Ongoing List of Arts Institutions to Close for Inauguration Day Culture Strike

In protest of the normalization of a Donald Trump presidency, arts institutions, artists, and critics are planning to participate in a culture strike on Inauguration Day, January 20. Billed as an “act of non-compliance,” the J20 Art Strike urges museums, galleries, theaters, concert halls, studios, nonprofits, and art schools to take a stand against hate and intolerance.

The following is a running list of institutions and organizations that will close or present special programming.

Closures:

47 Canal 

A.I.R. 

Accola Griefen Gallery 

Alexander & Bonin 

Alexander Gray 

Andrew Kreps 

Black Ball Projects 

Blank Forms 

Blum & Poe 

bitforms gallery 

Burning in Water 

Canada 

The Carpenter Center, Harvard University 

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts 

Cheim & Reid 

College Art Association 

David & Schweitzer 

Dillon + Lee 

DM Contemporary 

Essex Street 

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art 

First Street Gallery 

FiveMyles 

Fresh Window 

Foxy Productions 

Garth Greenan 

Grey Art Gallery, New York University 

The Hole 

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project 

Joan, Los Angeles 

The Kitchen 

Light Industry 

Lisson Gallery 

LMAK 

Lyles & King 

Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery NY 

Miguel Abreu 

Minus Space 

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University 

No Longer Empty 

Odetta 

Pen + Brush 

The Phillips Collection 

Present Company 

Primary Information 

Printed Matter 

Queens Museum 

Radiator Gallery 

Recess 

Salon 94 

SculptureCenter 

Sean Kelly Gallery 

Secret Dungeon Project 

Smack Mellon 

Station Independent Projects 

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects 

Steven Kasher Gallery 

Thomas Erben Gallery 

Triple Canopy 

Victori + Mo 

Viridian Artists 

White Columns

Pay What You Wish and Free Admission:

El Museo del Barrio, New York 

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 

Museum of Arts and Design, New York 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 

Museum of the Moving Image, New York 

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC 

The New Museum, New York 

Rhode Island School of Design Museum 

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Institutional Activities:

Bard Graduate Center will stage readings from the United States Constitution.

Outsider Art Fair, New York, will invite attendees to read speeches, interviews, and quotes by former President Barack Obama.

The Brooklyn Museum will present a marathon reading of Langston Hughes’s 1935 poem “Let America Be America Again.”

While the Queens Museum, New York, will be closed to visitors wishing to view its galleries, the building will be open for “Sign of the Times,” which provides visitors with space and materials to make posters, buttons, signs, and banners that they can use in marches or for other actions.

The Museum of the Moving Image in New York will offer a free screening of the movie “Loving,” about Richard and Mildred Loving who took their fight against laws banning interracial marriage to the Supreme Court.

National Sawdust in Brooklyn is organizing “The Hillary Speeches,” which will screen two of Clinton's speeches—when she first announced she was running for President on January 7, 2007, and when she gave her concession speech on November 9, 2017—and live music performed by several classical musicians and Broadway performers.

At MoMA PS1 artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, creators of the first artist-run political action committee (PAC), For Freedoms, will begin their residency which will run through the first one hundred days of Trump’s presidency.

The Baltimore Museum of Art is hosting a “nonpartisan” event with readings, tours and performances.

The Rubin Museum is hosting a meditation and yoga workshop called “Swear In, Breathe Out.”

Petzel Gallery in New York is presenting a public roundtable hosted by Justin Caguiat of the Manila Institute, which will initiate a dialogue about “naming our systems of oppression, and against the fixed resolution of authority, and what this looks like to young artists today.”

On Friday, January 27, Blum & Poe in Los Angeles is presenting a night of poetry. Will Alexander, Tisa Bryant, and Robin Coste Lewis will read new works of poetry, followed by a piano performance by Donal Fox. There is a suggested $10 donation to attend and all proceeds will benefit Planned Parenthood.

The Whitney Museum in New York is offering free programming, including “My America” guided tours; a speak out convened by the artist collective Occupy Museums; and open discussions moderated by artists, critics, and Whitney staff.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will offer a free “Nasty Women” tour on Saturday, January 21, coinciding with the Women’s March on Washington DC.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, will host “School Night: Self-Care as Warfare,” on January 24. The event invites artists and activists to participate in a discussion on wellness techniques people can use throughout Trump’s presidency.

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