ART2 an International Platform on Contemporary Art April 1—28, 2014

ART2 An International Platform April 1—28, 2014 Frenchculture.org/ART2 on Contemporary Art New York #ART2

LETTERS

In the wake of World War I, visionaries experiences on Earth. Thanks to art, it inspired. The dialogue, thoughts, from Ernest Hemingway to Salvador we can understand our reality. and conclusions that sprung from this Dalí flocked to Paris and the fervent collaboration constitute its core. exchange of ideas and artistic François Delattre alchemy inspired a wave of shockingly Ambassador of France to the U.S. May you enjoy each stimulating ART² new works. Honorary Co-Chair event, and may you savor the eternal fruits of this international discussion on With happy nostalgia, we recall that Agnes Gund art today and in the future. artist’s utopia. The freedom and Honorary Co-Chair creative energy generated by that — Antonin Baudry golden period are the results of a rich Cultural Counselor discourse among divergent minds. Godard’s 1960 film “Breathless” (À French Embassy in the U.S. We are confident that ART² will give us bout de souffle) is about love between — a new impetus for exchanging ideas, a French guy and an American girl, a new reason for dialogue. In this and all the questions about love, We are thrilled that in 2014 two great project, great scholars, thinkers, and life, and culture that come up as the festivals in and around New York arts professionals have scrutinized relationship develops. Featuring 35 will showcase the vitality and the and compared international art worlds, events at New York venues, ART2 is strength of ties that unite French and exploring museums today, politics, and a tribute to a long-standing French- American creators of visual art and the economy. It is in itself a dialogue, a American romance around art. It of dance. These events constitute work of collaboration and exchange. is a marathon of exhibits, lectures, the continuation of a long-standing workshops, and conferences by the relationship that exist between our We believe that all students have a brightest art professionals. It is a novel two countries in the domain of artistic right to explore artistic exchange. and extensive series of collaborations creation. They have a right to experience self- aimed at analyzing the global art world. expression, an essential benefit to We have chosen to hold our events in At the project’s inception, the Ministry making art. Neuroscientists now know New York because we believe, despite of Culture and Communication that art improves grades and learning the fact that many other cities are (the artistic creation department) in school children. Making art doesn’t nurturing growing art scenes, that chose to become a partner. The require fancy materials. Some of New York remains one of the ultimate Ministry's goal is indeed to support the the most precious pieces are simple locations for arts and culture. We establishment of lasting relationships drawings made with paper and a pencil. are lucky to be collaborating with between French cultural structures Seemingly less significant than an oil established, world-class institutions and their foreign homologues by mural, drawings are in fact essential, such as the Museum of Modern Art and strengthening the professional arts as they represent the moment of the Louvre in this new initiative, along network and developing international conception for many creations. with a plethora of original and creative co-productions and exchanges galleries, universities, and nonprofits. between artists, cultural professionals, ART² offers an educational opportunity Through ART2, we joined forces with critics and curators. to students, scholars and the public 42 partners and strengthened our alike: it invites us to question and relationships with each one. Years of The DANSE and ART² events are analyze our contemporary society’s research have produced spectacular exemplary in this respect—in addition relationship with art. This platform texts and exhibitions and even more to the presence of French artists and is crucial because it turns us into luminous friendships. the dissemination of their work to the critical thinkers; it opens our minds American public, the projects facilitate to new forms of creativity. It sprawls In organizing a project between the construction of a rich dialogue throughout New York, reaching so many France and the United States, we hope and reflection between professionals, communities, offering so many vehicles to cultivate an even stronger bond including younger artists who will be of learning: lectures, exhibitions, between the countries. ART2 began in major players in the artistic exchanges performances and publications. Why 2012 with lively discussion between of tomorrow, pioneers in the boldest should art be reserved for an elite few? arts professionals, and we hope that artistic adventures and representatives Art is an intellectual pursuit for all those these conversations will carry on for of contemporary creation in research who wish to participate. years. We chose to produce an analysis and in movement. of contemporary art from French and Thanks to ART², we can examine the American perspectives because we DANSE and ART² were made possible by struggles and triumphs of our modern, value our relationship with the United passionate engagement of creators, but global societies through the lens of States and wish to nurture it. While the also by a close collaboration between art. Clear and multi-faceted, it brings events celebrating and analyzing art the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the all points of view into focus. From that ART2 presents are phenomenal, Ministry of Culture and Communication economic depression to political even more central to the project is and the Institut français, with the turmoil, art helps us process our the discourse and the publications support of FACE—French American Cultural Exchange, to which we ever-changing institutional context . contribute, and which is a primary tool The Institut français and the Cultural in these French-American projects. Services of the French Embassy thus Such a successful result is a testament assembled a group of curators who are to the constructive and permanent active in the art criticism world. Their dialogue that emerged within the reflections are based on the notion of framework of working as a team with “critique” itself, investigating curatorial several American partners. I salute and theoretical practices of artists these stakeholders and partners for and those relating to the written word their commitment and dedication and (magazines and essays). These axes for the success of these projects. of research have amounted to two Such rich and abundant events are platforms out of seven (with Florence the result of a collective will, which Ostende and Virginie Bobin) that will was extended to New York and its be presented within the framework of surroundings. We hope that these ART2 during the the month of April. initiatives allow the broadest possible A global project was conceived French and American public to in 2013 by the Institut français, in discover the works and artists while partnership with the Ministry of Culture participating in a process of reflection and Communication, the Institut on the many debates and conferences National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) and organized, so that this fruitful dialogue the Archives de la Critique d’Art de may continue. Rennes aiming to promote mobility (establishment of a living allowance Michel Orier for an art critic in a partner university), General Director of Artistic Creation production (aid in writing a long text Ministry of Culture and Communication on important international news and — ensuring of publication in a quality journal that is well distributed abroad) Institut français, the main driver of and translation (creating an anthology cultural activities outside of France of authoritative texts). In 2014, the for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, actions supported by our institution aims to promote international under ART2 cater to the emerging art artistic exchanges, notably in the critic, responding to a twofold objective contemporary art domain, and to to encourage better development of support French intellectual creation the international professional network throughout the world through the and develop the dissemination and debate of ideas. For several years, the circulation of the research topics, the Institut français has focused its writings and ideas of young French energies on collaboration with the authors. United States, notably through the Franco-American “Étant donnés” fund, Xavier Darcos created in 1994 and established in President partnership with the Minister of Culture Institut français and Communication and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, and the FACE Foundation, with the support of BNP Paribas and the Florence Gould Foundation.

This year, the ART2 partners have decided to support a project that showcases emerging French criticism and unites curators and art critics. The project’s goal is to share their work and research, their writings and their ideas, in a dialogue with international partners. It also aims to support French-American exchanges in approaching critical research in the Table of contents

— 18 LETTERS ART CRITICISM FRANÇOIS DELATTRE ON THE RADIO AGNES GUND ARNAUD LAPORTE ANTONIN BAUDRY SANDRINE TREINER MICHEL ORIER XAVIER DARCOS 19 PUBLICATIONS 4—5 LES Presses du Réel INTRODUCTION —New York Series

6—7 20 THE EXHIBITION SATELLITE MACHINE EVENTS FLORENCE OSTENDE 21—23 8—9 CALENDAR ART & VALUE (ChRoNolOgical) FIONN MEADE 24—27 10—11 CALENDAR MUSEUMS TODAY (THEMATIC)

12—13 28—29 ART & SOCIETY PARTNERS THOMAS CROW & venues TOM ECCLES Fionn MEADE ALEXANDER NAGEL

14—15 COMPOSING DIFFERENCES VIRGINIE BOBIN

16—17 The New Existentialism TIM GRIFFIN INTRODUCTION

ART2 was conceived as a platform for generating “intellectual friction” between artists, arts professionals and those interested in contemporary art. Discussions began two years ago in France and the United States. Exhibitions, talks, conferences, workshops, publications and editorial matter are the first fruits of these prolonged discussions. The conversations have revolved around seven subjects, chosen by artists and arts professionals from the two countries: Art & Value, Art & Society, The Exhibition Machine (A History of Exhibitions by Artists), Composing Differences (The Political Stakes ofK nowledge), Museums Today, The New Existentialism (Art Theory), and Art Criticism on the Radio (La Dispute/France Culture). These seven subjects do not specifically concern France and the United States, but, on the contrary, drive the international art world today.

From the very beginning, ART² has been content-based as opposed to event- driven, with process and research taking precedent over spectacle. The central goal of our undertaking has always been to examine our differences and not to reiterate our similarities—we wanted to be sure not to cede to a well-meaning “mutual understanding”, which could get in the way of constructive debates.

