Exhibitions
PUBLIC KEY / PRIVATE KEY
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Public Key / Private Key explores museums' ownership of art and the role of donors in building museum collections. For this project, the artists donated an original artwork, a 16mm film, to the Whitney Museum's Special Collection on behalf of members of the public. Visitors to the project page can register their names and explain why …
ALT-FACTS
It's not always possible to sort out fact from fiction, but to believe that everything is a lie is to know nothing. —Jill Lepore, "The World That Trump and Ailes Built," The New Yorker Alternative facts are lies. Fake news is propaganda. Both are indicative of the aestheticization of politics that Walter Benjamin warned against. The media is tightly molded …
BKLYN/IMMERSIVE
BKLYN IMMERSIVE CITY POINT, Downtown Brooklyn SPRING/BREAK announces a new initiative for this coming May during Frieze week, BKLYN IMMERSIVE. As a break from our typical show in March as a curator-driven art fair, the BKLYN IMMERSIVE will be a curated exhibition featuring a dozen artists focusing on site-specific, immersive installations and environments.
BROKER, WEXNER CENTER
With the election of President Trump in November, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s new work Broker suddenly transformed from keen satire to something loaded with additional, unintended meanings. Set in a 77th-floor apartment in one of New York’s many Trump Towers, Broker is a carefully framed study of a high-end real estate broker who represents the physical embodiment of luxury merchandising. …
INHABITING THE WORLD WE MADE
Cornell University, solo exhibition of recent works. Oct-Nov 2017
RHIZOME
RETELLING THE HISTORY OF NET ART FROM THE 1980S THROUGH THE PRESENT DAY. This two-year online exhibition will present 100 artworks from net art history, restaging and contextualizing one project each week. Devised in concert with Rhizome's acclaimed digital preservation department, Net Art Anthology also aims to address the shortage of historical perspectives on a field in which even the …
AND
An exhibition in which an artist acting as curator has selected, categorized and displayed artworks from the collection of an artist acting as collector that contains many works in which artists collect, sort and represent groups of objects. Curated by Jennifer Dalton
ENSIGN SGR A*
Radiator Arts and Over The Opening (OTO) are pleased to present Ensign Sgr A* featuring artists using negation and absence as ensigns or banners for states of exploration and loss. The exhibition operates as part wunderkammer and part memory hole with past prime astronomy, geography, technology, and superstition as the backdrop. Battles will be fought and journeys begun but broken …