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Your cultural event guide
Read our editors' weekly picks for things to do in New York. Or find more events, updated daily, on Flavorpill.com. |
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IN THIS ISSUE
May 13-19, 2008
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Last week, New York's fabled "creative underclass" took some hits. There was the alleged unmasking of graff artist Banksy by a West Village barmaid. The possible shuttering of Park Slope's yipster bar and concert spot Union Hall. And Grand Theft Auto IV continued to turn our Lower East Side twentysomethings into virtual roadkill out in Liberty City. Let's hit the rebound, shall we? Make a slam dunk. Take a picture. Guide a tour. Twist, shout, sauté, and simmer. Because really, what good is your underclass rage if you can't channel it?
- Leah Taylor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Watchdog.net
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Politics and the Internet share an uneasy alliance. But the "character" issues and PR minutiae that dominate this year's US election coverage inspired Aaron Swartz to forge a new kind of connection between the message and the medium. It's called Watchdog.net, and our sister publication Activate got the lowdown on exactly what it's trying to accomplish.
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Todd Osborn
The artist also known as Osborne drops his self-titled house and techno trip.
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FILM
Artists Using YouTube
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Tuesday May 13 (7pm)
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The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793)
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With its massive library of user-generated videos (notwithstanding some dumbfounding offenses against the English language), YouTube is a goldmine for those who take time to sift through the chaos. Tonight, artists Sue de Beer, Matthew Higgs, and Matthew Ronay show off favorite findings from their click-and-stream studies. In a follow-up Q&A with organizer Rachel Greene, they ponder how YouTube influences their own work.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MUSIC: Hip-hop
DAM w/ Rebel Diaz
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Tuesday May 13 (8pm)
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Southpaw (125 5th Ave, 718.230.0236)
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Count your lucky stars that the preeminent Palestinian hip-hop group DAM managed to get a visa to tour the US, even with an album titled Min Irhabi (Who's the Terrorist?). The three players from Lod (a mixed Jewish and Arab ghetto, 20 kilometers from Jerusalem) draw as much from the American greats as from French rap and traditional Arabic music to form their eclectic style. The anti-drug, pro-women's-rights, politically vocal group has become a global phenomenon, appearing on compilations alongside Manu Chao, Zebda, and other activist world-music icons. Chicago-based performance group/hip-hop trio Rebel Diaz open.
- Gerry Mak
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ART: Photography
New York Photo Festival
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Wednesday May 14
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Various DUMBO locations
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As March's art fairs fade from memory, fans of contemporary photography have carved out an event all to themselves. For five days in DUMBO, the New York Photography Festival rolls out a lineup of exhibitions, lectures, and events peering into "The Future of Contemporary Photography." Spread across more than a dozen locations, the schedule includes a slew of projects, curated by industry notables such as British snapper Martin Parr and former Vice photo editor Tim Barber. At a time when more pictures are taken with telephones than cameras, it's fitting that the photo industry holds its own state of the union.
- Thomas Seely
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Bonde do Role w/ the Death Set, Holy Hail, and Gang
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Wednesday May 14 (8pm)
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Club Europa (98 Meserole Ave, 718.383.2322)
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Discovered by Diplo on a trip to Rio, Bonde do Role put their stamp on baile funk with '80s guitar riffs, polyrhythmic world beats, and Portuguese raps. Following last year's departure of singer Marina Ribatski, the group has rebounded with two new singers, and its recent performance at Coachella showed that the newly mounted quartet rocks as hard as ever. For Bonde do Role's two-night stint in New York, expect to hear new songs, old hits, and covers. Baltimore electro punks the Death Set open.
- Chris Kompanek
Note: Bonde do Role also play the Bowery Ballroom on Thurday, May 15 (8pm).