It goes without saying that this method initially put us in an unusual state of precariousness. Certain discussions were interrupted over these last months due to intellectual friction. But the majority persevered!—leaving us with 35 events in April and four publications, with the participation of more than 40 partners and venues (museums, universities, commercial galleries, non-profit spaces, and more). Throughout April and in the later months of 2014, we will also publish books and editorial matter in order to keep the discussions alive.

We decided to carry out the project in such a way for two reasons: Art is more and more valued monetarily, but undervalued in its capacity to give a different perspective on today’s global world. Yet art is one of the most powerful and unconventional means of understanding our world. Through its specific approach, it offers a different viewpoint on the challenges of modern society.

We believe that France and the U.S. are two countries that share many common interests, but often respond differently to global political, economic and cultural issues. If we combine these two paths of thought and action, could the result yield a constructive alternative?

6 Please join us at the exhibitions, participate in the talks and other events, and feel free to share your thoughts and comments on frenchculture.org/ART2.

Maybe you’ll agree with us, or maybe you won’t. Please share!

We deeply thank all the partners, venues, artists, and art professionals who participated actively in this project.

ART² is, above all, an exciting adventure—a game of chance! Let’s hope that our reflection will lead us to interesting new perspectives…

Sophie Claudel Cultural Attaché Head of the Arts Department

Dorothée Charles Program Officer Visual Arts, Architecture & Design

Nicole Birmann Bloom Program Officer Dance and Theater

Béatrice Arnaud Administrative Manager

Suzanne Buracas Coordinator

7 THE EXHIBITION April 1—May 6, 2014 Curated by MACHINE Florence Ostende

A History of Exhibitions by Artists With Walter Benjamin Johanna Burton Katherine Carl Tristan Garcia Géraldine Gourbe Pierre Huyghe Jenny Jaskey Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Patricia Mainardi The Museum of American Art, Berlin The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles Vincent Normand Nathalie Hope O’Donnell Florence Ostende Alicia Ritson Franz Erhard Walther Arseniy Zhilyaev and The Artist’s Institute Anthology Film Archives The Drawing Center The Graduate Center—City University of New York James Gallery—CUNY Graduate Center New Museum

“We reject space as a painted coffin for our living bodies.” — El Lissitzky THE EXHIBITION MACHINE looks at artists who are using the exhibition as both a medium and source material to create various occupations of space, temporality, and organizing principles, in order to challenge the spectacularization of experience and conventions of the event. In 1799, long before the art of the historical avant-garde established the tradition of artist initiated exhibitions, French painter Jacques-Louis David independantly organized a five-year long solo presentation of his manifesto painting “The Sabine Women”, which he bathed in natural light and staged in front of a large-scale mirror. Although the history of exhibitions has become an important field of research, the pioneering role of the artist has been given little consideration compared with the celebration and mythologizing of curators1. THE EXHIBITION MACHINE is a multifaceted project that aims to focus on specific typologies that articulate the theoretical framework and structural mechanisms of exhibitions as potential artworks.

In collaboration with four partnering institutions, a series of exhibitions, symposiums, and events will investigate four typologies (material, emergence, archive and setting) operating within the fields of history, philosophy, science and politics. The New Museum symposiumThese Things Called Exhibitions, organized with Johanna Burton and Alicia Ritson, investigates the ways in which exhibitions can operate less as collections of disparate objects and more as materials in and of themselves. Pierre Huyghe's exhibition +/-, curated with Jenny Jaskey at The Artist's Institute, unfolds in time as an emergent system, and its associative structure speculates on the exhibition as an auto- generating organism. At The Drawing Center, Franz Erhard Walther will discuss his Plandrawings, an ongoing archive of exhibition drawings, which retrace the spatial relations between the works, the viewer, and the surrounding architecture, while also serving as an incubator of new works. —

1 Past and recent studies include : A.A. Bronson and Peggy Gale (eds), "Museums by Artists", Toronto: Art Metropole, 1983; James Putman, "Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium", New York : Thames and Hudson, 2001 ; Sarah Pierce, "With Practicality comes a Practice: the Artist as Curator", Visual Artists Ireland, 2009; Terry Smith, "Artists as Curators / Curators as Artists" in "Thinking Contemporary Curating", New York: Independent Curators International, 2012 ; Elena Filipovic, "When Exhibitions Become Form : On the History of the Artist As Curator", Issue 0, Mousse 41, December 2013.

8 A Story of Two Museums: An Ethnographic Exhibition, curated with Katherine Carl and Walter Benjamin at the James Gallery (The Graduate Center, CUNY), is about the Museum of American Art, Berlin, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, both of which are concerned with the histories of museums as well as the varieties of paths to knowledge. A mix of objects related to their collections, as well as outside materials, present an alternate, ethnographic study of human artistry and ingenuity. The symposiumSetting as Spatial Strategy reflects on the motivations and consequences of artists’ settings with objects on display that operate at the scale of an exhibition or an institution. The characteristic (and paradox) of The Exhibition Machine is that it does not look strictly at exhibitions which occured as art events but embraces a hybrid and porous spectrum of objects and practices that eventually extended the scope of exhibition-making beyond the art sphere.

Florence Ostende is a curator, art historian and writer based in Paris. She is currently Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary and a faculty member at the University of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva. Recent exhibitions include Wesley Meuris (Galerie Jérôme Poggi), the Dallas Biennale (Texas), "The Institute of Savage Archives" (Villa Arson), "Out Of The Door And Over The Wall" (FRAC PACA). Her writings have appeared in numerous artists’ catalogues as well as in "Frieze" and "Art Press".

EXHIBITION EXHIBITION TALK Pierre Huyghe, +/- A Story of Two Franz Erhard Walther: April 1—May 11 Museums: Plandrawings Opening April 1, 6—8pm An Ethnographic April 18, 7pm The Artist’s Institute Exhibition—The The Drawing Center A project of Hunter College Museum of American With Franz Erhard Walther and Curated by Jenny Jaskey and Florence Ostende. Florence Ostende. Art (Berlin) and The Free entrance. RSVP required: Free entrance. Museum of Jurassic www.drawingcenter.org Technology (L.A.) RELATED EVENTS April 3—June 7 SYMPOSIUM TALK by Philosopher Tristan Garcia Opening April 4, 6—8pm These Things Called April 20, 6pm at The Artist’s Institute Free entrance. RSVP required: James Gallery—CUNY Exhibitions www.theartistsinstitute.org Graduate Center April 19, 1—7pm

TALK by Curator Vincent Normand Curated by Walter Benjamin, New Museum Katherine Carl and Florence Ostende. April 28, 7pm at The Artist’s Institute Organized by Florence Ostende and Free entrance. Free entrance. RSVP required: Johanna Burton with Alicia Ritson. www.theartistsinstitute.org Admission: $10 General/$8 Members.

RSVP required: www.newmuseum.org SCREENING of Pierre Huyghe's SYMPOSIUM "A Way in Untilled"(2012) Setting as Spatial with films by Jean Painlevé PUBLI CATION May 6, 7pm at Anthology Film Archives Strategy RSVP required: The Exhibition Machine www.anthologyfilmarchives.org April 4, 1—6pm CUNY Graduate Center Edited by Florence With Géraldine Gourbe, Ilya and Emilia Ostende Kabakov, Patricia Mainardi, Nathalie les presses du réel—New York Series Hope O’Donnell, Arseniy Zhilyaev, the (Winter 2014) Technical Assistant (The Museum of American Art, Berlin)... Organized by Katherine Carl and Florence Ostende in dialogue with the symposium "Exhibit A: Authorship of Display " on April 7. 9 Free entrance. ART & VALUE April 2 — 2 5, 2014 Curated by Fionn Meade

With Thomas Boutoux Dominic Eichler Joachim Hamou Egija Inzule Ana Janevski Morag Keil Janette Laverrière Fionn Meade Mélanie Metranga Laure Prouvost Lili Reynaud-Dewar Benjamin Thorel Michel Ziegler and Artists Space Books and Talks castillo/corrales Columbia Maison Française Columbia University School of the Arts Danspace Project Silberkuppe TWAAS (Thea Westreich Art Advisory)

In 2014, it can be argued that reputational capital and visualized networks of consumable artistic identities precede, distort, and often surpass the reception of artworks and artists themselves, conditioning value in new ways and realizing new speculative assets.

By putting forward a series of provocations and re-castings of the space between materialism, idealism, and ways of working that are identifiable but not easily consumable, curator Fionn Meade has invited Paris-based castillo/ corrales, a co-operatively run non-profit contemporary art venue, to organize a series of programs and events reflecting onThe Issues of Our Time at Artists Space Books and Talks.

The platform also includes a separate exhibition,Bibliothèque Tournante, exploring the life and work of Janette Laverrière (1909-2011), including her role in crucial shifts in design aesthetics and the politics of value within architecture and interior design. Laverrière’s exhibition will be complemented by a panel discussion. Organized in collaboration with Silberkuppe and artist Nairy Baghramian.

