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Join us tomorrow, April 28 from 6:30–8 pm for a Listening Session. Inside the new exhibition “Black Fire!,” we will expl...
04/27/2026

Join us tomorrow, April 28 from 6:30–8 pm for a Listening Session. Inside the new exhibition “Black Fire!,” we will explore sonic archives and radical alternate imaginaries through vinyl, audio recordings, and soundscapes. Each host brings distinct practices rooted in sound, memory, and speculative world-making. Part conversation, part back-to-back set, the session invites audiences into an intimate encounter with the otherworldly frequencies embedded in archival and experimental sound.

We are joined by scholar of African Self-Liberation Mhoze Chikowero, Grammy-nominated creator and writer, Shana L. Redmond, scholar of African American and Africana Studies, Zoé Samudzi, and Thandi Loewenson, whose exhibition creates space for the session.

This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is strongly encouraged. Sign up at the link in our bio. 🔗

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“Black Fire!” by Thandi Loewenson is now open and on view through June 27!Tomorrow, Children ages 4–12—and their guests—...
04/24/2026

“Black Fire!” by Thandi Loewenson is now open and on view through June 27!

Tomorrow, Children ages 4–12—and their guests—are invited to a Spooky Action Workshop at the gallery from 2–4 pm. Artist and educator Niceli Portugal () will guide this program, where participants will use scrap materials and simple assembly techniques to create their own shadow puppets and bring them to life through a light projection. After the workshop, participants will build short shadow performances exploring the boundaries between fiction and collective narratives.

Next week:
🔥 4/28, 6:30–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Mhoze Chikowero, Shana L. Redmond, and Zoé Samudzi () (*Limited Capacity)

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Thank you for joining us yesterday for the opening of “Black Fire!” by architect and researcher Thandi Loewenson, during...
04/23/2026

Thank you for joining us yesterday for the opening of “Black Fire!” by architect and researcher Thandi Loewenson, during which she gave a performance on alien encounters.

More events will activate aspects of the exhibition in the coming days:

This Saturday, from 2–4 pm join us for a child-focused workshop where participants will create their own shadow puppets and bring them to life through a light projection. (Limited capacity)

Next week:
🔥 4/28, 6:30–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Mhoze Chikowero, Shana L. Redmond, and Zoé Samudzi () (*Limited Capacity)
Explore sonic archives and radical alternate imaginaries through vinyl, audio recordings, and soundscapes. The evening will open with a guided introduction before giving way to a call-and-response exchange between the hosts, who each bring distinct practices rooted in sound, memory, and speculative world-making. Part conversation, part back-to-back set, the session invites audiences into an intimate encounter with the otherworldly frequencies embedded in archival and experimental sound.

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()
Partake in a performance and live publishing event that reframes the gallery as a darkroom studio. Thandi Loewenson and Zimbabwean author Tinashe Mushakavanhu transform the space into a site of literary production with readings, live acts of making, and copies produced in the space for one night only. The evening will spill onto the street and culminate in an open mic night of otherworldly encounters.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Opening this Wednesday from 6–8 pm with a performance by , “Black Fire!” presents a critical yet atmospheric examination...
04/20/2026

Opening this Wednesday from 6–8 pm with a performance by , “Black Fire!” presents a critical yet atmospheric examination of UFO archives tied to Zimbabwe, reflecting on what these uncanny stories of extraterrestrial encounters reveal about notions of race and the alien.

A series of events accompany this new exhibition:

🛸 4/25, 2–4 pm: Spooky Action: Child-Focused Shadow Workshop
Drawing on Black Fire!’s connection to light, shadow, and imagination, join us for a child-focused, hands-on shadow puppet workshop.

🔥 4/28, 6:30–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Zoé Samudzi (.t.samudzi) and Mhoze Chikowero (*Limited Capacity)
Explore sonic archives and radical alternate imaginaries through vinyl, audio recordings, and soundscapes.

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()
Partake in a performance and live publishing event that reframes the gallery as a darkroom studio.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Shown here: Cynthia Hind records, Archive for the Unexplained, Sweden

04/09/2026

Join us Wednesday, April 22, from 6–8 pm for the opening of “Black Fire!” by artist and architect Thandi Loewenson (), during which she will give a performance lecture.

