Contents for September 15th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Barbara Jakobson, FF Member, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Correction to previous weekly spotlight – “Founded on Artists’ Books: Franklin Furnace 50th Anniversary Tribute” exhibition, curated by Mark Waskow, at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vermont, through November 2, 2025
1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, live online with The Creative Center, Sept. 20 and more
2. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
3. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, at 10 Greatorex Street, London, UK, Sept. 18-28 and more
4. Jesus Benavente, FF Alumn, at Reception Rome, Italy, opening Sept. 19
5. Rumi Tsuda, Daniel Georges, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, at ADS-DAS Gallery, Newburgh, NY opening Sept. 19
6. Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, David Hammons, FF Alumns, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, Sept. 24, 2025-Jan. 19, 2026
7. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, at Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC, thru Jan. 19, 2026
8. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumns, at Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, opening Sept. 19
9. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, Sept. 20
10. Kriota Willberg, R. Sikoryak, FF Alumns, at Society of Illustrators, Manhattan, Sept. 15 and more
11. Steven Watson, John Giorno, FF Alumns, at Giorno Poetry Systems, Manhattan, Sept. 25
12. R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
13. Nancy Azara, Darla Bjork, Maureen Connor, Martha Edelheit, Janet Goldner, Vernita Nemec, Milenka Berengolc, FF Alumns, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 7
14. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, CA, thru Nov. 1
15. Colette Lumiere, FF Alumn, at Monopol, Warsaw, Poland, opening Sept. 18
16. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY, thru Nov. 16
17. Sonya Gimon, FF Alumn, at 14 Fulton Street, Manhattan, thru Sept. 28 and more
18. Beverly (Bee) Naidus, FF Alumn, at Seattle Public Library, WA, Sept. 19 & 27 and more
19. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, now online at https://clufff.com
20. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, Sept. 20-21
21. Heide Hatry, FF Member, at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, thru Nov. 2 and more
22. Jenny Holzer, Ann Messner, FF Alumns, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, opening Sept. 25
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Barbara Jakobson, FF Member, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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Weekly Spotlight: Last week’s Special Goings On eBlast misnamed the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, and failed to include important information, as follows: Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum and Art Center is presenting the exhibition, “Founded on Artists’ Books: Franklin Furnace 50th Anniversary Tribute,” curated by Mark Waskow, President of the Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition centers Franklin Furnace’s avant la lettre work with artists’ books and continues through November 2, 2025. Complete information, including installation views, are available online at this link: https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2025/05/27/founded-on-artists-books-franklin-furnace-50th-anniversary-tribute/
Thank you.
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1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, live online with The Creative Center, Sept. 20 and more
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel with The Creative Center, as part of UNGA Healing Arts Week 2025! Produced by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, and in collaboration with the World Health Organization
The Creative Center Joins UNGA
Healing Arts Week 2025!
To register go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOMh66iI8O1fxL1Qq2E89qOXMDpP7qVp8fWzpKmyK14ye8GQ/viewform
UNGA Healing Arts Week 2025, taking place alongside the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly, produced by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, and in collaboration with the World Health Organization, will feature a dynamic lineup of events highlighting innovative approaches to global health and wellbeing through the arts.
The Creative Center is honored to be included among the organizations offering symposiums, concerts, receptions, workshops, and dialogues taking place throughout the week.
The Creative Center Presents: Writing Letters To Life, a workshop designed and led by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, will invite us to use old-fashioned letter-writing as a channel to re-member, restore, and gather parts of ourselves that may have been relegated to oblivion. Together with writing prompts, shares, and reflections, Writing Letters to Life will include somatic practices combining breath-work and gentle movements.
WRITING LETTERS TO LIFE
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel
Virtual on ZOOM
Saturday, September 20th
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
About The Creative Center
https://www.thecreativecenter.org
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2. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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3. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, at 10 Greatorex Street, London, UK, Sept. 18-28 and more
The Right To Protest exhibition
18th-28th September, 10 Greatorex Street, London, E1 – with performance on 23rd.
