CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING

Presidential Doodles. Paperback version of our book Presidential Doodles will be coming out in fall 2007. The book, a catalogue of the most delightful and terrifying doodles by US presidents, is accompanied by essays by David Greenberg and Paul Collins. (Fall 2006)

Kiosk (Various locations; 2001–2008)

SELECT PAST EVENTS

In Defense of Sloth, New York, December 7-8, 2007, The Cooper Union and Zone, New York. The Slought Foundation and Cabinet joined forces to put on a two-pronged event on sloth and its myriad philosophical attractions.

A Culture of Curiosity, London, October 12th, 2007 @ 7pm. Cabinet is presenting an evening at the Photographer's Gallery titled "Toward a Culture of Curiosity."

The Paper Sculpture Book and Show (Various locations; September 7, 2003 - 2008)

Cabinet at Frieze 2007. Booth M3 will be a little Cabinet fort/embassy/B&B between Oct 10-14. Please come visit.

Writers on/in/with Art, New York, October 3rd, 2007 @ 7pm. Cabinet is co-sponsoring an evening at Storefront for Art and Architecture as part of their Z-A festival. This evening features writers who either write about or even (gulp!) make art.

Sivan vs Finkielkraut. Kassel, Germany, September 8, 2007.
As part of Documenta, Cabinet presented an enactment and debate of the Sican vs Finkielkraut trial that occured in Paris in 2006.

Documenta Magazines Project. Kassel, Germany, June 16 - September 23, 2007. Cabinet was one of the magazines asked by Documenta to participate in its "magazines project" and help commission texts responding to the three "leitmotifs' of Documenta 12.

Presidential Doodles. Book by Cabinet, published by Basic Books in fall 2006. The book, a catalogue of the most delightful and terrifying doodles by US presidents, is accompanied by essays by David Greenberg and Paul Collins. (Fall 2006)

Why Things Don't Fall Down. New York, NY. November 20, 2006.
The Kitchen presents a talk organized by the Institute For Figuring and Cabinet magazine. In this event, Dr. Robert Connelly, a mathematician at Cornell University, will discuss with IFF director Margaret Wertheim the history and science of tensegrity.

Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: A Panel Discussion. Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7 pm. Housing Works Bookstore. 126 Crosby Street, New York. FREE

Iron Artist. Cabinet's contribution to P.S.1’s “Fine Print" series of public programs co-organized with independent publications was “Iron Artist” a series of competitive real-time artmaking duels between contemporary artists. (P.S.1, 10 June 2006, 3 pm)

The Last Supper. Cabinet and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School co-presented “The Last Supper,” a screening of a new documentary by Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström on the historical practice of allowing prisoners who are about to be executed to have a final meal of their choosing. The one-hour documentary, broadcast on Swedish television and screened in competition at the 2005 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, was followed by a panel. Mats Bigert was present, as will Brian Price, a former prisoner who has cooked 218 last suppers in US prisons, and New School professor Terri Gordon, who presented a paper. (3 April 2006, 6:30 pm, The New School)

Ruination: A Symposium on Decay, Debris, and Destruction. Cabinet and the Kitchen co-presented a panel on Ruins, the theme of Cabinet's Winter 2005/2006 issue. Participants included Brian Dillon, Cabinet's UK editor and the editor of the "Ruins" section of the issue; Jeffrey Byles, author of “Rubble”; and Svetlana Boym, Harvard professor and author of “The Future of Nostalgia.” (The Kitchen, Monday, 17 April 2006, 7 pm)

Where the Wild Things Are: A Talk by Prof Ken Millett on Knot Theory. Cabinet co-organized this event with the Institute for Figuring and the Drawing Center. The talk was sold out with an audience of 160. (The Drawing Center, 2 March 2006, 7:00 pm ).

Cabinet at Proteus Gowanus. Cabinet will be contributing on an ongoing basis to Proteus Gowanus, a new exhibition venue and reading room near the Gowanus Canal (543 Union St, Brooklyn). Cabinet 's activities and presentations will take place in an enormous early twentieth-century safe weighing 4 tons.

"Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates" An exhibit co-organized by Cabinet, Queens Museum of Art, and White Columns based on the Gordon Matta-Clark project presented initially presented in Cabinet issue 10. (Queens Museum of Art and White Columns; September 2005-January 2006)

Odd Lots: Revisiting Matta-Clark's Fake Estates": The publication accompanying Cabinet's exhibition on Gordon Matta-Clark (distributed by D.A.P., launched in November 2005)

More Chromophilia: An Exploration of a Few Corners of the Visible Spectrum
Cabinet presented an evening in conjunction with the Barbican's exhibition "Colour after Klein." In addition to a talk by Cabinet editor Christopher Turner on the Spectrochrome and chromotherapy, Cabinet presented audio-visual presentations on Superblack, the history of color gardening, the Chat Noir monochromes, and the first synthetic dye. (The Barbican, London; July 29, 2005)

Philosophical Toys, Organized by Sina Najafi. Works by: Friedrich Fröbel, Jeannine Mosely, and Shea Zellweger Selected by: Norman Brosterman (author, Inventing Kindergarten) and Christine & Margaret Wertheim (The Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles).

