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Fall/Winter 2013–14 Exhibitions on view through March 9, 2014! View this email in your browser Exhibitions Target Free Sundays Calendar Shop Become a member Studio Museum in Harlem | E-Newsletter | March 5, 2014  studiomuseum.org/event-calendar Fall/Winter 2013–14 Exhibitions close Sunday, March 9, 2014!   Don't miss your chance to visit The Shadows Took Shape, Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art or Harlem Postcards Fall/Winter 2013-14: Elia Alba, Malik Gaines, Zoe Leonard, Julie Quon. The Shadow Took Shape Book Club Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Man Thursday, March 6, 7pm RSVP here! In honor of the major group exhibition The Shadows Took Shape, please join The Studio Museum for a new series of book club discussions moderated by prominent artists, scholars, and bloggers interested in science fiction and speculative literature.  Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by a then unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.  To RSVP for the Book Club, please email rsvp@studiomuseum.org. Senga Nengudi: RSVP, 2013 Sunday, March 9, 2014, 2pm Senga Nengudi's "RSVP" series was originally made in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Made of pantyhose and attached to the wall, the works were originally activated by Nengudi and artist Maren Hassinger who moved through the composition and explored the materiality of this flexible yet restrictive material. Highlighting ideas of transference and memory, this new work in the series is activated by Rashaun Mitchell and Regina Rocke, who participated in an intensive workshop with Nengudi and Hassinger to build the work. This program is a part of Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Organized by Thomas J. Lax, Assistant Curator and Edwin Ramoran, Manager of Public Programs and Community Engagement with Monique Long, Curatorial Fellow. For additional information on upcoming events related to this exhibition, please visit radicalpresenceny.org. Target Free Sundays:  March 9, 2014 Thanks to the generous support of Target, Museum admission is free every Sunday. Target Free Sundays reflects a shared commitment to engage the community and offer a vital cultural experience to all. To participate in gallery tours and Hands On activities, RSVP online. Sunday, March 9, 2014 1pm: Gallery Tour: The Shadows Took Shape Enjoy an interactive and informative tour of The Shadows Took Shape led by a knowledgeable museum educator! The Shadows Took Shape is a dynamic interdisciplinary exhibition exploring contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics. The term Afrofuturism refers to a creative and intellectual genre that emerged as a strategy to explore science fiction, fantasy, magical realism and pan-Africanism. With more than sixty works of art, including ten new commissions, the exhibition charts the evolution of Afrofuturist tendencies by an international selection of established and emerging practitioners, spanning not only personal themes of identity and self-determination in the African-American community, but also persistent concerns of techno-culture, geographies, utopias and dystopias, as well as universal preoccupations with time and space. The tour will have something for everyone: adults, families and kids of all ages are welcome! 2pm: Hands On: Myth and Art In this workshop, visitors will create underwater scenes exploring connections between myth-making, traditional storytelling and art-making. This workshop is inspired by Edgar Areneaux's “Slave Ship Zongâ€� series on view in The Shadows Took Shape. Things We Love This Week Happy Armory Week, Armory VIPs get free admission to the Museum Thursday, March 6 through Sunday, March 9! Terry Adkins and George Lewis in conversation in ARTFORUM The Whitney Biennial opens this Friday! Vulture magazine introduces Artist-in-Residence and Whitney Biennial select Kevin Beasley. Rashaad Newsome, “FIVEâ€� at the Drawing Center Congratulations to Director Steve McQueen!  Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at the Brooklyn Museum Ebony G. Patterson's solo exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Open Sessions: Dave McKenzie and Elijah Burgher ArtsATL's follow up with Artist-in-Residence Bethany Collins The Studio Museum in Harlem’s exhibitions are supported with public funds from the following government agencies and elected representatives: The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; The City of New York; and Council Member Inez E. Dickens, 9th Council District, Speaker Christine Quinn and the New York City Council. Additional funding is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Family Programs are funded in part, by Council Member Inez E. Dickens, 9th Council District, Speaker Christine Quinn and the New York City Council.    Images: John Akomfrah, The Last Angel of History (film still), 1995. Courtesy the artist, Smoking Dog Films, Carroll / Fletcher and LUX, London; Zachary Fabri: Shiny Shoes, 2013. Performed at The Studio Museum in Harlem on the occasion of Perfoma 13, November 17, 2013. Images courtesy Performa. Photo: Paula Court; Book Covers. Photo: Paul Mpagi Sepuya; Senga Nengudi, RSVP, 1976–77. Performed at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU. September 10, 2013. Photos: Nisa Ojalv; Edgar Arceneaux, â€œSlave Ship Zongâ€� series (2013-). Courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Photo: Adam Reich Copyright © 2014 The Studio Museum in Harlem, All rights reserved. You've expressed an interest in The Studio Museum in Harlem. 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