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Presenting works in all mediums - with an emphasis on those by artists working with moving image, sound, performance, and digital art - through regular exhibitions and a weekly event series. Founded in 2010. Located in NYC.

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Tenzin Phuntsog: The Last Dream at the End of the World “My dear, the world is crumbling, but do not grieve. Listen: the earth, the grass, the breeze, everything on this land… They see you, they remember you. Reality is no longer solid, and life does not e...

Tenzin Phuntsog's 2nd solo exhibit at the gallery "The Last Dream at the End of the World" is reviewed by Kathleen Langjahr in @screenslate.bsky.social. The show closes tomorrow 3/7.

www.screenslate.com/articles/ten...

06.03.2026 14:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• What Happened to the City That Never Sleeps? Monday February 16, 6pm What Happened to the City That Never Sleeps? As part of “New York By Foot” Works by: Moisés Acevedo, Frances Arpaia, Anton Astudillo, Megan Cahill, Shamus Clisset, Catherine Co...

Tonight 2/16 6pm ET! "What Happened to the City that Never Sleeps?" New & recent works as part of the monthly screening series New York by Foot. In person & online. tinyurl.com/y2c8k7k5

#microscopegalleryeventseries #newyorkbyfoot

16.02.2026 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• Tenzin Phuntsog: The Last Dream at the End of the World Tenzin Phuntsog The Last Dream at the End of the World February 5 – March 7, 2026 Opening Reception Thursday February 5, 6-8pmTenzin Phuntsog, “Auras,” 2026, 3-channel video installation, infinite dur...

Tonight Thursday February 5, 6-8pm we open the 2nd solo show of works by Tenzin Phuntsog featuring new works in drone sculpture, multi-media installation, & 3D animation addressing themes of excile. #tenzinphutsog #microscopegallery

More info: tinyurl.com/5d3humu7

05.02.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Microscope is seeking new & recent works in any moving image format for a special screening for its new New York by Foot series. The series celebrates the energy and ways of life in NYC. Deadline 2/5 11:59 PT. Submit here: tinyurl.com/p3mbh52e

#microscopegallery #newyorkbyfoot

01.02.2026 22:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you haven't had a chance to see the amazing oil paintings by Pop Forum in his solo exhibition "I Wonder About Us Folks," today is the final day. The works are from his PSA (Public Service Announcements" series.

More info; tinyurl.com/9n8c7de7

#popforum #microscopegallery #iwonderaboutusfolks

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• Artist Talk: Pop Forum Thursday January 22, 7pm Artist Talk: Pop Forum In conversation with Tracy Grayson In-Person and Live-StreamedLivestream from Microscope The artist talk starts at 7:10pm ET. If not visible, please rel...

For those watching tonight's artist talk between Pop Forum and Tracy Grayson online, it will be starting in a few minutes here: tinyurl.com/5chaysja

#popforum #tracygrayson #microscopegallery #IWonderAboutUsFolks

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• Artist Talk: Pop Forum Thursday January 22, 7pm Artist Talk: Pop Forum In conversation with Tracy Grayson In-Person and Live-StreamedPop Forum, “I Wonder About Us Folks,” solo exhibition, installation view – Courtesy of the...

Tonight 1/22, 7pm Artist Talk: Pop Forum in conversation w/ Tracy Grayson in connection the former's current exhibition at the gallery "I Wonder About Us Folks." The in-person event will also be live-streamed here on our website: tinyurl.com/yzdaekd9

#popforum #tracygrayson #microscopegallery

22.01.2026 18:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• Jonas Mekas: Lost Lost Lost Monday January 19, 6pm Jonas Mekas: Lost Lost Lost As part of “New York By Foot” Screening on 16mm filmStill from “Lost Lost Lost” (1976) by Jonas Mekas — Courtesy of the Filmmakers’ Cooperative“Among...

Tonight 1/19 we're screening "Lost Lost Lost" by Jonas Mekas as part our new monthly series New York by Foot.

#jonasmekas #lostlostlost #16mm

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• Jonas Mekas: Lost Lost Lost Monday January 19, 6pm Jonas Mekas: Lost Lost Lost As part of “New York By Foot”Still from “Lost Lost Lost” (1976) by Jonas Mekas — Courtesy of the Filmmakers’ Cooperative“Among Mr. Mekas’s many achie...

Monday 1/19 6pm, Jonas Mekas' "Lost Lost Lost," screens on 16mm as part of our NY by Foot series. The diaristic work covers the artist's experience as a displaced person & refugee in the US from 1949-1963.
#jonasmekas #lostlostlost #microscopegallery

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Opening Tonight 12/18, 6-8pm, the first solo exhibit of works by Pop Forum with oil paintings on linen, canvas, and paper from his new "PSA," series.
More info: tinyurl.com/3frcthx9

#popforum #microscopegallery #iwonderaboutusfolks

18.12.2025 18:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• Peggy Ahwesh: Navigations Peggy Ahwesh Navigations November 6 – December 13, 2025 Opening Thursday November 6, 6-8pmPeggy Ahwesh, “The Wayfinders,” 2025, five-channel video installation, floor fans, sound, dimensions variable ...

