgrim Bark Park.
Compact initiatives include a project through the National Park Service, Underrepresented Communities, to document LGBTQ+ sites and structures in Provincetown’s Historic District, the Think-ubator project, the Swim for Life (September 12), dune shack residencies and Prayer Ribbons. The Prayer Ribbons will be installed in front of Orlando City Hall June 8-14 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre.
For more information: thecompact.org
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9. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at 245 Bowery, Manhattan, July 13-25, and more
HOMO FUTURUS PROVOCATION ART RIVALRY on the BOWERY
Neo-Conceptual Artist Barbara Rosenthal Brings Historical Public Interaction to Nearby Museum Curatorial
NEW YORK, NY (6/3/26) — The intellectually provocative New York artist Barbara Rosenthal, overlapping her White Box Gallery subway version of PROVOCATION CARDS INTERACT, will engage in a new iteration under her half-century-long pseudonymic neologism, HOMO FUTURUS. Passersby are invited to participate in the encounter every Saturday June 13-July 25, 2-4pm on the sidewalk space she’s facetiously dubbed The NƟW MUSEUM outside 245 Bowery. This “neo-New Museum / “nYou Museum” series is sponsored by Homo Futurus® Editions / eMediaLoft.org within a stone’s throw of the New Museum’s reflection on new humans.
Rosenthal will distribute free philosophical text-art cards in the eight languages of iconic international venues from her “Provocation Cards Interacts” over the years, while impromptu conversations are videotaped. All her projects in visual art, literature, performance, photography, textiles and hi- and lo-tech media are based on the concept that such activities provide clues to the existential nature of the human species by way of an artist’s own “soul and psyche,” words with which, in 1994, she titled one of her books (Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester). She says “engaging with my work is to see your own self in it.”
Barbara Rosenthal’s work within the subject of human modality began with her first prize Science Fair project, 1963, in junior high. She coined the term “homo futurus” in 1980, publishing two books under the title in 1984 and 1986. Her 1981 book CLUES TO MYSELF establishes the art = artist connection, and when HOMO FUTURUS was published in 1986, Judith Hoffberg, editor of the Artists Book magazine, Umbrella, reviewed it as if subtitled “Clues to Ourselves.” The media handler / writer Pam Kray notes in Book Arts Newsletter, October 2013, that Barbara Rosenthal uses “herself as a guinea pig, … blending genres while keeping present in her work — as a body and a time — to understand our entire species.” The artist dedicated a chapter to the development of a future hominin in her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC, 2017), and registered the trademark in 2023.
Rosenthal’s “Homo Futurus” project also includes the “Homo Futurus Wall Work” suite of forty-one 11×14 boxframed electrostatic text and image prints arranged as a block exhibited at the Carlo Lamagna Gallery on 57th Street in 1989 and at the Center for Book Arts in 2014. The “Provocation Cards” project, which bring the elements of Time, Space, Reality, Illusion and Ideal into the equation, also includes a video (“Lying Diary / Provocation Cards,” 1988); a suite of A4 archival prints shown at the Lucas Carrieri Gallery in Berlin, 2009; and billboards erected by Padua, Italy, 2010. Two separate editions of “Provocation Cards Folio” are owned by the Tate, Whitney and MoMA.
The “Provocation Cards” themselves are ink jet prints on cardstock bearing her original aphorisms such as:
Homo futurus will not be human.
Life has a life of its own.
God is the Idol of Science. God is the Icon of Science. God is the False Prophet of Science.
Only that which exists is perfect enough to break into Reality. What is truly perfect, therefore, is what truly exists.
The flaw of the Ideal is that it does not encounter Time or Touch.
Please join us in this humanistic text-art interrelationship! And tune in to “Let Them Talk” interview livestream Tu, June 23, 7pm and permanently thereafter on https://www.youtube.com/@BarbaraRosenthal_NYArtist
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10. Helen Lessick, FF Alumn, at Museum Mile, Los Angeles, CA, June 20
Helen Lessick is leading the Environmental Arts Brigade, part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art Parade on Saturday June 20th. The Brigade will fly nematode flags from customized art quivers, and flaunt wind whistles along the Museum Mile of Wilshire Boulevard. The event is the culmination of a week celebration for LACMA’s new Geffen Galleries.
Thank you!
