Goings On | 06/29/2026 - Franklin Furnace

Contents for June 29th, 2026

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Weekly Spotlight: **FIRST FIFTY VOICES**

1. Arantxa Araujo, Alicia Grullon, Ariel Kleinberg, Ayana Evans, Day de Dada Performance Art Collective, GOODW.Y.N., Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Martha Wilso, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, Nima Nikakhlagh, Raquel Du Toit, Sara Kostic, Yali Romagoza, Ed Woodham, FF Alumns, at Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, Manhattan, Sept. 26-27

2. Xandra Ibarra, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, FF Alumns, at Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, July 1

3. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, at Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, July 26

4. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online with Johns Hopkins University

5. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, summer events

6. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library, June 2026

7. Stephanie Brody-Lederman, FF Alumn, at ‘Ino, Manhattan, June 29 and more

8. Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, at Obama Presidential Center, Chicago, IL

9. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, now online at ScreenSlate.com

10. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com

11. Rev. Billy, FF Alumn, at Quaker Meeting House, Manhattan, July 1 and more

12. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at Gallery Luxfer, Česká Skalice, Czech Republic, thru Sept 5.

13. Beth B, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Lunch, Julie Atlas Muz, FF Alumns, at Roxy Cinema, Manhattan, July 12-Aug. 1, and more

14. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at RoboRantReview.com

15. Christine DeFazio, FF Intern Alumn, at Urban Creativity Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2-4

16. Melissa Wolf and Paul Lamarre, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru July 17

17. Todd Alcott, FF Alumn, at The Morgan Library, Manhattan, thru October 4

18. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, at KINDL, Berlin, Germany, thru July 4

19. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1204537228

20. Jeannette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Elmhurst Art Museum, IL, thru Aug. 23

21. Analia Segal, FF Alumn, at Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA, July 22

22. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org

23. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in Cahersiveen, Ireland, July 31-Aug. 3, and more

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Weekly Spotlight: **FIRST FIFTY VOICES**

Eight years ago, performance artist Ayana Evans received her first major grant, an award from The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art. And she made the most of it, using it to create work for multiple shows and professional photographs. Since then Ayana has been a NYFA Fellow, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a Professor of the Practice at Brown, and faculty at NYU Gallatin. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Barnes Foundation, El Museo del Barrio, and the Bronx Museum, and been reviewed in The New York Times, ArtForum, and Hyperallergic.

Here’s what that first FF check meant to her:

“It was the first grant for more than 100 bucks that I ever got, and it really propelled me. I stretched that money — my first solo show was after that at Medium Tings Gallery. I did Art in Odd Places with that money — I had a red carpet on the street, models, I bought boas, I did all sorts of stuff. I got professional photos, which led to more grants. It just opened so many doors. Thank you, thank you. I hope you have 50 more. I might not be an artist still without that grant.”

This is what the FF Fund does. It hands artists their first real check — an investment that can take them to the next level of success. Eight years later, that bet on Ayana Evans looks like a Venice Biennale performance and a New York Times review.

There’re other artists out there waiting on their first real grant. Help us be the ones to write those checks: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/franklin-furnace-archive-inc/first-fifty-campaign

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Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS

SENSE | DREAM | BODY | CARE | CONNECT

September 26 & 27, 12-5pm on 14th Street, NYC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. New York City. June 25, 2026. Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is pleased to announce the names of the 47 projects and art collectives selected to participate in Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS curated by Arantxa Araujo & Pancho López. The festival will take place along the East side of 14th Street in New York City on Saturday, September 26, and the West side of 14th Street on Sunday, September 27, from noon to 5 pm.

The selected projects reimagine the city not as it is, but as it could be, transforming 14th Street into a living laboratory for collective dreams, radical care, and shared futures, as Art in Odd Places has done for over two decades. Spanning installation, performance, actions, gestures, sound, and participatory practices, these works activate public space as a site of encounter, inquiry, and possibility. Together, the artists create situations where audiences are invited to listen, participate, reflect, and imagine where complexity becomes embodied, dialogue can emerge, and strangers momentarily become collaborators in the shared act of world-making.

