I already put this on the arts calendar, but I wanted to put it here too to make sure people don’t miss it.
New Museum will have space in the Chelsea Art Museum on West 22nd Street (west of Dia) while their new building is being constructed on The Bowery. There will be an open house on Saturday, September 18, from 12-6 PM with free admission. I see one of the things on view is a video by the Turkish artist Fikret Atay that I mentioned before when we saw it at Apex.
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Yeah! A new show from The Civilians at P.S.122, titled Nobody’s Lunch. I’ve written about them many times before, as this Google search will show.
Obie-winning theater company The Civilians premiere their latest project Nobody’s Lunch. Delving into the politics of information, the company conducted extensive interviews to look at the problematic subject of how we gain knowledge and form beliefs in the current climate. With interviewees ranging from the Head of Policy at Homeland Security to every Jessica Lynch in the phone book (who was willing to talk), Nobody’s Lunch is a dark and eccentric ride through the landscape of American public culture.
We saw some excerpts from it at their fundraiser earlier this year. I can’t wait.
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Via Crain’s New York:
Broadway was hit hard last week when the Republican National Convention was in town.
Attendance for the week ending Sept. 5 dropped 18% to 163,977 compared with the same week last year. Box-office grosses plummeted 20%, to $10.9 million, despite the League of American Theatres and Producers’ “Unconventional Wisdom” discount ticket program. That promotion sold $215,000 worth of tickets.
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An image of Dewitt Godfrey‘s installation at Black and White Gallery, from the gallery web site:
The ones you see in the back are in the gallery’s outdoor patio space.
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In the New York Times Magazine.
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U.S. Route 66, Tucumcari, New Mexico, June, 2000
Copyright © 2000 Robert L. Jones.
While googling for something else, I stumbled across Robert Jones’s gallery of sign photographs. Check it out.
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If I were in Berlin, I would not miss this show by Stefan Saffer at müllerdechiara. We saw his work at the Whitney ISP and loved it. The work in the above photo is made of cut paper. They look like they might be metal, but they are incredibly delicate.
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Hurrah! An art post!
This looks like an interesting show from M.Y. Art Prospects:
The Secret Forest of Princess Knight:
Fantastic Landscapes from JapanSeptember 9 – October 16, 2004
Reception: Thursday, Sept. 9, 6-8pmOur exciting fall exhibition, curated by Taro Chiezo – the Tokyo & New York-based artist whose “neo-pop” work shaped Japan’s 1990’s art scene along with Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara, sheds new light on Japanese landscape art. The exhibition will present works by six individual artists and two collaborative groups. International stars and up-and-coming artists, they all share a sensitivity influenced by the manga/animation subculture widely known as “Japanimation.”
The exhibition’s title “The Secret Forest of Princess Knight” originated from the popular manga series “Ribon no Kishi (Princess Knight)” by Tezuka Osamu (1928-1989). His work, like Walt Disney’s, has made a profound impact on pop culture and contemporary art even outside Japan.
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who have added links to this site recently, don’t worry. I will probably calm down and write about things art-ish again once the evil Republicans leave Manhattan and go back to screwing us, financially and otherwise.
The Imagine Festival is a good place to find politically-oriented cultural events during this period, as is Joy Garnett’s weblog.
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