Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y presents a visual chronology of airplane highjackings, with a soundtrack creating a fictional narrative inspired by Don DeLillo's novels White Noise and Mao II. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y intersperses reportage, clips from science fiction films, found footage, and reconstituted scenes filmed by the artist, highlighting the spectacle value of disaster in an eerie foreshadowing of 9/11.

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Andy Warhol: Screen Tests (1964–66) Shot at Warhol's Factory, the artist's famous Screen Tests feature silent black-and-white film portraits of Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, and Dennis Hopper, among others. The screen tests presented here, from 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol Screen Tests (2009), include newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips.

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Sharon Hayes uses video, installation, and performance to delve into the politics of language, desire, and protest as manifest in both personal and public realms. Through a practice of "respeaking," her work highlights uncanny instances of resonance between recorded historical texts and our present political moment. As part of Haunted, Hayes will stage a unique sonic event on the rotunda floor of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in which she will act as a DJ, spinning vintage spoken-word records that refer to moments throughout the history of the twentieth century. Free with museum admission; pay as you wish, 5:45–7:45 pm.<...

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Thursday, July 29, 7 pm and 8 pm
The performance work of Tris Vonna-Michell unleashes a barrage of words and images that mine the boundaries of personal memory and narrative fiction. His live, uninterrupted soliloquies, accompanied by projections of 35mm slides from his personal archive, often take the form of erratic travelogues that plunge into alliteration and free association, intertwining history and autobiography. For Haunted, Vonna-Michell will perform recent work in an intimate setting just off the museum's spiraling ramps. Limited capacity. For tickets, call 212 423 3587 or visit

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