Hot Button New Museum, NY

Hot Button! represents the first programmatic initiative of the New Museum's recently appointed curatorial team: Richard Flood, Chief Curator; Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator; and Massimiliano Gioni, Curator.

Presented at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, these three panels - Passion: For Love or Money?; Location, Location, Location: Is Provincial a Bad Word?; and The "IT" Factor: What Makes Something Hot? - represent the spirit of an institution dedicated to new art and new ideas, and ready to embrace debate. The Hot Button panels are designed to encourage frank conversation on issues widely-discussed in private but less candidly so in the public arena. Leading figures in contemporary art, architecture, cuisine, design and fashion will participate.

Organized by the New Museum in association with the School of Art at The Cooper Union, these panels will be held in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue. General admission is $6 (free for New Museum members and Cooper Union faculty and students). Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Passion: For Love or Money?
November 1, 2006
6:30-8PM

Passion features a discussion of the driving forces behind creative acts and unconventional artistic gestures. Panelists include Marina Abramovic, performance artist; John Richardson, independent scholar and author of A Life of Picasso; Wylie Dufresne, chef and restaurateur, WD-50; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London; and Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, Village Voice. This panel will be moderated by Massimiliano Gioni, Curator, New Museum.