The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

I rly wana go

new yorker review village voice review

it looks wonderful. i like the severity of it.

I'm off tomorrow, might go.

It looks better in person than in the pictures, I think. In pictures it looks really space-age and out of place, but in person, it looks more industrial and actually fits into the neighborhood more than I thought it would. The rainbow "hell yes" sign sprawled on it is interesting as well. I couldn't get inside, as I didn't fancy waiting on line in the cold. I'll go back once the buzz has worn off.

i cant wait to see it

The building is great from the outside, but I was slightly underwhelmed by the museum. I liked the unmonumental show, but there were basically only three small floors worth of art. The spaces themselves felt crammed and awkward and the flow of the building was bad, with elevators opening straight into the gallery spaces and small hidden-away staircases. I basically tried to look at everything for as long as I could and it still only took me an hour to do the whole thing, which made me feel a bit gypped for my twelve dollars.

I agree with the Voice review that the show was a refreshing reaction to art market mammon. On the elevator down there were two stereotypical looking middle-aged New York *arts patron* women and one of them said to the other "Just hideous!". It was perfect.

My former roommate & bff & DJ/VJ partner's stuff was used in something glossy for them I think.

Hurting OTM.

pics i took (no cameras inside):

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/numuseum.jpg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/yellyes.jpg

Fuck, I knew I'd forgotten something.

Hell, Yes!

The After Nature show is really really good.

NYRB review of the building: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20935

I enjoyed the space more this time, but partly just because it was less crowded. There are some nice surprises, like the art exhibited on the narrow side staircase between the third and fourth floors (especially the little video room)

I think I'm going to go to this:

7:30 pm
All Hallow’s Eve with Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer
Part of New Museum Presents

Music/Performance

Buy tickets now: $8 Members, $10 General Public

Tonight’s special Halloween program, curated by Janine Nichols, features the haunting experimental sounds of Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer in a playful holiday spirit.

Brian Dewan, referred to as “a modern day Alan Lomax” (Three Imaginary Girls), has a vocation to unearth (from yard sales, urban discards, estate auctions) and resuscitate (with electricity) the lost songs of the old, weird America. Hear the campfire song of the National Embalming School, Daniel Johnston’s “Casper, the Friendly Ghost,” the soundtrack to a cartoon filmstrip of “The Headless Horseman,” amongst other harrowing sonic explorations. Brian Dewan has exhibited drawings and filmstrips at the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, Pierogi gallery, the Armory Show, and Modern Art Oxford. His recent recording of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting Of The Snark has aired in London and New York.

A founding member of the comedy and music duo Polygraph Lounge, Rob Schwimmer creates work that has been described as “a brilliant meld of discipline, sensuality, technical acumen and freedom.” He is a “harmonically ravishing” (Gramophone) composer and pianist. He is the composer for the 2008 Academy Award winner Freeheld. Tonight Schwimmer will perform on the theremin, the only instrument that is played without being touched. Coaxing sound out of air, Schwimmer’s performance features Bernard Hermann’s music for the spiraling love scene in Hitchcock’s Vertigo and his own “Transylvania Mambo,” best understood as dance music for teenage werewolves.

Janine Nichols has been producing live music in New York for many years. Lately she’s been creating ambitious, thematic, multi-artist concept shows with Hal Willner at venues around the world. A performance at the Sydney Opera House of “Came So Far For Beauty,” their evening of Leonard Cohen’s songs, was the basis for the acclaimed 2006 documentary I’m Your Man. Janine was program director for Arts at St. Ann’s (now St. Ann’s Warehouse) for fifteen years; before that, music coordinator for the original cast of Saturday Night Live. She is also the “arrestingly plaintive” (Village Voice) singer in the “sublime” (Nick Cave) electric bass and voice duo, Flutterbox.

fuck this museum sometimes

Floor 2: a map of Iraq with US cities drawn in, the wreckage of a blown-up car (admittedly cool), five color photos, some solider talking to people.

Floor 3: One really boring film

Floor 4: One REALLY REALLY boring film

oh hey i was out front the other day but didn't go in. liked this pic:
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/Photo0020.jpg

Yeah, don't bother to go until they have their next show. So little to see there right now. Have had good experiences in the past.

Admittedly, film on third floor was not actually that boring because it involved a hot woman and a minotaur-like dude miming sex, but my wife was disturbed so we left.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/297

i'm looking forward to the generational show. haven't been here since the inaugural exhibition (which i thought was way more miss than hit)

Admittedly, film on third floor was not actually that boring because it involved a hot woman and a minotaur-like dude miming sex, but my wife was disturbed so we left.

― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Haha! I made the soundtrack to this film. Would love to know more about people's reactions etc.

concrete floors are in really bad shape...where da control joints?

elizabeth peyton exhibition was fantastic, but maybe that's not the thing to judge this place on.

Haha! I made the soundtrack to this film. Would love to know more about people's reactions etc.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 15 February 2009 08:15 (8 hours ago)

I know, I saw your credit. Except I didn't know this was your handle until now.

I do wish I saw that Elizabeth Peyton show.

So they have a giant Isa Gensken rose on the 'lapel' of the building now instead of the "Hell, Yes" sign. The current shows are pretty good -- the first is about newspapers and the second is about the internet. Some of the art about the internet is kind of just like stuff I would already do on the internet (interesting google earth photos blown up, strange yahoo answers blown up, etc.) but there's more interesting work too. I like this place because it's small and it doesn't give me museum fatigue the way places like MoMA do.

its kind of just like a gallery tho, and galleries are free and numerous, building is cool tho, rip hell yes

Terrible gallery lighting

http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/artists-display-their-art-on-as-opposed-to-in-the-new-museum

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/11/01/city-to-new-museum-only-one-skinny-dipper-in-carsten-hller-installation-at-a-time

Department of Health inadvertently provides great publicity. Want to see the show now.

They failed to put on their website that three floors of the museum were closed for installation. Charged only half price admission, but it woundup being for like 1/4 of what you'd normally see there since the floors closed were basically all of their main exhibition space. Saw some shrug-inducing installation on the first floor and an even more shrug-inducing Center for Historical Reenactment bit up top, and a somewhat interesting thing in their next door space that was partly about 3D printing and open-source design.

Theaster Gates: wow wow wow, so good