The Right To Protest
Curated by Museum of UnRest and Pro Radix
With work by: Magnus Irving, Ackroyd & Harvey, Ruth Beale, Kennard Phillipps, Elly Clarke, Daniel Lismore, Paul Davis, Richard Mackness, Stuart Semple, Kristian Buus, Gavin Turk, Alexis Bamforth and Joe Hesketh
Opening Thursday 18 September
UnPrivate View: 18:00 – 20:00hrs
Performance night: 23rd September, from 6pm. Book your FREE place in advance please
Honoured to be part of this important & timely exhibition about the right to protest in so many forms, with an incredible lineup of artists. I’m showing #Sergina’s Desperately Delicious Dirty Data, gathered from Data Collection Incidents (aka drag performances) that took place between 2019 and 2022, in which #Sergina and her agents asked audiences questions about their wellbeing. The work explores resistance to the cleaning up of data as a form of [draggy] protest to and in the data-dependent, data-discharging, data-lapping context.
An updated version of the Data Collection Instrument (aka survey) will be devised for this exhibition, to gather further data to dirty + clarify what is t/here: in the exhibition, and in people’s minds, bodies and dreams for the days it is up – and beyond.
On Tuesday 23rd an agent of #Sergina [aka me] will Demonstrate the Dirty Data and offer it up for others to deliver too – in exchange for the chance to take a limited piece of it home. [Best displayed in the loo.]
#Sergina’s Dirty Data handler is Berlin based artist Kit Kuksenok.
More info on the exhibition & the impressive line up of talks and workshops can be found here: https://greatorexstreet.com/proradix/ / @greatorexstreet_e1 + here: https://www.museum-of-unrest.org/pro…/the-right-to-protest. Event booking for all exhibition events via https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-right-to-protest-exhibition-4559173
Grateful to Alexis Bamforth for the invite to be part of this and for the convos we’ve been having about and around it.
#dirtydata #howareyou #yourwellbeingisofourutmostconcern
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I submitted, presented, viva’d, passed & corrected my PhD titled ‘Is My Body Out of Date? The Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age.’
I am now a doctor in drag.
Written across three chapters: The Drag of Physicality, the Drag of Templates and the Drag of the Archive my practice led PhD Is My Body Out of Date? The Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age was per/formed between 2018-2025. This period was witness to a hell of a lot of change, much of which related sometimes quite uncannily to my topic. Covid-19 deemed the body unwelcome [Out of Date] in public spaces for months on end, whilst data collection in more and more areas of life was made compulsory to ‘contain’ the virus [I Want your Data]. Meanwhile the ongoing horrors in Gaza and in Sudan [and other places and situations beyond] demonstrate which bodies are ‘disposable’ and which are not, whilst the inaction of our political systems in the face of it all reveals the out of dateness of our templates of governance and leadership, proven to be no longer fit for the world/s we [want to] live in.
The amended version of the thesis is currently with my (brilliant) examiners Dr. Emily Rosamond and Dr. Owen Parry and, all being well, will soon be digitally deposited in Goldsmiths Library and physically, in the form of a real hold in your hands printed out full colour copy along with 22 of #Sergina’s Drag/ged Objects, in two archive boxes in Goldsmiths Special Collections – also in Goldsmiths Library. If you would like to read the thesis [digitally] let me know. Or if you want to visit the archive and try on #Sergina’s shoe, and upload photos of you doing this to #Sergina’s newly created Instagram account @thearchiveofserg1na – you can book yourself a slot via the email address found on the Goldsmiths Special Collections Page.
Images above are of my PhD Installation; the one [that was!] below is of one of the two archive boxes in the library. Click to be taken to the Goldsmiths Special Collections Drag/ged Objects catalogue.
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I am running writing workshops [online] for artists and creative practitioners at all stages of their careers.
I’m running these online, about once a month. The next one is on October 3rd, 10am-12.30pm BST. I’ve developed these writing workshops over the past 6 years out of my drag performance practice, in collaboration with a number of student groups I’ve had the honour to work with at BA and MA level, as well as independent artist studio groups.
More info & booking on eventbrite HERE. Prices start at £30 for a 2.5 hour workshop
Or follow me on Eventbrite for future events. If you are in the States and would like a workshop at a more sociable time of day, please get in touch – a later one can be arranged!
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If your International Museum [or off space] is interested in hosting #Sergina’s Post-Archival Retro-Spective, please get in touch.
I jest, a little.
But because actually this character has been dragging stuff around regarding digital tech, (anti)social media and loneliness and lust and the body in relation to her better looking digital doubles and her data discharge for a decade and a half. And I am looking for somewhere – and/or someone – to make a show of it, involving sculptural installations, video, music, remakes of performances and live feeds going back to 2015. Plus – potentially – the publication of my PhD, which would not have emerged without this character.
