May 4, 2008, 4pm - 6pm
Opening at SculptureCenter

May 4 - July 28, 2008
Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers:
Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s
Featuring Alice Adams, Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, Agnes Denes, Jackie Ferrara, Suzanne Harris, Nancy Holt, Mary Miss, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor. This exhibition focuses on work by women artists who made significant contributions to the development of sculptural practice in the 1970s. The exhibition includes sculpture, models, photographs, drawings, video, and other forms of documentation, some of which has not been shown since ts original exhibition. Curated by Catherine Morris.
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May 4 - July 28, 2008
Michael Portnoy
Casino Ilinx
Installed in SculptureCenter's lower galleries, Portnoy's first US solo exhibition builds on his recent series of abstract gambling tables.
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Saturday, May 17, 4:30pm
Paradigms and Parallels:
Feminism and the Politics of Structure
Decoys Curator Catherine Morris and WACK! Curator Connie Butler speak with exhibiting artists about making sculpture in New York in the 70s, the ways in which feminist content is or is not manifested in their work, and how they see their relationship to feminism then and now.


Thursday, May 29, 7pm
Michael Portnoy Presents:
Milk the Weasel, Pull the Rug
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Summer Session 2008
Director of Behavior Michael Portnoy and special guests open the tables for gambling sessions. Accompanied by a card counting demonstration by Melissa Brown, a lecture on the acceleration and collapse of time by Adina Popescu, and a presentation on dice-footed animals and pre-Columbian dermatology by Marianne Vitale.

Join the New Art Network, SculptureCenter's membership group for young professionals, for cocktails and music in the courtyard directly following Michael Portnoy's Milk the Weasel Pull the Rug.

Co-Chairs: Courtney Higginbotham, Elana Rubinfeld, and Kristine Tanno
Music by: Matthew Radue, Tropical Jeremy, Ben Brunnemer