Daily Awesome 1/13-1/19
Naomi Huth
This week is a sad farewell to Joe Rollino, the 104 year old strong man who could lift 635 lbs with one finger.
Please continue to let me know whom to add onto this list. A lot of you are involved in the arts, so if you know of any events that I should be aware of, please tell me about them.
Enjoy. Naomi
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Wednesday January 13th
ART: Yes, But... @ Location One, Manhattan
FILM: Movie Bowl @ Booklyn Bowl, Brooklyn
PARTY: Impromty Pool Party @ Grace Hotel, Manhattan
LECTURE: Across Histories Artist Talk Series: Segregated Spaces @ Cabinet Magazine Space, Manhattan
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Thursday January 14th
BOOKS: Dave Eggers Signing @ The Strand, Manhattan
ART: The Series @ Blank Space Gallery, Manhattan
ART/FOOD: Potluck Dinner @ Flux Factory, 39-13 29th Street, Queens
THEATER: Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ The Slipper Room, Manhattan
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Friday January 15th
ART: Untitled Nude @ {CTS} Creative Thriftshop, Brooklyn
ART: Group Show @ No Longer Empty, Manhattan
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Saturday January 16th
ART: Ecuadorian Renaissance of NY Opening @ Queens Museum of Art, Queens
ART: Josh Keyes, Saelee Oh, and Doze Green @ Jonathan Levine Gallery, Manhattan
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Sunday January 17th
ART/PARTY: Art's 1,000,047th Birthday @ Home of Kitty Greenwald, Brooklyn
THEATER: MANSON: The Musical @ Kraine Theater, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Monday January 18th
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
Tuesday January 19th
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
******* Ongoing******
December 23rd-January 16th T 1:00-6:00pm; W-S 11:00am-6:00pm; Sun 2:00-6:00pm
Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, 1 Freeman Alley
Free; The downtown outpost of uptown gallery Salon 94 presents a blissed-out group show of work based on Zen Buddhist rock gardens. Contemporary artists Benjamin Valenza, Paula Hayes, Martha Friedman, Olaf Breuning, and others reinforce the idea of gardens as "mindscapes," conceptual as well as physical spaces for contemplation. The gallery is fresh off a re-look by Takeshi Miyakawa, who created a new entry from plexiglas boxes; Benjamin Valenza's sculptures riff on the philosopher's stone, while a white epoxy chandelier by Pae White (first exhibited at this year's Venice Biennale) hangs above the interior garden.
January 9th-Febuary 21st W-Sun 12:00-6:00pm
Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn
$2; The pair collaborates à la a game of Exquisite Corpse, aware of the other's involvement but blind to specific compositional details, building their installation in much the same way as strangers living in proximity build their cities in unknowing tandem. And it is precisely this unpredictable urban jumble of flesh and concrete that the pair both celebrates and transcends in PIXELVILLE. A combination of biota-based sculptural elements by Alroy mingle with digital projections by Shor to create a microcosm of the future city — no longer a physical location, the "city" has become a state of mind, a pattern of fluctuating energy that has taken on an increasingly metaphorical existence with the advent of digital media.
January 6th-17th
Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
$15-$30; For the sixth year, Under the Radar producer Mark Russell rounds up a frenetic 12 days of emerging works, fanning out from the Public Theater to other downtown venues. The cultural cavalcade stocks groundbreakers (Anne Bogart), gender-benders (Peggy Shaw), and media cross-pollinators (Ping Chong). In 2010, the globe-trotting roster dabbles in macabre French glove-puppetry with Jerk, a gay men's chorus from Dublin in Silver Stars, and a Philly-spawned mix of neuroscience and Russian melodrama in Chekhov Lizardbrain. As arts presenters hit the town to shop the shows, New Yorkers are reminded that, when it comes to sampling theatre that will soon be seen around the world, there's no place like home. www.undertheradarfestival.com
******* Wednesday January 13th ******
January 13th 6:00-8:00pm
Yes, But... @ Location
One, 26 Greene Street
Things aren't always what they seem.
Location One is pleased to open the 2010 season with Yes, But... an
exhibition of new works by Wojtek Doroszuk, Mattias Ericsson,
Alexandra Mota de Aguiar and Zhou Tao, keynoted by works from Vik
Muniz. Yes, But..., curated by Claudia Calirman, draws together works
that dwell in the borderline between real and fictional,
process-based and result-oriented, temporal and permanent, literal
and metaphorical, orderly and undisciplined. Within these works are
artistic choices that emphasize contradictions and ambiguities,
playing games upon the viewer at every turn.
January 13th Doors 6:00pm/Show 8:00pm
Movie Bowl @ Booklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
Free; The L Magazine and Brooklyn Bowl present the first ever Movie Bowl, to kick off the series we are showing the all-time classic This Is Spinal Tap on all of our HD projection screens.
January 13th 7:00pm-Midnight
Impromty Pool Party @ Grace Hotel, 125 W 45th Street
$3; Steam, Sauna, Swim....There is a cultural exchnage and world music party going on wed so we'll have some company. suggested donation is only $3, instead of the usual $10 pool charge. Regardless of the business at hand, come... relax... take off some clothes...warm your body and your soul.
January 13th 7:00pm
Across Histories Artist Talk Series: Segregated Spaces @ Cabinet Magazine Space, 300 Nevins Street
Free; In Hasan Elahi's lauded art, there is a recurring focus on surveillance and its associated boundaries and breaches. His latest project came out of a six-month ordeal with the FBI — they were mistakenly tipped to look out for him. After nine consecutive lie-detector tests and countless other interrogations, he was cleared to be "free" again. But lest he receive another government-issued j'accuse, the artist took the liberty of documenting his daily life — from meals to his moment-to-moment whereabouts — for all to see. For tonight's ArteEast and Cabinet Magazine-hosted gathering, he chats about and presents the appropriately named Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project.
