John Wesley Harding performs this Saturday at the festival “Words and Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans.” Cannes winner Michael Haneke’s film “Das Weisse Band” (The White Ribbon) opens the Festival of European film “Cinedays” and will be opening in NYC next month. Last night at Canon Theatre, David Cronenberg interviewed Stephen King about his possible upcoming sequel to The Shining (so perhaps an upcoming film adaptation [perhaps by Cronenberg?!?—ed]) Patti Smith plays this Saturday along with Sonic Youth and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Chicago Filmmakers. In the new issue of Paris, LA, Hilton Als talks about self-portraiture. Joel Shapiro has nine new prints with Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl. John Zinsser’s Art Dealer Archipelagos, a collection of drawings by the painter, opens today at James Graham. Film The Blind Side with Kathy Bates comes to theaters today. And tonight, Jayne Anne Phillips reads from her latest novel at NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House.
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The Fishbowl Carnival: Glenn Kaino & Ryan Majestic @ the Slipper Room
In my opinion, the true test of a good magic trick is that after it’s performed, you don’t want to know how it’s done. Questions about magic tricks are like money—it’s a good feeling to have them jingling contentedly in your pocket. When I went to watch the Glenn Kaino/Ryan Majestic magic show at the Slipper Room the other night, I really didn’t have a clue what I was in for.
An Odd Couple
Anyone that can get to the UCLA Hammer Museum soon is in for a treat. Two strong yet very different shows share the upper level. Heat Waves in a Swamp: the Paintings of Charles Burchfield (October 4–January 3, 2010) is an abbreviated retrospective curated by Robert Gober and Cynthia Burlingham. In another well designed space hangs The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis (October 24–February 7, 2010).
Performa09—Week 2 Round-up
Alexandre Singh’s “The Alkahest,” Omer Fast’s “Talk Show,” Shana Moulton’s “Erratic Anthropologies,” and Tan Lin’s “Chalk Playground”/”LitTwitChalk” On Monday, November 9th, I attended the first of four performances by Alexandre Singh at White Columns gallery in the West Village. When I arrived chairs were arranged in a circle in the gallery, facing an overhead projector. As the performance began the lights went off and the audience could hear a voice starting to tell a story.
Breakout: Voices From The Inside
An installment of WNYC’s signature series The NEXT New York Conversation, Pen America’s Breakout: Voices From The Inside began with a brief introduction about Pen’s Prison Writing Program and its involvement in prisons by Jessica Hagedorn whose novels include Dream Jungle; The Gangster of Love, and Dogeaters, and then moved swiftly into readings of poems, stories, journal entries, and the memoirs submitted to Pen’s Prison Writing Competitions by incarcerated people.
Ten More Years
Yes, Williamsburg—especially Bedford Avenue—has become a tangle of overpriced boutiques, overcrowded brunch spots, and ghastly shells of half-built condos, but there are still a few establishments that make me not want to throw up my hands and move from my shoddy Lorimer St. digs to Red Hook.
Between Spaces at PS1
Acting as a signpost for a new exhibition at PS1, “Green Desert” by Heather Rowe sensitizes visitors to visual textures, literal referents, and artistic nuance, keys to experiencing much of the work that has been brought together. “Between Spaces,” a rare exhibition organized by the junior curatorial staff—namely Tim Goossens and Kate McNamara—begs viewers to pay close attention to moments of transition and liminality, which are not limited to physical space. In eight thoughtfully arranged galleries, the curators present recent work by eleven relatively young artists.
Pam Joseph Wunderlust @ Francis Naumann Fine Art Gallery
When I think of Pam Joseph’s work, I imagine standing before Bernini’s classic sculpture Pluto and Proserpina, with Pluto wrestling a naked Proserpina, while behind it as backdrop is a Victoria Secret billboard advertisement, the golden cleavage, faceless head thrown back in pleasure, blown ten-stories high in technicolor.
