https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w Cities Week 3 Itinerary en-us 2021-02-18 23:54:25 UTC 2025-07-28 22:20:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f34e.png k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217426819 In this itinerary, we explore New York after its postwar ascendency as a worldwide art capital; and equally, as a vibrant ecosystem of experimental, critical, and alternative practices. How do these multiple art-worlds intersect and conflict?]]> 2021-02-18 23:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217426819 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217431591 Our first stop brings us to MoMA and the Jewish Museum, where we examine the emergence of mainstream art institutions through the lens of curator Kynaston McShine and his two seminal exhibitions, 'Primary Structures' and 'Information'. The video above starts our tour.]]> 2021-02-18 23:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217431591 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217432958 Stopping at MoMA, listen to an introduction to Kynaston McShine's early career.]]> 2021-02-18 23:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217432958 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217433789 Take a tour of McShine's first seminal exhibition of New York's minimalists and London's New Generation sculptors at the Jewish Museum in 1966. ]]> 2021-02-19 00:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217433789 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217434500 Take a tour of McShine's second landmark exhibition of conceptual art at MoMA in 1970.]]> 2021-02-19 00:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217434500 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217435378 Travelling to Soho, we consider the neighborhood as a site of emerging performance practices during the 1970s. We will first hear about life in live-work lofts that artists set up in the Downtown area in this video with curator Lydia Yee.]]> 2021-02-19 00:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217435378 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217436772 1970s performance practices weren't restricted to Soho's loft spaces. Here we move outside to follow Adrian Piper on her performance of her influential piece The Mythic Being (1973). ]]> 2021-02-19 00:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217436772 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217437046 2021-02-19 00:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217437046 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217439634 We'll end our Soho tour with a last word from performance artist Jack Smith – CLICK HERE to view on an external page.]]> 2021-02-19 00:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217439634 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217439925 2021-02-19 00:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217439925 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217441682 2021-02-19 00:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217441682 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217444160 2021-02-19 00:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217444160 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217446137 We finish our itinerary with a trip to a South Bronx public school, where Group Material member Tim Rollins established a collaborative art-pedagogical practice with students under the name of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival). ]]> 2021-02-19 00:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217446137 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217471103 On this stop we hop on the NYC subway and examine it as a conduit and site of practice for artists across boroughs, as well as a public space and communication platform open to contested uses. Start with a clip from Charlie Ahearn's 1983 classic, 'Wild Style'.]]> 2021-02-19 00:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217471103 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217547541 Explore more at '“Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation' at the MFA Boston. ]]> 2021-02-19 01:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1217547541 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1218060155 What possibilities for critical, collective, and democratic practices persist in an increasingly commercialised, gentrifying city? 
We visit artist collective Group Material at their storefront exhibition space in the Lower East Side.]]> 2021-02-19 07:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1218060155 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1218478146 Further explorations of Adrian Piper's The Mythic Being.]]> 2021-02-19 11:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1218478146 k87056kg https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1218488281 Reflecting on our tour of the subway through 'Wild Style'.]]> 2021-02-19 11:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/k87056kg/4j1ppbmumjvftk3w/wish/1218488281