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks present POOM², A Page Out of Order M to M
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Thursday May 15 (7:30pm)
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Japan Society (333 E 47th St, 212.832.1155)
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Osaka native Yoshiko Chuma and her School of Hard Knocks bring artistry and politics to their multimedia dance piece POOM², A Page Out of Order M to M. The 90-minute show is a timely, poetic exploration of the desolation and upheaval that accompanies cultural and political strife, inspired by Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1927 silent insane-asylum film, A Page of Madness. POOM² also features vocalist Sizzle Ohtaka and a shakuhachi trio, Japan's Hannya Teikoku, video by Dave Thoudam, and spoken word by Manipur's Somi Roy.
- Chris Prentice
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Suicide w/ Aa, Child Abuse, and Diako Diakoff
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Thursday May 15 (8pm)
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Club Europa (98 Meserole Ave, 718.383.2322)
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Suicide: either you think they're the bees knees or you think they're a couple of irrelevant old dudes. Their repetitive synth-and-drum-machine piss-taking isn't for everyone, but there's a lot more to Suicide than many give them credit for. With their riotous 1977 debut (they literally started a riot in Brussels), the duo sparked an avant-punk brush fire that cleared the way for the Jesus and Mary Chain, New Order, and everyone in between. Some in tonight's crowd might claim they're there for Aa or Child Abuse, but watch them do the pee-pee dance as they barely control their music-nerd euphoria when Alan Vega and Martin Rev take the stage.
- Gerry Mak
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
No Fun Fest
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Friday May 16 (7pm)
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Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3132)
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A cyclotron built to study the science and execution of noise, No Fun Fest enters its fifth year with a move from Brooklyn to the Knitting Factory — but there's no dip in the festival's intensity. Plucking 50 acts from the front lines of the contemporary avant-garde, producer Carlos Giffoni continues to do the unthinkable: make three days of often-unlistenable noise a destination for hundreds of faithful fans from all over the world. This year's biggest draw is the long-awaited reunion of Cluster, the astrally inclined Krautrock outfit that features Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, alongside acts like Religious Knives, Thurston Moore, Tony Conrad, and Hair Police.
- David Cotner
Note: Saturday night's show (featuring Cluster) is already sold out.
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FILM
Sangre de Mi Sangre
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Friday May 16
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IFC Center (323 6th Ave, 212.924.7771)
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New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de Mi Sangre, that city comes under a microscope. Pedro steals into NYC from Mexico to find his long-lost father, but is robbed of his identity by fellow émigré Pedro and then exploited by Spanish-speaking hustler Magda until he cobbles together the support he needs in the city's streets. Almost perfectly lit, and blessed with a cast so naturalistic that you forget they're acting, this is the first Spanish-language feature to ever take Sundance's Grand Jury prize — and arguably the most substantive winner in a long while.
- Lisa Rosman
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MORE FLAVOR: Parade
Dance Parade 2008
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Saturday May 17 (1–8pm)
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New York is home to an astounding variety of dance styles (what other city could spawn both voguing and breakdancing?), so it's a little surprising that the NYC Dance Parade is only in its second official year. With Bloomberg's blessing, this year's parade explodes into a seven-hour, thousands-strong city tour featuring traditional ballet performances, wild tribal ensembles, b-boy crews, salsa virtuosos, modern dancers, and many more. When you need a break from watching the seething throngs, take advantage of the free dance lessons.
- Chloe Leichman
Note: Participants must check in no later than 12:30pm on 28th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue. The parade travels down Broadway and across St Mark's Place to Tompkins Square.
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ART
Cameron Hayes
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Saturday May 17 (6–8pm)
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Ronald Feldman Gallery (31 Mercer St, 212.226.3232)
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For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of humor. His sculptural tableau of cartoonish stuffed animals, The Incomplete History of the Millikapiti, tells of the ill-fated Tiwis, who resort to domestic violence after white settlers provide them with eyeglasses. Mixing comedy, pathos, and folk-art traditions, Hayes's large-scale paintings, created in the tradition of Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, depict the surreal consequences of human interference. One work chronicles how domesticated pets bring about the demise of jungle animals in Africa, and in another, deer become dehydrated after Ivan Pavlov trains them to salivate at the sound of ringing bells.
