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FRIEZE NEW YORK 2018

Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA), 2016 Courtesy the artist, Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Photo: Joshua White Photography

Lara Schnitger, “Suffragette City” (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA), 2016 (courtesy the artist, Anton Kern Gallery, New York; photo by Joshua White Photography)

FRIEZE ART FAIR
Randall’s Island Park
May 2-3 (preview), 4-6 (public), $74.50 per day
frieze.com

It’s May, and the big white tents are opening on Randall’s Island, where the seventh annual Frieze New York is sheltering art offered by nearly two hundred galleries from more than two dozen countries. More integrated into New York City’s nonstop art scene than ever, Frieze not only features associated Frieze Week projects and events around the city but also invites a more diverse group of fairgoers, artists, and activists with an updated layout and new curators. Frieze is associated with performances, installations, and events throughout the week, including Eduardo Chillada’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Huma Bhabha’s “With a Trace” at Salon 94, and Adam Pendleton’s provocative six-month installation, “Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter),” at Scylla Point on Randall’s Island, an area once called “Negro Point.” (Pendleton’s “What a day was this” is also on view at Lever House.) At the fair, “bespoke” private art tours beckon collectors looking for exactly the right something, while an Art Passport for teens and special $12 admission pricing on Friday for the eighteen-to-twenty-five-year-old crowd aims to bring in cost-conscious art fans and young artists; Frieze ticket holders also receive $5 off the price of admission or $25 off a membership at MoMA all weekend long. Meanwhile, MoMA PS1 is hosting the “Night at the Museum: Springtober Fest” party on May 5.

The Live program, offered for the first time in New York, is curated by Adrienne Edwards, the newly appointed Whitney curator of performance, and showcases seven pieces in ASSEMBLY, focusing on collective protest with processions, ritualistic and conceptual performance, sound installations, banners and flags, and more. The Frame section features nineteen solo shows by emerging galleries, while the thirty-six galleries in Spotlight concentrate on important twentieth-century work. Be on the lookout for work by Kapwani Kiwanga, the winner of this year’s Frieze Artist Award. Frieze Talks keeps things lively with a stellar lineup of novelists, writers, historians, and artists in discussion, a few of which are spotlighted below, ensuring that Frieze New York’s traveling spectacle under the tents never has a dull moment, even when fairgoers are perhaps just resting their feet. Frieze also tends to have the best dining choices of any of the art fairs, so come hungry.

Adam Pendleton, Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter), 2015–2018. Digital print on polyester, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist and PACE

Adam Pendleton, “Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter),” digital print on polyester, 2015–18 (photo courtesy of the artist and Pace)

Wednesday, May 2
Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City, procession through the fair, 5:00

Thursday, May 3
Raúl de Nieves and Erik Zajaceskowski, THANK YOU/THANK YOU, procession through the fair, 3:00

Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City, procession through the fair, 5:00

Jerry Saltz presented by New York magazine, 6:00

Friday, May 4
Abraham Cruzvillegas and Carlos Amorales in conversation with Yuri Herrera, 12 noon

Ottessa Moshfegh in conversation with Patty Cottrell, 3:00

Kaitlyn Greenidge in conversation with Kerri Greenidge, 3:00

Saturday, May 5
Fred Moten in conversation with Sondra Perry, 12 noon

Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City, procession through the fair, 3:00

Rujeko Hockley in conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge and Kerri Greenidge, 3:00

Sunday, May 6
Elif Batuman in conversation with Negar Azimi, 12 noon

Dave McKenzie, Furtive Gestures, 1:00

COME TOGETHER: MUSIC FESTIVAL AND LABEL MARKET

come together

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave.
Saturday, March 24, each session $10, both $15, 12 noon – 6:00, 6:00 – 9:00
718-784-2084
www.moma.org

The second annual Come Together: Music Festival and Label Market takes place March 24 at MoMA PS1, a joint venture between the museum and the late, lamented Other Music record shop. More than seventy-five labels will be in Long Island City, selling and sharing awesome music. There will be live performances by Laetitia Tamko’s Vagabon, Hailu Mergia, and Dead Moon, which will also be the subject of an archival exhibition; the New York premiere of The Potential of Noise (Reto Caduff & Stephan Plank, 2017), about sound designer and producer Conny Plank; “The Creative Independent,” a workshop with Brandon Stosuy, Katie Alice Greer, and Jenn Pelly; a sound design experimental workshop with Marco Gomez (False Witness); DJ sets by Yo La Tengo, phoneg1rl b2b NK Badtz Maru, Sal P, and Duane Harriott; a multisensory listening experience with Suzi Analogue’s Never Normal Soundsystem and wearable audio technology company SUBPAC; the multimedia lecture “A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music According to Mississippi Records” with Eric Isaacson; clips of live music performed at Other Music between 1995 and 2016; loops of prank calls by Longmont Potion Castle in the elevator; an interactive reading and listening room in honor of Mexican Summer’s tenth anniversary; the performative, interactive thrift-store installation “Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime” by Azikiwe Mohammed; and a zine-making workshop with Suffragette City. Among the other participating labels are 4AD, Cantaloupe Music, Captured Tracks, Daptone, Glassnote, Goner, Luaka Bop, Matador, New Amsterdam, New World, Ninja Tune, Nonesuch, Northern Spy, Rough Trade, Sacred Bones, Sub Pop, Third Man, and XL Recordings. Tickets to the fair are $10 for the 12 noon to 6:00 session and $10 for the 6:00 to 9:00 extended programming; you can get into both for $15.

SUMMER OF MUSIC: ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS

ZIGGY STARDUST concert film will have a special free screening in Morningside Park on July 27, along with a look-a-like contest

Who: D. A. Pennebaker, David Bowie fans and wannabes
What: Outdoor screening of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (D. A. Pennebaker, 1973), introduced by the director, preceded by Night of 1000 Bowies’ Dance Party and Look-a-Like Contest with DJ Cosmo Baker
When: Monday, July 27, free, 6:30
Where: Morningside Park, 113th St. & Morningside Dr.
Why: A few weeks ago, a young woman we work with had no idea who Ziggy Stardust was. Well, she’ll know all about the David Bowie alter ego if she attends what should be a wild night July 27 in Morningside Park, which begins with a dance party and Bowie look-alike contest, followed by a screening of Pennebaker’s 1973 film, with Pennebaker on hand to talk about the work, which documented the July 3, 1973, performance of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. Bowie’s record, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, came during a particularly fruitful period, right in between Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane. The soundtrack features such Bowie greats as “Moonage Daydream,” “Space Oddity,” “Cracked Actor,” “Changes,” “Suffragette City,” and “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide” as well as the Bowie-penned Mott the Hoople hit “All the Young Dudes” and covers of the Stones’ “Let’s Spend the Night Together” and the Velvet Underground’s “White Light/White Heat.” The evening is presented by Maysles Cinema and Reel Harlem: The Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival.