THE WEEK: APRIL 2-6.

EDITOR’S PICKS: 

Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art
http://www.viiphoto.com/news/exhibition-every-exit-is-an-entrance-30-years-of-exit-art/
04/01/2012-05/19/2012

Exit Art is pleased to announce their final exhibition EVERY EXIT IS AN ENTRANCE: 30 YEARS OF EXIT ART. Founded in 1982 by Executive Director Jeanette Ingberman and Artistic Director Papo Colo, Exit Art has grown from a pioneering alternative art space into an innovative cultural center.

 

 

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LIVE REVIEW BY MATT MOWATT: HEALTH W/CHAD VALLEY, POINT EPHEMERE

LIVE REVIEW
HEALTH W/CHAD VALLEY
POINT EPHEMERE
9.6.11
“To Your Health”

It all began with work in Mexico City. A friend of mine had bought a ticket to Health only to find out that he’d be unable to go. “You want it?” he asked me, a bit forlorn and deflated. “Sure,” I responded not particularly knowing what I was throwing myself into. And then events happen as they do to everybody, the ones that cripple the will and crush the desire, the ones where you either decide to go to a concert or to keep hiding under your sheets worrying what the hell to do with your life – the proletariat blues.

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THE WEEK: SEPT 6-9.

WHITE SWALLOW READING SERIES: B.C. EDWARDS LL BEN FAMA LL ELY SHIPLEY @ CORNELIA.
Tuesday, September 6 · 6:00pm – 7:30pm

B.C. EDWARDS lives in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of the 2011 Hudson Prize put out by Black Lawrence Press which will be publishing his collection of short fiction, The Aversive Clause in 2012 and his collection of poetry From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes in 2013. His work can be found in Red Line Blues, The Sink Review, Food-i-Corp, Hobart and others. His short story “Illfit” is being adapted into a piece by the Royal Ballet of Flanders. BEN FAMA is the author of the chapbook Aquarius Rising (UDP 2009) and NEW WAVES (Minutes Books). He is the founding editor of Supermachine Poetry Journal. His work has been featured in GlitterPony, notnostrums, LIT, Poor Claudia, and on the Best American Poetry Blog, among others. He has contributed tips to gawker, words to urban dictionary, and has an ongoing correspondence with Lady Gaga. ELY SHIPLEY’s first book, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His writing appears in the Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, Diagram, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah and currently teaches at Baruch College, CUNY. Hosted by Angelo Nikolopoulos $7 cover includes a house drink.

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THE WEEKEND: AUGUST 19-21.

Friday, August 19 // 8:30 // $10ADV>
Yellow OstrichExitmusic, Parlovr, Caged Animals
BUY TICKETS HERE
Saturday, August 20 // 8:00 // $10ADV
Canon BlueAtlantic/Pacific, Forest Fire + More TBA


Gemini & Scorpio presentThe Black & White & Red All Over Ball
A Birthday Celebration and Fundraiser for Coilhouse Magazine

Sun, Aug 21, Red Lotus Room, Crown Heights, BK – address sent to RSVPs

5-7pm VIP patron salon and tea service, $30-300
7pm-12am party, $15, or with Dances of Vice Enchantment Under The Sea Dance (8/20): $25

Details & RSVP: http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
VIP & combo tix presale: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/191788
FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114752155289228
Coilhouse: http://www.coilhouse.net | DoV: http://www.dancesofvice.com

Inclusive and elegant, weird and sincere, Coilhouse Magazine is “A Love Letter to Alternative Culture.” For four full years –both as a high gloss print publication and a daily-updated website– Coilhouse has served as a vibrant international hub for DIY expression and outrageous bohemian creativity. This will be the first full-fledged Coilhouse party in three years, the first NYC event in Coilhouse history, and an official birthday celebration.