If you know of anyone who might like to put up the archive of #Sergina and her digital & physical detritus for a month or two please do get in touch. <3
Below [was an image of] a snippet of a proposal that is ready for you when you want it. You can also read some of my published academic work via my Orcid profile.
Thanks for reading! Here’s to continued survival and thrival in this increasingly challenging context. Sent with the best energy a newsletter like this can hope to drag along with it, from a small seaside town in Suffolk, UK.
See this newsletter in its full length illustrated form/at here: https://mailchi.mp/939fe78675c0/2025news
See more about my work on my website: http://ellyclarke.com; Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalb0dy & LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellyclarke/ or ask Harley for my email address if you’d like to write me an old fashioned electronic letter. 🙂
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4. Jesus Benavente, FF Alumn, at Reception Rome, Italy, opening Sept. 19
Hi!
Yeah. It’s me again.
Yea. I got something happening and I wanted to tell you, but also… How are you?
The thing about writing things like this is that it feels so stupid and tacky to be like “I got something good going on soon.”
Cause like, really?
I’d have to be super ignorant of the sheer amount of death and starvation and devastation, to be like… guess what’s great?!?
If you’re not asking your friends and family and people you meet, how they are and how can I help?… Then what are you doing?
Yeah, I know.
We’re all trying to survive this.
Many people probably didn’t fill the blank with “getting a third full time job called surviving” on their “what is your life going to be like when you are older?” school assignment.
Yet that is where we are. So you gotta ask those questions. You know? Really.
How are you? I’m not asking just to ask. let me know. frfr.
For me lately, I find myself having to come to terms with my limitations.
The extent to which I get things right, and how often I get things wrong.
How it used to be so much more difficult for me to forgive.
The truth is sometimes I ignore the person on the street or I find myself telling myself I can’t donate to that gofundme because rent is in a few days and I’m not sure if the next check is arriving on time (it won’t).
Sometimes, I just really want to buy new shoes, and sometimes I say/do something mean and stupid and ill-considered.
Sometimes I just don’t really get it until later. And you know what?
That’s okay.
Not that doing the stupid thing is okay.
It’s understanding that it’s bound to happen, and I just gotta keep trying to do better. That I am destined to get something wrong, but that we can’t be selfish and allow that to stop us from trying to do more to get it right.
forgiveness can’t always be received, but continuing the struggle to do and be better is so dang essential.
a long while ago, the word “failure” in art was a big deal.
However, it made too many artists feel incorrectly incompetent and it was counterintuitive for some money havers that only understood the valuation of success.
everyone instead started “investigating.”
investigating asked less of artists and was enigmatic in results.
like police investigating their own brutality.
The thing is failure in art wasn’t about self-loathing, but rather about being ambitious while acknowledging the existence of limitations.
The same way people being forced towards their death ambitiously choose to try to survive anyway.
More artwork needs to push beyond the easy achievable success and become willing to risk failure.
Not just waiting for a rich old man with the best possible medical care to just eventually die.
In some ways, growing up and seeking more without ever knowing a safety net allowed me to risk more.
Oh wait. there was a point to this email.
I digress, sorta.
So when agreeing to do a new show, there was something really exciting and good about a place that was willing to risk it all by coming into being in the midst of so many galleries collapsing globally (it’s as if the vibes are really bad, huh?).
The result is the hard launch of the new gallery named Reception Rome. I will be Reception Rome’s debut exhibition titled Ecce Hombre.
a reference to the phrase Ecce Homo
It is what Pontius Pilate exclaimed when he presented Jesus to the mob in his crown of thorns.
It is the title of Nitzche’s self-aggrandizing final book just before deciding to unalive himself.
It is the title of the meme-ified fresco that was poorly, and lovingly restored by a 81 year old painter who deservedly believed in herself.
It is my work presented to you.
Because we can never put these foolish ambitions to rest, The exhibition runs for a few months. The exhibition also evolves as chapters throughout the run of the exhibition.
The chapters have titles like
WHY I FIND MIRACULOUS BEAUTY FROM BEING CUT DOWN
WHY I CANNOT BE RESTORED TO FORMER GLORY
WHY I AM NOT DANCING
which means these chapters will be paintings that aren’t quite paintings, sculptures that aren’t quite sculptures, videos that aren’t quite videos, performances that aren’t quite performances, truths that aren’t quite false, and a connection between them that is undeniable.
This creates a larger exhibition with multiple and connected bodies of work that rewards repeat visits and acknowledges the ever changing passage of time.
Much like life, the beginning, middle, and end of the exhibition will look and be incredibly different, but will also still be the same thing. Ya know?
It’ll be funny, but not necessarily “haha” funny.
It’ll be beautiful, it’ll be cruel, and sometimes you’ll be left wondering why things went the way they went and why we just accept it.
If you are in Rome at any point this year, please come to the exhibition. It is a really beautiful gallery space. The opening will be September 19th.
I will be there, it will be my first time not in my hemisphere (that’s a whole other conversation we could have). I will be there at the start and hopefully at the end. I hope you can see some version of it in person.
If you cannot be there (it’s like so far!), I wanted to make a part of the exhibition accessible to you, but I also wanted to try something new to maybe offset the costs of doing a big crazy exhibition like this.
There is a new video in the exhibition eponymously titled: Ecce Hombre
I’ve made it available via this new service called Buy.video that I wanted to try out. The service is a way for artists to get paid for their video works, while also protecting their works from data/art theft as is common with other video uploaders. Its kinda like a ppv thing. you should check out the service and my new video work. Let me know if it works well for you. Maybe you’ll want to use it too?
The video will be available for 2 weeks for only $5 and it launches on the same day as the opening.
Its a short silent video (roughly 5 minutes). The video is what this exhibition is about: a lifetime of predictable defeats and beatdowns and choosing to be steadfast while still trying new things when facing these terrible obstacles by ambitiously choosing to try to survive. A loop that speeds up faster and faster until you hit the end. Ecce Hombre.
P.S. sorry this was sooooo long. I just really wanted to talk to you, because i miss you and hope to see you soon.
JESUS BENAVENTE
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5. Rumi Tsuda, Daniel Georges, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, at ADS-DAS Gallery, Newburgh, NY opening Sept. 19
Prisma
Facets of Creativity
Contemporary works inspired by the art of Rumi Tsuda
9/19-10/1/2025
Curated by Art and Anthropology Press
opening reception 9/19, 4-7 m, Ads Das Gallery, 105 Ann St. Newburgh
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6. Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, David Hammons, FF Alumns, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, Sept. 24, 2025-Jan. 19, 2026
JUDITH BERNSTEIN
FEATURED IN SIXTIES SURREAL AT WHITNEY MUSEUM
Member Previews: Sept 18–22, 2025
Sept 24, 2025–Jan 19, 2026
See Judith Bernstein’s 1967 Vietnam Garden in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition, Sixties Surreal, an ambitious, scholarly reappraisal of American art from 1958 to 1972. This revisionist survey looks beyond now canonical movements to focus instead on the era’s most fundamental, if underrecognized, aesthetic current—an efflorescence of psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary tendencies, undergirded by the imprint of historical Surrealism and its broad dissemination.
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7. Sherman Fleming, FF Alumn, at Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC, thru Jan. 19, 2026
Incubator Gallery, Nasher Museum at Duke University
September 13, 2025 – January 18, 2026
https://nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions/sherman-fleming-unsettled/
THANK YOU
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8. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumns, at Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, opening Sept. 19
Jenny Holzer
Inflammatory Essays, Sept 19-Nov 2, 2025
https://www.cincinnatiarts.org/weston-art-gallery
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9. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, Sept. 20
Greetings, my New York City, especially Brooklyn friends, with a special shout out to Park Slope people!
Please join me at the reception for
Houses of Memory
at Spoke the Hub, 748 Union St at 6th Ave., Park Slope Brooklyn
on Saturday, September 20, 7-9 pm
There will also be a (surprise!) first appearance by Spoke The Hub’s “Founding Mothers Ghost Militia”performing a short excerpt from TATTOO at 7:30pm)
**Please note that the show will be up in the dance studio Sept. 13-27, but because it is a dance studio, it will not always be available for public viewing.
Love,
Quimetta
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10. Kriota Willberg, R. Sikoryak, FF Alumns, at Society of Illustrators, Manhattan, Sept. 15 and more
We’re back! We have a Carousel coming up,
plus a sketch night with Kriota. See the details below:
Mon, Sept. 15: BKBF Carousel at Society of Illustrators, NY
Wed, Sept. 17: Sketching Anatomy with Kriota at Society of Illustrators, NY
Carousel on Sept. 15 at the Society of Illustrators for a show with the Brooklyn Book Festival!
Readings of graphic novels, cartoons, and comics, followed by a book signing.
Featuring:
Peter Kuper (Insectopolis: A Natural History and Wish We Weren’t Here)
Jesse Mechanic (The Last Time We Spoke)
Jamie Mustard (HYBRED)
Ngozi Nwadiogbu (Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel)
K. Wroten (Eden II and Everyone Sux but You)
Hosted by R. Sikoryak
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
Monday, Sept. 15 at 7 pm – 9 pm
Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065
$15 general, $12 members, $10 seniors/students
Tickets and details: https://societyillustrators.org/event/carousel-comics-performances/
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Sketching Anatomy:
A Special Sketch Night with Kriota Willberg & R. Sikoryak
Wed. Sept. 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10065
https://societyillustrators.org/event/sketching-anatomy-09-17-25
This sketch night/anatomy lesson focuses on learning to recognize the skeletal and muscular anatomy of the human body. Participants will practice drawing bodies from the inside out! Anatomist and graphic medicine cartoonist Kriota Willberg will—literally—draw on a live model, tracing muscles and bones, and share information regarding identifying and sketching the anatomy of the model, which you could draw in any style you choose. Cartoonist R. Sikoryak will present some images of various cartooning styles based on drawing techniques.
Artists of all skill levels are invited for figure drawing at the Society of Illustrators. Model will be nude. Chairs and sketch boards will be provided, but artists should come prepared with their own art materials.
Ticketed guests are also invited to enjoy their favorite cocktail at our 128 Bar.
Please note, doors for this event will open at 6:00pm. No outside food or drink.
Thanks for reading to the end, hope to see you somewhere!
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11. Steven Watson, John Giorno, FF Alumns, at Giorno Poetry Systems, Manhattan, Sept. 25
Steven Watson interviews Ira Silverberg about Burroughs, Giorno, and the people of 222 Bowery
Thursday,
September 25, 2025
222 Bowery, NYC
7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
Free
RSVP required: https://withfriends.events/event/MGNNJssM/steven-watson-interviews-ira-silverberg-about-burroughs-giorno-and-the-people-of-222-bowery/
(Support GPS by becoming a member!)
Limited capacity
This fall, 222 Bowery turns 140 years old, and this event brings back the voices of some of the people who once lived in the building.
In June 1882, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) bought the lots at 222 and 224 Bowery and in the fall of 1885, they opened The Young Men’s Institute and provided members with places to sleep, read, learn, meet, and exercise. It remained open for almost 50 years, closing in 1932.
Since then, 222 Bowery has the been home to many artists—one of the first to arrive was Mark Rothko, in 1958. Later on came Wynn and Sally Chamberlain, Michael Goldberg and Lynn Umlauf, Lynda Benglis, Jackson Pollock’s brother Charles Pollock, and others. In 1972, William S. Burroughs moved into what had been the gym’s locker room and called it his “Bunker.” John Giorno, who lived on the 3rd floor, was his close friend and took over the Bunker when Burroughs passed away in 1997. Today, as many of you know, this loft serves as the GPS headquarters.
This event marks the new release of a video interview with John Giorno, conducted in 2001 by Steven Watson for his interview series Artifacts. Excerpts from that interview, from another Artifacts interview with the artist-filmmaker Wynn Chamberlain, and excerpts from a 2008 interview with Giorno, are publicly screened for the first time.
Then comes a live taping of a future Artifacts video—Steven interviews Ira Silverberg. Ira was a close friend of Burroughs’, was Giorno’s literary agent, and even spent several months living in the Bunker himself.
Artifacts is a new online video platform exploring the avant-garde, the arts, and queer culture. It houses over 40 years of archival footage, featuring rare, firsthand accounts from pioneers such as Marsha P. Johnson, John Cale, Quentin Crisp, Betsey Johnson, and many others. The online platform, artifacts.movie, offers free, unlimited access to its extensive collection of video interviews and multimedia content. Artifacts was founded by cultural historian Steven Watson and artifacts.movie was developed in conjunction with filmmaker and creative director William Markarian-Martin.
Ira Silverberg is a literary agent and editor. He was a literary agent at Donadio & Ashworth, Editor-in-Chief at Grove/Atlantic Press, and editorial and publishing director at Serpent’s Tail’s U.S. projects, High Risk Books and Midnight Classics. He also developed the marketing and public relations firm, Ira Silverberg Communications, which as attracted clients like The Academy of American Poets, William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, City Lights Publications, Re/Search Publications, and the estate of David Wojnarowicz.
