The Kitchen

Interview

Meet the NYC Art Community: Lumi Tan on Drawing Strength from “Generative Challenges”

An interview series spotlighting New York’s creative community. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.

Art

Autumn Knight Responds to the “Gaslighting of the Current Moment” in New Performance Series

For Knight, whose work slyly critiques the raced, gendered, and classed nature of power, a residency at the Kitchen will provide an opportunity to use the empty building as a collaborator.

Art

In Brooklyn, a Night With Fluid Experimentalists Roland P. Young and L’Rain

Each known for their genre-bending improvisation, the two musicians will treat audiences to a special double bill at Public Records on Thursday — Young's first solo performance in over 10 years.

Music

Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death

The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.

Art

How to Talk About Whiteness

The Racial Imaginary Institute wants to “make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable,” to disrupt the "bloc" of whiteness.

Art

A Symposium Casts a Critical Eye on Whiteness

Co-organized by the Racial Imaginary Institute and the Kitchen, this weekend's event boasts a powerful lineup of artists, writers, and thinkers on race.

Performance

As Governments Build Walls Between Us, Tapping into the Creative Potential of Destruction

Summoning within her own body the necessary force to make the assemblage crumble, Foulkes transforms the dancer-sculpture duet into an aerial mosh pit.

Art

An Aerial Dance with an Abraham Cruzvillegas Sculpture

At the Kitchen, choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will perform an improvised aerial dance with Cruzvillegas's suspended sculpture, with musical accompaniment by Andrés García Nestitla.

Art

A Performance Inspired by Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman Misses the Mark

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and LaMont Hamilton's performance "Evil Nigger" was the first in a series celebrating the life and work of Eastman.

Art

Three Weeks of Performances Honoring Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman

Bringing together years of research, an exhibition and performance series at the Kitchen remembers the remarkable composer.

Art

Performance Icon Kembra Pfahler Promises a "Harrowing Evening" at the Kitchen

In an evening covering her practice since the 1980s, Kembra Pfahler and her collaborators bring transgressive, wildly inventive, take-no-prisoners performance to the Kitchen.

Art

Moroccan Identity and Digital Culture Connect in an Internet-Age Funhouse

Meriem Bennani's dizzying, discomfiting, delightful installation at The Kitchen.