C U L T U R E F I X
get your art & culture fix while laying low
Culture Fix is a project that began during the COVID-19 global pandemic. To submit your event, please complete this form or email info@mwprojects.art. We are particularly interested in sharing online events that help support creators who have been impacted by arts venue closures.
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The Metropolitan Museum | Video Archives and More
"Explore current exhibitions through digital primers, dig through the video archives, download and read a Met publication, or watch a performance in the galleries."
Quarantine Concerts | Live Performances
"At Quarantine Concerts you can enjoy live-streamed performances from the homes of professional musicians around the world. While concerts halls sit empty and we are tucked away at home, our artists are determined to continue sharing music. Social distancing doesn't have to mean isolation and cancelled concerts don't have to mean a break in creativity."
Social Distance Gallery | Instagram
"Hosting BFA and MFA thesis shows amid the pandemic. Project by artist Benjamin Cook."
Hermitage Museum | Online Tour
“Experience a 5 hr 19 min 28 sec cinematic journey through one of the world’s biggest museums in St. Petersburg, Russia. Take in 45 galleries, 588 masterpieces, and live performances, shot in 4K on iPhone 11 Pro in one continuous take.”
Metropolitan Opera | Live in HD
”Beginning March 16, the Met will stream a title from its Live in HD series each night through the duration of the closure. The performances, originally captured as live broadcasts in movie theatres worldwide, will begin at 7:30 PM on the company's website.” Schedule: LINK
How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? | Online Exhibition
"Co-curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen as a platform for the exchange of ideas at this time of crisis. We invited artists who are considered thought leaders, artists who struggle with futuristic pessimism, political outrage and psychic melt-downs. The invited artists have responded with unbridled enthusiasm and we will be posting new artists every day for the foreseeable future."
Private Lives Public Spaces | Online Exhibition
"Watch nine films from MoMA’s Private Lives Public Spaces exhibition, with commentary from the curators. Home movies are made to entertain intimate audiences of family and friends. MoMA’s exhibition Private Lives Public Spaces, which opened in October 2019, explores a selection of these works from our archives, acquired over 90 years of collecting but never before shown. After reviewing more than 600 reels of film, we digitized 200 to create an immersive display on 102 silent screens in a darkened gallery."
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The Frick Collection | Cocktails with a Curator
"The Frick is concocting the perfect mix of cocktails and art. Every Friday at 5:00 p.m., join us for happy hour as a Frick curator (remotely) offers insights on a work of art with a complementary cocktail. Bring your own beverage to this virtual event."
Clay Art Center | Artist Talks
April 24 - May 6, 2020
”Virtual artist talks hosted by Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY”
New Victory Arts Break | Art Courses
"A free online series, each week explores a particular art form and invites kids and parents to incorporate the arts into their homeschool learning through a series of videos & instructions. Featuring demonstrations by New Victory Teaching Artists, New Victory Arts Break is also a part of the theater's effort to keep NYC artists employed."
Tarot: The (Re)Making of a Language | Online Exhibition at Woodland Pattern Book Center
February 29 - May 31, 2020
"Artists create contemporary interpretations of the Tarot inspired by the places in which they work. Featured decks include Black Moon Tarot (Maggie Bard), Tarot Mexicayotl (Chicome Itzcuintli), Charm City Tarot (Gabriella Santiago-Vancak / Laurence Ross), Tarot de Laguna (Bran Sólo) and Rust Belt Arcana (David Wilson / Matt Stansbury). Curated by Laurence Ross."
Stageit | Online Live Concert Venue
”Stageit is an online venue where artists perform live, interactive, monetized shows for their fans directly from a laptop, offering fans unique experiences that are never archived.”
Not Cancelled | Online Art Week
April 11-18, 2020
"A week-long digital art event featuring Berlin galleries. Until April 18, we will present an exciting program of digital art events and an online exhibition of our participating galleries."
Keith Simpson, Cars | Online Exhibition at Fort Makers
"An affectionate record of coming-of-age and industrial design, the collection consists of over 20 ceramic sculptures. In lieu of a public opening in our concept store and gallery space, Fort Makers is excited to launch our first digital drop, allowing our community to interact with Simpson's work online."
TransBorder Art | TV Series
"TransBorder Art provides the audience with free, relevant and thought-provoking TV content relative to the contemporary world from an artist's point of view, aired on NYC community public access televisions five times a week. Each 28 minute-long episode raises fundamental questions around existing cultural discourses regarding gender, identity, politics, immigration or technology."
