Video shot by Mandela Gregoire, edited by Elizabeth Kreutz
A lost female astronaut has wandered the streets of New York for the past two weeks. The performance piece by artist Alicia Framis is part of the art biennial Performa 09, and ironically responds to the exclusion of women from the race to the moon 40 years ago. We caught up with Framis to chat about the project and grabbed footage from her videographer Mandela Gregoire.
The lost astronaut followed instructions written by authors and artists including New Yorker writer Michael Shulman, artist and Hercules and Love Affair alum Kim Ann Foxman, and performance artist Marina Abramovic.
Although the performances are over, the astronaut’s base camp—which displays logs and photos of her excursions and architectural models of moon homes—is on view at APF Lab (15 Wooster St between Broome and Canal Sts; 212-966-0193, artproductionfund.org; daily, noon–6pm) through November 22. See more photos from the project after the jump. Read more »
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Photographs: Diana Sonis
Fancy ladies (and gents) in fancy hats. What more can we say about the Milliners Guild’s fourth annual St. Catherine’s Day Fete? Except gaze upon the exquisite glory of the handcrafted headpieces. Moved to purchase an extravagant chapeau? Peruse a list of the guild’s members here.
Take a look at this image. Isn’t it just the picture of civility? Yet take away the handcrafted headpieces and the children descend into Lord of the Flies barbarity. Such is the social benefit provided by the humble milliner.
Show your support for this most ennobling profession by donning your fanciest hat and joining the ladies of the Milliners Guild on a procession from 1025 Sixth Avenue (between 38th and 39th Streets) to Haven, for an after-party, via Bryant Park and 42nd Street at Fifth Avenue. The procession starts at 5pm and nonmembers can enter a Best Hat competition at Haven, judged by guild members. Enjoy these TheNew York Times pictures from last year, and check back here tomorrow for this year’s most resplendent chapeaus.
Tired of stiff and boring readings? Head to the Yippie Museum Cafe(9 Bleecker St at Bowery; 212-677-5918, yippiemuseum.org) at 8pm tonight for an evening of literature, video and live music from a laser harp. The event is organized by online literary magazine and collective The Fiction Circus, which brings fiction to people who otherwise might not attend a reading.
Author Chavisa Woods reads “Eye of the Tiger,” a magical-realism story inspired by Survivor’s “violent disco rock” song of the same name, with a video piece featuring artwork from Finley Kipp and stop-motion animation by Brooklyn artist Itziar Barrio. Goodman Carter plays the laser harp (fittingly called “the Beamz”), which features six laser beams that trigger different notes, and can be programmed to play virtually any sound. It requires only a musician’s hand to intercept the beams to create a soundtrack. Carter shares his own literary fiction with punk undertones, and plays the laser harp in according moods, accompanied by fellow writer Xerxes Verdammt’s work.—Laura Yan
Books Jonathan Safran Foer
The Everything Is Illuminated novelist serves up his first nonfiction book, Eating Animals, which considers the ethics of consuming meat and levels a harsh indictment of factory farms.
Music Home
Relive the late ’90s with the scrappy indie rock and wild-eyed prog of cracked-pop institution Home.
Sport Akido
Try a free lesson of this Japanese martial art that stresses coordination, not throwing people.
Your perfect Sunday is a good day to be a dead Dada rock-star artist (apart from the dead part), as you get your very own exhibition at the Jewish Museum: “Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention.” It’s a good day to be you as well, because there is the Brooklyn Chocolate Experiment to enjoy. Just to be clear, it is not an experiment to see how much chocolate one person can eat.
Fancy something savory? There’s roasted chicken to savor at Freebird Books party, celebrating the start of Independent Booksellers Week. Or if you want to chew over some performance art, Scott Keightley and Tom O’Neill produce Picasso’s Desire Caught by the Tail as part of Performa 09.
Consider yourself lucky; if you were an animal you may find your cadaver stuffed and displayed for pleasure at the Fourth Annual Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest. A dead squirrel dressed as the Pope is not having a perfect Sunday.
Comedy Comedy at KFBK
The smooth and delightfully understated Hannibal Buress brings friends and cohorts out to this new Brooklyn branch of a Manhattan staple.