The research focus area ART & VALUE concludes with a new performanceFrom the Sky by London-based artist Laure Prouvost at Danspace Project.

A publication The Skin of the Bear reflecting upon this platform and its projects will be published in fall 2014 by les presses du réel-New York Series.

Fionn Meade is a curator and writer based in New York. He was recently named Senior Curator of Cross-Disciplinary Platforms at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He is currently a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and in the MFA program for Visual Arts, Columbia University. He has previously been a curator at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and SculptureCenter, NY. His writing has appeared in "Artforum", "Bomb", "Bidoun", "The Fillip Review", "Mousse", "Modern Painters", "Parkett", and "Spike Quarterly", among other publications. He was the recipient of an Arts Writer Grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Recent and forthcoming catalog writing includes essays on Camille Henrot, Nina Canell, Laure Prouvost, Dieter Roth, and Latifa Echakhch, among others artists.

10 EXHIBITION TALK EVENT Janette Laverrière, Janette Laverrière: Performance: Bibliothèque Tournante Art, Design and Laure Prouvost, April 2—24 Social Movement From the Sky Opening April 9, 4—6pm April 10, 6:30pm April 24 & 25, 8pm TWAAS Columbia Maison Danspace Project Free entrance. Française Laure Prouvost’s storylines in video and installation often leap from one transition The professional life of Swiss-born to another, turning over scenes and designer/artist and French citizen trading in backdrops, substitute objects, EVENT Janette Laverrière (1909-2011) spanned and versioned characters until it is the crucial shifts in design thinking and The Issues of Our Time shifting itself that remains central. Opting the politics of value within design and for the "le petit récit" of transmission and April 4—27 architecture. Having helped found direct address, images and language the Front National des décorateurs in Artists Space seduce and disturb, assailing the viewer 1944, followed by the Union des artistes with directives, cataclysmic farce, and Books and Talks décorateurs et créateurs d’ensembles, placid assurances. In a performance that Free entrance. that same year, Laverrière’s career mixes video, music, and live narrative, continued to impact art, design, and "From the Sky" invokes and considers social movements until her death in the impoverished specter of Prouvost’s 2011. Panelists include Ana Janevski EVENT invented grandfather, a conceptual artist. (Associate Curator, Department of $10 suggested donation. Readings from the Media and Performance Art, MoMA), RSVP encouraged: Fionn Meade (Senior Curator, Cross- library of Janette [email protected] Disciplinary Platforms, Walker Art or (212) 674-8112 Laverrière Center) and Silberkuppe co-founders April 9 & 16 Dominic Eichler and Michel Ziegler.

TWAAS Co-sponsored by the School of the Arts PUBLICATION Hosted by Silberkuppe and guests. and Columbia Maison Française. The Skin of the Bear Free entrance. With Dominic Eichler, Ana Janevski, Fionn Meade, and Michel Ziegler. Edited by Fionn Meade Free entrance. RSVP required: les presses du réel—New York Series maisonfrancaise.org (Fall 2014)

EVENT castillo/corrales presents “The Issues of Our Time” April 14—21 Artists Space

Books and Talks Including Thomas Boutoux, Egija Inzule, Joachim Hamou, Mélanie Metranga, Morag Keil, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, and Benjamin Thorel. Free entrance.

11 M uSEUMS Today April 23 — 2 4, 2014

With Richard Armstrong Martin Bethenod Thomas P. Campbell Sophie Claudel Xavier Douroux Franck Gautherot Michael Govan Glenn D. Lowry Jean-Luc Martinez Yasmil Raymond Peter Reed Alain Seban András Szántó Adam Weinberg and Centre Pompidou Le Consortium Cultural Services of the French Embassy Dia Art Foundation Judd Foundation LACMA Metropolitan Museum of Art MoMA Musée du Louvre Punta della Dogana–Palazzo Grassi–Fondation Pinault Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Whitney Museum of American Art

This program was conceived as a French-American exchange of perspectives centered on issues and themes that drive museums and private foundations alike. These places are guarantors of an encyclopedic knowledge essential for enriching our vision of the world. But what tactics do these cultural institutions use for transmitting knowledge to the public and building "le bien commun" essential to our society? Several topics of reflection will be studied over the course of these two days of discussion: exhibiting collections, presenting new perspectives on art history, offering an artistic yet pedagogic program, producing new works and supporting the creation of contemporary art, and opening international axis museums in an effort to globalize a museum’s presence.

To address these different missions, 14 directors and art professionals from some of the most prestigious French and American institutions have been invited to share their perspectives on several themes.

Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation (since 2008) Martin Bethenod, CEO and Director of Palazzo Grassi–Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation (since 2010) Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (since 2009) Sophie Claudel, Cultural Attaché, Head of the Arts Department at the French Embassy in New York (since 2010) Xavier Douroux, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Contemporary Art Center Le Consortium, Dijon (since 1977), Co-Founder of les presses du réel (since 1992), Co-CEO of Anna Sanders Films (since 1996), and Mediator of New Protocol projects

Franck Gautherot, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Contemporary Art Center Le Consortium, Dijon (since 1977), Co-Founder of les presses du réel (since 1992), and Co-CEO of Anna Sanders Films (since 1996)

Michael Govan, CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Director of Wallis Annenberg (since 2006) Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art (since 1995) Jean-Luc Martinez, President and Director of the Musée du Louvre (since 2013) Yasmil Raymond, Curator at Dia Art Foundation (since 2009) Peter Reed, Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, The Museum of Modern Art (since 2005) Alain Seban, Chairman, Director and CEO of the Centre Pompidou (since 2007) András Szántó, writer, researcher, and advisor to cultural and philanthropic organizations Adam Weinberg, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art (since 2003)

12 PROFESSIONAL TALK TALK WORKSHOP Alternative Models: Collecting and Methodological Art Institutions with Displaying Modern Art Approaches Toward Collections in the 21st Century Collection-based April 23, 12pm April 24, 6pm Initiatives Judd Foundation MoMA (Titus 2 Theater) Ongoing since Conversation between Martin Bethenod With Glenn D. Lowry (Director, The (Director, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Museum of Modern Art) and Alain Seban November 2013 Dogana, Fondation François Pinault) (Chairman, Director and CEO, Centre The Whitney Museum / and Yasmil Raymond (Curator, DIA Art Pompidou). Moderated by Peter Reed. Foundation). Free entrance. Limited seating. Le Consortium Free entrance. RSVP required: In November 2013, Le Consortium [email protected] directors met with the team of Whitney Free access for all visitors to view the curators responsible for overseeing the installed floors after the program inaugural installation in the museum’s new location in downtown Manhattan. The conversation was initiated TALK jointly, with the participation of Adam The Encyclopedic Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown, Director of the Whitney Museum; the Whitney’s Museum of curators, headed by Chief Curator and the 21st Century Deputy Director for Programs, Donna De Salvo; and Xavier Douroux and Franck April 23, 5:30pm Gautherot, Directors of Le Consortium, French Embassy Dijon. When it opens in 2015, The With Thomas P. Campbell (Director, The Whitney Museum’s new building will Metropolitan Museum of Art), Michael have more space dedicated to the Govan (Director, LACMA) and Jean-Luc exhibition of the permanent collection Martinez (Director, Musée du Louvre) than ever before. The presentation of Moderated by András Szántó. these galleries will be crucially informed Free entrance. RSVP required: by the research and conversations [email protected] Whitney curators have been conducting with scholars, curators, and museum professionals from the United States and abroad. During this closed TALK session, Whitney and Le Consortium Satellite Museums curators shared their methodological approaches toward collection-based April 24, 1pm initiatives; discussed interpretive Solomon R. Guggenheim strategies for permanent collection exhibitions; and investigated the role Museum (Peter B. Lewis of culturally-specific institutions in the Theater) global 21st century. Their dialogue also This program will examine the centered on the importance of diverse Guggenheim Venice-Bilbao-Abu Dhabi, audiences, and the social function of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and the institution, both inside the museum the Pompidou Mobile and walls and within the culture at large. Louvre-Lens-Abu Dhabi. With the participation of Adam With Richard Armstrong (Director, Weinberg (Director of The Whitney Guggenheim Museum), Jean-Luc Museum), The Whitney’s curators, Martinez (Director, Le Louvre) and Xavier Douroux and Franck Gautherot Alain Seban (Chairman, Director and (Directors of Le Consortium). CEO, Centre Pompidou). Moderated Professional. Closed to by Sophie Claudel (Cultural Attaché, public audience. French Embassy). Free entrance. RSVP requested: [email protected]

13 ART & SOCIETY April 23 & 28 , 2014 Curated by T. Crow & A. Nagel T. Eccles & F. Meade

With Sven Augustijnen Thomas Crow Xavier Douroux Tom Eccles Camille Henrot Thérèse Legierse Fionn Meade Alexander Nagel Jérôme Poggi Laura Raicovich Nato Thompson and Creative Time ccS Bard College Fondation de France Institute of Fine Arts- New York University New Protocol

The Nouveaux commanditaires (in English, New Protocol) program is a socially engaged initiative created by the artist François Hers and supported by Fondation de France. It allows citizens plagued with societal unrest or the difficult conditions of a developing nation to pair with a contemporary artist who transforms their concern into a work of art. This singular program arranges collaborations between three key players: the artist, the civil society, and the cultural mediator, with the involvement of public and private partners. Doing so, this action attracts internationally acclaimed artists with a variety of different art practices.

