Daily Awesome 11/18-11/24
Naomi Huth
Recommendations for the week: Art, Advertising, Activism & Alchemy @ Wonderland and Fall, in Love @ Blank Space Gallery. See you there.
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 November 18th
THEATER/PERFORMANCE: The Commons @ The Roger Smith Hotel, Manhattan
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Thursday November 19th
FILM: 2001: A Space Odyssey @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
THEATER/PERFORMANCE: The Commons @ The Roger Smith Hotel, Manhattan
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
ART: Fall, in Love @ Blank Space Gallery, Manhattan
ART: Anthropology @ Central Booking, Brooklyn
ART/FILM: Found Objects @ BAMcafe, Brooklyn
ART/TALK: At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape @ Storefront for Art & Architecture, Brooklyn
Friday November 20th
THEATER/PERFORMANCE: The Commons @ The Roger Smith Hotel, Manhattan
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
ART/TALK: Art, Advertising, Activism & Alchemy @ Wonderland, Queens
THEATER: Little Mermaid @ Flux Factory, Queens
ART/LECTURE: Performing the Web @ Eyebeam, Manhattan
PARTY: Calvertron @ TBA Brooklyn
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Saturday November 21st
SHOPPING: SCORE! Pop Up Swap @ 3rd Ward, Brooklyn
THEATER: Little Mermaid @ Flux Factory, Queens
MUSIC: Bloodsugars Release Party @ Webster Hall, Manhattan
THEATER/COMEDY: FUCT Midnight Mustache Show @ UCB, Manhattan
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Sunday November 22nd
ART: Tim Burton Show Opens @ MoMA, Manhattan
FOOD: 1st Annual Brooklyn Pie Bake-Off Benefit @ SPACECRAFT, Brooklyn
THEATER: Little Mermaid @ Flux Factory, Queens
MUSIC: Uzuhi ‘09 US Tour Finale Party @ Don Hill’s, Manhattan
MUSIC: Talib Kweli @ Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Monday November 23rd
READING: Dread & Superficiality @ Strand, Manhattan
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
Tuesday November 24th
MUSIC: Hank & Cupcakes @ Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn
THEATER/ART/PERFORMANCE: Performa 09 @ See Website
******* Ongoing ******
November 1st-22nd
Performa 09 @ See Website
Performa 09, the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, will be held in New York City from November 1–22, 2009. The three-week festival will showcase new work by more than 100 of the most exciting artists working today, in an innovative program breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts. Presented in collaboration with a consortium of more than 40 arts institutions and 40 curators, as well as a network of 75 public spaces and private venues across the city, Performa 09 will ignite New York City with energy and ideas, acting as a vital “think tank” bringing audiences together for new performances, exhibitions, broadcasts, screening, installations and public education programs across all disciplines.
November 16th -20th 6:00pm
The Commons @ The Roger Smith Hotel, 501 Lexington Ave
Free; The Prosodic Body is beginning a new project titled The Commons with the Phoneme Choir. This event is part of a series that will take place in different locations leading to a final production in 2011. The Commons is a script/score performed by a chorus. The script/score is a narrative based on the tragic history of the Commons; it is a reparative neo-Creole that tells the story of heroic privatism as a consequence of the sonic and connotative qualities of the English language. We will develop "vocalized-movement disputes" dramatizing the dichotomy of individual vs community, the duplicity inherent in ownership in relation to the common good, and the protective interventions (or impositions) of law. The Commons is the unenclosing of human being, from top to bottom, bottom to top, inside out, outside in.
******* Thursday November 19th ******
November 19th 6:00-8:00pm
Fall, in Love @ Blank Space Gallery, 511 W 25th St, Suite #204
Free; Linda Lee Nicholas, Tanya Bell & Marc Burckhardt. BLANK SPACE provides a platform where art and fashion converge. We focus on showcasing emerging visual artists and fashion designers to promote contemporary visual culture. By encouraging innovative art practices through exhibition and events, Blank Space fosters the development of experimental art forms.
November 19th 6:00-9:00pm
Anthropology @ Central Booking, 111 Front St, Gallery 214, Brooklyn
Curated by Maddy Rosenburg
November 19th
7:30 p.m.
