On View: January 15-January 24
The Kitchen at Westbeth (163B Bank Street, 4th Floor Loft)
Opening day hours:
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm (Free)
This January, The Kitchen will present a collaboration with the Louvre and the New York Review of Books. 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. For At the Louvre, a joint initiative of the museum, New York Review Books and Seghers, leading to a book published in 2024, celebrated poets from around the world were invited to compose a poem about the palace-museum. The book came out in French and in English. To complement this publication in two languages, a soundtrack was composed, for 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, of a multiple approach to humankind. This soundtrack is also an experimental, performative piece, in which voices are heard across cultures and times – echoing through the many lives of art. The Kitchen will present this historic project for a special week-long sonic installation.
At the Louvre is organized by Robyn Farrell, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Senior Curator.
Funding Credits
The Kitchen’s programs are made possible in part with support from The Kitchen’s Board of Directors, The Kitchen Global Council, Leadership Fund, and the Director’s Council, as well as through generous support from The Amphion Foundation, Inc., Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Teiger Foundation; and in part by public funds from the Manhattan Borough President, New York City Tourism Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Kitchen acknowledges the generous support provided by the Collaborative Arts Network New York (CANNY). As a coalition of small to mid-sized multidisciplinary arts organizations, CANNY is committed to strengthening the infrastructure of arts nonprofits throughout New York.