Enter into a secret lush cabaret room deep in the heart of Brooklyn, to revel in live music, dance and circus performances and dance to rollicking sets from DJ luminaries. Aerialists…fire…projections… dadaist spectacle…surprises galore. Bid on silent auction items donated by Diamanda Galas, Molly Crabapple, Jessica Joslin, Paul Komoda, Jason Levesque & Xeni Jardin, Century Guild, Disinfo, PUREVILE!, Kate O’Brien, Nicole Aptekar, and Asha Beta: a splendid array of autographed prints and books, and one-of-a-kind art objects, as well as a full set of the out-of-print, highly collectible back-issues of Coilhouse. Plus, the first glimpse of Coilhouse Issue Six, and an opportunity to pre-order it at a discount.

Music:
Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls, World Inferno) – Energetic, expressive, powerful drum virtuoso.Franz Nicolay (World Inferno, Hold Steady, Guignol) – Dashing moutsachioed multi-instrumentalist, composer, and the hardest working boho-accordionist in NYC. Kim Boekbinder (Vermillion Lies) – Genre-defying songstress of murderous waltzes and epic pop ballads via voice, guitar, looping pedal and a bag full of mystery. Thomas Negovan– Occult-tinged, erotic, 1920s cabaret songcraft. Kelvin Daly – Builder of unique musical instruments; mysterious and elegant performances. Theremina – Wistful, theremin-drenched ambient music to sway and swoon to. DJs: Wengrofsky – Scrappy and eclectic vinyl wizardry. PUREVILE! – Sets of new wave, dark glam, new romantic from the co-founder of DISKO NOUVEAUX.

DIMANCHE ROUGE: CALL FOR ARTISTS IN BROOKLYN, NYC USA
Sun, Aug 21
FREE EVENT !!!!!

From Meghann Snow: I have been asked to be the Coordinator of Dimanche Rouge in Brooklyn, New York. Dimanche Rouge will hold a special August edition consisting in street interventions in different cities. Dimanche Rouge invites the general public to take part from these street interventions as group performers. These actions will be filmed and streamed live online. Viewers will be able to watch the performances over the internet.Performances will be held on August 21st, 2011, at 7 pm, Paris time–other countries will match this time so that performances are held simultaneously. (Our NYC starting time is 1PM)

“Dimanche Rouge is an international experimental performance event based in Paris, France taking place every third Sunday of the month. Dimanche Rouge showcases a variety of performances including but not limited to multimedia, audiovisual, sound, graffiti, actions, dance, body art, and interventions. In addition, experimental performers whose work is not generally seen in art venues, such as masseurs, coiffures, cooks, knitters, tatoo designers, and jewelry makers are welcomed to participate and invite members of the public to carry out their performances.

However, with this being said! I am looking artists who would like to perform short works that are 1min – 3 mins long. This venue is an hour long and I would like to squeeze in as many people that I can. With this being said, I would like to put a restriction on the materials that will be used, meaning you can not make a big mess.These are short performances that will be “livestream via video” along with the other venues around the world who can see. Participating cities, PARIS, KIEV, SOFIA, UTAH, BROOKLYN, ZAPORIZHYA, SANTIAGO DE CHILE, WENZHOU in China, CASTLEMAINE in Australia, and others.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PART TAKING IN THIS EVENT, please e-mail me at: snow.meghann@gmail.com, and please put in the subject line “Dimanche Rouge #7 /Brooklyn (YOUR NAME). Please tell me what you would like to do, and a link for me to see your work.

And after you e-mail me with your work and confirmation, please feel free and fill out the Registration for performers. It is not mandatory but highly appreciated. Registration form
www.tinyurl.com/dimancherougeintervention

Thank you all for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon! If you should have any other questions please feel free to contact myself or Dimanche Rouge for further details at dimancheRouge@gmail.com

naResident Advisor: RA X w/ X (secret headliner) , King Sunshine , Mala , Masashi Nakazawa and Peven Everett (live)@ LE POISSON ROUGE

Sat., August 20, 2011 at 8:00 PM 

Resident Advisor: RA X

To celebrate Resident Advisor’s 10th anniversary, we’ve cooked up something rather epic: a series of ten parties in ten cities around the world, each with a secret headliner.