Using the New Protocol as a model, Art & Society anaylizes similaire initiatives in the United States. Workshops will introduce the role of mediator within the New Protocol context and consider its significance to the larger curatorial and commissioning field.

Thomas Crow is an art historian whose work ranges from 18th century France to modern and contemporary art. He is Rosalie Solow Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. His books include "Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris" (1985); "Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France" (1995);"Modern Art in the Common Culture" (1996); "The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent" (1996) and"Gordon Matta-Clark" (2003). His next book, "The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design 1930 to 1995" is scheduled to be published this coming fall.

Tom Eccles is the Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale–on–Hudson in New York. Eccles was previously Director of the Public Art Fund in New York where he organized more than 100 exhibitions with artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Pierre Huyghe and Andrea Zittel. Other recent curatorial projects include Paul McCarthy's "WS" at the Park Avenue Armory in 2013 (with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alex Poots) and Susan Philipsz and Mark Handforth on Governors Island, New York.

Alexander Nagel is a professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. He lectures and writes on the themes of iconoclasm, anachronism, globalization, and other shared preoccupations of Renaissance and contemporary art. He is the author of "Medieval Modern" (Thames & Hudson, 2012), "The Controversy of Renaissance Art" (University of Chicago Press, 2011); and the co-author, with Christopher Wood, of "Anachronic Renaissance" (Zone, 2010).

14 PANEL DISCUSSION WORKSHOP Protocols of Civic Society and New Participation: Recent Patronage Models of Socially April 28, 11am—3pm Engaged Art in the CCS, Bard College U.S. and Europe Since the early 1990s, the Fondation de France’s New Protocol project has invit- April 23, 5:30pm ed citizens to propose and develop Institute of Fine Arts— works with artists and mediators that negotiate and address a range of local New York University concerns. Building ties between artists, New Protocol is a model for the commissioners, and communities in production of art outside the context diverse international settings, this of the gallery, the market, and the workshop will introduce the role of museum. It began in 1990 and has since mediator within New Protocol context produced over 400 works in various and consider its significance to the larg- European countries with plans to er curatorial and commissioning field expand the model to Africa and North via specific projects and artistic prac- America. In New Protocol, the public tices. itself puts forward a demand for art, and the program sets into motion a Focused on the aesthetic and ethical process to respond to that demand. terrain explored by two specific artistic New Protocol is a mediating bridge that practices, the morning session will puts a community situated outside include dialogs with artists, while the of the contemporary art world into afternoon discussion looks closer at the contact with an artist from inside the unique opportunities and challenges contemporary art arena. Conversely, afforded by new models and approach- contemporary artists are taken out of es to patronage. Engaging a dialog with their usual art world context and are New Protocol representatives and art- brought into amazing new dialogues ists negotiating the shifting terms of with their society: to father an "art of civil society, this workshop is open to democracy", as stated by François Hers CCS Bard faculty and students, as well who created the process. as the larger Bard College community and public. This panel puts the New Protocol in dialogue with other models of socially With Xavier Douroux, Thérèse Legierse engaged art, in particular with Creative and Jérôme Poggi (New Protocol) and Time, which has achieved a similar level artists Sven Augustijnen and Camille of success in North America. The panel Henrot. Curated by Tom Eccles (CCS Bard poses several questions: How are the College) and Fionn Meade (Bard College Creative Time and New Protocol models and Columbia University) . similar and different? How did they Open to students, professors from all develop? How do they both fit into the universities and all general audience. larger and increasingly active field of Free entrance. RSVP requested: socially engaged and participatory art? www.bard.edu/ccs

With Laura Raicovich and Nato Thompson (Creative Time); Xavier Douroux and Thérèse Legierse (New Protocol). Moderated by Thomas Crow (Institute of Fine Arts-New York University) and Alexander Nagel (Institute of Fine Arts- New York University). Free entrance. RSVP required: [email protected]

15 Composing April 21 — 27, 2014 Curated by Differences Virginie Bobin

Program conceived by Council Glass Bead Open School East PAF with Virginie Bobin Grégory Castéra Annie Dorsen Guillaume Fayard Tristan Garcia Fabien Giraud Jonathan Hoskins Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau Jeffrey Mansfield Guerino Mazzola Reza Negarestani Ida Soulard Noé Soulier Sandra Terdjman and MoMA PS1 (Conference Room, The VW Dome and The Print Shop) The Museum of Modern Art (Recording Studios) e-flux

Composing Differences brings together artists, curators, researchers and other arts professionals from France and the United States who establish new art platforms and experiment with art as an agent of social change. It also explores tactics of knowledge production that promote the circulation of knowledge and defend its essential value. Since the 1999 Bologna Accords were signed to promote the standardization of higher education throughout Europe, the landscape of European universities and schools has been drastically remodeled, with increasing privatization and uncertainty. Today’s “crisis of education” is not a European exception; it has prompted heated debates on the value of knowledge and its validation, availability and circulation.

In the aftermath of the “Educational Turn” theorized by Irit Rogoff in 2008, many artists, curators and arts institutions have attempted to dissect the relations between art and research outside of academia. They experiment with alternative models of knowledge production and exchange. Many initiatives examining these areas of investigation, notably those created in the 2010s, position themselves in regard to the aforementioned debates and the global socio-political reconfigurations at work since the 2008-9 financial crisis. From the porous territory of art, these initiatives connect multiple disciplines and actors, articulating practice and theory in order to invent what French philosopher Judith Revel calls “a new grammar of the political”.

Four of these initiatives, based in France or instigated by French arts professionals, will engage in an exchange with New York participants through a one-week program of events, talks and workshops. Council is an agency for research and artistic production that explores the relationship between arts, science, philanthropy and politics. Glass Bead is an international research platform and journal, conceived as a mode of navigating often incompatible fields of knowledge.Open School East is a new tuition-free art school in East London emphasizing cooperation, experimentation, and skill sharing among artists, local residents and neighborhood organizations. PAF (PerformingArtsForum) is a place for art practitioners and activists who seek to explore and define their own conditions of work.

16 Instead of comparing contexts and affirming values, the project seeks to re-imagine our methodologies of working with arts and in society and to facilitate the co-production or the “composition” of differences—to quote Bruno Latour—for each of the participants to hone their own tools of action.

Virginie Bobin is a curator and writer with specific interests in performance, experimental forms of artistic research, the role of art, artists and art institutions in the public sphere, and forms of art that go beyond exhibition-making. She has worked for Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art; Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers; Public School Paris; Performa - the New York Biennial of Performing Arts; and on several independent and collective curatorial and editorial projects. She has been Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal since 2011.

Composing Differences is conceived in close collaboration with MoMA PS1. Special thanks to Jenny Schlenzka, Mike Skinner & Alex Sloane (MoMA PS1), Julieta Aranda, Vincent Gonzalves, Florence Ostende, Jan Ritsema, Alexander Provan and Molly Kleinman, Carson Salter and Nova Benway. Program conceived with Council, Glass Bead, PAF and Open School East.

