New Museum Events

Architecture Tour

Architecture tours are led by New Museum docents and focus on the Museum’s building, which was designed by the architectural firm SANAA. Architecture tours are free with Museum admission. No preregistration is necessary. Tours are limited to fifteen visitors on a first-come, first-served basis.

Members Shopping Day

Members will enjoy a special discount of 20 percent at the New Museum Store on February 18. Certain exclusions apply.

A distinctive downtown shopping destination, the New Museum Store specializes in art and design books and exclusive artist-designed objects. All purchases support the Museum and its programming.

To learn more about Membership at the New Museum, please call 212.219.1222 ×234 or ema...

The Critical Matter of Performance: Duets, Part 2

In the spirit of current calls for a general strike against the current administration on February 17, we conceive of this event as a day of critical and necessary reflection and planning. We offer this as a generative platform for thinkers and artists who have been involved in or aligned with activism, and hope it is a crucial contribution to “no business as usual.”

We will hold space in the Ne...

The Critical Matter of Performance: Duets, Part 1

We will hold space in the N...

The Critical Matter of Performance: Screening and Long Table

The New Museum, in partnership with the NYU Center for the Humanities and the Sense of Performance Project at Yale University, presents the inaugural New Museum Colloquium from February 16 to 18, 2017. Entitled “The Critical Matter of Performance,” this three-day think tank will convene historians and theorists of performance, dance, and visual art, as well as choreographers, theater artists, v...

Artist-Guided Tour with Mateo López: “Mateo López: Undo List”

Mateo López’s “Undo List” at the Drawing Center in SoHo is the Colombian artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the US. The multidisciplinary installation will feature works on paper, sculpture, performance, and projected film. Join Mateo López; Claire Gilman, Senior Curator at the Drawing Center; and Natalie Bell, Assistant Curator at the New Museum, for a special tour of the show. RSVP by F...

Body Politic: From Rights to Resistance: Session Two

Livestream for this event will be available at 11:30 a.m. R

This event features information sessions with lawyers, activists, and grassroots organizers on issues of bodies under duress: civil disobedience, protest, healthcare, policing, prisons, immigration, environmental contamination, and indigenous rights. Each session will focus on resource sharing and modes of resistance, and will include p...

Body Politic: From Rights to Resistance: Session One

Livestream for this event will be available at 11:30 a.m. R

Digital Social Memory

Livestream for this event will be available at 2 p.m. R

With the in-house development of Webrecorder —an initiative that puts high-fidelity web archiving and playback capabilities into the hands of users— Rhizome has been working toward the goal of fostering a more durable, ethical, decentralized, and inclusive future for digital social memory.

If social memory can be defined as “how and what soc...

First Saturdays for Families: Talking Streets

Join New Museum educators for a special First Saturdays for Families, which will reimagine the cityscape around us. Families will explore a variety of questions focused on the city and city life. If streets could talk, for example, what stories would they share? With fellow participants, we will create a collaborative landscape inspired by the surroundings of the New Museum. Using an array of d...

Professional Development Seminar for Educators: Making Safer Spaces

Acknowledging that schools, museums, community centers, and other learning environments exist within, rather than apart from, the power structures of the world at large, how might teachers actively create a safer climate in which to challenge these structures together with students? This workshop will focus on deepening our understanding of the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and clas...

Public Servants in the Future Imperfect

Organized by the New Museum and A Blade of Grass, this event celebrates the launch of Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good and Future Imperfect . The event will feature presentations by and discussions with Ben Davis, Tom Finkelpearl, Rick Lowe, and Laura Raicovich.

Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good is the most recent entry in the New Museum’s newly relaunc...

New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”

Join us for a tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” in which we will consider the relationship of the body to architecture in Rist’s engagements with domestic space. Rist has referred to many of her large-scale works as “places for communal gatherings.” By experiencing these works together, we will explore ideas of intimacy while discussing the various ways in which Rist disarms us as viewers ...

Pipilotti Rist in Conversation with Massimiliano Gioni

We will be livestreaming this event starting at 7 PM R

Join us for a special conversation between Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist and Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director of the New Museum, on the occasion of the survey “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.” Gioni and Rist will discuss the trajectory of the artist’s practice over the past thirty years, during which time Rist has achieved international ren...

From Obscurity to Prominence: The Discovery and Stewardship of Outsider Art

Managing an artist’s career or estate requires extreme sensitivity and astute business skills. Often, outsider artists present dealers and scholars with a somewhat unique quandary of management and interpretation, as the artists are frequently either dead when their work is discovered, or are perceived as having a limited ability to talk about the meaning of their art and make decisions about t...

Architecture Tour

New Perspectives Tour of “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”

First Look: Artists’ VR

New Museum and Rhizome present a conversation in conjunction with “First Look: Artists’ VR,” an exhibition of newly commissioned works for mobile virtual reality. At this special event, a selection of artists participating in “First Look: Artists’ VR”—Jeremy Couillard, Jayson Musson, Peter Burr, Rachel Rossin, and Jacolby Satterwhite—will demonstrate their works and reflect on the distinct poss...

Outside the Box Gallery Talks: Laura McLean-Ferris on “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”

Join art writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris for a special Outside the Box gallery talk on “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.”

Outside the Box offers a roster of gallery-based talks given by a variety of guest speakers over the course of a season. In this series, lecturers with diverse backgrounds and affinities will address the New Museum’s fall exhibition, “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,” in fo...

American Sign Language (ASL) Tour

Join a New Museum docent and an American Sign Language interpreter for a tour of our current exhibitions. Students of ASL are welcome. The tour is complimentary with paid Museum admission. Due to limited capacity, please preregister here.