Editors’ Picks: April 2007
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Wednesday April 11th
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Jules de Balincourt
Parsons Fine Arts Lecture Series
Swayduck Auditorium
65 Fifth Ave.
Wed, Apr 11 - 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tickets: Free
Continuing Parsons Fine Arts Lecture series, this month’s guest artist is Jules De Balincourt.
Jules de Balincourt has been described as a painter of new American landscapes. Comparing old Europe with America, Balincourt notes: “America has a particular type of schizophrenic dysfunction that I love. My work lives from the collision of all these cultures in one place.” Born in France, Balincourt now lives and works in Brooklyn and was recently selected by curator Joao Ribas as one of the seven New York-based artists for the HangART-7 exhibition in Salzburg, Austria, entitled “New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared.” He is represented in New York by Zach Feuer Gallery.
Ticket Info: Free and open to the public
from: http://www.parsons.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=756
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Lilly Allen Afterparty at Love
w/Mark Ronson & Yo Yo
sponsored by Dazed and Confused
Wednesday, April 11th: 9pm-late
Location: Love
40 West 8th Street
(MacDougal & 6th Avenue)
Tickets: $10 before midnight (open bar til 11pm)
I know we’re gonna catch heck for posting this event but I couldn’t resist. This is quoted as the official after party for her sold out show at Irving Plaza, which reopens today as The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza. This is the inaugural show at new Irving Plaza after having been renamed and redesigned by it’s owners Fillmore in San Francisco. Anyhow, I have been tipped off that Love, the After Party venue has an excellent sounds system, so if Lilly’s lil’ hollers don’t keep you up, the beats provided by Mark Ronson, Aaron Lacrate, and Yo-Yo of Notting Hill Arts Club fame surely will.
For the early birds, Dazed & Confused Digital is having a film screening, of what I’m not sure, at 9pm + open bar til 11PM
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Friday April 13th:
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To Build A Fire
Group show curated by Yuri Masnyj
Rivington Arms
4 East 2nd Street, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10003
Opening: Friday Arpil 13th, 7-9 PM
Show continues April 13 - May 12
Gavin Anderson
Olaf Breuning
David Brooks
Eric Fertman
Matthew Day Jackson
Anya Kielar
Justin Valdes
Sara Vanderbeek
Yuri Masnyj assembles a moody mix of young artist perfectly fitting for this Friday the 13th. @ Rivington Arms.
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Saturday April 14th:
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Sea of People
A public rally and installation for climate change action, NYC
With Earth Day officially Sunday April 22nd, the people at Sea of People are rallying early this month by urging everyone to come out, support, and ask Congress to cut carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2050:
“The SEA OF PEOPLE project combines the dynamics of a mass rally with the expressive power of an interactive artistic installation. A noon rally at Battery Park (main lawn) will kick off the event. Then, thousands of participants, ideally dressed in blue, will stretch north in two columns along the projected eastern and western 10-foot waterlines that may one day redefine lower Manhattan under the ten-foot sea level rise scenario. Creating, in essence, a Sea of People! ” Sea of People Website
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Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders in Conversation
At The Rubin Museum
April 14, 2007 - 6:00 PM
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tickets: $18 includes Museum admission.
The performance artist and filmmaker in conversation. Laurie Anderson has an installation in the Rubin’s current exhibition The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama called From the Air. She and Wings of Desire director Wim Wenders exchange views on their work and world perspective. Wenders’ Paris, Texas is being screened at RMA on Friday, May 25.
more info: Rubin Museum of Art
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The Magic Flute
William Kentridge @ BAM
APR 9 & 11 AT 7:30PM
Tickects: $30, 55, 85, 110
APR 13 & 14 AT 7:30PM
Tickets: $40, 65, 100, 125
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
In German with English subtitles
In order to thin out this weeks event we slotted the Saturday performance as the one to attend. Besides, I’m sure this event has more publicity to champion even Lilly Allen meets the new Fillmore NY. William Kentridge is magical, Mozart’s opera suits him well. “Der Holle Rache kocht in meinen Herzen”, one of the most famous arias will be performed by Milagros Poblador (Queen of Night). p.s. milagros translates to miracles from Spanish, which is what it takes to get through that challenging piece.
Short YouTube interview with William Kentridge in Naples with The Magic Flute.
Also if you miss this event, you can catch a discussion with William Kentridge and Laurie Anderson at the Artist Set the Stage MoMa on April 17th. (see below for more info)
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Sunday April 15th:
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Bard Graduate Thesis Exhibitions
Sunday April 15, 2007 - Sunday April 29, 2007.
Opening reception: Sunday, April 15, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Location:
Center for Curatorial Studies
Bard College, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
845-758-7598 | ccs@bard.edu | http://www.bard.edu/ccs
Regular Museum Hours
Wednesday – Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Tickets: All CCS Bard exhibitions are free and open to the public. Limited free seating is available on a chartered bus that leaves from New York City for the exhibition opening. The bus returns to New York City after the reception. Reservations must be made in advance by calling the Center at 845-758-7598.
in someone else’s skin
Artists disclose how social and political violence manipulates and transforms individuals, often in unexpected ways. (Allora & Calzadilla, Leon Golub, Miguel Luciano, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Carlos Motta, Oscar Muñoz, Rosana Paulino)
Curated by Rebeca Noriega-Costas
Facts on the Ground
Projects that retool social, political, and historical information systems of the city. (Bernard Khoury, Sarah Oppenheimer, Sean Snyder, Spatial Information Design Lab) Curated by Amy Owen
Stutter and Twitch
Video and photographic artworks reveling in suspended time. (David Claerbout, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Nancy Davenport, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Kristan Horton, Adad Hannah) Curated by Chen Tamir
more info: Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard
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Tuesday April 17th:
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Spotlight: Artists Set the Stage
Laurie Anderson and William Kentridge
Artist Speak with Glenn D. Lowry
April 17, 2007 - 6:30 PM
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497
Tickets: $10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5 also on ticketweb.
Artists break boundaries, working in a variety of mediums and blurring the lines between them. Since the early twentieth century, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers have gone beyond traditional visual art forms and taken their artistic process to the stage, collaborating as theater and opera directors and set designers. Through presentations and a conversation moderated by MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry, performance artist Laurie Anderson and William Kentridge—director and scene designer for BAM’s spring production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute—discuss how they bring their creative process to performance.