PROFESSIONAL READINGS TALK WORKSHOPS PAF Lectures: On Glass Bead Public April 21—26, 2014 Form and Object Interviews (A Treatise of Things) April 22 & 25, 7—9pm Glass Bead Radio by Tristan Garcia e-flux MoMA (AV Recording April 24—26, 10am—1pm With Reza Negarestani and Guerino Mazzola, in collaborationwith e-flux. In Studios) MoMA PS1 parallel with the program at MoMA PS1, With guest speakers Reza Negarestani French philosopher Tristan Garcia Glass Bead presents a series of public (philosopher), Guerino Mazzola will perform three, three-hour-long interviews with Reza Negarestani and (musicologist and mathematician), lectures inspired by PAF’s Spring Guerino Mazzola. Council and W.A.G.E., among others. Meetings seminars. The lectures will be Free entrance. The interviews will be broadcast at introduced by American choreographer MoMA PS1 on Sunday, April 27. and PAF Ambassador Annie Dorsen. Free entrance. RSVP required: PUBLI CATION Council Rehearsals [email protected] Composing Differences The Print Shop at Edited by Virginie Bobin MoMA PS1 TALK les presses du réel—New York Series (Fall 2014) Council will develop an artistic Composing Differences collaboration between French choreographer Noé Soulier and April 27, 12—6pm American designer Jeffrey Mansfield, MoMA PS1 (VW Dome) as a continuation to a previous council, A radio show, an open archive, a Tacet, on the diversity of hearing modes. classroom, a dance studio, a space of Following a series of rehearsals and resonance, and a meeting ground: this professional meetings, the first steps event reviews a week of encounters of this collaboration will be presented and collaborations through live at MoMA PS1 on Sunday, April 27. conversations with participants and guests, a radio broadcast by Glass Bead, or a choreographic investigation by Noé Open School East Soulier and Jeffrey Mansfield. MoMA PS1 With Glass Bead, PAF, Council and Open Open School East associates School East, Guillaume Fayard, Noé Jonathan Hoskins and Matthew Soulier, Jeffrey Mansfield and more. de Kersaint Giraudeau, together Free entrance with Museum admission with French writer Guillaume ($12/$10 online) Fayard, explore mistranslation and displacement as strategies of cognition and collaboration.

17 THE NEW April 26, 2014 Curated by EXISTENTIALISM Tim Griffin

With Emily Apter Patricia Falguières Tristan Garcia Tim Griffin John Kelsey Patrice Maniglier and The Kitchen

During the past decade and a half, New York has seemed a unique laboratory for paradigmatic shifts in society, providing a locus for crises in financial and economic structure, political organization, and climatic patterns. And yet the circumstances unfolding in all these spheres have prompted a sense of insecurity that pervades not only the old centers of the occidental world but also territories beyond. In an effort to reframe (and de-privilege) humanity’s place in this radically altered world environment, a number of increasingly prominent voices in contemporary thought have sought to instigate a break with historical modes of intellectual engagement stemming from continental philosophy in order to find alternative models that might depart from referential practices, poststructuralism, and even sociological theory. At the same time, such an impulse is shared by an emerging generation of practitioners in art.

In two roundtables featuring French and American thinkers and artists, followed by a published volume, The New Existentialism will evoke some recent philosophical proposals and link them with some related artistic practices. More specifically, emerging philosophical tendencies around the notion of objectivity, and of Speculative Realism, will be put in tension with similarly developing philosophical approaches that encourage subtle rereadings of structuralism, a new reception of Guattari's legacy in the field of anthropology, and a political appropriation of the notion of anthropocene. An aspiration here is to underscore certain misunderstandings that oppose these different models and, in turn, to articulate and understand their disputes more clearly.

Tim Griffin is Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen in New York. He was Editor-in-Chief of "Artforum International" magazine, Time Out New York, and ArtByte, dedicated to digital culture. Influenced by the French philosopher Sylvère Lotringer, Griffin explores themes such as globalization, art and politics, and the contemporary art market, and frequently collaborates with Jacques Rancière and Cyprien Gaillard. He also publishes essays and books about art and works with many artists including Philippe Parreno, BMPT (Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni), Yvonne Rainer, Chantal Akerman, and others.

18 SYMPOSIUM PUBLI CATION The New Existentialism The New Existentialism April 26, 3—5pm Edited by Tim Griffin TheK itchen les presses du réel—New York Series (Winter 2014) With Emily Apter, Patricia Falguières, Tristan Garcia , John Kelsey, Patrice Maniglier, and Tim Griffin. Free entrance. RSVP required: www.thekitchen.org

19 ARTITI CR CISM April 23—24 , 2014 Curated by ON THE RADIO Arnaud Laporte & Sandrine Treiner

France Culture accepted an invitation from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy to participate in one of seven areas of investigation developed by the ART2 initiative on art criticism. As part of ART2, France Culture will present a week of special shows dedicated to New York’s current cultural events and orchestrated by Arnaud Laporte and several American critics. This in depth look at American cultural events will allow the French audiences to explore how cultural events are discussed in America, and ultimately, it will reveal the differences between French and American cultural critique itself.

Five broadcasts will be recorded on visual arts, literature, music and cinema. The last recording will be dedicated to a comparison between a French radio art critic and an American radio art critic and will be open to the public. These programs will be broadcast on the week of April 28 on France Culture and as a podcast on www.franceculture.fr/emission-la-dispute

Since its inception in December 1963, France Culture, part of the national Radio France group, has offered exceptional programming. Its mission is to inform its listeners, to provide top-notch information supplemented by historical, philosophical, and scientific knowledge, and to offer a global picture of contemporary culture. France Culture has a larger audience than ever, thanks to its online station, and it is always expanding.

La Dispute, produced by Arnaud Laporte, is an investigation of issues in contemporary culture devoted to performing arts on Mondays, cinema on Tuesdays, fine arts on Wednesdays, music on Thursdays, and literature on Fridays. Every night, La Dispute features a critical debate between two sharp culture observers on a cultural event. La Dispute airs on France Culture Monday through Friday from 9 to 10pm.

Arnaud Laporte is a journalist. Since joining France Culture in 1987, he has facilitated 3500 discussions centering on current events in culture. He first launched “La Dispute” in September 2011.

Sandrine Treiner is Deputy Director of France Culture. In addition, she is the author of numerous books and documentaries.

Live Public Broadcast: Art Criticism on the Radio—La Dispute in NYC / France Culture April 24, 10am French Embassy With Arnaud Laporte, Sandrine Treiner and guests. April 23 (not opened to public) April 24 (public broadcast) Free entrance. RSVP required: [email protected]

20 PUBLICATIONS les presses du réel —New York Series

With Virginie Bobin Sophie Claudel Xavier Douroux Franck Gautherot Tim Griffin Fionn Meade Olivier Mosset Florence Ostende catherine Perret Noémie Solomon and les presses du réel—New York Series

The new collection les presses du réel—New York Series was recently created to give a voice to theoretical writings in contemporary art. The collection is related to current happenings in New York and the U.S. linked to French thinking and theory. Its essence is based on one single statement: contemporary culture is a common good that can offer a different outlook on the issues of our time. Contemporary art is more and more valued monetarily, but often undervalued in its capacity to give a fresh perspective of today’s global world. Yet this specific approach is complementary—or might we say “salutary” —to the traditional fields in the humanities and the sciences commonly associated with and participating in these international debates. les presses du réel—New York Series will be a constant attempt to prove this statement.

Olivier Mosset: DANSE: an anthology C omposing Differences Painting, Even Edited by Edited by Virginie Bobin By Catherine Perret Noémie Solomon (Fall 2014) (November 2013) (February 2014) The Skin of the Bear DANSE: a catalogue Edited by Fionn Meade Edited by (Fall 2014) Noémie Solomon (Fall 2014) The Exhibition Machine Edited by Florence Ostende (Winter 2014)

The New Existentialism Edited by Tim Griffin (Winter 2014)

21 SATELLITE EVENTS

The satellite events of ART2 further explore many of the issues within the main program. Although they are not directly tied to the program’s research themes, these events each demonstrate the strong connections between cultural production in France, Europe and the rest of the globe.

EXHIBITION EXHIBITION EXHIBITION Laure Prouvost, Dominique Gonzalez- Camille Henrot, For Forgetting Foerster, Euqinimod The Restless Earth February 12—April 13 & Costumes May 5—June 29 Opening February 11 April 17—May 31 New Museum The New Museum’s Opening April 17, 6—8pm Lobby Gallery 303 Gallery

EXHIBITION EXHIBITION Marc-Camille François Morellet, Chaimowicz, Gustave Preliminaries April 5—May 10 April 17—May 31 Opening April 5, 6—8pm Opening April 17, 6—8pm Andrew Kreps Gallery Josée Bienvenu Gallery with Galerie Hervé Bize WORKSHOP Global Museum EXHIBITION Leaders Professional Pierre Soulages Colloquium April 25—June 27 April 7—18 Opening April 24, 6—8pm The Metropolitan Dominique Lévy Gallery Museum of Art with Galerie Perrotin The Global Museum Leaders Colloquium is an invitational program hosted by the Office of the Director at the EXHIBITION Metropolitan Museum of Art. It provides Mark Geffriaud a unique opportunity for fifteen museum directors from around the April 25—May 30 world to come together for a sustained Opening April exchange of ideas and expertise. Professional. Closed to 25, 6—8pm public audience. Forever & Today, Inc at Project Westbeth Center for the Arts Private street entrance /Northwest corner of Bank and Washington Streets (West Village).