Helen Lessick
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11. Justin Allen, Toni Dove, Joan Jonas, FF Alumns, at e-flux, Brooklyn, June 9
50 years of Harvestworks residents
Tuesday, June 9, 7 pm
e-flux
172 Classon Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Use the code “bird” for discounted tickets via this link:
https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783362/50-years-of-harvestworks-residents
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12. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, Philip Douglas Fine Art, Hudson, NY, opening June 13
Lucio Pozzi:
Itness
Questicità
David Ebony, curator / a cura di David Ebony
Philip Douglas Fine Art
545 Warren Street (2d floor)
Hudson, NY, 12534
13 June – 12 July / 13 giugno – 12 luglio, 2026
Opening – Saturday June 13, 2:00-6:00 PM
Inaugurazione – Sabato 13 giugno, 14:00-18.00
In the first two rooms are selections from two groups of paintings of 2025.
The Consular Relocations are thick square blocks of plywood from which, one, two, three or four corners have been cut off and relocated on the face or sides of the original. They are painted in acrylic with visible brushstrokes in deep ultramarine blue. Their title derives from their having first been exhibited at the Italian Cultural Institute, part of the Consulate General of New York.
The Sephirot derive their title as an echo of the Kabbalah’s thought of emanations from infinity onto the human reality. With masking tape, I first trace markings onto fields of heavily glazed acrylic paint. They are like geometric calligraphies I know not the origin or significance of. Then with thick oil paint I improvise narrow outlines of each tape track so that when the tape is removed a negative trace of it remains visible. I build these outlines as actual extended thin bodies the consistency of is felt as I go.
In the third room are grouped several paintings from past years that relate to the more recent ones only distantly. I keep searching for unachievable absolute sensibility. The title Itness regards my basic concept that my works are not linked by recognizable formulas but by a mental and physical touch that I myself am unaware of. Each work of art is a universe in its own, prompting the viewers to engage into the here and now of their gaze.
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13. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, now online at Instagram.com
My old band, White Knuckle Sandwich, is reuniting after 25 years. We set up an Instagram page where you can gaze at our ephemera from the ’90s:
https://www.instagram.com/whiteknucklesandwich
Doug
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14. Kathy Brew, Linda Montano, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, at Widow Jane Mine, Century House, Rosendale, NY, June 27
Saturday, June 27
3pm
Widow Jane Mine, Century House
668 Rt. 213, Rosendale, NY 12472
The Carolee Schneemann Foundation and the Century House Historical Society/Widow Jane Mine present a program of films and videos at Widow Jane Mine. Set in this historic cement mine in Rosendale, the program includes Schneemann’s “Interior Scroll—The Cave” (1995), created at the mine, alongside short works by Schneemann. Kathy Brew’s “Mixed Messages” (1996) and several short interview films she made with Schneemann in the early 2000s will also
be presented. Linda Montano presides over the event. This event is free and open to the public.
Please bring your own seating
https://www.schneemannfoundation.org/news/upstate-art-weekend-2026
Upstate Art Weekend runs from Thursday, June 25 through Monday, June 29, 2026.
Kathy Brew
917-592-4134 (cell & WhatsApp)
FOLLOWING THE THREAD: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/followingthethread?fbclid=IwAR1iGvekLi8DRv1uK1v5Pg0wL8KQ833RdIyZiIbXFXWB8I5pZiiRRTVVVlQ
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15. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at San Art Gallery, Brooklyn, July 23-Aug. 29, and more
San Art Gallery
Multiple Frequencies
Dates: July 23rd–August 29th, 2026
Location: 254 3rd Ave in Gowanus (Please note: I am also Fleminger)
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Millbrook Arts Project
Place/Meant
Dates: July 10th–August 22nd
Location: 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook NY
Opening Reception: July 10th from 6–8pm ALL INVITED!
This will be one of 8 exhibits involved in a college symposium at Vassar College from July 22-24.
Making Meaning Upstate is a three-day symposium exploring new perspectives on collage history and current approaches to curating, publishing, and making. Through presentations, workshops, and exhibitions, the symposium brings together artists, curators, publishers, and historians to examine how meaning is constructed, disrupted, and reimagined through collage practices.
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16. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru June 26
“Box in a Valise in a Vault” Marcel Duchamp
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” Marcel Duchamp
The EIDIA House Plato’s Cave 37th exhibition, “Box in a Valise in a Vault” (de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy Boîte-en-valise).
