Friday, August 8th, 2003

ARMAGEDDON IS IN EFFECT–GO GET A LATE PASS!

Here’s my Friday morning quarterbacking for what it’s worth:

1) Sad to say, but I think the election is Arnold’s to lose at this point. He’s motivated media, which is mobilizing the Republican party and national right-wing money. This could end up as big as Prop 13. Clearly Bush folks are going to be raining cash if they can lock Cali and its electoral votes for next year. I figure Bill Simon, like Issa (THE OTHER WHITE RICH PUNK) did yesterday, will drop out in 2 weeks when he realizes he can’t raise a nickel from a dead guy.

An NYTimes article, Actor Calls for Overhaul of State Economic Engine, noted today Arnold’s inexperience and the fact he went on Access Hollywood over CNN. But to me that’s East Coast snobbery. Who watches CNN outside of New York City anyway?

He doesn’t have to impress Harvard-educated pundits, he has to impress my man in the trailer park in Gardena. And that’s a done deal. The less he seems to stand for, the better shot he’s got–all the political consultants’ advice to the contrary. All they’ve got to do is figure out how to get homie out of his refrigerator and into the polling booth. This should be good for Coors sales.

2) The Dems have 2 months to get themselves an anti-recall machine in place. They got the labor unions which is good, but even the labor leaders admit they will have a tough time energizing their base to do the phone-banks and the walks. Nobody as far as I know, has been hit up in communities of color. Gray made 2 TV appearances in the Bay Area last week shaking confused kids hands, and that’s the extent of his work to excite the progressive base. Can you say, “Wham bam thank you ma’am”?

In polls, their best tested line is “Can you believe this thing costs $60 million?” In the mind of most voters, hell, that’s probably less than the cost of “Terminator 4”. And if Arnold can gross that much in 2 weeks, hey, maybe he can do a better job than Gray. That’s the logic that the Dems have to fight now. Now you’ve got a national figure in Arnold focusing the race on the Richard Nixon of California politics. How will the Dems get their message out? As my 2 year-old Soli says, “I dunno!”

3) Party disunity is their downfall. Bustamante has no chance. Nor does Garamendi. These guys have a better chance trying to make P-Diddy’s band and freestying with Wyclef. But as long as these guys are sucking up Democratic money to boost their opportunism, that’s more money off-message. And off-message is not going to cut it against Conan money. What does the stump speech look like, “This recall is wrong. But vote for me!” Most folks who come to their rallies will be asking, “Now who do I need to see about getting my $50?”

4) If I’m leaning to someone now, it’s Arianna. Whatever her strange past, she’s become a true progressive. But it looks like her role is to play spoiler, the role that third party candidates are so ambivalent about. No one wants to run thinking they are going to lose, but the fact that no major media outlet covered her leak on Tuesday, but waited for Arnold and then buried her in the 18th inch means she has little to no chance at all. She’s ahead of the Dems in getting on local and national TV, but she won’t be able to sustain the interest after this weekend.

Her campaign is run by a consultant whose biggest win appears to have been the still-embattled medical marijuana initiative (which had big bank behind it) and her team consists of wonderful, great, smart progressives who have mostly never won statewide victories. If this article, Hollywood Is All Eyes as One of Its Own Takes a New Stage is correct, she and Arnold are tapping the same circle of friends for their cash. Where she gets money to make it to October 7? See Soli’s comment above.

She’s got the ideas, though, and a more mediagenic edge than Peter Camejo, the perennial Green (pun intended) ever had. All she can do is keep the Dems honest if they can get it together, and if they can’t, then steal their votes and assure Cali gets Terminated.

5) All this, of course, is predicated on Nixon, I mean Gray, not making it interesting. He may. He has before. But I can’t imagine how he gets himself out of this predicament. He’s been buried this week. Yesterday he promised to come out swinging for the Sunday papers, once the ballot is almost final on Saturday night, so I guess we’ll see then.

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Thursday, August 7th, 2003

A BIG BAD MESS>

That’s what this October 7 ballot is going to be. Lt. Gov. Cruz “Oops, didn’t mean to use the N-word” Bustamante and State Insurance John “Gray II” Garamendi join Gary “Whatchutalkingbout Willis?” Coleman on the ballot now, along with what will be maybe 3 dozen others by this weekend’s deadline.

