Events: October 2008 @ the New Museum

Kalup Linzy and Dynasty Handbag: Amplify the Avatar Working as one-person production houses for music, video, and performance, the artists on tonight's double-bill combine consumer-grade digital technologies with ample doses of absurdist humor and critical insight. Friday, October 3 | 7:30 PM $8 Members | $10 General Admission

Target First Saturdays for Families: Six Degrees Take a stroll around the New Museum's block, participate in a guided conversation about the exhibition "Museum as Hub: Six Degrees," and then collaborate with your family to create your own work of art that reflects the ways in which you experience your neighborhood. Saturday, October 4 | 10 AM - 12 PM Free

Ei Arakawa: Kissing the Canvas Toying with notions of art production, Ei Arakawa works with numerous participants to create energized performances that he broadly refers to as "market." Sunday, October 5 | 3 PM Free

Next Level Bringing together prominent game designers, artists, and critics, Next Level takes a look at the recent rise of indie gaming: a vibrant new culture of individually made and self-distributed video games that blur the line between digital art and creative entertainment. Friday, October 10 | 7:30 PM $6 Members | $8 General Public

Rhizome Commissions '08 The last in a three-part series that features presentations by artists awarded grants through Rhizome's Commissions Program. This event features Annie Abrahams, Fritz Donnelly, Lee Walton, Marek Walczak, and Martin Wattenberg. Saturday, October 11, 3 PM $6 Members | $8 General Public

All-Day POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi All-Day POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi Ginger Brooks Takahashi's quilting forum or "POWERSTITCH" employs traditional craft to de-formalize the exhibition space as productive community space. Thursday, October 16 | 12 - 7 PM Free with Museum admission

Eric Copeland Founding member of Black Dice and one of the most creative and continually developing forces in the New York music scene, Eric Copeland has spent the last three years amassing and twisting a variety of sounds on his own, resulting in his debut solo LP, Hermaphrodite (2007). Thursday, October 16 | 7:30 PM $8 Members, $10 General Public

John Giorno: Book Release and Reading Legendary New York poet, Bowery artist, and subject of Elizabeth Peyton's work, John Giorno will read from his newly published anthology of collected works from his fifty-year career, Subduing Demons In America: Selected Poems 1962 - 2007. Friday, October 17 | 7:30 PM Free with Museum admission

Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Dave McKenzie, and Lisa Sigal in conversation with curator Eungie Joo Curator Eungie Joo leads a conversation between artists Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Dave McKenzie, and Lisa Sigal about their practices and work in the exhibition "Museum as Hub: Six Degrees." Saturday, October 18 | 3 PM Free with Museum admission

Night School Public Seminar 9: Natascha Sadr Haghighian Natascha Sadr Haghighian leads this month's series of Night School Seminars. 10/23/08, 10/24/08, 10/25/08, Times vary | Free with museum admission. Tickets may be reserved online.

Rancid Nourishment The tales of huge windows and wide-open lofts bringing a community of Abstract Expressionist painters to the Bowery are an integral part of this neighborhood's history. In contrast, Rancid Nourishment intends to explore the reasons that artists working in less traditional mediums have come to the Bowery. Thursday, October 30 | 7:30 PM $6 Members, $8 General Public

All Hallow's Eve with Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer This special Halloween program, curated by Janine Nichols, features the haunting experimental sounds of Brian Dewan and Rob Schwimmer in a playful holiday spirit. Friday, October 31 | 7:30 PM $8 Members, $10 General Public

The Narcotic Farm The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts Published to coincide with a documentary to be aired on PBS, The Narcotic Farm includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, and government documents, as well as interviews, writings, and anecdotes from the prisoners, doctors, and guards to trace the Narcotic Farm's noble rise and tumultuous fall, revealing the compelling story of what really happened inside the prison walls. $29.95 $26.96 Members   DVD Paul Chan 7 Lights , special edition This special-edition DVD of Paul Chan's The Seven Lights documents all the artworks in this remarkable series. Shown for the first time in a unique interactive format, this DVD will be of interest to lovers of art and film, dromological scholars, historians of theology and politics, apostles of phenomenology, people who believe light today is a form of mediated pollution, philistines young and old, anyone with a criminal record, and animals. $30.00 $27.00 Members   Sonic Tie These limited-edition ties, made by Alyce Santoro with designer Julio Cesar, are made with a unique woven fabric of 50% poly threads and 50% audiocassette tape recorded with a collage of sounds collected, composed, and compiled as odes to life in NYC. $140.00 $126.00 Members   Tag Town: The Evolution of New York Graffiti Featuring interviews with Part 1 and Snake 1, pioneers of the early '70s New York writing scene, and essays on tags and calligraphy, Tag Town is the first book to show early tags in their context. It is a lesson in reading tags for beginners, and provides many a eureka moment for the experienced writer. $24.95 $22.46 Members

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