PVOL. 10 APESPRINGR / SUMMER 2011 ANNOUNCEMENTS VOL. 10 SPRING / SUMMER 2011 FESTIVAL OF IDEAS FOR THE NEW CITY | MAY 4-8 2011 PAPER DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN TO BECOME A DYNAMIC LABORATORY FOR CREATIVE THINKING AND ACTION The Festival of Ideas for the New City is a major new An innovative, minimal-waste, outdoor StreetFest will The New Museum will present Cronocaos at 231 Bowery, 02 06-07 11 14 18 collaborative initiative involving scores of Downtown take place along the Bowery. More than seventy-five an exhibition by Rem Koolhaas and the Office for DIRECTOR’S LETTER CURRENT EXHIBITION UPCOMING EXHIBITION RHIZOME MEMBERSHIP organizations, from large universities to arts institutions local grassroots organizations, small businesses, and Metropolitan Architecture focusing on 26 projects as one LYNDA BENGLIS APICHATPONG LIMITED EDITIONS and community groups, working together to affect change. non-profits will present model products and practices in cohesive body of work concerned with time and history, WEERASETHAKUL: PRIMITIVE The Festival is a first for New York and will harness the a unique outdoor environment. The Festival will premiere destruction and preservation—and the simultaneity of power of the City’s remarkable creative community to a new environmentally and economically inspired tent these in “destroying any sense of a linear evolution of imagine the future and explore the ideas and innovations design commission for the Festival, as well as outdoor time.” Presented at the 2010 Venice Biennale, Cronocaos 03 08-09 12 15 19 destined to shape that future. It will take place from May living rooms and inflatable structures. Visitors can expect is a New Museum exhibition for the Festival of Ideas for ANNOUNCEMENTS CURRENT EXHIBITION UPCOMING EXHIBITION NEW MUSEUM STORE THANK YOU! 4-8, 2011, in locations around Downtown Manhattan cooking demonstrations with urban farmers, rooftop the New City. MUSEUM AS HUB OSTALGIA BIRDBATH CAFE in a geographical area spanning East to West below gardening classes, oral history projects, bike tours and 14th Street—and will serve as a platform for artists, valets, and a variety of affordable and healthy locally The Festival of Ideas for the New City was initially writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, grown, sustainable food options. The StreetFest will take conceived by the New Museum over three years ago and planners, and thought leaders in various disciplines to place on Saturday, May 7. is informed by the Institution’s longstanding history in 04-05 10 13 16-17 exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to and continued dedication to public education and civic CURRENT EXHIBITION UPCOMING EXHIBITION PUBLIC PROGRAMS SPECIAL EVENTS participate in the experiment. Over eighty independent projects, exhibitions, and outreach. The concept quickly attracted a core group GEORGE CONDO: GUSTAV METZGER: performances, which expand on the Festival’s themes, of ten Downtown organizing partners. The organizing MENTAL STATES HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS The Festival of Ideas for the New City is organized around will open at multiple Festival Partner venues Downtown, institutions of the Festival are unified in their belief in the three central programs: activating a broad geographical area, and including a central importance of creative capital; to the quality of solar powered mobile art studio; artist commissioned life and progress in New York and any future city; as well The New Museum is located General Admission: $12 Wednesday: 11 AM–6 PM Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N tel. 212.219.1222 A three-day slate of symposia, lectures, and workshops roll-down, metal storefront gates; projections of poems as the power of partnerships to make a difference and at 235 Bowery Seniors: $10 Thursday: 11 AM–9 PM or R to Prince Street. fax 212.431.5328 with visionaries and leaders—including exemplary in endangered languages on Lower East Side buildings; influence public awareness. Students: $8 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery newmuseum.org mayors from a variety of countries, forecasters, a prototype of an urban campground; a marathon (at Prince Street between 18 and under: FREE 11 AM–6 PM or M6 to Broadway and Prince. Stanton and Rivington Streets, Members: FREE Monday and Tuesday: CLOSED architects, artists, economists, and technology event where architects will present their ideas about THE ELEVEN ORGANIZING PARTNERS ARE: one and a half blocks south of For more information and experts—will address the four broad Festival themes: reconfiguring public space in a rapid fire format; an The Architectural League NY; Bowery Poetry Club; C-Lab, Houston Street). Target Free Admission for detailed directions, please visit The Heterogeneous City; The Networked City; The exhibit exploring the political, economic and social Columbia University; Center for Architecture; The Cooper Youth sponsored by newmuseum.org/directions. Reconfigured City; and The Sustainable City. These events relevance of preservation and its role in architectural Union; The Drawing Center; New