******* Thursday January 14th ******
January 14th Noon-1:00pm
Dave Eggers Signing @ The Strand, 828 Broadway
Free; out the eponymous Syrian-American family and the patriarch who disappears in Katrina's aftermath; The Wild Things, a novelization of Spike Jonze's crackerjack translation of the Maurice Sendak picture book; and McSweeney's, No. 33: The San Francisco Panorama, a branded newspaper that features noteworthy contributions from Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Art Spiegelman, George Saunders, and nearly 150 others.
January 14th 6:00-8:00pm
The Series @ Blank Space Gallery, 511 W 25th Street, #204
Free; Blank Space is pleased to present The Series, an exhibition of paintings by the artists Heejo Kim and Matthew Langley. Kim and Langley are both artists dedicated to working with a single subject matter over a period of years. Focusing on one subject is a powerful means for them to discover all the possibilities in their work and in themselves. This intense concentration has allowed both artists to develop remarkable skill, extraordinary discipline and insight into life.
January 14th 8:00pm
Potluck Dinner @ Flux Factory, 39-13 29th Street, Queens
Join us this week for our monthly potluck dinner and art-tastic extravaganza.
$10-$20; Dinner is at 8 (bring along something tasty or some drinks, if you like), with performances starting at 9.
We'll have presentations and performances by Daupo, K. Olive McKeon, Adrian Owen, Douglas Paulson, Terence Smith, and Wynnanon, Mykietyn, & Matt. Flux Thursday usually takes place every second Thursday of the month, but not February. On Friday, February 19th we’ll be having our much anticipated Inaugural Gala instead. Come celebrate with us! We're asking for a donation of $10-20 (none turned away).
January 14th 10:00pm
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard
$8/$10; Monsters and professors collide in blood-soaked Scandinavia as this hefty poem is rescued from 1,000 years of analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous dissertation on art and violence. With an 8-piece band including dueling trombones, bass clarinet, accordion and saw, Beowulf combines Weillian cabaret, 40's jazz harmony, indie rock, punk, electronica and Romantic lieder into a cacophonous swirl.
******* Friday January 15th ******
January 15th 6:00-10:00pm
Untitled Nude @ {CTS} Creative Thriftshop, 38 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Strip down, all the way down. Untitled Nude by celebrated New York multi-media artist, Amy Greenfield sends us into a raw repertoire of three timeless short films that transcend a collective account of the physical- entangled in the natural.
January 15th 7:00-10:00pm
Group Show @ No Longer Empty, 14 E 4th Strett
Free; Invader, Joe Diebes, Josh Jordan, Kaz Oshiro, Meredyth Sparks, Naama Tsabar, Nayland Blake, Paul Villinski, R. Luke DuBois, Richard Garet, Ryan Brennan, Siebren Versteeg, Ted Riederer "Never Can Say Goodbye" curated by Asher Remy-Toledo, Manon Slome, Steven Evans. http://nolongerempty.com
******* Saturday January 16th ******
January 16th 5:00-7:00pm
Ecuadorian Renaissance of NY Opening @ Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
A lively reception kicks off the opening of the Ecuadorian Renaissance of NY at the Queens Museum of Art. The contemporary exhibition revolves around the theme of reinvention amid foreign settings. www.queensmuseum.org
January 16th 7:00-9:00pm
Josh Keyes, Saelee Oh, and Doze Green @ Jonathan Levine Gallery, 529 W 20th St, 9E
Free; John Keyes has developed an iconic and complex personal vocabulary of imagery, creating a unique juxtaposition between the natural world and man-made landscapes. His work conveys an anxious vision of what our world might become in the future as a result of current global warming predictions. Saelee Oh is an American artist of Korean descent who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her works primarily consist of drawings, paintings and cut paper, although on occasion she has also created sculptural installations and stop-motion animation. Doze Green speaks in a unique creative voice from the collective consciousness, applying a symbolist approach to metaphysical concepts.
******* Sunday January 17th ******
January 17th 2:00-5:00pm
Art's 1,000,047th Birthday @ Home of Kitty Greenwald, 85 Downing Street, Brooklyn
Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou. On January 17, 1963, Filliou celebrated the 1,000,000th Birthday of Art, which he determined was born when a sponge was dropped into a bucket of water. On January 17th, Parlour and Town Hall will be celebrating Art’s 1,000,047th Birthday, and we invite you to bring or send a gift for Art. Your gift can be anything and will be on display/ presented/ performed/ etc., documented and enjoyed by all. This event will also feature birthday cake, refreshments, games, and live feeds to other birthday parties for Art around the world. http://parlourdoor.com
January 17th 7:00pm
MANSON: The Musical @ Kraine Theater, 85 E 4th Street
$18; You've got to have a pretty twisted sense of humor to appreciate a singing, dancing Manson Family — and with tunes like "Put My Dick in Your Hand," and lots of simulated sex, it's a raunchy song and dance, too. But for plenty of us, it's hilarious. EndTimes has adapted the show from an acclaimed production by Chicago improv stalwarts the Annoyance Theater, and to great effect. Part history, part farce, the show follows the Family from beginning to incarcerated end, with ingenious interludes by Manson collaborators and buddies, such as the Beatles, the Monkees, and the Beach Boys. From Linda Kasabian to Sharon Tate and Bugliosi, the gang's all here. And they're irreverent and funny as hell.