We take it the ten parties in ten cities thing is pretty easy to understand, so here’s the deal with the secret headliners: each event will feature one carefully selected artist who we think has positively influenced the electronic music landscape over the past decade. Their identities will remain strictly under wraps until they take the stage. Up to that point, each one will be known simply as the X (see what we did there?).

For the US stop on our ten-part series, we take over Le Poisson Rouge, a live concert venue in Manhattan. With the live dynamic firmly in mind, the X has curated a line-up that combines Montreal Jazz Festival stars King Sunshine, a nine-piece ensemble that’s worked with everyone from Robert Owens to DJ Sneak, with master of all things soulful deep house Peven Everett, plus Mala, half of pioneering dubstep duo Digital Mystikz, and Japan’s DJ Masashi Nakazawa. The night will close with a performance by the X, an esteemed headliner whose identity will remain unknown until he or she takes the stage.

X (secret headliner)
The night will close with a performance by the X, an esteemed headliner whose identity will remain unknown until he or she takes the stage.

THE WEEKEND: August 5-7th.

Spectre Folk and FORMA @THE STONE:
Saturday

8 pm Spectre Folk
10 pm FORMA Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam (synths) George Bennett (drum programming, electronics)

PAS and Alrealon Musique Present:  Experi-MENTAL Festival 3 August-5, 6, 7

Curated by Robert L. Pepper (PAS) and Valerie Kuhne (Prehistoric Horse)
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway, New York, NY
J Train to Kosciusko St
(Full Line up.)
http://goodbye-blue-monday.com/
Logo and poster design by Jesse Fairbairn at http://www.thegluemill.com

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THE WEEK: JULY 5th-8th.

Khaïra Arby and her Band and The Mast ‘CD Release Show’

Thu., July 07, 2011 / 6:30 PM

Khaïra Arby and her Band
Khaïra Arby (pronounced: Hī-ra Arbē), the Nightingale of the North, born in the village of Abaradjou in the Sahara Desert north of Timbuktu. Khaira’s parents came from different ethnic backgrounds, mother Songhai and father Berber. You can hear these cultures in her music; she sings in several languages. The instrumentation and rhythms are just as varied with electric guitar and bass, calabash, ngoni, traditional violin, and percussion creating a complex mixture of sound and structure. Some people compare the effect to the rhythms of the camel caravans crossing the Sahara.

The Brooklyn-based duo The Mast creates a propulsive and expansive sound featuring Haale’s layered, undulating vocals and hypnotic electric guitar riffs dancing with Matt Kilmer’s polyrhythmic drumming.

READ A REVIEW FROM MATT MOWATT.

FREE TICKETS: https://the22magazine.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/free-tickets-to-khaira-arbymast-show-le-poisson-rouge/

Fernando Hereñu AKA PulpoCorporate @TACHE GALLERY.

Reception:
Thursday July 7th, 6-9pm

Exhibition
July 7th – August 2nd 2011

Tache Gallery Opening Exhibition of Fernando Hereñú AKA Pulpo
“HIDDEN DRAWINGS”

Exhibition July 7 – 2011

” The argentinean artist Pulpo has been part of the Latin American creative scene for many years.
With his series, ‘Hidden Drawings’, Pulpo’s work is focused on the Childhood Trauma & Hidden Emotion

Fernando Hereñu makes some amazingly bizarre drawings, the kinds that make you feel uncomfortable and inspired at the same time. ”

www.pulpocorporate.tumblr.com
www.tachegallery.com

ARTIST PROFILE INFORMATION
www.flickr.com/people/pulpocorporate/


Laura Ball: Animus @ MORGAN LEHMAN. July 7 – August 19, 2011

The Ladybug Transistor @KNITTING FACTORY
The Beets, James Ausfahrt (of Love Is All)

Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Wed, July 6, 2011
Doors: 7:30 PM / Show: 8:30 PM
$12.00

Since the 1990s, the Ladybug Transistor has created formalist pop-rock albums with a dreamy, articulate sound that spans decades and genres. Anchored by Gary Olson’s organizing vision and restrained baritone, their music boasts intricate arrangements and soaring melodies that are at once modern and timeless.