"The Summit," a symposium featuring Jonathan Bach, George Pendle, Ambassador Raymond Loretan, Eames Demetrios, and Gregory Green. Followed by screenings and a party full of dignitaries to celebrate Cabinet's new issue on "Fictional States". (The New School, New York; Thursday, June 23, 2005, from 6PM to midnight, FREE)

"Laughing Matters" A multimedia evening exploring why we laugh, featuring philosopher Simon Critchley, artist Luke Murphy, and a screening of Samuel Beckett’s Film (The Kitchen, New York; Wednesday, 8 June 2005).

The Truckazine brought you magazines you need, in addition to readings and music.(Streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, June 4 and 5, 2005, FREE)

The Perfect Little Magazine. Cabinet at a symposium organized by the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. Participants include Gabe Hudson, Adam Kirsch, Wendy Lesser, Sina Najafi, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Judith Shulevitz, and Lawrence Weschler (Chancellor Green, Princeton University, May 11, 2005, 4:30-9:00 pm)

"Once Upon a Time: Modernity and Its Nostalgias" (Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; April 29-30, 2005)

A talk by Sina Najafi on Cabinet (Cooper Union, New York: April 14, 2005, 6 pm)

Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane: A talk co-organized with the Institute for Figuring and the Kitchen. This talk, organized in conjunction with the Institute for Figuring's interview of Cornell mathematicians David Henderson and Daina Taimina in issue 16, featured Henderson and Taimina talking about their discovery of crocheted models of hyperbolic space, a geometric form that is found in the crenellation of lettuce leaves, the anatomy of sea slugs, and the shape of the physical cosmos. To read the interview from issue 16 of Cabinet, please click here. (The Kitchen, New York; Saturday, 5 February 2005)

Letters from Mayhem: An artist book by Roger Andersson and Albert Mobilio (A Cabinet publication distributed by D.A.P., launch on September 30, 2004)

Chromophilia: An Exploration of a Few Corners of the Visible Spectrum: An event organized by Cabinet based on the magazine's "Colors" column. Will include audio-visual material and readings by Jonathan Ames, Andrea Codrington, Tim Griffin, Albert Mobilio, and Frances Richard (P.S.1/MoMA; October 23, 2004)

Flipside: Cabinet's "Doubles" issue included in a show organized by Katherine Carl and ArtsLink (Artists Space, NY; November 11-December 18, 2004)

BookWorks and Tate Modern Conference: Cabinet is participating in a conference on art publications in London organized by Book Works and Tate Modern. (Tate Modern, London; November 27, 2004)

Ebay: Buy or Sell or Buy. Cabinet's New Mexico land shenanigans from issue 10 included in this show on Ebay (Pace Digital Gallery, May 6 - Sept 6, 2004 online)

"Artists in the Marketplace" Panel: A panel on art publications organized by the Bronx Museum of Arts. Panelists include Raphael Rubinstein, Art in America; Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Parkett; Dan Graham, artist; and Sina Najafi, Cabinet. (The Bronx Museum of the Arts; June 20, 2004)

Fine Print: Publishing in the Shadow of the Big Media. Cabinet participates in a conference organized by the Humanities Center at UC Irvine (University of California Irvine: May 19-21, 2004)

On the Uses of Nostalgia Whitney Museum panel discussion organized by the Whitney in conjunction with its Biennial; panel moderated by Sina Najafi, Cabinet (Barnard College, New York: April 22, 2004)

Magazine Summit at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (Helsinki; March 19-22, 2004)

2004 Whitney Biennial Roundtable. Sina Najafi, Cabinet, participates in an advisory panel for the Biennial. (The Whitney Museum, New York: March 2004)

Get Rid of Yourself. Cabinet included in a show organized by the irrepressible Frank Motz (Weimar, Leipzig, and Munich; July 26, 2003 - Feb 15, 2004)

Paper, Paper, Scissors (Housing Works, New York: November 13, 2003)

Celluloid Cabinet: Flying (White Box, New York: November 15, 2003)

Off the Wall: A Panel on Alternative Venues for Art (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York: May 17, 2003)

A Conversation with Eyal Weizman (New York: May 6, 2003)

Celluloid Cabinet: An Evening of Unusual Nature Films, followed by Brian Dewan in Concert (28 Wooster Street, New York: October 27, 2002)

Francisco Lopez performance and round table discussion with artists of "Massless Medium" (Creative Time, New York: June 20, 2001)

Art Bingo (The Ohio Theater, New York; June 10, 2000)

A Heap of Language: Robert Smithson and Poetry (The Whitney Museum, New York: November 18, 1999)

WAR!: A Radio Broadcast (New York and Belgrade; November 14, 1999)


CABINET ISSUE LAUNCH EVENTS

Cabinet issue 17 ("Laughter") launch event (White Columns, April 9, 7-10 pm).

Cabinet issue 16 ("Sea") launch (White Columns, January 22, 7-10 pm). THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF OF A SNOWSTORM THAT WE WERE TOLD MIGHT KILL ALL 18 OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS IF THEY DECIDED TO SHOW UP.

Cabinet issue 15 ("The Average") launch (Cohan and Leslie Gallery, October 30, 2004)

Cabinet issue 14 ("Doubles") launch (Pierogi Gallery; August 5, 2004)

Cabinet issue 13 ("Futures") launch (White Box; June 4, 2004)

Cabinet issue 11 ("Flight") launch (Pierogi Gallery; July 26, 2004)

Cabinet issue 9 ("Childhood") launch (Bard High School Early College; January 19, 2004)