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Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)

JaTovia Gary, THE GIVERNY SUITE,detail (2019). JaTovia Gary. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, NewYork.Photo: Steven Probert.

1. When Did Video Become Art? On Surveillance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

If youre looking for a compact primer on how video moved from its origins in TV broadcasts and security cameras into the art-historical canon, then tune in to the next edition of the Whitneys ongoing Art History From Home series. This week, artist, author, and lecturer Ayanna Dozier will use vital works by the likes of Andrea Fraser, JaTovia Gary, Jill Magid, and others to walk viewers through video arts complex relationship to our contemporary surveillance state, as well as how artists can use the medium to short-circuit the intrusive machinic gaze we now live under.

Price: Free with registration

Time: 6 p.m.

Tim Schneider

Kenny Scharfs Los Angeles studio. Photo courtesy of Kenny Scharf Studio.

2. Kenny Scharf Virtual Visit at RxART, New York

RxArt members can tune in for this virtual studio with Kenny Scharf, who will talk about projects such as his mural in the stairwell of thepediatric and adolescent psychiatric units at Kings County Hospitalin Brooklyn. The street artist-turned-blue-chip darling will chat with dealerDavid Totahtuning in from Scharfs permanent FUNUNDERWORLD installation at his New York galleryand RxArt founderDiane Brown.

Price:Free for Friends of RxART (membership is $100)Time:1 p.m.

Tanner West

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

3. The Modern Portrait hosted by the Philadelphia Show

As part of a monthly series, New Conversations with the Philadelphia Show, University of Pennsylvania associate professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw and Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Jessica T. Smith highlight how 15 artists used portraiture to frame their perception of people and experiment with techniques, as well as to reflect on social issues.

Price:Free with registration.Time:5:30 p.m.6:30 p.m.

Eileen Kinsella

Courtesy of the Helsinki Biennial.

4. Helsinki Biennial Talks Lecture by Dr. Paul ONeill: The Biennial Impact at the Helsinki Biennial

Irish curator, artist, writer, and educator Paul ONeill will take a look at the worldwide proliferation of the art biennial over the past 20 years, with an eye toward covering everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask in the first virtual program for the inaugural Helsinki Biennial.

Price:FreeTime:9:30 a.m.11:30 a.m.

Tanner West

Mildred Thompson, Construction (c. 1973). Courtesy of Galerie Lelong.

5. Dialogues Expanding the Legacy of Mildred Thompson at Galerie Lelong, New York

In conjunction with its second solo exhibition of Mildred Thompsona previously overlooked Black artist of the Modernist eraThroughlines, Assemblages and Works on Paper from the 1960s to the 1990s, Galerie Lelong hosts the second event in its new Dialogues series, moderated byMelissa Messina, curator of the artists estate. The speakers include artist ADriane Nieves, founder of Philadelphias Tessera Arts Collective,and Lauren Jackson Harris and Daricia Mia DeMarr, founders of Black Women in Visual Art.

Price:Free with registrationTime:2 p.m.3 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Image courtesy of The Shed.Clockwise from top left: Howardena Pindell, Heather Hart, Shani Peters, Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Photos: Nathan Keay; Heather Hart; Texas Isaiah; Chanel Matsunami Govreau.

6. Pindells Legacy: Artists/Activists/Educators hosted by the Shed

This is your last chance to catch an installment of Pindells Legacy, a series of online talks exploring the work of artist Howardena Pindell. The talk, moderated by The Shed assistant curator Adeze Wilford, will featurePindell alongside interdisciplinary artists Heather Hart, Shani Peters, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Pindells Legacy has run in tandem with Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, a video project by the artist that was unrealized since the 1970s. Through a mix of personal anecdotes and historical data, Pindells first video in over 25 years explores racism, the history of lynching in the US, and the healing power of art. If youre in the New York area, you can catch the show in-person at The Shed through March 28.

Price:Free with registration.Time:6:30 p.m.

Katie Rothstein

Courtesy of A Blade of Grass.

7. Making Change Now: Contextualizing Cancel Culture, Hyper-Partisanship, and the Politics of Progress at a Blade of Grass, New York

After an organizational restructuring that winnowed the staff of A Blade of Grass to just onedirector Deborah Fisherthe nonprofit kicks off its new season of programming with community organizer and cultural worker Scot Nakagawa and racial justice and human rights expert Loretta J. Ross. The two will discuss the influence of the media and the ways in which it helps drive partisan divisions within society, and how peoples consumption of media shapes their beliefs.

Price:Free with registrationTime:6 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Sandhya Kochar, Torkwase Dyson, Ann Hamilton. Photos by Gabe Souza and Calista Lyon.

