THE WEEK/WEEKEND: Feb 27-March.

EDITOR’S PICKS:

BARE: TRUE STORIES OF SEX,
http://barestories.wordpress.com/
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
8pm-10pm
Each month, Bare brings together storytellers, comedians, sex educators and others to share true tales from their own experiences of sex, desire and romance. With stories as diverse as the people telling them, Bare opens doors to bedrooms, back seats and dungeons to tell what your mama left out about the birds, bees and in-betweens. Rack ‘em up for tales of miscues from these sure-shot storytellers: Hosted by Jefferson (Writer, One Life Take Two) Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez (New York Confidential) Selena Coppock (Connotations) David Crabb (Ask Me, Bad Kid) Sinnamon Love (Urban X and AVN Awards Hall of Famer) Musical Guest Jessica Delfino . . . and you! Ever missed a break? Put your name your name to the corner pocket for a chance to bare all on the Bare stage.

NY Moth Storyslam: Extra Mile
http://themoth.org/events
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
7pm-10pm

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. It is a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. At the center of each performance is, of course, the story – and The Moth’s directors work with each storyteller to find, shape and present it.

Carrier Pigeon: V.2 Issue 1 Closing Reception
http://www.carrierpigeonmag.com/
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
7pm-10pm

On March 1, 2012, Grit N Glory boutique will host a free reading by four of Carrier Pigeon’s contributing voices as part of our Vol. 2 issue 1 closing reception, and you are invited! Russ Spitkovsky will read from “Heaven Help Hitler,” a story coming up in CP Vol 2. issue 2, proof copies of which will be on display. Nick Kolakowski, a new addition to the CP roster, has blown us away with his imaginative prose and will be reading from “What the Fire Cost Us,” to be featured in Summer 2012. Poet Todd Colby has three books available from Soft Skull Press, and we are very excited to be publishing his poems in Summer 2012. New York playwright August Schulenburg has been published twice by Carrier Pigeon, helping to blaze the trail of incorporation of plays and monologues into our format. August will be reading from “Presents,” featured in our newly available issue 5.

MORE EVENTS:

Bruce Brosnan: See, hear, remember/Tyler Vlahovich: recent work
http://www.featureinc.com/
02/15/2012-03/18/2012
12pm-6pm

Bruce Brosnan began exhibiting with Feature Inc. in 2000 and See, hear, remember is his fourth one-person exhibition witht he gallery. He lives and works in Brooklyn, has a BFA from Maine College of Art (19915) and an MFA from Hunter College (1998), which is where I first saw his inspired installations. Tyler Vlahovich has a BFA (1989) from California Institute of the Arts and lives and works in Los Angeles. This recent work is his third one-person exhibition with the gallery and coincidentally, we also began working together in 2000.

Simone Leigh: You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/292/0/1/
02/21/2012-03/11/2012
11am-6pm

Exhibition Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12–6pm; Saturday 11–6pm Open Sunday, March 11 from 12–6 FREE Curated by Rashida Bumbray This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural explorations of materiality, women’s work, and Afrofuturism. Leigh is known for her archaic, anthropomorphic forms in porcelain, terracotta, tobacco, glass, and steel that employ early African ceramic techniques to evoke contemporary parallels and underlying social and economic conditions. For You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been, Leigh draws from a diverse range of influences, from early African-American face jugs and the manifesto of Africobra to Star Trek and Gilbert and Sullivan in order to evocatively explore the slippages between the multifarious cultural, political, and colonial histories that have laid claim to marginalized bodies.

Evelyn by Nellie Tinder
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/213385
02/21/2012-03/10/2012
8pm-10pm

A new piece by Nellie Tinder, “Evelyn” is the story of a film star committed to a mysterious mental health facility in the midst of a druidical wood. Told through noir/suspense narrative styling, and scored by a small live orchestra that draws on the movie houses of old, Evelyn is a darkly classic story of the stranger who infiltrates a closed society and tears it apart.

THE DUMPSTER PROJECT
http://www.theinvisibledog.org/?p=8759
02/21/2012-03/31/2012
00pm-00pm

FROM JANUARY 8 Premiering at the DUMBO Arts Festival on September 23, 2011, The Dumpster Project is a work of transportable public art. The Dumpster Project is also a daily blog (www.thedumpsterproject.com). Fundamentally, though, The Dumpster Project is a physical taxonomy of one man’s existence. Mac Premo is a Brooklyn-based collage artist. His longtime Boerum Hill studio was a sanctuary for an assortment of objects accumulated over decades. Included among the hundreds of items are old baseball cards he shared with his dad, the shoes his eldest daughter first walked in, recently extracted wisdom teeth from an eccentric friend, a Persian music mix-tape, and a fortune cookie message that warns him against the pitfalls of relaxation (it reads: ‘You’ve had a good start. Work Harder!’). More than just objects of ephemera, they are participants in Mac’s artistic repertoire that act as both influence and raw material for his body of work.

chashama Windows Project Work by Bonnie Gloris and Stephen Chopek
http://www.chashama.org/
02/22/2012-03/04/2012
9pm-7pm

Opening reception: Friday, February 24th, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Bonnie Gloris is a visual artist and independent curator, originally from Albany, NY. She moved to New York City to attend Parsons the New School for Design, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She has had several solo exhibitions in Jersey City, and has participated in many group shows across the U.S. In October 2011, she was interviewed by Jersey City Magazine ( http://issuu.com/hudsonreporter/docs/v8n2_jcm_84_nobleed/67 ). Bonnie is currently on the staff of Arts Guild New Jersey, a non-profit center for the arts that presents fine art exhibitions, art classes, workshops, and other cultural events.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery Presents Angel Otero at ISTANBUL’74
http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/exhibitions/2012-02-24_angel-otero-at-istanbul-74/
02/23/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-9pm

ngel Otero is a visual artist best known for his process-based paintings. While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of 20th century painting, his latest works highlights the artist’s unique process as a form of narrative in itself. Through his innovative process of oil paint scraping, Otero venerates historical oil painting while confronting it head on. Otero’s ‘deformation’ approach to painting his works, first across glass and then once dry, flaying the dried paint and reconstructing the composition anew across large canvasses, is representative of how the artist perceives the process of reconfiguring both personal and historical narratives. Otero’s work sometimes uses process as a way of confronting deep, personal memories. Instead of representing his life through art, he archives moments within it by creating opportunities of surprise and discovery.

Marcia Hafif: Pomona Houses and Ink Drawings
http://www.npgallery.com/
02/23/2012-04/14/2012
6pm-8pm

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 23, 6-8pm Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-6pm The Ink Drawings were painted using a practice developed during the making of the Pencil Drawings, 1972, always beginning in the upper left corner and finishing in the lower right. The support and medium change while the technique remains the same. Here the ink mixture is more or less diluted, with darker and lighter results. The technique is based on the idea that repetition will produce changing results; the titles of the drawings are the date of completion – a record of the day’s work.

