Daily Awesome 1/6-1/12
Naomi Huth
Are you pro or anti pants? Come
out Sunday to find out the answer. I will see you there.
On another note, if you missed the fantastic performance of Beowulf last year, you can catch it at several bars this week.
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 6th
PERFORMANCE: A Trip To Coney Island with Uncle Zero Boy @ Galapagos, Brooklyn
FILM: Five Films by Joyce Wieland @ Light Industry, Brooklyn
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Thursday January 7th
PERFORMANCE: Man Bartlett "24h Best non-Buy" @ Best Buy, Manhattan
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Friday January 8th
PERFORMANCE: Man Bartlett "24h Best non-Buy" @ Best Buy, Manhattan
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
FILM: L’eclisse (1962) @ Rubin Museum of Art, Manhattan
Saturday January 9th
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
ART/MUSIC: Saturday Sessions @ PS1, Queens
PARTY/MUSIC: Hobotech 1 Year Anniversary @ House of Yes, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: Floating Kabarette @ Galapagos, Brooklyn
THEATER: Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ The Living Room, Manhattan
Sunday January 10th
FUN: No Pants 2010 @ Five meeting points spread out all over New York City
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
ART: Pixelville @ DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
THEATER: Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ Pianos, Manhattan
Monday January 11th
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
Tuesday January 12th
ART: Rock Garden @ Salon 94 Freemans, Manhattan
THEATER: Under the Radar Festival @ Various Locations
THEATER: Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ Arlene's Grocery, Manhattan
******* 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 6th ******
January 6th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm
A Trip To Coney Island with
Uncle Zero Boy @ Galapagos, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
$10.00 or Free with RSVP to er...@galapagosartspace.com;
Step right up folks! Join vocal acrobat, comedian and East Village superhero, Zero Boy as he takes his nephew on the
ride of his life. Tour Coney
Island's past, present and
future. While you the audience, are the nephew. An audio-visual adventure
exploring America's original playground.
January 6th 7:30pm
Five Films by Joyce Wieland @ Light Industry, 220 36th Street 5th Floor
$7; Joyce Wieland’s film, presented in collaboration with X-initiative, and introduced by Emily Roysdon.
******* Thursday January 7th ******
January 7th –January 8th 6:00pm-6:00pm
Man Bartlett "24h Best non-Buy" @ Best Buy, 1 union Square
Starting Thursday, Jan 7 at 6pm, Man Bartlett will attempt to spend 24 hours in Best Buy, Union Square, without making a purchase. Man Bartlett will only eat or drink what is provided to him by those who come to visit the “performance.” Man Bartlett will remain thoughtfully engaged in the products on sale and the services offered.
******* Friday January 8th ******
January 7th –January 8th 6:00pm-6:00pm
Man Bartlett "24h Best non-Buy" @ Best Buy, 1 union Square
Starting Thursday, Jan 7 at 6pm, Man Bartlett will attempt to spend 24 hours in Best Buy, Union Square, without making a purchase. Man Bartlett will only eat or drink what is provided to him by those who come to visit the “performance.” Man Bartlett will remain thoughtfully engaged in the products on sale and the services offered.
January 8th 9:30pm
L’eclisse (1962) @ Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W 17th Street
Free with $7 bar minimum; L'eclisse has one of the most elegant codas on celluloid. Before this cool and sobering crescendo, Michelangelo Antonioni documents an affair between Eros' dream couple of Monica Vitti and Alain Delon, here playing a translator and a stockbroker. The two beauties meet after Vitti leaves a writer (Francisco Rabal), and their ensuing pas de deux — fleshed out across Rome and its monumental architecture — is more or less stamped with an expiration date. This conclusion to Antonioni's trilogy on alienation (one that loops in L'avventura and La notte) is a perfectly composed ode to modernity and its many entanglements.
******* Saturday January 9th ******
January 9th 2:00-6:00pm
Saturday Sessions @ PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens
This weekend the spotlight is on poet and photographer Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s Dada-inspired poetry slide show, Monster Island Czar, and Desi Santiago’s large-scale performances and installations influenced by New York entertainment scenes. Tie in the multi-media experiences with open studio visits and discussions with the resident architects and designers partaking in P.S. 1’s Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront.
January 9th 6:00-4:00am
Hobotech 1 Year Anniversary @
House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, Brooklyn
$20 before 11/ $10 after; For this event, we team up with the BUSHWICK PRINT LAB, an outfit led by Ray Cross, the awesome printer and designer behind
the famous Hobotech Can. From 6-11PM,
the admission is a little higher ($15 adv / $20 door) but includes a T-Shirt or
Tote Bag that will be custom printed for you on the spot. And of course, FREE
HoBrew*. From 11pm
on it's a straight-up Hobotech Bindlestick Beatdown. * $10 for booty shaking
shenanigans. Free HoBrew while it lasts! 8:00
Honne Wells: wordless banjo and blues; 9:00
Futurebum: gimme that old-time future!; 10:00
H_JUICE: d_juice brings it hobo style; 11:00
Hobotrail: Fiddle vs. Laptop Boxcar Cage Match! 12:00 Jon Margulies: Depression-Era Techno; 1:30 ATOM: Mad Funky! No Clever Description! 3:00 $mall ?hange: serious old skool hobo boogaloo; 4:00 FreeBass: Remember when all we had to make music
with was washtub, harmonica, ukelele, voice and incredibly powerful computer
software? They do.
January 9th 6:00-9:00pm
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 9th Doors 10pm/Show 10:30pm
Floating Kabarette @ Galapagos, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
Free for the first 100 people, $5 after; Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies: Bawdy Dance Sensations, Lady Rizo: Cabaret Superstar, Ekaterina The Great: The Russian Muse, Mr. Fantastic: Trapeze Adonis, Emily Season: Aerial Beauty, Ambrose: Comedic Extraordinare, And our late night sexy Kabarette starring: Legs Malone: The Girl with the 33 1/2” Inseam, Julie Atlas Muz: International Burlesque Star, Madame Rosebud: Sexy Burlesque Mistress
January 9th 11:00pm
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ The Living Room, 154 Ludlow @ Stanton
$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.
******* Sunday January 10th ******
January 10th 3:00-5:30pm
No Pants 2010 @ Five meeting points spread out all over New York City
Bring a backpack and a metro card Wear normal winter clothes (hat, gloves, etc)
All are invited to participate in the 9th Annual No Pants Subway Ride. The
event will take place at 3:00 PM
on Sunday, January 10. Everything you need to know is in this post. Please read
it carefully! You must be willing to take pants off on subway and able to keep
a straight face about it. Astoria:
Meet at Hoyt Playground; Downtown Brooklyn: Meet at Prospect Park; Downtown Manhattan: Meet at Foley Square; Uptown Manhattan: Meet at the Great Hill in Central Park; Williamsburg / Bushwick: Meet at Bushwick Park. http://improveverywhere.com
January 10th 10:00pm
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ Pianos, 158 Ludlow
$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.
******* Tuesday January 12th ******
January 12th 11:00pm
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage @ Arlene's Grocery, 95 Stanton
$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.