8. Torkwase Dyson in Conversation with Ann Hamilton and Sandhya Kochar at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

The Wexner continues its Diversities in Practice talk series with Torkwase Dyson, the museums residency award recipient, who will speak about her work with Ohio State art professorAnn Hamilton and architecture lecturer Sandhya Kochar.

Price:Free with RSVPTime:7 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

George Mumford, Nadia Hallgren. Photo by JJ Medina.

9. Lens Mix 4: Nadia Hallgren and George Mumford at FotoFocus, Cincinnati

FotoFocuss LensMix conversation series returns with filmmaker Nadia Hallgren and sports coach George Mumford, who will discuss overcoming professional boundaries facing African Americans to work with the likes of Michelle Obama and Kobe Bryant.

Price:Free with registrationTime:6 p.m.

Nan Stewert

Sophie Kahn, The Divers VI. Courtesy of the artist.

10. Sophie Kahn: Dematerialized on Mozilla Hubs

Nearly a year after lockdown cancelled her exhibition Dematerialized at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Sophie Kahn is finally debuting the show, albeit in dramatically altered form, staged in the world of VR. The artist has recreated both the physical space and the works themselves, which were 3-D printed sculptures based on scans of live models in different poses.You can book a virtual tour where Kahn will guide your avatar through the interactive 3-D experience, in which sculptures expand and levitate off their pedestals as you approach. (A VR headset is recommended, but optional, to experience the show.)

Price:Free with registrationTime:Opening, 6:30 p.m.7:30 p.m., and by virtual appointment

Sarah Cascone

Illustration by franzidraws. Courtesy of the Design Museum Everywhere.

11. Designs Role in Equity: Diversity in Action Preview Workshop at the Design Museum Everywhere, Boston

The Design Museum Everywhere is hosting a free workshop to preview its Diversity in Action training program, a three-month course hosted by its director of learning and interpretation,Diana Navarrete-Rackauckas with the aim of illustrating the role design plays in equity.

Price:Free with RSVPTime:1 p.m.2 p.m.

Nan Stewert

Through Saturday, March 6

Joyce Pensato: Fuggetabout It (Redux), installation view (2021). Photo courtesy of Petzel.

12. Joyce Pensato Fuggetabout It (Redux) at Petzel, New York

In 2011, Joyce Pensato was evicted from her East Williamsburg studio after 32 years. She turned her legal defeat into art, staging a critically acclaimed exhibition at Petzel featuring hundreds of paint-splattered objects from her former workspace. She showed the installation in two other iterations during her lifetime; now, her estate has worked with the gallery to stage a Redux version, accompanied by the late artistss eyeball paintings, based on characters such as Elmo and Felix the Cat.

Location:Petzel, 456 West 18th Street, New YorkPrice:FreeTime: TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Saturday, March 6

Guests at the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Art + Feminism at MoMA. Photo by Manuel Molina Martagon, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.

13. The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Womens History Month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Met is one of 57 institutions around the world holding anArt+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Womens History Month. Edit-a-thons look to add information about women artists to the free online encyclopedia to boost efforts to bridge the gender gap in the art world. The Wikimedia NYC chapter will provide lists of artists and artworks, as well as training on editing and creating articles. Tune in on Facebook or YouTube to watch, or sign up on theWikipedia Meetup page.

Price:FreeTime:12:30 p.m.2:30 p.m.

Sarah Cascone

Jordan Kasey, Storm, 2020 Courtesy of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

14. Jordan Kasey: The Storm at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York City

Nicelle Beauchene Gallery presents The Storm, Jordan Kaseys third solo show with the gallery. The show consists of eight new large-scale paintings with the artists signature figures that take up the entirety of the surface. The paintings depict slices of loneliness: a solo man with an umbrella, a figure lit up with lightning, which leaves the viewer to wonder if the storm is literal internal. Light and shadow is used to create the feeling that something is looming just out of view, giving each work a surreal, dreamlike quality.

Location:Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, 7 Franklin Place, New YorkPrice:FreeTime:TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.6 p.m.

Neha Jambhekar

Installation view Eric Standley: Songs for the Living, 2020. Courtesy of Dinner Gallery.

15. Eric Standley: Songs for the Living at Dinner Gallery

Made of scrupulously arranged layers of multicolor laser-cut paper, Eric Standleys intricate works bring to mind mandalas, Gothic architectural webs, and the delicate carvings common to Islamic prayer niches. Though newly made, Standley calls the work artifacts because, for him, the act of assembling them is akin to an act of discoveringas though the forms already exist out in the world, and he has happened upon them. Set against bright, geometric forms painted onto the gallery walls, the exhibition has the feel of a sanctum, a place with reverence for complexity, study, and moments of peaceful contemplation.

