AfterDark

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Enjoy live music by Lacuna, a vinyl DJ set by DJ Honey, a taco bar, and beer and wine, as we celebrate the opening of Positive Fragmentation: From the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.

🔥 Member Hours | 5–7 PM
Kick things off early with complimentary drinks + small bites, plus early access to the galleries before they open to the public.

⚡ Public Hours | 7–10 PM
Doors open to the public for after-hours museum access.

🌮 Taco Bar + Drink Package
Come hungry—we’ll have a taco bar on-site! Food and drinks will be available for purchase, including a featured package with three tacos and a beer or glass of wine. Guests can reserve thier food and drink package ahead of time. Available while supplies last.

Positive Fragmentation includes over 180 prints drawn from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, each a work by a contemporary artist who employs fragmentation in different ways. Feminist scholar and critic, Lucy Lippard, describes positive fragmentation, or the “collage aesthetic,” as particularly suited to historically marginalized artists (including women), as it “willfully takes apart what is or is supposed to be and rearranges it in ways that suggest what it could be.”

Participating Artists:
Polly Apfelbaum • Jennifer Bartlett • Christiane Baumgartner • Louise Bourgeois • Cecily Brown • Nicole Eisenman • Ellen Gallagher • Jenny Holzer • Nicola Lopez • Julie Mehretu • Sarah Morris • Wangechi Mutu • Judy Pfaff • Wendy Red Star • Betye Saar • Lorna Simpson • Swoon • Barbara Takenaga • Mickalene Thomas • Kara Walker

Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Curated by Virginia Treanor, Senior Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts; and Kathryn Wat, Deputy Director for Art, Programs, and Public Engagement, and Chief Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Live Music By: Lacuna

Formed in November 2024, Lacuna channels the haunting spirit of the American West. A dark, gritty, and cinematic soundscape that unfolds as a soulful journey beyond genre. 

Fronted by Rachel Anne Rainwater (His Eyes Have Fangs), whose sultry, evocative vocals nod to icons like Nancy Sinatra and Mazzy Star, the band blurs the lines between western roots, dreamlike nostalgia, and raw emotion. Legendary skateboard pioneer Tony Alva (His Eyes Have Fangs, GFP, The Skoundrelz) brings a visceral edge and rhythm on bass, anchoring Lacuna’s sound in lived-in grit. Professional skateboarder, photographer, and musical icon Ray Barbee, a legend in his own right with a celebrated catalog of solo releases which lends his soulful, expressive guitar work, layering warmth and texture to shape the band’s cinematic sound. At the heart of it all, multi-instrumentalist Shea Doherty commands the drums with precision and passion, grounding Lacuna’s sweeping sound in heartbeat and dust.

Lacuna is a band born from movement. From skate parks to desert highways, from echoes of the past to the pulse of the present. Their sound drifts through twilight horizons and open roads, tracing stories of love, loss, and everything that lingers in between. It’s music made for the drive with headlights on, windows down, and heart wide open.

Vinyl DJ Set By: DJ Honey

A longtime lover of jazz and soul music, and avid record collector, DJ Honey is the host of Kiss! Kiss! Bang! Bang! on Soho Radio and Mixcloud, regularly charting in the Top 10 Global Mixcloud charts. An international DJ with experience spinning in Australia, UK, Europe, USA and Asia, inlcuding Singapore’s Formula 1, Bristol’s Northern Soul Club, Japan’s Nude Restaurant, plus Rolling Stone Magazine, My Analog Journal, Fred Perry,  Tatler’s Top 50 Bars around the world, and more. Inspired by the glamour of Dusty Springfield, the soul of Etta James and the cool of Shirley Scott, Honey’s a soul sister through and through. Now based in Los Angeles, Honey plays all vinyl sets highlighting rule breakers and hip shakers of the miniskirt revolution from 50s through to 70s!