@creativetime

Public art org working with artists on the dialogues, debates & dreams of our times. Est. 1974, NYC.

 New York, New York
creativetime.org/
Joined June 2010
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Luckily, still verified by...actual birds. @_DukeRiley
Image of pigeons flying at night against a moonlit sky, from Duke Riley's Fly By Night (2016).

ALT Image of pigeons flying at night against a moonlit sky, from Duke Riley's Fly By Night (2016).

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Announcing Moving Chains: Toward Abolition, May 20, 2023 @Gov_Island Join Creative Time and Governors Island Arts for a day including a walking tour, presentations, panel discussions, and art making workshops for all ages Schedule & Register eventbrite.com/e/62378897862…
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"Humor makes people aware and uncomfortable" - #PattyChang Performed with carpet blowers, house paint, and two boom boxes, veteran performance artist Patty Chang brought her 'Fan Dance' to Times Square as part of Creative Time's collaboration with @MTV, entitled 44 1/2 in 2004.
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Charles Gaines’ Moving Chains and Kara Walker's A Subtlety... were featured in this weekend's T Magazine. We are proud of our work toward creating monumental works, and having two Creative Time projects among such good company is a pleasure—a must read! nytimes.com/2023/03/24/t-mag…

The Black Artists Claiming More Space Than Ever Before (Published 2023)

New monumental works are filling landscapes and galleries, where they argue for the freedom and power to play.

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READ⬇️ Charles Gaines’s “Moving Chains” featured in today’s @tmagazine. This massive, kinetic sculpture, presented by #GovIslandArts, @creativetime & @TSqArts, will reopen later this spring on @Gov_Island—stay tuned for updates! nytimes.com/2023/03/24/t-mag…

The Black Artists Claiming More Space Than Ever Before (Published 2023)

New monumental works are filling landscapes and galleries, where they argue for the freedom and power to play.

nytimes.com
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NYC, it's time for some Spring cleaning! 🧼 🌷 Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Touch Sanitation performances were a series of actions that unfolded starting in the late 1970s surrounding sanitation workers in NYC, an often overlooked workforce.
Ukeles speaks to a sanitation worker in front of a sanitation truck. The truck is white and covered in graffiti

ALT Ukeles speaks to a sanitation worker in front of a sanitation truck. The truck is white and covered in graffiti

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It's ok. You're not alone. (In)Visible Women was Marina Alvarez and Ellen Spiro's 26-minute film, broadcast on TV for World AIDS Day and Day Without Art in 1991, focused on the heroic and positive response of Black and Latina women to the AIDS crisis. #WomensHistoryMonth
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"It's a reorientation away from competition and towards coalition" — Creative Time Curator Diya Vij (@diyavij) on building sustainable futures for creative work on “Common Work: Learnings for the Future from Common Field” (@common_field)! Listen: soundcloud.com/loharprojects…
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"De-influencing" ahead of his time: instead of advocating “green” lifestyles that are financially and culturally inaccessible, in a 2014 #CTReport, artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph proposes we ask: what sustains life in a community? Read it below: creativetimereports.org/2014…

If We Don't Connect It to Race and Class, Then Green Politics Is Just High-End Consumerism |...

Instead of advocating green politics, Marc Bamuthi Joseph proposes we ask a question that connects race, class and ecology: What sustains life in a community?

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"'No Justice, No Peace.' That's what the young people are feeling out on the street—they feel like they are fighting the same fights that their parents and grandparents are fighting... " — @shepreebright at the 2016 CT Summit. Listen below: creativetime.org/summit/2016…
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Happy Valentine's Day! Hope yours is full of XOXO 🖤 #KissingDoesntKill #GranFury #ActUp
Julie Tolentino and Lola Flash touch bottom lips in an almost-kiss. This panel is one-third of the full Gran Fury advertisement, "KISSING DOESN'T KILL: GREED AND INDIFFERENCE DO," 1989.

ALT Julie Tolentino and Lola Flash touch bottom lips in an almost-kiss. This panel is one-third of the full Gran Fury advertisement, "KISSING DOESN'T KILL: GREED AND INDIFFERENCE DO," 1989.

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Didn’t get a chance to sign up for the V-Day release of @jillmagid's Out-Game Flowers, presented and commissioned by @artw__rld? Allowlist access to the small bouquets begins on Valentine’s Day, but the larger public drop happening on February 16. 💐 👾 #JillMagid #NFT #Flowers
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“Malcolm could see America without the burden of the underlying assumption that it is a force for good, and he could critique America as someone with no allegiance to it.” — Dread Scott (@dreadscottart) on Malcolm X #BlackHistoryMonth #DredScott #MalcolmX
Dread Scott burning a U.S. flag on the steps of the US Capitol, 1989. He is held on each side by police officers.

ALT Dread Scott burning a U.S. flag on the steps of the US Capitol, 1989. He is held on each side by police officers.

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“What you might think of as a roof, you find 100 foot long lengths of chain.” Charles Gaines constructs “Moving Chains,” a massive metal and wooden structure on @Gov_Island. 📺a21.tv/3UwoZud @creativetime @TSqArts @HauserWirth
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Creative Time alum @jillmagid is launching her first NFT-backed collection with @artw__rld, and we are so thankful to be benefitting from a portion of the sales. Sign up to Artwrld’s allowlist at the 🔗 below. premint.xyz/out-game-flowers…
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One month into 2023: there have been 39 U.S mass shootings* In a #2016CTReport, Jacques Servin (@theyesmen) wrote on the NRA, white supremacy, and the reality of state violence weaponized against people of color. creativetimereports.org/2016… *NYT/Gun Violence Archive

What Gun Advocates Are Really Afraid of: History | Creative Time Reports

Gun-rights maximalists cite fear of "government thugs," but The Yes Men show how the history of the organization---and the nation---tells a different story.

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Heading into the new year looking for some blueprints to surviving/thriving within the systems we are dealt, from explorations of capitalism to queer abstraction, and so much more. This is what we're reading now. 📚
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"Artists are at the forefront of social change. Artists often allow us to grasp what we cannot yet understand.”* — Angela Davis Happy Birthday, Angela Davis! *Forbes via the Oakland Museum of California
A poster showing a black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of Angela Davis, facing left. Black text below reads "FREE ANGELA DAVIS NOW!" Below reads "NEW YORK COMMITTEE TO FREE ANGELA DAVIS, 29 WEST 15TH ST, 7TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10011, 9292010. New York Committee to Free Angela Davis advertisement, ca. 1971. Accessed via the Library of Congress, Yankee poster collection.

ALT A poster showing a black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of Angela Davis, facing left. Black text below reads "FREE ANGELA DAVIS NOW!" Below reads "NEW YORK COMMITTEE TO FREE ANGELA DAVIS, 29 WEST 15TH ST, 7TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10011, 9292010. New York Committee to Free Angela Davis advertisement, ca. 1971. Accessed via the Library of Congress, Yankee poster collection.

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Our friends at @_artcoop just came out with the podcast Remember the Future, which shares stories of culture workers in the Solidarity Economy movement and educates listeners about the value of community control of culture. Listen below! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
A collage with green water at the bottom, greenery in the middle, and a blue sky with clouds at the top. Text in the left top corner reads "art.coop presents." In the middle of the collage is a circle with the sky and clouds at sunset. White text surrounds this center image that reads "REMEMBER the FUTURE."

ALT A collage with green water at the bottom, greenery in the middle, and a blue sky with clouds at the top. Text in the left top corner reads "art.coop presents." In the middle of the collage is a circle with the sky and clouds at sunset. White text surrounds this center image that reads "REMEMBER the FUTURE."

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🐰 Happy Lunar New Year! 🎉 The New Year began yesterday and we wish all those celebrating peace and prosperity in the Year of the Rabbit! #YearOfTheRabbit #LunarNewYear
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"We are compelled to ask: what is left in the wake of that which is signified in the motion of the chains?" —Zoë Hopkins. We are so thankful for the words in @thebrooklynrail on Moving Chains, which will re-open this spring after a winter hiatus. brooklynrail.org/2023/12/art…
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