Giorno Poetry Systems is generously supported by Teiger Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Westridge Foundation, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Jenni Crain Foundation, Aurora Music Foundation, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Galerie Almine Rech, kurimanzutto, the GPS Advisory Council, and Club 222 members.
Giorno Poetry Systems
222 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
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12. R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit, Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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13. Nancy Azara, Darla Bjork, Maureen Connor, Martha Edelheit, Janet Goldner, Vernita Nemec, Milenka Berengolc, FF Alumns, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, thru Oct. 7
You’re invited to Unrestricted Access at Carter Burden Gallery, a special exhibition celebrating 50 years of SoHo20 Gallery promoting women artists. This exhibition features the work of artists who have exhibited at SoHo20 over the past five decades, including Marjorie Abramson, B. Amore, Nancy Azara, Karen Baldner, Milenka Berengolc, Elizabeth Bisbing, Darla Bjork, Elena Borstein, Diane Churchill, Maureen Connor, Linda Cunningham, Martha Edelheit, Anne Elliott, Louise Farrell, Lisa Fischetti, Ginny Fox, Janet Goldner, Lannie Hart, Susan Hockaday, Lucy Hodgson, Gail Hoffman, Eve Ingalls, Carla Rae Johnson, Cynthia Mailman, Ann Marie McDonnell, Elizabeth Michelman, Vernita Nemec, Afarin Rahmanifar, Debbie Rasiel, Lucy Sallick, Rosalind Shaffer, Madelaine Shellaby, Kathy Stark, Judith Steinberg, Georgia Strange, Eleonora Tammes, Gail Tanaka, Virginia Tyler, and Sharon Wybrants.
Dates:
• September 11 – October 7: Exhibition on view
• September 11, 6–8 PM: Opening Reception
• September 25th: Performances
6:30pm: Milenka Berengolc
7:00pm: Vernita Nemec
• October 4, 4 PM: Panel discussion
https://www.carterburdengallery.org
AND
“UNRESTRICTED ACCESS” 50 YEARS OF SOHO 20 GALLERY
Opening Reception Thursday, September 11, 6-8
Carter Burden Gallery, 548 W 28th St
*An evening of performance at the Carter Burden Gallery, 548 West 28th Street, between 10th& 11th avenues as part of the Unrestricted Access, 50 Years of SOHO20 art exhibition.
On Thursday, September 25th,
Milenka Berengolc will present her seminal performance LA MER. E at 6:30pm.
In a flight of ideas, we travel through time and space. Berengolc as man, woman, oracle, priestess harks to the twentieth century onward and the struggles women still grapple with to this day.
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“What is Art? I am Art. Am I Art?”, a Performance by Vernita Nemec aka N’Cognita, 7PM.
In her performance work Nemec most frequently explores issues of women, the second class citizens that we still remain as first identified by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex. With butoh movement and sound by Toki Osaka, Nemec explores women’s reality as it is still.
“What Does Sex Have to Do With It? Women’s Art Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
4pm Saturday, Oct 4, Carter Burden Gallery, 548 W 28th
A Panel Discussion moderated by Vernita Nemec with Panelists:
Elena Borstein
Cynthia Mailman
Linda Cunningham
Diane Churchill
Carla Rae Johnson
alternate: Lucy Hodgson
Many thanks,
Milenka Berengolc
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14. James Casebere, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, CA, thru Nov. 1
Sean Kelly Gallery
James Casebere and Jose Dávila
The Poetic Dimension
Sean Kelly, Los Angeles
September 13 – November 1, 2025
Sean Kelly, Los Angeles is delighted to announce The Poetic Dimension, a two-person exhibition featuring photographs by James Casebere and new sculptures by Jose Dávila. Marking the first time these two artists have been paired together, the exhibition centers around their shared dialogue on the work of Mexican modernist architect Luis Barragán. Through their respective practices, Casebere and Dávila explore the expressive potential of form, space, and color, inviting a deeper meditation on architecture’s emotional resonance. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, September 13 from 5 to 7pm.
