{"id":334827,"date":"2026-09-01T13:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334827\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:13:33","slug":"blank-forms-announces-new-8000-square-foot-new-york-space-%c2%b7-news-%e2%9f%8b-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334827\/","title":{"rendered":"Blank Forms announces new 8,000-square-foot New York space \u00b7 News \u27cb RA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blank Forms announces new 8,000-square-foot New York space \u00b7 News \u27cb RAThe experimental music non-profit is marking its tenth anniversary with a new home at 151 Lafayette Street and a $1 million capital campaign.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0aWMucmEuY28vaW1hZ2VzL25ld3MvMjAyNi9ub3J0aHNpZGUucG5n.png\" alt=\"Blank Forms announces new 8,000-square-foot New York space image\"   class=\"Image-sc-mve7dk-0 cUdKrd\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/club.aspx?id=181021\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/club.aspx?id=181021\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blank Forms<\/a> is moving into a new 8,000-square-foot space at 151 Lafayette Street in New York&#8217;s Soho neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The new venue will see the experimental music and arts non-profit, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, bring its performance, exhibition, publishing and archival activities under one roof. Renovations are being led by Bench Architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The open-plan loft will include a performance space, gallery, bookstore, archive and library, alongside a caf\u00e9. The new performance room will accommodate larger live events, with Onken speakers installed as part of the venue&#8217;s sound system.<\/p>\n<p>The move is being supported by a $1 million capital campaign, covering the renovation as well as Blank Forms&#8217; ongoing operations and programming. Its first season at the new space will include work by <a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/lauriespiegel\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/lauriespiegel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Laurie Spiegel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/keijihaino\" data-tracking-id=\"https:\/\/ra.co\/dj\/keijihaino\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link__AnchorWrapper-sc-1huefnz-1 iVHMrM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keiji Haino<\/a>, \u00c9liane Radigue and Isaiah Collier, alongside a partnership with Kou Records. .<\/p>\n<p>Blank Forms was founded in 2016 and has operated from a smaller space in Clinton Hill. It has since presented more than 300 concerts and public programmes, organised 20 exhibitions, published 27 books and more than 65 records, and developed a growing portfolio of artist archives and estates.<\/p>\n<p>Browse Instagram for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blank Forms announces new 8,000-square-foot New York space \u00b7 News \u27cb RAThe experimental music non-profit is marking its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2513,125839,2512,9,24,63,134,136,135,1371],"class_list":["post-334827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-english","tag-laurie-spiegel","tag-magazine-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}