Same River
http://www.irondale.org/index.html
02/23/2012-03/03/2012
8pm-10pm

Same River is an improvised, interdisciplinary performance based on interviews with local residents about “fracking”. Strike Anywhere (SA) uses the collected information and personal stories to create a high-quality, improvised performance with social and political significance. The goal of the project is to provide a forum for meaningful dialogue, empathy, awareness and local action.

Bo Joseph Fragments of a Worldview
http://www.searspeyton.com/html/home.asp
02/23/2012-04/05/2012
5pm-7pm

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 23 5 – 7 pm Sears Peyton is pleased to present Fragments of a Worldview, the gallery’s third solo exhibition of New York artist Bo Joseph, on view February 23 – April 5, 2012. This exhibition will feature seven large works on paper, five of which measure nearly seven feet high, from an ongoing series that has been the focus of Joseph’s practice since his return from Berlin in 2009.

CECILIA VISSERS: ULTIMA THULE (THE FAR NORTH)
http://masterspelavin.com/upcoming/
02/23/2012-03/31/2012
6pm-8pm

Masters & Pelavin is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recent sculptures by Dutch artist, Cecilia Vissers. Inspired by the landscape of ‘the far north’ of Scotland during a trip in 2011, Cecilia decided to focus on the cliffs and extreme edges of land, this is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain. Isolated and dramatic. This work is an abstraction of the landscape, its purity, color and clear line. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the US.

Marina Markovic’s “Pressure Me”
http://www.rabbitholeprojects.com/
02/23/2012-02/28/2012
6pm-10pm

Rabbithole is pleased to present Pressure Me by Marina Markovic featuring performance, installation, video and a set of drawings. Throughout her career the artist has been exploring her own body and those of others, observing the process of healing from anorexia, pathological behaviors related to food consumerism as well as corporeal rituals. Markovic has always treated the body as sculptural material and during the performance Pressure me

Wise Blood
http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/Index/Field_Projects.html
02/23/2012-03/04/2012
6 pm-8 pm

Field Projects Show #3 Wise Blood Opening: Thursday Feb. 23rd, 6:00-8:00pm Dates: Feb. 23rd- March 4th 526 W 26st Street, #807, NY, NY 10001 Features work by Christine Gedeon, Abraham McNally, Breehan James, Elissa Levy, and Matthew Craven. The works in this exhibition consider historical tracking, mapping, hunting, solitude, and back-country self-reliance. Wise Blood draws on various histories; from mass-produced Americana to personal connections with cabins and nature. The title of the exhibition refers to Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel Wise Blood, which highlights eccentric self-reliance and exposes the disparities between rural and modern worlds.

THE NUDIST MUSEUM GIFT SHOP: ELLEN HARVEY
http://dodge-gallery.com/cgi-bin/DODGE?s=exhibitions&v=20121614673721738569463792
02/23/2012-04/01/2012
6pm-8pm

A museum is nothing without a gift shop. A museum without nudes is really no fun at all. This the best of all worlds: a museum attached to a gift shop with nothing but nudes. In her inaugural exhibition at DODGEgallery, Ellen Harvey offers several strangely beautiful and hilarious explorations of the art nude that both question and exploit our fascination with depictions of our naked bodies to create an intentionally contradictory and often incoherent model of art as a form of desire. These works which are part of Harvey’s ongoing Museum of Failure, explore the paradox that at a time when no one need resort to figure drawing classes to see naked members of either sex, the popular imagination still clings to the nude as one of the great subjects of art.

ALL THE INDIFFERENT CHILDREN OF THE EARTH
http://bricktheater.com/
02/23/2012-03/02/2012
8pm-10pm

The piece finds three women and one man compulsively dissecting the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, human rights, and the gender identification rules of Vermont. It’s as if four anxious, petit bourgeois strangers find themselves at 8am in the backyard of a mutual friend’s August retreat, a half-mile from the coast of Cherbourg or Seattle. Or it’s as if four precocious children were abandoned in a Math/Science Center on a rainy, late-autumn Saturday morning. Or as if people do theater, in 2012, despite…things.

Michiel Ceulers
http://www.anacristeagallery.com/
02/23/2012-03/31/2012
11am-6pm

Ana Cristea Gallery is proud to present the first solo show in the United States of the Belgian artist Michiel Ceulers (born 1986). As an artist, Ceulers concentrates on the bare essentials of painting: canvases and wooden panels, paint and spray paint. Ceulers is entirely committed to painting as an ongoing art form, saying in an interview that painting “has been declared dead a few times, but still many people consider painting the most relevant medium.” Part of the impulse associated with the logic of chance the artist submits his canvases to can be seen as an attempt to move beyond from the boundaries of painterly tradition. As a result, the artworks’ origins are not only painterly, they are also conceptual. As stated in the artist’s own words, his “paintings are the result of events that form a chain reaction, so in a way they are larger than the canvases themselves – they are spatial.” Thus, true to himself, Ceulers maintains steady ground, balancing the idiosyncrasies of his pra

That Old Time Religion
http://www.endofcenturynyc.com/
02/24/2012-04/05/2012
7PM-9PM

End of Century is pleased to announce, “That Old Time Religion,” an exhibition of work by Colin Ruel. Like manger scenes on a Christmas cards or a drawings in the Lascaux cave, Ruel has created an entire visual vocabulary for the cult of his imagination, influenced by shaman practices and catholic iconography. His subjects – Virgin Mary’s, Feather-haired Navajo Chiefs, and diving birds – save, sacrifice, misguide, and redeem, on salvaged wood, stretched denim, and rain gutters from Martha’s Vineyard. Opening Reception Friday, February 24th, 7-9 PM at End of Century, 237 Eldridge Street, New York, New York. DJ Set by Will Roan of Amazing Baby.

PS3* PEDRO SANCHEZ3: ON THE OUTER EDGE
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_gallery
02/24/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-00pm

The Abrons Arts Center is pleased to announce On the Outer Edge, an exhibition by Spanish-born New York based artist PS3* Pedro Sanchez3 in the Upper Main Gallery. The artist presents a new video work in his full-scale model home designed for a life of deliberate deprivation. Based on Brazilian favelas and built from materials found in and around the Lower East Side, this continually adaptable structure participates in an international language of habitation. Dwellings like the one presented in this exhibition are a global response to poverty — usually inhabited by immigrants or slave workers in the suburbs of large cities in Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Morocco, and many other African and Asian countries.

CHRISTINE HOU & LISA IGLESIAS: ME, WE
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_me_we
02/24/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-00pm

The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present me, we, a multi-platform collaboration partnering with the Dia Art Foundation’s education program, Abrons Arts Center StudioLab program, and 11th-grade Studio Art majors at Lower Manhattan Arts Academy (LoMA). Grounded by a continuously evolving installation on view at the Abrons Arts Center from February 17-March 17, 2012, me, we is an exploration and articulation of collective authorship that blurs the lines between studio space, exhibition, and public forum.