Positive, Negative | Virtual Exhibition at Massey Klein Gallery
”’Positive, Negative’ is a group show of artwork by Joan Witek, Jonathan Ryan Storm and Seamus Heidenreich. The exhibition explores the interplay of positive and negative space through the artists’ structured and intuitive practices. The role of opposition holds a distinct meaning in the context of this exhibition, creating tension, balance and conversation between the works.”
Art Basel | Online Viewing Rooms
”Concisely curated virtual exhibitions by Art Basel exhibitors. The first edition will feature artworks that gallerists were planning to present at their booths in Hong Kong this March.”
Collecteurs | The Collective Museum of Private Collections
”Collecteurs is the world’s first true digital museum: The Collective Museum of Private Collections. We harness the power of technology to empower collectors and make it easy for them to digitize, manage and exhibit their collections without needing the capital to open a private museum.”
The Frick Collection | Virtual Tour
”Internationally recognized as a premier museum and research center, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.”
smART stART | Interactive Art Talks
”smART stART began three years ago as a Facebook live program in which viewers could engage with art on a daily basis. Hosted by curated and galleriest Cheryl McGinnis, it is a way to make art accessible to all.”
Carrie Able | Virtual Reality Painting
”Prince, a 360 VR painting music video; VR art created at Jump Into the Light.”
Alonsa Guevara | Virtual Exhibition
“Alumbrados por la Misma Luna (Lit by the Same Moon). This song invites you to enter a meditative state to connect to yourself and the nature around you. The song carries you through the air, water, and soil, taking you to various states of mind, emotions, and intensities. Inspired by the Icaros (South American shamanic songs played during healing ceremonies), this song guides you through your own imagination and unconscious mind.”
Museum of Modern Art | Video Archives
”The Museum of Modern Art is home to over 200,000 artworks, comprised of painting and sculpture, drawings and prints, photography, architecture, design, media and performance. Our goal is to introduce you to as many artists and artworks of our time as possible to make the case—as the Museum’s founders believed in 1929—that the art of our time rivals in its greatness to that of any previous era.”
Google Arts & Culture | Online Museum Tours
”An online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative's partner museums. The project was launched on February 1, 2011 by Google through its Google Cultural Institute initiative, in cooperation with 17 international museums.”
Museum of Modern Art | Exhibition Archives
"The Archives has held periodic exhibitions of materials drawn from its collections. These exhibitions have showcased newly acquired collections, highlighted lesser-known parts of the Archives, and examined particular periods or aspects of the Museum’s history through photographs, correspondence, exhibition records, ephemera and other documentary evidence."
Walker Art Center | Living Collections Catalogue
”Presenting newly commissioned texts and surfacing unique archival materials, the publication explores the work of artists active in the United States between the 1960s and the 1980s whose practices were highly collaborative, interdisciplinary, and often aligned with concurrent social movements.”
Susan Washington | Virtual Exhibition
”An artist’s response to social isolation. Recent paintings (2019-2020) by Susan Washington”
Public Art Fund | Online Archives
”As the leader in its field, Public Art Fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in New York City and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences with art and the urban environment.”
Creative Capital | Online Workshops
March 16 - May 6, 2020
”Building Community for a Sustainable Creative Life, with Sharon Louden. Art Law for Artists: Copyright, Contracts, and Business Entity Formation, with Brian Kerr. Archival Storytelling Strategy for Artists, with Jocelyn Arem.”
D’EST | Video Art Platform
"Since fall 2016, D’EST (2018-2020) has formed a contemporary video art platform that maps out female* and collective positions that reflect the post-socialist transformation along post-geographic, horizontal and feminist focus topics. Shaped by 15 curators, the platform features 43 video works, experimental films and documentaries, which open up artistic historiographies to be screened online and at different art institutions."
Carrie Able Gallery | Virtual Exhibition
”Virtual reality capture of Carrie Able’s exhibition, ‘Frequency,’”
Berliner Philharmoniker | Digital Concert Hall
"The Philharmonie Berlin is closed until 19 April to help contain the coronavirus. But the orchestra will continue to play for you – in the Digital Concert Hall. The Berliner Philharmoniker invite you to visit their virtual concert hall free of charge."
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Fog Dog | Virtual Exhibition at Esther Schipper
March 12 - April 11, 2020
”Entitled ‘Fog Dog,’ the exhibition includes architectural light interventions, a sound installation and a new film. . . Using self-imposed systems, the artist creates works that undermine the boundaries between organic and man-made aesthetics and materials, as well as between chance and rule-based principles of composition. Consequently, his works often appear both sparse and sensual.”