Location: Dinner Gallery,242 West 22nd Street, New YorkPrice: FreeTime: By appointment, TuesdaySaturday

Katie White

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This Wednesday, Mar. 3, from 1:30 p.m. 2 p.m., Ann Plato Fellow in Anthropology and American Studies Amanda Guzman will deliver a lecture entitled Reframing (Our) Institutional Histories: Objects as New Sites of Representation to the Trinity community. Guzman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Anthropology (Archaeology). Guzman specializes in museum anthropology, while her research focuses on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. Using the knowledge and experience she has gained from her work with collections, Guzman has been able to use teaching practices that privilege a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work.

According to the main coordinator of the Art + Feminism event, Mary Mahoney, Guzman is a great speaker for this particular event because she specializes in the field of museum anthropology and can speak on issues of representation in museums which is central to the theme of Art + Feminism. She is also a great speaker and is doing really exciting work at Trinity.

Art + Feminism is an international community which closes the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet. An important element of this work is coordinating Wikipedia edit-a-thons that addressWikipedias documented gender bias, specifically in the arts. The Art + Feminism week at Trinity is a way to promote awareness of this community and the work this community does.

Professor Guzman will share her research in museum anthropology and use it to help us understand issues of representation in collections. The event itself speaks to the politics of knowledge creation and invites participants to first acknowledge and understand the disparity in coverage of women and non-binary artists on Wikipedia. It then welcomes volunteers to learn how to edit and contribute to pages of women and non-binary artists and organizations. The same kind of disparity in coverage of women and non-binary artists exists in museums and is influenced by issues of race, class, and gender, added Mahoney.

While this is a lecture that may attract specific fields of studies, such as American Studies and Anthropology, attendance across all academic fields is encouraged.

Art + Feminism speaks to the politics of knowledge creation. We all use Wikipedia all the time, for example, but perhaps dont examine the motivations, assumptions, or biases that influence who gets a page, what kinds of sources count towards proving someone notable enough to warrant one, and what information gets edited out by editors. Similarly, how do museums decide what artists to feature? What kinds of objects are worthy of display and why? This series of events invites everyone on campus to think about assumptions we make about things in our world that are made to appear natural and what role gender plays in shaping those assumptions, said Mahoney.

As part of the Art + Feminism Week, there is a culminating event called the all-day edit-a-thon. This event serves as a chance to close the information gap around gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet.

We will train volunteers to learn how to edit and contribute to pages of women and non-binary artists and organizations. Volunteers can start with our list of New England artists and organizations in New England, or they can choose any artist or organizations of interest. There is absolutely no experience necessary, and in fact we love introducing people to editing who have never edited before! Its easy and fun. The edit-a-thon will feature an hour-long performance break featuring community and Trinity artists. Our event site will also feature creative work from across campus that we are excited to share, noted Mahoney.

There will be several events, including Guzmans lecture on Wednesday, for Art + Feminism week offered by Trinity for this upcoming week. Typically, the events are held in person. However, this year, due to Covid-19, all events will be held virtually.

On Mar. 4, from 1 p.m. 2 p.m., a virtual tour featuring Feminist Art and Women Artists at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will occur. This tour will be led by Adult and Academic Programs Manager Janna Israel. At 11 a.m. -4 p.m. on Mar. 5, the all-day Wikipedia edit-a-thon, which includes breakout rooms for new Wikipedia Editors, will begin. There will be Artist performances occurring during this time from 1 p.m. 2 p.m.. Finally, on Thursday, Mar. 25, from 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m., there will be a virtual workshop entitled Wikipedia and Open Pedagogy focusing on these issues.

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He appended a Covid-19 in popular culture section to the end of the article, which was left mostly blank, save for a few lines about the certainty of impending works of art that would reference the pandemic. Fellow editors immediately disputed the section, citing a lack of substance. I said, Just hang on, this is going to fill in, Wyatt said. If you think about the plague of the Middle Ages and how much literature and culture references the plague again now, this is a category we can create in advance because we know its going to fill out. And thats what happened. Indeed, it grew so big that it became its own article.

In his essay on Wikipedias relationship to breaking news, Brian Keegan notes the prodigious detail of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack article in the months following the event. There was even a list of the nearly 3,000 casualties by name, location, and civilian status. Editors started to argue that the fastidiousness was unbecoming of the traditional encyclopedia that Wikipedia was trying to emulate stylistically, and eventually portions of the entry disappeared.

That Wikipedia articles can spring into existence overnight, grow, and then contract again, reflects the peculiar vicissitudes of record-keeping in the digital age. Because the online encyclopedia is living and breathing, it is bound to the present. Gradually, as the community comes to understand [the pandemic] with a macro perspective, two, three, five, 10 years out, some of those subpages will be deleted, or theyll be merged, Stinson said. The Tourism in Zanzibar page, for instance, may one day forgo its Covid-19 reference, especially if theres a surviving, comprehensive article about the pandemics effects on global tourism.

Wikimedia archives all deleted pages, of course, which is why Stephen Harrison, writing in Slate, astutely observed that todays Wikipedia revisions [will] become a historical artifact for future scholars studying this period.

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In honor of Women's History Month, Art House Productions, along with Hudson County Community College & Seton Hall University, present Art+Feminism Lecture on Wednesday, March 24 at 12:30pm EST via Zoom. Click here to register for the lecture.

On April 7 from 10:00am-1:00pm EST, the Walsh Library and the Walsh Gallery will host Seton Hall's second Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. All are invited to register to become "Wikipedians" and edit or create a Wikipedia page for an artist. Click here to register for the event.

According to the Art+Feminism website, the non-profit organization "directly addresses the inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia." This is accomplished through a coordinated campaign of online training materials and volunteer-organized "edit-a-thons" at a variety of cultural and intellectual institutions across the globe.

In the lecture on March 24, Brooke Duffy and Jeanne Brasile will provide an overview of the ways in which women and gender diverse artists have traditionally been and continue to be excluded from the art historical canon and global art markets. They will share background information about the Art+Feminism organization and objectives of their wiki-thons. The lecture culminates with a hands-on activity in which participants can engage with, critically read, and converse about artist Wikipedia pages.

To request closed captions or ASL interpreters, please email info@arthouseproductions.org at least 72 hours before the event.

The mission of the Hudson County Community College Department of Cultural Affairs is to provide supplementary programs to stimulate awareness of the arts and foster creativity. We strive to complement the efforts of HCCC with cultural events, community programs, and educational initiatives. Our goal is to transcend the understanding of visual and performing arts by closing the distance between the experience of art and everyday life in the community we serve.

In 2015, the College established a Cultural Affairs Task Force comprising involved members of the community, as well as HCCC Trustees, Foundation Board Directors, educators and scholars. The result is a full calendar of arts programs and events each semester, most of which are free of cost, and are held on the College's Journal Square and North Hudson campuses. Please CLICK HERE to view this season's offerings.

The Seton Hall University Libraries advance distinction in the Seton Hall communitys teaching, learning, and research through its provision of user-focused services, programs, and robust collections. Seton Hall University Libraries support excellence in academic and individual work, enable inquiry, foster intellectual and ethical integrity and respect for diverse points of view through user-focused services and robust collections as the intellectual and cultural heart of the University. The University Libraries are central to the Universitys intellectual life where students and faculty needs are the top priority. We lead through the provision of innovative services, programs, and resources within the Seton Hall community and beyond. The Walsh Gallery and Archives and Special Collections are the repositories for records, art and artifacts in support of the University Libraries and Seton Hall Universitys missions, goals and visions. In the Catholic intellectual tradition, we encourage the exchange of divergent points of view as we are the intellectual, ethical, cultural, and historical heart of the University. http://www.shu.edu

Art House Productions has long awarded adventurous and diverse performing artists with a stage to expose audiences to their ambitious and challenging projects. Art House Productions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to the development and presentation of the performing and visual arts in Jersey City, NJ. Art House Productions presents theater, performing and visual arts festivals, arts events, visual art exhibitions, and adult and youth art classes. For more information about our programs, please visit our website at http://www.arthouseproductions.org. Follow us on social media @arthouseproductions @arthouseprods. To sign up for Art House's mailing list, please click here: http://eepurl.com/hd1FCj.

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Newswise WASHINGTON, February 18, 2021 -- To highlight and enhance the awareness of Black physicists, the American Institute of Physics is partnering with Black in Physics to host a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon to address inaccuracies and incomplete information on the popular resource website about African American and Black scientists.

The event will take place during the last week of Black History Month, Feb. 22-26, and bring together volunteers in the physics community to build and edit Wikipedia pages about Black physicists. Wikipedia editors will provide training and information to assist the volunteers with the Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon.

Members of AIPs Center for History of Physics and the Niels Bohr Library & Archives will host information drop-in sessions for Wikithon editors seeking resources and best practices for citing sources on Wikipedia pages. The AIP oral history collection will be utilized as a resource for Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon volunteers to find citable material.

The Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon drop-in sessions will last about an hour but could extend depending on the work being done. Volunteers from Black in Physics will be participating in the weeklong event.

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About American Institute of Physics

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a 501(c)(3) membership corporation of scientific societies. AIP pursues its missionto advance, promote, and serve the physical sciences for the benefit of humanitywith a unifying voice of strength from diversity. In its role as a federation, AIP advances the success of its Member Societies by providing the means to pool, coordinate, and leverage their diverse expertise and contributions in pursuit of a shared goal of advancing the physical sciences in the research enterprise, in the economy, in education, and in society. In its role as an institute, AIP operates as a center of excellence using policy analysis, social science, and historical research to promote future progress in the physical sciences.

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