Culture Archives — SoHo Broadway Initiative https://sohobroadway.org/event-categories/culture/ We are a SoHo Broadway neighborhood improvement district. Thu, 16 May 2024 16:33:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://sohobroadway.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cropped-SoHoFavicon-32x32.png Culture Archives — SoHo Broadway Initiative https://sohobroadway.org/event-categories/culture/ 32 32 Call for Applications for the New City Critics fellowship https://sohobroadway.org/events/call-for-applications-for-the-new-city-critics-fellowship/ Thu, 16 May 2024 16:33:38 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13274 Join New City Critics, Urban Design Forum, and Urban Omnibus/The Architectural League for a conversation about the state of criticism on New York City’s built environment.

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Apply through Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 11:59 pm.

Program

In 2022, Urban Omnibus/The Architectural League and Urban Design Forum launched a fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and build our cities. The fellowship supports the development of critics from underrepresented backgrounds through guest lectures and workshops, research guidance, networking, and production of new critical projects on a dedicated platform. Through published work and other channels, the fellowship encourages a more expansive conversation on the future of cities.

New City Critics aims to drive change in the culture of criticism. Today, architectural criticism and urban analysis in mainstream media is a shrinking arena, though it remains extremely powerful. Newspapers and magazines have moved away from having full-time critics on staff, and feature the work of just a few, largely older, and mostly male, white writers. A handful of professional critics from similar backgrounds means attention to a limited selection of topics and perspectives. We want to see kaleidoscopic coverage from a much wider variety of perspectives and rewrite public understanding of why urban design and development matter.

New City Critics is for a criticism of city design and development that reflects the people who live in cities. We need more informed and sustained examination of citymaking in media beyond small professional circles, for a broader public. Housing, workplaces, infrastructure, public spaces and monuments define the contours of our lives. They demand critical attention and a critical imagination expressed through novel formats and in new forums. Our goal is to equip a new generation of critics with new skills and a meaningful network to make urban processes legible and argue for a city they want to live in.

New City Critics is a fellowship program that empowers new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities. The fellowship supports the development of five critics from underrepresented backgrounds through guest lectures and workshops, research guidance, mentorship opportunities, networking, and production of new critical projects in Urban Omnibus and other leading publications. Through public programs and other channels, the fellowship encourages a more expansive conversation on the future of cities.

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]]> Exhibition Talk: Arne Glimcher and Lawrence Weschler at Judd Foundation https://sohobroadway.org/events/exhibition-talk-arne-glimcher-and-lawrence-weschler-at-judd-foundation/ Thu, 16 May 2024 16:14:50 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13273 Judd Foundation presents Arne Glimcher and Lawrence Weschler talk about Robert Irwin

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Wednesday, May 29
6:00pm
101 Spring Street
New York, NY


Robert Irwin, Public exhibition hours: Friday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

Join Judd Foundation for a conversation with Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher and art historian Lawrence Weschler. They will discuss the life and impact of Robert Irwin reflected in conversations with the artist found in Weschler’s publication Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. Their conversation will be moderated by Oliver Shultz, Pace Gallery Chief Curator and Director at 125 Newbury.

Seating for this program is limited. Register for the program.

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Irwin, currently on view at 101 Spring Street. Learn more.

Robert Irwin is made possible with support from Pace Gallery.

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]]> Sundays on Broadway: Stephen Petronio + Mina Nishimura + Nami Yamamoto + Cayleen Del Rosario https://sohobroadway.org/events/sundays-on-broadway-stephen-petronio-mina-nishimura-nami-yamamoto-cayleen-del-rosario/ Wed, 01 May 2024 12:39:07 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13252 SoHo Broadway Events-Sundays on Broadway with Vicky Shick + Jacob Burckhardt + Reason Wade & Aminah Ibrahim + video by CW

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Sundays on Broadway co-curators Owen Prum and Weis present an evening of performances by Stephen Petronio, Mina Nishimura, Nami Yamamoto, and Cayleen Del Rosario.

