tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25380997548376817792024-03-13T03:54:12.351-04:00fee's LISTNYC-based art, film, music, and totally avant-garde listings. expect something MAYJAH.b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-46260063232066281122013-09-04T08:27:00.000-04:002013-09-04T08:27:56.161-04:00fee's LIST / through 10 Sept 2013<br />
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* Kadar Brock "Dredge" @ <a href="http://theholenyc.com/">The Hole</a> / 312 Bowery. You know what I like served dredged? Sweetbreads, run through a cayenne-spiked flour and deep-fried to crispy offal deliciousness. You know what else I like dredged? A suite of new huge-ass canvases by young Kadar Brock, one of the torch-bearers for contemporary abstraction. In the past, he ripped, abraded, and sanded down paintings, and in more recent cycles he's piled, agglomerated, and swept up residue from past works into new textural marvels, landscapes of paint flecks and torn fabric like the stuff you find under your sofa after a wild night of partying, only way artsier. So: dredge, "to sprinkle or coat", also "to unearth or bring to notice" — sounds just about right to this guy.</div>
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+ Kasper Sonne "Zero Emotional Content". I think pairing this Danish artist's reductive practice, ranging from monochromes to film to installation, with Brock's historical residue makes for a study in tasty contrasts. We shall see.</div>
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* Liu Xiaodong "In Between Israel and Palestine" @ <a href="http://maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 745 Fifth Ave. Back in 2010, Liu depicted idyllic scenes of Muslim and Christian families intermingling in Yan Guan County in north-central China. Around participating in a program at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art this past spring, Liu traveled around the area, interacting with and painting the locals. That this new series includes mostly small-scale diptychs underscores the cultural divides and omnipresent tenseness in the region.</div>
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* "Parasitic Gaps", curated by Miriam Katzeff @ <a href="http://www.teamgal.com/">Team Gallery</a> / 83 Grand St. OK so take two awesome artsy connoisseurs, Margaret Lee (director of <a href="http://www.47canalstreet.com/main.php?1=&2=">47 Canal</a>) and Matthew Higgs (director and chief curator of <a href="http://www.whitecolumns.org/">White Columns</a>), and put 'em in a room together. Even better if they often show together, which they do. Add Georgia Sagri, most recently awesome for her beguiling performances and installations at the 2012 Whitney Biennial and at PS1 during EXPO this spring. Add James Hoff, 2013 artist-in-residence at famed experimental music venue <a href="http://issueprojectroom.org/">ISSUE Project Room</a>, whose individual expertise includes the intellectual history and phenomenon of earworms and involuntary audio imagery. Guess what: I'm there. You should be too.</div>
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* "Calligraffiti: 1984/2013" @ <a href="http://www.leilahellergallery.com/">Leila Heller Gallery</a> / 568 W 25th St. The gallery re-stages its potent 1984 group exhibition on mid-century abstraction, U.S. graffiti, and calligraphic artists from the Middle East and diaspora (then curated by Jeffrey Deitch) with new works and site-specific interventions, including a mural by Tunisian-French artist eL Seed.</div>
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* "Digital Expressionism" @ <a href="http://www.suzannegeiss.com/">The Suzanne Geiss Company</a> / 76 Grand St. Ben Wolf Noam organized this three-artist exhibition, including transforming the gallery space into a bunch of gradient painted columns. Meanwhile, Korakrit Arunanondchai and Greg Parma Smith take on global commerce and identity, respectively, in works involving real and digitally printed denim and oil-painted graffiti murals (again, respectively).</div>
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* Diana Copperwhite "Loose Ends" @ <a href="http://532gallery.com/">532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel</a> / 532 W 25th St. The Irish artist's stateside exhibition debut comes in collaboration with her Dublin gallery, <a href="http://www.kevinkavanagh.ie/">Kevin Kavanagh</a>. Copperwhite's brushy canvases are in full effect here, sharp chromatic stripes executed boldly over cloudy translucent fields and, in some cases, obscuring figures.</div>