Scwarz looked just as wooden as Gray last night–expect the brillliant Dem spinmeisters to play on his accent and his stiffness as evidence of his latent Nazism–and he was not Dat Phan. And although I was rooting for my Asian brother, Dat Phan’s not funny.

Glad Arianna is in the race. She won’t be given a chance, and she’s a profound pundit but a campaign neophyte. She announced on the wrong day and the newswires ignored her Tuesday leak. But she will keep the Dems honest and running to the left.

More important than all this–let’s keep our eyes on the real, here–is Ward Connerly’s Prop 54, the so-called Racial Privacy Initiative. Infuriatingly dumb, as always, and bound to do more damage to health, education, social services and race relations than anything he’s ever done before.

California has taken back the crown of Apocalypse State from Florida, with a vengeance.

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2003

HE’S RUNNING

Even MORE interesting…

I’m sure the Dems are quaking now. Threats from the left and the right and the right center. No one willing to make the leap. I bet we see another Dem in the race by Friday.

Schwarzenegger Announces Calif. Gov. Bid

August 6, 2003 08:22 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES – Arnold Schwarzenegger ended the suspense Wednesday and said he would run in California’s recall election, awarding Republicans his marquee value in their campaign to oust Gov. Gray Davis. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein ruled out a run, labeling the election “more and more like a carnival every day.”

Schwarzenegger’s announcement came as a surprise; advisers had said in recent days that he was leaning against running in the Oct. 7 election.

Schwarzenegger made his announcement during a taping of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

“The politicians are fiddling, fumbling and failing,” he said. “The man that is failing the people more than anyone is Gray Davis. He is failing them terribly, and this is why he needs to be recalled and this is why I am going to run for governor.”

Political commentator Arianna Huffington declared Wednesday that she would run as an independent, one of the only other well-known names in the race so far. Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, a moderate Republican, has said he would enter the race if Schwarzenegger did not.

Feinstein’s decision not to run gave a big boost to Davis, while frustrating some Democrats who wanted her to run to ensure the governorship would remain in the party’s hands if Davis lost.

“After thinking a great deal about this recall, its implications for the future, and its misguided nature, I have decided that I will not place my name on the ballot,” Feinstein said in a statement.

“I deeply believe the recall is a terrible mistake and will bring to the depth and breadth of California instability and uncertainty, which will be detrimental to our economic recovery and decision-making,” she said.

The recall election is yet another setback for Davis, who has seen his popularity plummet as the state grapples with a record $38 billion budget deficit.

It also is the latest force to bedevil Californians, who in recent years have endured an energy crisis, the collapse of the dot-com economy and a federally mandated cutback in one of the state’s main water supplies. Residents now face the prospect of higher car taxes and college fees to close the state’s budget gap.

Davis is the first California governor to face a recall and would be only the second governor nationwide to be removed from office if the effort succeeds.

Analysts from both parties believed the governor’s chances for survival would have dramatically diminished if Feinstein, who tops polls as California’s most popular politician, was on the ballot as an alternative.

Her decision came a day after a strong endorsement for Davis from the AFL-CIO. Both developments were key victories for the governor, whose support from fellow party members had appeared to be weakening.

“I’m very pleased with Sen. Feinstein’s announcement,” Davis told San Francisco radio station KGO-AM.

“To the extent that Democrats get in the race, it makes it look like a normal election, and legitimates what is really an effort by the right wing to steal back an election they couldn’t win last November,” he said. “I think at the end of the day people will realize that the party is better served rallying around its sitting governor.”

Some party members still thought otherwise.

“I want to back the strongest candidate and it’s important that we coalesce around one, and now I’m appealing to the leaders, the folks whose pay grade is one or two notches up from mine, to figure out who our strongest candidate is and lead us in coalescing behind that candidate,” said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., who had supported a Feinstein candidacy.

One possibility was U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who had supported a Feinstein candidacy and said she might run if Feinstein didn’t.

“I have a feeling something will be decided tomorrow probably one way or the other,” said Sanchez’s spokeswoman, Carrie Brooks.

Members of California’s congressional delegation discussed the matter in a conference call Wednesday, with the majority leaning toward finding a consensus candidate, said a source familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Huffington, the ex-wife of former Republican Congressman Michael Huffington, announced her candidacy at a news conference in Los Angeles.