Cincinnati Art Museum | Online Exhibitions
"Frida Kahlo: Photographic Portraits by Bernard Silberstein; The Art Academy of Cincinnati and World War I; Robert S. Duncanson; Rembrandt: Master Printmaker"
La fabrique du temps | Virtual Exhibition at Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise
”Group show featuring artists Leyla Cardenas, Karine Hoffman, Katia Kameli, Vincent Lemaire, Paula de Solminihac and Yang Yi”
Art Is Still Here | Online Exhibition at M WOODS
”An online exhibition of moments and happenings – contributions of artworks, videos, photographs, words, poems, instructions and thoughts – by artists and thinkers around the theme of ecology, nature, extinction, isolation and kinship.”
Ljova | NetLicks
"NetLicks is an open-form, constantly changing composition that is meant to be recorded by musicians worldwide from their home. It's a blues, a waltz, a boogie-woogie, and a way of creating a connection to music and souls in a time of distance. I would love for you to join - it's fun and free!"
Dana Robinson | Interactive Art Project
”These are my grandma's bells. As a child they were kept out of reach and I couldn't ring them. Now, I get to ring them all and you do too.”
Happy Boy in Manhattan | Virtual Exhibition at Richard Taittinger Gallery
February 7 - April 26, 2020
”Aki Kuroda’s works are in collections including The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the City of Paris Collection, and the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation in France. Bucking traditional hierarchy, Kuroda was also the youngest artist to have a solo exhibition at Tokyo’s National Museum of Modern Art in 1993. 'Happy Boy in Manhattan' is curated by Yoyo Maeght."
Surface Rhythm | Virtual Exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
"An exhibition that brings together work by Sohan Qadri and Neha Vedpathak, two Indian-born artists who push the boundaries of traditional media, transforming sheets of paper into richly colorful three-dimensional mediums."
Seed&Spark | Independent Films
”Seed&Spark is where creators and audiences work together to tell stories that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation.” (women-founded alternative to Netflix and Amazon Prime)
The Secret City | Daily Facebook Live Meeting
"Daily Artistic Inspiration for Troubled Times. We share readings, images, and encouragement. Also community ideas and inspiration for finding meaning during this uncertain time. We’ll be doing this every day for a while, until this crisis passes."
Melissa Godoy Nieto | Dream Journals Drawing Series
"I'm writing you to invite you to share with me dreams and/or nightmares that you are having at night. I'm making drawings from your notes as part of my Dream Journals drawing series. In this moments of uncertainty and anxiety, I'm hoping to feel more connected and share this experience together. You can write your dream or nightmare to my email Melissa.godoy.nieto@gmail.com."
Dot, Stripe, Drip: Washington Color Painters | Online Exhibition at D. Wigmore Fine Art
"Color paintings from the 1960s by the Washington Color School along with artist biographies and an exhibition text."
Gary Simmons: Screaming into the Ether | Online Exhibition at Metro Pictures
"Gary Simmons's latest work expands the artist’s decades-long examination into the propagation of racial stereotypes through American media and its devastating effects on how people of color perceive themselves and are perceived by others. The twenty new paintings on view reconsider his signature 'erasure' technique and the racist cartoon characters Simmons first appropriated in his renowned chalkboard drawings from the early 1990s."
Folie á Deux: Polyphonic Claverings on the Tragedy of Every Day Love | Performance at The Luan Gallery
"The installation of ‘Folie á Deux: Polyphonic Claverings on the Tragedy of Every Day Love’ at the Luan Gallery in Athlone, Ireland. Artist Clare Scott is interested in the process of making. This timelapse covers four days of building a loosely planned site-specific installation inspired by Lily McCormack, nee Foley, wife of tenor John McCormack. Both McCormacks sang together in this hall. The audio soundtracks were part of the installation. This show was closed half way through its run on March 13th 2020."
The Making of Liza Lou's Kitchen | Whitney Museum Video
"Watch as Liza Lou reflects on her monumental installation 'Kitchen,' a tribute to the unsung labor of women throughout time. Made over the course of five years, 'Kitchen' presents a full-scale, exactingly detailed room encrusted in a rainbow of glistening glass beads. Through boxes of breakfast cereal, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and everyday objects of kitchen drudgery, Lou created a glittery pop vision of suburban happiness to explore the complex role women have played in modern American life."
Improvisation and Time | Online Conference
April 11, 2020
“'Improvisation and Time' features invited presentations from renowned scholars and practitioners of improvisation in multifarious disciplines, focused on the theme of time. The conference regards improvisation as an inherent part of our being and behaving in the world and therefore as an inherently multidisciplinary field of inquiry, encompassing not only music, dance, literature, and other artistic practices, but also architecture, design, philosophy, critical theory, identity and organizational theory, among others."
Culture Funding Watch | Online Conference
March 17, 2020
”An online global conference on existing and potential mechanism to support art and artists in time of crisis."
* For more events, performances, talks, etc., please see this public Google Form: LINK