Breakout: Voices from Inside
Our friends at PEN America are hosting a big event next Monday, November 9, at WNYC’s Green Space to benefit PEN’s Prison Writing Program. Breakout: Voices from Inside, their second annual benefit reading and reception, featuring readings by Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, John Turturro, Patricia Smith, Jamal Joseph, Lemon Andersen, and others. As an installment of WNYC’s signature series “The NEXT New York Conversation,” this event will be broadcast and live-streamed, allowing incarcerated men and women with radio and/or internet access to listen to the event and join our audience.
Live From the New York Public Library: Is Reality Overrated? A Discussion Between Etgar Keret and Ira Glass
Before the discussion between the acclaimed Israeli writer and filmmaker, Etgar Keret and Ira Glass, the host of This American Life, a short video of a conversation between the Portuguese writer, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Paul Holdengraber, the Director of the NYPL’s Public Programs played on a screen to the left of the stage. Comprised of sketches by Flash Rosenberg, the NYPL’s artist in residence, completed during, and inspired by Antunes and Holdengraber’s conversation, the video offered a glimpse into the mind of an established writer. “Every good book,” Antunes declared in one clip. “Is a victory over death.”
Dafoemania!
David Kapp’s New Paintings will be at the Alpha Gallery until November 4th. Steven Holl Architects’ recently completed Linked Hybrid complex just won the 2009 “Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Best Tall Building Overall Award.” Carroll Dunham will be at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery until 11/5 and Eric Fischl opened at Mary Boone on 10/31. Richard Foreman’s Idiot Savant, with Willem Dafoe (also starring in von Trier’s Antichrist, but you knew that already), is playing at the Public Theater and Kenneth Lonergan’s The Starry Messenger is now playing at The New Group. Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn have a joint exhibit, Paired, Gold, at the Guggenheim Museum through 1/6. Matthew Ritchie will be at the Andrea Rosen Gallery through 12/5. Steve Earle is now touring (with y’alternative hunk Rhett Miller <3) to support his newest album Townes. Mitch Epstein will be speaking with Michael Fried, author of Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, at the New York Studio School on tonight (11/4) at 6:30pm. Karole Armitage and Lukas Ligeti’s Itutu opens tonight at BAM. Also, right around the corner from BOMB HQ, Jonathan Lethem will be reading at Greenlight Bookstore this Thursday!
Think Back, Pilgrim: Rick Snyder’s ESCAPE FROM COMBRAY
Before we even crack its cover, Rick Snyder’s first full-length, Escape from Combray, promises action. As the title references the hometown of Proust’s memorable, nameless front man, so does it hint at themes of origin and transience. Over the course of nearly 40 lean poems Snyder positions his voice as one at the stitch of our collar.
Joanna Howard’s ON THE WINDING STAIR
Joanna Howard’s dizzying tales of drowned sailors, glowing specters, reclusive dandies, and roguish pursuers start like the strike of a match: they ignite in an instant to a dazzling flame and then just as suddenly die out.
Trippy Monday
This fall’s official soundtrack to nostalgia is out now: New “supergroup” Them Crooked Vultures, which includes former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, just unleashed “New Fang,” their first single off their self-titled debut album, on to the internet. For nostalgia of a different sort: Ian McKellen (that’s “Sir Ian” to you) just got an award for his distinguished career as an interpreter of Shakespeare. Jane Campion’s Bright Star just scored four nominations for the 2009 British Independent Film Awards, one of which is sponsored by a cosmetics company (bonus!). Junot Díaz is headlining a London festival of Ibero-American literature. OsGemeos have anexhibition at a museum in Norway that is 100% bizarre-which is to say, totally normal for OsGemeos. Lucrecia Martel is on the Tiger Awards committee at theRotterdam International Film Festival. Susan Rothenberg has a show at the O’Keeffe Museum opening in January. And vertiginous to the last, Richard Serra has two new walk-through sculptures at Gagosian (the exhibition opens on the 27th).
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