The DART Board: 06.01.2022
Saturday, June 4, 1-10 pm: Opening day / Photoville 2022 at Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 1
For the first time in 10 years Photoville is celebrating visual storytelling during the summer!
• Over 30+ Exhibitions throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO
• @leicacamerausa will once again be with us leading photowalks
• @penumbratintypestudio
• F amily activity with Creatively Wild @cwasdumbo
• In-person photography and zine-making workshops @icp
• Artist-led walking tours and demonstrations with @adobe @lightroom
• Artist tours guided by Photoville founders
• Photowalk with @jeffreyhensonscales
• Interactive photo booth with photographer @
• Tabletop photography workshop at @westelmdumbo with prop stylist @robinzachary
• Attend an Educator Community Happy Hour with the Photoville team
• Get scrumptious bites and brews at the @smorgasburg Pop Up.
• And as the sun sets, catch a musical performance presented by @haiticulturalx featuring musician Beethova Obas (@beethovaobasofficial)
• The hour by hour calendar for opening day is here
• The evening continues with a special screening hosted by @blackshutterprod creator, Idris Talib Solomon featuring @jeffreyhensonscales
• And then end the night with tunes played by DJ @likwuid and dancing under the stars
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York Map & Directions
Thursday, June 2, 6-9 pm: Ellen Carey | Abstractions from Light at Penumbra
Ellen Carey’s experimental photographic practice challenges representational subject matter and embraces an abstract approach. Traditionally, photograms are made with objects blocking light, but Carey’s images remove the barrier between light and paper, rendering light as the subject in her works. Carey will give a lecture shedding light on her process and expansive career followed by a black and white photogram demonstration. This lecture and demonstration is part of Photogram Programming coinciding with Roberto Huarcaya's exhibition at Penumbra, OCÉANOS.
Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30thStreet, New York, NY Register
Friday, June 3, 9;30 am-noon: Madison Square Park Conservancy Symposium
Unearthing Public art considers the ways contemporary artists and art world leaders working in the public realm are unearthing concepts and materials at and just below the surface of civilization to guide their work. What are the implications of resurrecting buried natural and manufactured histories and bringing them to the fore of expectation and imagination?
The program, inspired by Cristina Iglesias’ Landscape and Memory opening on June 1 in Madison Square Park, will examine vital questions and explore the significance of influential work that asks viewers to look deeply at what is beneath the actual and metaphorical ground plane. Above: Abigale DeVille (American, b. 1981), The Light of Freedom
Free and open to the public. Register: tmurraycole@madisonsquarepark.org
Saturday, June 4, 5-10 pm: First Saturday | Heaven is What You Feel at Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum presents a robust lineup of programming for adults and children this June, including a special First Saturday on June 4, a musical event by Papi Juice celebrating Brooklyn Pride, a day of family programming commemorating Juneteenth, and a panel honoring the late artist and designer Virgil Abloh. Other programs include talks, classes, tours, and special events that amplify the Museum’s exhibitions and collection, serve the surrounding community, and support learning through the visual arts.
This Saturday, xelebrate Pride with a day of free programs spotlighting queer and trans artists, musicians, and collectives who are using art to imagine and create spaces of joy, community, and possibility. View the full lineup.
Free, reserve tickets in advance. Tickets to visit Andy Warhol: Revelation (above) during First Saturday are 40% off.
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
Closing June 5: Faith Ringgold: American People at New Museum
Artist, author, educator, and organizer, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation, with a career linking the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. For sixty years, Ringgold has drawn from both personal autobiography and collective histories both to document her life as an artist and mother and to amplify struggles for social justice and equity.
Faith Ringgold was just named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022. Don’t miss your last chance to experience the art of this American icon.
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY Info
Continuing through September 5: Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene at The Guggenheim
Showcasing the Chilean artist poet, activist and filmmaker Cecelia Vicuña’s artistic production from the late 1960s to today, this exhibition features new works specifically for this show and the breadth of her multidisciplinary practice, including paintings, works on paper, textiles, films, a site-specific Quipu (Knot) installation (above), and Ex-termination Living Quipu, a one-time performance in the museum’s rotunda commissioned by the Guggenheim’s Latin American Circle.
The title of Vicuña’s show, Spin Spin Triangulene, is a poetic creation based on new scientific discoveries the artist relates to the Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda and the quipu, to stress the connection between science and Indigenous knowledge Vicuña has observed since her early encounter with cybernetics as a young student in Chile.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Info
Continuing through September 16: New York Society of Women Artists | Evolution/Revolution at Taller Boricua Gallery
The right to equal education, gallery representation, curatorial inclusion, museum presence and equivalency in sales remains a focal point for female artists and is consistent with the mission of the New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA), now celebrating its 100th anniversary with Evolution/Revolution.
The exhibition, currently featured for Women’s History Month, reveals that social change starts in the realm of ideas as contemporary artists with diverse histories consider the challenges of immigrant rights, basic human rights, the “me too” movement, gender equality, environmental concerns, and racism. Info Left: Goodby My Chrysanthemum by Natsuki Takauji