What does it mean to imagine otherwise, together, in public? What happens when we treat the street not as a corridor of consumption or control, but as a commons: a site for experimentation, mutual recognition, and collective dreaming? At a time when public space is increasingly regulated, monetized, and surveilled, AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS asks how temporary gestures, ephemeral performances, improvised gatherings, fleeting apparitions, and acts of collective imagination might rehearse more just, joyful, and imaginative ways of existing together. For two days, 14th Street becomes a space where alternative futures are not simply envisioned, but practiced in real time through artistic action, participation, and shared presence.

In its 21st (odd) year, AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS is dedicated to Franklin Furnace’s 50th Anniversary.

Participating Artists

ŌME: Teōsinte, Óldo Erréve & Lechedevírgen Trimegisto. Image by: Fabián Mecate.

Curators

Arantxa Araujo is a queer Mexican performance artist, curator, cultural organizer, and art administrator moving between Mexico City and New York. Their work draws from neuroscience, ritual, and collective imagination. They create participatory experiences that invite strangers into moments of reflection, vulnerability, and pause.

Pancho López studied Communication Sciences at UNAM’s Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, and for eleven years served as Head of the Department of Performance and Contemporary Art at Museo Universitario del Chopo. Over the years, he has coordinated festivals such as Performagia, Transmuted, and Extra!, and participated in performance art festivals and exhibitions across Latin America, Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Curatorial Assistants

Juliana Maurer is an Appalachian designer and community organizer currently based in Brooklyn. Their background is in graphic design, social practice, and participatory art, and a lot of Juliana’s work is rooted in thinking about how art can build stronger forms of community and collective care. They are especially passionate about creating community infrastructure for mutual aid, using art as a way to support and sustain direct action, and working with movement-based zines, artist books, and abolitionist imaginaries.

Valentina Zamora is an artist, curator, and arts researcher working between contemporary art, film, and cultural projects. Over the years, she has worked across institutions, exhibitions, public programs, and artist-centred initiatives. For AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS, she is working alongside Juliana and the curatorial team, supporting artist communication, logistics, scheduling, and project coordination throughout the festival process.

Founder and Director

Ed Woodham is a queer elder, conceptualist, curator, and educator based in

Manhattan, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where Art in Odd Places began.

Producer

Katya Usvitsky is an artist, graphic designer, and curator. She co-directs the LA space of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and co-founded noysky projects, an artist-run exhibition space and studio in Hollywood, and High Beams, a series of nomadic pop-up exhibitions.

For additional members of the team, please visit artinoddplaces.org.

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC, from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. Using 14th Street as a laboratory, this project continues AiOP’s work to locate cracks in public space policies and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space nationally & globally. Art in Odd Places is fiscally sponsored by GOH Productions.

For more information and high-resolution images, contact: aiopnyc@gmail.com

artinoddplaces.org

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2. Xandra Ibarra, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, FF Alumns, at Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, July 1

Weds, July 1, 2026 at 7 pm

Fort Mason Center for the Arts

San Francisco, CA

Bodies of Work: A Conversation with Xandra Ibarra, Annie Sprinkle, and Beth Stephens

Xandra Ibarra, Annie Sprinkle, and Beth Stephens will have a conversation on their own practices as well as the rich history of experiments in sexuality, performance, and art in the Bay Area.

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3. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, at Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, July 26

Dear ACTING LIKE WOMEN subscribers and friends,

We are currently on the road with our World Premiere at Bentonville Film Festival, followed by our Frameline50 screening at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.

We wanted to let you know as soon as possible that reservations for our Special Event Screening at The Getty in Los Angeles opened up today, June 22. We encourage you to make your reservation immediately as we anticipate it will sell out (it’s FREE but seats are limited).

