TUESDAY, September 22

Kevin Beasley, BEATEN-FACE/TOMS/ARMS, TIES, &LEG/FLOOR/BODY/BASS (2014).
Photo by Jean Vong. Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York.

Kevin Beasley: Untitled Stanzas: Staff/Un/Site on the High Line

In his performance in Manhattan’s favorite elevated park, Kevin Beasley will install and play a new piece composed of sounds collected from around the High Line over three days (September 22-24), “in an attempt to engage one of the few remaining open-air pockets in Manhattan,” it states on the website. Successive performances will build on prior ones, resulting in an evolving sound installation.

The High Line at the Rail Yards On the High Line at West 30th Street and 12th Avenue, New York at 6 p.m. 

Exterior of exhibition invitation International Art Exhibition for Palestine, Beirut (1978).
Image: Courtesy Mona Saudi.

Past Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts of the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978 at Artists Space

Beirut-based curators and writers Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti will shine a light on the legacy of The International Art Exhibition in Solidarity with Palestine—a 1978 show organized by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which opened in Beirut as a “ghost exhibition,” as it states on the website. The show was to be on tour until it could settle in a space in Palestine, but the works were destroyed during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

Artists Space Talks & Books, 55 Walker Street at 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, September 23

Arlene Shechet, Slip, installation view, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC (2013).
Image: Photo credit Alan Wiener.

All at Once: Arlene Shechet, Janine Antoni, Ian Berry, David Levi Strauss at the New York Public Library

Sculptor Arlene Shechet will be in conversation to discuss her new book Arlene Shechet: All at Once, an accompaniment to her first museum survey at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (June 10-September 7, 2015). She is joined by artist Janine Antoni and writer David Levi Strauss, and their conversation will be moderated by Ian Berry, Dayton Director of The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.​ 

The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium, 5th Avenue at 42nd Street  from 6-8 p.m.

THURSDAY, September 24

Image: Courtesy of The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.

Policing the Crises: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique at Barnard College and SUNY Stony Brook, Manhattan Campus

The three-day conference centers around cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s work. On Thursday, a roundtable talk called “Reconstructing the Popular” will kick-off the festivities.

The Diana Center Event Oval at Barnard College and SUNY, Stony Brook, Manhattan Campus, New York at 4:45 p.m.

Image: Courtesy of the Kitchen.

What do trees have to do with it? at the Kitchen

Broken Dimanche Press introduces its new series, Parapoetics: a Literature beyond the Human, with artist Katie Holten’s work, What do trees have to do with it? Before she speaks with Holden, Jessamyn Fiore will lead a private tour of Gordon Matta-Clark: Energy & Abstraction, an exhibition including rarely shown tree drawings, at David Zwirner nearby at 6 p.m.

The Kitchen, 512 W 19th Street at 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, September 26

View from the Whitney Museum by A.K. Burns and Katherine Hubbard (2015).
Image: Courtesy the artists.

Poetry Parade for “Site and Sight” at the Whitney Museum

Nayland Blake, AK Burns, Anna Craycroft, Nicole Eisenman, Katherine Hubbard, Simone Leigh, Catherine Lord, Kamau Patton, and Sreshta Rit Premnath will perform readings that address the new Whitney Museum building, in addition to its location in the Meatpacking District. In addition, Burns and Hubbard collaborate through their project, the Poetry Parade, in which “artists, curators, and cultural thinkers read self-selected texts to works of art.”

Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street at 6:30 p.m.

Juliana Huxtable, Untitled (2014).
Photo: Courtesy of the New Museum.

Discwoman Anniversary Party at Bossa Nova Civic Club

Artist Juliana Huxtable, recently seen in the New Museum’s triennial Surround Audience, will take part in the first anniversary celebration for Discwoman: “a platform showcasing and representing the wealth of female-identified DJ talent in the electronic music community.”

Bossa Nova Civic Club, 1271 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn at 8 p.m.