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Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 7pm
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
www.lacma.org

Join the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (lacma) for a special presentation of Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. The feature-length documentary chronicles the challenging life and times of Nam June Paik (1936–2006), a pillar of the American avant-garde. Featuring readings of the artist’s writing by actor Steven Yeun, the film uses extensive archival footage and clips from Paik’s work to recount his collaborations with luminaries such as Joseph Beuys, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and others. After the screening, Yeun, who was also an executive producer on the film, will speak with fellow producer Jennifer Stockman and lacma CEO Michael Govan.

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Thursday, June 30, 2022, 7:30pm
Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Join us for a video program that brings together a selection of Nam June Paik’s analog video works along with Internet-era works by artists including Ilana Harris-Babou, Frank Heath, Maggie Lee, Guthrie Lonergan, LoVid, and Martine Syms. The selection is curated by Rebecca Cleman, executive director at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and copresented by Anthology Film Archives, EAI, and Gagosian, on the occasion of Art in Process, a two-part survey of works by Paik at Gagosian, New York.

Since the early 1960s, Paik’s prescient thinking about how artists can exploit television and computer technology has resonated through generations, particularly with regard to his mischievous opposition to industry conformity. His strongly held belief in the radical potential of fun, and his understanding of technological innovation as nurturing artistic innovation, have remained relevant through profound changes in communication platforms. To attend the event, purchase tickets at ticketing.uswest.veezi.com.

November 30, 2020–January 31, 2021
gagosian-deitch.com

Gagosian is pleased to announce The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website.

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
—Timothy Leary

Gagosian is pleased to present Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video, an online exhibition of artists’ films and videos viewable exclusively on gagosian.com. The exhibition will be organized into a series of “chapters,” each lasting two weeks. The first chapter begins on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video employs the innate immediacy of time-based art to spark reflection on the here and now, taking the words of famed psychologist and countercultural icon Timothy Leary as its starting point. 

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 6:30–8pm
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

In conjunction with the exhibition Nam June Paik at Tate Modern, London, there will be a panel discussion to reflect on Paik’s continuing influence on art and culture today. Artists Cécile B. Evans, Haroon Mirza, and Stephen Vitiello will lead the discussion, and Sook-Kyung Lee, senior curator of international art at Tate, will moderate.

Saturday, October 20, 2018, 11am–10pm
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
www.maxxi.art

The first day of Videocittà, a video art film festival at Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, will be dedicated to Nam June Paik with screenings of his films Global Groove (1973) and Bye Bye Kipling (1986). To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.maxxi.art.