The event is Sunday, July 26, at 3 pm. Reservation link is below.

https://www.getty.edu/calendar/screening-acting-like-women

Thank you.

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4. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online with Johns Hopkins University

Please visit this link:

https://washingtondc.jhu.edu/news/coco-fusco-qa/?utm_source=partner-amplification&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=arts-and-culture&utm_term=sam-gilliam-lecture-series&utm_content=coco-fusco

Thank you.

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5. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, summer events

Hector Canonge, FF alumni to present three project initiatives in Europe during Summer 2026. The artist and curator directs the second edition of IBERICA, Performance Art Residency & Festival in Toledo and Madrid, Spain (July 7 – 16), the 4th version of ENCUENTRO LATINOAMERICANO DE PERFORMANCE ART (Latin American Summit of Performance Art) in Berlín, Germany (July 22 -26), and the biennial of Live Art, PERFORMATICA, coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale in Italy (July 30 – August 2).

IBERICA

Performance Art Residency & Festival

July 7 – 16, 2026, Toledo and Madrid, Spain.

INPA, International Network of Performance Art, under the direction of artist and curator, Hector Canonge, and the collaboration of Centros Art House Spain launched by Art House Madrid presents the second edition of the Art Residency & Festival, IBERICA. The international program will take place from July 7 to 16 in Spain. IBERICA 2026 consists of a creative residency at the Distrito del Arte Torrijos, DAT, in the locality of Torrijos, Toledo, and live performances to be presented at Museo La Neomudéjar in Madrid.

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3c3s426z

4to ENCUENTRO LATINOAMERICANO de PERFORMANCE ART

July 22 – 26, 2026, Berlin, Germany.

Open call (Deadline July 15)

The fourth edition of ENCUENTRO LATINOAMERICANO PERFORMANCE ART BERLIN invites artists from the Latin American diaspora residing in Europe to submit performance art proposals for presentation in the 2026 program. The 4th ENCUENTRO aims to continue strengthening and supporting Latin American performance art in Europe by providing first rate presentations at various venues in Berlin. The program aims to forge new connections to create a more visible Latin American artistic community in the continent. More than just a festival, ENCUENTRO is a major gathering designed to foster dialogue, and collaborative opportunities among Latin American performance artists living in various European countries. Interested artists may submit proposals for live performances until July 15.

More information & Details: https://tinyurl.com/3phu85w7

Questions: encuentro.performance.berlin@gmail.com

PERFORMATICA

July 30 – August 2, 2026, Venice, Italy.

Open call (Deadline July 25)

Coinciding with the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale and outlined under the theme: “Corpus Migrante”(migrant body), the second edition of the independent, artist-led program, PERFORMATICA, invites artists to join with their performances and populate the Venetian public sphere. Organized and curated by artist and cultural producer Hector Canonge, the second installment of PERFORMATICA invites performance artists and practitioners from all nationalities to submit proposals that reflect on human displacement, relocation of bodies (self or imposed) and psychogeographic adaptation until July 25.

Information & application: https://forms.gle/eSDqVusn1CwC86Em8

After coordinating and presenting the three programs: IBERICA, ENCUENTRO, and PERFORMATICA, Canonge will join artists in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia where he will present new works, conduct workshops, and lead conferences in contemporary visual performance arts.

More information: www.hectorcanonge.net

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6. Morgan O’Hara, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library, June 2026

Dear Fellow Handwriters of the Constitution,

On 20 January 2017, inauguration day, I began the social art practice of HANDWRITING THE CONSTITUTION as a timely and urgent practice. Many of you participated in the original sessions in the Rose Reading Room at the New York Public Library. Following the experience of the first round I decided to hold sessions monthly and each time more people participated. For the July 4, 2017 edition of the Sunday New York Times, invited by Peter Catapano, Senior Editor at the New York Times, I wrote a piece describing the practice. It was published with many photographs chosen with handwritten texts beautifully collaged by Alexandra Zsigmond into a We The People banner. From that point forward people all over the United States communicated their interest in participating in the practice. I gave whatever assistance was necessary to help it grow. Never would we have imagined that 8 years later the practice would still be ongoing, not only in the United States, but worldwide. To date, in 2026, there have been 168 sessions held in multiple countries using multiple languages and Constitutions as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 20 languages. Close to 3000 people have participated.

