Look at the $30 in your wallet. Did you realize that it’s a work of art? At least in the sense that it can stimulate your senses. Let’s start with tickling your taste buds with brunch at Freemans: Smoked trout, hard-boiled egg, horseradish cream and buttered sourdough toast is a masterpiece at only $11. Don’t dawdle staring at their impressive taxidermy collection, you’ve got art to see.
But you’re not done yet, as they (never) say in the art world: it ain’t over till the genius slices off his ear. Make one last gallery stop at Invisible Exports to check out Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s collages in “30 Years of Being Cut Up.” That’s it for the standing, but not for the art. Pay $9 at the Anthology Film Archives and watch a 35-minute portrait of Robert Indiana chomping on a mushroom in Warhol’s Eat. With your appetite stirred, grab 5 dumplings for $1.99 from Vanessa’s Dumplings and head to the National Underground for a free country gig by Jamie McLean. Wait until the set’s finished, slice off your ear and go home.
Posted in Art by Time Out Art on September 10th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
The New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem encourage you to see both the uptown exhibition of painter Hurvin Anderson and the downtown retrospective of Black Panther Emory Douglas. When you purchase a full-price ticket at one of the museums, simply bring either your New Museum admission ticket or Studio Museum admission button to the other institution and you’ll receive half-price admission. This offer is good during the entire month of September.
Elina Garanca performs in La Cenerentola at the Metropolitan Opera.
Opera La Cenerentola
Dishy Latvian mezzo Elina Garanca will win your heart in Rossini’s Cinderella story at the Metropolitan Opera.
Music in museums Jean Grae + 3beanstew + Derrin Maxwell
Raps by the outstandingly witty and incisive MC Jean Grae meet hip-hop and underground funk at New Museum.
Clubs Playtime: Spirit Catcher
The Belgian duo returns to Cielo for a session of chunky electronic-house.
Film Revanche
This Oscar-nominated drama about an on-the-lam thief avenging a dead lover works on the level of a higher-minded Death Wish.
Comedy Bill Burr
Splurge on a proper stand-up club for the acerbic, no-B.S. jokes of the frequent Opie & Anthony guest.
Theater Shakespeare Birthday Marathon
Martha Plimpton, Denis O’Hare and Michael Stuhlbarg help the Shakespeare Society wish the Bard a happy birthday at this free event.
With a lead who sings like Björk, a penchant for the quirky and light overtones of Pina Bausch–inspired dance theater, Seattle’s Degenerate Art Ensemble could be grouped into a genre I call “whimsically disturbing performance art.” The group’s particular blend of media and performance modes, which integrates original instrumental and vocal music, video and percussion-dance à la Stomp, appeared unique in the preview they gave last week at the New Museum for “Sonic Tales,” a piece set to premiere this fall in their hometown. Whatever hints of clumsiness remain in this work-in-progress, the performers are so refined that they leave no doubts about the show’s future success.
The DAE successfully elicits audience participation in the show’s soundtrack in a nonthreatening manner, at different points getting audience members to make strange noises, which the performers direct like orchestra conductors. “Sonic Tales” begins with the band’s lead, Haruko Nishimura, dressed in a red gown one would expect to see on a manga Alice in Wonderland. Beginning with a narrative thread, the plot quickly dissolves into a pure celebration of rhythm as a bar hung with pots and pans drops from the ceiling and the musicians, dressed as ninjas, attack it with their drumsticks until they turn to their next victim: our protagonist, who percussively defends herself with a pan and spatula, while gyrating on the rim of a steel hoopskirt. Next, we see a film the group shot while in New York about the adventures of Bagel Boy, a bagel who must escape the threats of ingestion and menacing schoolyard bullies (the bagel is played by one of the group’s performers, a brown man who appears in whiteface, or arguably bagelface).
Silly and spirited, the common theme of the show is the power of things small against the universe’s larger forces. Case in point are the lyrics to the song “Appetite,” which address all sorts of hunger: “33 giants in one night, and even then I finish it of with a couple of dirty films.”—David Levitz
Photos courtesy Virginia Rollison
The DAE is back in Seattle now, but check out the New Museum’s other upcoming events.
Art “The Generational: Younger than Jesus”
The New Museum’s show highlights visionaries not yet 33 years old, including a panel of Eastern Bloc–born artists.
Drink Up Raines Law Room
Relax after work in a louche lounge serving perfect pre-Prohibition classic cocktails.
Music The Books
The innovative cello-guitar duo should fit the Wordless Music series perfectly.
Theater La Didone
What happens when you splice Baroque opera and 1960s sci-fi? Only the splendid Wooster Group knows.
This Saturday at the New Museum, the Seattle art-performance band Degenerate Art Ensemble is leading a free audiovisual workshop for all ages at 3pm. Finally, here’s your chance to become a real AV geek and perform in a music video!
Recordings from this Saturday will be used in the band’s concerts at the museum on April 16 and 17.—David Levitz
Here’s a teaser from a show the group did in its hometown:
Posted in Art by T.J. Carlin on February 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
You don’t usually think of art as sitting down and having a conversation, but global issues being what they are, some people are beginning to push things in that direction, and for good reason. Our expert blogger Maya Brym spoke a couple of weeks ago with Jeremy Deller about his new project, It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, which is now on view at the New Museum and will travel to cities such as Washington, D.C., Cincinatti and New Orleans in a road trip organized by Creative Time.
There’s been a lot of buzz the past few months about the New Museum’s attempt to unseat the Whitney Biennial with a new survey of contemporary artists happening every three years, called “The Generational.”
While the title of the first edition—”Younger than Jesus“—and the opening date—April 8—has been known for some weeks, the big question has been, “Who the hell is it in?” Well, now the roster of 50 international artists can be revealed! Drumroll please…
Take advantage of the last days at the New Museum to see “C.L.U.E,” a collaborative project by artists A.L. Steiner, robbinschilds (Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins), AJ Blandford and Kinski; the group has created a site-specific installation that includes interventions throughout the duration of the show, as well as nightly projections on the outside of the museum.
Last Saturday robbinschild danced for three straight hours through the different floors of the building, “partnering” along the way with the architecture and the crowds of surprised visitors. The exhibition comes down on January 11. Peep our exclusive photos by guest photographer Kevin Dohn:
Posted in Art by T.J. Carlin on December 16th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Craft Hackers, Friday Dec 12, New Museum
Panelists: Cat Mazza, Christy Matson, Ben Fino-Radin, Cody Trepte
Organized by Marisa Olson, Rhizome curator-at-large
This New Museum panel, which featured four artists who use the Internet to expand the scope of traditional crafts like weaving and knitting, dropped a stitch or two over the course of the evening. The conversation kept getting hung up over the similarities between craft and tech, while efforts to raise other issues (the corporate ownership of data, the ego-centered nature of fine-art production) in the context of a new communal, “open-source” craft culture, unraveled. The problem may have been that the traditions being espoused here were framed in such a way as to appear beholden to new technology for cultural relevance. Perhaps it really couldn’t have gone any other way, considering that the participants, half-hidden behind individual laptops, were seated just beneath large digital projections, in a forum curated by digital-arts org Rhizome. Call it a case of reaping what you sew.—Brian Zegeer
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