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STARTERS LIVE! broadcast on Tuesday May 26 with New York artist Neil Goldberg (presentation in English) who was an artist-in-residence at the Siena Art Institute back in 2018 (see video below). Streaming live from the Siena Art Institute's Facebook page,  speaking about his current work amidst this current global crisis, part of StARTers Live! our ongoing series of conversations with creative professionals around the world every Tuesday and Friday at 17:30 Siena/ 11:30 NYC. 

Neil Goldberg makes visual art and performance work that focuses on embodiment, sensing, mortality and the everyday. He’s shown this work at MoMA (permanent collection), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of the City of New York, The Kitchen, The Hammer Museum, The Pacific Film Archive, NGBK Kunsthalle Berlin, and El Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, and elsewhere. His work has been produced with fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Experimental Television Center, Harpo Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, Stillpoint Fund, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. Goldberg is a Critic at the Yale School of Art and is currently a mentor with Queer | Art  | Mentorship. Previously he served as resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (where hw is on the Board of Governors) and as a visiting artist at Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts, New York University, RISD, the MIT Media Lab, and at interdisciplinary urban humanities programs funded by the Mellon Foundation at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Washington University. The NY Times described his work as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny," and Time Out New York wrote “Goldberg has produced some of the most quietly intense and affecting art of his generation.”  For more information: http://neilgoldberg.com/

The broadcast event on May 26 is part of our ongoing series StARTers Live! conversations with creative professionals around the world discussing art in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. You can follow the live streams of our series through the Siena Art Institute's facebook page (www.facebook/sienaart) at 17:30 Italy time/ 16:30 London/ 11:30 NYC/ 08:30 Los Angeles or use this time zone converter to know what time it will be where you are: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

We hope you can join us for our upcoming broadcasts!

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1059959617692876/

For the full calendar of the Spring 2020 season of StARTers live talks, click here.