- Adda Birnir
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
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Sunday May 18 (2, 4:30, 6:50 & 9:15pm)
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BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave, 718.636.4100)
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Cinematographer Ed Lachman doesn't have the cachet of Christopher Doyle or Vittorio Storaro, but he cuts an impressive figure nonetheless. Lachman's strength is his versatility: he's capture Fellini's in-your-face aesthetic (in I'm Not There) and a yuppie's empty excess (Less Than Zero) with equal polish. The BAMcinématek series on the cameraman continues with Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, in which Lachman adjusts his aperture to frame the Lisbon sisters' demise. The subject may be morbid, but Lachman's Polaroid-perfect shots of the Lisbons' teenaged idyll — along with Air's plaintive score — evoke a faded romanticism.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
What Is Green Architecture? feat. Christoph Ingenhoven
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Monday May 19 (7pm)
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Goethe-Institut New York (1014 5th Ave, 212.439.8700)
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"Green" means different things to different people. Architects, in particular, are motivated by an array of priorities — some aim merely to reduce carbon footprints from traditional designs while others build completely new carbon-neutral buildings altogether. For tonight's installment of the Goethe-Institut's What Is Green Architecture? series, sustainable-architecture pioneer Christoph Ingenhoven — whose most recent design is the new, zero-energy Stuttgart Main Station to be completed in 2016 — speaks his mind before sitting down for a discussion with series curator Andres Lepik.
- Gerry Mak
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra w/ Hannah Marcus
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Monday May 19 (9pm)
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Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 N 6th St, 718.486.5400)
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Composed primarily of members from Godspeed You! Black Emperor (which, sadly, remains on indefinite hiatus), Thee Silver Mt. Zion have developed a cult-like following with epic, multi-movement dirges, opulently designed CDs, and Dionysian live performances. The Montreal-based outfit's cryptic compositions are like existential gospels of the apocalypse, indicting humanity for its misdeeds while presaging a better future. Waves of frenzied guitar crash over crescendoing choral incantations, as lush string arrangements counterpoint co-founder Efrim Menuck's distinctive ululations. This evening, SMZ perform their new album, 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, in its entirety.
- Suzanne Niemoth
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ART
Neo Rauch
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Tuesday May 13 (10am–6pm)
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David Zwirner (525 W 19th St, 212.727.2070)
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Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a name that could be mistaken for a modernist movement. But the chatter falls away in front of the work itself: the core of the New Leipzig School, Rauch plays on socialist realism with markedly surreal shifts in time and subject matter. His continuous-narrative paintings merge figures with architectural elements, and change the time of day in the length of a soldier's stride — it's as though the artist is continually turning his head while choosing what to paint, and where.
- Joel Withrow
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ART: Photography
Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan
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Friday May 16 (10am–6pm)
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International Center of Photography (1133 6th Ave, 212.857.0000)
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Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese cultural norms. Riffing on clichés like bonsai trees, manga, flower arrangement, and Tokyo's hyper modernity, the photographic works showcase a self-aware cynicism, vibrant humor, and willful disregard of social mores that could not have come from an older generation of Japanese artists. Standouts include Asako Narahashi, who photographs skyscrapers while standing chest-deep in ocean waves, and Yukio Nakagawa, whose suggestive sculptural ikebana flower arrangements have been shocking Japanese audiences since the '50s.
- Adda Birnir
Note: Seven of the artists sign exhibition catalogs in the Museum Store on Friday, May 16 (6-7:30pm).
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Jake Lancaster
DEPUTY EDITOR
Leah Taylor
SENIOR EDITORS
Anna Balkrishna
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Gerry Mak
Chloe Leichman
Chelsea Bauch
Colin Nagy
Stephan Paschalides
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
Peter Stepek
Joel Withrow
IMAGE EDITORS
Sarah Steele
Adda Birnir
PUBLISHERS
Mark Mangan
Sascha Lewis
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