The Kitchen

05/08/2026

🖲️ Beginning this weekend and continuing across Saturdays in May and June, The Kitchen will host family programs from 11–1pm.

Inspired by the current exhibition, Tromarama: Upon a Machine (On View until June 13), families will create sculptures made from recycled objects.

04/28/2026

Swerve Fatigue continues... ⭑.ᐟ

“The swerve is something that begins as a minor adjustment and accumulates into a collective condition...”

🌀❤️‍🔥⁠On the occasion of Jonathan González’s multi-week residency (March 23–April 9) and public presentation of Swerve Fatigue at The Kitchen on April 10–11, 2026, Assistant Curator and organizer of Swerve Fatigue Angelique Rosales Salgado speaks with González about q***r nightlife, archival throughlines in The Kitchen’s programmatic history, black femme voices at the center of popular music, desire, and enduring tensions in life that offer no immediate resolve, plus much more.

Responding to questions around notions of intimacy and embodiment in their practice as a choreographer and writer, and in Swerve Fatigue, González shares:

“… intimacy, then, is not about securing closeness but about remaining available to that instability when our touch meets. embodiment here becomes a site of return without resolution, where touch, sound, light, and haze can be encountered again, differently, without being fully known...”

Read the full conversation in our online magazine On Mind, originally published within the performance program, alongside documentation by photographer Elvin Tavarez and filmmaker Rudy Gerson.

Performers are Ananda Naima González, India Lena González, Marguerite Hemmings, Kingsley Ibeneche, AJ Wilmore, and Wayne Arthur. Sound design by Alexis de la Rosa and GENG PTP.

🔗Head to the link in bio for more
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Image credits: 1, 6, 7, 11–13, 17, 18) Photos by Elvin Tavarez . 2–5 Swerve Fatigue Performance Program. 8–10, 14–16, 19) 16mm stills by Rudy Gerson .

04/06/2026

Each of these artists has expanded the boundaries of film and visual art, amplifying underrepresented voices and challenging conventional forms while embodying the innovation and cultural stewardship that define The Kitchen. ⁠
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Join us as we toast to these brilliant leaders on May 21, 2026, at featuring remarks by Yolanda Ross, Tanya Selvaratnam, and ! ⁠
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We’re thrilled to be supported by as our Lead Sponsor and joined by Honorary Co-Chairs Rebecca Cleman, Ava DuVernay (), juliemehretu, Rajendra Roy () and Komal Shah ()⁠
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Stay tuned for more exciting updates, including our exciting performances, in the weeks to come!!⁠⁠
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🔗 For tickets and more information, click the link in bio or contact [email protected]. ⁠
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Visual Design Lead: Terrell Villiers (.villiers)

02/26/2026

📢 NEW SHOW ADDED 📢

Another performance of DAYS: Internal Audit has just been announced! Head to the link in bio to purchase tickets for Saturday, March 7 at 4:00pm 🎟️

In this surrealist workplace musical, songs score actions, actions overwhelm songs, and professional banality is rendered mystical and uncanny.

Additionally, we are pleased to announce the ensemble of performers for Internal Audit below.

2. photo: Kenneth Soh
3. , photo: Andrew Brucker
4. Francesca D’Uva (), photo: Maria
5. Gus Heagerty, photo: Jabe Ziino
6. Madeline Wise (), photo: John Spyrou
7. Ashley Peréz Flanagan (), photo: Kristin Goehring
8. Ned Riseley (), photo: Amelia Golden
9. Ethan Philbrick (), photo: Nir Arieli

02/25/2026

The Kitchen mourns the recent passing of the artists Ulysses Jenkins (1946–2026) and Éliane Radigue (1932–2026) 🕊️

🤍 Ulysses Jenkins began his career as a painter in the late 1970s before turning to video as cameras became widely accessible. In his work, he used archival footage, image processing, and layered sound to examine race, gender, history, and state power. His “Mass of Images” (1978) work was featured in Code Switch at MOCAD, where we see Jenkins holding up a sledgehammer as he wheels himself around a room full of televisions. Interspersed on screen are racist images and stereotyping, such as actors in blackface. In this work, Jenkins maintains his focus on television’s capacity to circulate and inculcate these racist images, questioning how media, sound, and cultural iconography impact Black American identity and representation.

