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From Our Beau House To Yours – 5 Things To Do To Make You Cooler in 5 Days part 3

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Thanksgiving was awesome: turkey, tofurkey, and silly dancing to Frankie Valla. Yes! Now it’s time to get your cool on again. I’m here to help you get back into the swing of things.

1. Ron Padgett & Katha Pollitt: Poems & Pints. At FRAUNCES TAVERN/ Tues, Dec. 1: 6:30 pm. 54 Pearl St at Broad. Don’t know who the girl is but Ron Padgett is what they’re slowly starting to teach high schoolers as the “New York School” of poets in the 60s. Read that as The Beats, New York style, a bit later, and instead of Allen Ginsburg we’ve got John Ashbery and he’s still around! Poetry in a bar, good marketing.

2. Andrey Vrady: Reconquista. At SPUTNIK/ Thurs, Dec. 3: 6-8 pm. 547 W 27th St, Chelsea/ Photo exhibit at the best named gallery ever. Vrady is an “artist, graphic designer, musician, and director.” He’s like a recession special! All-in-0ne. Wonder if that makes his photos sell at a discount…

3. Plant Body, Animal Body. At CAVIN-MORRIS/ Thurs, Dec. 3: 6-8 pm. 210 11th Ave, Chelsea/ Interspecies references, if you’re interested in: “anthropomorhpism, shape shifting, and metaphysical insinuation. Follow with a list of hyphenated, international selling names to give the show street cred: Gregory Van Maanen, Ignacio Carles-Tolras, Lubos Plny, Mort Golub, Christina Sefolosha (they’re just parodying my joke by now right?), Hyungsub Shin and I could go on but I’ll stop here. If anyone ever uses the phrase “metaphysical insinuation” in my presence I will send you to the School for Wayward Pretentious 20-(30+ if you’re a guy) Somethings. That’s in Williamsburg.

4. Patrick Brennan: Fazes. At DAILY OPERATION/ Sat, Dec. 5: 6 -9 pm. 103 Reade St., No 2, Tribeca/ Abstract painting with lots of hints. Look for: crosses, moons, skulls and probably Hamlet, Ethan Hawke rendition. Or just a pop art print of Ethan Hawke’s face that they’ll sell at Urban Outfitters and call it “abstract painting.” That was harsh. The artist is probably good I’m just hating on what passes for “abstract painting” these days. Glad we got that one out in the open, before the opening.

5. PSA Chapbook Fellows. At KATE’S PAPERIE/ Sat, Dec. 5: 4 pm. 8 W 13th St at 5th/ Has Jean Hartig and Idra Novey reading, who are all people I don’t know. But Lytton Smith is also featured and he’s what excites me when I think about slapping someone over the state of young contemporary poetry. This is rarely done, but since he’s a poet in NY, young, talented, (and not bad looking, hello English accent!) buy his book HERE.

-Nikki-Lee

From Our Beau House To Yours – 5 Things To Do To Make You Cooler in 5 Days Part 2

Friday, November 13th, 2009

If you don’t make the openings, the shows are there for a month. Yay.

1. The Resident Faction. At CAMEL ART SPACE/ Fri, Nov. 13: 6-9 pm. 722 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn/ Lots of Brooklyn artists, ever noticed that galleries in Brooklyn always have group shows? Too much space (than Manhattan) and too many “artists.” Too mean? Don’t care. Go get your hipster on.

2. Finding Work: Representing Labor in Contemporary Art. At GALLATIN GALLERIES NYU/ Fri, Nov. 13: 6-8 pm. 1 Washington Pl, Village/ Because who doesn’t want more recession themed art at Gallatin (“The school of individualized study”) or (“Where NYU kids go to be different and then complain that they don’t get enough credit [for their difference/uniqueness], while having a thesis photo show featuring their bike friends”)? Let’s have NYU (employee rights violator and the world’s highest tuition) curate a show about the working man, yes please! You should go to articulate this and then ask them to donate money to workers’ rights. Watch NYU security tazer you and throw you out the back door. Free food.

3. DDARK. At HOME SWEET HOME/ Sun. Nov.15: 11:30 – on. 131 Chrystie St, LES/ DJ Kingdom, Hood by Air, and DJ Fatima. I like Home Sweet Home’s chandeliers and mounted animal heads;gallery above, bar below, and I think that’s a pretty honest conceptualization for the New York art scene! Vodka on the house at 11:30 if your feelin’ partial. Also the owner looks like Johnny Depp and that makes you feel young and trendy. Glory Days.

4. German Tagle: New Empire. At ELGA WIMMER/ Thurs, Nov. 19: 5-7 pm. 526 W. 26th St, 3rd Flr, Chelsea/ Who doesn’t like Germans, mixed media, questions about culture? And let’s face it Berlin is cooler than New York nowadays, sorry.

5. Angela Strassheim, Evidence. At MARVELLI GALLERY/ Thurs, Nov. 19: 6-8 pm. 526 W. 26th St, 2nd Flr, Chelsea/ Who doesn’t like CSI? Learn how to not get caught…while making art at “Evidence” which uses forenzic techniques at original crime scenes to make money and profit art out of it. While you’re there make sure you ask a particularly pretentious-looking attendee how much the art goes for! Then ask if Strassheim donates it to crimebusters. Free champagne, wine etc and same place as above (b/c we know how your mind works).

Keep posted for some reviews/impressions/expressions of a few listed events next week.

-Nikki-Lee