Museum (Founding Free Thursday evenings will take place Thursday-Saturday, May 5-7, 2011, at the thinking; and a wide-range of other activities exploring Partner); New York University Wagner School; PARC from 7–9 PM theaters of The Cooper Union, New York University, and ideas for the future. These events will take place from Foundation; Storefront for Art and Architecture; and the New Museum. Saturday evening, May 7, through Sunday, May 8. Swiss Institute. STAY IN TOUCH! For additional information or to get involved, contact [email protected]. The Festival of Ideas for the New City is made possible by a generous grant from Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of David & Hermine Heller. DIRECTOR’S LETTER Major support is also provided by our lead supporters, Audi of America and The Rockefeller Foundation, and our producing sponsors, Brookfield and Lonti Ebers. Special thanks to our Media Partner New York magazine. Dear Friends, 2011 is off to a great start. Our current exhibitions of the funding for this important project—one that has taken that was the centerpiece of the last Venice architecture work of George Condo and Lynda Benglis have received three years to research, design and launch. Biennale. OMA’s exhibit explores the political, economic NEW LIMITED EDITION STUART REGEN VISIONARIES SERIES unprecedented critical raves and have broken attendance and social relevance of preservation and its role in A new Limited Edition by Josh Smith will be debuted at the New Museum Alice Waters will give the annual Stuart Regen Visionaries Series talk on records! We are so proud to present both survey A record of the New Museum’s legacy and radical history architectural thinking. Spring Gala on April 6. See page 14 for details. Monday, May 23. See page 13 for the complete story. exhibitions—in each case the artist’s first in the United is of great historical importance. It also makes us see States. The New Museum has a long tradition of giving the present differently, and in a different context. As the A dedicated Festival website will be available soon with artists their first exhibitions, no matter what generation present will soon too become part of the past and part a complete program. Check festivalofideasnyc.com they represent. From John Baldessari to Ana Mendieta, of this archive, we continue to look to the future and to at the end of March for details, or email ANNUAL SPRING GALA Paul McCarthy to Carolee Schneeman, David Wojnarowicz artists’ visions of the future. [email protected] to get involved. to William Kentridge, Rivane Neuenschwander to Cildo The annual Spring Gala is our single most important exemplary in its originality and freshness. Performance salute them as intrepid and fiercely independent model Meireles, the New Museum’s mission is to present both This Spring, we launch a second important signature Speaking of vision, don’t miss the New Museum Gala on benefit event of the year, raising over $1,000,000 in critical art and conceptual photography both owe much of citizens of our community. emerging and under recognized artists—including artists program: the Festival of Ideas for the New City— a major April 6th honoring the legendary artistic duo of Gilbert support for the New Museum’s exhibitions and programs. It their current strength and diversity to these brilliantly whose museum surveys are long overdue. In the coming undertaking that is a collaboration between over one and George and the extraordinary collector couple Gael has also become an anticipated event in the contemporary innovative artists who first made waves in 1967. This year’s Gala will be held on Wednesday, April 6, at months, you can look forward to a faster paced exhibition hundred organizations Downtown. The Festival’s main Neeson and Stefan Edlis. We are also incredibly grateful to art world with leading artists, collectors, and dealers 7 World Trade. Not only are we honoring four brilliant program, with the addition of another round of shows, and ambition is to harness creative capital to imagine the Chuck Close for contributing a commissioned portrait and present. This year we will honor the legendary artist duo Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis have assembled one of the members of the art world who have greatly contributed to the introduction of ‘focus’ exhibitions which will feature future city. The Festival brings together universities, to Josh Smith for his unique series of collages to benefit Gilbert and George and the extraordinary philanthropists greatest collections of contemporary art in the world and the ongoing legacy of contemporary art, but we are also a particular work or body of work by an artist. Gustav arts institutions and community groups, and provides the Museum. The generosity of artists is really staggering and collectors Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis. have transformed the cultural landscapes of Chicago and pleased to announce that Chuck Close has agreed to do Metzger’s sculptural installations titled “Historic an important platform for cultural advocacy, learning, and provides a crucial core of support for all that we do.