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Franzus Social is a monthly dinner club for Kiwi & Aussie expats living in the USA. Operating in Dallas, Houston and New York, we bring together settled expats — the ones who’ve been here a few years — for a curated dinner at a great local restaurant on the second Wednesday of every month.
Small tables of five to eight. No name tags, no networking pitch, no awkward icebreakers. Just good food and the easy company of people who get your references without the translation — the slang, the sport, the sense of humour, the shared shorthand of home.
Whether you’ve been Stateside three years or fifteen, this is where you find your people. Mateship, monthly, and familiarity without the plane ride.
New Humans: Memories of the Future will inaugurate the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures.
Presenting new and recent works by artists including Sophia Al-Maria, Lucy Beech, Meriem Bennani, Cyprien Gaillard, Pierre Huyghe, Tau Lewis, Daria Martin, Wangechi Mutu, Precious Okoyomon, Berenice Olmedo, Philippe Parreno, Hito Steyerl, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Andro Wekua, and Anicka Yi in the context of works by twentieth century artists and cultural figures such as Francis Bacon, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Salvador Dalí, Ibrahim El-Salahi, H.R. Giger, Kiki Kogelnik, Hannah Höch, Tatsuo Ikeda, Gyula Kosice, El Lissitzky, Lennart Nilsson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Carlo Rambaldi, Germaine Richier, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, New Humans illuminates artists’ evolving visions of the future. The exhibition surveys the myriad shapes that humanity might take, from robots and cyborgs to haunting, seemingly alien life forms, and moves beyond the field of art by bringing together utopian architects, sci-fi filmmakers, and eccentric writers who imagine physical, virtual, and even post-human worlds. In an age when technological advancements and their unintended consequences seem to be accelerating at uncontrollable rates, New Humans proposes art as a collective form of creative prognostication—a vital self-portrait of the humans we may become.
New Humans: Memories of the Future is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director; Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator; Vivian Crockett, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator; and Madeline Weisburg, Senior Assistant Curator; with Calvin Wang, Curatorial Assistant. With thanks to Lexington Davis, former Curatorial Fellow; Laura Hakel, former ISLAA Curatorial Fellow; Clara von Turkovich, former ISLAA Curatorial Fellow; and Ian Wallace, former Curatorial Assistant.
Simon Denny is represented by Lett Thomas in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
To find more exhibitions around the world by New Zealand artists, visit ArtNow.NZ
Responding to the rapidly advancing technologies that are shaping our daily lives and social fabric, the artists in Technologies of Relation examine how we relate to each other, to our devices, and to our future.
These creators see the complexity of our relationships to the digital, avoiding the binary views that frame technology as good or bad, as tool or monster. They embrace how technology can connect us, but also acknowledge how algorithms and A.I. have the tendency to oppress and erase marginalized communities. Artists have been key to identifying the colonialist logic, racism, and violence embedded in and produced by corporate-developed technologies and datasets. Just as crucial as understanding these problematics, this exhibition offers visions of a technological future that is inclusive and liberatory.
Exhibiting artists are: Morehshin Allahyari; Pelenakeke Brown; Taeyoon Choi; Neema Githere; Mashinka Firunts Hakopian with Dahlia Elsayed, Andrew Demirjian, and Danny Snelson; Kite; Lauren Lee McCarthy; Analia Saban; and Roopa Vasudevan.
Working across mediums, addressing technology both with its own tools and through analog means, many of these artists — skilled technologists — choose simpler materials to give shape to their ideas. Their works demystify technology, reminding us that it is neither neutral nor authoritative, or beyond our scope of influence. They bring it closer by relating emerging technologies to the ancient arts of weaving, tattooing, and divination. These artists look to ancestral traditions as models for making technology more accessible, and for ways of imagining (or remembering) how we can employ more ethics and care in the technological sphere.
To find more exhibitions around the world by New Zealand artists, visit ArtNow.NZ
Image: Detail of Pelanakeke Brown, Reverb (2025-2026), at Technologies of Relation on view at MASS MoCA. Photo: Kaelan Burkett.
Kia ora Dallas.
Franzus Social is a new monthly dinner club for Kiwi and Aussie expats — the people who don’t need you to explain what you mean by “gutted,” “keen,” or “let’s grab a feed.” One dinner, one city, one night a month. Tables of 5–8. Good food, proper conversation, no dickheads.
The Dallas launch dinner is Wednesday 13 May 2026, the first in a sequential rollout across Dallas, Houston (11 June) and New York (9 July).
Membership is approval-only. First month free. Founding rate of $29/month is capped at the first 50 members nationally and closes forever once filled.
Founded by Andrew Kidd — Kiwi, raised near Cambridge in the Waikato, 7 years in Brisbane, 6 years in Dallas. Former North American CEO of Poolwerx.
Apply at franzussocial.com.
Be decent. Turn up. Eat well.
The Australian and New Zealand Consulates-General, New York will co-host an ANZAC Day Dawn Service and ANZAC Day Church Service. There will also be a flag raising of the Australian and New Zealand flags. All events are free and open to the public.