This band’s narrative holds a rich history of heartfelt collaboration, tireless devotion, quiet and outspoken romance, new arrivals, unexpected departures, achy break-ups, and unspeakable loss. They have become agile at adjustment.

In 2007, the untimely passing of their beloved drummer San Fadyl left members Olson, Kyle Forester, and Julia Rydholm at an unimaginable loss, struggling with a prevailing sense of “What now?” At a time where moving forward felt possibly impossible, the band quietly gathered new recruits (Mark Dzula, Eric Farber, Michael O’Neill) and embarked on writing a new album with the memory of San squarely in mind.

The resulting effort is their forthcoming release Clutching Stems-a lush collection of potent refrains and brought-to-one’s-knees ballads. Set to an invigorated soundtrack of wave-pop arrangements, the songs detail stories of humbling heartbreak, profound longing, undoing distress, nagging regret, and coming-of-age awakenings. Olson’s lyrics express an overarching search to find one’s voice in the face of moments that knock the wind and words right out of a person.

This new line-up has found a distinct voice that honors diverse influences and the band’s own precedent sound. Clutching Stems assuredly underlines that while love can tear things apart, it can also capably mend them back together once again.

THE WEEKEND: July 1-4th.


The Architecture of Devotion
GOWANUS BALLROOM
June 24 – July 3, 2011
Closing Party Saturday at 5:00pm – Sunday at 12:00am
Show starts at 7pm

The Architecture of Devotion group show continues this Friday, July 1st with a night of great music by returning players: Apocalypse Five and Dime, Morgan O’kane, and Crooks and Perverts. These guys put on an amazing show with us back in April with moments like these:

Apocalypse Five and Dime will be releasing their new album “Ballads for the End Times” on July 1st, this is your first chance to get your hands on it!

If you missed the show last weekend or just need a healthy dose of seconds, come on out and join us!

Performances begin at 7pm.
Free Sangria from 6-8
$10 admission after 7pm

ABOUT THE SHOW:

The Architecture of Devotion is a large scale group art, music and performance event hosted by the Gowanus Ballroom.

The exhibition transforms the cathedral-like Gowanus Ballroom, a nineteenth century steel mill and current home of Serrett Metalworks, to interrogate various representations of the sacred and profane.

Works including stained glass, paintings embellished with gilt adornment, modern reinventions of medieval retables, a cabinet of curiosities, and an enchanted grotto form an installation that explores themes of spirituality, mysticism and religion. Revisiting historic interpretations of divine presence through a contemporary lens allows artist and audience to reconsider what might at first glance appear mundane.

Federico Ughi Quartet/Killer Bob
CAFE ORWELL
Friday, July 1st.
9 pm

Kae Reed Ensemble/Brad Balliet
CAFE ORWELL
Saturday, July 2nd.  Exotic Post-Classical Magic Spells and an Electronic Bassoon.
8:30 pm.

THE MOVIE LIBRARIANS FILM SCREENING WITH A.G. GRAHAM
DUMBO ARTS CENTER
JULY 1 ZARDOZ, dir. John Boorman. 1974
4pm

“If nothing is happening in your community library, it’s not a library.”
– Institute of Museum and Library Services

Dumbo Arts Center’s current exhibition is (The Missing Library). This summer, artist Annie Shaw has invited five artists (Jen Kennedy & Liz Linden, Marie Lorenz, Michelle Rosenberg and Angie Waller), an architect (Lori Brown) and two librarians (A.G. Graham and web-specialist Nate Hill) to turn DAC into a civic, non-commercial public space in the form of the Dumbo neighborhood’s first library. The project encourages contemplation on how libraries’ function, physical space, and role within communities is changing as the content libraries have traditionally housed migrates to a digital form.