🤍 Éliane Radigue was a a French composer and pioneering figure in electronic and minimalist music. Associated with early musique concrète and later known for her long-form works created with ARP synthesizers, Radigue developed a deeply meditative sound practice focused on sustained tones, subtle harmonic shifts, and attentive listening. In the 1970s, Radigue presented work at The Kitchen in New York, a space that championed her work. Her appearances there helped introduce American audiences to her immersive electronic compositions and contributed to her growing international recognition.

01/28/2026

01/09/2026

⭐ This Sunday, 7:15pm (GMT)/ 2:15pm (EST)—tune into the BBC 3’s brand new special highlighting New Music at The Kitchen throughout the 1970s. Read the full description below, watch via the link in bio ⭐

“Against a backdrop of financial crisis and disinvestment in New York City, New Music was born. Writer Richard King explores the conditions for musical creativity in New York in the 1970s.

The phrase New Music is today used to describe musical composition that is contemporary and respectfully challenging. But it’s a phrase with a distinct history – and a clear beginning, which we can root in a specific time and place.

The place is The Kitchen, a performance space in downtown Manhattan. The time: the mid-1970s, when New York City was coming apart at the seams. At The Kitchen, composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Julius Eastman, Rhys Chatham and their contemporaries debuted their works-in-progress to an audience keen to hear new ideas and forms. Before these artists found international acclaim, they were participants in a street-level avant-garde, the epicentre of which was the Kitchen, where New Music was cooked up.

Featuring: Julia Amsterdam, Eric Bogosian, Rhys Chatham, Robyn Farrell, George E. Lewis,, Thurston Moore, Steve Reich, Sharon Zukin.”

12/19/2025

The Kitchen is thrilled to announce its 2026 Spring Gala on May 21 ✨⁠✨⁠✨⁠
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This year we are thrilled to honor a cohort of POWERHOUSE creatives working across film: Garrett Bradley (), , Shari Frilot (), and Catherine Gund with 💗💗💗

More details to come in the following weeks!⁠
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📝To learn more contact [email protected]. ⁠
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Visual Design Lead: Terrell Villiers (.villiers) – terrellvilliers-creations.com

12/15/2025

📚🎶Next month! The Kitchen presents At the Louvre (January 15–24) in collaboration with and .
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First a royal palace, then a museum, the Louvre has inspired poets for centuries – from Renaissance authors to modern day practitioners of the spoken word. Authors, thinkers, and artists are inspired by the Louvre’s collection representing cultures around the world and across millenaries. Celebrated poets from around the world were each invited to compose a new piece about the palace-museum, writing in the language of their own and translated into French and English. The writers represent diverse geographies and generations – the youngest are in their twenties, the oldest in their nineties. ⁠
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To complement this dual language publication, a soundtrack was composed, in which 95 of the 102 poets read their poem in their own tongue, thereby making a statement for an open-ended perception of the museum and, with it, a multiple approach to humankind. This soundtrack is an experimental, performative piece, in which voices are heard across cultures and times – echoing through the many lives of art. For 10 days, viewers will be able to listen to the 4 hour recording on loop. ⁠
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Contributors include: F***y Howe, Najwan Darwish, Kim Gordon, Amadou Lamine Sall, Lan Lan, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Nuno Júdice, Alice Notley, John Keene, Ariana Reines, Nick Laird, Ali Cobby Eckerman, and many others. ⁠
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Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6pm, Free⁠
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🔗 Read the full list via the link in bi

12/02/2025

🌇 🍂Last weekend, world-renowned choreographer restaged her 1964 seminal piece “Street Dance,” alongside interdisciplinary artist David Thomson (.nyc) as part of

On July 23, 1964, Lucinda Childs premiered Street Dance, a site-specific piece now widely recognized as a seminal work of American postmodern dance. Created as an assignment from Robert Ellis Dunn to the dancers of the Judson Dance Theater, the six-minute piece marked a pivotal moment in experimentation between dance and new media. Street Dance (1964–2025) is a reenactment of the original piece to be staged just a few blocks from the initial performance location.

An accompanying archival exhibition contextualized the work at the performance site. The film documentation created during the performance will join the touring exhibition Lucinda Childs — Dancing Page in Hand (2026) at the Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France from January 29 to June 24.

Curated by Lou Forster and produced by The Blanket, the project is co-produced and co-commissioned by The Kitchen, Frac Bretagne, Frac Franche-Comté, and the Centre d’art Le Lait, with the support by a Foundation of Contemporary Art, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Villa Albertine. Co-presented with Performa.