James Casebere’s photographs in The Poetic Dimension respond directly to Luis Barragán’s architectural masterpieces, including the Gilardi House, the Galvez House, and the architect’s home and studio in Mexico City. A seminal figure in the Pictures Generation, Casebere is known for constructing meticulously crafted models that he photographs, reimagining built environments through a conceptual lens. In these works, he engages with Barragán’s spaces not simply as formal subjects, but as sites of emotion and psychological depth. By subtly modifying architectural elements, adding apertures, altering proportions, and shifting light, Casebere imbues his images with an affective charge, deepening their contemplative quality. As he notes, Barragán’s architecture is “contemplative and solitary and beautiful, without the associations of confinement.” This poetic sensibility resonates strongly with Casebere’s practice, which has long sought to explore how architecture can reflect social structures, elicit emotional states, and inspire transformation.
Barragán’s architectural language has been a foundational influence for Jose Dávila, who trained as an architect before turning to sculpture. His materially rich works incorporate industrial elements, including ratchet straps and concrete juxtaposed with natural materials such as volcanic stone, balancing tension and gravity with a distinctive elegance. In these new sculptures, Dávila continues his investigation into structural equilibrium and formal restraint, using vibrant color and precarious construction to create works with both conceptual clarity and playful irreverence. Dávila’s engagement with Barragán’s legacy is most evident in his chromatic palette featuring bright hues of red, blue, and yellow which directly reference the architect’s structures and draw from the vernacular architecture of Mexico. Like Barragán, Dávila elevates raw, utilitarian materials into expressions of volume, color, and balance.
As Luis Barragán wrote, “Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well-being.” In the spirit of this philosophy, The Poetic Dimension foregrounds how both Casebere and Dávila translate architecture’s fundamental elements, light, form, color, material, into transcendent aesthetic experiences. Engaging in a deeply personal dialogue with Barragán’s legacy, they reveal how the built environment can become a vehicle for reflection.
For additional information on the exhibition, please visit skny.com
For all inquiries, please email Thomas Kelly at Thomas@seankellyla.com
For media inquiries, please email Adair Lentini at Adair@skny.com
Selected Press
The Architect’s Newspaper
Artists James Casebere and Jose Dávila engage with Luis Barragán’s legacy in an exhibition at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles. By Ilana Amselem, September 5, 2025
Sean Kelly
1357 N Highland Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(310) 499-0843
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15. Colette Lumiere, FF Alumn, at Monopol, Warsaw, Poland, opening Sept. 18
opening during Open Art Week End in Warsaw !:
“Stories from My Life”
Opening Sept 18- Nov.22 2025
Monopol Gallery
Warsaw Poland
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16. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY, thru Nov. 16
Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, has work included in the group exhibition
You Think That’s Funny? Humor in Contemporary Art” at Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, 28 Deveau Rd, North Salem, NY 10560
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17. Sonya Gimon, FF Alumn, at 14 Fulton Street, Manhattan, thru Sept. 28 and more
I wanted to share some updates from 3FWILD and extend an invitation to a couple of upcoming events.
We recently updated our website! https://www.3fwild.com/ It now highlights exciting projects in both the Greater Yellowstone region and New York, including a bold vision for multi-modal transportation in Jackson Hole, WY, and an initiative reimagining NYC streetscapes to better serve neurodivergent individuals.
We have a couple pop-ups coming up in NYC. I’d love to see you at the special events, or we can meet up for a walk in the FiDi/Seaport and I’ll show you around both!
FiDi & Seaport Climate Resilience Plan – Pop-Up Exhibit / Climate Week event
14 Fulton Street
Open September 15–28; List of special events attached.
The FiDi & Seaport area is at risk of flooding, and the City is developing a plan to protect the neighborhood, create new public open spaces, and preserve what New Yorkers love most about the waterfront. Whether you live, work, commute, or play in Lower Manhattan, the exhibit makes it easy to see how this project protects you.
https://www.climateweeknyc.org/events/fidi-seaport-climate-resilience-plan-pop-exhibit-0
and
The Neurodiverse City Design Prototype Pop Up
Open starting Sept 18
Opening event: Sept 18 at 5.30pm
200 Water Street (plaza)
Building on a series of workshops with neurodivergent self-advocates, the build and sensory elements temporarily installed at a p test experiential ways of making streets more neuroinclusive. Try them out!
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18. Beverly (Bee) Naidus, FF Alumn, at Seattle Public Library, WA, Sept. 19 & 27 and more
Beverly (Bee) Naidus, recently invited to be the artist in residence at the downtown Seattle Public Library, will be giving two talks this month (Sept 19th and Sept 27th) to develop a cohort who trains in this cultural practice, “Art as Medicine for Catastrophic and Transformative Times.” The cohort of 20 (application will be forthcoming) will meet for 8 consecutive sessions, at the downtown branch of the library, at The Heron’s Nest in West Seattle, and via Zoom. All events are free.