ANDRES BEDOYA: FROM ULTRA MADRE
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_from_ultra_madre
02/24/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-00pm

Andres Bedoya’s performance installation Ultra Madre was originally presented at the Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2009. Born of private mourning, the piece ultimately speaks of loss as a collective experience. Installed within the main arch of the museum’s patio, a steel and wood scaffold holding 57 women disrupted its architecture physically and functionally. For approximately one hour, participating women lay still with their long hair cascading down the 15-foot structure. In stark contrast to the hardness of the building, the body appeared soft, impermanent, and ephemeral.

Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
02/26/2012-03/26/2012
0pm-0pm

The Brooklyn Museum seeks an assistant curator of Contemporary Art to participate in a fast-paced and dynamic area of growth within the Museum. The successful candidate will be deeply familiar with a broad range of contemporary art and will assist with development and implementation of both collections growth and programs.

BUFFALO YOUTH MEDIA INSTITUTE
http://www.squeaky.org/bymi
02/26/2012-03/31/2012
0pm-0pm

We are looking for applicants for this video production & community history summer program, open to students currently in 9th-11th grades.

The Architecture of Space
http://www.klompching.com/
02/26/2012-03/02/2012
11am-6pm

This is an exhibition of contemporary photography exploring the perception and representation of space—the collapse between public and private, it’s abstract form and its role as metaphor. In many respects, the selected artists also embody the state of contemporary photography itself; in that their artworks are not easily packaged into identifiable genres, but illustrate the blurring of those categories. This can be seen through the wide-reaching visual strategies employed, as well as the imaginative modes of production that bring attention to the photograph as an abject of construction.

Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=4039
02/26/2012-12/31/2012
8pm-10pm

Every Monday at 8pm Hosted by Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), this weekly variety show features comedy from New York’s best comics and sketch groups, new music, special guests, and the occasional, unpredictable oddity. Past guests have included Eugene Mirman, Ted Leo, Aziz Ansari, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.littlefieldnyc.com.

Richard III
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=3692
02/26/2012-03/04/2012
00pm-00pm

Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey owns the stage as Shakespeare’s outrageous villain Richard III. At the climax of the Wars of the Roses, Richard watches his brother ascend the throne of England and confides in us—with all the profound bitterness of an outcast born with a hunchback and malformed leg—his intention to seize the crown. Navigating an imposing assemblage of some of Shakespeare’s greatest female characters, Richard—played brilliantly by the mercurial and mordantly funny Spacey—lusts for power, assuring his own bloody rise and fall.

Made By Hand
http://here.org/shows/detail/855/
02/26/2012-03/31/2012
2pm-7pm

Some nights I sit at home and sew and the hours fly by and I look at the clock and see it’s 2 am, time to go to bed. Using my hands has always been a big part of my existence- an art, a craft, a meditation. The exponential growth of technology has also spawned its antithesis – a revival of craft – an elevation of handiwork to a fine art.

I Killed My Mother
http://lamama.org/first-floor-theatre/i-killed-my-mother/
02/26/2012-03/04/2012
7:30pm-10pm

This play tells the story of a Romanian Roma (gypsy) girl whose mother abandons her after birth. With the help of her childhood soul-mate she learns to navigate the harsh realities of her existence and to excise parasitic relationships, to “kill,” to turn her back forever even on the maternal bond, in order to discover her own extraordinary identity.

Cindy Sherman
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1170?book
02/26/2012-06/11/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas which are at turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite.

Print/Out
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1169?book
02/26/2012-04/14/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

Over the last two decades, geopolitical borders have shifted and new technologies have forged channels of communication around the world. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This exhibition examines the evolution of artistic practices related to the print medium, from the resurgence of traditional printmaking techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the proliferation of self-published artists’ projects. Bringing together some 70 series or projects drawn substantially from MoMA’s extensive collection of prints and books, with the addition of several important loans, the exhibition features major artists and publishing projects, such as Ai Weiwei, Trisha Donnelly, Martin Kippenberger, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, Museum in Progress, Edition Jacob Samuel, Thomas Schütte, SUPERFLEX, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Christopher Wool, among many others.

Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes”
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1216?book
02/26/2012-04/09/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

This exhibition presents six fresh and highly focused cross sections through the career of master photographer Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927), drawn exclusively from the Museum’s unparalleled holdings of his work. The sign outside Atget’s studio read, “Documents pour artistes,”—declaring his modest ambition to create images for other artists to use as source material. This humility belied the visual sophistication and distinctive vision that characterized much of Atget’s own work.

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1230?book
02/26/2012-07/30/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis. During summer 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers worked in public workshops at MoMA PS1 to envision new housing and transportation infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country’s suburbs. Responding to The Buell Hypothesis, a research report prepared by the Buell Center at Columbia University, teams—lead by MOS, Visible Weather, Studio Gang, WORKac, and Zago Architecture—focused on a specific location within one of five “megaregions” across the country to come up with inventive solutions for the future of American suburbs. This installation presents the proposals developed during the architects-in-residence program, including a wide array of models, renderings, animations, and analytical materials.

Early Plays
http://stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=71
02/26/2012-03/11/2012
8pm-10pm

The Wooster Group has invited Richard Maxwell of New York City Players to direct Eugene O’Neill’s early “Glencairn” plays—Bound East for Cardiff (1914), The Long Voyage Home (1917) and The Moon of the Caribbees (1918). Early Plays takes O’Neill’s tales of sailors on and off the ocean as a base to explore themes of longing and eternity. Dark episodes showing the underside of turn-of-the-century maritime life—brawls, dances and carousing—are staged with a quotidian grace allowing these simple stories to resonate emotionally.

SOLOWAY presents: Krypta by DRAOK
http://www.soloway.info/
02/26/2012-03/30/2012
6pm-8pm

Giorgio Guidi and Marta Pierobon formed Draok in 2010 to work collaboratively on shared interests including architecture, perception and social systems. Both Guidi and Peirobon have long been fascinated by the secretive and hidden: crypts, cults, ghosts and memories. Italian cities are built on the foundations of previous settlements–Etruscan, Roman and medieval–producing a stratification of civilizations. New buildings rise on the ruins of the old, burying earlier structures in rubble and debris. In Italian Catholicism there is a long tradition of covering and hiding the past; it is deeply embedded in the hierarchy of the church. Beneath the modern city lies the still present and living past and its treasures, relics, and corpses.

SOCIO-POLITICAL MAPS: A PARTICIPATORY PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON THE CITY
http://www.acfny.org/event/socio-political-maps-a-participatory-public-discourse-on-the-city/
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
6:30pm-10pm

On the occasion of the publication of Sophie Hochhäusl’s book Otto Neurath – City Planning: Proposing a socio-political Map for modern Urbanism (Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2011), the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Van Alen Institute present a round table discussion on the question of urban mappings and participatory public discourse on the city. Austrian philosopher, economist and member of the Vienna Circle, Otto Neurath (1882 – 1945) investigated representational maps for more than two decades of his life. In search of “humanizing knowledge” he revolutionized the discipline of chart making through the use of quantitative maps (picture statistics) accessible to a large public. In a response to the undertakings of CIAM IV, Neurath published his map “City Planning,” to emphasize that a discourse on modern urbanism allowing for a pluralism of ideas, in which a broad public could partake was long overdue.