22 CALENDAR (CHRONOLOGICAL)

Pierre Huyghe, +/- Setting as Spatial castillo/corrales April 1—May 11 Strategy presents The Issues Opening April 1, 6—8pm April 4, 1—6pm of Our Time The Artist’s Institute CUNY Graduate Center April 14—21 A project of Hunter College. With Géraldine Gourbe, Ilya and Artists Space Curated by Jenny Jaskey and Emilia Kabakov, Patricia Mainardi, Florence Ostende. Nathalie Hope O’Donnell, Arseniy Books and Talks Free entrance. Zhilyaev, the Technical Assistant (The Including Thomas Boutoux, Egija Inzule, Museum of American Art, Berlin)... Joachim Hamou, Mélanie Metranga, Organized by Katherine Carl and Morag Keil, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Janette Laverrière, Florence Ostende in dialogue with the and Benjamin Thorel. symposium "Exhibit A: Authorship of Free entrance. Bibliothèque Tournante Display " on April 7. April 2—24 Free entrance. Opening April 2, 6—8pm Global Museum TWAAS Marc-Camille Leaders Professional Colloquium Free entrance. Chaimowicz, Gustave April 5—May 10 April 7—18 A Story of Two Museums: Opening April 5, 6—8pm The Metropolitan An Ethnographic Andrew Kreps Gallery Museum of Art The Global Museum Leaders Colloquium Exhibition—The is an invitational program hosted by the Museum of American Readings from the Office of the Director at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It provides a unique Art (Berlin) and The library of Janette opportunity for fifteen museum Museum of Jurassic Laverrière directors from around the world to come together for a sustained exchange of Technology (L.A.) April 9 & 15, 7pm ideas and expertise. April 3—June 7 TWAAS Professional. Closed to public audience. Opening April 4, 6—8pm Hosted by Silberkuppe and guests. James Gallery—CUNY Free entrance. Graduate Center Dominique Gonzalez- Janette Laverrière: Curated by Walter Benjamin, Foerster, Euqinimod Katherine Carl and Florence Ostende. Art, Design and Free entrance. & Costumes Social Movement April 17—May 31 April 10, 6:30pm Opening April 17, 6—8pm The Issues of Our Time Columbia Maison April 4—27 303 Gallery Artists Space Française Books and Talks Co-sponsored by the School of the Arts and Columbia Maison Française. With François Morellet, Free entrance. Dominic Eichler, Ana Janevski, Fionn Preliminaries Meade, Michel Ziegler, and guests. Free entrance. RSVP required. April 17—May 31 maisonfrancaise.org Opening April 17, 6—8pm Josée Bienvenu Gallery with Hervé Bize Gallery

23 CALENDAR (CHRONOLOGICAL)

Franz Erhard Walther: Glass Bead Public The Encyclopedic Plandrawings Interviews Museum of the April 18, 7pm April 22 & 25, 7—9pm 21st Century The Drawing Center e-flux April 23, 5:30pm With Franz Erhard Walther and With Reza Negarestani and Guerino French Embassy Florence Ostende. Mazzola, in collaborationwith e-flux. In With Thomas P. Campbell (Director, The Free entrance. RSVP required: parallel with the program at MoMA PS1, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Michael www.drawingcenter.org Glass Bead presents a series of public Govan (Director, LACMA) and Jean-Luc interviews with Reza Negarestani and Martinez (Director, Musée du Louvre). Guerino Mazzola. Moderated by András Szántó, writer, Free entrance. These Things Called researcher, and advisor to cultural and Exhibitions philanthropic organizations. Free entrance. RSVP required: April 19, 1—7pm Alternative Models: [email protected] New Museum Art Institutions with Organized by Florence Ostende and Collections PAF Lectures: Johanna Burton with Alicia Ritson. April 23, 12pm Admission: $10 General/$8 Members. On Form and Object RSVP required: www.newmuseum.org Judd Foundation (A Treatise of Things) Conversation between Martin Bethenod by Tristan Garcia Philosopher (Director, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Fondation François Pinault) April 24—26, 10am—1pm Tristan Garcia and Yasmil Raymond (Curator, DIA Art Foundation). MoMA PS1 April 20, 6pm Free entrance. RSVP required: French philosopher Tristan Garcia The Artist’s Institute [email protected] will perform three, three-hour-long Free access for all visitors to view the lectures inspired by PAF’s Spring Free entrance. RSVP required: installed floors after the program. Meetings seminars. The lectures will be www.theartistinstitute.org introduced by American choreographer and PAF Ambassador Annie Dorsen. Protocols of Free entrance. RSVP required: Glass Bead Radio Participation: Recent [email protected] Workshops, Council Models of Socially Rehearsals & Engaged Art in the Live Public Broadcast: Open School East Art Criticism on the April 21—26 U.S. and Europe Radio—La Dispute in MoMA (AV Recording April 23, 5:30pm NYC/France Culture Studios)/MoMA PS1 Institute of Fine Arts— April 24, 10am Professional. Closed to public New York University French Embassy audience. With Laura Raicovich and Nato Thompson With Arnaud Laporte, (Creative Time); Xavier Douroux and Sandrine Treiner and guests. Thérèse Legierse (New Protocol). April 23 (not opened to public) Moderated by Thomas Crow (Institute of April 24 (public broadcast) Fine Arts-New York University) and Free entrance. RSVP required: Alexander Nagel (Institute of Fine Arts- [email protected] New York University). Free entrance. RSVP required: [email protected]

24 CALENDAR (CHRONOLOGICAL)

Satellite Museums Mark Geffriaud Curator April 24, 1pm April 25—May 30 Vincent Normand Solomon R. Guggenheim Opening April 25, 6—8pm April 28, 7pm Museum (Peter B. Lewis Forever & Today, Inc The Artist’s Institute Theater) at Project Westbeth Free entrance. RSVP required: www.theartistinstitute.org With Richard Armstrong (Director, Center for the Arts Guggenheim Museum), Jean-Luc Martinez (Director, Le Louvre) and Alain Seban (Chairman, Director and The New Existentialism C amille Henrot, CEO, Centre Pompidou). Moderated by Sophie Claudel (Cultural Attaché, April 26, 3—5pm The Restless Earth French Embassy). The Kitchen May 5—June 29 Free entrance. Limited seating. With Emily Apter, Patricia Falguières, RSVP requested: New Museum Tristan Garcia, John Kelsey, Patrice [email protected] Maniglier, and Tim Griffin. Free entrance. RSVP required: Screening: “A Way in C ollecting and www.thekitchen.org Untilled” (2012) by Displaying Modern Art Pierre Huyghe with in the 21st Century Composing Differences films by Jean Painlevé April 24, 6pm April 27, 12—6pm May 6, 7pm MoMA (Titus 2 Theater) MoMA PS1 (VW Dome) Anthology Film Archives With Glenn D. Lowry (Director, The With Glass Bead, PAF, Council and Open Free entrance. RSVP required: Museum of Modern Art) and Alain School East, Guillaume Fayard, Noé www.anthologyfilmarchives.org Seban (Director, Centre Pompidou) Soulier, Jeffrey Mansfield and more. Moderated by Peter Reed (Senior Free entrance with Museum admission Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, ($12/$10 online). The Museum of Modern Art). Laure Prouvost: Free entrance. For Forgetting C ivic Society and New Through April 13 Performance: Patronage The New Museum’s Laure Prouvost, April 28, 11am—3pm Lobby Gallery From the Sky CCS, Bard College April 24—25, 8pm With Xavier Douroux, Thérèse Legierse Methodological and Jérôme Poggi (New Protocol) and Danspace Project artists Sven Augustijnen and Camille Approaches Toward $10 suggested donation. Henrot. Curated by Tom Eccles (CCS Bard Collection-based RSVP encouraged: College) and Fionn Meade (Bard College [email protected] and Columbia University) . Initiatives or (212) 674 8112 Free entrance. RSVP required. Ongoing since Open to students, professors from all universities and all general audience. November 2013 Pierre Soulages www.bard.edu/ccs The Whitney Museum/ April 25—June 27 Le Consortium Opening April 24, 6—8pm With the participation of Adam Weinberg (Director, Whitney Museum), Dominique Lévy Gallery The Whitney’s curators, with Xavier with Galerie Perrotin Douroux and Franck Gautherot (Directors, Le Consortium).

