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 “Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors,” 2014. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Benoit Pailley One-Day Exhibition of New Sculptures Made On-Site by Paweł Althamer & Collaborators
Since the opening of Paweł Althamer’s “The Neighbors” in February, Althamer has worked in partnership with a range of artists, friends, and collaborators to create sixteen new sculptures. During this period, Althamer also ran sculpture and film workshops with neighbors and a group from the Bowery Mission. Together, they will present a one-day exhibition of the new works on Thursday April 17, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., in the New Museum’s storefront space at 231 Bowery. In addition, a number of artworks by Althamer’s collaborator, Malian master sculptor Youssouf Dara, will also be on view. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Second and Fourth Floor exhibits will remain on view through April 20, 2014.
 “Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors,” 2014. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner ALSO COMING UP: Visitors Can Take Home a Piece of Draftsmen’s Congress from April 23–27
Draftsmen’s Congress—the collective painting project that has been evolving on the Fourth Floor—will come to a close on Sunday April 20. Over the course of the past ten weeks, the blank white space of the New Museum’s Fourth Floor gallery has been transformed through the gradual accumulation of drawings and paintings by thousands of Museum visitors and ninety invited community organizations, including school and adult education groups, hobbyists, political activists, and many other formal and informal organizations. From Wednesday April 23 through Sunday April 27, Draftsmen’s Congress will be disassembled during the Museum’s public hours: the painted walls will be cut up and distributed to visitors for free.
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 Scenes from Pawel Althamer’s exhibition at the New Museum. Photos by Tim Schreier. Beginning today, the New Museum is featuring the first large scale U.S. exhibition of Polish artist Pawel Althamer. We attended the press preview yesterday, along with Tim Schreier, who brought back the photos you see here.
Earlier this week, the New Museum hosted its annual press breakfast to announce next year’s exhibition schedule and unveil several new initiatives.
Bass beats boomed from the New Museum lobby last night as a DJ spun and the space was transformed into a sexy, spooky Halloween soirée.
Chris Burden: Extreme Measures, a survey of the iconic American performance artist and sculptor, opened today at the New Museum.
The Hester Street Fair is teaming up with the New Museum to operate a cafe.
Fans of Mad Men take note: The New Museum announced this afternoon that series creator Matthew Weiner will be the featured guest at the Stuart Regan Visionary Series, a program that honors leading international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design, and other creative fields.
This past weekend, the New Museum hosted its annual “Block Party” in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, where a DJ, performers as well as interactive art workshops entertained both children and adults in an fun-filled day under the blazing sun.
Looking for something to to do in the neighborhood tomorrow? How about the New Museum Block Party in Sara D. Roosevelt Park?
It’s Gay Pride Week and Tim Miller, internationally acclaimed solo performer extraordinaire, is ready for his LES close-up.
 Courtesy New Museum, New York An artist paints in the lobby of the New Museum. Not unusual — except that this artist is Karen Finley and she is secretly engaging in “sexting” with willing participants who are sequestered in a secretive basement closet-like room, where they have been given permission to “sext” her.
A fan of Finley’s, I was intrigued by the idea and decided to participate as a “sexter.” As part of the museum’s NEA 4 in Residence project, Finley’s “Sext Me if You Can” performance and installation promised to be an “erotic exchange with the artist—bound by rules of commerce” resulting in a lasting and collectible work of art. Meaning, my “sext” would become the inspiration for a one-of-a kind, limited edition Karen Finley painting.
 Sext Me If You Can Photo by Travis Chamberlain. Courtesy Karen Finley Karen Finley will ever be remembered for being one of the NEA 4—the infamous group of four solo performance artists caught up in the “culture wars” of the 90s, who came under attack by the US government for their “frank treatment of themes of gender, sexuality, subjugation, and personal trauma.”
Her work? It is, beautifully, all of that and more. Her highly political and emotionally charged performances – she often smears her nude body with food to symbolize the oppression of women, have long provoked controversy and debate. A performance in which she covers herself with chocolate became fodder for the conservatives who labeled her the “Chocolate-Smeared Woman” and called her work “filth.” (Naturally she then turned this into a performance).
 IDEAS CITY FESTIVAL Courtesy of New Museum, New York. Photo: Clint Spaulding If you think ideas are a dime a dozen, then you need to check out IDEAS CITY FESTIVAL, the second installment of the New Museum’s biennial festival that “explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work, and play.”
No small ideas here. But I wouldn’t expect anything less from the creative team at the New Museum whose dedication to new art and new ideas is unprecedented. The New Museum founded IDEAS CITY in 2011 as a way for hundreds of arts, education, and civic organizations to begin ongoing global discussions on the future of cities. This year’s overarching theme, Untapped Capital, focuses on resources that are under-recognized or underutilized in our cities.
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