Events
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Masks are optional in most cases.
Upcoming Featured Events:
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Feb
10
In Conversation: María Martínez-Cañas with Susanna Temkin
Time: 5:30pm—6:30pmAs part of the Spring 2023 Open Classroom project at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Cuban-born conceptual artist María Martínez-Cañas and El Museo del Barrio curator Susanna V. Temkin will join Assistant Professor of Art History Hilary W. Sánchez for a wide-ranging discussion covering artistic process, photography’s unique relationship to reality and memory, and Latinx and Latin American art history.
During the conversation, learn more about Martínez-Cañas’ unique style of deftly combining recognizable subject matter to create multi-layered compositions that play with perception and memory as seen in the artist’s 1988 photograph, Isla de Ventanas (Island of Windows), on view at the NEU from February 8 - May 28, 2023.
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Feb
15
Alix Pearlstein ’88 in “Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment”
Time: 12:00pm—5:00pmAlix Pearlstein’s Inventory blurs the lines between then and now, self and other, live and recorded by using improvisational exercises to examine a personal archive of objects from previous artworks — props, structures, gestures — with a group of student actors.
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Mar
8
Nao Bustamante in “Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment”
Time: 12:00pm—5:00pmPerformance artist Nao Bustamante and a group of student actors present a series of theatrical set pieces organized around the history of optics and tools used in gynecology and how these have interacted with, and informed conceptions of, femininity and womanliness.
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Mar
8
Wellness Wednesday
Time: 1:00pm—2:00pmRenew your mind, body, and spirit.
Join us for a guided meditation in the galleries with meditation and yoga instructor Janelle Berger.
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Mar
29
Amber Hawk Swanson in “Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment”
Time: 12:00pm—5:00pmCo-creators Davecat, his partner Sidore Kuroneko, a life-size silicone doll, and Amber Hawk Swanson will film episodes of the multi-faceted cooking and talk show, The Harmony Show, for several hours each day.
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Apr
5
Emily Coates in “Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment”
Time: 12:00pm—5:00pmIn an exploration of the history of cosmic dances and their attempts to reckon the heavens in human scale through movement, Emily Coates interweaves a multi-channel video installation with a dance piece featuring original choreography, music, and cameos by Purchase College science faculty.
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Apr
12
Autumn Knight in “Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment”
Time: 12:00pm—5:00pmFeaturing performers from the college community, Autumn Knight’s sculptural installation and dialogue-based performance work Complain/Disappoint explores affective labor, vulnerability, and the expectations placed on workers who we ask to shoulder others’ burdens while ignoring that they have their own.