Gracie Leavitt + Jennifer Nelson
http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/readings?ec3_after=today
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
8pm-10pm

Gracie Leavitt’s recent work can be found in the The Brooklyn Review, Conjunctions, Lana Turner, LIT, No, Dear, Sentence, Sugar House Review, Washington Square, and other journals. Transatlantic collaborations appear in Whiskey & Fox’s series “Parks and Occupation” and a chapbook is forthcoming from These Signals Press. She hails from the home of the landlocked salmon but now concerns herself in Brooklyn with imagined nostalgia where her mother was born. Jennifer Nelson is an art historian finishing her dissertation at Yale University and the poetry editor of Epiphany magazine (www.epiphanyzine.com). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Volt, Handsome, Action Yes, 6×6, RealPoetik, Forget Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Queens.

NYU Symphony Orchestra – David Byrne: The Forest
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/7308-nyu-symphony-orchestra-david-byrne-the-forest
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
8pm-10pm

NYU Steinhardt School Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions presents NYU Symphony conducted by Jonathan Haas. Features Student Composition Competition Winners Goldbrick Oilslick by Tim Hansen and Cité en l’air by Ian Ng, as well as The Forest by David Byrne, with vocal soloists Christina Courtin and Ryan Scott.

Dean Cercone, John Chriest, Bryan Geoffrey Smith, Cranston Dean
http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
8pm-11pm

Dean Cercone, John Chriest, Bryan Geoffrey Smith, Cranston Dean

Morgan O’ Kane, Wyndham Baird, Elizabeth Butters, Sam Geller
http://cameony.blogspot.com/
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
8pm-11pm

Morgan O’ Kane, Wyndham Baird, Elizabeth Butters, Sam Geller

The Carbon Squeeze
http://carbonsqueeze.org/
02/27/2012-02/27/2012
7pm-10pm

The Carbon Squeeze is a movement started by Upper West Siders to reduce our carbon footprint as a community. Our first step is to host a series of community events, all of which will be fun, interactive, and actionable. The very first Carbon Squeeze event will feature renowned environmentalist, Paul Reale, from The Climate Reality Project. Paul will provide a powerful account (with jaw-dropping images) of how climate changes are affecting our planet and ways we can act NOW to stem the damage!

Ingredients of Reality: the dismantling of New York City
http://www.lantuazon.com/
02/28/2012-04/07/2012
7pm-9pm

Ingredients of Reality: the Dismantling of New York City by Lan Tuazon presents sculptures, drawings and prints that discuss how history, the law and class structures are written on the physical environment. Surrealist in concept, Tuazon takes real/existing parts of the built environment — including buildings, lots, and monuments – and creates a new reality against the repressive logic of property. The exhibition includes the presentation of two new works: Architectures of Defense and New York City Bar Graph, which paired with Tuazon’s Army Park and Parking Lot Landscape, present the city disassembled into parts and functions unveiling taxonomies of power reordered into new composite figures that render visible what reality has ceased to distinguish.

Closing Party for Daniel Escobar’s exhibition Fictitious
http://www.rhgallery.com/
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
6pm-8pm

Closing Party for Daniel Escobar’s exhibition Fictitious Topographies and the group exhibition Unspecified Urban Site featuring fourteen artists including John Chamberlain, Andy Coolquitt, Richard Deacon and Roxy Paine, among others.

tinyDANGEROUSfun!
http://www.johnleo.net/tinydangerousfun.php
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
8pm-10pm

tinyDANGEROUSfun! a High-Risk Variety Show on an Intimate Scale in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn Tuesday, February 28th, 8pm and the Last Tuesday of Each Month! Sycamore Bar Basement 1118 Cortelyou Rd. at Westminster Road (Q train to Cortelyou) Brooklyn, NY $10 at the door MORE INFO (www.johnleo.net/tinydangerousfun) Torkova (www.torkova.com) Magic The BJ’s (www.beccabernard.com) Music Song & Dance Man (www.billydeebedlam.blogspot.com) Clown Lily Stitches (www.facebook.com/lilystitches) Burlesque Tanya Solomon (www.youtube.com/drflummox) a wonder minute and you?! There’s couple more slots open! Just fill out this FORM (www.johnleo.net/performer-sign-up-form) and you’re in! MORE INFO (www.johnleo.net/tinydangerousfun)

DINNERfix
http://www.culturefixny.com/
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
12am-12am

Dinnerfix returns with a 7 course tasting menu inspired by the works of Megan Berk, a show based on the impulse toward heaven. The first in a series of dinnerfix menus paired with works of art in our gallery. The menu price includes beverage pairing, thoughtfully created by the Culturefix team.

Author & Agent: Ramona Ausubel and PJ Mark
http://www.centerforfiction.org/
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
7pm-10pm

Come hear debut novelist Ramona Ausubel and her agent, PJ Mark discuss No One Is Here Except All of Us, and the journey to get this book published. “In her debut novel, No One Is Here Except All of Us, Ramona Ausubel breaks new ground, with a unique prose style that weaves a classic immigrant tale into a world of dreams. The town of Zalischick and its citizens re-write their own story, filling it with magic, hope, and a determination in the face of destruction to find new ways to begin.” —Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief

Greening the Culture Campaign at Brooklyn Borough Hall
info@solar1org
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
10am-12pm

Solar One Partners with Urban Go Green on Greening the Culture Campaign at Brooklyn Borough Hall February 28 Solar One is partnering with the Greening the Culture Campaign, now in its fifth year, to support its 2012 theme of “Jobs and Entrepreneurship Creation in the Urban Market.” The campaign will promote green and cleantech career opportunities; raise public awareness about the personal and community benefits of upgrading to green products and services, and provide green and environmentally friendly companies with effective and affordable opportunities to reach a growing urban eco-conscious community.

Ensemble ACJW/The Wee Trio Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective
http://lepoissonrouge.com/?page=1
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
6:30pm-10pm

Ensemble ACJW is the performing arm of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. Ensemble ACJW performs at Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and other venues in New York City and New York State, including an annual residency at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The ensemble comes together in different sizes, having the opportunity to play intimate chamber music as well as larger, conducted chamber orchestra works. A special event featuring three unique takes on the most classic instrumentation in modern music; the trio. The Wee Trio celebrates the release of their new album, “Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intrapsective.” Don’t miss this group that’s being hailed as “the future of modern jazz.” New York’s beloved saxophonist Joel Frahm, briefly back from the road, leads his own magical trio in preview of an upcoming live album.

