THE WEEK: Sept 26-30.

LIVE from the NYPLROBERT WILSON with Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Lucinda Childs, and others in conversation with Paul Holdengräber 
Friday, September 30, 2011 7:00 p.m.

Robert Wilson will talk to Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Lucinda Childs and others about his artistic collaboration with them over the years.  The conversation will be instigated by Paul Holdengräber.

Robert Wilson is among the most distinguished theater directors of our time. Creator of such works as The King of Spain and The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud, Wilson also collaborated with Philip Glass on the hugely successful opera Einstein on the Beach. Today, Wilson’s accomplishments are recognized not only in the spheres of theatre and opera, but also in the visual arts. Retrospectives of his work have been held throughout the world, and his installations have appeared in several Guggenheim museums, among other venues worldwide.

This event marks the US publication date of The Watermill Center – A Laboratory for Performance – Robert Wilson’s Legacy, a new book about the first 20 years of The Watermill Center.  It will also feature the new book Robert Wilson From Within edited by Margery Arent Safir.

Organs in The Snow
Opening Reception: Sep 30, 8-11pm

A Group Show and Story by Rachel Mason

Dan Asher / John Baldessari / Michael G. Bauer / Michael Bilsborough / Nancy deHoll / Jen Denike / Tim Dowse / Ellie Ga / Laleh Khorramian / Jason Lazarus / Mamiko Otsubo / Samuel White

Opening Night Performances: Thank You Rosekind, Doom Trumpet, No Sky God, Mark Golamco

She was a lion sitting on her dad’s shoulders. They formed a totem of two heads, one large, one small as they walked down the street. Powerful with her lion-painted face, she stuck her tongue out at a man passing by. He tripped on the side of his foot and then fell to the ground.

The girl’s father didn’t realize that his daughter scared the man, causing him to fall. The man already had a fear of children. The girl’s father also didn’t realize that had he reached his hand out to help, the man wouldn’t now have two permanent rods conjoined in his hip bone, and wouldn’t have lapsed into a permanent hallucinatory state from which he’d never recover.

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Support This Project: Secret City, Leah Coloff

With her sultry voice and a cello to compliment it, it’s no surprise Leah Coloff has played with a huge range of musicians (Iggy Pop, Lou Reed,  Patti Smith, Regina Spektor..just to name a few..

She also holds her own solo and in her collaborative band project (with Sarth Calhoun) Lucibel Crater (3rd video below.)

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ABOUT LEAH:

Leah Coloff – is one of the more unique and dynamic performers of new and alternative forms of music; melding her own styles of vocalization and virtuosic cello playing into a powerful combination of presentation for her own and other composers’ material.  Her vocal range is immense, with the ability to sing in a subtle to powerful soprano range and also in guttural strength and clarity of lower tones.

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Totems/Terrarium Building/ESP TV 3/Stephanie Bernheim/Regina Silveira/James Davis

PETER KAYAFAS: TOTEMS @SASHA WOLF.
Opens Wens May 25th 6-9pm.

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Stephanie Bernheim
Palm Project @ A.I.R. GALLERY

May 25 – June 19, 2011
Opening Reception: May 26, 6-8 pm
Read Bernheim’s Press Release

Craft Night: Learn How to Make Your Own Terrarium on May 26 @ CITY RELIQUARY.

Craft Night returns to the City Reliquary on May 26. This Craft Night, Anna Grant will be teaching us how to make terrariums. For $5 you will be supplied with a plant, as well as materials to decorate your terrarium. Just be sure to bring your own glass container. And because it is the month of Bicycle Celebrations and Bicycle awesomeness, we will have tiny bicycles.

We’re asking five dollars for crafting supplies. Terrarium-ing will commence at 7pm and will run until 10pm. See you there!

ESP TV 3 Screening Party

Screening party at K &M Bar, 225 N 8th St., Brooklyn NY, 8-11PM

Episode #3 of ESP TV airs Wednesday, May 25th on at 9:30 on channel 57 (Time Warner) / 84 (RCN) / Manhattan Neighborhood Network 3.

Featuring performances by:

MAZING VIDS
Dana Bell’s “A DELICATE BALANCE” w/ Meg Clixby, Kerry Davis and Leah Retherford w/ drumming by Jon Lockie (Sightings)

with videos by: Jordan Levine, Meredith James and Rachel MasonAaron NemecJason Underhill, Team Louis V E.S.P. and more!
With your host Sam Mickens (Sam Mickens Ecstatic Showband Revue, The Dead Science, Xiu Xiu)

Regina Silveira @ Alexander Gray
May 26 – July 29, 2011

Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to present the gallery’s second exhibition with the Brazilian artist, Regina Silveira. Since the 1960s, Silveira’s work has defied genre, moving between forms of installation, printmaking, sculpture and photography to explore visual distortion, perspective and scale.

For her exhibition at the gallery, Silveira presents her signature vinyl-decal mural-installations. The main installation, from her celebrated series, Desaparencia, depicts black and white diagrams of artists’ ateliers, graphically suggesting the ghosts of easels, tables, palettes, and other tools of the artist’s studio. In its iteration at Alexander Gray Associates, Silveira’s installation suggests the disappearance of traditional studio practice and location, as well as expectations of creation and alchemy that surround artistic mythology.

JAMES DAVIS @ RARE.
May 26 – June 23

ESP TV #1 Viewing Party WITH DEREK LARSON APRIL 27th.

MORE ABOUT DEREK LARSON.

ESP TV #1 Viewing Party
Wed. April 27, 8PM-2AM
Angels and Kings
500 East 11th St New York, NY
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Episode #1 Airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network at 9:30 PM on channel 57 (Time Warner) / 83 (RCN)

Episodes 1 and 2 feature performances by:
Ganjatronics
Elbis Rever
Kunsole
Rachel Mason and Little Band of Sailors
“The Dust Up” w/ host Sam Mickens
Dana Bell w/ Kerry Davis and Leah Retherford

w/ your hosts Bradford Nordeen as “Mary Boome” and Hayley Blatte as “Coco”

with videos by: Brian Zegeer, Erica Magrey, Sophia Peer, Derek Larson, Colby Bird, Jennifer Sullivan and Andrew Steinmetz, Jonathan Phelps, Kate Gilmore, Andre Perkowski, Katrina Lamb