White Columns

White Columns will close today, Wednesday, November 26,
at 3 pm for the holiday.
We will reopen on Tuesday, December 2.

Ceramics Club, installation view, 2025. 

Upcoming events!

Ceramics Club presents: Queer Speed Cruising
Saturday, December 6 from 4-6pm

Are you ready for love? To celebrate Ceramics Club’s fundraising exhibition at White Columns, Queer Speed Cruising (featuring acclaimed dating curators Lily Marotta and Alex Schmidt) is back to help you catch feelings, while sending resources to those in need. Open to all creative folx. Join us on 12/6 4-6pm to meet other eligible singles in your area! Suggested donation is $20 dollars but no lovers will be turned away due to lack of funds. Breathtaking wines generously provided by Jose Pastor selections. RSVP to rsvp@whitecolumns.

100% of profits will be split between New York Cares, Make the Road, City Harvest, Project Eats, Food Bank for NYC, Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest Center, Ali Forney Center, Covenant House, The Door, Greenwich House Pottery, and the NYPL.

Saturday, December 13 from 4-6pm
White Columns is pleased to present a poetry reading with Charles Bernstein and Ama Birch, presented on the occasion of Birch’s solo exhibition at White Columns.

Charles Bernstein is the author, most recently, of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Topsy-Turvy (Chicago, 2021) and Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016).

Ama Birch is the author of six books, an animation, and a video game. Birch has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. Birch has been published by Grove Atlantic, Hanging Loose Press, great weather for MEDIA, Autonomedia, Lonesome Press, Fordham University, A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, Live Mag!, May Revue, Pioneer Works, Fell Swoop, Apricity, Belladonna* Collaborative, CUNY Graduate Center, Spiral Editions, Columbia University, Luigi Ten Co., Copenhagen, The Poetry Project, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of English at Hunter College.

White Columns
91 Horatio Street
New York, NY 10014
Tuesday–Saturday, 11 AM–6 PM
info@whitecolumns.org
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