The link on the library website is not yet active, but will be soon.
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19. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, now online at https://clufff.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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20. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, Sept. 20-21
Opening: Saturday, September 20th, 2025, 4 – 6 pm
Memorial: Sunday, September 21st, 2025, 3 – 5 pm (click here to RSVP)
Location: Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts
34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498
Dear friends,
A gentle reminder that next week we will gather in Woodstock, NY September 20th and 21st, to honor the life, art, and legacy of Nancy Azara—visionary sculptor, feminist educator, and spiritual practitioner.
This memorial celebration will feature a curated exhibition of Nancy’s carved wood sculptures, mixed media collages, banners, scrolls, and prints, alongside shared moments of remembrance, ritual, and reflection. In a moving continuation of their shared creative life, Darla Bjork, Nancy’s beloved partner of over forty years, will also present new work created after Nancy’s crossing.
We look forward to coming together in community to celebrate Nancy’s enduring vision and spirit.
Read the full press release here.
We hope you’ll join us in remembrance and celebration.
For press inquiries, RSVP, or further details, please contact:
Fanny Pérez Gutiérrez
“The woods speaks… and I listen.”
––Nancy Azara
This event is free and open to the public.
Byrdcliffe
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498
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21. Heide Hatry, FF Member, at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, thru Nov. 2 and more
New Haven, NYC, Santiago de Chile, Shanghai.
Exhibitions, Performance, and New Publication
EXHIBITION:
Translating From the Edges
an exhibition of artists’ books
curated by Maria Markham
Ely Center of Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT
Opening: Sunday, September 14, 1-3 pm
Exhibition: through November 2
and
EXHIBITION:
The Face as Medium and Reflection:
curated by Marisa Caichiolo
Lo blanco, parcela 43 Panquehue, Haras Lonco
Near Santiago de Chile
Opening: Saturday, October 4, 5-10pm
Exhibition: through November 4
and
EXHIBITION:
Intimate Transgressions
a multimedia exhibition of international artists responding to the theme of sexual violence as a tactic of terror and control, curated by Fion Gunn and Steve Chen
CAPA (Center for Asia Pacific Affairs)
Injoy Art Space
Minhang District, 古北新区邮 IXIt9: 201103, Shanghai, China
(difficult to find, look for the Shanghai Hilton, it’s around the corner)
Opening: Saturday, November 1
Exhibition: through December 1
and
PERFORMANCE and PUBLICATION
Maintenant (19)
a Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art
edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges
and
Dates for this year’s Dada Celebrations:
Paris!Dada!
La Cave Cafe, 135 Rue Marcadet (Montmartre)
Wednesday, Sept 10, 7:30pm
Zürich !Dada!
Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse1
Sunday, Sept 14, 5:00pm
Athens Life! Wow! Poetry!
La Zona Biblio-Café-Steki, Soultani 17 (Exarcheia)
Tuesday, Sept 16, 7:30pm
New York DADA Extravaganza
Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave
Sunday, Oct 26, 1:30pm
Maintenant (19), Ethics Cleansing, 2025. 245 pp.
Including EGG contributions by The Red Sisters’ Heide Hatry and Jane LeCroy (pp.130-131)
HEIDE HATRY is a NYC-based German artist, former rare bookseller, and best known for her work employing animal parts or other discarded, disdained, or “taboo” materials. She has curated many exhibitions and shown her work at museums and galleries all over the world. She has produced more than 250 artist’s books, edited dozens of art catalogues, and four of hher larger projects (Skin, Heads and Tales, Not a Rose, and Icons in Ash) have been documented in monographic books. Her most recent book, Flacofolio, “a remarkable encounter between a people and a bird, and between a poet and a visual artist, is also a beautiful ode to New York City.” – Phillip Lopate
She is also the founder of ICONS IN ASH, a social art project devoted to helping people contend with loss, and of POLAR BEAR FEST, a Lumbung art initiative created to foster community while fighting the climate crisis.
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22. Jenny Holzer, Ann Messner, FF Alumns, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, opening Sept. 25
Please visit this link:
https://www.pratt.edu/events/in-our-time-eleven-artists-w-e-b-du-bois
Thank you.
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