PABLO MALURIE
BARBES

MONDAY JULY 4th

PABLO MALAURIE. Pablo Malaurie hails from Buenos Aires playing original folklore on banjo and ukelele, songs that are sweet, timeless and oddly global. Soaring melodies evoke geisha girls and Buddy Holly in equal parts. He scored a Romanian film that premiered at this year’s Cannes, Loverboy, and released El Festival Del Beso in Japan. Pablo’s voice can pierce through you in a painful tremelo and then soothe your broken heart with a pleasing, unexpected harmony. KCRW’s Jose Galvan says, “Malaurie combines both Japanese and South American folk rhythms with a minimalist approach. Some songs recreate traditional Japanese melodies simply using a mandolin banjo and a haunting falsetto. Others integrate rhythms more akin to indigenous music of the Andes. Add to that introspective lyrics and his affected Argentine accent and you’ve got the perfect soundtrack for a road trip in the Japanese countryside a la Motorcycle Diaries.”

Rob Curto’s PE DE SERRA ALL-STARS.
BARBES
SUNDAY JULY 3rd

Accordionist Rob Curto’s band plays Northeastern Brazil’s traditional “forró pé de serra” with a style born out of New York City’s diverse and dynamic musical culture. Forró is the accordion-based party music of the sertão, the dry interior of the Brazilian Northeast. Accordion master Rob Curto leads this ensemble which combines the classic brazilian Northeast forros of Luis Gonzagua and Jackson do Pandeiro with original compositions and improvisation rolled into an amazing dance party

Migration: MIN HYUNG, EUNAH KIM, MERIDITH PINGREE, GENEVIEVE WHITE
FREIGHT AND VOLUME
June 23 – July 30, 2011The life of an artist can be a nomadic one, for any number of reasons, amongst them financial, emotional and spiritual. In many instances, artists find more support and camaraderie in large urban areas, and for quite a few all roads eventually lead to New York (or London or Berlin). The four artists comprising “Migration”, the summer show opening June 23rd at Freight+Volume, are no exception.


PETER EDWARDS: SPECTER FLUX

FLUX FACTORY
Dates: July 1 – 3, noon – 6 pm

Flux Factory is proud to present Specter Flux , an interactive environment and performance by artist-in-residence Peter Edwards, aka casperelectronics. The installation consists of three suspended orbs that glow at varying hues according to the sounds of its surroundings, including the ambient noise of the space and those made by the viewer. Its interior mechanism – a hybrid circuit using both digital and analogue electronics – transforms sound into an evolving display of multicolored lights. The performative element includes a constructed pyramid centered around a complex sound and light synthesizer that the artist plays. Viewers are invited to interact with the machine throughout the show.

HACKPOSIUM
FLUX FACTORY
Saturday July 2 4pm

This day-long event explores the practical, philosophical, and playful applications of the term “hacking.” Presentations and workshops will cover topics such as circuit bending, culture jamming, dumpster diving, email encryption, and the repurposing of waste items into useful tools. The symposium is geared towards providing visitors with foundational information in order to become hackers themselves. Hackposiumis part of Flux Factory’s Summer School program and is curated by Jaime Iglehart via New Age Beverages, in collaboration with Pete Edwards of Casper Electronics.

Demos of hacked objects and freegan snacks start at 4pm.
Talks and presentations start at 6 pm, and are followed by musical performances.

Hamyul/Hamlet
La Mama
June 23 – July 10, 2011
“A highly stylized adaptation of Hamlet performed in Korean, Hamyul feels like a traditional drama that could have been performed in the ancient Korean court.” – nytheatre.comThursday – Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:30pm

Hamyul/Hamlet is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The play is set in one of the ancient dynasties in Korea. The original Prince Hamyul, a Korean adaptation of Hamlet by William Shakespeare was presented to Western audiences in the United States and Europe in 1977. Adapted and directed by Minsoo Ahn, Prince Hamyul was the first Korean theatrical production ever performed outside Korea, making an indelible mark on the history of Korean theater thanks to the late Ellen Stewart at La MaMa.