The Tobolowsky Files
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=4240005
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
7:30pm-10pm

Stephen Tobolowsky is definitely one of “those guys” in movies and TV. He has been featured in (mostly) small roles in over 200 films and TV shows. Currently you probably know him best as the creepy Sandy Ryerson on Glee or, depending on your maturity, as gonzo Hollywood producer Stu Baggs on Californication. You also probably know him from one of his most iconic roles – jovial insurance salesman Ned Ryerson from GROUNDHOG DAY. A few of you may recognize him from his dramatic roles in MISSISSIPPI BURNING or MEMENTO. And a small number of you may know him as the co-writer with David Byrne of the Talking Head’s film TRUE STORIES. Whatever role he takes, and whatever size it is, you can be sure that Tobolowsky will steal just about every scene he appears in. His unique energy and unquestionable talent make him one of the best and most recognizable character actors working today.

MUSETTE EXPLOSION
http://barbesbrooklyn.com
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
9pm-11pm

An exploration and re-creation or the music of the great French Accordionists of the 30’s and 40’s: (Gus Viseur, Tony Murena, Joe Privat et al) who, along with Django Reinhardt, borrowed from American Jazz to create Hot Swing, Gypsy Swing and other delightful hybrids, injecting the dance music of its time with both excitement and unparalleled musical creativity. witn with Will Holshouser – accordion; Matt Munisteri -guitar and banjo and Marcus Rojas – Tuba.

Inside Obama’s Economic Team: Noam Scheiber with Eliot Spitzer
http://www.92y.org/tribeca/tickets/production.aspx?pid=80902
02/28/2012-02/28/2012
7:30pm-10pm

From Obama and Geithner to Summers and Orszag and a host of others, Noam Scheiber profiles the squad of elite administration insiders who have set and managed the president’s economic policies from before the start of his term in office, through the crisis and into our current prolonged recovery. Scheiber, sourced within the economic team, shares his understanding of each member of the group and how they work—or don’t work—together, peeling back the layers of each personality while revealing the pragmatism, vision and blind spots each has in the fight to resurrect the American economy.

IT’S THE POLITICAL ECONOMY, STUPID, GALLERY TALK
http://www.acfny.org/event/gallery-talk-7/
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
5pm-10pm

Join us for a free Gallery Talk and walkthrough of our current exhibition, It’s the Political Economy, Stupid, with special guest, performance artist Karen Finley. The show brings together an international group of artists who focus on the current crisis in a sustained and critical manner. It’s the Political Economy, Stupid is on view daily from 10AM – 6PM, through April 22nd, 2012. Admission is free.

Barbara Henning + Frances Richard
http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/readings?ec3_after=today
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
8pm-10pm

Barbara Henning is the author of three novels, seven books of poetry and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Her most recent books are a collection of poetry and prose, Cities & Memory (Chax Press); a novel, Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVox); a collection of object-sonnets, My Autobiography (United Artists), and a collection of interviews, Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Belladonna*). Poems and stories have been published in numerous magazines, including Poetry International, Jacket Magazine, the Paris Review, Fiction International, Journal 1913, The Brooklyn Rail, The World, Talisman, Lingo, Shiny, Not Enough Night and Hanging Loose. In the 90′s Barbara was the editor of Long News in the Short Century. Born in Detroit, she has lived in New York City since 1983 (with a four year hiatus in Tucson). She is presently teaching for Naropa and Long Island University in Brooklyn. Frances Richard’s second volume of poems, The Phonemes, is forthcoming from Les Figues Press; later in 2012, Futu

February Residency with: Anthony Da Costa
http://www.culturefixny.com/events
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
9pm-1am

The Amazingly talented Anthony Da Costa will be gracing the CULTUREfix stage for our Wednesdays of February! http://www.anthonydacosta.com/ Anthony will be sharing songs both old and new in an acoustic fashion. Each show will hopefully be featuring one other songwriter/band guest as they share their own material. We might even do some sweet collaboration action!

Art Now: Aesthetics Across Music, Painting, Architecture, Movies, and More, with Leon Botstein
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
6pm-8pm

It is one of the most debated subjects of all time: What is art? On February 29, Bard College President Leon Botstein visits the Library to share his Floating University video lecture that examines this highly subjective topic. The definition of art has an enormous impact upon how the arts are — or aren’t — funded. The question of what constitutes art spills over into debates about art’s value to society — whether access to the arts is a right as basic as education or health care. A Q&A session with Botstein and the audience will follow the lecture.

Intro to Green for Co-ops & Condos
http://solar1.org/energy-connections/intro-to-green/
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
7pm-9pm

This two-hour workshop, sponsored by the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums (CNYC) and Solar One, will present cost-effective ways to reduce energy expenses and have a healthier, greener building; details on the NYSERDA Multifamily Performance Program for energy efficiency retrofits and financing; an overview of new green laws and code changes; the conversion from No. 6 to No. 2 heating oil; and strategies for engaging owners in the greening process. Pre-registration is required due to limited space.

Mivos Quartet Benefit Concert
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
7pm-10pm

On the extra day this year Mivos Quartet will be hosting their first fundraising event. Join Mivos for a night of great music, food, drinks, a silent auction, and an after party! There will have three sets of music featuring works by members of Mivos, Annie Gosfield, Patrick Higgins, Alex Mincek, Tristan Perich, Ned Rothenberg, Timucin Sahin, Elliott Sharp, Sasha Siem, and JG Thirlwell. MIVOS will be joined by guest artists Ned Rothenberg, Clarinets; Timucin Sahin, Electric Guitar and Sasha Siem, Vocalist/Composer performing with us their own compositions.

Primitive Seven/Widest Smiling Faces / Fables/ Impossible Buildings/ Harpoon Forever https://www.facebook.com/WidestSmilingFaces
http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
8pm-11pm

Primitive Seven/Widest Smiling Faces / Fables/ Impossible Buildings/ Harpoon Forever

Courteline en dentelles Short Plays by Georges Courteline
http://www.fiaf.org/events/winter2012/2012-03-01-courteline-en-dentelles.shtml
02/29/2012-03/01/2012
8pm-10pm

Jérôme Deschamps directs and acts in a series of delightful short plays by the witty French satirist and dramatist Georges Courteline, a contemporary of Georges Feydeau. Joined by the acclaimed stage actor Michel Fau, Deschamps pokes fun at human imperfection and the triviality of everyday life. Packed with banter and inane arguments, this performance promises to be a comical, often insightful study of human nature.

