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From November 28 through December 14, take 20% off products in the Gift Guide with code: ULTRAFESTIVE. 

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Pioneer Works will be closed for normal gallery hours this October 14 & 15 for Ragas Live Festival 2023, learn more 

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Building Closures Due to Flash Floods

Due to weather conditions, Pioneer Works is suspending open gallery hours for Friday, September 29. MHYSA's performance has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 1, with all tickets being transferred to the new date.

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Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

We are grateful for your engagement and support of Pioneer Works over the last year. Now through December 31st, we’re fundraising to meet our end of year goal and close out 2024.

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We're pleased to announce the first major renovation of Pioneer Works! To accommodate the first phase of our construction, we're temporarily relocating to 133 Imlay Street opening in Spring 2022.

Early Closure 5/10/23

Due to programming, Pioneer Works will be closed to the public on Wednesday, May 10. We will be open from Thursday through Sunday for the remainder of the week. Learn more and plan your visit 

Sound Check Closure

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Pioneer Works will close at 4 pm on Saturday, March 29th in preparation for a concert with Black Eyes and Dreamcrusher. 

Can art transform how we experience public space? Last November, Olafur Eliasson's artwork, 

, took Times Square's iconic bright screens and blurred them for three minutes every night. The piece was on view from November 1st to 30th, 2024, and the artist came to Pioneer Works that month to discuss it with art historian Gloria Sutton. Together, they unravelled how power is ingrained in public spaces, exploring the ways architecture and digital technology can affect our relationships to ourselves and each other. ♦

This program was made possible in collaboration with WeTransfer, Time Square Arts, and CIRCA.

Can art transform how we experience public space? Olafur Eliasson talks to art historian Gloria Sutton about how power is ingrained in public spaces, and the ways that architecture and digital technology can affect our relationships to ourselves and each other. 

Join Pioneer Works Director of Sciences, Janna Levin, and guests for explorations of the natural sciences. Previous guests include the evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins as well as 2017 Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss on his personal story behind the detection of gravitational waves.

Olafur Eliasson on Power, Uncertainty, and Public Space

Sir Roger Penrose was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his remarkable contributions to mathematics and physics. He is one of only twenty-two living recipients of the honor Order of Merit. Sir Roger, as he is fondly known to other physicists, is a relentlessly creative genius. He has made profound contributions to an understanding of the structure of spacetime and geometry, black holes, the unification of quantum mechanics and gravity, and the origin of our universe. His radical ideas on consciousness have provoked controversy and fascination, while his playful geometric tilings were thought to be impossible in reality. Though intuition defying, Penrose tilings ignited the imaginations of filmmakers and artists and ultimately were discovered in nature. Join Pioneer Works Director of Sciences Janna Levin as she hosts Sir Roger Penrose in a conversation that will stretch across the universe, theories of consciousness, and infinity.

Sir Roger Penrose in Conversation with Janna Levin

2020 Nobel Prize Winner Sir Roger Penrose in Conversation with Janna Levin

Pioneer Works is thrilled to host Richard Dawkins in conversation with our Director of Sciences, Janna Levin. Need we say more? We’ll say more anyway. 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, the 30th anniversary of The Blind Watchmaker, the 20th anniversary of Climbing Mount Improbable, the 10th anniversary of The God Delusion, the year of the second edition of The Ancestor’s Tale, and the year of the paperback edition of Brief Candle in the Dark. Tune in for a special conversation with the prolific and influential biologist and author, Richard Dawkins, emeritus fellow of New College Oxford and founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

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Rai Weiss, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, is a principal architect of the greatest recording device in human history, LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), which captured the first recorded sounds from space. These first recorded sounds were the ringing of spacetime from the collision of two black holes over a billion years ago.

Read the article: https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/5-ways-black-holes-changed-our-reality-this-century/

Olafur Eliasson on Power, Uncertainty, and Public Space

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