25 EXHIBITIONS

Pierre Huyghe +/- The Issues of Our Time Pierre Soulages April 1—May 11 April 4—27 April 25—June 27 Opening April 1, 6—8pm Artists Space Opening April 24, 6—8pm The Artist’s Institute Books and Talks Dominique Lévy Gallery A project of Hunter College. Free entrance. with Galerie Perrotin Curated by Jenny Jaskey and Florence Ostende. Free entrance. Marc-Camille Camille Henrot, Chaimowicz, Gustave The Restless Earth Janette Laverrière, April 5—May 10 May 5—June 29 Bibliothèque Tournante Opening April 5, 6—8pm New Museum April 2—24 Andrew Kreps Gallery Opening April 2, 6—8pm Laure Prouvost: TWAAS Dominique Gonzalez- For Forgetting Free entrance. Foerster, Euqinimod Through April 13 & Costumes The New Museum's A Story of Two April 17—May 31 Lobby Gallery Museums: Opening April 17, 6—8pm An Ethnographic 303 Gallery Exhibition—The Museum of American François Morellet, Art (Berlin) and The Preliminaries Museum of Jurassic April 17—May 31 Technology (L.A.) Opening April 17, 6—8pm April 3—June 7 Josée Bienvenu Gallery Opening April 4, 6—8pm with Galerie Hervé Bize James Gallery—CUNY Graduate Center Mark Geffriaud With The Museum of American Art, April 25—May 30 Berlin and The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles. Opening April 25, 6—8pm Curated by Walter Benjamin, Forever & Today, Inc Katherine Carl and Florence Ostende. Free entrance. at Project Westbeth Center for the Arts

26 EVENTS castillo/corrales Performance: presents Laure Prouvost, “The Issues of Our From the Sky Time” April 24—25, 8pm April 14—21 Danspace Project Artists Space $10 suggested donation. RSVP encouraged: Books and Talks [email protected] Including Thomas Boutoux, Joachim or (212) 674 8112 Hamou, Mélanie Metranga, Morag Keil, and Benjamin Thorel. Free entrance. Screening: “A Way in Untilled” (2012) by PAF Lectures: On Pierre Huyghe with Form and Object films by Jean Painlevé (A Treatise of Things) May 6, 7pm by Tristan Garcia Anthology Film Archives April 24—26, 10am—1pm Free entrance. RSVP required: MoMA PS1 www.anthologyfilmarchives.org French philosopher Tristan Garcia will perform three, three-hour-long lectures inspired by PAF’s Spring Meetings seminars. The lectures will be introduced by American choreographer and PAF Ambassador Annie Dorsen. Free entrance. RSVP required: [email protected]

Live Public Broadcast: Art Criticism on the Radio—La Dispute in NYC/France Culture April 24, 10am French Embassy With Arnaud Laporte, Sandrine Treiner and guests. April 23 (not opened to public) April 24 (public broadcast) Free entrance. RSVP required: [email protected]

27 TALKS/SYMPOSIUMS

Setting as Spatial These Things Called Protocols of Strategy Exhibitions Participation: Recent April 4, 1—6pm April 19, 1—7pm Models of Socially The Graduate Center— New Museum Engaged Art in the CUNY Organized by Florence Ostende and U.S. and Europe Johanna Burton with Alicia Ritson. Speakers Géraldine Gourbe, Ilya Admission: $10 General/$8 Members. April 23, 5:30pm and Emilia Kabakov, Nathalie Hope RSVP required: www.newmuseum.org O’Donnell, Arseniy Zhilyaev. Organized Institute of Fine Arts— by Katherine Carl and Florence Ostende. New York University Philosopher With Laura Raicovich and Nato Thompson (Creative Time); Xavier Douroux and Readings from the Tristan Garcia Thérèse Legierse (New Protocol). library of Janette April 20, 6pm Moderated by Thomas Crow (Institute of Fine Arts-New York University) and Laverrière The Artist’s Institute Alexander Nagel (Institute of Fine Arts- April 9 & 15, 7pm Free entrance. RSVP required: New York University). www.theartistinstitute.org Free entrance. RSVP required: TWAAS [email protected] Hosted by Silberkuppe and guests. Free entrance. Glass Bead Public The Encyclopedic Interviews Museum of the Janette Laverrière: April 22 & 25, 7—9pm 21st Century Art, Design and e-flux April 23, 5:30pm Social Movement With Reza Negarestani and Guerino Mazzola, in collaborationwith e-flux. In French Embassy

April 10, 6:30pm parallel with the program at MoMA PS1, With Thomas P. Campbell (Director, The Columbia Maison Glass Bead presents a series of public Metropolitan Museum of Art), Michael interviews with Reza Negarestani and Govan (Director, LACMA) and Jean-Luc Française Guerino Mazzola. Martinez (Director, Musée du Louvre). Co-sponsored by the School of the Arts Free entrance. Moderated by András Szántó, writer, and Columbia Maison Française. With researcher, and advisor to cultural and Dominic Eichler, Ana Janevski, Fionn philanthropic organizations. Meade, Michel Ziegler, and guests. Alternative Models: Free entrance. RSVP required: Free entrance. RSVP required. [email protected] maisonfrancaise.org Art Institutions with Collections April 23, 12pm Satellite Museums Franz Erhard Walther: Judd Foundation April 24, 1pm Solomon R. Guggenheim Plandrawings Conversation between Martin Bethenod April 18, 7pm (Director, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Museum (Peter B. Lewis Dogana, Fondation François Pinault) Theater) The Drawing Center and Yasmil Raymond (Curator, DIA Art Foundation). With Richard Armstrong (Director, With Franz Erhard Walther and Free entrance. RSVP required: Guggenheim Museum), Jean-Luc Florence Ostende. [email protected] Martinez (Director, Le Louvre) and Free entrance. RSVP required: Free access for all visitors to view the Alain Seban (Chairman, Director and www.drawingcenter.org installed floors after the program. CEO, Centre Pompidou). Moderated by Sophie Claudel (Cultural Attaché, French Embassy). Free entrance. Limited seating. RSVP requested: [email protected]

28 WORKSHOPS

Collecting and Methodological C ivic Society and New Displaying Modern Art Approaches Toward Patronage in the 21st Century Collection-based April 28, 11am—3pm April 24, 6pm Initiatives CCS, Bard College MoMA (Titus 2 Theater) Ongoing since With Xavier Douroux, Thérèse Legierse and Jérôme Poggi (New Protocol) and With Glenn D. Lowry (Director, The November 2013 artists Sven Augustijnen and Camille Museum of Modern Art) and Alain Henrot. Curated by Tom Eccles (CCS Bard Seban (Director, Centre Pompidou) The Whitney Museum/ College) and Fionn Meade (Bard College Moderated by Peter Reed (Senior Le Consortium and Columbia University) . Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, With the participation of Adam Free entrance. RSVP required. The Museum of Modern Art). Weinberg (Director, Whitney Museum), Open to students, professors from all Free entrance. The Whitney’s curators, with Xavier universities and all general audience. Douroux and Franck Gautherot www.bard.edu/ccs The New Existentialism (Directors, Le Consortium). April 26, 3—5pm The Kitchen Global Museum With Emily Apter, Patricia Falguières, Leaders Professional Tristan Garcia, John Kelsey, Patrice Colloquium Maniglier, and Tim Griffin. Free entrance. RSVP required: April 7—18 www.thekitchen.org The Metropolitan Museum of Art Composing Differences The Global Museum Leaders Colloquium is an invitational program hosted April 27, 12—6pm by the Office of the Director at the MoMA PS1—VW Dome Metropolitan Museum of Art. It provides a unique opportunity for fifteen With Glass Bead, PAF, Council and Open museum directors from around the School East, Guillaume Fayard, Noé world to come together for a sustained Soulier, Jeffrey Mansfield and more. exchange of ideas and expertise. Free entrance with Museum Professional. Closed to admission ($12/$10 online). public audience.

C urator Glass Bead Radio Vincent Normand Workshops, Council April 28, 7pm Rehearsals & The Artist’s Institute Open School East Free entrance. RSVP required: April 21—26 www.theartistinstitute.org MoMA—AV Recording Studios/MoMA PS1 Professional. Closed to public audience.

