Lower East Side New York

Lower East Side: Then and Now Walking Tour

karcher — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:25:02 +0000

Rich in history and tradition, the synagogues of the Lower East Side during the peak years of Jewish immigration are among the most distinctive sacred sites in New York. See sites where 19th century immigrants congregated, from the spectactular to the simple. Learn how Jewish Culture is being carried on at these same sites today.

Where:
Meet at the LESJC Kling & Niman Family Visitor Center
400 Grand Street (between Clinton Street & Suffolk Street)
PLEASE NOTE THIS TOUR WILL NOT BREAK FOR LUNCH / BRING A DRINK & A SNACK TO ENJOY WHILE ON THE WALKING PORTION OF THE TOUR

Scaramouche presents: Cameron Crawford and Jibade-Khalil Huffman

karcher — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:28:27 +0000

Scaramouche is pleased to present Double-Jointed, an exhibition bringing together new and recent work by Cameron Crawford and Jibade-Khalil Huffman, both of whose practices rely on the articulation of visual ideas through language.

http://www.scaramoucheart.com

Lesley Heller Workspace presents: Jade Townsend

karcher — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:17:40 +0000

Jade Townsend: Artist Talk – Last Week of Show

Artist Talk: Saturday, May 19th, 4:30pm

Show closes Friday, May 25th

Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 presents:NOAH GUNDERSEN

karcher — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:42:09 +0000

In an era of social media and perceived self-importance, Noah Gundersen is in many ways the anithesis of his time.

Noah’s newest EP, called “Family”, pays homage to the people who have shaped his life–rather than the self-aggrandizing so common to the often homogeneous world of singer-songwriters. “Family comes in many forms,” says Noah. “It lives with us, for better and for worse. It shapes us. That’s what this album is about.”

Noah makes his New York City debut at Rockwood on May 21.

21 & Over Only

Rockwood Music Hall presents:AN EVENING W/ JOHN FANNON

karcher — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:31:50 +0000

John Fannon, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-producer of the rock band New England, brings his multi-instrumental one man show to Rockwood Music Hall.

21 & Over Only

Rockwood Music Hall presents:SWAMP CABBAGE

karcher — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:25:42 +0000

Rootsy, southern-fried blues doesn’t come much more boggy than swamp cabbage.”

Founded by Jacksonville, Florida native Walter Parks, Swamp Cabbage presents a three-piece soundtrack to a voyage through Northeast Florida palmetto thickets and Southeast Georgia gator marshes. Swamp Cabbage is true Americana roots music.

Rockwood Music Hall presents: ÓLOF ARNALDS

karcher — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:12:39 +0000

Ólöf Arnalds is a Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist. Classically educated on the violin and self-taught on viola, guitar and charango, Ólöf’s most dinstinctive asset is, nonetheless, her voice. A voice of instantly captivating, spring water chasteness possessed of a magical, otherworldly quality that is simultaneously innocent yet ancient (“somewhere between a child and an old woman” according to Björk)

Ólöf has garnered international acclaim with the release of her past three records and we are excited to welcome her back to Rockwood.

21 & Over Only

HALF GALLERY presents: Wes Lang “Here Comes Sunshine”

karcher — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:56:58 +0000

May 17—June 22, 2012

Cultural conflation is one of the purest forms of appropriation available to an artist today, bonding geography, myth and media among other fundamentals. In Wes Lang’s exhibition, “Here Comes Sunshine,” he extrapolates from a diverse range of tributaries: tattoo flash, memento mori, Cholo signifiers, Basquiat’s oil stick, Mike Kelley’s 13 Seasons, even a little Tao Te Ching. Competing influences here occasionally result in contradictory statements, a sort of paradoxical jamboree, where death is embraced – not as a hard stop – but as an eternal companion. It’s a perspective from which simple phrases, by means of their repetition, can become something more than mantras. Herein lies the leverage of lyrical thinking.

INVISIBLE-EXPORTS presents:Michael Bilsborough|Austerity|Reception

karcher — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:49:33 +0000

Through the recurring motif of a cubic lattice, Bilsborough works on translucent layers to generate dense images and complex forms. The results have optical depth, while the indelible procedural marking reveals the tests and decisions involved. Drawing is thinking. The images maintain sculptural integrity: beyond linear perspective, they also account for gravity, voids, and stress. They function as plausible models. Drawing is building. Each image requires drawing a “perfect cube” in perspective, and this learned skill, repeated, becomes a drill – a highly regulated performance. Through it, Bilsborough invents a spontaneous manipulation for the cube. Drawing is action.

In this new series, Bilsborough diverges from his signature scenes of multi-figure orgies and rituals. The cerebral conditions of Austerity Measures are mostly stripped of human figures, though the images can evoke the body. The tensile armatures appear skeletal. The precise removals and dissections seem surgical. Each aspect of the geometric structures is a “face.” And a viewer’s gaze populates the drawings, as the navigable coordinate systems appeal to the rational brain.

The drawings are models of model thinking: demonstrative, credible, multi-coordinate, resistant to inefficient obfuscating and presumptions. For the thinking individual, shaping thoughts might be the best response to a problem. After all, part of the problem might be the way one thinks.

May 11 – June 17, 2012.

Charles Bank Gallery presents: RYAN MCGINNESS

karcher — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:38:31 +0000

Exhibition runs May 4,2012- June 30, 2012.
Wednesdays through Sundays 12-7pm.
Women: Blacklight Paintings and Sculptures