The Next Chapter Reading Series: Leap Years and Other Rarities
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3114
02/29/2012-02/29/2012
7pm-10pm

February 29, 2012 gives us a natural theme for the February show–Leap Years and Other Rarities. Maybe we’re talking about the Santa Jew Poppopp. Or maybe someone who lied to Katie Couric. Me? I’ll be reading from my memoir; telling what it was like to be a green-eyed red head trying to supervise a Muslim man in Qatar. And then I’ll give you the post script. Readers: Mary Adkins Halley Bondy Andy Ross Katherine Wessling Charles Salzberg

Liz Biddle, Regine Granne, and Katherine Tzu-lan Mann at A.I.R. Gallery
http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=885
03/01/2012-03/24/2012
6pm-9pm

This exhibition showcases Biddle’s continuing interest in mixed media, with a twist of humor found in much of her work. Old wires, light bulbs, screws and other found objects protrude from holes in ceramic objects, while creature-like robots – strange, disturbing and endearing – appear in collages and drawings. Liberty is a contemplation of the present in the wake of 9/11. The Statue of Liberty itself simultaneously represents an overused icon and a diminishing concept. These works offer a means of viewing such images and enable reflection of our world, our nation, our politics, our person, our perspective, and our relationship to all. Mann’s large paintings in Root, created by combining chance stains with highly rendered decorative elements on oversized, un-stretched paper, function as human-sized portholes into a landscape alive with minute details, patterns and interlocking systems.

THE MODERN BEETHOVEN
http://www.Nyphil.org/beethoven
03/01/2012-03/20/2012
0pm-0pm

Hear Beethoven the way Beethoven intended. Over three extraordinary weeks, conductor David Zinman leads the New York Philharmonic in his “exhilarating” (Gramophone magazine) approach to the masterpieces of Beethoven, revealing fresh vitality in the music. Performed with the brash vigor, passionate joy and raw pathos that Beethoven himself intended, these symphonies will sound bold, dramatic and new. You might call it modern; you’d certainly call it unforgettable. VENUE: Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall Check website for times.

JODY OBERFELDER DANCE PROJECTS: THROB
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_PERF_jody_oberfelder_throb
03/01/2012-03/03/2012
8pm-10pm

THROB is a conceptual yet very physical work inspired by the biological workings of the heart. Informed by conversations with cardiologist Dr. Holly Andersen, Oberfelder tackles and represents the science of — as well as the stories spawned by — our most fundamental organ.

Arthur Phillips and James Shapiro on The Tragedy of Arthur
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html#b0301
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
7pm-10pm

BHS partners with The New York Review of Books for Talking Fiction, Talking Fact, a programming series that pairs notable fiction writers with scholars who have written on similar topics for engaging and thought-provoking dialogue. This month, BHS hosts Arthur Phillips, author of The Tragedy of Arthur, a novel in which a long-lost Shakespeare play surfaces, and James Shapiro, a leading Shakespearean historian. This event is free with museum admission.

CHRIS COSNOWSKI American Metal
http://www.lyonswiergallery.com/upcoming.html
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
6pm-8pm

In American Metal, artist Chris Cosnowski utilizes and exploits the intrinsic value and symbolism of these treasured keepsakes. His paintings envision a nostalgic no-holds-barred America. The works allude to the idealism of American values, yet somehow the narratives speak volumes about shifting ideals via the represented objects. What appears to be solid and significant is trumped by the discovery that the metal is an illusion. These beloved objects are not made of gold but merely spray plated plastic with no real weight – an apt metaphor for a country in economic turmoil due to its gratuitous and gluttonous pursuit of all that glitters.

deanna lee

http://www.rhvfineart.com/
03/01/2012-04/01/2012
6pm-8pm

rhv fine art is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Brooklyn based artist Deanna Lee. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, March 1, 6pm to 8pm Cocktails and after-party at Lot 2

John Wood
http://www.brucesilverstein.com/galleries.php?gid=716&i=0&page=next
03/01/2012-04/21/2012
6pm-8pm

Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of mixed-media works by the artist John Wood. The exhibition will feature Wood’s groundbreaking conceptual and process driven series: Baltimore Steps, 1991-94; Nine imaginary Oil Spills, 1995; Triangle in the Landscape: Eleven Second 90 Degree Turn of a Paper Triangle, 1985; Beach Drawings, c. 1983 and his Gun in Landscape Series c.1967. In addition, the show will include a selection of significant works spanning Wood’s career that emphasize the social and environmental issues that have informed his works since the late 1950s.

Mark Morris Dance Group
http://www.bam.org/
03/01/2012-03/03/2012
7:30pm-00pm

Mark Morris’ marvelously spirited and musically attuned dances have redefined our ideas of the body in motion. Mark Morris Dance Group returns to BAM this year with the reprise of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts. With orchestral and choral music by Virgil Thomson (performed live by the MMDG Music Ensemble), libretto by Gertrude Stein, and illustrator and author Maira Kalman’s luminous sets, Morris’ Four Saints is grand, ebullient, and spiritually resonant. By way of delightful processions, sevillanas, and redolent folk dancing, the deliverance to heaven of the Spanish saints Teresa of Avila and Ignatius of Loyola comes to life.

CP5 Closing: A reading by 4 CP writers
www.carrierpigeonmag.com
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
7pm-10pm

On March 1, 2012, Grit N Glory boutique will host a free reading by four of Carrier Pigeon’s contributing voices as part of our Vol. 2 issue 1 exhibition closing reception, and you are invited! Russ Spitkovsky will read from “Heaven Help Hitler,” a story coming up in CP Vol 2. issue 2, proof copies of which will be on display. Nick Kolakowski, a new addition to the CP roster, has blown us away with his imaginative prose and will be reading from”What the Fire Cost Us”, featured in CP7. Poet Todd Colby has three books available from Soft Skull Press, and we are very excited to be publishing his poems in Summer 2012. New York playwright August Schulenburg has been published twice by Carrier Pigeon, helping to blaze the trail of incorporation of plays and monologues into our format. August will be reading from “Presents,” featured in Carrier Pigeon 5 Location: Grit N Glory 186 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002 (212) 253-2775 Directions: http://g.co/maps/kj3gw

Harriet Korman: New Paintings
http://lennonweinberg.com/current/current_1.html
03/01/2012-04/14/2012
00pm-00pm

Harriet Korman’s last solo exhibition of new work took place at the gallery in 2008. She has continued to focus on color and shape in new paintings that attain a decisive and brilliant clarity. Basing the compositions on line drawings, Korman uses the location of the lines as boundaries between colors, and selects individual unblended pigments for the resulting shapes. She exposes each color’s intrinsic qualities of hue, brightness, transparency, and texture through the juxtaposition of related or contrasting colors and a deceptively casual paint application. Diagonals that slice across the mostly four by five foot canvasses give rise to an interesting reverse symmetry; horizontals and verticals further divide wedges into triangles and polygons. In the end, Korman achieves a shifting dominance between whole and divided shapes through the purposeful selection and arrangement of color.

