Group Show
CLOCKWISE
February 8th - April 20th, 2024
With works by:
David Austen, Wallace Berman, Mel Bochner, Mara De Luca, Aleksandar Duravcevic, TR Ericsson, Melissa McGill, Lun*na Menoh, Luca Pancrazzi, Kenny Scharf, Alex Sewell, Lauretta Vinciarelli
Group Show
Morphologies
November 14th, 2023 - February 3rd, 2024
With works by:
Mike Cloud, Sam Jablon, Odili Donald Odita, Jo Messer, Sam Messer
Lun*na Menoh and Brooklyn Rail co-founder Phong Bui in conversation following a screening of the documentary film Who is Lun*na Menoh? at TOTAH
May 20th, 2023 6PM
Brooklyn Rail virtual screening
Screening of Blah Blah Blah: Mel Bochner In His Own Words with filmmaker Lizbeth Marano and Mel Bochner. Drawing upon archival footage and interviews, the film chronicles pivotal moments across six decades of the artist's career as told by Bochner himself. Screening followed by Q&A. Saturday, April 2nd, 2022.
Tosh Berman and Andrew Lampert discuss Wallace Berman’s film Aleph, 1956-66, moderated by Anne Waldman.
September 18th, 2021
Crackle & Drag
Crackle & Drag (2015) is a film-poem created by visual artist TR Ericsson. A haunting epitaph of maternal and filial love structured around a series of biographical vignettes and narrated by the artist’s deceased mother through several audio voice recordings.
The film combines still and moving images from personal archives in a diverse range of media. Formats include 8mm digital transfer, digital scans of 35mm photographic prints, polaroids and snapshots from the 1940s to the early 2000s, digital HD video as well as digital audio and audio transfer from cassette recordings.
Crackle & Drag will have its first New York screening on February 11th at 5:00PM.
Aleksandar Duravcevic
EMPIRE
October 29th – December 18th, 2020
Extended (January 12th – February 6th, 2021)
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Conversation between Melissa McGill and Brian Langloss from Oceana on the precarious state of our oceans’ ecosystem and the threat of rising water levels. February 27th, 2020.
Film documenting blue blood installation and Kenny Scharf spray painting Fundunderworld in situ, May 2019.
TOTAH presents A Reading, an evening of poetry organized by artist and writer Jeffrey Grunthaner. Featured readers include Zoe Brezny, William Lessard, Brendan Lorber, and Nadia de Vries
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Tuesday, February 26th, 7-9pm
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With works by: Eve Aschheim, David Austen, Robert Baras, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lisa Beck, Isak Berbic, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, William Eric Brown, Alberto Burri, Huguette Caland, Enrico Castellani, Vija Celmins, Anne Collier, George Condo, Dan Covert, Gino De Dominicis, Adeline de Monseignat, Mara De Luca, Aleksandar Duravcevic, TR Ericsson, Alison Hall, Keith Haring, Adam Henry, Sam Jablon, R.B. Kitaj, David Klamen, Franz Kline, Sherrie Levine, Gordon Matta-Clark, Matthew Metzger, Jonathan Owen, Luca Pancrazzi, Helen Pashgian, Pablo Picasso, Nathlie Provosty, Brandon Ralph, Paula Rego, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Kenny Scharf, Jordan Seiler, Alex Sewell, Joel Shapiro, Cindy Sherman, Beuford Smith, and Andy Warhol.
Conversation between Rachel Corbett and Mara De Luca on Rainer Maria Rilke as a critical source of inspiration in their respective work. On May 30th, 2018.
David Austen
the stars above the ocean the ocean beneath the stars
February 15 – April 22, 2018
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Screening of End of Love (written and directed by David Austen) followed by a discussion between the artist and Fionn Meade.
But For What’s My Axis? Part 1. Empire, the first in a trilogy of performances by artist Kara Rooney, composer Fatrin Krajka, and poets Marine Cornuet, Betsy Fagin and Laura Henriksen. With choreography by Dylan Crossman.
December 13th, 2017
An intimate preview of When the Worlds Collide, a new documentary film by Malia Scharf and Max Basch on the life and work of artist Kenny Scharf, with the American Friends of the Israel Museum. The screening was followed by a conversation between Kenny Scharf, Jane Panetta [Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of Art] and Mary Ann Monforton [Publisher, BOMB Magazine], moderated by David Totah. October 24th, 2017.
A film screening and discussion on May 1st, 2017, featuring award-winning directors Francisca Alegria, Jimmy Keyrouz, Elizabeth Rose and alumni from the National YoungArts Foundation, moderated by Annette Insdorf, professor of film at Columbia University.
Aleksandar Duravcevic
STEPPENWOLF
February 9 - April 23, 2017
Group Show
January 11th – February 5th, 2017
Mara De Luca
Aleksandar Duravcevic
Alison Hall
Luca Pancrazzi
Augustus Nazzaro
Kara Rooney
Alex Sewell
With works by Agnes Martin, Aleksandar Duravcevic, Alighiero Boetti, Andrea Marescalchi, Brian Wills, Bruce Conner, Charles Ross, Dan Walsh, David Austen, Ed Ruscha, Edward Hopper, Ernesto Caivano, Eugene Delacroix, Frank Walter, Gilles Bensimon, Gino de Dominicis, Giorgio De Chirico, Heinz Mack, Jose Antonio Suarez Londoño, Jane Logemann, Josaku Maeda, Joseph Cornell, Joan Miro, Julio González, Kara Rooney, Kenny Scharf, Lisa Beck, Luca Pancrazzi, Mara De Luca, Marsha Cottrell, Matt Chambers, Max Ernst, Mel Bochner, Nathlie Provosty, Oscar Dominguez, Osvaldo Licini, Peter Doig, Phil Wagner, Piero Pizzi-Cannella, Ray Johnson, Roberto Matta, Saul Steinberg, Victor Brauner, Wallace Berman, Wim Wenders, Wols and Yves Tanguy.
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Light Unveiled
Conversation with Barry Bergdoll, Mary McLeod, James Russell and Rebecca Siefert.
September 14th, 2016.
8’19”
July 28th – September 18th, 2016
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Mel Bochner and Alighiero Boetti
VERBA VOLANT
SCRIPTA MANENT
February 25th – May 22nd, 2016
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SIGN/DE/SIGN with Mel Bochner
Moderated by Jason Stopa, joined by Brian Boucher and Prem Krishnamurthy. April 20th, 2016.