Events Around Town
Valentine’s Day treat for Book Lovers
New York, NY -- Forget the traditional dinner and domestic quarrel, this February 14th 2012 bring your S.O. to the Pen Parentis Literary Salon. Hear Amelia Kahaney, Stephen Stark, and Rohr Prize winning novelist Austin Ratner read from new works. Recently a Critic’s Pick in Time Out NY and recommended by the New York Times, wine and great conversation will flow at the Libertine at Gild Hall (a Thompson Hotel at 15 Gold Street). Get a sitter: these writers all have children, but none will be in attendance. Will you? Discounts on dinner at the Libertine after the event. Admission is free, and everyone 21+ is invited to attend. 7pm start.
Listings details:
What: Valentine’s Day at Pen Parentis
Who: with Stephen Stark, Amelia Kaheney, and Austin Ratner
When: Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 at 7pm
Where: The Libertine Library at Gild Hall, 15 Gold Street at Platt in Lower Manhattan (second floor bar)
How: all trains to Fulton Street (A/C, 2/3, 4/5, J/Z) or E/PATH to WTC or R to Cortlandt Street.
Why: because you love books and want to meet great authors over wine.
Admission: free!
More details at: Pen Parentis Web Site or by Email
HEADS UP FOR NEXT MONTH:
March 10th at 7pm:
Pen Parentis presents LITERARY ROCK STARS featuring ELEANOR HENDERSON, MYFWNY COLLINS, and SUZZY ROCHE.
February 3, 2012permalink
Former Swing Space Artist Beth Gill Awarded FCA Artist Grant
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced the recipients of its 2012 Grants to Artists program, which includes former Swing Space artist Beth Gill (Dance).
Fourteen unrestricted grants of $25,000 each (a total of $350,000), are to be awarded to artists in the United States and abroad. The grantees are selected by the directors of the foundation and noted members of the arts community from confidential nominations submitted by artists and arts professionals. In addition to these grants, FCA announced that sound artist Pauline Oliveros is the recipient of the 2012 John Cage Award. The biennial, $50,000 prize was established in 1992 in honor of the late composer, a founder of FCA.
The 2012 recipients are:
DANCE
- Beth Gill, Ridgewood, NY
- Ralph Lemon, New York, NY
- Jen Rosenblit, Brooklyn, NY
MUSIC/SOUND
- Jace Clayton, Brooklyn, NY
- Rhodri Davies, Gateshead, UK
PERFORMANCE ART/THEATER
- Ei Arakawa, Brooklyn, NY
- Justin Vivian Bond, New York, NY
- Thomas Bradshaw, Evanston, IL
- Grace Schwindt, London, UK
POETRY
- Jack Collom, Boulder, CO
- Tan Lin, New York, NY
VISUAL ARTS
- Daniel Bozhkov, New York, NY
- William E. Jones, Los Angeles, CA
- Kate Millett, New York, NY
February 3, 2012permalink
Former Workspace Artist Jace Clayton Awarded FCA Artist Grant
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced the recipients of its 2012 Grants to Artists program, which includes former Workspace artist Jace Clayton (Music/Sound).
Fourteen unrestricted grants of $25,000 each (a total of $350,000), are to be awarded to artists in the United States and abroad. The grantees are selected by the directors of the foundation and noted members of the arts community from confidential nominations submitted by artists and arts professionals. In addition to these grants, FCA announced that sound artist Pauline Oliveros is the recipient of the 2012 John Cage Award. The biennial, $50,000 prize was established in 1992 in honor of the late composer, a founder of FCA.
The 2012 recipients are:
DANCE
- Beth Gill, Ridgewood, NY
- Ralph Lemon, New York, NY
- Jen Rosenblit, Brooklyn, NY
MUSIC/SOUND
- Jace Clayton, Brooklyn, NY
- Rhodri Davies, Gateshead, UK
PERFORMANCE ART/THEATER
- Ei Arakawa, Brooklyn, NY
- Justin Vivian Bond, New York, NY
- Thomas Bradshaw, Evanston, IL
- Grace Schwindt, London, UK
POETRY
- Jack Collom, Boulder, CO
- Tan Lin, New York, NY
VISUAL ARTS
- Daniel Bozhkov, New York, NY
- William E. Jones, Los Angeles, CA
- Kate Millett, New York, NY
February 3, 2012permalink
Please join The Work Office (TWO) for a Payday Party on Friday, Feb 10 at Bronx River Art Center
February 3, 2012permalink
Noguchi Museum Second Sundays Program February 12
The Noguchi Museum’s upcoming Second Sundays program is taking place on February 12 at 3 pm. In conjunction with the exhibition Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, currently on view at The Noguchi Museum, Mary Miss, one of four artists participating in the exhibition, and Eric W. Sanderson, a leading conservation ecologist and author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City, will discuss how collaboration between artists and scientists and the use of a variety of communication tools can help us better understand and respond to global warming.
WHEN
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 3pm
WHERE
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road (between Vernon Boulevard and 10th Street)
Long Island City, New York
Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum.
Contact: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org
ADMISSION
Free with Museum admission. $10 adults; $5 senior citizens and college students with valid ID; free for children under 12 and New York City public high school students with valid ID.