MORE:
Michael Attias’s CLINAMEN ORCHESTRA@ THE STONE
SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS @RERUN (DUMBO.)
THE TIGER AND THE SUNFLOWER: DECORATIVE TRADITIONS AND CONTEMPORARY VOICES IN JAPANESE ART @SCHROEDER ROMERO & SHREDDER
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MIDNIGHT HORROR SAT JULY 2 12AM @SPECTACLE THEATER
STEVE DALACHINSKY SHRINE IN HARLEM JULY 3 AFTER 8 PM
ILLUMINATING FASHION: DRESS IN THE ART OF MEDIEVAL FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS @THE MORGAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.
FILMS AND RED HOOK RAMBLERS @ JALOPY.


THE WEEK: June 20-24th.

Pre-cinematic technology takes over HERE for a week of contemporary cantastoria, cooked up by puppeteers, artists and craftspeople from across the country. A millennium-old art form is rejuvenated and re-imagined, as performers animate paintings and banners alongside texts, puppets, jokes, songs and stories.

Each unique program features several original shorts on a given theme, and the festival kicks off with a FREE opening celebration, presented by Great Small Works at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, featuring cantastoria and cranky performances by 15 different theater artists and live music by The Greatest Smallest Band. Bring a picnic and the whole family. In case of rain shows will take place in the Tobacco Warehouse Tent on Water Street. (READ MORE.)

Banners & Cranks: Interview with Clare Dolan from here on Vimeo.

BANNERS & CRANKS LINEUP
Click on any program name to buy tickets

June 22 | 7pm
BOOM OR BUST

The Dolly Wagglers
Great Small Works
Peter Schumann
Chinese Theater Works
Possibilitarian Puppet & Mask Theater

June 23 | 7pm
BEGGARS & CHOOSERS

Great Small Works
Mouth of the Wolf
Bread & Puppet
Sam Wilson
Chinese Theater Works

June 24 | 7pm
SLAP & TICKLE

Awareness Theater Co.
Redwing Blackbird Theater
Mouth of the Wolf
Possibilitarian Puppet & Mask Theater
More of Everything

(MORE THIS WEEKEND!)

JUNE WITH RAS MOSHE AT UNVERSITY OF THE STREETS.

CENTIPEDE
LARRY ROLAND ENSEMBLE
CRISTIAN AMIGO TRIO
SOOTHSAYERS

Undead Jazzfest 2011 @LE POISSON ROUGE.
Thursday 06.23.11
w/ Satoko Fujii
Marc Ribot
Tarbaby
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog
Escreet / Binney / Krantz / Gilmore
& David Torn Trio w/ Tim Berne and Ches Smith
6:00pm doors | 7:00pm show
$25 Single Day | $35 Two Day | $50 Festival Pass
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a general admission, standing event.Tickets available here: http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/2275http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchAndRestore#p/a/u/0/D-Oo0r2mID8thingNYIN HOUSE is a collection of new musical meditations on the idea of “the home”. The pieces are written with flexibility in mind. With each composer creating a work for one room of the home, each performance is adapted for and inspired by the individuality of each home’s distinct rooms. This allows IN HOUSE to be programmed differently for each home and experienced uniquely by its audience, who can listen to one piece in its entirety, or explore the house freely, hearing how the compositions fit together. (READ MORE.)

