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Join us on Tuesday 4/14 at 6pm for an IMPULSE Forum at GRIMM (54 White St)
This round-table participatory discussion group will be moderated by Katherine Humphries in conversation with Letha Wilson’s exhibition Stone's Throw at GRIMM (54 White St).
Doors open at 6pm, the conversation will begin at 6:30pm. RSVP to receive a discussion guide and reference texts in preparation for the discussion.
Join us on Tuesday 4/14 at 6pm for an IMPULSE Forum at GRIMM (54 White St)
This round-table participatory discussion group will be moderated by Katherine Humphries in conversation with Letha Wilson’s exhibition Stone's Throw at GRIMM (54 White St).
Doors open at 6pm, the conversation will begin at 6:30pm. RSVP to receive a discussion guide and reference texts in preparation for the discussion.
Join IMPULSE Magazine at CHART Gallery (74 Franklin St) on Tuesday, 3/17 for an IMPULSE Forum moderated by Vinh Phu Pham, PhD.
"Frame of No Reference" will be moderated by Vinh Phu Pham and hosted at CHART Gallery (74 Franklin St.) in conversation with Mariah Robertson's exhibition Portraits. Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and the conversation will begin by 6:30 pm.
IMPULSE Forum is a round-table participatory discussion series hosted in partner galleries and arts spaces across NYC. A discussion guide and reference text will be forwarded to you when you RSVP for a free ticket.
Join IMPULSE Magazine on Wednesday, February 25th, for IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program. Doors will open at 6 pm, and the discussion will begin by 6:30 pm.
In the epilogue to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin argues that fascism introduces aesthetics into political life. Rather than transforming material conditions, it offers expression — spectacle, choreography, affect. Politics becomes image.
To think through this proposition in a contemporary context, participants are asked to watch No Church in the Wild. The stylized confrontation between protesters and police, the fetishization of tension, and the aesthetic framing of violence invite reflection on Benjamin’s claim that politics can become aestheticized rather than resolved.
The aim is not to draw direct equivalences, but to consider whether aesthetic organization — whether monumental, spectacular, or minimal and “neutral” — participates in shaping political imagination.
“Beautiful Order: Aesthetics, Myth, and the Stabilization of Power” will be moderated by Józefina Chętko and hosted at Petzel (520 W 25th St) in conversation with an exhibition of works by Troy Brauntuch.
Join IMPULSE Magazine on Tuesday, January 27th, for IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program. Doors will open at 6 pm, and the discussion will begin by 6:30 pm.
For this forum, we are pairing two texts that arise from and address very different contexts. Veena Das’s The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed is a critical look at Indian history through the lens of gender, while Grace Lee Boggs' Revolution As New Beginning is more grounded in activist practice and future-oriented. Given the location of this art gallery within a criminal justice college, we will ask about the scope and role of contemporary art practices in larger social justice and movement politics. We will consider the strengths, vulnerabilities and strategies open to aesthetic practices in this light, asking how art spaces ought to navigate our tense political context. Download the discussion guide here!
“Transnational Feminisms: What is the role of contemporary arts spaces?” will be moderated by Macushla Robinson and hosted at The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (860 11th Avenue, inside the John Jay College of Criminal Justice) in conversation with their current show “On Absence.” The show is curated by Achia Anzi and Oorja Garg and features the work of Payal Arya, Yogesh Barve, Sonam Chaturvedi, Priyanka D’Souza, Priyesh Gothwal, Priyank Gothwal, Shilpa Gupta, Rahul Juneja, Shaurya Kumar, Swati Kumari, Raqs Media Collective, and Mohit Shelare.
RSVP for a FREE ticket at the link in our bio and receive reading materials and a discussion guide in your inbox!
IMPULSE Magazine and the art world’s favorite watering hole BEVERLY'S are teaming up to host a monthly HAPPY HOUR. Join us for drinks from 6 pm to 9 pm on Tuesday, December 16th, and enjoy Beverly’s current exhibition, NANNA, featuring works by Mollie McKinley, Stina Poutinen, and Alex Schmidt.
Join IMPULSE Magazine on Tuesday, December 9th, for IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program. Doors will open at 6 pm, and the discussion will begin by 6:30 pm. Reading materials and a discussion guide can be downloaded here.
French philosopher François Laruelle argues that almost all philosophy—even anti-philosophical philosophy—imposes abstract structures on reality, producing a habit of thinking that is seemingly dialectical but in effect essentializing. In his proposition for non-philosophy, he imagines a radical rejection of these tendencies, insisting that thinking should remain grounded in lived, material conditions rather than in abstract conceptual systems.
“Material Philosophy: Thinking Through the Noise” will be moderated by @natychuk and hosted at Magenta Plains (149 Canal Street) in conversation with Joseph Nechvatal’s show “Information Noise Saturation.”
RSVP for a FREE ticket at the link in our bio and receive reading materials and a discussion guide in your inbox!
Join IMPULSE Magazine for IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program seeking to build our local IMPULSE community. Each themed conversation will invite our audience to create new, relevant discourse set across partner galleries and project spaces in New York City.
This month’s forum, titled “Dual Principles: Jungian Dichotomies”, will be moderated by Matilda Lin Berke hosted at Arsenal Contemporary (21 Cortlandt Alley, 2nd Floor) in collaboration with Night Gallery, Los Angeles and Pangée, Montreal in conversation with an exhibition of paintings by Darby Milbrath, entitled “The Raving Ones”.
“Dual Principles” will consider Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s description of dichotomies such as The Apollinian and The Dionysian, the aesthetic and the religious and the libidinal and subconscious as they pertain to aesthetics in visual art. Historically, artworks have also been categorically assigned to binaries, such as iconographic and iconoclastic, figurative and abstract, painting and sculpture etc. Contemporary art has arguably progressed beyond strict taxonomic limitations, but at the same time, new rigidities have emerged. To what extent are these binary descriptions useful? In the current moment of contemporary art, how can we apply Jung’s theory to artwork that may challenge the boundaries of these distinctions?
For this edition of IMPULSE Forum, we invite participants to bring an art book with them that feels relevant to the theme. This could be an artist whose work relates to discussion, a book of poetry, a zine, a children's book- you name it! We look forward to seeing what everyone chooses to bring!
RSVP for a FREE ticket and receive a discussion guide and reference materials in your inbox!
IMPULSE Magazine and the art world’s favorite watering hole BEVERLY'S are teaming up to host a monthly HAPPY HOUR. Join us for drinks from 6 pm to 9 pm on Tuesday, November 4th, and enjoy Beverly’s current exhibition, NANNA, featuring works by Mollie McKinley, Stina Poutinen, and Alex Schmidt.
Join us at IMPULSE Forum x SPIELZEUG x 1 Day at a Time (131 Chrystie St) on Tuesday 10/14, competitive edition. RSVP for a FREE ticket here.
ISO hot takes, actually funny people, people who call it like it is, people who can strike pen to paper with emotional flair, and people who have read too much Baudrillard. We NEED you. The atrocity of TOYS! TOYS! TOYS! is fertile territory for a SMEAR CAMPAIGN.
But seriously, what is bad criticism? Recently, two critics aired their grievances on the topic. Now it’s your turn to put your word in on this ongoing debate. Is negative criticism good? We’re curious to find out.
HOMEWORK:
Sean Tatol, Negative Criticism (The Point)
Ben Davis, Is Art Criticism Today Too Affirming? That's the Wrong Question to Ask (artnet news)
Join IMPULSE Magazine for the third session of our new talk series, IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program seeking to build our local IMPULSE community. Each themed conversation will invite our audience to create new, relevant discourse set across partner galleries and project spaces in New York City.