This July, 2026, the New York Public Library has invited me to officially hold sessions in the Library’s flagship location, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10018, during the celebration of 250 years since the founding of the United States. This is a big honor and I am inviting you to participate once again in this particular form of Activism for Introverts. Sessions will be held on 1 July dedicated to the practice in a tent on the front steps of the library. You are welcome to join us on that day any time between 12 and 6 pm. I suggest you allow yourself at least a two hour session as in the past because this time block affords real personal contact with the Constitution. You may come and stay as long as you wish to between 12 and 6pm. On July 3-4-5 we will be holding sessions from 10 am to 6pm inside in the main lobby of the library. You are once again welcome to participate. The library is open to everyone and no lists nor reservations will be made for this event. Once again, I suggest you allow yourself a two hour session to experience real contact with the Constitution. Who could have guessed that this practice would continue this long and so widely? It is my great honor to invite you to rejoin me as we again ground ourselves in the founding documents of our country. Together we will honor the country’s unprecedented beginning 250 years ago. Come fortify your understanding and commitment as members of a young country whose founders had clear ideas of human dignity and the basics of moral living. The deeper our personal understandings of individual human rights go, the stronger we will be in protecting and defending the inalienable rights we all share. I look forward to seeing you again. Best, Morgan O’Hara PS Should you be unable to attend any of these sessions, I suggest you reconnect with the Constitution wherever and whenever you can. As you already know, it is a very grounding and calming process. FYI: Photographers engaged by the library will be photo documenting the many events held during these days. www://handwritingtheconstitution.com

Thank you very much.

Morgan O’Hara

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7. Stephanie Brody-Lederman, FF Alumn, at ‘Ino, Manhattan, June 29 and more

stephanie brody-lederman at ‘ino

You are cordially invited to join us Monday June 29 from 5-6 pm for a reception to honor artist Stephanie Brody-Lederman, whose paintings are on view at ‘INO through August.

Stephanie’s work explores the poetic texture of everyday life, bringing together memory, romance, and the language of contemporary experience.

Meet Stephanie and enjoy a glass of prosecco on the house (no reservations required) followed by our aperitivo happy hour 6-7 pm, or make a booking to join us for dinner.

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8. Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, at Obama Presidential Center, Chicago, IL

Please visit this link:

https://www.obama.org/visit/campus/art-collection

Thank you.

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9. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, now online at ScreenSlate.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.screenslate.com/articles/gammatime-conversation-nina-sobell

Thank you.

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10. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com

Please see the interview by Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic of the Amazing Ed Woodham Queer Elder Founder and Director of Art in Odd Places here:

https://hyperallergic.com/ed-woodham-in-all-the-odd-places

Thank you.

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11. Rev. Billy, FF Alumn, at Quaker Meeting House, Manhattan, July 1 and more

Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir at Quaker Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place, Manhattan, July 1 and July 26, at 7 pm, revbilly.com

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12. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at Gallery Luxfer, Česká Skalice, Czech Republic, thru Sept 5.

Dear friends,

Greetings from Česká Skalice!

I’m very pleased to be presenting WHEN ONLY SOLITUDE at Galerie LUXFER — our first joint exhibition with Galerie KWADRAT and HEW, in a beautiful contemporary art centre in the countryside of the Czech Republic, opening tonight, June 26.

The HEW segment of the show features Miriam Döring, Exildiscount, Dario Srbić, Jenny Michel, Daniel M.E. Schaal and myself. I’m very excited to be curating together with Qin Yan, who has developed the conceptual framework around solitude and isolation.