Black Fire! examines the intersecting geographies of race and the alien imagination, spanning from colonial captivity narratives to the anxious frontiers of settler colonialism across Zimbabwe. In her longstanding research, Loewenson traces the figure of the alien through meticulously indexed and archived sighting histories. Together these archives expose UFO mythology as an uncanny continuation of colonial history, and an expression of alternative cosmologies emerging from Indigenous knowledge and worldviews.

A series of programs will expand on the exhibition by reframing the gallery as a darkroom studio, open mic and listening room, and printing machine, destabilizing the threshold between inside and outside:

🔥 4/23, 6–8 pm: Monstrous, Malodorous, Otherworldly: Listening Session with Zoé Samudzi (.t.samudzi) and Mhoze Chikowero

🛸 4/25, 12–2 pm: Child-Focused Spooky Action Shadow Workshop

🎤 4/30, 6–8 pm: Darkroom: Performance and Open Mic with Tinashe Mushakavanhu ()

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗

Audio: Vana Vakatiza (The Children Ran Away), Light Machine Gun (LMG) Choir, and Cynthia Hind, “Tribal Reactions in Africa,” year unknown, recording held by the Archives for the Unexplained

Design:

Last night we were joined alongside our co-hosts at the Axel Springer Haus for an evening with Toshiko Mori. Mori compl...
04/08/2026

Last night we were joined alongside our co-hosts at the Axel Springer Haus for an evening with Toshiko Mori. Mori completed this building in 2019, and was in conversation with NYRA editor Samuel Medina about the process and her practice for this special evening.

Our members, the Storefront Circle, and other special guests toasted with us with drinks generously provided by Yola Mezcal ().

For more events like this, become a Storefront Member or join the Circle. Tap the link in our bio to learn more and support. 🔗

Alex Strada’s exhibition “Public Address” has now arrived in Brooklyn’s Columbus Park!To mark the occasion, join us for ...
04/04/2026

Alex Strada’s exhibition “Public Address” has now arrived in Brooklyn’s Columbus Park!

To mark the occasion, join us for a conversation on Testimony, Housing, and Migration, co-hosted with the Brooklyn Public Library with author Valeria Luiselli, Alexandra Delano Alonso, Professor of Politics and Global Studies, and Maria Ponce Sevilla of Mixteca—a Sunset Park nonprofit providing services to the city’s immigrant community.

April 18, 5–6:30 pm, Center for Brooklyn History
128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn

After the panel, attendees are welcomed to an artist-led walkthrough of Public Address, at Columbus Park.

Tap the link in our bio to register

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Closing today: Alison Nguyen’s “Perforation, Ellipse” Read about the exhibition in reviews and interviews by for , .__....
03/28/2026

Closing today: Alison Nguyen’s “Perforation, Ellipse”

Read about the exhibition in reviews and interviews by for , .__.geum for , and Bri Ng Schwartz for 🏹

We are open from 12–6 pm! Tap the link in our bio to learn more. 🔗

03/25/2026

This is the final week to visit Alison Nguyen’s “Perforation, Ellipse” which closes this Saturday.

Made with unconventional gilding methods, Nguyen’s new works on aluminum feature fields composed of various karats of gold leaf. Each one is transposed with different documents associated with once-banned Vietnamese bolero music, including sheet music and notes provided by the performers in the show’s video installation.

The luminous material of these works evokes the Vietnamese term “nhạc vàng” (“yellow music”) used to discredit bolero as decadent or counterrevolutionary. By bringing these songs out of archives and into the exhibition, Nguyen poses a counter-archive that probes at meaning and legibility.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and plan your visit.

Composer: Scott Kiernan ()
Video documentation: Peter Peregrine ()

12/30/2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on the past year’s exhibitions, events, publications, and more.

This year brought numerous partnerships with artists, architects, designers, writers, and thinkers, including our gallery renovation with GRT Architects (), for which we are so grateful. We look forward to an ambitious new year of growth, continuing to build local and international collaborations that help expand the understanding of the role of art and the built environment.

Thank you for being in conversation with us and for your continued support—it’s what allows us to continue our work each year.

We’ll be back with a full schedule of free programs in 2026!

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