BACKGROUND
The Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park developed Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City in response to new development, rezoning, and an increasing residential population in the neighborhood in which the two institutions are located. They invited Ms. Miss and artists Natalie Jeremijenko, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and George Trakas—all known for their work in the public sphere—to assemble teams, including an architect or planner, to consider the future of the neighborhood, an area historically known as a place for the arts, as well as for industry and housing. The overarching goal of the project is to spark an ongoing dialogue among the creative sector, community stakeholders, and public agencies about how best to manage development. The four scenarios are on view at The Noguchi Museum through April 22, 2012. In May 2012, functional elements of each of the plans will be presented at Socrates Sculpture Park.
January 31, 2012permalink
Ginny Huo Participating in Group Show, ‘Matchmaker,’ at SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery February 2
Ginny Huo is participating in a group show called Matchmaker at SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, opening this Thursday, February 2nd from 6-8pm. Huo is a current artist-in-residence at SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery. The show is curated by Jenn Dierdorf, who is also the director of the gallery.
More information about Huo's work can be found on her website.
For details about Matchmaker, please visit the SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery.
Location:
SOHO20 CHELSEA GALLERY
547 West 27th St.
Suite 301 (Third Floor)
New York, NY 10001
Reception:
Thursday, February 2, 2012
6- 8 PM
January 31, 2012permalink
LitWorld will be celebrating World Read Aloud Day: March 7
Celebrate the Power of Words and Stories and Take Action for Global Literacy with LitWorld!
On March 7, 2012, LitWorld, a global literacy organization based in New York City, will be celebrating World Read Aloud Day. World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another, and creates a community of readers advocating for every child’s right to a safe education and access to books and technology. By raising our voices together on this day we show the world’s children that we support their future: that they have the right to read, to write, and to share their words to change the world.
World Read Aloud Day event will be held at Books of Wonder, New York City's oldest and largest independent children's bookstore, as well as the city's leading specialist in children's literature both new and old.
On March 7, 2012 we will come together at Books of Wonder for a full day of read alouds, workshops, music, activities and more!
Location: Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
To learn more about LitWorld and to register to participate in World Read Aloud Day, please visit: http://litworld.org/wrad.
January 23, 2012permalink
New York Times Reviews Past Swing Space Artist Young Jean Lee’s ‘Untitled Feminist Show’
NYTIMES THEATER REVIEW | YOUNG JEAN LEE'S 'UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW'
Beneath Pink Parasols, Identity in Stark Form
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Published: January 16, 2012
"Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation. In previous shows this Korean-American writer has devised a comic revue about black identity politics, retailored Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and taken to the stage herself to perform a cabaret act mostly about death.
Ms. Lee has said in interviews that she is motivated, in part, by scaring herself nearly to death with each new endeavor. Her latest, called “Untitled Feminist Show” and presented as part of the Coil festival organized by Performance Space 122, may well be her most daunting attempt to push her talent in a new direction. This time she has dispensed entirely with words to create a frolicsome if fuzzy riff on the female body and the female spirit, through movement (and music) alone."
Read the full article here.
January 17, 2012permalink
Former Swing Space Artist Mana Kawamura Premieres Work at Irondale Center
Former Swing Space Artist Mana Kawamura Premieres Pandora -deluxe- at Irondale Center January 26th at 7:30pm.
Pandora -deluxe-
Irondale Center
85 South Oxford Street
(between Lafayette and Fulton)
Brooklyn, NY, 11217
January 26th, 7:30pm
Pandora -deluxe- will be performed as a part of the FLIC (Feature-Length Independent Choreography) Fest, presented at The Irondale Center from January 19th through January 28th, 2012. It will be performed by Christiana Axelsen, Meredith Fages, Morgelyn Tenbeth-Ward, Suzanne Thomas and Mana Kawamura.
For tickets and more info visit Irondale's website.
January 17, 2012permalink
Workspace Artist Hugh Hayden Exhibits at Jeff Bailey Gallery
Workspace Artist Hugh Hayden exhibits in Grey Full at Jeff Bailey Gallery from January 13th- February 11th, 2012. Opening reception Friday, January 13th 6-8pm.
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W 27th St
New York, NY 10001
Jeff Bailey Gallery opens the New Year with a large group show of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography, an exhibition poised and eager to explore the color Grey in all its moody ramifications.
In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote that he had mixed 46 shades of grey that morning, just to get a feel for grey's chromatic range. Our own Jasper Johns has been a master of grey since the mid-fifties. Younger artists use grey constantly, whether as graphite, in drawing, or as a mixed color in painting.
If black is at one extreme, and white the other, does everything that falls between qualify as grey? What makes one grey warm, another cool? Does charcoal belong to black, or is it really grey? Is photography's nostalgia for black and white really a claim for the color grey? What if that rainbow is a bruise on the sky, as Nellie McKay asks in a song?
Thirty-seven artists, including Kay Rosen, Nathlie Provosty, Noah Post, Carol Diehl, Martin McMurray, Jennifer Coates, Wayne White, Audrey Stone, Cary Smith, Walton Ford, Mel Bochner and Will Yackulic–among many others–will answer these questions by bodying forth their answers in new works.
More information here.