Following this evening’s performance, we’re hosting a 10th Anniversary Dance Party to celebrate a decade of dance, film, music and community at WeisAcres. Details to come.

In Stephen Petronio’s solo improvisation This Is Me In The Room, he will be talking and dancing—discussing what’s currently on his mind, generating movement connecting him to the architecture in the room and eyes watching him.

Mina Nishimura has described her Impulsive Score! Erased Score! Time Machine Score!, as an act of building a time machine that only travels forward at a rate of one second per second.

Nami Yamamoto will present an excerpt of a new work about passing knowledge through generations. For this project, she is researching what her mother and her mother’s generation experienced during World War II. She is gathering historical information and personal stories, especially about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria between 1931 and 1945 all while practicing, improvising, and exploring movement in the studio.

Cayleen Del Rosario’s site-specific performance work was made for a floor at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, and now, for anywhere else. There is a ghost, a speaker, a double, and a trio. Movement and words are exact and passing. Doors open and close, blood stains white. It is a psychoanalytic performance exploration on emergence, afterwardness, and the timelessness of the unconscious. The is-ness of the situation unfolds with a feeling opposite of dread.

Sundays on Broadway
at WeisAcres, 537 Broadway #3
New York, NY 10012

$10 suggested donation

Thank you to IndieSpace and their Little Venue That Could Program for helping to make this season possible.
The Little Venue That Could Program is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.

 

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]]> From Field to Form: Straw-The Architectural League of NY https://sohobroadway.org/events/from-field-to-form-straw-the-architectural-league-of-ny/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:54:29 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13183 From Field to Form: Straw-The Architectural League of NY

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From Field to Form is a series of events exploring the possibilities, life cycles, and architectural implications of plant and earth-based materials.

Straw is an agricultural by-product from the harvest of grains, and it sequesters carbon as it grows in the stalk and the soil. Using straw for building utilizes waste from food production, which otherwise may be burned and release carbon into the atmosphere.

Straw has been used as a building material for over a century in the U.S., revived in the 1980s, and has been included in the International Residential Code since 2015. Its benefits are numerous. As a wall system with clay and lime plasters, it effectively manages moisture in walls and is naturally fire resistant, avoiding the need for toxic flame retardant chemicals. It contains no petrochemicals, is energy efficient, and the material is relatively inexpensive.

What will it take to accelerate the use of straw for buildings? Can we address our housing crisis with straw? How can we accelerate the adoption of straw for urban building fabric? What are the unique opportunities for designing with straw?

Organized in partnership with Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design, From Field to Form: Straw will explore these questions with a panel of experts.

Panelists

Alex English is a farmer and small business owner. He works with the Kenyon family at Nitty Gritty Grains, a family-owned and operated farm that produces certified organic grains in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. Nitty Gritty Grain Co. manages 600 acres of cropland growing certified organic wheat, corn, mixed legumes, and hay, and producing flour, cornmeal, wheat berries, cornbread mix, straw, hay, and more.

Paul Lewis is a principal at LTL Architects based in New York City and professor at Princeton University School of Architecture. Currently focused on the architectural potentials of plant and earth-based materials, LTL Architects published the Manual of Biogenic House Sections in 2022. Most recently, the studio has been testing means to compress and bind straw into a building material that simultaneously achieves insulative and structural capacities. Exhibitions featuring work in Biogenic House Sections and Experiments with Straw are currently traveling to universities and design centers across the United States.

Ace McArleton is the co-CEO and director of vision and strategy at New Frameworks and Jacob Deva Racusin is the director of building science and sustainability at the Vermont-based, multi-racial, women-, queer- and trans-owned worker cooperative. New Frameworks offers design/build services that blend natural materials and methods with high-performance design of products such as straw-based panels and modular small homes, focusing on climate regeneration and social justice.

The discussion will be moderated by Jonsara Ruth, co-founder and design director of Healthy Materials Lab (HML) at Parsons School of Design, where she is an associate professor and the founding director of the MFA Interior Design program. Ruth is a principal of Salty Labs, a collaborative studio experimenting with the design of interiors and furniture to create healthier environments.

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]]> Closing: Robert Irwin at Judd Foundation on August 31 https://sohobroadway.org/events/closing-robert-irwin-at-judd-foundation-on-august-31/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:09:57 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13166 Judd Foundation presents Robert Irwin, an exhibition of three works at 101 Spring Street in New York.

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August 31, 2024
101 Spring Street
New York, NY

Public exhibition hours: Friday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

Judd Foundation presents Robert Irwin, an exhibition of three works at 101 Spring Street in New York. The exhibition marks the first posthumous presentation of Robert Irwin’s work in the United States and extends inquiries into visual perception made by the artist in the same space more than fifty years ago.

Sculpture/Configuration 2T 3L (2018), a column of layered acrylic units, features a material and form first utilized by Irwin in the late 1960s. Measuring nearly ten feet in height and comprised of gray and green acrylic sheets, the work is installed in the same location as one of Irwin’s single twelve-foot columns exhibited in the space in 1971. The columns engage, as writer Lawrence Weschler summarizes, “the incidental, the transitory, the peripheral—that aspect of our experience that is both there and not there, the object and the not object of our sensations, perceived but seldom attended to.” 1

The sculptures AS GOOD AS IT GETS (2023) and “C and C” (Complex/Coherent) (2021) define three ephemeral elements of perception Irwin engaged throughout his practice: shadow, reflection, and color. Part of Irwin’s unlights, a series first shown in New York in 2020, these works include fluorescent tubes and fixtures installed directly on the walls of the space interspersed with translucent color gels. These compositions, in colors ranging from blue, green, and gray to red, purple, and brown, emit no light themselves, yet create interactions with natural light and reflections on the glass and aluminum.

Read More HERE

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]]> Opening reception for Robert Irwin at Judd Foundation https://sohobroadway.org/events/opening-reception-for-robert-irwin-at-judd-foundation/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:07:38 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13164 Judd Foundation presents Robert Irwin, an exhibition of three works at 101 Spring Street in New York.

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April 4–August 31, 2024
101 Spring Street
New York, NY

Opening reception: Thursday, April 4, 5:00–7:00pm
Public exhibition hours: Friday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

Judd Foundation presents Robert Irwin, an exhibition of three works at 101 Spring Street in New York. The exhibition marks the first posthumous presentation of Robert Irwin’s work in the United States and extends inquiries into visual perception made by the artist in the same space more than fifty years ago.

Sculpture/Configuration 2T 3L (2018), a column of layered acrylic units, features a material and form first utilized by Irwin in the late 1960s. Measuring nearly ten feet in height and comprised of gray and green acrylic sheets, the work is installed in the same location as one of Irwin’s single twelve-foot columns exhibited in the space in 1971. The columns engage, as writer Lawrence Weschler summarizes, “the incidental, the transitory, the peripheral—that aspect of our experience that is both there and not there, the object and the not object of our sensations, perceived but seldom attended to.” 1

The sculptures AS GOOD AS IT GETS (2023) and “C and C” (Complex/Coherent) (2021) define three ephemeral elements of perception Irwin engaged throughout his practice: shadow, reflection, and color. Part of Irwin’s unlights, a series first shown in New York in 2020, these works include fluorescent tubes and fixtures installed directly on the walls of the space interspersed with translucent color gels. These compositions, in colors ranging from blue, green, and gray to red, purple, and brown, emit no light themselves, yet create interactions with natural light and reflections on the glass and aluminum.

Read More HERE

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]]> Closing: Artists on the Bowery Part 5 at Westwood Gallery https://sohobroadway.org/events/closing-artists-on-the-bowery-part-5-at-westwood-gallery-2/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:02:07 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13146 WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents 8 - DIARY OF TIME:

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ARTISTS ON THE BOWERY PART 5: BERTHOT, DIAO, HAMMOND, NEVELSON, QUAYTMAN, YAMAOKA at Westwood Gallery

EXHIBITION DATES:

CLOSING – May 11, 2024
Gallery Hours: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents Artists on the Bowery Part 5, a group exhibition of recent and historic paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by artists Jake Berthot, David Diao, Harmony Hammond, Louise Nevelson, Harvey Quaytman, and Carrie Yamaoka, curated by James Cavello. WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC is pleased to collaborate on the exhibition with the Betty Cuningham Gallery, Greene Naftali Gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, Pace Gallery, Van Doren Waxter, and Ulterior Gallery.

This is the fifth exhibition in a series at WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC focused on Contemporary artists who have lived and worked in the Bowery Arts District between 1960s-present. A cultural touchstone of New York City, the Bowery has been home to hundreds of artists, many of whom were the impetus of the most important art historical movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Abstract Expressionism, Feminist art, Hard-edge Painting, and many others.

This year’s Artists on the Bowery survey focuses on six artists who (1) brought a unique originality to the confining limitations of Minimalist and Abstract Expressionist art, and (2) created work that approaches the absence of color, by either directly using black pigments or creating illusory surfaces that feign color.

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WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
262 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
(212) 925-5700
info@westwoodgallery.com

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]]> Artists on the Bowery Part 5 at Westwood Gallery https://sohobroadway.org/events/artists-on-the-bowery-part-5-at-westwood-gallery/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:00:26 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13144 WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents 8 - DIARY OF TIME:

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ARTISTS ON THE BOWERY PART 5: BERTHOT, DIAO, HAMMOND, NEVELSON, QUAYTMAN, YAMAOKA at Westwood Gallery

EXHIBITION DATES:

March 14 – May 11, 2024
Gallery Hours: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

* Opening Reception: November 9 from 6 to 8 pm
* Gallery is closed Sundays and Mondays

WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents Artists on the Bowery Part 5, a group exhibition of recent and historic paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by artists Jake Berthot, David Diao, Harmony Hammond, Louise Nevelson, Harvey Quaytman, and Carrie Yamaoka, curated by James Cavello. WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC is pleased to collaborate on the exhibition with the Betty Cuningham Gallery, Greene Naftali Gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, Pace Gallery, Van Doren Waxter, and Ulterior Gallery.

This is the fifth exhibition in a series at WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC focused on Contemporary artists who have lived and worked in the Bowery Arts District between 1960s-present. A cultural touchstone of New York City, the Bowery has been home to hundreds of artists, many of whom were the impetus of the most important art historical movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Abstract Expressionism, Feminist art, Hard-edge Painting, and many others.

This year’s Artists on the Bowery survey focuses on six artists who (1) brought a unique originality to the confining limitations of Minimalist and Abstract Expressionist art, and (2) created work that approaches the absence of color, by either directly using black pigments or creating illusory surfaces that feign color.

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WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
262 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
(212) 925-5700
info@westwoodgallery.com

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]]> Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral https://sohobroadway.org/events/joan-jonas-animal-vegetable-mineral/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:34:07 +0000 https://sohobroadway.org/?post_type=event&p=13123 Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral is the first major retrospective focused on works on paper by Joan Jonas, one of the most significant experimental voices in American art of the postwar period - The Drawing Center - SoHo Events

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]]> Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral at the Drawing Center

Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral is the first major retrospective focused on works on paper by Joan Jonas, one of the most significant experimental voices in American art of the postwar period. Although Jonas’s work has received critical attention and acclaim over the past few decades, her voluminous drawing oeuvre, which constitutes the backbone of her video, performance, and sculpture practices, has never been surveyed. This exhibition is a definitive look at the integral place of drawing in the career of this pioneering artist. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral occupies the entirety of The Drawing Center’s gallery spaces and features more than three hundred individual drawings dating from the 1960s to the present as well as a recent drawing environment.

Read more about the exhibition HERE 

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