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From Our Beau House To Yours – Keepin’ You Cool in the Hot Weather

Friday, December 4th, 2009

You’re thinking, that doesn’t make much sense. I know.

But here are  some more Events for yo’ weekend, remember: gotta spend the money before it goes to rent.

1. Gotham Girls Roller Derby. At CANAL ROOM/ Sun, Dec. 6: 7-1 pm. 285 W Broadway/ Girls, roller skates, DJ, beer, ironic senses of humor, and if you ever get in a fight these are the girls you want on your side. Get your wheels on! $10 RSVP (www.grdtix.com).

2. “Impulse.” At NYCAMS/ Fri, Dec. 4: 6-8 pm. 44 W 28th. 7th Flr/ Student show and I’m showing my solidarity. If you have money, go and patron people who deserve it. Patron of the Future Arts.

3. Panache Holiday Party. At GlASSLANDS/ Sat, Dec. 5: 8 pm. S 1st and Kent, DirtyBurg/ $5 but you get to listen to Stalkers, the Beets, War Party, others. And you know what? I like The Beet’s humor, and their music, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

4. Evangelism and the Contemporary Intellectual. At NEW SCHOOL TISHMAN AUDITORIUM/ Tues, Dec. 8: 8 pm. 66 W 12th st/ OK so it’s hosted by n+1, which I will someday expound upon. For now let’s just say: you used to be cool. Go check it out while  seriously questioning the geniuses who think they can title a panel  with the words “contemporary intellectual” without sounding like Brooklyn males, early 30s, who a. didn’t finish their master’s b) finished their master’s and then never went on to do anything else in academia. Then thought: let’s start a “literary” magazine! Good job boys!

-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

From Our Beau House to Yours – 5 Things to Do To Make You Cooler in 5 Days Part 1

Friday, November 6th, 2009

So if you don’t always take advantage of all the superduper cool things in “culture capital” NYC, I’m here to help you out. The following is a list of 5 cool things to do in NYC in 5 days. Before you know it; yes, your newly cool self will be making the rounds in Chelsea and getting invited to cool art parties in Dumbo (that’s in Brooklyn).

1. Tony Feher: Blossom. At D’AMELIO TERRAS/ Sat, Nov. 7: 6 – 8 pm. 525 W. 22nd St, Chelsea/ Sculpture show, lots of pink, talk about seasons since “blossom” is the title, no snickering at overboard minimalism. While you’re there check Yoshihiro Suda in the Front Room of the gallery.

2. TL Solien: To The West. At LUISE ROSS GALLERY/  Sat, Nov. 7: 3-6 pm. 511 W. 25th St, Chelsea/ Because who doesn’t like the American West interpreted in weird colors by a guy named TL? Make sure to look down upon the underage SVA students trying to pregame their Saturday night.

3. Josephine Halvorson: Clockwise From Window. At MONYA ROWE GALLERY/ Sat, Nov. 7: 6 – 8 pm. 504 W. 22nd St, Chelsea/ Windows are the new doors man, get in on the latest “hip fad.” Free wine and PBR usually, make sure you wear skinnny jeans.

4. Tomaz Salamun, perhaps Slovenia’s finest living poet today, reads at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writer’s House/ Mon, Nov. 9: 1 -2:30 pm.  58 W.10th St btw 5th and 6th Ave. Go for a little lunchtime poetics, prove your hardcore, make fun of the severely self-important NYU creative writing program (which sponsors the event because they probably have too much money).

5. “Projection Reading Series” with Jennifer Knox, Tao Lin and others. Curated by Zachary Pace. At CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH/ Wed, Nov. 11: 8 pm. 361 Manhattan Ave, Unit 1, Brooklyn (Graham Ave, L train).  “Text projected beside…a unique sonic and visual experience of the literary arts.” Apparently, you won’t lost the “kinetic energy” audiences usually lose in a normal poetry reading experience. Whatever that means, go, wear neon, have fun.

-Nikki-Lee