Downtown Culture Walk 2024
May 04, 2024, 11:00 AM - 06:00 PM
General Admission: Free (suggested donation: $10) – No reservation required
As a member of the SoHo Arts Network (SAN), CIMA is pleased to participate in SAN’s Downtown Culture Walk, a self-guided walking tour highlighting the non-profit art spaces in SoHo and surrounding neighborhoods. SAN seeks to further growth of the arts through collaborative public programs set to explore the neighborhoods’ rich cultural histories.
On May 4, members of SAN will open their doors from 11am to 6pm (hours vary) for Downtown Culture Walk, inviting participants to discover and enjoy our creative community. Walkthroughs, open hours, and other programming will be offered throughout the day for free or reduced admission.
Participating SAN members include: apexart; Canal Projects; Center for Architecture; DIA; Grey Art Museum, New York University; Judd Foundation; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art; Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation; Museum of Chinese in America; Soho Photo Gallery; Swiss Institute; The Drawing Center, and The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation.
More information, including a map of all participating organizations and programming schedule, is available HERE.
About the SoHo Arts Network
The SoHo Arts Network (SAN) is a working network of non-profit art spaces in and around SoHo. Founded in 2014 by a small group of non-profit arts organizations, the network celebrates the rich history of our unique creative community and collectively shares our distinct cultural contributions with neighborhoods residents and visitors.
Persisting Matters: An Artist Talk Series – Hilary Harkness in conversation with Ksenia Soboleva and Jerry Saltz
May 07, 2024, 6:00 PM
General Admission: FREE
Please join us for a new episode in this series of encounters and conversations with contemporary artists, this time with artist Hilary Harkness, art historian Dr. Ksenia Soboleva and art critic Jerry Saltz.
Persisting Matters is a series of talks that places contemporary artists in conversation with scholars, curators, critics, and the public. The series is developed in the context of CIMA’s 2023-2024 exhibition, Transatlantic Bridges: Corrado Cagli, 1938-1948 (October 12, 2023 – January 27, 2024), and supported by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Cagli saw his artistic practice as a tool for anti-rhetorical resistance and critique to power in times of exile, displacement and trauma. Questions of gender, racism, political oppression and resilience through art and community practices were central to his work in the years of his exile from Italy, due to the country’s racial laws. Persisting Matters engages contemporary artists, whose practices explore these pressing subjects in their individual context and prism.
Hilary Harkness (b. 1971) meticulously fuses Old Master tactics with a distinctly contemporary sensibility to explore power dynamics, war, and gender through an intersectional lens. Her work explores interpersonal dynamics through a lens that allows power struggles inherent in sex, race, and class systems to play out on an uncensored stage. Harkness earned her BA from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Yale University. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Yuz Museum Shanghai; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; and the Seavest Collection, New York, NY; among others. In 2017, she received the Henry Clews Award and participated in the inaugural Master Residency Program at the Château de La Napoule in France. She has lectured widely at leading academic and cultural institutions. In 2014, she co-curated Roy Lichtenstein: Nudes and Interiors at The FLAG Art Foundation. Harkness’s first solo exhibition with PPOW Gallery, Prisoners from the Front, was on display in fall 2023.
Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation on art, AIDS, and lesbian identity in the United States. She is currently working on a book project titled Friendship as a Way of Art: Queer Identity and Visual Citation. Soboleva is a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Rail and BOMB magazine, and her writings have appeared in various exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She teaches at the New School and NYU.
Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture. He is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and 2019 National Magazine Award. Before joining New York in 2007, Saltz had been art critic for The Village Voice since 1998 and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize during his tenure there. He is an author of NYT Best Seller How To Be an Artist among other books. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, and many others, and has appeared at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and elsewhere.
This series is developed through a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Stile Olivetti: Between Art and Design
May 10, 2024, 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
General Admission: $15, Members & Students: FREE
Conceived by CIMA and Joseph Tedeschi, Stile Olivetti: Between Art and Design brings together Olivetti scholars and enthusiasts for an afternoon of study, dedicated to an Italian company that shaped the history of office machines, labor practices, product design and communications, and cultural patronage. The event will include lectures, a film screening, and a hands-on workshop with historic Olivetti typewriters.
PROGRAM
4:00 PM: Greetings from Gaetano di Tondo, President, Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti
4:10 PM: Beniamino de’ Liguori Carino, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti: The Olivetti Universe
4:20 PM Fabio Mongelli, Director, Rome University of Fine Arts: The Importance of Education at Olivetti
4:50 PM Emanuele Cappelli, Cappelli Identity Design, Olivetti and Design: Typewriters, Typefaces and Brand Communication
5:20PM: Lindsay Caplan, Brown University, Olivetti and the Arts: Computers as Model
6:00 PM-7:00 PM: typewriting workshop with original Olivetti typewriters, facilitated by Joseph Tedeschi.
7:00 PM-7:30 PM: Light refreshments
7:30 PM: Film screening, Paradigma Olivetti (dir. Davide Maffei, 2020, 88 minutes). In Italian with English subtitles
About the speakers:
Architect Fabio Mongelli is a member of the National Council of Art Higher Education (Afam). He is the Chairman of the Board of Private Institutions of Higher Education in Art (Cians) He is the Director of Rome University of Fine Arts. He is a member of the Design Board of the Ministry of University and Research. He was Ambassador of Italian Design 2020. He was an Adviser of the “Quadriennale di Roma” (2019/2023). He has completed many projects and exhibitions, supporting the technical and planning aspects of these projects with the theoretical and educational aspects of Architecture, Design and Art. He has planned and has been in charge of the art direction of the Museum of the “Pietro Vannucci” Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia, that has proclaimed him Honorary Member of the Academy.