“I’m not, to say the least, a conventional candidate. But these are not conventional times,” she said. “And if we keep electing the same kind of politicians who got us into the same kind of mess funded by the same kind of special interests, we’ll never get out of this mess.”

Michael Huffington also has taken out papers, but has not indicated whether he will enter the race.

The ballot also is likely to include several conservative Republicans. U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, who funded the recall, is a declared candidate, and state Sen. Tom McClintock filed papers Tuesday. Businessman Bill Simon, who lost to Davis in November, also is expected to run.

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Tuesday, August 5th, 2003

SHE’S RUNNING

Now it gets interesting…

My friends,

As you may have noticed, I’ve taken two weeks off from writing my column.

I have spent this time meeting with community leaders and the activists

who started runariannarun.com and doing a lot of thinking — and tossing

and turning — about whether I should run for Governor of California in

the upcoming recall election.

During this time, I’ve received many wonderful e-mails from so many of you

urging me to run. Well, tomorrow morning at 10:30am at A Place Called

Home in South Central Los Angeles (a center for at-risk children I‚m on

the board of; directions below), I’ll be announcing my decision.

You’ve been reading every week my outrage at the state of our politics,

and I would love it if you could be there to join me as I make the leap

from analysis to action — from columnist to candidate.

For those of you who are not in Los Angeles, I ask you to be with me in

spirit and I hope I can rely on your support and counsel in the weeks to

come.

Hope to see you there,

Arianna

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DIRECTIONS TO A PLACE CALLED HOME

From the Westside

Take the 10 East

Exit on Central Avenue (past Harbor F‚way)

Stay on the right as you exit the freeway

Make the first right on Naomi Street

Make another right on Washington Blvd.

Make a left on Central Avenue

Stay on Central for about 9 blocks.

APCH is on the corner of 29th and Central.

From the South Bay Area

Take the 110 North.

Exit on Martin Luther King Blvd.

Make a right on to MLK Blvd.

When MLK deadends on Central Avenue, make a left.

Go a few blocks up past the Newton Police Station.

Make a right on to 29th Street.

APCH is on the corner of 29th and Central.

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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003

ROCK STEADY 26TH ANNIVERSARY!

Here’s the details for RSC’s 26th anniversary celebration in LA. I was at the 25th last year and it was off the handle. If you get a chance, definitely check it out…

BACKSPIN PRODUCTIONS INC. & LIPTON BRISK PRESENTS

Rock Steady 26th Anniversary New York, July 24th – 27th

July 24th Thursday

Event: Celebrity Benefit Basketball Game

Time: 11:00AM – 3:00PM

Location: The Cage. 6th Avenue on the corner of 4th Street.

Admission: Free

Event: End Of The Weak MC Challenge

Time: 9:00PM –2:00AM

Location: S.O.B’s

204 Varick Street at West Houston.

Directions 212.243.4940 or www.sobs.com

Admission: $15.00

July 25th Friday

Event: H20 Film Festival

Time: 1:00PM – 5:00PM

Location: 410 West 16th Street. Between 9th & 10th Ave.

Directions: 212.242.6555

Admission: $7.00

Event: Brisk Flava Styles b-boy/girl Battle. 2 on 2 invitational.

“Punk Rock Rap Fashion Show”.

The Rock Steady Crew 26th Anniversary marks the introduction of its first ever fashion show titled “Punk Rock Rap”. This is an event that recognizes the fusion of street and skate culture and celebrates their unity under the banner of hip-hop.

Highly acclaimed set designer and graffiti artist, Ernie Vales, has designed a stage that visually conveys and represents authentic hip-hop style and street flavor. Models will include B-boy/girls and street skaters.

Time: 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Location: 311 West 34th Street between 8th & 9th Ave.

Admission: $20.00 in advance $25.00 at the door.

July 26th Saturday

Event: Outdoors Concert

Time: 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Location Pier 54. 14th Street, Westside Highway

Admission: FREE

July 27th Sunday

Event: Concert B-boy/girl Battle finals

Time: 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Location: Manhattan Center. 311 West 34th Street between 8th & 9th Ave.

Admission: $25.00 in advance $30.00 at the door.

Los Angeles August 2nd

The Palace in Hollywood

More info coming shortly

WWW.ROCKSTEADYCREW.COM FOR ADVANCE TICKETS.

