By Zoë Lescaze 4/03 12:15pm

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Rhizome Joins With Tumblr to Promote the Internet

Art and tech bloggers nearly lost it last month when the first piece of “Vine art” sold at the Moving Image Art Fair, and now they have something else to get excited about. Starting today, Rhizome and Tumblr are accepting project proposals for their new Internet Art Grant, an award that will underwrite the production of three winning entries. (The size of each grant will depend on the proposal, and Tumblr declined to say how much money they will be willing to offer.) The jury, which includes Massimiliano Gioni, associate director and director of exhibitions at the New Museum, artists Laurie Anderson and Jon Rafman, and Christopher Price a.k.a. Topherchris, Tumblr’s editorial director, will choose commissions based on their innovation and feasibility. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 3/25 1:06pm

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1993 is calling. (nicholaspaulsmith/Flickr)

New Museum Offers Up Oral Histories From 1993 on City Pay Phones

It’s apparently going to start raining or snowing at any moment in New York, if it hasn’t already. So, move quickly, find your nearest pay phone, and ring 1-855-FOR-1993 (that’s 1-855-367-1993). You’ll be greeted by a recording of someone telling a story about living in the neighborhood you’re calling from in 1993. The campaign, titled “Recalling 1993,” is part of the New Museum’s “NYC 1993″ exhibition, and apparently works from any of the roughly 5,000 public telephones in Manhattan. Read More

By Maika Pollack 2/12 4:10pm

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Art Club 2000, 'Untitled (Conrans I),' 1992–93. (Courtesy the artist and the Estate of Colin de Land)

‘NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’ at the New Museum

Named for a Sonic Youth album, this exhibition, part of which opened last week (the rest opens on Feb. 13), is a madeleine opening onto memories of the grunge era. Gathering artworks that were made or shown in New York in 1993, the curators—Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Jenny Moore and Margot Norton—make the case that art-making had a vastly different role at that time. Read More

By Michael H. Miller 2/05 4:35pm

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Ellie Ga, "The Fortunetellers." (Courtesy New Museum)

Art of Darkness: Ellie Ga’s North Pole Tell-All

World travel for most New York-based artists born during the Ford administration consists predominantly of trips to Venice, London, Paris, Berlin and maybe Sharjah or Hong Kong for a residency or a biennial. Not so for Ellie Ga, whose work in the last few years has focused on archival material gathered during a five-month expedition to, of all places, the North Pole—about as far away from the art world, not to mention civilization, as one can hope to get. In September 2007, Ms. Ga took a Twin Otter plane from Svalbard, an archipelago (pop. 2,394) halfway between Norway and the North Pole, and joined a small crew aboard the Tara, a 90-foot-long ship that was shaped like an olive pit and was drifting in the Arctic ice. Its rudders had been removed and the engines shut off, so that the boat and its crew were left at the mercy of wherever the frozen ocean took them. Last week, as part of the monthlong group exhibition “Walking Drifting Dragging” at the New Museum, Ms. Ga presented a performance piece about the expedition called The Fortunetellers, a kind of roving lecture series/vacation slide show combining overhead projections, photographs, maps, charts and sound installations—mostly the sound of the Tara scraping against the ice and, in Ms. Ga’s words, “the slow swell of the ocean.” Read More

By Dan Duray 1/15 6:23pm

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2 Pretty performs at the party. (Courtesy PatrickMcMullan)

The New Museum’s Next Generation Party May Have Been a Few Generations Beyond That Even

On Friday night downtowners crowded the New Museum for a very special edition of its Next Generation party hosted in part by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin, co-curators of the 2015 New Museum Triennial. At the ground level, attendees mingled with DIS Magazine media companions (those full-body-spandexed creatures who wear advertisements and like to pose for pictures), but for the most part the party took place on the museum’s top floor, where DJ sets were interspersed with performances by artists like Lauren Devine, a YouTube sensation, who, as it was painfully explained to an older attendee, doesn’t actually have that many hits for her videos. She doesn’t need them! Parody would be the wrong word, but she’s described her music as “Fro-Yo Pop,” like the music they play at Pinkberry. Read More

By Jonah Wolf 11/30/12 10:55am

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"Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989," 2012-13. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner.

‘Come Closer’: Stellar New Museum Show Examines Bowery History

The most prominent item in “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989,” on view at the New Museum now through Dec. 30, is the door to Keith Haring’s loft at 325 Broome Street. The front of the door is painted bright red, except for one dull patch where painters have preserved a trademark Radiant Baby. The back boasts tags from Haring as well as his graffiti-writing houseguests: Futura 2000, Fab Five Freddy, Kenny Scharf and LA2. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 11/28/12 2:15pm

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Chelsea Clinton at soccer practice in Washington, D.C., in January of 1993. (Mike Marucci/AFP/Getty Images)

New Museum Plans ‘NYC 1993′

Today the New Museum released some details regarding the show it has in the works that is centered around the year 1993 in New York. It’s going to be a blowout affair: all five floors of the museum are in play, and four curators are working on it, Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Jenny Moore and Margot Norton. The show is titled “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star,” its subtitle coming from the eponymous Sonic Youth record recorded in that year. The show will run Feb. 13 through May 26, 2013. Read More

By Maika Pollack 10/30/12 5:51pm

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Mickalene Thomas, Din Une Tres Belle Negresse 2, 2012

Origin Stories: ‘Materializing ‘‘Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art’ and Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum; Rosemarie Trockel and Judith Bernstein at the New Museum

A century and a half ago, Gustave Courbet painted a close-up, spread-eagled view of a woman’s genitals and called it The Origin of the World. It is one sign of the extent to which women artists have taken ownership of such male-created images that no fewer than three major New York museum exhibitions of works by mid- and late-career women artists feature variations on Courbet’s erotic classic. In the past year, both this newspaper and The Economist have reported on the lingering inequities between women’s work and men’s on the art market. That may still be true, but, at least in New York, museums are doing their part—and that may eventually set things straight. Read More