Emanuele Cappelli is the Founder and Creative Director of the Cappelli Identity Design studio, with over 25 years of experience in the sector with international clients. Brand & Graphic Design teacher at various institutions and universities in Europe, the United States, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and the Middle East with over 20 years of academic experience. He is a TEDx speaker and disseminator on the themes of the Dynamic brand, also through membership of the World Design Organization. His vision of design became a monograph in 2022 entitled: Dynamic brand. The brand’s new communication methodology, published by Skira and distributed throughout the world. His passion is Olivetti.
Lindsay Caplan is an art historian who specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century art. She is Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Brown University and the author of Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy (University of Minnesota, 2022). She has published on the intersections of art, technology, and politics in exhibition catalogues, edited volumes, as well as venues such as Grey Room, ARTMargins, Piano B, The Scholar & Feminist Online, Outland, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and e-flux journal.
Joseph Tedeschi is an attorney who lives and works in NY. He studied at Harvard and completed his legal studies at New York University law school. Joseph serves on the Board of Directors of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts NY and is a Director of the YY Dance Company, founded by his wife and choreographer Yue Yin. He is a member of CIMA and a collector of vintage typewriters.
In collaboration with:
With the in-kind support of Joseph Tedeschi
Under the patronage of:
Persisting Matters: An Artist Talk Series – Tammie Rubin in conversation with Ellen Tani
May 14, 2024, 6:00 PM
General Admission: FREE
Please join us for a new episode in this series of encounters and conversations with contemporary artists, this time with Tammie Rubin and Ellen Tani.
Persisting Matters is a series of talks that places contemporary artists in conversation with scholars, curators, critics, and the public. The series is developed in the context of CIMA’s 2023-2024 exhibition, Transatlantic Bridges: Corrado Cagli, 1938-1948 (October 12, 2023 – January 27, 2024), and supported by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Cagli saw his artistic practice as a tool for anti-rhetorical resistance and critique to power in times of exile, displacement and trauma. Questions of gender, racism, political oppression and resilience through art and community practices were central to his work in the years of his exile from Italy, due to the country’s racial laws. Persisting Matters engages contemporary artists, whose practices explore these pressing subjects in their individual context and prism.
Tammie Rubin is a ceramic sculptor and installation artist whose practice considers the intrinsic power of objects and coded symbols as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics. Her artwork weaves together familial, historical, and literary narratives of Black American citizenry, migration, autonomy, and faith. Rubin has received residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Pottery Northwest. She is the 2022 Tito’s Prize winner and a 2024 USA Fellow in Craft.
Rubin exhibits widely; selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; AGBS Christian-Green Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin, Mulvane Art Museum, KS; George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN; The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX; Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX; Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY; and Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX. Rubin is represented by Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX., and C24 Gallery, New York, NY.
Rubin’s artwork has received reviews in online and print publications such as Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Oxford American, Art in America, Glasstire, Austin Chronicle, Sightlines, fields, Conflict of Interest, Arts and Culture Texas, and Ceramics: Art & Perception. She is a member of ICOSA Collective, a non-profit cooperative gallery. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics & Sculpture at St. Edward’s University.
Ellen Tani is an art historian and curator whose research in the history of modern and contemporary art is informed by feminist, critical race, and disability theory. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Rochester Institute of Technology. A collaborator at heart, she co-developed the AREA Code Art Fair in Boston I 2020, and has held curatorial positions at the ICA Boston and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition RETROaction in 2024 with Charles Gaines, Kate Fowle, and Homi Bhabha at the New York and Los Angeles locations of Hauser & Wirth Gallery. Her research has been supported by the Clark Research and Academic Program, the Getty Research Institute, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship has appeared in Art Journal, Panorama, and American Quarterly, and her current book manuscript explores the career of conceptual artist Charles Gaines.
This series is developed through a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Arte al Femminile: Women in Italian Visual Poetry
May 22, 2024, 6:00 PM
General Admission: $15, Members & Students: FREE
In conjunction with CIMA’s current exhibition on Nanni Balestrini and the political dimensions of art in the 1960s and 1970s, this event will explore the work of Italian women artists involved in visual poetry during those decades, along with the social, political, and historical context in which they operated.
Art Historian and Curator Leslie Cozzi (Baltimore Museum of Art) will examine a number of women artists that used language in their visual work to engage with questions of gender and to subvert patriarchal narratives and structures.
CIMA fellows Francesca Zambon and Anna Szirmai will complement the case studies presented with a brief historical overview of second-wave feminism in Italy, and with an exploration of innovative approaches in art, such as asemic writing.
Leslie Cozzi, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art, oversees the museum’s collection of post-1900 works on paper. Her recent exhibitions include Matsumi Kanemitsu: Figure and Fantasy; Darrel Ellis: Regeneration; A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore; and Valerie Maynard: Lost & Found. She has published and lectured widely on contemporary Italian art and feminism. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Protagonismo e non: Mirella Bentivoglio, Carla Accardi, Carla Lonzi, and the Art of Italian Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s,” was awarded a 2010-2011 Fulbright research fellowship as well as the Zora Neale Hurston essay prize by the University of Virginia’s Women and Gender Studies program. Prior to her arrival at the BMA, Dr. Cozzi was the 2017-2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Winner in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome.
Light refreshments will be offered