Friday March 2, 2012
8:30 PM
Matthew Dear, Blondes, Helado Negro
Tickets $20: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004823C459BFFA
6 Delancey Street (between Bowery and Chrystie St)
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Cindy Sherman | MoMA
February 26–June 11, 2012
Sherman began making these pictures (the b&w series above) in 1977, when she was twenty-three. The first six were an experiment: fan-magazine glimpses into the life (or roles) of an imaginary blonde actress, played by Sherman herself. The photographs look like movie stills—or perhaps like publicity pix—purporting to catch the blond bombshell in unguarded moments at home. The protagonist is shown preening in the kitchen and lounging in the bedroom. On to something, Sherman tried other characters in other roles: the chic starlet at her seaside hideaway, the luscious librarian, the domesticated sex kitten , the hot-blooded woman of the people, the ice-cold sophisticate, and others. She eventually completed the series in 1980. She stopped, she has explained, when she ran out of clichés.
Bringing together more than 170 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present. Highlighted in the exhibition are in-depth presentations of her key series, including the groundbreaking series “Untitled Film Stills” (1977–80), the black-and-white pictures that feature the artist in stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, and European art-house films; her ornate history portraits (1989–90), in which the artist poses as aristocrats, clergymen, and milkmaids in the manner of old master paintings; and her larger-than-life society portraits (2008) that address the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. The exhibition will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which will have their American premiere at MoMA.
John Chamberlain : Choices | Guggenheim
February 24- May 13, 2012
John Chamberlain was born in 1927 in Rochester, Indiana. He grew up in Chicago and, after serving in the navy from 1943 to 1946, attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time, he began making flat, welded sculptures influenced by the work of David Smith. In 1955 and 1956, Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina, where most of his friends were poets, including Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson. By 1957, he began to include scrap metal from cars in his work, and from 1959 onward he concentrated on sculpture built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together. Chamberlain’s first major solo show was held at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, in 1960.
Chamberlain’s work was widely acclaimed in the early 1960s. His sculpture was included in The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1961, the same year he participated in the São Paulo Biennial. From 1962, Chamberlain showed frequently at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and in 1964 his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. While he continued to make sculpture from auto parts, Chamberlain also experimented with other mediums. From 1963 to 1965, he made geometric paintings with sprayed automobile paint. In 1966, the same year he received the first of two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he began a series of sculptures of rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. These were followed in 1970 by sculptures of melted or crushed metal and heat-crumpled Plexiglas. Chamberlain’s work was presented in a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1971.
Tonight: Stones Fest | East Village
9:00 PM
A Night To Get Drunk And Celebrate The Music Of The Rolling Stones!!
with special guests Norah Jones, Adam Green, Jesse Malin, Nicole Atkins, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis of SNL, Jessie Baylin, The Sheepdogs, Jon Herington of Steely Dan, Jody Porter of Fountains Of Wayne, Danny Clinch and The Tangiers Blues Band, Sammy James Jr. of the Mooney Suzuki, Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, Steve Schiltz of Hurricane Bells and Longwave, Jack Dishel of Only Son, Justin Long, Antony Ellis of 5 O’Clock Heros, Jason Roberts, Todd Youth, Petter Ericson Stakee and Alec Higgins of Alberta Cross, The Uptown Horns and many many more surprise guests!!
$2 From Each Ticket Will Go To Doctors Without Borders.
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 60 countries. A private, non-profit organization, Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1971 as the first non-governmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and bear witness publicly to the plight of people it assists.
Tickets are $25
Address:
125 11th Street between 3rd & 4th ave
Milon | East Village
Milon is a Bangladesh Indian restaurant on 1st Avenue between 5th and 6th streets. When you arrive, you’ll see that there are other indian restaurants next door with the same concept (i.e. Panna II which is also good) but Milon is the one that’s upstairs on the left. Food is good, tables are a bit crowded but all in all fun restaurant to go with a few friends. Remember to bring your own drinks, as there is no alcohol served. If you’re epileptic don’t go here.
93 1st Avenue
Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria | NoHo
Il Buco Alimentari and Vineria, is around the corner from the original restaurant Il Buco and sells oils, vinegars, spices, other condiments, pastas, coffee, pastry and cured meats, most made on the premises.
Address:
53 Great Jones Street
Paula Scher: Maps | Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
12 January – February 18, 2012
Address:
505 West 24th Street
Philip Glass and Patti Smith: The Poet Speaks | Park Avenue Armory
24 February 2012
7:30 PM
These two pillars of composition and interpretation come together in a program that pays homage to the great poet and mutual friend, Allen Ginsberg. The evening consists of compositions by both Philip Glass and Patti Smith and may include such works as Footnote to Howl, Magic Psalm, Wichita Vortex Sutra, and Glass’ own Etudes #2.
As a backdrop to The Poet Speaks, Smith and Glass have worked together to curate a projected collage of images, paintings and photographs of Allen Ginsberg, illustrating the complete depth of the poet and his profound reach beyond the words that pulse through the evening.
Address:
643 Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets
Juergen Teller | Lehmann Maupin Gallery
10 February – 17 March 2012
This exhibition highlights three recent series, demonstrating Teller’s dynamic and diverse oeuvre. Featuring the controversial photographs of Kristen McMenamy, shot in the home of Carlo Mollino and seductive portraits of Vivienne Westwood, juxtaposed with intimate portraits of his family and close friends, this exhibition displays an amalgam of subjects and personalities.
Address:
201 Chrystie Street