Last day for "Peggy Ahwesh: Navigations," featuring multi-channel video installations and photographic works shot by the artist or made within a flight simulator program set in the Eastern Mediterranean to address themes of borders, movement, right of return, among others. tinyurl.com/53zrxaca

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• Artist Talk: Peggy Ahwesh Monday November 24, 7pm Artist Talk & Book Release: Peggy Ahwesh In conversation with Linda Norden In-Person and Live-StreamedPeggy Ahwesh (left) and Linda Norden (right) – Images courtesy of Peggy Ah...

Tonight 11/24, 7pm. Artist Talk & Book Release: Peggy Ahwesh w/ Linda Norden in connection with Ahwesh's current exhibit "Navigations." The in-person talk will also be live-streamed on the event page on our site. More info: tinyurl.com/mrx73p88

#microscopegallery #peggyahwesh #lindanorden

24.11.2025 14:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tonight 11/22, 7:30pm. The gallery participates in Fall of Freedom w/ videos and performances by Qween Amor, Kamari Carter, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Nicky Enright, Jessica Fairfax Hirst, Matt Town and Marni Kotak who organized the event.

#falloffreedom

More info: tinyurl.com/4ejffe4b

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• Peggy Ahwesh: Navigations Peggy Ahwesh Navigations November 6 – December 13, 2025 Opening Thursday November 6, 6-8pmPeggy Ahwesh, “The Wayfinders,” 2025, five-channel video installation, floor fans, sound, dimensions variable ...

Opening Thursday Nov 6, 6-8pm, Peggy Ahwesh: Navigations. Through new multi-channel video installations & photographic works the artist asks: "What does it mean to be free to fly? To take to the skies? To cross borders without concern…”

tinyurl.com/53zrxaca

#microscopegallery #peggyahwesh

06.11.2025 03:23 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• Ulrike Ottinger's Shadows Thursday October 2, 7pm Ulrike Ottinger’s Shadows Screening & Conversation With Ulrike Ottinger and Nora Alter Presented with Fordham UniversityStill from “Chamisso’s Schatten,” (Fossil Ivory) 2014 © ...

This Thursday 10/2 at 7pm Ulrike Ottinger’s Shadows.
Screening & Conversation w/ the artist and Nora Alter. Presented with Fordham University. More info: tinyurl.com/bdzrn2et

#UlrikeOttinger #fordham #microscopegalleryeventseries

30.09.2025 21:13 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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• New York by Foot Sunday September 21, 7pm New York By Foot In the Jonas Mekas’ Singing Room at Microscope GalleryStill from “Under the Brooklyn Bridge” (1953) by Rudy Burckhardt — Courtesy of the Film-makers Cooperati...

Tonight! Sept 21, Launch of the screening series "New York by Foot" w/ 16mm films by Barrios, Burkhardt, Iimura , Menken, Sheeler & Strand, and Thomson. Screening original 16mm. Curated w/ Julius Ziz.

More info: tinyurl.com/3hssaezh

21.09.2025 22:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today Sunday 9/14 is the final day of the Cornell Image Text MFA Thesis 2025, curated by Meg Onli. Gallery hours 12-6pm.

More info: tinyurl.com/3pw8c7jx

#cornellimagetextmfa2025 #microscopegallery

14.09.2025 17:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An idea why this photo of an early performance by Marni Kotak (which she's re-performing tonight along with other works) would trigger Google Business to take our post down because of explicit sexual content, etc?

04.09.2025 20:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• Marni Kotak: Three Found Performances In & Out of Time Marni Kotak “Three Found Performances In & Out of Time” Thursday September 4, 2025, 6-8pm Performances start at 6:30pm Installations on view Friday September 5, 12-6pm Admission is freeMarni Kotak in ...

Tonight 9/4 6-8pm. "Marni Kotak: Three Found Performances In and out of Time," with new & re-performances of works from as early as 2000. Performances start at 6:30. Reception w/ the artist before and after. The installations remain on view 9/5.
More info: tinyurl.com/3u33k8x3

#microscopegallery

04.09.2025 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today August 16 is the last day for the exhibition "First Circle: Radical Humanism," works from groundbreaking digital artists, curated by Claudia Hart & Natasha Chuk.
tinyurl.com/2ukzfvmb
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16.08.2025 18:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• The First Circle: Radical Humanism The First Circle: Radical Humanism Peggy Ahwesh, Nancy Burson, Copper Frances Giloth, GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS (Kurt Hentschläger & Ulf Langheinrich), Claudia Hart, Julia Heyward, Les LeVeque, Michael Rees,...

