Dread Scott News

The New York Civil Liberties Unionhas announced an extension of the Museum of Broken Windows, a free pop-up exhibition in New York City now running through May 20.

The New York Civil Liberties Union officially opened the Museum of Broken Windows, a free pop-up exhibition in New York City from April 28 to May 6 featuring over 70 artistic explorations of the dreams left unfulfilled by New York City's reliance on policing to meet too many of our needs.

During Miami Art Week (November 29-December 3), artworks addressing mass incarceration and failures of the U.S. justice system will patrol the streets of Miami Beach via truck-mounted digital billboards and stationary billboards throughout the city.

On March 30, 2022, Art at a Time Like This – a platform for artists and curators in the 21st century – who confront and address crises–held its inaugural board meeting this week.   Gallerist Jane Lombard,  independent curator Eric Shiner,  ArtXCode founder Sofia Garcia and curator and curator and art consultant Daria Borisovar were appointed positions on the Board of Directors,  in addition to ATLT founders Anne Verhallen and Barbara Pollack.  

Playwrights Horizons today announced its 2021-22 season. The influential Off-Broadway institution returns to in-person performance after 18 months in which, under new artistic leadership, it has marked its 50th anniversary and reflected deeply on the role the theater should play in the life of its city, its country, and the world.

Playwrights Horizons has extended Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory's The KILL ONE Race, a performance-based work created and filmed at Playwrights Horizons during the pandemic, to July 31.

In conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami's current exhibition “Michael Richards: Are You Down?,” the museum will host “Conversations at MOCA: Michael Richards & the Whitney Independent Study Program with Renee Cox, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Dread Scott” on Wednesday, June 16. 

Playwrights Horizons will present a 50th Anniversary Virtual Gala, June 23 at 8pm. This virtual event honors the organization’s storied past and fundraises for the vast potential of what’s to come.

The KILL ONE Race treats the Mainstage Theater as the setting for a morbid reality competition show: over the course of seven days replete with ice-breakers, speed dates, confessionals, sacred rituals, murder plots, and copious dancing, seven contestants compete to be proven the most ethical—and earn the singular prize of death. 

Playwrights Horizons will continue their new Public Art Series with Jess X. Snow’s In the Future…, a film installation that engages passersby in envisioning a safe future for Asian American communities.

Playwrights Horizons is continuing their new Public Art Series with an installation of two works by Dread Scott on the theater’s 42nd Street facade (April 12-May 9). One work engages passersby in considering what a world unburdened from America’s imperialism and often-destructive exceptionalism—a world without America itself—might look like.

Playwrights Horizons is continuing their new Public Art Series—the inaugural initiative in the organization’s Lighthouse Project—with an installation of images by Ken Gonzales-Day, whose photography illuminates how difference, otherness, and identity emerge through acts of seeing.

Playwrights Horizons today announced a new rotating public art series to be displayed on the front of the company’s 42nd Street building, beginning on January 19, 2021, with new work by street and subway artist Jilly Ballistic.

Two prolific, award winning artists, Carl Hancock Rux and Mallory Catlett, both former artists in Mabou Mines' Resident Artist Program, embody the company's mission to foster the next generation of experimental theater artists and bring with them a strong vision for the future of Mabou Mines.

The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College presents the exhibition SUM Artists: Visual Diagrams & Systems-Based Explorations from February 15 through June 14, 2020, including 30 artists and artist collectives.

The New York Neo-Futurists Gala comes to Caveat, a live show venue and bar on the lower east side, on Tuesday, November 12th, from 7pm-10:30pm. The award-winning downtown theater's annual fundraiser will celebrate fifteen years of weekly performances and feature entertainment, silent & live auctions, and an open bar of beer and wine.

In recognition of its 20th anniversary, the renowned arts philanthropy Creative Capital is pleased to announce that it will be moving to an annual cycle of awards and retreats from its previous, more irregular cycle.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) inducted three arts luminaries into its Hall of Fame during its annual benefit on April 11 at Capitale.

Participants in the topical, interactive series for academic year 2018?19 include artists Rina Banerjee and Isaac Julien, curator and author Helen Molesworth, and Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art Adam Weinberg

The New York Neo-Futurists Gala comes to The French Institute on October 29th, from 7pm-10:30pm. The award-winning downtown theater's annual fundraiser will feature entertainment, silent & live auctions, catered small plates, and an open bar of designer cocktails.