Artists Space Inc

Programs: Artists space's explicit historical mission is to be a platform for artists - both emerging and established - and to actively engage them in our programs as audience members and as participants. Public programs were attended by audiences of 50 to 200 people with the large majority of them being artists living and working in nyc, strong testimony to the vital role that artists space plays today within new york's art community. In fy17, artists space presented 3 exhibitions and 28 public programs at our main location at 55 walker street, with a total attendance of 6,980 visitors. Beyond these figures, artists space's impact on new york's cultural and intellectual life can be found in the writing, artwork, debate, discussion, and thought generated by our programs. All public programs are available to view on our website, and we continue to lead the discussion amongst cultural institutions in new york city as an organization deeply engaged in art and cultural advocacy. Artists space exhibitionsdecolonize this place (september 17 - december 17, 2016)organized by art historian yates mckee alongside activist/research/aesthetics collective mtl+, decolonize centered five lines of political inquiry: indigenous struggle, black liberation, free palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification. During the three-month artist/activist residency artists space, with the support of common practice new york, hosted more than one hundred events, both smaller meetings and large public events, visited by a total of 3,164 people in total. These events that took place during this residency were multivalent and intersectional, and included assemblies, trainings, skillshares, reading, screenings, potlucks, and more, and involved a wide range of new york-based artist organizations including chinatown arts brigade, bronx not for sale, women writers of color, queens gentrification project, w. A. G. E. , aka exit, black poets speak out, and al-awda ny. Highlights included chinatown not for sale, a roundtable with chinatown gallerists and tenant organizers; palestine, blm and boycott the arts, a conversation with robin d. G. Kelley and jasbir k. Puar; and wages of whiteness in the art economy, a panel discussion organized by lise soskolne of working artists and the greater economy (w. A. G. E. ). Laura cottingham & the anita pallenberg story (may 7 - june 18, 2016)in the 90s, artist and critic laura cottingham was one of the first to historicize the feminist art movement with her film not for sale". For this exhibition, cottingham - under-represented across galleries internationally today - presented her filmic lesbian paean to warhol, fassbinder, and godard, titled "the anita pallenberg story", along with vibrant still images showcasing the cast during the film's production. Paying homage to the infamous rolling stones groupie, the film takes up issues of sexual politics and the economics of both rock stardom and the art world. Ugo rondinone: i