Saturday, May 30 through June 26, 2026
Open Wednesday – Friday 1-6pm
or by Appointment contact Paul @ eidiahouse@earthlink.net / 646 226 6478
Plato’s Cave at EIDIA House, 14 Dunham Place, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11249 USA
There is so much chatter about the gargantuan show at MoMA, and with Duchamp being a considerable influence on the EIDIA House practice, we have chosen to exhibit: a “Box in a Valise”; an EIDIA versions of “Bicycle Wheel” and “Fresh Widow” 2026 (with special ‘peephole’ to an ‘Étant donnés’) and “EIDIA Magnetized Air” 2023. Marcel Duchamp is indeed the air, Manhattan air certainly.
Interesting timing for the MoMA show now as they have been working on it for ten years―who do you turn to when currently paintings exhaust themselves by their mere nature and shear numbers.
When you visit Plato’s Cave, you are welcome to give the ‘Bicycle Wheel’ a spin, as Duchamp said that he often did in his studio. A story goes that once the piece was acquired by MoMA and on display Duchamp came to the piece and spun the wheel. A guard stopped him and MD said, “I am the artist.” The guard replied; But it is now the property of the museum.
EIDIA House always strived to put complicated ideas into a simpler form. Aside from being well ahead of its time, Duchamp’’s oeuvre endues forward future still. Looking at the repeating examples of his work at MoMA, on one hand they appear complicated, ‘mind boggling’ but when you listen to Duchamp speak, ideas are made clear in simple language. He had an uncanny ability to make convoluted ideas simple.
In the newly published “Duchamp on Tape: The Janis Family Interviews” edited by Ann Temkin (MoMA Curator) with an introduction by Carroll Janis, MD is interviewed on tape by Carroll, Harriet, and Sidney Janice.
As taken from the book, Harriet asks Duchamp: “Let’s start with the coffee grinder.” MD replies: “The story was that my brother (Jacques Villon) had a kitchen like everybody has and in this kitchen he wanted to put some paintings. So he asked de La Fresnaye, Gleizes, Metzinger, myself, Léger also I think, to make a little painting for the kitchen. He had just a sort of cupboard above the sink―not a cupboard but just some kind of frieze, and he divided it into five to six compartments, and each of us should paint a painting that special size, the size of this exactly… And I did this one (Coffee Mill, 1911)…It was really the first painting for which mechanistic ideas came to me as a possibility…And it was done before ‘Nude Descending the Stair.’”
Other News
AIR @ EIDIA House, is now offering Artist In Residence at the inspired EIDIA House Studio―one week to one month from June to December 2026. If you happen to have an artist fellowship, grant, or stipend enabling your visit to New York City and Brooklyn please consider the residency. During or at the end of your stay, you could have the opportunity for a solo exhibit featuring your current work in Plato’s Cave.
Contact us with your plans and samples of your current “works-in-progress.”
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17. Lance Horne, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, June 9
Hey friend,
Pride Month just got a whole lot more electric, and I would love to share this new work with you on Tuesday night for the encore of the wildest musical journey I’ve ever put onstage.
LUX is back at Joe’s Pub in all its glory, including new music that we didn’t include the first time out.
If you missed the first show, these pictures by Hunter Canning sum it up:
Vocalist performing at Joe’s Pub. Photo by Hunter Canning. Singer in red gown at Joe’s Pub. Photo by Hunter Canning.
Performer with rainbow cuffs at Joe’s Pub. Photo by Hunter Canning. Trumpeter performing at Joe’s Pub. Photo by Hunter Canning.
LUX journeys through pre-revolutionary Paris, the underground speakeasies of 1929 New Orleans, and Burning Man on the last day on earth, performed live with an all-star band and surprise special guests from Broadway and beyond, gathered together for an electric 75 minutes.
Joe’s Pub is where I started in 1998. Coming back for Pride, with this show and these people, is everything.
Tickets are going. Don’t wait.
Tuesday, June 9 · Doors 8:30pm · Show 9:30pm
Joe’s Pub · 425 Lafayette St, NYC
$36
Get Your Tickets Now
Let’s bring some light into the world together on Tuesday.
Love,
Lance
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18. Maciej Toporowicz, FF Alumn, at Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, NY, June 8-22
Sleepy Hollow
The Daniel Pierce Library is pleased to present an art exhibition by the Catskills based artists Maciej Toporowicz and Moonching Wu. The show is a tribute to Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Rip Van Winkle.
Daniel Pierce Library, 328 Main St, Grahamsville, NY
June 8th – 22nd
Meet the artists on Friday the 12th from 2-4pm.
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