2001: A Space Odyssey @ Flushing Meadows Corona
Park, Queens
1968, 141 mins. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With
Keir Dullea. Nothing less than an epic vision of the history of
humanity from the clash of caveman to the space age, 2001 is Stanley
Kubrick's masterpiece, a film about space travel that was made with
the same spirit of innovation and technological bravura as the space
program itself. The film works on numerous levels, including cold-war
satire, darkly comic warning against dehumanization, and
mind-expanding journey into a new form of human consciousness, with
an abstract and mysterious final sequence that must be interpreted by
the viewer.
http://movingimage.us/site/calendar/pages/2009/index_queens_theatre_in_the_park.html
November 19th 7:30pm doors/8:00pm show
Found Objects @ BAMcafe, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn
$10; Part of the 2009
Next Wave Festival and
Between
the Lines. Looking at
how people shape places and places shape people through the lenses of
architecture, literature, and film. Featuring: Annie Coggan,
designer, Rachel Cohen, writer, Martha Cooley, writer, Sam Green &
Carrie Lozano, filmmakers, Jean-Louis Schuller, filmmaker, Srdjan
Jovanovic Weiss, architect
November 19th
7:00pm
At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape
@ Storefront for Art & Architecture, 97 Kenmar Street
Free;
This retrospective exhibition, curated by critic and writer
Jean-Francois Chevrier, presents a selection of photographic and
video works produced since 1995 that investigate a variety of
subjects ranging from the ordinary and the mundane in the urban
landscape to the human figure. Her photographs of the urban landscape
concentrate on shreds of the city: details of sidewalks, the upper
levels of buildings that pulse in and out of the margins of our field
of view.
******* Friday November 20th ******
November 20th
7:00pm doors/8:00 Talks
Art, Advertising,
Activism & Alchemy @ Wonderland, 38-0123rd Ave, Queens.
Free;
The power of public art. The problem of ubiquitous, aggressive, and
even illegal advertising. The renaissance of urban activism. The
alchemical conversion of public spaces when these concerns meet.
These four artists, with different but overlapping practices,
represent the transformative intersection of art, advertising &
activism. Speaking together for the first time ever: Jordan Seiler,
of the provocative Public Ad Campaign: replacer of advertising with
beautiful art and organizer of the staggeringly ambitious New York
Street Art Takeovers. Gabriel “Specter” Reese: the pioneering
Artist, emerging from a traditional graffiti background to become the
creator of remarkably innovative street works that deal with socially
marginalized people and places. Jason Eppink: the Urban Alchemist
transforming video ads into video art with a simple filter and
trashed chairs into treasured seating by clever relocation.
Posterchild: the incredibly prolific creator of hundreds of
conceptual and sensitive street works, including sculptural, kinetic,
robotic and interactive installations, guerrilla gardens, stencils,
and of course posters.
November 20th 8:00pm
Little Mermaid @ Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Queens
Pay-what-you-wish; There’ll be no singing along to “Under the Sea” in Neptune, a dark rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid at the Flux Factory. The latest installment of Superhero Clubhouse’s planet plays, Neptune, written by Jeremy Pickard and Brielle Korn, revolves around water and the theme of transformation. Look for a Prince William-searching Whale telling her tale at the piano. www.superheroclubhouse.org
November 20th 8:00pm
Performing the Web @ Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St
$10; As part of the citywide biennial performance art festival, PERFORMA 09, EYEBEAM presents Performing the Web featuring net art pioneers JODI's The Folksomy Project, a performative audiovisual deconstruction of YouTube; and Eyebeamers Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers' The World Series of 'Tubing, a high-energy, augmented reality game show.
November 20th 11:00pm
Calvertron @ TBA Brooklyn
$10 before 12 - $15 after;
Refuge is not just a place, but an idea that we use to fill empty
spaces with creativity and joy. It is a revolutionary spirit that
electrifies a room, a cutting edge sound that rattles our bones, and
an environment that unites us with our comrades in exile. Join us for
a bumping jam with your new best friends, lovers, and the spirit of
the Refugee. Artists, performances + colorful focused light emissions
to be announced. Dress code is sexy soviet.
http://tinyurl.com/calvertron
******* Saturday November 21st ******
November 21st
1:00-7:00pm
SCORE! Pop Up Swap @ 3rd Ward,
195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn
$3; ‘Tis the season for
sharing and exchanging. On Nov 21st, 3rd
Ward will lend its space
to a massive free exchange. Bring your old Blondie records, impulse
sample sale buys, penny loafers, Jane Fonda workout videos, harmonica
chord progression manuals, etc…and score some new treasures! Find a
holiday gift for your mom, a smashing scarf for your friend, or a
Queen Latifah cassette tape for your own personal collection. All
items are free, and all remaining goods go to charity.