Final Week! Through Saturday August 16th. microscopegallery.com/the-first-ci...

14.08.2025 20:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Computer Dreams: On Information and Images — IMPULSE Magazine The First Circle: Radical Humanism at Microscope Gallery presents a survey of computer and digital technologies in art, spanning point-and-click adventure games to holographic works.

Our current group exhibition on view "The First Circle: Radical Humanism" is reviewed by Justin Kamp in Impulse. The show of ground-breaking digital artists. On view through August 16.
Curated by Claudia Hart & Natasha Chuk.

tinyurl.com/yckyfar7

#thefirstcircle #microscopegallery

05.08.2025 21:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• Nina Sobell: GammaTime Sunday August 3, 4:30pm Nina Sobell GammaTime With Ed Bear and Lucinda Jacobson Admission is freeImage courtesy of Nina SobellMicroscope is pleased to present the NY premiere of the performance GammaT...

Today 4:30pm, the NY premiere of Nina Sobell's live BrainWave Drawing performance "GammaTime," w/ Ed Bear and Lucinda Jacobson. The event is taking place in connection with the current exhibit on view.
microscopegallery.com/nina-sobell-...
#ninasobell #gammatime #microscopegallery

03.08.2025 19:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ayanna Dozier on the Sacred Labour of a Whore | Femme Art Review By Gladys Lou Ayanna Dozier is an artist, writer, and scholar who approaches sex work as a sacred form of labour. For her, erotic labour is not just performed, it is studied, historicized…

Read the latest interview by Gladys Lou with Ayanna Dozier, an artist, writer, and scholar who approaches sex work as a sacred form of labour. The interview discusses the films featured in her recent exhibition ‘Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You’ at @microscopegallery.bsky.social.

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• Nina Sobell: GammaTime Sunday August 3, 4:30pm Nina Sobell GammaTime With Ed Bear and Lucinda Jacobson Admission is freeImage courtesy of Nina SobellMicroscope is pleased to present the NY premiere of the performance GammaT...

This Sunday 8/3 at 4:30pm First Circle Performances: GammaTime with BrainWave drawing by Nina Sobell w/ Ed Bear & Lucinda Jabobson! The event is taking place in connection with the current exhibition "The First Circle: Radical Humanism."

#microscopegallery

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• Will Pappenheimer / Grahame Weinbren Sunday July 20, 4pm First Circle Performances: Grahame Weinbren / Will Pappenheimer (w/ Clara Francesca) Q&A with the artists follows Admission is freeImages courtesy of Will Pappenheimer (left) and G...

Today 7/20 4PM First Circle Performances: Grahame Weinbren / Will Pappenheimer (w/ Clara Francesca) taking place as part of our current exhibition. tinyurl.com/28aawnvv

#microscopegallery #thefirstcircle

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• The First Circle: Radical Humanism The First Circle: Radical Humanism Peggy Ahwesh, Nancy Burson, Copper Frances Giloth, GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS (Kurt Hentschläger & Ulf Langheinrich), Claudia Hart, Julia Heyward, Les LeVeque, Michael Rees,...

Opening Tonight 7/17, 6-8pm, "The First Circle: Radical Humanism" Ahwesh, Burson, Giloth, GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS, Hart, Heyward, LeVeque, Rees, MacMurtrie, Pappenheimer, Steinkamp, Sobell, Thornton, Umbrico, Gamble & Wenyon, Wong, Weinbren, Wortzel. Curated by Hart & Chuk.
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17.07.2025 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Best Retrospective in New York Good morning from Missoula.

Corrina Hirsch writes about Copper Frances Giloth's solo show at the gallery "As I Said." The show is closing today. We're open late for a closing reception from 6-8pm), with artist in attendance.

#copperfrancesgiloth #microscopegallery
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Tonight 6-8pm, the gallery stays open late for a Closing Reception for Copper Frances Giloth's solo exhibit "As I Said." Giloth will be present!
microscopegallery.com/copper-franc...

#copperfrancesgiloth #asisaid #microscopegallery

12.07.2025 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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• Copper Frances Giloth: As I Said Copper Frances Giloth As I Said June 5 – July 12, 2025 Curated with Helena Shaskevich Opening Reception Thursday June 5, 6-8pmStill from “As I Said” (1980) by Copper Frances Giloth, single-channel vid...

Copper France Giloth: As I Said features computer animations and plotter drawings from the late 1970s and 1980s from the ground-breaking feminist artist. Continues through July 12th! microscopegallery.com/copper-franc...

#copperfrancesgiloth #asisaid #microscopegallery

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