Editors’ Picks: 6 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World This Week, From a Panel on Ethical Arts Funding to a Zoom Celebration of Studio 54

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and
thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the
global health situation, we are currently highlighting events and
exhibitions available digitally. See our picks from around the
world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise
noted.) 

Tuesday, June
9

1. Virtual Museum Mile, New
York 

Every June for the last 41 years, New York’s Fifth Avenue
museums have staged a joint evening of free admission. The
tradition now moves online, with virtual exhibition tours,
streaming musical performances, and other programming from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Neue Galerie, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New
York, El Museo del Barrio, the Africa Center, and the Cooper
Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Price: Free
Time: 9 a.m.–9 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

2. “Performance-in-Place: An
Evening with Kinetic Light” at the Shelley & Donald Rubin
Foundation, New York

The disability arts and dance ensemble Kinetic Light—the only
American art collective entirely led by disabled artists—will offer
a candid look at their rehearsal process, choreographic process,
and history in this online conversation. The collective is
currently developing their latest work, Wired, an
immersive, aerial experience that traces the gender, race, and
disability histories of barbed wire. Members Alice Sheppard, Laurel
Lawson, and Jerron Herman will be in conversation with the Rubin’s
Sara Reisman.

Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 7 p.m.–8:15 p.m.

—Nan Stewert

Wednesday, June
10

3. “Full Stop: Letters Cut in
Stone” at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn 

You probably haven’t given much thought to gravestone
typography, but Green-Wood Cemetery boasts thousands of unique
tombstone designs. Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman with speak
with Angela Voulangas and Doug Clouse, graphic designers and type
historians who run the company the Graphics Office, about the art
and design of the cemetery’s inscriptions.

Price: $5 with registration
Time: 5 p.m.–6 p.m.

—Sarah Cascone

4. “Remake The Model: Arts Funder Forum‘s Ethics Conversation”
with Darren Walker and David Callahan

With renewed calls for arts and
cultural organizations to take action to fight injustice, AFF is
hosting a Zoom webinar talk on ethics and equity hosted by Arts
Funders Forum, the new initiative dedicated to the future of arts
philanthropy. The latest edition of AFF’s virtual “Remake the
Model” series will examine the role of philanthropists and
culture-sector leaders in this moment of turmoil. The two-part
conversation will feature Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, and David Callahan,
founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy.

Price: Free with registration
Time: 1 p.m.–2 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella 

Wednesday, June
10

5. “Points of Access:
Publishing” at the California African American Museum, Los
Angeles

The California African American Museum is collaborating with
well-known Los Angeles nonprofit Art + Practice to embark on a
four-part seminar series to shed light on the under-appreciated but
critical process of documentation in the arts. The kickoff edition
focuses on the text and publishing side of the equation, which
doesn’t always come naturally to visually inclined people and
organizations. The panel brings together artist and CASSANDRA Press
co-creator Kandis Williams, Sming Sming Books & Objects imprint
creator Vivian Sming, and founding editor of ARTS.BLACK Jessica
Lynne, with Cameron Shaw, the museum’s deputy director and chief
curator, handling moderation.

Price: Free with RSVP
Time: 8 p.m.–10 p.m. EST/5 p.m.–7 p.m.
PST

—Tim Schneider 

Friday, June
12 

6. “LGBTQ+ Teen Night:
Xtravagant Xpressions” at the Brooklyn Museum, New
York

The Brooklyn Museum may be closed, but it’s still organizing a
version of its annual LGBTQ+ Teen Night inspired by the exhibition
“Studio 54: Night Magic.” While a teen-organized evening of
art-making, panel discussions, and drag and music performances is
decidedly less fun over Zoom, there are still
some exciting events tied to the celebration of joyful community
spaces, trailblazing underground nightlife, and unapologetic
freedom. The teens in your life can enjoy makeup tips inspired by
drag performance, a download from the Ackerman Institute’s
Gender & Family Project about health resources and ways to keep
safe while taking action, and performances by Dynasty,
LustSickPuppy, DJ Pauli Cakes, and others.

Price: Free for all LGBTQ+ teens and
their allies 14+, but registration is
required.
Time: 5 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

—Julia Halperin

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