Clubs Body Music
DJs Jesse Mann, Reverend Soul and their guests spin the sounds that budge your bulk, ranging from funk and jazz to disco and house, accompanied by live percussion and bass.
Shopping The Fulton Flea
The new Fulton Flea offers an eclectic mix of handmade goods, vintage products, jewelry, apparel, antiques and more from home-based artisan entrepreneurs.
It’s getting colder, but resist the temptation to burn your last $30 for warmth. Heat up by grabbing two more bods, getting moving and going out, first to Moto in Williamsburg for warm lentils sweetened with fig-and-walnut croutons and mellowed with mild queso fresco and a cup of coffee ($15 including tip).
Take a brisk walk to the craft spree BurdaStyle & STC Craft: DIY Designs, and make a donation ($3) to learn how to make a coffee cozy. Slip the cozy on to whatever body part it fits and walk down to Grand Ferry Park and take in the view across the river.
Don’t dawdle, though: You need to make it to Soundfix to catch a free set from Rough Trade’s industrious folksinger Alela Diane. As the day wears on and the sun sets, withdrawing its warmth, you’ll be wanting some of the best winter bar food. Brooklyn Bowl’s not far, and its fried chicken eight-piece platter feeds three ($22, $10 per person with tip). Aren’t you glad you brought friends?
For evening entertainment, head to free, thumping club night Crashbeat: Hopeless at the Hope Lounge with Sonic Groove veteran Reade Truth, Richard Hinge and Wurst honcho My Cousin Roy.
Reach into the back of your cupboards and you will find the start to your perfect Saturday, otherwise known as canned food. This is all you need to gain admittance to “Canstruction,” which donates the building blocks of the art on display to City Harvest once the show is finished. Another great idea that helps people (it taught us to count to 12) is Sesame Street, which gets a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
We’d like to hear Peaches do a remix of a Sesame Street song; perhaps she will tonight at her show at Terminal 5. Or, request that Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of the Hold Steady sing “If Moon Was Cookie” at Radio Happy Hour.
If you’ve got a costume, you just have to rock tonight: Your options are the baroque bash “The Return of Rococo” and the voguing competition Moda La Envidia Xtravaganza Ball.
Last week, we took a tour of Spaeth Design, the company that’s building this year’s holiday windows for Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor and Macy’s, and shot behind-the-scenes footage of Saks’s windows being built. We would love to show it to you now, but that would be like opening your presents on Christmas Eve. Instead, here’s David Spaeth and Saks fashion director for windows Steve Swirczek talking about last-minute panics from years past.
Check back after the unveiling on November 23 to follow David and Steve through the studio.
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That flash of light on your perfect Friday is your creative spark, it’s trying to metaphorically set alight Kidrobot’s newest line of customizable Munnys (above) at the Munnyworld Custom Toy Show. Start with that and mature rapidly as the day wears on, hitting your teenage years with Buffy the Vampire Slayer at Dark Shadows at Twilight: A Paley Center Vampire Weekend, and reaching sexual maturity in the evening at Tattooed and Fish Eye Fetish Sneak Preview Art Show. Finally, face death (not yours) at the improv interpretation of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr’s fatal duel in Code Duello. Live fast on your perfect Friday.
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Photographs: Caroline Voagen Nelson
Barneys revealed this year’s holiday windows today, a tribute to 35 years of Saturday Night Live, including a papier-mâché Sarah Palin. Enjoy the photos of the windows and designers putting on the finishing touches, and then impress your friends with your in-depth knowledge of the windows, thanks to TONY’s interview with creative director Simon Doonan.
Doesn’t it put you in the holiday spirit? If it does, you’ll want to start the jolly season right away.
Video shot by Roberto De Luna, edited by Karina Granda and Elizabeth Kreutz
We’ll say one thing for returning to “standard time” after daylight saving time in the summer: There are more hours of darkness to drink covertly, which is great for two reasons. The first is that as it gets colder, we just want to toss one back; and second, there’s a whole new winter drinking guide, with cozy bars, seasonal drinks, warming comfort food and more. Perfect if you’re feeling like the dude above.
