Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
telephone: 312.322.1700

“The New Authentics” are 21st-century American Jews. Free to choose their affiliations, they are Jewish culturally, religiously, spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, partially, biologically, or invisibly. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, curated by Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, explores contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States. Engaged in the global art community, these artists insert traces of, consciously draw from, or directly address their experiences as Jews, and they are brought together here for the first time in a Jewish context. Their work demonstrates how today, associations with Jewish culture intermingle with issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, politics, history, and nationality, posing questions, challenging boundaries, and defying easy definition.

Check out a review in Time Out at:
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/art-design/24624/art-stars-of-david#articleAfterMpu

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Kristen Schiele has new work with Eric of Bipolart at the Fountain Art Fair in Miami

http://www.bipolart.cc/
http://fountainexhibit.com/blog/

Shane McAdams from the gallery wrote this review of her work
for the Brooklyn Rail:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/6/artseen/kristen-schiele-gothicolor

http://www.kschiele.com/

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Michael Bilsborough’s new project is THE ETERNALLY OBVIOUS, a 10x20-foot MURAL commissioned and designed for SCOPE MIAMI!

The mural welcomes you to the fair, enriching the entrance, FREE to see!

The Eternally Obvious is an architectural and allegorical intervention of sex and commodity, a spectacle spanning five oversized wood panels. The site-atlantic project ushers fairweather fairgoers along a titanic tableaux in which Art and Man mingle in mysterious misadventure and sequential scandal.

SCOPE Miami is at:
Roberto Clemente Park
101 NW 34th St
Wynwood Art District, Miami

MICHAEL Bilsborough is at:
Nearest Open Bottle
1:01 AM 86'd Ok
Almost Anywhere, Miami

Come find us if you're there!

www.digmichael.com

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Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century
Lead sponsor BNP Paribas

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century is the first exhibition in the Unmonumental cycle, and explores the reinvention of sculptural assemblage. Using found, fragmented, and discarded materials, the works of the artists on view make a case for modesty, informality, and improvisation.

The exhibition includes more than one hundred objects by thirty artists who represent a wide range of backgrounds and artistic strategies.

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century is organized by the New Museum’s curatorial team of Richard Flood, Chief Curator; Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator; and Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222

Participating artists are:

Alexandra Bircken
John Bock
Carol Bove
Martin Boyce
Tobias Buche
Carlos Bunga
Tom Burr
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Aaron Curry
Sam Durant
Urs Fischer
Claire Fontaine
Isa Genzken
Rachel Harrison
Elliott Hundley
Gabriel Kuri
Jim Lambie
Nate Lowman
Sarah Lucas
Matthew Monahan
Kristen Morgin
Manfred Pernice
Anselm Reyle
Marc André Robinson
Eva Rothschild
Lara Schnitger
Gedi Sibony
Shinique Smith
Nobuko Tsuchiya
Rebecca Warren

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century is organized by the New Museums curatorial team of Richard Flood, Chief Curator; Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator; and Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century is accompanied by a 264-page catalogue co-published by the New Museum and Phaidon. It includes essays by Richard Flood, Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, and Trevor Smith, an independent curator, as well as illustrated sections on each of the thirty artists in the exhibition. The book also includes a chronology of unmonumental moments in the 21st century, organized by Benjamin Godsill, New Museum Curatorial Associate, and artists’ biographies by Sara Reisman, Program Director at the International Studio and Curatorial Program. The volume also includes a glossary of sculptural terms by Eva Diaz, former Joanne Leonhard Cassullo Curatorial Fellow.

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I march in the parade of liberty, but as long as I love you I'm not free

Generously supported by The Greenwall Foundation

New York-based artist Sharon Hayes works in performance, video, and installation, creating situations that expose dramatic frictions between collective activities and personal actions. With interventions that are inspired by the language of politics and the dramaturgy of theater, Hayes has staged protests, delivered speeches, and organized demonstrations in which crowds and individuals are invited to rethink their roles in the construction of public opinion. Hayes will create a site-specific performance piece for the New Museum, which will have both a live component and a recorded element that will be broadcast in an unusual interstitial space located between galleries. Continuing the artist’s interrogation of the infinitesimal distance that separates the public from the private, this new work will be a reflection on the difference between speaking and listening—a kind of confession combining the idiom of politics, the transmission of secrets, and the language of love.

Performance Schedule

Saturday, December 1, 2007, 12-2 PM, 5-7 PM, 10 PM-12 AM
Sunday, December 2, 2007, 12-2 PM, 4-6 PM
Saturday, December 8, 2007, 12-2 PM
Saturday, December 16, 2007, 12-2 PM
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 12-2 PM

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222

I march in the parade of liberty, but as long as I love you I'm not free is organized by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions.

Banner image:
Sharon Hayes
In the Near Future, New York (detail), 2005
Slide installation
Courtesy the artist

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