Arthur Phillips and James Shapiro on The Tragedy of Arthur
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html#b0301
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
7pm-9pm

COBU
http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=COB0
03/01/2012-03/04/2012
3pm-8pm

OBU – The all-girl Japanese Dance and Drum Group has been in residence at Theater for the New City since 2010. This will be the first full-evening concert of this spectacular group. Their movement, dance and drum are international and supersede language. Thursday – Sunday, March 1 – 4 Thursday – Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm

Heathens
http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/heathens.htm
03/01/2012-03/18/2012
3pm-8pm

Set on an isolated farm in eastern Kentucky, Heathens is an unsettling comedy that makes the term “family values” take on new meanings. When a wandering laborer follows a woman home for the night, he finds a lot more than he bargained for in the home she shares with her sister and her Mamaw. The play explores mourning, faith, and the dangers of isolation as the characters do battle with themselves and each other. Wednesday – Sunday, March 1 – 18 Wednesday – Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm Additional Performances Saturday, March 3 at 3pm

Theater Reconstruction Ensemble presents The Three Seagulls, or MASHAMASHAMASHA!
http://here.org/shows/detail/850/
03/01/2012-03/10/2012
2pm-7pm

7pm shows on March 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th 2pm shows on March 3rd, 4th and 10th Subtext and samovars run Russianly rampant in this Chekhovian mash-up, featuring a cast of twenty-four actors slapping on some of the most famous (patronymic) names in the history of modern theater.

La MaMa and Talking Band present Hot Lunch Apostles
http://talkingband.org/
03/01/2012-03/18/2012
7:30pm-10pm

To survive in a time of desperate competition and fervent religion, a traveling troupe of carnival strippers switches to performing stories from the Bible. For this production, Talking Band transforms La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre into a fairground, complete with game booths, food stands, and geek shows.

Tiffany Mills Company presents Berries & Bulls
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/223636
03/01/2012-03/03/2012
7:30pm-10pm

Berries and Bulls, is an expose on the inherent tangles found in long-term relationships. Through movement and text, four people vibrating on different frequencies try to connect. They misread signals; push touching to extremes; and taunt each other into playing physically risky games. Characteristic of Tiffany Mills’* style, bold movement, surprising text, and daring partnering featuring four seasoned dancers will all play their part in this work that examines flaws and foibles revealed in relationships. Dramaturge: Peter Petralia*.

Mark Ruwedel: Records
http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2012-03-mark-ruwedel/
03/01/2012-04/07/2012
6pm-8pm

Artist’s Reception Thursday, March 1, 6:00–8:00 pm Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce Records, an exhibition of black and white photographs by Mark Ruwedel. Records will open on Thursday, March 1, and will close on Saturday, April 7, with a reception for the artist on March 1 from 6:00 to 8:00PM. This is Ruwedel’s second solo exhibition with the Gallery, which presented his first New York show, Westward the Course of Empire, in 2009. The exhibition will present the artist’s recent projects in the western United States, focusing on the collision of promise and reality. The photographs, primarily of homes and landscapes, were made in the desert regions surrounding Los Angeles, from the western Mojave Desert to the Salton Sea region, as well as in Utah and on a small island in British Columbia.

Modern Poets: Collective Task
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/13980
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
6pm-9pm

In early 2006, poet Robert Fitterman invited several other poets and artists to participate in a collective project: one participant would offer the group a new task on the first day of each new month, to be completed within that month, and participants would respond to any or all of the tasks. Tasks have ranged from “Create a piece around your first purchase of the month of March” to simply “One act.” The group named itself Collective Task and published its task-prompted works in 2009. Collective Task is now in its second round, with many new participants, under the curatorial care of Lanny Jordan Jackson. On this special evening, members of the group present paintings, texts, sound pieces, and photographic works made in response to the tasks they have set for each other over the years.

ECSTATIC MUSIC FEST: MARIAM WALLENTIN & MIKAEL KARLSSON WITH ACME
http://kaufman-center.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-festival-mariam-wallentin-mikael-karlsson-with-acme
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
7:29pm-10pm

Mariam Wallentin (pictured), hailed for her “beyond gorgeous” voice (Prefix) in the band Wildbirds & Peacedrums (praised by Pitchfork as “highly complex and agile pop music”), teams up with acclaimed composer Mikael Karlsson to create a new song cycle, The Spirit & the Cloud, performed with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (“some of New York’s brightest, busiest players,” Time Out New York). The evening will also include a selection of Karlsson’s instrumental compositions and arrangements of Wildbirds & Peacedrums songs for Wallentin and ACME.

S.E.M. Ensemble + Chris Nappi
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2011/12/19/at-110-livingston-s-e-m-ensemble-with-chris-nappi-string-noise-guests/
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
8pm-10pm

S.E.M. Ensemble performs music where distance – both physical and symbolic – becomes a compositional factor. The program includes a set of solo performances by percussionist and S.E.M. Ensemble member Chris Nappi. Performers are: Natacha Diels, Petr Kotik, flutes; James Moore, Taylor Levine, Andrew Smith, Zach Layton, guitars; Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim, violins; Liuh-Wen Ting, Cat Lamb, violas; Brian Snow, violoncello; and Chris Nappi, percussion.

Freestanding Stand-Up Comedy Residency/ Justyn Withay / BenPagano/ Bird to Prey/ Dead Hot
http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
7:30pm-11pm

Freestanding Stand-Up Comedy Residency/ Justyn Withay / BenPagano/ Bird to Prey/ Dead Hot

Matthew Silver Presents Bird to Prey and Ben Pagano @ Goodbye Blue Monday
http://www.facebook.com/events/185684911535415/
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
9pm-11pm

FREE 9pm: Bird to Prey 10pm: Ben Pagano (with nate dyer and charles mansfield) Hosted by avant garde comedian extraordinaire Matthew Silver

Will Eisner Week
http://www.moccany.org/
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
7pm-9pm

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA – and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation are proud to announce that, as part of Will Eisner Week, 2012, they will be presenting a panel discussion entitled “Will Eisner: Making the World Safe for Graphic Novels.” The panel will consist of comics legends Paul Levitz (who will also moderate) and Dennis O’Neil, who knew and worked with Eisner, longtime Eisner agent Judith Hansen, and Columbia University Comics Librarian Karen Green. The panel, organized by Will Eisner Week Planning Committee chair Danny Fingeroth, will discuss Eisner’s creative and business accomplishments and legacy, and his continuing impact on the world of sequential art, from the 1930s to the present.

Marco Cappelli & IDR (Italian Doc Remix)
http://roulette.org/events/marco-cappelli-idr-italian-doc-remix/
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
8pm-10pm

IDR is the result of the artistic exchange between Marco Cappelli and Jim Pugliese, whose mutual reverence for the villages’ ritual music brought them to the following statement: reflect the process of memory’s distortion of the second/third immigrantes generation, living in the New Yorker cultural melting pot with a strong traditional background, and give back to the audience a music at the same time far from the original source – for geographic, chronological and cultural reasons – and full of tradition’s elements: impossibile to fit in any conventional standard.

RACHELLE GARNIEZ
http://barbesbrooklyn.com/calendar.html
03/01/2012-03/01/2012
8pm-11pm

Dubbed a”Master of Surprise” by Entertainment Weekly, Rachelle writes and performs darkly optimistic story-songs and accompanies herself on a variety of instruments including accordion, piano, claviola, guitar and plastic bells, “…leaving nothing behind but sweet wreckage.” (The New Yorker).