Sponsors: Lipton Brisk, Power 105, Backspin Productions, Fila, Triple Five Soul, D&D Records.

Confirmed Artist

M.O.P

Rahzel & DJ JS1

Freddie Foxx

Craig G

Canibus

Just Ice

Non-Phixion

The Liks

Q-Unique

DJ Red Alert

DJ Tony Touch

DJ Evil Dee

Cucumber Slice

DJ Eclipse

DJ DV One

5th Platoon

Marlon B

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

Whoa. Here’s a piece on me and you and all of us by Adam Mansbach at the SF Gate…Hip-Hop Intellectuals / A radical generation comes of age

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Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

Bet the US press isn’t running this story, a headline from The Guardian in the UK. Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil

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Wednesday, May 21st, 2003

This one’s definitely worth peeping…

BLACK PRESIDENT: THE ART AND LEGACY OF FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI

A group exhibition on view at the New Museum of Contemporary Art

July 11-September 28, 2003

New York, NY (May 20, 2003) ˆ The New Museum of Contemporary Art announces Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a group exhibition exploring the cultural impact of the famous Nigerian musician and activist who died in 1997. Thirty-four artists will examine and respond to this cultural icon through approximately forty works of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media and sound installation, video, film, computer animation, and music. Guest curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Black President will be on view from July 11-September 28, 2003.

Musician and activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created Afrobeat, the infectious fusion of American funk and jazz with traditional Yoruba and highlife music. Through politically-charged lyrics, electrifying stage performances, and his counter-culture lifestyle, Fela preached against social injustice and corruption. Troubled by the political and economic corruption of Nigeria and the repressive governments of sub-Saharan Africa, Fela built a commune called the Kalakuta Republic, which he declared immune from Nigerian law, and created his own political party. At the height of his popularity in the mid-1970s, Fela took to calling himself the „Black President.‰ Since his death in 1997 from an AIDS-related illness, Fela‚s status as a pan-African icon has continued to grow.

Black President is a critical multimedia exploration of the influence and artistic legacy of Fela. Artists included in this exhibition are from countries as diverse as Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, England, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States. Some, like album cover artist, Ghariokwu Lemi, and photographer, Femi Osunla, were part of Fela‚s artistic retinue in Lagos. Other younger participating artists were not yet born. Their work speaks to the many sides of Fela˜musical pioneer, political dissident, utopian visionary, consummate showman, husband to 28 women, and legendary lover.

Artists included in the exhibition are: Radcliffe Bailey, Bili Bidjocka, Sanford Biggers, Sokari Douglas Camp, Nanga Oly Christophe, Brett Cook-Dizney, Victor Ekpuk, Tim Evans & Jason Smith, Kendell Geers, Barkley Hendricks, Satch Hoyt, Alfredo Jaar, Marcia Kure, Moshekwa Langa, Ghariokwu Lemi, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Adia Millet, Wangechi Mutu, Aimé Ntakiyica, Odili Donald Odita, Olu Oguibe, Moyo Ogundipe, Moyo Okediji, Senam Okudzeto, Ouattara, Yinka Shonibare, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Iké Udé, Obiora Udechukwu, Roberto Visani, Kara Walker & Klaus Bürgel, and Fred Wilson.

Several artists are contributing new works specifically for this exhibition. The following are some examples of these new works:

In The Afronomical Ways, Sanford Biggers (b. 1961 Los Angeles; Lives New York) creates a new zodiac system that reads as an afro-tantric sexual guide, complete with twelve sexual positions. Installed in the staircase leading from the mezzanine level to the second floor of the New Museum, The Afronomical Ways introduces Fela as a man of both sexual and spiritual prowess.

In a collaborative work, Golddigger, Klaus Bürgel (b. Radofzell, Germany; Lives Portland, ME) has transformed drawings by Kara Walker (b. 1969 Stockton, California; Lives New York) of bondage and slavery motifs, such as handcuffs, collars, and traps, into three-dimensional gold and jewel-encrusted objects. Tiny and precious, they strike a strange mixture of traditional West African lost wax casting, Akan gold weights, and today‚s objects of bling bling urban abundance.