Which brings us to our video. We just wanted to prove that no models were hurt, or caught hypothermia, in the making of this cover. Check out how we did it with this behind-the-scenes footage.
If you’re holiday shopping in Times Square this year and find yourself in need of relief, you may consider the following information to be of use. A well-known toilet-paper brand is setting up free restrooms on Broadway and 46th Street, opening November 23. And said company has decided to offer five $10,000 bathroom attendants brand-ambassador positions, in what can only be a ploy to garner publicity. We bit. But we did find out a servicey tidbit: If you’ve had sex in these five public bathrooms, don’t try to add the sixth in Times Square when Molly is there; she’s a prude.
We know what the Big T is all about: food. It’s the only time of the year the phrase cold turkey doesn’t give you the shakes and, let’s face it, you’ll be too stuffed to give thanks. So start planning (and perhaps dieting) now. We’ve got traditional places to take the ‘rents, nontraditional restaurants to spice up this year’s party, international flavors and turkeys on wheels (those are businesses that deliver).
Music Wolfmother
Psychedelic, hard-rock throwbacks Wolfmother lay down their new album Cosmic Egg at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Books Orhan Pamuk
The Nobel Prize winner presents his brand-new novel.
Clubs The Little Yellow Dance Machine
Pacha resident Exacta spins dark-and-dirty house at this new weekly party at the Sullivan Room.
Eat out Food52 piglet party
Not sure which recipe book to buy? Recipe site food52 has invited culinary celebs like Nora Ephron to test 16 of the year’s top cookbooks.
Theater I Got Sick Then I Got Better
Journalist Jenny Allen tells a cancer story that is remarkably free of sap, digging out comic nuggets from the medical mire.
Geek out Secret Science Club
MIT professor Leonard Guarente discusses the science of aging, and his own research into potential “longevity genes.” Once you’ve faced your own mortality, turn to the “Immortal Skol” cocktail special.
Gay Industry Night
Enjoy an endless happy hour and free games of pool at Christopher Street’s new bar for rock-&-roll-loving queers, Rockbar.
Classical New Juilliard Ensemble
As part of the Ancient Paths, Modern Voices—a three-week festival of Chinese artistry—Joel Sachs conducts the world premiere of Li Shaosheng’s Skyline on the Moon and the first western hemisphere performance of Zhu Jian-Er’s Symphony No. 4.
It’s the beginning of your perfect Sunday, and the end of the world as we know it, at least according to Googled author Ken Auletta who speaks today at the 92nd Street Y.
As our universe crumbles around us, at least we can laugh with the help of Louis C.K., or boogie down at the launch party for Dance Parade.
If the end of days puts you in a contemplative mood, then consider the passage of time at “Now and Then: Life on the Bowery.”
Art Barb Choit
These slightly altered posters bring back the ’80s. Hard.
Dance Taylor 2
In honor of the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s move to Grand Street, Taylor 2 performs Esplanade and Company B.
Classical Music at Our Saviour’s Atonement
The versatile Ensemble ACJW performs Villa-Lobos’s Quinteto em forma de chôros, Franz Hasenohrl’s Till Eulenspiegel—Einmal Anders! and Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale.
Your perfect Saturday has the ring of truthiness to it, as does the statistic that 24 percent of Americans believe news spoofs like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are replacing actual news programs as places to learn about current affairs. Colbert writers address this very point at “The Truthiness Behind the Lines.”
We hope you can handle the truth; sometimes it can be shocking, like the fact that Superman cocreator Joe Shuster illustrated a series of erotic artworks, and you can draw these superhero fetish poses at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School.
If that blows your mind, just lose it at rock & roll events like Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum or Bruce Springsteen at MSG.
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Take a look at this image. Isn’t it just the picture of civility? Yet take away the handcrafted headpieces and the children descend into Lord of the Flies barbarity. Such is the social benefit provided by the humble milliner.
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We know what the Big T is all about: food. It’s the only time of the year the phrase cold turkey doesn’t give you the shakes and, let’s face it, you’ll be too stuffed to give thanks. So start planning (and perhaps dieting) now. We’ve got traditional places to take the ‘rents, nontraditional restaurants to spice up this year’s party, international flavors and turkeys on wheels (those are businesses that deliver).
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