LMCC News | March 2011
Artist Residencies
Cultural Programs

  • Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed -  “Make History Now”

    A conversation between Greg Sholette, artist, author, activist, co-founder, REPOhistory and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College, New York, and John Kuo Wei Tchen, public historian, dumpster diver, co-founder of the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas and Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Gallatin School, New York University, moderated by Frederick Kaufman, Professor at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Co-presented by Seaport Museum New York.

Around Town

  • Current Workspace artists Shana Moulton and Curver Thoroddsen in group show at Concrete Utopia

    Spork Used As Knife (and other disconcerting events) opens Friday, April 1, 7–10PM and features Workspace artists Shana Moulton and Curver Thoroddsen.

  • The Hammond Museum & Japenese Stroll Garden’s Second Annual Art Competition: Call for Entries

    The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden is currently seeking submissions for its Second Annual Art Competition for 2012. Artists are invited to submit two-dimensional art and three-dimensional works of art, including installation, multi-media, and performance art for the Museum's multiple indoor galleries and outdoor garden.

  • NARS Foundation Emerging Curator Open Call 2011

    The NARS Foundation Emerging Curator Open Call provides emerging curators with the opportunity to present a group show at the NARS Gallery. The program provides burgeoning curators with space and administrative support to present innovative ideas and artworks in a unique gallery surrounded by artist studios. The aim of the program is to encourage new dialogue and to create a platform for young artists and curators to experiment and exchange ideas.

  • Sinking Ship Productions Presents a Workshop Showing of Flatland

    On the last night before the new Millennium, A. Square, an inhabitant of Flatland, is visited by a Sphere from the land of three dimensions. Sphere takes him on a journey to discover the true nature of the universe. But in Flatland, the notion of a third dimension is heresy, and one who preaches such heresy must be silenced...

    The play interweaves an adaptation of Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 satirical and prescient novella with an exploration of contemporary physics theories involving extra dimensions of space.

  • The NARS Foundation presents WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU, a group exhibition of NY-based Asian artists

    The NARS (New York Art Residency & Studio) Foundation is pleased to present WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU, a group exhibition of New York-based Asian artists, featuring a site-specific installation and drawings by Haeri Yoo; paintings by Jana Benitez and Zhang Yu; an oil painting installation by Taku Saito; and a video by Cao Yi. The exhibition is curated by Michelle Loh.

  • Former Swing Space artist Bobby Previte to perform at Merkin Hall

    As part of the Ecstatic Music Festival, former LMCC Swing Space artist Bobby Previte is performing "Terminals, Part 1: Departures" with So Percussion at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 7:30PM. The concert, a special Presentation of New Sounds Live with WNYC's John Schaefer, also includes John Medeski, Zeena Parkins, DJ Olive, and Jen Shyu.

  • Vera List Center Fellowships invite applications: Deadline April 11, 2011

  • Apply for a 6-week summer intensive in Public Art and Architecture through SVA

    SVA has an open call for RECONFIGURING SITE: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture, a 6-week summer intensive. Deadline May 1, 2011.

  • Staten Island Children’s Museum: RFP for Praying Mantis Sculpture

    The Staten Island Children's Museum is seeking to commission an artist to create a permanent outdoor artwork to be located on the East Meadow, in front of building M at 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY.

  • Bedford Gallery’s call for entries for “Outlandish: Contemporary Depictions of Nature”

    Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California has put out a call for entries for "Outlandish: Contemporary Depictions of Nature." The national juried exhibition will look at landscape from all vantage points and all media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and mixed media. From the micro to the macro, artists can explore a tiny speck of a garden to a global view.

  • Former Swing Space artist Miriam Ghani presents new and recent work at the MoMA

    On March 21st at 7PM, former Swing Space artist Miriam Ghani will present "Modern Mondays: An Evening with Mariam Ghani." The Brooklyn-based artist (b. 1978) examines the public and private narratives that construct and contest histories, places, and communities through projects that both deploy and question the strategies and forms of documentary, performance, translation, participation, anthropology, the archive, the network, and the poetic register.

  • Former Workspace artists Kenya (Robinson) and Michael Paul Britto in “Shame the Devil”

    Former Workspace artists Kenya (Robinson) and Michael Paul Britto are presenting work in "Shame the Devil," on view at the Kitchen through April 30, 2011. The exhibition is curated by Petrushka Bazin and showcases art inspired by the genre of comedy in its various manifestations.

  • Swing Space resident Hector Canonge has organized this month’s A-Lab Forum, “FANTASIA”

    Crossing Art Gallery hosts this month's A-Lab Forum, which focuses on notions of the fantastic, the imaginary, and the surreal (re)presented in visual and performative arts. Selected works explore themes around the uncanny as an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being strange or fantastic. Participating artists using various media (painting, sculpture, video, illustration, photography, digital arts, multimedia, installation, mixed media, and performance art.) explore notions of “magical realism,” “phantasmagoria,” and/or the “supernatural” where distortions of the real –human or environmental- are referenced and used.

  • Former Workspace artist Pablo Helguera wins The International Award for Participatory Art

    Former Workspace artist Pablo Helguera wins the first edition of The International Award for Participatory Art

  • Open call for exhibition submissions by CUE

    CUE offers an open call for exhibition submission for a 7-week long exhibition. Deadline March 31, 2011.

  • Current Workspace artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman to perform in “Slow Reveal” at the Tank

    The Tank presents "SLOW REVEAL, or, Negro Twist Ending Where You Are Really A Negro," on Wednesday, April 6th at 7:30PM. The show is a work that functions as the performance of a poem. Current Workspace artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman will perform a poem that is projected over a combination of still images and video on the wall, while two monitors play the action happening on the periphery of the main narrative in the projection. Accompanying this are a string quartet and a fifth performer playing field recordings, pop songs, and speeches from movies. These performers will improvise a score for the story, which, in form and content, will echo the work on display which hovers in the space between photography and cinema while the poem works in the service of a wavering text. The different forms will veer and converge on stage, in the same manner as the workings of the human mind.

  • Previous Workspace resident Kenya (Robinson) featured in “Persephone Magazine”

    An interview of previous Workspace artist Kenya (Robinson) featured in Persephone Magazine on March 10, 2011 by Coco P.

  • Previous Workspace artist Aaron Gilbert’s interview featured in Bomblog

    Previous Workspace artist Aaron Gilbert's interview featured in Bomblog under the Arts Section, on March 9, 2011

  • Instituto Cervantes New York’s “The Amster Yard Project” invites open call for artists

    The Amster Yard Project launched by the *Instituto Cervantes New York invites applications from artists to make use of their gallery space

  • The Laundromat Project announces its 2011 Create Change Public Artist Residency

    The Laundromat Project has announced its 2011 Create Change Public Artist Residency for artists whose practice incorporates art-making in everyday living.

  • The work of current Workspace artist Ryan Schneider on display at Volta NY

    Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents the work of current Workspace artist Ryan Schneider, on view at Volta NY (Booth D9) from March 3 - 6, 2011.

  • Maybe I should have called it ‘My Life in Nineteen Minutes’

    Taking its name from Alexander Calders response to Work in Progress, his 1968 theatrical production, Maybe I should have called it My Life in Nineteen Minutes is a twelve-hour one-day event that presents a continuous series of artist film screenings, performances and music. Influenced by Calders investigations into improvisational performance, appropriated materials and continual change through the development of his iconic mobiles, Maybe I should have called it My Life in Nineteen Minutes will traverse history by reading it through the present moment, zigzagging through different scenarios via the slippage of time and space. It will engage an active audience through different media and temporalities via numerous set-changes, playfully interrogating lifes intermissions.