Kerry James Marshall, detail, Black and part Black Birds in America (Red wing Blackbirds, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Scarlet Tanager), 2021 (© Kerry James Marshall)
PROGRAM
David Zwirner Online
Thursday, June 10, free, 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
www.davidzwirner.com
One of the most popular and innovative galleries in New York City, David Zwirner, will be kicking off its new online Program with an all-day global livestream event on June 10, consisting of six talks with thirty-five artists in four cities. The festivities begin at ten o’clock in the morning with a video walkthrough of Zwirner’s global galleries, led by directors and partners. At eleven, award-winning director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, The Underground Railroad) will discuss Kerry James Marshall’s “Black and part Black Birds in America” series. At one, Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als delves into Alice Neel’s figuration. At two-thirty, designers Emily Bode of BODE and Aaron Aujla and Benjamin Bloomstein of Green River Project LLC will explore conceptual art and appropriation. At four, 2020 Hugo Boss Prize recipient Deana Lawson examines the legacy of Diane Arbus. And at six, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl will talk about the state of the art world today. All interactive conversations will be moderated by writer and curator Helen Molesworth.
“Over the last year we realized the traction and engagement that we could create on our own website, without an art-fair moment attached to it,” Zwirner said in a statement. “Because of this, we are establishing Program, a new event series that culminates the art calendar and brings together the energy and excitement we have seen in June, but on a global scale. It will mimic the in-person dialogue and discovery you would experience at a physical opening or an art fair through global livestreaming sessions. For the inaugural presentation of Program, our artists have created significant new artworks that will be seen for the very first time.”
Program will take viewers inside Zwirner’s galleries in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong, highlighting historic and brand-new works by such artists as Josef Albers, Francis Alÿs, Carol Bove, Raoul De Keyser, Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, Isa Genzken, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Sherrie Levine, Nate Lowman, Kerry James Marshall, Juan Muñoz, Oscar Murillo, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Sigmar Polke, Neo Rauch, Thomas Ruff, Dana Schutz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Luc Tuymans, Franz West, and Lisa Yuskavage; Christopher Williams helped design the stream with Deliverable: Video Asset nos. 1–10. To see the works in person, you can make appointments here; currently on view in New York City are Rose Wylie’s “Which One” and Bove’s “Chimes at Midnight,” with Kusama’s “I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote” opening June 17, followed June 24 with “More Life,” solo exhibits from Mark Morrisroe, Silence=Death, Derek Jarman, and Marlon Riggs in conjunction with the fortieth anniversary of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis.