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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 253: duty-free flavor
The gist of our gab is global this week as pen pals from all points east and west prove how much they care by visiting our fair city. Susie Ibarra and Yusef Komunyakaa interpret Bangkok as an unlikely shangri-la, the latest in OKAY art ships in from Europe, PEN imports literary voices from all over, some Elephant 6'd Athenians pretend to be from Montreal, the French send us three of their own (can you find them?), and everybody knows (Bush)women are from Mars. What do you get when you put a Chinese, an Italian, and an American filmmaker all in one movie? The answer is Eros. Kiss a stranger, and spread it...
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Creativity explodes when inspiration comes together at exactly the right moment. And that's just what happened at the M3 Summit in Miami. A fusion of sunshine, surf, music, and ABSOLUT, the end result was extraordinary. Get a glimpse of what happens when artists pour their souls onto canvas with this edition of flavorpill NYC — and then mix it up yourself with your own interpretation of an ABSOLUT cocktail. |
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| COMEDY |
Bob & Todd's Pen Pals!
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Tue 4.12 (8pm) |
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Marquee Theater (356 Bowery, 212.475.7621) map |
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While most of us read Dear John letters with bitter reproach in our soul and Vicodin close at hand, Bob Powers and Todd Levin revel in their comedic potential. Tonight's show, Pen Pals, belongs to the singular genre of epistolary stand-up. Missives — dismissive and otherwise — are fair game as Bob and Todd select and read from the memos, IMs, hatemail, and Post-It scraps that flutter to the floor behind us, leaving hilarity and a paper trail in our wake. Guests include lit-com celeb David Rees of GYWO, Home Land author Sam Lipsyte, and Elevator Repair Service member Colleen Werthmann. (JS)
 What is the title of Sam Lipsyte's 2001 release, which Publishers Weekly dubbed "a kind of condensed Infinite Jest"? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| LECTURE |
Pierre Huyghe
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Tue 4.12 (8pm) |
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Columbia University, Room 501 at Schermerhorn Hall (2960 Broadway, 212.854.1754) map |
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French-born artist Pierre Huyghe is best known for messing with the real. His videos juxtapose Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon with a reenactment by the real-life bank robber John Wojtowicz; stage a puppet opera illustrating Le Corbusier's development of the Carpenter Center at Harvard; and celebrate an imaginary community in the Hudson Valley. His goal is to examine the relationship of reality to fiction and remembrance to history. Tonight, the Hugo Boss Prize winner discusses his art, which he cleverly describes as "a work in progress." (MB)
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| FILM |
In the Company of Arnaud Desplechin
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Wed 4.13 - Sun 4.17 |
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BAM's Rose Cinema (30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718.636.4100) map |
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Since handily capturing international devotion in 1996 with My Sex Life...Or How I Got into an Argument — an epic-length look at the life and (many) loves of a charmingly self-destructive philosophy student — director Arnaud Desplechin has seemed perpetually poised on the threshold of critical ire. An artistic heir to the famously well-rounded Howard Hawks, Desplechin has tested the terrain of wildly different genres, with less intrepid critics not always knowing where or how to tread (cf: the underrated sangfroid period piece Esther Khan, 2000). His latest offering, Kings and Queen, beloved by all at the 2004 New York Film Festival, represents the prodigal's return to the realm of la vie moderne and its accompanying woes. (LG)
Note: A Q&A with Arnaud Desplechin follows the screening on Fri 4.15.
Which famous screen idol starred as Walter Burns in Howard Hawks' rom-com His Girl Friday? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| MUSIC: Nugazer |
M83 w/ Ulrich Schnauss
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Wed 4.13 & Thur 4.14 (9pm) |
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Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map |
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Event Info | M83 | Ulrich Schnauss |
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My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is one of those records that spawned a thousand others, most of which pale in comparison. Its guitar work is unprecedented — its sound so huge and lush most rock acts can't even come close. Fortunately, M83's Anthony Gonzalez manages to do justice to that landmark album and forward its ideas. 2004's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts sounds like MBV's electronic cousin, with synthesizers in place of guitars, but it is just as epic and gorgeous. Opener Ulrich Schnauss' work pays homage to another great shoegaze band, Slowdive, using gentle synths to create rich, digital soundscapes. (JPC)
Where did Loveless rank in Spin magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| MUSIC: Retro Rock |
Black Lipstick
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Austin is home to world famous barbeque, honky-tonk, and the highly buzzed Black Lipstick. Luckily, the Mercury Lounge affords us the chance to sample one without buying a plane ticket. In support of their sophomore release, Sincerely, Black Lipstick, the four-piece is making one stop in America before storming through Europe. Phillip Niemeyer's monotone delivery recalls Lou Reed and Stephen Malkmus, while the music harkens back to New York rock's glory days with splashes of seminal Sub Pop acts. They don't employ the four-on-the-floor formula used by numerous "it" bands, but their melodic rock nuggets certainly deserve the same attention. (JB)
Note: Sleaze-rock septet the Beeps headline.
The Beeps' Music For Awkward Situations was nominated for a Grammy in which category? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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Mark Farina
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Wed 4.13 (10pm) |
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Canal Room (285 W Broadway, 212.941.8100) map |
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$20 / $15 advance |
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After touring last year with his mentor Derrick Carter in support of their double-disc OM release, recorded during a storming session at San Francisco's club Mezzanine, Farina is flying solo again in support of volume 5 (yes, five!) of his Mushroom Jazz compilation series, which grew out of his popular party of the same name in SF. Chicago-born and West Coast-polished, Farina's sound is all nurture, fusing the raw, gritty beats of house with the stoned, jazz-inflected funk of the ocean-side set. No doubt, Farina's selections shall ride this line tonight, keeping the beats organic even as he illuminates house music's lineage of disco, R&B, gospel, and hip-hop. (JKG&MS)
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| ART: Opening |
Amy Gartrell
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Thur 4.14 (6-8pm) |
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Daniel Reich Gallery (537A W 23rd St, 212.924.4949) map |
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Tonight, in her first solo show at the always-fresh Daniel Reich
Gallery, Amy Gartrell presents obsessively crafted works with the acid
hues and visual punch of psychedelic posters from the '60s. A series of
large-scale banners offer phrases reminiscent of Jenny Holzer's truisms,
but characterized by Gartrell's nostalgia for the extreme emotionality
of adolescence. Additionally, she unveils new drawings,
including iconic portraits of unattainable high school crushes (rendered
in neon hues with geometric flourishes) and exquisite subliminal,
graphite
mirrors with barely visible imperatives like "Feel better" and "Stop
lying about
everything." (KP)
Note: This exhibition runs through Sat 5.28 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm).
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Bushwomen feat. Karen Finley, Laura Flanders, Ellen Willis, and others
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Thur 4.14 (6:30-8pm) |
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Cantor Film Center (36 E 8th St, 212.998.4100) map |
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Does thinking of Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes, and Laura Bush make you wish you had voodoo dolls and a handful of pins? Well, they get skewered tonight. The barbs come courtesy of performance artist Karen Finley, New York Times cultural critic Margo Jefferson, NYU Journalism professor and author Ellen Willis, and Air America's Laura Flanders. This roast celebrates the new paperback edition of Flanders' BUSHWOMEN: How They Won the White House for Their Man. Presidential momma Barbara Bush drops by in the person of Franklin Furnace's Martha Wilson. Bushwomen pretend to be demure; here, the gloves are off. (CM)
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| MUSIC: Folk |
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Thur 4.14 (7:30pm) |
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Satalla (37 W 26th St, 212.576.1155) map |
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$30 / $25 advance + 1 drink minimum |
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Event Info | Ramblin' Jack |
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Folk music hero Ramblin' Jack Elliott counts Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, and even Bill Clinton among his fans and followers who are prone to compare him to the likes of Walt Whitman or Woody Guthrie. This towering pillar of Americana, now over 70 years old, is a wellspring of songs, stories, jokes, sordid anecdotes, and working man's blues. Elliott's music draws on his wild life of whiskey, cowboys, bad women, East Village streets, and desert nights under the stars. This rare appearance in our fair city is a welcome event — especially because the celebrated vagabond hails from Brooklyn. (JM)
Note: Advance tickets and early arrival are advised.
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| MUSIC: Electro-Pop |
All Wrong feat. Annie
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Thur 4.14 (9pm) |
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Trinity at the Tribeca Grand Hotel (2 Ave of the Americas, 212.519.6677) map |
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Much like M.I.A., Norway's Annie has ascended to the upper echelons of
hipster-hype via the chatter of the international blogging cognoscenti.
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quickly, in fact, that Pitchfork's Top 50 Singles of 2004 ranked her
single "Chewing Gum," while her "Heartbeat" garnered the top spot
without being domesticaly available. Annie's sound can be simply described as pop
with electro undertones, but what makes this mature strain of tech-y
bubblegum so undeniably addictive is harder to pin down. With production
cameos from Richard X and Röyksopp's Torbjørn Brundtland, the
forthcoming
US release of Anniemal is a perfect mix of studio savvy and
shameless can't-get-it-out-of-your-head pop sensibilities. (CJN)
Note: Annie's live US debut tonight at the new All Wrong monthly also features James F*cking Friedman, Max
Pask, and the Misshapes DJs.
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| MUSIC: Post-Rock |
Mono w/ Asobi Seksu
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With their latest record, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, produced by nuts-and-bolts studio genius Steve Albini, it's not surprising that Japanese post-rock quartet Mono get loud. What is surprising is the manner in which they do it. While you might expect abrupt and jarring explosions à la Shellac, their noise is a dreamy crescendo, and even when there are dynamic bursts, they delicately grow out of the music rather than jaggedly dart away from it. Local openers Asobi Seksu play Stereolab-ish French cinema pop layered with shimmering shoegazer guitars. (JAC)
On their website, Mono cite the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes as an influence. Who wrote the children's book about this true story? The fifth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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Susie Ibarra & Yusef Komunyakaa: Shangri-La
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Shangri-La, as imagined by composer Susie Ibarra and Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, is a far cry from utopia.
Bangkok's rampant sex trade and attendant AIDS crisis provide the
backdrop for a detective story that touches on these and other global
issues while following a money trail down the rabbit hole. Ibarra's
inventive score for 12 musicians blends influences from Thai classical
music to the blues as well as the improvisational and jazz techniques
that she's honed as a percussionist with artists including David S.
Ware and Dave Douglas. Komunyakaa was a combat reporter in Vietnam, and
familiarity with the collision of hideous and wondrous on foreign soil
informs his libretto, and fuels this uncommon night of theatre. (PDS)
What is the title of the 1993 HBO film that dramatized the early days of the AIDS epidemic? The second correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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The Gift of Gab w/ Lateef and the Real Live Show
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The Bay Area of the late-'90s saw a surge of literate, lighthearted lyricists ripping quick-witted aphorisms over laid-back sampler-funk. Longtime purveyor of rap intelligentsia the Gift of Gab is the head of that class, both solo and partnered with producer Chief Xcel as Blackalicious. Tonight, Gab teams up with fellow Quannumite and master of ceremonies par excellence Lateef, on a bill rounded out by some homegrown Brooklyn funk courtesy of the Real Live Show. If you haven't seen the latter throwing down hard at their Nublu homebase, catch them now before they begin their own coast hopping. (DB)
What is the Gift of Gab's real name? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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We Care A Lot feat. Frankie Bones
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The people behind space-disco party Dance Idiot Dance want to remind us of the good old days: sweaty limbs, pounding bass, and a time when DJs were celebrities and celebrities weren't DJs. The Crucial Get Down and Enabler Network take up Friday-night residency behind the velvet ropes of Luke & Leroy, inviting their heroes to get this city dancing again. STORMRave creator Frankie Bones is the first headliner, fusing hard house, techno, nu-beat, and freestyle into his own brand of crowd-pleasing grooves. The bar throws in cheap well drinks and beers until midnight, and all you have to do is dance. (IB)
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| FESTIVAL: Literature |
PEN World Voices Festival
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Sat 4.16 - Fri 4.22 |
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Various locations |
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PEN doesn't sponsor many productions, but when they do — as anyone who fought their way into the mobbed State of Emergency reading last August knows — you can bet it's a knockout. No surprise, then, that the weeklong World Voices Festival is undoubtedly the literary event of the year. In a series of panels, readings, and discussions, the festival gathers an unparalleled collection of international writers to read about and opine on topics ranging from Cervantes and Czeslaw Milosz to international noir, modern love, and the efficacy of writing. The mind-boggling roster includes Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Breyten Breytenbach, Ha Jin, Edith Grossman, Adam Zagajewski, Peter Carey, Azar Nafisi, and Vaclav Havel. (JKG)
Note: Advance tickets are highly recommended as individual events are selling out fast.
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| MUSIC: Indie Rock |
Of Montreal
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Of Montreal are the most resilient of Athens, GA's psychedelic Elephant 6 collective. Since the glorious flameouts of the Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal — along with fellow Athenians Elf Power — have managed to hold the freak flag proudly aloft. As it's evolved, the band has created a personal mythology, crafting sophisticated musical gems that capture the simplicity and wide-eyed wonder of childhood on albums like The Sunlandic Twins (out this Tuesday on Polyvinyl) and 04's Satanic Panic in the Attic. Leaning heavily on anachronistic vocal harmonizing to illustrate their worldview, Of Montreal's live performance is an exercise in gleeful celebration. (BB)
Of Montreal's The Early Four Track Recordings incorporates the name of which actor into every track title? The second and third correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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HEAT: The Grime Showdown feat. Jon E Cash
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Sat 4.16 (11:30pm-4am) |
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Crash Mansion (199 Bowery, 212.982.7767) map |
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Grime/sublow — the mutant love child of UK garage and hip-hop — is growing up and entering a rite of passage with its first major domestic compilation, Run the Road. The scene is a free-for-all of raw beats and rhymes, designed more for outer-London's council estates and pirate radio broadcasts than stateside fans — but that doesn't mean you won't love it. Main player and producer Jon E Cash and his Black Ops crewmate DJ Dread D are sure to give Crash Mansion's bass bins an intense workout tonight. Birmingham, UK transplant MC Deadly Crisis (who made an appearance at February's Grime Sessions) chats on the mic and HEAT resident DJs Dinesh and Greg Poole rep NYC. (CN)
In which movie does Christian Slater play a teenager running his own pirate radio station? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event. The second, third, fourth, and fifth responses win a Box Fresh tee.
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Oneida w/ Magnolia Electric Co. and Oakley Hall
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Brooklyn's Oneida pummels listeners with psych rock rife with noisy guitar riffs and thunderous repetition. Predictably unpredictable, Oneida's musical assault is a heavy but melodically transcendent rock romp. Jason Molina, headman of Magnolia Electric Co. (formerly Songs: Ohia), weathers about as many Neil Young comparisons as Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst does Bob Dylan. This doesn't come without cause: like the elder Canadian, Molina infuses Midwestern sentimentality and nasally vocals into working-class sad songs, but with an indie mentality suitable for rockin' in Gotham. The evening opens with a country-psych hoedown of earnestly hokey stomping tunes, courtesy of ex-Oneida guitarist Papa Crazee's band, Oakley Hall. (MS)
Annie Lennox's cover of Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" appears in which Academy Award-winning film? The third and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Tribute: Leon Golub
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When Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist titled a book on artist Leon Golub Do Paintings Bite?, he was hinting at the caustic edge of Golub's
belligerent canvases — thickly painted and lacerated with a meat
cleaver. Brooklyn Rail editor Phong Bui saw the artist as an
activist, who
was acutely sensitive to global turmoil and the existential grief of
modern man. Known for forging ahead in his political, figurative style
during the heyday of abstraction and pop, Golub was an enfant terrible
who, with his wife, artist Nancy Spero, befriended the good and the
great
of the art world. This evening many of them gather here to celebrate his
powerful legacy. (JK)
Note: Other speakers include Hans Haacke, Declan McGonagle, Molly
Nesbit, Kiki Smith, and Robert Storr.
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| ART: Opening |
OK / OKAY
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Mon 4.18 (Grey Art: 5-7pm / SI: 6-8pm ) |
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Grey Art Gallery (100 Washington Sq E, 212.998.6780) & Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 212.925.2035) map |
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Event Info | Grey Art Gallery |
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Okay, the universal affirmation, becomes a metaphor for uncertainty in
OK / OKAY, a double exhibition displaying ambiguous new work from
16 European artists. Blurring the boundaries between fixed realities,
Valentin Carron and Nedko Solakov reverse the course of modernist
painting by presenting it in primitive structures, while Gabriele di
Matteo paints a nude version of the Kennedy assassination, which he
ironically titles History Stripped Bare in reference to Duchamp's
shattered masterpiece. With a twist of technology, Lara Favaretto makes
an air tank blow a paper party whistle and Werner Reiterer sets a
stuffed cat afloat with helium in The Beginning of Space Travel.
(YP)
Note: This joint exhibition continues from Tue 4.19 — Sat 7.16 at the
Swiss Institute (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) and at Grey Art Gallery (hours). Tonight's opening at the Swiss Institute is followed by an after party.
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Rhythm & Sound w/ Special Guests and François K
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Mon 4.18 & Tue 4.19 (9:30pm-3:30am) |
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Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map |
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Event Info | Rhythm & Sound |
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Enigmatic Berliners Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald have been
blazing
digi-dub trails since the early '90s as the hugely influential,
hyper-minimal
Basic Channel and Von Oswald's own Maurizio project. As Rhythm &
Sound, they've stripped the techno from their monstrous, low-end
equations
and crafted dark, steely, echo-drenched masterpieces. Reggae champions
from Horace Andy to Sugar Minott chanted down Babylon for the legendary
Bronx-based Wackies label, and the R&S boys have recently been blessing
the
world with reissues of these lost classics. Over the next two nights,
surprise guest vocalists from the Wackies roster join Rhythm & Sound to
celebrate the anniversary of François K's Deep Space night. (JL)
Horace Andy's nickname is also the name of one of the Seven Dwarfs — which is it? The third correct response wins a copy of Rhythm & Sound's See Mi Ya.
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| MULTIMEDIA |
Jim Campbell: Material Light
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Now through Sat 5.14 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) |
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Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (601 W 26th St, Ste 1240, 212.243.8830) map |
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There's a strong silence that surrounds the work of MIT-trained artist Jim Campbell. Continuing his trademark use of light-emitting diodes (LED), his images slowly flutter within the confines of their Plexiglas screens, like esoteric cousins to a Times Square billboard. Campbell programs the diodes to emit soft-focus moving imagery, such as ocean waves and urban pedestrians, alternately revealing the subject and recoiling into chiaroscuro; neither straight video nor photography, the pieces hover someplace in-between. Library, the artist's first work to include both photo and LED elements, leaves the viewer blurry-eyed and haunted by its magical effects. (NH)
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Eros
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Now playing |
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Landmark Sunshine (143 E Houston St, 212.330.8182) map |
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A three-part anthology directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar-Wai,
Eros is best savored as a languid series of
images rather than as a serious treatment of romantic
entanglements. Each section — Soderbergh's
'50s-modern tale of psychiatrist Alan Arkin analyzing
ad exec Robert Downey Jr.'s tormentingly
luscious dream; Wong's tidy take on a failing call
girl and her besotted tailor, all trembling hands and
manicured brows; Antonioni's improbable Tuscan love
triangle set wild against backdrops of sea and forest
— might not satisfy a hunger for true
revelation. Considered as a tour through a gallery of
haunting stills, however, this film outshines
everything in current cinema. (LR)
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Need an excuse to get outside and enjoy the arrival of spring? The annual MS Walks will take place with or without April showers this Saturday and Sunday to raise money for the NYC Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Manhattan MS Walk participants can choose one of three routes from 2.5 to 12.5 miles, beginning at the South Street Seaport and reaching as far as Brooklyn Heights or the West Village; Staten Island MS Walkers start out in historic Richmond Town and can walk inland or down to the boardwalk. Brunching well-wishers can show their support by sponsoring a walker to help the organization meet its goal of beating last year's record-breaking $2.6 million Walk. (IB)
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DVD REVIEW: Dig! |
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Palm Pictures
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Part rock doc, part psychological case study, part industry exposé, Dig! is captivating on so many levels that it transcends all of its individual elements. Courtesy of director Ondi Timoner, the film follows the careers of two of the West Coast's most notorious bands — the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre — over the better part of a decade, providing insider insight into their respective successes and failures, as well as the bizarre ties that bind them together. Even if you've already seen it, the DVD release provides ample reason to see it again (and again), with a full second disc of outtakes, bonus footage, videos, updates, and more, as well as a separate commentary track from each band, plus a look at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival — where Dig! rightfully took home the Grand Jury Prize. (DL)
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STREAMS: BBC Collective |
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At-work timewasters beware — it's all too easy to lose yourself in the BBC Collective. The site is a collection of music reviews with full, high-quality samples, live in-studio sessions, literary criticism, and other features. Best of all, it's interactive; members can weigh in with their verdicts and respond to the original articles. This week, check out new tracks from Tarwater's excellent The Needle Was Travelling LP, Beck and his crew invading Maida Vale's Studio Four for a live session for Zane Lowe's Radio One program, and legendary NYC graffiti artist SEEN talking with street-art curator D*Face on various issues affecting the scene. (CJN)
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Tarwater: Review and full tracks (Post-rock)
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Beck: In-studio at Maida Vale (Eclectic)
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SEEN and D*Face: Interview and commentary (Street art)
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BOOK REVIEWS: Boldtype Cities Issue |
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The latest issue of Boldtype (also a Flavorpill Productions publication) launched last week, and it's all about cities. They've handpicked three essential New York books, including a fresh read alongside a couple of fail-safe classics. Check out these indispensable big city stories, as well as reviews of many other great books.
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Angry Black White Boy
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
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The New York Trilogy
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