29 PARTNERS & VENUES

Andrew Kreps Gallery Danspace Project Institute of Fine Arts— 537 W 22nd Street #1 Saint Marks Church New York University New York, NY 131 E 10th Street The James B. Duke House Tel. (212) 741-8849 New York, NY 1 E 78th Street www.andrewkreps.com Tel. (212) 674-8112 New York, NY www.danspaceproject.org Tel. (212) 992-5800 Anthology Film Archives www.nyu.edu 32 Second Avenue The Drawing Center New York, NY 35 Wooster Street James Gallery, City Tel. (212) 505-5181 New York, NY University of New York www.anthologyfilmarchives.org Tel. (212) 219-2166 365 Fifth Avenue www.drawingcenter.org Room 5103 The Artist’s Institute New York, NY 163 Eldridge Street e-flux Tel. (212) 817-2005 New York, NY 311 E Broadway www.centerforthehumanities.org Tel. (718) 730-4349 New York, NY www.theartistsinstitute.org www.e-flux.com Josee Bienvenu Gallery with Hervé Bize Gallery Artists Space Books and Talks FACE 29 W 20th Street # 2E 55 Walker Street 972 Fifth Avenue New York, NY New York, NY New York, NY Tel. (212) 206-7990 Tel. (212) 226-3970 www.facecouncil.org www.joseebienvenugallery.com wwwartistsspace.org Fondation de France Judd Foundation castillo/corrales 40 Avenue Hoche 101 Spring Street 80 Rue Julien Lacroix Paris, FR New York, NY Paris, FR Tel. +33 1 45 62 37 89 Tel. (212) 219-2747 Tel. +33 1 83 96 66 43 www.fondationdefrance.org www.juddfoundation.org www.castillocorrales.fr Forever & Today, Inc The Kitchen CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies P.O. Box 305 512 W 19th Street 30 Campus Road New York, NY New York, NY Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Tel. (646) 455-1744 Tel. (212) 255-5793 Tel. (845) 758-6822 www.foreverandtoday.org www.thekitchen.org www.bard.edu France Culture / La dispute Le consortium Centre Pompidou 116 Avenue du Président Kennedy 37 Rue de Longvic Place Georges-Pompidou Paris, FR Dijon, FR Paris, FR Tel. +33 1 56 40 22 22 Tel. +33 3 80 68 45 55 Tel. +33 1 44 78 12 33 www.franceculture.fr/ www.leconsortium.fr www.centrepompidou.fr emission-la-dispute Les presses du réel Columbia University French Embassy, Cultural Services 35 Rue Colson School of the Arts 972 Fifth Avenue Dijon, FR 2960 Broadway New York, NY Tel. +33 3 80 30 75 23 New York, NY Tel. (212) 439-1407 www.lespressesdureel.com Tel. (212) 854-1754 www.frenchculture.org www.arts.columbia.edu Dominique Lévy Gallery The Graduate Center, City with Galerie Perrotin Columbia Maison Française University of New York 909 Madison Avenue 515 W 116th Street, MC 4990 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY New York, NY New York, NY Tel. (212) 772-2004 Tel. (212) 854-4482 Tel. (212) 817-7000 www.dominique-levy.com maisonfrancaise.org www.gc.cuny.edu Metropolitan Museum of Art Institut français 1000 Fifth Avenue 8-14 rue du Capitaine Scott New York, NY Paris, FR Tel. (212) 535-7710 www.institutfrancais.com www.metmuseum.org

30 Ministère de la Culture et Silberkuppe de la Communication Keithstrasse 12 Direction générale de la Berlin, DE french embassy création artistique Tel. +49 30 374 431 35 in the united states Bureau de l'Action européenne www.silberkuppe.org Higher Education, et internationale Arts, French Language 62 Rue Beaubourg Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Paris, FR 1071 Fifth Avenue www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr New York, NY Tel. (212) 423-3500 MoMA www.guggenheim.org 11 W 53rd Street New York, NY 303 Gallery Tel. (212) 708-9400 507 W 24th Street www.moma.org New York, NY Tel. (212) 255-1121 MoMA PS1 www.303gallery.com 22-25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City, NY TWAAS Tel. (718) 784-2084 114 Greene Street, Floor 2 www.momaps1.org New York, NY Tel (212) 941-9449 Musée du Louvre www.twaas.com Paris, FR Tel. +33 1 40 20 50 50 Whitney Museum of American Art www.louvre.fr 945 Madison Avenue New York, NY The Museum of American Art, Berlin Tel. (212) 570-3600 www.museum-of-american-art.org www.whitney.org

The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles SPECIAL THANKS 9341 Venice Blvd Culver City, CA We would like to thank all of the Tel. (310) 836-6131 Directors and Curators working in www.mjt.org New York and Paris, who helped us make this happen, especially the Heads of the The Museum of Modern Art Areas of Investigation who accepted to Recording Studios work in this unusual way, as well as our 11 West 53rd Street financial sponsors.

New York, NY Special thanks to Michael Amzalag, Mathias Augustiniak, Thomas Petit, The New Museum Arts Department and Communication 235 Bowery Department at the Institut français New York, NY in Paris, Alain Bernard, The Board of Tel. (212) 219-1222 FACE, Frédéric Bonnemaison, Irene www.newmuseum.org Bony, Nicolas Bos, Émilie Cabouat, Emily Katz, Judith Walker, Kimberly Palazzo Grassi Corliss, Jonathan Bayol, Casey Campo San Samuele, 3231 McNamara, Thomas Delamarre, Venezia, IT Florence Derieux, Xavier Douroux, Tel. +39 041 523 1680 Russell Ferguson, Elisabeth Hayes, www.palazzograssi.it François Hers, Judy Hussie-Taylor, The International Affairs team at Punta Della Dogana Ministry of Culture in Paris, Louise Dorsoduro, 2 Lassarre, les presses du réel team, Venezia, IT Brett Littman, Adrien Meyer, Thomas Tel +39 041 271 9031 Michelon, Catia Riccaboni, Olivier www.palazzograssi.it ‎ Souchard, Rebecca Taylor, Philippe Vergne, and Alun Williams.

31 ART2 An International Platform April 1—28, 2014 Frenchculture.org/ART2 on Contemporary Art New York #ART2

THE EXHIBITION MACHINE (A History of Exhibitions by Artists) With Walter Benjamin Johanna Burton Katherine Carl Tristan Garcia Géraldine Gourbe Pierre Huyghe Jenny Jaskey Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Patricia Mainardi The Museum of American Art, Berlin The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles Vincent Normand Nathalie Hope O’Donnell Florence Ostende Alicia Ritson Franz Erhard Walther Arseniy Zhilyaev and The Artist’s Institute Anthology Film Archives The Drawing Center The Graduate Center—City University of New York James Gallery—CUNY Graduate Center New Museum

ART & VALUE With Thomas Boutoux Dominic Eichler Joachim Hamou Egija Inzule Ana Janevski Morag Keil Janette Laverrière Fionn Meade Mélanie Metranga Laure Prouvost Lili Reynaud-Dewar Benjamin Thorel Michel Ziegler and Artists Space Books and Talks castillo/corrales Columbia Maison Française Columbia University School of the Arts Danspace Project Silberkuppe TWAAS (Thea Westreich Art Advisory)

MUSEUMS TODAY With Richard Armstrong Martin Bethenod Thomas P. Campbell Sophie Claudel Xavier Douroux Franck Gautherot Michael Govan Glenn D. Lowry Jean-Luc Martinez Yasmil Raymond Peter Reed Alain Seban András Szántó Adam Weinberg and Centre Pompidou Le Consortium Cultural Services of the French Embassy Dia Art Foundation Judd Foundation LACMA Metropolitan Museum of Art MoMA Musée du Louvre Punta della Dogana–Palazzo Grassi–Fondation Pinault Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Whitney Museum of American Art

ART & SOCIETY With Sven Augustijnen Thomas Crow Xavier Douroux Tom Eccles Camille Henrot Thérèse Legierse Fionn Meade Alexander Nagel Jérôme Poggi Laura Raicovich Nato Thompson and Creative Time ccS Bard College Fondation de France Institute of Fine Arts- New York University New Protocol

COMPOSING DIFFERENCES (The Political Stakes of Knowledge) Program conceived by Council Glass Bead Open School East PAF with Virginie Bobin Grégory Castéra Annie Dorsen Guillaume Fayard Tristan Garcia Fabien Giraud Jonathan Hoskins Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau Jeffrey Mansfield Guerino Mazzola Reza Negarestani Ida Soulard Noé Soulier Sandra Terdjman and MoMA PS1 (Conference Room, The VW Dome and The Print Shop) The Museum of Modern Art (Recording Studios) e-flux

THE NEW EXISTENTIALISM (Art Theory) With Emily Apter Patricia Falguières Tristan Garcia Tim Griffin John Kelsey Patrice Maniglier and The Kitchen

ART CRITICISM ON THE RADIO With Arnaud Laporte Sandrine Treiner American Critics and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy La Dispute/France Culture

SATELLITE EVENTS With Marc-Camille Chaimowicz Mark Geffriaud Global Museum Leaders Professional Colloquium Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Camille Henrot François Morellet Laure Prouvost Pierre Soulages and Josée Bienvenu Gallery with Galerie Hervé Bize Forever & Today, Inc/Project Westbeth Center for the Arts Andrew Kreps Gallery Dominique Lévy Gallery with Galerie Perrotin The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Museum 303 Gallery

PUBLICATIONS (les presses du réel—New York Series) With Virginie Bobin Sophie Claudel Xavier Douroux Franck Gautherot Tim Griffin Fionn Meade Olivier Mosset Florence Ostende catherine Perret Noémie Solomon and les presses du réel

ART2 is presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in collaboration with the New York presenters Institut français FACE and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication 32 This initiative is generously supported by Air France the Florence Gould Foundation Fondation de France Pommery and Van Cleef & Arpels ART2 identity by M/M (Paris)