Satch Hoyt (b. 1957 London; Lives New York) invites the viewer to step into a time capsule in his installation, The Shrine (The 27 Brides of the Black President), named after Fela‚s nightclub in Lagos. The exterior of the capsule is covered in red fabric that evokes the richness of Fela‚s costumes. Inside the capsule, Fela‚s music mixes with the ambient noises of African cities and women‚s voices, and with the smell of marijuana.

Marcia Kure‚s (b. 1970, Nigeria; Lives Atlanta, GA) History of Africa by Fela features fifty-nine panels, one for each year of Fela‚s life, including his final abbreviated year. Each panel is delicately painted with pigment from the kola nut, a substance used in Africa as both a dye and a friendship offering. Featuring distorted humanoid / animal figures, Kure‚s paintings suggest that Fela‚s history, as much as the history of Africa itself, is a confluence of the mythological and the real.

Adia Millet (b. 1975 Los Angeles; Lives New York) relates Fela‚s urban Afrobeat music to the urban hip-hop culture of New York through the visual medium of graffiti. In Swegbe and Pako, Millet translates the typically male-dominated graffiti genre into the stereotypically feminized domestic art of cross-stitching.

Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972 Nairobi, Kenya; Lives New York) provides a feminist critique of Fela‚s problematic relationships with women while at the same time acknowledging a respect and admiration for his courageous politics. Mutu combines the critical and the humorous in her painting, Yo Mama, which portrays a woman stabbing a serpent with her spiked heels.

Roberto Visani (b. 1970, Faenza, Italy; Lives New York) sculpts guns out of discarded materials˜crutches, scrap metal, crack vials, and brass instruments˜collected from New York‚s predominantly black neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant, and of the cities and towns in Ghana where Fela performed. For Visani, the gun carries associations as a tool of colonial domination, a weapon of contemporary urban destruction, and a unit of exchange for African slaves.

Fred Wilson (b. 1954 New York; Lives New York) strives to expose underlying cultural assumptions about race and ethnicity in his work. Because Why O? is a new piece that combines traditional Nigerian pottery with a sound installation of Fela‚s music.

In addition to interpretive works, Black President will provide a cultural and historical context for Fela‚s life and legacy through the display of original album cover art, listening stations, documentary film and video, photography, and other Fela-related artifacts. A special music room will provide a thorough examination of Fela’s Afrobeat sound. The program will bring to light Afrobeat’s earliest influences, its context within the global community of the ’70s and ’80s, focusing on the African Diaspora and other affected funk, rock and jazz musicians, as well as its legacy in modern music. In addition to Fela, featured artists will include E.T. Mensah, John Coltrane, Hugh Masekela, Roy Ayers, Tony Allen, King Sunny Ade, Tom Tom Club, Femi Kuti, Masters at Work, Common and others.

About Fela Kuti

Born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Nigeria in 1938, Fela studied classical music at the Trinity College of Music in London. There, in the early 1960s, he founded his first band, Koola Lobitos. While on a tour of the United States in 1969, Fela was introduced to the Black Power movement and to the teachings of such influential thinkers as Malcolm X and Angela Davis. Inspired by this trip, Fela created Afrobeat, combining a hard-edge and unyielding political content with a masterful orchestration of African percussive systems and his signature saxophone sound. When he returned to his homeland he opened a nightclub, the Shrine, and changed the name of his band to Africa 70 (and later to Egypt 80).

Fela lived and produced his music under persistent state persecution. His criticism of state corruption and repression led to several raids on his commune˜the Kalakuta Republic˜and to numerous detentions and jail terms. In 1977, soldiers set fire to Kalakuta and viciously attacked the occupants. Kuti suffered a fractured skull, arm, and leg, while his 77-year-old mother was thrown out of a window. She died a little over a year later.

Following this incident, Fela went into exile in Ghana, but was deported back to Lagos the following year. On arrival, to mark the anniversary of the previous year’s pillage of Kalakuta and to reaffirm his embrace of Yoruba culture, Fela married 27 women simultaneously in a traditional ceremony.

In 1975, Fela replaced the Ransome in his name with Anikulapo, meaning „he who carries death in his pouch‰ (or „he who defies death‰). In August 1997, Fela died of heart failure due to AIDS-related complications at the age of 58. During his lifetime, he recorded over 70 albums.