Mi Tigre, My Lover
Naoe Suzuki and Dramahound Productions
@OPEN SOURCE
June 25th – July 9th, 2011
at 306 17th St. (between 5th and 6th Ave), South Slope, Brooklyn

Open Source is proud to announce its first show in our new space. “Mi Tigre, My Lover,” is a multi-media installation by Naoe Suzuki, originated out of a series of Naoe’s paintings, and the related play by Anne Phelan of Dramahound Productions. Phelan’s play, of the same name as Suzuki’s paintings, was inspired by the paintings and uses them as a backdrop for her production. This is the third play at Open Source Gallery by Dramahound Productions and we are very excited to host the fusion of artworks and live theatre by these two talented artists.

Suzuki’s paintings were inspired by the life of Mabel Stark, a renowned female tiger trainer in the early 1900s, the golden age of the circus. During her research, she also came across “The Final Confession of Mabel Stark,” by Robert Hough, a fictional biography based on Mabel Stark’s life. For Suzuki, Hough’s novel provided another interesting layer to the life of the famous female cat tamer. (READ MORE.)

Photo: Jason Falchook
Sirens & Society: Postmodern Mermaidia
@ OBSERVATORY.
Photo: Jason Falchook

A Screening & Panel Discussion featuring Prof. Amy Herzog, Mica Scalin, Ilise “The Lady Aye” Carter and Bambi the Mermaid
Date: Thursday, July 21st
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
Forget vampires, werewolves, and zombies! All across America–at least according to USA Today’s Carol Memmot, who recently documented the explosion of high-profile books, blogs and movies devoted to modern “mermadia”–mermaids are emerging as “the next big thing.Tonight’s screening and panel discussion will investigate the new wave of mermaid imagery and lifestyle being created by individual artists and the culture industry at large. We will begin with a preview screening of the new documentary “Mermaids of New York,” followed by a panel discussion featuring professor Amy Herzog, filmmakers Mica Scalin and Ilise “The Lady Aye” Carter, and practicing mermaid Bambi the Mermaid. (READ MORE.)

Old School 122 Benefit
Wednesday, June 22 – Saturday, June 25 beginning at 8PM nightly
A veritable who’s who of NYC performance promises to be on parade for 4 action-packed nights in the style of the original PS122 Benefits.
Luminary MC’s: Julie Atlas-Muz + David White (6/22), DANCENOISE w/ Richard Move + guests (6/23), Lane Czaplinski & Sarah Michelson (6/24), Carmelita Tropicana & surprise guests (6/25). Confirmed performers include:Thurston Moore, John Zorn, Elevator Repair Service, Penny Arcade, David Leslie, Big Art Group, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Charles Moulton, The Wooster Group, David Levine, Deb Margolin, Holly Hughes, Maria Hassabi, Temporary Distortion, Jennifer Miller, Jack Ferver, NTUSA, Neal Medlyn, Penny Arcade, Peter Rose, Praxis, Philippe Quesne, the TEAM, Sally Silvers, Mabou Mines, Tom Murrin, Sarah Maxfield, and many more.
Single Tickets: $30 (READ MORE.)

WISH YOUR WERE HERE: POSTCARD SHOW
June 22 – July 16, 2011

We cordially invite you to join us on Wednesday, June 22 from 6pm to 8pm for the opening of Wish You Were Here 10. The proceeds from this exhibition of postcard-sized works benefit the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Artists and other programs that serve our mission to advance the status of women in the arts.The exhibit includes affordable works by more than 350 artists including Dotty Attie, Mimi Gross, Christopher Knowles, Joyce Kozloff, Linda Montano, Yoko Ono and Barbara Zucker. Please note the sale of works is first-come, first-served.The pieces are priced at $45 to $120 depending on siz0e. (READ MORE.)


Altered States @ Foley Gallery


June 23 – July 15

reception:  thursday, june 23, 6 – 8pm 

Foley Galleryis pleased to present Altered States, a group exhibition featuring over 25 contemporary photographers curated by Michael Foley and Patrick Fleischman.Altered States begins to explore both the subtle and significant changes found in the alterations that photographers record in both natural settings and controlled environments.We look forward to presenting this work to you in the coming weeks.  (READ MORE.)


