Creative Time

Public art org working with artists on the dialogues, debates & dreams of our times. Est. 1974, NYC.

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Luckily, still verified by...actual birds. @_DukeRiley

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Announcing Moving Chains: Toward Abolition, May 20, 2023 @Gov_Island

Join Creative Time and Governors Island Arts for a day including a walking tour, presentations, panel discussions, and art making workshops for all ages

Schedule & Register https://t.co/rnaq17b8vO

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"Humor makes people aware and uncomfortable" - #PattyChang

Performed with carpet blowers, house paint, and two boom boxes, veteran performance artist Patty Chang brought her 'Fan Dance' to Times Square as part of Creative Time's collaboration with @MTV, entitled 44 1/2 in 2004.

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Charles Gaines’ Moving Chains and Kara Walker's A Subtlety... were featured in this weekend's T Magazine. We are proud of our work toward creating monumental works, and having two Creative Time projects among such good company is a pleasure—a must read!

https://t.co/PUOFnMvjGg

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READ⬇️ Charles Gaines’s “Moving Chains” featured in today’s @tmagazine. This massive, kinetic sculpture, presented by #GovIslandArts, @creativetime & @TSqArts, will reopen later this spring on @Gov_Island—stay tuned for updates!

https://t.co/0dOgWhmKZH

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NYC, it's time for some Spring cleaning! 🧼 🌷

Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Touch Sanitation performances were a series of actions that unfolded starting in the late 1970s surrounding sanitation workers in NYC, an often overlooked workforce.

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It's ok. You're not alone.

(In)Visible Women was Marina Alvarez and Ellen Spiro's 26-minute film, broadcast on TV for World AIDS Day and Day Without Art in 1991, focused on the heroic and positive response of Black and Latina women to the AIDS crisis. #WomensHistoryMonth

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"It's a reorientation away from competition and towards coalition" — Creative Time Curator Diya Vij (@diyavij) on building sustainable futures for creative work on “Common Work: Learnings for the Future from Common Field” (@common_field)! Listen:

https://t.co/zZWOblU0Wj

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"De-influencing" ahead of his time: instead of advocating “green” lifestyles that are financially and culturally inaccessible, in a 2014 #CTReport, artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph proposes we ask: what sustains life in a community? Read it below:

https://t.co/KTPFYNy7vp

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"'No Justice, No Peace.' That's what the young people are feeling out on the street—they feel like they are fighting the same fights that their parents and grandparents are fighting... " — @shepreebright at the 2016 CT Summit.

Listen below:
https://t.co/LoxmyUTonF

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Happy Valentine's Day! Hope yours is full of XOXO 🖤

#KissingDoesntKill #GranFury #ActUp

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Didn’t get a chance to sign up for the V-Day release of @jillmagid's Out-Game Flowers, presented and commissioned by @artw__rld? Allowlist access to the small bouquets begins on Valentine’s Day, but the larger public drop happening on February 16. 💐 👾 #JillMagid #NFT #Flowers

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“Malcolm could see America without the burden of the underlying assumption that it is a force for good, and he could critique America as someone with no allegiance to it.” — Dread Scott (@dreadscottart) on Malcolm X

#BlackHistoryMonth #DredScott #MalcolmX

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“What you might think of as a roof, you find 100 foot long lengths of chain.”

Charles Gaines constructs “Moving Chains,” a massive metal and wooden structure on @Gov_Island.

📺https://t.co/yzS5fJYJgC

@creativetime @TSqArts @HauserWirth

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Creative Time alum @jillmagid is launching her first NFT-backed collection with @artw__rld, and we are so thankful to be benefitting from a portion of the sales. Sign up to Artwrld’s allowlist at the 🔗 below.

https://t.co/uBSHSmNOml

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One month into 2023: there have been 39 U.S mass shootings*

In a #2016CTReport, Jacques Servin (@theyesmen) wrote on the NRA, white supremacy, and the reality of state violence weaponized against people of color.

https://t.co/blg1sPFIR7

*NYT/Gun Violence Archive

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Heading into the new year looking for some blueprints to surviving/thriving within the systems we are dealt, from explorations of capitalism to queer abstraction, and so much more. This is what we're reading now. 📚

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"Artists are at the forefront of social change. Artists often allow us to grasp what we cannot yet understand.”* — Angela Davis

Happy Birthday, Angela Davis!

*Forbes via the Oakland Museum of California

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Our friends at @_artcoop just came out with the podcast Remember the Future, which shares stories of culture workers in the Solidarity Economy movement and educates listeners about the value of community control of culture. Listen below!

https://t.co/TTZ6CEykpq

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🐰 Happy Lunar New Year! 🎉 The New Year began yesterday and we wish all those celebrating peace and prosperity in the Year of the Rabbit!

#YearOfTheRabbit #LunarNewYear

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@DawnPorter's #2016CTReport on state-made TRAP laws take on a new meaning when just last summer Roe v. Wade was struck down. This past Saturday would have been the 50th anniversary of the landmark case.

https://t.co/u1Nh2YcUce