This month’s forum, titled “Copy of A Copy: Does Art Need Copyright?”, will be held on Tuesday, September 23rd, 6:00 pm at Microscope Gallery (525 W 29th St, 2nd Floor) and will conclude with drinks at a nearby bar!
“Copy of a Copy” seeks to address the uses and limitations of copyright in the fine arts world. Central to the conversation is a text by Amy Adler, “Why Art Does Not Need Copyright,” which argues that the logic of copyright as a tool to economically incentivize creativity actually has the opposite effect, due to the art world’s prizing of authenticity and authorship in attributing value to an artwork. While her argument is certainly compelling, its logics apply more reasonably to “traditional” mediums such as painting or sculpture. Can her argument be applied to lens-based artists making work in the digital age?
RSVP for a FREE ticket at the link in our bio and receive a discussion guide and reference materials in your inbox!
Join IMPULSE Magazine for our new talk series IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program seeking to build our local IMPULSE community. Each themed conversation will invite our audience to create new, relevant discourse set across partner gallery and project spaces in New York City.
This month's forum, on Death and Ritual, will be held on Tuesday July 1st, 6:00 pm at RAINRAIN (110 Lafayette St, Suite 201).
IMPULSE Forum invites special guests (A.E Chapman, Wen-You Cai, Sinclair Li, and Zhi-Wei Hiu) to guide the conversation through their unique relationship with the theme. However, we are just as excited to hear from you! After the Forum, join IMPULSE for drinks at a nearby bar :)
We look forward to seeing you there. Reserve a FREE ticket here!
RAINRAIN, is currently exhibiting Zhi Wei Hiu: Slivered Wake, A Cast Lance, a debut solo show for the Singaporean-Chinese artist.
Join IMPULSE Magazine for the inaugural event of our new talk series IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program seeking to build our local IMPULSE community. Each themed conversation will invite our audience to create new, relevant discourse set across partner gallery and project spaces in New York City.
Our first IMPULSE Forum will be on Translation, held on Thursday 5/22, 6:00 pm at LUmkA (158 Rivington St).
Featuring Guest Speakers: Jenny Kim, JinJin Kim, Xiaojing Zhu, Luca Rekosh
Each IMPULSE Forum invites special guests to guide the conversation through their unique relationship with the theme. But we are just as excited to hear from you! After the Forum, join IMPULSE for drinks at a nearby bar :)
We look forward to seeing you there. Reserve a FREE ticket here!
LUmKA, a nomadic curatorial project, is currently exhibiting The Theatre at 158 Rivington St for their last NYC project ahead of a move to London in Fall 2025. Join us in wishing LUmKA farewell and enjoy works by Anna Ting Möller, Luca Rekosh, Marianna Rothen, and Miles Scharff.
IMPULSE Magazine Launch Party and Opening Reception for DO NOT DISTURB, an IMPULSE Magazine Benefit Exhibition
Music by Superflux + Wine and Cocktails
Curated by Xuezhu Jenny Wang, Victoria Reshetnikov, and Meinzer
Featured Artists:
Wenfei Quan, Victoria Reshetnikov, Anna Sofie Jespersen, Yi Hsuan Lai, Lesley Bodzy, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Dahlia Bloomstone, Morrison Gong, Anoushka Bhalla, Xi Song, Edra Soto
Each year, the global art market emits an estimated 70 million tons of CO2, contributing to the rapid escalation of the climate crisis. How can artists and art institutions channel their resources, craft, and cultural capital to address climate issues at stake?
Join Embodied Earth and IMPULSE Magazine in conversation with four artists and art professionals as they discuss the art world’s environmental impact.
Featuring Wenfei Quan, Victoria Reshetnikov, Anna Sofie Jespersen, Yi Hsuan Lai, Lesley Bodzy, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Dahlia Bloomstone, Morrison Gong, Anoushka Bhalla, Xi Song, Edra Soto;
Curated by Xuezhu Jenny Wang, Victoria Reshetnikov, and Meinzer.