The KitchenKitchen presents
PearlDamour + Shawn Hall: How to Build a Forest
Wednesday, June 22, 8-10PMThe Friday-Sunday, June 17-19 and 24-26, 2-10pm
FREEA premiere by OBIE-winning PearlDamour (Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour) with New Orleans artist Shawn Hall: part visual art installation, part theater performance, over the course of 8 hours, a team of 7 assembles and dismantles an elaborate and impressive continually-evolving forest on stage. Audiences may come at any time as the forest fills The Kitchen. The piece contemplates our relationship with the natural world: how we live in it, rely on it, use it, and use it up.TIX & MORE >>To mark the re-release of his breakout novel American Gods, bestselling author Neil Gaiman discusses his career with Time magazine’s book reviewer and technology writer, Lev Grossman.Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book and Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett); the Sandman series of graphic novels and the story collections Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things. He is the winner of numerous literary honors, including the Hugo, Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards and the Newbery Medal. href=”http://www.thekitchen.org/event/263/0/1/”>(READ MORE.)

 CatchCATCH @ ABRONS ART CENTER

TICKETS: $20

The performance that couldn’t be stopped!WITNESS! as the CATCH crew gangs up with video artist Myles Kaneand a ragtag posse of downtown darlings LIVE! for three tremendous evenings of powder-packed performance goodness.CATCH and Kane have dug deep, tunneling into the experimental heart of the Playhouse’s storied early history, uncovering performance fragments and artifacts that, resurrected by this cabal of canny craftspersons, will amaze and astonish even the haughtiest of downtown can’t-be-bothereds. Co-conspirator Kane has rustled up a healthy dose of video-graphic victuals sure to delight all and sundry. (READ MORE.)


Artist Residencies & Conflict AreasPanel discussions
When:
Friday June 24, 2011 7 – 9pm and Saturday June 25, 12 – 4pm
Where: Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10003
Free

VLA’s Associate Director, Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, will be on an arts panel on Friday, June 24th, at the Goethe Institute in New York City. The panel, Artist Residencies & Conflict Areas, organized by Residency Unlimited, engages artists, independent arts organizations, residency programmers, and community initiatives on specific areas and conceptions of conflict. Issues for discussion will include mobility, community outreach, and exchange of knowledge through the broadly-interpreted artist residency model.Sergio will be speaking specifically about the impetus behind and origin of VLAs Art & Law Residency Program, and how it differs from and mirrors past and current artist residencies. (READ MORE.)

The Super Coda presents a Night of Cello-Centric Sounds.
Friday, 6/24. 8-midnight.
This means every group performing involves a cello. This is how it’s done:

1. Broadcloth. They are Anne Rhodes (vocals), Nathan Bontrager (Cello), Adam Matlock (accordion).

Broadcloth performs improvised music with a nod to various compositional outlets. Using a unique instrumentation of voice, cello and accordion/recorders, the trio plays from notated, graphic, embroidered, and textual scores in addition to completely spontaneous pieces. Without shying away from virtuosity, Broadcloth creates music that reflects the order of composition and the risk of unpredictable musical interactions. Emphasis lies on establishing a holistic sound that favors cooperation over hierarchy.
http://broadclothtrio.com/
Prehistoric Horse.
http://music.kingtone.com/album/prehistoric-horse
Silver Process
http://www.myspace.com/coralielonfat
http://www.chuckbettis.com/


AT THE STONE:

Roy Nathanson’s Sotto Voce
Roy Campbell’s Akhenaten Ensemble
Sabir Mateen & Matthew Shipp
Mike Pride’s From Bacteria To Boys


MORE:
PORNO JIM
  

Mark Sultan/Bleeding Knees Club/Daddy Long Legs @TKF.
Miloš, guitar w/ music of Albéniz, Granados, Tárrega, and Domeniconi @ Le Poisson Rouge

NYAA SUMMER EXHIBITION @FLOWER GALLERIES.
PERFORMANCY FORUM XIVAT BOB THE PAVILION