On the gallery ground level, Martin Kwade has curated a gorgeous KWADRAT show presenting artists Robert Barta, Sarita Dey, Tobias Dostal, Gregor Hildebrandt, Alicja Kwade, Wolfgang Lugmair, Ernie Luley Superstar, Jennifer Oellerich, Anselm Reyle and David C. Terry.

It’s an incredible team over here and an inspiring project. The show runs until September 5th — please stay tuned for some additional programming toward the end of the exhibition!

Hope to have you here! All info is below.

Warmly,

Elana

WHEN ONLY SOLITUDE

26.06.2026 – 05.09.2026

Galerie KWADRAT + HEW @ Galerie LUXFER

OPENING: Friday June 26th, 19:00

Performance by Elana Katz @ 19:30

HEW & KWADRAT are pleased to announce its first collaboration with Czech contemporary art platform Galerie LUXFER. In this joint exhibition, HEW artists will occupy and develop site-specific and experimental works in LUXFER’s upper floors, while Galerie KWADRAT presents a group exhibition in the building’s ground floor.

WHEN ONLY SOLITUDE has been conceived specifically for the remote site of Galerie LUXFER, situated in the countryside of the Czech Republic. Its isolation and distance from urban life relate to the topic of solitude and this non-urban context also serves as a reflection on contemporary exhibition practices, subtly challenging the “urbanization of art”.

Through location, diverse artistic media and HEW’s classic “one artist/one room” layout, solitude is extended from an abstract feeling into a spatial experience, revealing its dual nature: both a heavy state and a quiet force resisting the noise of the world.

Solitude is no longer a symptom to be cured, but a new way of being.

House for the End of the World (HEW) is a nomadic contemporary art space founded by Elana Katz in Berlin in 2020, in cooperation with Galerie KWADRAT. In its founding context of the pandemic, HEW functioned as a dystopian sanctuary created by artists in surreal and uncertain times. HEW has occupied five locations between Germany and the US, and is pleased to present its first edition in Czech Republic with WHEN ONLY SOLITUDE.

HEW floor: curated by Elana Katz and Qin Yan

KWADRAT floor: curated by Martin Kwade

GALERIE LUXFER | Maloskalická 40 | 552 03 Česká Skalice | Czech Republic

www.kwadrat-berlin.com | www.galerieluxfer.cz | www.housefortheendoftheworld.com

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13. Beth B, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Lunch, Julie Atlas Muz, FF Alumns, at Roxy Cinema, Manhattan, July 12-Aug. 1, and more

Iconic Filmmaker Beth B

Announces Film Series

At The Roxy Cinema NYC

GLOWING

WATCH: Trailer

Tickets Available Here

“Beth B’s films tell potent stories about institutional power and heteropatriarchal

control with bite, humor, and explosive creativity.”

– Caitlin Lent, Interview Magazine

“A transcendent and inspiring film, beyond category.”

– Mary Harron, Film Director (American Psycho)

“Beth B’s utterly extraordinary movie, ‘GLOWING,’ invents

something new. Be prepared to be enthralled, shaken, illuminated.”

– Sandra Schulberg, IndieCollect

“If confrontation is the epistemology of punk and truth to be found

in the air of a screaming lung,

then Beth B’s art has never run out of breath.”

– Fionn Adamian, Berlin Art Link

“‘GLOWING’ is a dizzying deep dive into an artist who has

never stopped raging against society’s limits, and who has remained consistent in her key thematic preoccupations –

power, sexuality, desire, suffering and, behind the howls of fury, hope.”

– Rachel Pronger, Spike Art Magazine

“We must hold our own as sentient and self-reflecting beings, with the courage to face abysses and ruin, to confront identity and life struggles. ‘GLOWING’ radiates glimmers of hope, of liberation and change.