Catalogue

Black President is accompanied by a fully-illustrated 186-page exhibition catalogue with scholarship about the life and legacy of Fela. Contributions to the catalogue are by Biyi Bandele (Nigerian/British playwright); Jeff Chang (writer and music critic); Yomi Durotoye (Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Wake Forrest University); Vivien Goldman (writer, music and cultural critic); Olu Oguibe (artist, art historian, and independent curator); Moyo Okediji (artist and Professor of African and African-American Studies, University of Colorado); Trevor Schoonmaker (guest curator); Sharan Strange (poet); and Michael Veal (Fela‚s biographer and Assistant Professor, Music Department and African-American Studies, Yale University).

The catalogue has received support from the Norton Family Foundation. The catalogue is also made possible by the Penny McCall Publication Fund at the New Museum. Donors to the Penny McCall Publication Fund are James C. A. and Stephania McClennen, Jennifer McSweeney, Arthur and Carol Goldberg, Dorothy O. Mills, and the Mills Family Fund.

Funding

Support for Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti has been provided by Etant Donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, the The Greenwall Foundation, the Toby Devan Lewis Fund for Exhibitions of Emerging Artists and members of the New Group. The catalogue for the exhibition is supported in part by the Norton Family Foundation.

Support for the exhibition is also provided by Altoids, The Curiously Strong Mints.

Public Programs

Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:30-8PM Conversation with the Artists

Conversation between guest curator Trevor Schoonmaker and artists Satch Hoyt, Olu Oguibe and Senam Okudzeto (Second Floor Gallery)

Thursday September 4, 2003 6:30-8PM Critical Voices Series

Personal perspectives on Fela by panelists Vivien Goldman (music writer), Barkley Hendricks (artist), Wunmi Olaiya (singer/dancer), and Michael Veal (Fela biographer).

About the Fela Project

The Fela Project, founded in 1999 by Trevor Schoonmaker, is a multimedia project exploring Fela‚s life and legacy. Central to the project is Black President. Other activities of the Fela Project include a web site, concerts, documentary film, performances, and publications. A book of essays about Fela entitled Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2003. For more information, visit www.felaproject.net and www.palgrave-usa.com/catalogue/index.asp?isbn=1403962103.

About the New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 and located in the heart of Soho, is the premier destination for contemporary art in New York City. With an annual schedule of dynamic exhibitions, the Museum presents the most innovative and experimental work from around the world. Debate and discussion about contemporary culture are encouraged through a broad range of educational programs, publications, performances, and new media initiatives. The New Museum recently announced plans to build a new, 60,000 square foot facility at 235 Bowery. Visit www.newmuseum.org for more about the New Museum.

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New Museum of Contemporary Art

General Information

Location 583 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

(between Houston and Prince Streets in SoHo)

Web Site www.newmuseum.org

Telephone 212-219-1222

Fax 212-431-5328

Email newmu@newmuseum.org

Museum Hours Tuesday ˆ Sunday: noon ˆ 6:00PM

Thursday: noon ˆ 8:00PM*

Closed Monday

Store Hours Monday ˆ Sunday: noon ˆ 6:30PM

Thursday: noon ˆ 8:00PM

Admission $6.00 general; $3.00 students/seniors

Free for members; visitors 18 and under free

*Thursday 6:00-8:00PM $3.00

Zenith Media Lounge free

Directions Subway: 6 to Spring Street or Bleecker Street

N/R to Prince Street

C/E to Spring Street

F/S to Broadway Lafayette

Bus: #1/#5/#6/#21 to Houston Street or Broadway

The New Museum has received major stabilization support for 2003 operations and programs from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Booth Ferris Foundation.

The New Museum of Contemporary Art receives general operating support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, JPMorganChase, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation, and the members of the New Museum.

For more information please contact the Public Relations Office at 212-219-1222 ext. 394 or email press@newmuseum.org or visit the press office online at http://www.newmuseum.org/info_press_office.php. Information about the New Museum‚s exhibitions and public programs is also available online at www.newmuseum.org.

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Saturday, May 17th, 2003

It’s been a long time. I shouldna left you. Two words: Funny Cide.

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Friday, April 18th, 2003

ILLEGAL WEAPONS: What if U.S. forces don’t find any?Don Rummy on weapons of mass destruction: “I don’t think we’ll discover anything, myself.” Now the truth comes out…

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