december edition:

• viewing: The Louvre, Paris France

  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuFh6NNa70 (Typically, I don’t want to see other people in museums, even when I am there, but the ambiance of other people and organic sounds was incredibly endearing.)

  • Virtual Visit: 360 capture of all the Galleries

• reading: Shut it down: The Louvre

  • The Louvre shut down in 2019 because the staff was concerned about the deteriorating conditions in the museum

    • https://www.npr.org/2019/05/28/727592823/the-louvre-is-suffocating-museum-closed-as-workers-strike-citing-overcrowding

  • The NYT suggested taking down the Mona Lisa as a way to reduce crowds

    • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/arts/design/mona-lisa-louvre-overcrowding.html

  • The Louvre shut down in 2020 because o the pandemic (and remains closed)

    • https://news.artnet.com/art-world/french-museums-close-public-health-1803966?utm_content=from_&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=US%20News%20Afternoon%204:30%20p.m.%20for%203/13/20&utm_term=NEW%20US%20NEWSLETTER%20LIST%20%2890%20DAY%20ENGAGED%20ONLY%29

• discussion

  • Date: SUNDAY, December 27th

  • Time: 6:30pm -8:30pm

  • Location: meet.google.com/kpv-arzv-hsk

november edition:

• viewing: The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg Russia)

  • Video: An epic 5-hour video of the entire collection and museum.

  • Live time webcam footage

  • Virtual Visit: 360 capture of all the Galleries

• reading: God Building as a work of Art: Cosmist Aesthetics - This months reading is a conversation between E-flux cofounder Anton Vidokle and Irmgard Emmelhainz discussing the long term project of immortality. Teaser:

  • The name “Russian cosmism” is something that was coined very late, in the 1970s. When these ideas were first developed a century earlier, nobody used such a name. These two words first appear together in a Soviet encyclopedia of philosophy. Somebody wrote an entry for “Russian cosmism” and the name stuck. But it’s actually a misnomer because it gives cosmism a nationalist reading, while the ideas of cosmism are probably the most universal ideas I have ever come across. Cosmism has bigger ambitions than nationalism: when it speaks of resurrection, it’s for everyone who has ever lived on earth. In a sense resurrection is meant not only for humans, but for all living organisms: all life deserves to be eternal. You cannot get much broader than that.

    • article here: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/110/335963/god-building-as-a-work-of-art-cosmist-aesthetics/

• discussion

  • Date: SUNDAY, November 29th

  • Time: 6:30pm -8:30pm

  • Location: meet.google.com/kpv-arzv-hsk

october edition:

• viewing:

The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) 2020:

Here, Together!

Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
September 9th 2020 - October 24th 2020

Artists: Blanka Amezkua, Esperanza Cortés,
Bahareh Khoshooee, Daniela Kostova, Cole Lu,
Ana Mendieta, Levan Mindiashvili, Qinza Najm,
Anna Parisi, daàPò réo, Yali Romagoza

RESERVE YOUR TIME TO VISIT THE EXHIBITION IN PERSON:
https://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/reservations
EFA Project Space
Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts
323 W 39th St, New York, NY 10018

• reading: from the exhibition catalog either essay by Mary Annunziata or Eva Mayhabal Davis

  • PDF here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/537c9eb6e4b0ca838c2f4f52/t/5f947da8b0954566e62eba21/1603567020786/EFA_TIAB_HereTogether.pdf

  • For Purchase here:

    https://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/publications/the-immigrant-artist-biennial-2020-here-together-catalog

• discussion

  • Date: SUNDAY october 25th

  • Time: 6:30pm -8:30pm

  • Location: meet.google.com/kpv-arzv-hsk

  • ideally, attendees should visit the website and/or exhibition page, and read, but don’t worry- i’ll have an overview ready

september edition:

• viewing: Chloë Bass: Wayfinding

  • audio component : https://soundcloud.com/publicinvestigator/wayfinding

  • St. Nicholas Park is located along St. Nicholas Avenue between 128th and 141st Streets. Enter at 135th Street to view Chloë Bass: Wayfinding. 

• reading: The short form essay by Bass in As radical, as mother, as salad, as shelter, what should art institutions do now?, published by Paper Monument, October 2018. (PDF) via https://www.chloebass.com/

  • the full text can be purchased at N+1 or Printed Matter

  • additional reading here: https://arts.black/essays/2019/10/chloe-bass-wayfinding/

• discussion

  • Date: SUNDAY september 27th

  • Time: 6:30pm -8:30pm

  • Location: meet.google.com/kpv-arzv-hsk

  • ideally, attendees should visit Wayfinding (ideally with audio) at anytime that works for them and have read at least the article by bass to discuss. (if you weren’t able to visits or read the text, that’s okay, i’ll have an overview to get the conversation started)