November 21st 8:00pm
Little Mermaid @ Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Queens
Pay-what-you-wish; There’ll be no singing along to “Under the Sea” in Neptune, a dark rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid at the Flux Factory. The latest installment of Superhero Clubhouse’s planet plays, Neptune, written by Jeremy Pickard and Brielle Korn, revolves around water and the theme of transformation. Look for a Prince William-searching Whale telling her tale at the piano. www.superheroclubhouse.org
November 21st 9:00pm
Bloodsugars Release Party
@ Webster Hall, 125 East 11th
Street
$10; Savoir Adore up first, followed by Project Jenny,
Project Jan and then The Bloodsugars who have a special performance
planned with trumpets, strings, kangaroos, magicians...it'll be a
night to remember!
November 21st 11:55pm-1:10am
FUCT Midnight Mustache Show @ UCB, 307 W 26th St
The Midnight Mustache Show
is a special fundraising event as part of Movember!
For the month
of November, the cast and crew of FUCT will be growing out their
'staches, and collecting donations to help raise awareness and fight
cancers affecting men.So grow out your 'stache and join us at
Midnight on November 21st, or take the time to donate to this worthy
cause. For reservations or to make a donation, go to www.FUCTnyc.com
For more information on Movember and the fundraising going on
world-wide for this event, go to www.Movember.com
******* Sunday November 22nd ******
November 22nd 10:30am-5:30pm
Tim Burton Show Opens @ MoMA, 11 W 53rd St
$20; seniors $16; students $12; Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also happens to be a photographer, illustrator, and graphic artist. MoMA's retrospective delves deep inside his mind and unearths early childhood drawings, sketches from unrealized projects, and original art such as Untitled (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories), which recalls Ralph Steadman's acid-laced world.
November 22nd 1:30-4:30pm
1st Annual Brooklyn Pie Bake-Off Benefit @ SPACECRAFT, 355 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn
$10 and includes free drinks, ice cream, and two pie slice tickets; Bakers gain free admission with pie. Although only one pie is required to compete, two are recommended and can increase chances of winning the popular vote. All entries, along with an ingredients list (for allergy concerns) must be submitted by November 21st. To enter email your name and pie to brookly...@gmail.com. Be sure to point out your local ingredient! brooklynpiebake.tumblr.com
November 22nd 7:00pm
Little Mermaid @ Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St, Queens
Pay-what-you-wish; There’ll be no singing along to “Under the Sea” in Neptune, a dark rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid at the Flux Factory. The latest installment of Superhero Clubhouse’s planet plays, Neptune, written by Jeremy Pickard and Brielle Korn, revolves around water and the theme of transformation. Look for a Prince William-searching Whale telling her tale at the piano. www.superheroclubhouse.org
November 22nd 7:00pm
Uzuhi ‘09 US Tour Finale
Party @ Don Hill’s, 511 Greenwich st
$12; Guests: Lilac,
Frankie and His Fingers, Set Authority, and NoiuseuR. See you all at
the party!
November 22nd Doors 8:00pm / Show 9:00pm
Talib Kweli @ Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
$10; Ever since emerging as a member of Black Star in the late 1990s, Talib Kweli is one of the few artists making commercially viable music that matters. The Brooklyn bred rapper's hard-hitting music has been able to educate and entertain simultaneously. With Special Guests SkyZoo Jean Grae, Beatnick & K-Salaam
******* Monday November 23rd ******
November 23rd 7:00pm
Dread & Superficiality @ Strand, 828 Broadway
Free; Combine this title with 1978's Non-Being and Somethingness, and you've got the core tenets of the famed, horn-rimmed neurotic. Writer/cartoonist Stuart Hample's Inside Woody Allen — a comic series inked during the auteur's golden years in the late '70s — supplies the book's cerebral and hilarious contents. Besides finely drawn panels that compress an entire worldview, Hample's step-by-step process is also laid bare with pencil roughs, corrections, marginal notes, and even correspondence. Tonight, Hample sits down with former talk-show host and ace converser Dick Cavett
******* Tuesday November 24th ******
November 24th 6:00-11:55pm
Hank & Cupcakes @ Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
Free; Brooklyn Bowl have a
special and are giving away lanes from 6-7 pm for Free. (usually $40)
Hank & Cupcakes are playing at Brooklyn Bowl on Nov 24th at 8:30
pm. J.Viewz and Electro Morocco will playing too - They are amazing.
Free Bowling, Free Shows, Incredible Venue.