Engaging with it is a gift of life.” – Andreas Dohler, Film Critic

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Plus screenings of two acclaimed

earlier works

EXPOSED

TRAILER

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LYDIA LUNCH

THE WAR IS NEVER OVER

TRAILER

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SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

EXPOSED

Sunday, July 12, 2026 at 5pm

Sandra Schulberg, IndieCollect in conversation with

Julie Atlas Muz, Rose Wood, Tigger!,

Dirty Martini,

James Habacker & Beth B

AFTERPARTY and LIVE performances

The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St, NYC

TICKETS HERE

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GLOWING

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 7pm

Q&A with Beth B, Jim Coleman, Rose Tang, Robert O. Leaver

Music performance by Deaf Dula with Jim Coleman and

Ev Gold at Pianos NYC, 158 Ludlow St.

TICKETS HERE

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GLOWING

Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 5:45pm

Tyler Nesler, INTERLOCUTOR Magazine in conversation

with Joseph Keckler, Nick Flynn, Robert O. Leaver,

Rose Tang, Beth B & Jim Coleman

LIVE SHOW and AFTERPARTY

Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston, NYC

TICKETS HERE

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LYDIA LUNCH:

THE WAR IS NEVER OVER

Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 7pm

Lydia Lunch in conversation with Joseph Keckler

TICKETS HERE

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GLOWING

Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026 at 5pm

Q&A with Rose Wood, Beth B, Jim Coleman

TICKETS HERE

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Watch the GLOWING TRAILER

and then experience it at the Roxy!

For more information:

Lydia Krumper, lydia@girlieaction.com

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14. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at RoboRantReview.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.roborantreview.com/reviews/a-conversation-w-tom-marioni-and-john-held-jr

Thank you.

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15. Christine DeFazio, FF Intern Alumn, at Urban Creativity Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2-4

Christine DeFazio, author of Bronx Visual Identity from Subway Writers to Mural Artists: Aerosol Art from 1968 to the Present, will present two papers at the Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portugal (July 2-4, 2026). The topic of the conference Intangible: Art Canon and Motion, will explore the question: Can graffiti and muralism be considered intangible heritage? The first day will explore Graffiti Expressionism: Updating the Classical Art Canons (July 2) and Ms. DeFazio will present Graffiti Writing and Aerosol Painting: Art Form or Vandalism? Graffiti and Street Art in Modern and Contemporary Historiography. Day 2 (July 3) will explore Graffiti, Street Art, and (Il)legality: The Role of (Il)legality in Graffiti and Street Art. Ms. DeFazio will present From United Graffiti Artists to Fashion Moda: the subcultural politics of legality and legitimacy. Proceedings will be published in GSA-Graffiti and Street Art Journal (Vol. 4) edited by Stefano Bloch, University of Arizona and Kai Hendrix Schlushe, Author and Independent Researcher in Graffiti and Street Art (November 2026). For the full schedule see https://journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/uc/index/

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16. Melissa Wolf and Paul Lamarre, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru July 17

Hello Friends and Colleagues of the EIDIA House & Plato’s Cave,

With nice New York City weather in place—great for you to pop out and drop in to visit the Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Box in a Valise’ exhibit, extended to Friday, July 17th. You can actually get close to this work and handle it, to better understand what MD was up to for the better part of his art career as he produced some 300, “de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (Boîte-en-valise).” You can also spin the “Bicycle Wheel” (which Duchamp often did when it was in his studio.)

“Box in a Valise in a Vault” Marcel Duchamp The Plato’s Cave exhibition series continues & this exhibition has been extended to Friday, July 17th. Saturday, May 30 through July 17, 2026 Open hours: Wednesday – Friday 1-6pm by Appointment contact Paul @ eidiahouse@earthlink.net / 646 226 6478 Plato’s Cave at EIDIA House, 14 Dunham Place, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11249 USA

Best,

EIDIA House

Paul Lamarre, Melissa P. Wolf

eidia.com

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17. Todd Alcott, FF Alumn, at The Morgan Library, Manhattan, thru October 4

A tarot card deck created by Todd Alcott, FF Alumn, in on exhibition at The Morgan Library thru October 4 – please visit this link:

https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/tarot?utm_source=The+Morgan+E-Marketing&utm_campaign=aff2624af0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_15_2019_17_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfa97b537e-aff2624af0-392735556

Thank you.