Cut and Paste at Muriel Guépin Gallery curated by rhv fine art
http://www.murielguepingallery.com/
03/02/2012-04/15/2012
6:30-8pm

Although the process of collage has been around for millennia it was George Braques and Pablo Picasso who, in the early 20th century, made the act of cutting and pasting disperate elements of paper, cardboard, string or basically whatever into works of fine art. This marked the beginning of a mash-up between “high” and “low” culture that would eventually occupy an enormous movement in contemporary art. RHV Fine Art has selected three artists, James Cullinane, Sharon Lawless and Andrew Zarou, from it’s exceptional roster of artists, each of whom uses the technique of collage in different ways and to different ends. March 2 – April 15, 2012 Opening reception: Friday, March 2, 6:30 – 8pm

On Silence: Hommage to John Cage
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2011/12/19/at-110-livingston-on-silence-hommage-to-john-cage/
03/02/2012-03/02/2012
8pm-10pm

“On Silence,” marks the centennial of John Cage’s birth. The program will consist of 13 new compositions, each 4’33” long, referencing Cage’s infamous 1952 opus of the same name in which a pianist sits at the instrument for the assigned duration occasionally turning score pages and performing nothing. Through this composition, Cage invited the sounds of the environment to enter the repertoire of the staged music. The original version will be included in the program. Thirteen young and up-and-coming composers from the US, Europe, South America and Japan were asked to reflect on what Cage means in their creative life. They were commissioned to compose a work of the same duration drawing sources from the following instrumentation: grand piano, computer sound and video, hardware technologies of choice, everyday objects and musical toys.

The Hot Solids, Primitive Seven, Frequency Core, Elefantkiller, Nicky Romance
http://www.goodbye-blue-monday.com/
03/02/2012-03/02/2012
8pm-10pm

The Hot Solids, Primitive Seven, Frequency Core, Elefantkiller, Nicky Romance

Modified presents the 10 Years of Commercial Suicide Tour!
http://cameony.blogspot.com/http://cameony.blogspot.com/
03/02/2012-03/02/2012
11:45pm-00pm

KLUTE (Commercial Suicide – LONDON/UK) CLEVER (Offshore Recordings) NYCHAVOK (Modified) $10, 11:55 PM, 21+

Heloise & The Savoir Faire , Mirror Mirror
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3089
03/02/2012-03/02/2012
6:30pm-10pm

New York’s electro-rock outfit Heloise & The Savoir Faire released “Trash, Rats and Microphones” on April 26, 2008 via Simian Records (Elijah Wood’s new label and joint-venture with Yep Roc Records). With a live show described by Disorder Magazine as a “great big flying disco ball swerving through a relentless shower of pink glitter and synth-lasers,” Heloise & The Savoir Faire have gained popularity in the UK after making their TV debut on The Graham Norton Show and Channel 4’s Friday Night Project. An electrified collision of late-70’s disco-infused dance punk and 80’s synth-pop, the group is fronted by the charismatic Heloise Williams and backed by two dancers (Joe Shepard and Sara Sweet Rabidoux) and a full band (James Bellizia on guitar, Luke Hughett on drums and Jason Diamond on bass). Produced with and engineered by Andrew Schneider at Translator Audio in Brooklyn, “Trash, Rats and Microphones” captures the energy, sexuality and humor of the live show.

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KEYHOLDER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
http://printshop.org/web/Create/KeyholderResidences/index.html
02/17/2012-03/01/2012
8AM-12AM

The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are one year long, starting on April 1, 2012, and take place in the Printshop’s shared Artists’ Studio. Facilities are available for intaglio, relief, monoprint, waterbased silkscreen, digital processes, and other techniques that employ the tools at hand. Keyholders work independently in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists. Artists from all disciplines are eligible to apply; printmaking skills are not required, but some familiarity with the medium is recommended. Basic instruction in printmaking is provided for new Keyholders. Technical assistance is not included in the program, but is available at additional cost.
2012 Scene: Brooklyn Call for Entries
http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1629
02/22/2012-03/08/2012
00pm-00pm

Scene: Brooklyn seeks short and feature narrative films, short and feature length documentaries, animations, and video art from Brooklyn based filmmakers and artists for our Screening Series this May. Deadline: February 24, 2012 Late: March 8, 2012

Open Call for NYC Area Boatmakers, Builders, and Artists
http://www.marina59.com/Marina59_Residency_2012.pdf
02/24/2012-03/09/2012
00pm-00pm

The Boatel is a fleet of refurbished abandoned boats clustered around a floating platform. Some of our newly salvaged boats are gutted, others have existing interiors. Design proposals should consider functionality. The structural integrity of the boats should not be compromised. Artists will be able to stay part-time or full-time in a boat with water & electricity for the duration of the project. The beach is five blocks away. You are also welcome to bring a kayak or canoe to explore Jamaica Bay, or use one of ours
The 2nd ANNUAL GREENPOINT FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!
http://greenpointfilmfestival.org/submissions-guidelines-2012/
02/23/2012-05/03/2012
00pm-00pm

We are pleased to announce: the 2nd Annual Greenpoint Film Festival has expanded and is now accepting submissions. After the wonderful success of our inaugural event last October, we have expanded to include selected works from submissions to be screened along with high quality curated film programs. We are scheduled for early Fall 2012. Please check our guidelines for more information http://greenpointfilmfestival.org/submissions-guidelines-2012/
Exhibition and Artist-led Community Engagement Initiative
http://garrisonartcenter.org/
02/26/2012-03/17/2012
00pm-00pm

Garrison Art Center, located on the Hudson River in Garrison,New York, has a new opportunity for an artist to realize a project with a community engagement component. The opportunity includes an exhibition in the Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center, a community engagement project with teens and their schools, studio resources, administrative support, and a stipend. The exhibition, in October 2012, includes two galleries (one gallery is 700 sq. ft. — one is 250 sq. ft.) The artist will work with teens from 1- 2 local schools to realize a project with an end product that will be shared through an exhibition, performance, or through public art Garrison Art Centerwill manage the logistics and administration with the schools and serve as liaison to the community The artist will have use of the Garrison Art Center studios, including printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and a film darkroom Stipend will be determined by experience and scale of project.

Fourth Annual Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant Needs Artists, Volunteers, Interns
http://www.earthcelebrations.com/
02/26/2012-05/12/2012
00pm-00pm

The Hudson River Pageant – Saturday May 12 A community based ecological art and performance project that engages the participation of artists, youth, local residents, schools, community centers, and organizations to participate in the project and our three month educational environmental art workshop series from March -May. Participants work with our resident artists to create the spectacular puppets and costumes for the parade. The culminating parade and theatrical pageant follows a route from Battery Park North to Gansevoort Street, in the downtown portion of the Hudson River Park, on Saturday May 12, 2012 (rain date Sunday May 13), from 1-5pm. The parade of spectacular costumes, giant puppets, mobile sculptures, and live musical bands, features 13 site-specific performances at the piers and significant sites along the route.

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