Tribeca Art+Culture Night Kicks Off 2019 with its 10th edition featuring over 300 artists & creatives in over 30 Lower Manhattan spaces.
On March 7, Tribeca Art+Culture Night will feature over 30 diverse Lower Manhattan spaces – 15 fine art galleries, 3 design spaces, 9 art-non profits & university galleries, 2 artist residencies and 18 artists studios, and 7 pop up & non-traditional spaces – and a concerted program showcasing over 300 artists & creatives and 10 exclusive events. With its program of exhibitions, performances, curator-led tours & walkthroughs, talks and workshops, this Spring edition of Tribeca Art+Culture Night will spotlight contemporary art, design, fashion, dance, virtual reality, music and crafts, and feature popular and less well-known locations in Tribeca (including spaces typically closed to the public). At each venue, attendees can interact directly with Non-profits Directors, Curators and/or Artists, who are present all evening to introduce their work/space to Tribeca Art Nighters.
During the evening, you’ll discover 150 works on paper by Andy Warhol from the period 1950-80’s, most of which have never been shown in the United States (NYAA), learn the Art of Hat Making (BM. Franklin), get hypnotized by the color, line and form of Lesley Vance’s cursive abstract paintings (Bortolami), discover artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz’s 100 colourful stuffed birds crystal chandelier (R&Company), discover the Bronx Museum’s 2019 artists in residence in their newly opened space (AIM – Block Gallery), artist Bahar Behbahani and learn about his creative process (Art Projects International), be transported by the works of 12 different artists during White Street / Franklin Place Open Studios (50 White St./NYA), get a one of kind Japanese poem from the Haiku Guys & Gals, enjoy a Drawing Workshop with Luisa Cantara (Church St. School), explore the space in between gender, identity and the post-human experience with PUSSYKREW’s multimedia installations, VR experience & 3D Printed sculptures (Postmasters), dive in the cosmos with a live painting performance by Muffinhead (Festival Hub), taste over 30 varieties of pickles during an experimental fermentation tasting (apexart), enter a meditative state with Shinji Turner-Yamamo’s golden sculptural installations (Sapar Contemporary), explore the world of beats with a DJ Workshop (Festival Hub), enjoy a guided tour led by independent curator Juliana Steiner, Art Frankly Founder Karline Moeller and Mana Contemporary’s Curatorial Director Ysabel Pinyol (itinerant locations), take a deep breath at an oxygen bar on your way to your next stop (Quickcryo), re-imagine the future with REFRESH collective’s exhibition featuring art responding to our technological and political moment (205 Hudson Gallery- Hunter College), and so much more!
On the occasion of its 10th edition, TAC Night will also host a dazzling closing Art Party on Franklin St, transforming lobbies, walls and lounges into a playground of experiential performances and installations. The festival’s closing reception attended by philanthropists, artists, curators, entrepreneurs, gallerists, designers, collectors, explorers, writers, and thought leaders will embark all participants on a creative safari.
30+ participating venues to this Spring edition are: 205 Hudson Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries / Alexander and Bonin / Art Projects International / apexart / Barney Savage Gallery / Bortolami Gallery / AIM- Bronx Museum of the Arts / Cheryl Hazan Gallery / Church Street School for Music and Art / David Weeks Studio / Double Knot / Drawing Center / Hal Bromm Gallery / Hionas Gallery / New York Academy of Art / NYA Gallery / Leslie Lohman Museum /312 Canal / 332B Canal / 322B Canal / 325 Canal / 359 Canal / 361 Canal / Postmasters Gallery / R & Company / Sapar Contemporary / Soho Photo Gallery / Steven Amedee Gallery / Thomas Hayes Gallery / Tribeca Community on Display / Twenty First Gallery / Whitespace / White Street Studios
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About the Tribeca Art District
Tribeca is the new up-and-coming arts district in NYC. A cultural hub as emerged in the neighborhood that now counts 90+ spaces dedicated to the arts. The Tribeca Arts District is the current home of, namely Postmasters, New York Academy of Art, Alexander & Bonin, Lubov, apexart, Ortuzar Projects, Bronx Museum’s Artist Residency, 205 Hudson Gallery, and Bortolami. More galleries are announced to arrive in the coming months, such as The Journal Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, kauffman repetto, Denny Dimin Gallery and CANADA, as well as James Cohan and join what is now the fastest growing art district in NYC. James Cohan Gallery and art dealer Lisa Schiff has also been announced to open new spaces, along with the special project space 55 Walker St. and Artists Space‘s new two-story space on White St.
About Tribeca Art+Culture Night
Tribeca Art+Culture Night is a downtown festival that celebrates the arts at large in Tribeca and takes place in 30 multiple and diverse spaces. It is free and open to the public. The event presents a program of events like a FESTIVAL, showcases venues/organizations like an OPEN ART FAIR, unlocks spaces to the public like an OPEN HOUSE, and offers curated guided–tours showcasing exhibitions like an ART WALK.
It is also an ART MARATHON. Attendees can choose their own adventure mixing exhibitions with workshops, talks, demonstrations and performances. In just 3 hours, from 6-9 PM, visitors join together to attend a curator-led tour, learn a new skill in a creative workshop, watch a live dance performance, and discover the unexpected in a contemporary gallery they may have never found otherwise. TAC Night is an adventurous playground showcasing artists, performers, curators, scientists, chefs, wellness experts, musician, designers, authors, thought leaders and makers.
Each festival runs quarterly and its content changes for every edition. The festival’s upcoming dates in 2019-20 are: March 7, June 20, and September 25.
The TAC Festival, founded and curated by Jennifer Famery-Mariani, has featured over 1000 artists, 180 exhibitions, 90 art venues and 80 special events since its inception in 2016. The festival serves an average of 10,000 people of year with over 2500 attending each of the four editions.
Highlights of previous editions include a walkthrough “Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno” (205 Hudson Gallery, Swiss Institute, Artists Space), a literary workshop “how to write a 10 min play” (Flea Theater), a neon making demonstration (Let There Be Neon), a one time performance of “Audience for one” by Jody Oberfelder (Franklin St.), a private walkthrough of Michel Parmentier’s first US solo exhibition (Ortuzar Projects), a poetry reading by Max Blagg (Duane Park), a collector’s talk with art dealer Stefania Bortolami (Bortolami Gallery), an Afro-Dance workshop with Angel Kaba (Festival Hub), a knife sharpening workshop (Best Made), a paper cutting performance with artist Xin Song (Pearl River Gallery), a private tour of Daniel Buren’s in situ installation (Bortolami), a perfume making workshop (Sue Phillips), an itinerant dance performance with BC+A (Alexander and Bonin), a puppeteer workshop (Flea Theater), a live classical performance with Jung Sun Kang x Sing for Hope Pianos (Tribeca Park), a theatrical performance of “Electric Awakening” by Dennis Yueh Yee Lee & the Living Theatre (Church St. School), and many more encounters….
Diversity and exploration are the key words for our festival starting with the incredible variety of types of venues featured, through the different event formats available for the public to engage with art, to the range of content available during the festival.
Tribeca Art+Culture Night embodies the next generation of art engagement. It supports artists and art organizations, connects them with the public in intimate, experimental, and generative ways. The Festival strives to facilitate the access to Art and connects creatives beyond pre-established cultural categories. It aims to stimulate ideas, imagination, and innovation in the downtown communities
Tribeca Art+Culture Night
Spring Press Release
TACN Edition 10
March 7, 2019, 6-10:30 PM
team@tribecaartnight.com