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18. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, at KINDL, Berlin, Germany, thru July 4

Please visit this link:

https://sfsia.art/2026-berlin/2026-berlin-public-lectures/

Thank you.

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19. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1204537228

TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS

MAILING LIST:

“I’d like to help you out.

Which way did you come in?”

(Henny Youngman)

https://vimeo.com/1204537228

PZ, June 25, 2026

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20. Jeannette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Elmhurst Art Museum, IL, thru Aug. 23

Please visit these links –

https://elmhurstartmuseum.org/exhibitions/on%20wonder%20mind%20and%20magic

https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/elmhurst-art-museum-exhibition

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On Wonder, Mind, and Magic: Jeanette Andrews

A solo, mid-career survey exhibition at the Elmhurst Museum of Art (Chicago-area, Elmhurst, IL)

May 30th–Aug 23rd 2026

Artist Jeanette Andrews applies sensory illusion techniques and her interest in the selective nature of attention and the bounds of perception to create artworks that explore magic, multiple realities, and the human psyche. This summer exhibition will present interactive and site specific works including installation, sculpture, video, sound, and performance, alongside new work developed while Artist in Residence at MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology in 2024-25. The exhibition represents a return home for Andrews, who grew up in Wheaton, IL. She cites the Elmhurst Art Museum as an early influence in her pursuit to a career honing her technical skills and applying magic and sensory illusion techniques to create artworks. On Wonder, Mind, & Magic will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and is curated by Liz Chilsen, Manager of Exhibitions & Collections.

Curatorial Statement by Liz Chilsen:

Jeanette Andrews works as both a practicing magician and a contemporary artist whose medium is magic itself. Its methods, structures, and underlying operations form the foundation of her artistic inquiry.

Andrews’s work engages deeply with ideas of curiosity, belief, consciousness, and the human capacity for surprise. Through immersive and interactive works, she examines the mechanisms of magic and the ways they intertwine with human experience.

On Wonder, Mind and Magic presents nine major works spanning eight years of Andrews’s career. For this exhibition—her first solo museum presentation—she has created new site-specific works including a monumental chalkboard mural, and an immersive exploration of visual perception itself.

Tracing Andrews’s practice over time reveals an artist persistently engaging with essential questions of contemporary life. She was an early explorer of machine learning; she investigates impossibility, deception, and systems of belief; and more recently, the fragile mechanics of trust and perception.

At its core, magic unsettles our assumptions about how reality operates. Andrews frequently employs familiar gestures associated with honesty and transparency, rolled sleeves or empty hands for example, only to undermine the certainty they appear to establish through impossible events.

Her work asks why some challenges to our beliefs produce delight while others provoke fear, suspicion, or anger. In an era increasingly shaped by polarization, misinformation, and competing realities, these questions feel especially urgent.

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21. Analia Segal, FF Alumn, at Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA, July 22

Please visit this link:

https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/events/open-studios-july-22-2026

Thank you.

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22. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org

Please visit this link:

https://brooklynrail.org/2026/06/artseen/marcel-duchamp

Thank you.

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23. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in Cahersiveen, Ireland, July 31-Aug. 3, and more

The Cahersiveen Music and Arts Festival, July 31-August 3: The Cold Warmth and AI-O-U installation and performance

The Provincetown International Film Festival commissioned to create the trailer for the 2026 Festival

The Launch of – LOST: The National Garden of American Zeros, featuring extinct insects and animals, a collaboration with Jim Youngerman

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