LaToya Ruby Frazier. Courtesy John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Moderated by Creative Time’s Director of Marketing and Communications, Donnamarie Baptiste, artist Wangechi Mutu, social justice activist Wanja Muguongo, artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, and artist LaToya Ruby Frazier (a 2015 MacArthur art fellow) will discuss the relationship between art-making and activism, a timely topic of conversation.
NeueHouse, 110 East 25th Street from 6:30-8 p.m.
Photo: Courtesy of Light Industry.
Artist and writer Andrea Fraser will be in conversation with filmmaker Jeffrey Preiss after a screening a selection of five of her films, including Hello! Welcome to Tate Modern! (2007), a video montage of viewers experiences at the famous British institution.
Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
Photo: Courtesy of 92nd Street Y.
Get your questions ready to “Ask Jerry.” New York Magazine‘s inimitable art critic will be fielding questions after his presentation in a “spirited demystifying” of the art world.
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue at 7:30 p.m.
Image: Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.
Artists Tania Bruguera and Dread Scott are the opening program for the Museum’s Agitprop! exhibition, and the duo will discuss how their practices are intertwined with the political. The conversation will touch on historical examples of agitprop art, and how they have influenced and inspired the artists.
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
Connie Zhou, The Dalles (from the Google series) (2012). Photo: Courtesy © Google, 2012/e-flux.
The New Art panel on Friday evening kicks off the Superconversations event (the Science Fiction and Computation panels are scheduled for Saturday), an extension of the concepts and ideas formulated through e-flux’s Supercommunity/Superconversations project for the 56th Venice Biennale and also forms the final installment of The New Centre’s Symposia 2015. A screening of Anton Vidokle and Oleksiy Radynski’s A Museum of Immortality will follow the discussion.
e-flux, 311 East Broadway from 6-9 p.m.
As an accompaniment to Unreasonable Sized Paintings at the SVA Chelsea Gallery and Reasonable Sized Paintings at Mana Contemporary, curator Phoung Bui speaks with a panel of artists, including Lisa Yuskavage and Yale’s Dean of the School of Art Robert Storr, who discuss their work in the concurrent exhibitions.
SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor from 3-5 p.m.
Space Billiards, 34 West 32nd Street, 12th Floor from 2-7 p.m.