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* Razvan Boar "Cameo" @ <a href="http://www.anacristeagallery.com/">Ana Cristea Gallery</a> / 521 W 26th St. I'm a fan of the young Romanian artist's sexy goth canvases of nudes emerging from perennial shadows, but count me extremely intrigued by his sorta new direction: bright colors, geometries, interspersed with outlines of pinup cuties and storybook-style illustrations.</div>
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* Vicki Sher "Always Bring Flowers" @ <a href="http://www.froschportmann.com/">frosch&portmann</a> / 53 Stanton St. You concentrate when you observe Sher's sparse vignettes, typically pencil, ink, and some sort of acrylic wash on paper, a figure here, an object there, maybe dashes of color or a line of text and that's it. In their ostensible simplicity lies an engaging irresistibility. This time, she brings transparent cotton scrim into play, creating compositions with overlapping layers and dualities.</div>
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* Mark Hundley "The Waves, The Body Alone" @ <a href="http://www.teamgal.com/">Team Gallery</a> / 47 Wooster St. I dug Hundley's 2011 solo debut at the gallery, which focused on a partially imagined past involving Joan Baez. This time, he takes Virginia Woolf's experimental novel <i>The Waves</i> as the jump-off, and while I am embarrassingly unfamiliar with this particular novel, I expect Hundley's full-experience style (constructed advertisement prints, emotive color choices etc) will make the narrative flow that much clearer.</div>
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* Nathan Carter "THE FLY-BY-NIGHT MEGA METRO SUB ROSA TURBULENT TWISTER" @ <a href="http://caseykaplangallery.com/">Casey Kaplan Gallery</a> / 525 W 21st St. From the looks of it, Carter's hyper-industrialized cities of the near future, confidently colorful and in a state of constant flux and repair, remind me a bit of Austin TX's hyperbolic construction boom. Considering the Brooklyn artist hails from Dallas, itself an exuberant hub for build! build! build!, that sort of makes sense. </div>
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* Sonya Blesofsky "Renovation" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. Blesofsky is interested in transitions in architecture, but her new series of sculpture and drawings feature concrete (sometimes, like, literally <i>concrete</i>) elements from their original subject matter, outfitting her fragile works with firm undertones.</div>
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* Cristina De Middel "The Afronauts" @ <a href="http://www.dillongallery.com/">Dillon Gallery</a> / 555 W 25th St. In the mid-'60s, there was a brief moment when Zambia was to join the U.S. and Soviet Union in launching a manned rocket to the moon, but a dearth of funding from the Zambian Government and the UN stymied the program. This very true story became the subject of de Middel's 2011 series, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and now premieres in a New York gallery.</div>
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* Texas Biennial 2013 @ <a href="http://bigmedium.org/">Big Medium</a> / 916 Springdale Road. OK, so here's the thing! The epicenter of <a href="http://www.texasbiennial.org/">TX*13</a> (can't make the star in the logo with this keyboard, dammit) excellent-ness goes down at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, which is some 30-45 minutes by automobile outside Austin proper. And that's not to forget the TX*13 commissioned project by The Dallas Collective occurring at Ballroom Marfa (in Marfa), nor the invitational four-artist show at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston — all that is happening and I'm sure all of it is awesome, once I actually visit those cities to see it for myself. What I <i>have</i> seen, however, is this "new and greatest hits" group exhibition at Big Medium in Austin, co-curated by former Biennial curators Virginia Rutledge (TX*11) and Michael Duncan (TX*09), featuring some 26 Biennial artists showing past entries and recent works. All in all, it's got some gems, and I particularly dig the contrast of old and new, like Shane Tolbert's TX*11 industrial-dyed and artist-stained fabric paired with brand-new, organically abstract (like finger-painted, almost) paintings. Or Jayne Lawrence's <i>Metamorphosis</i>-like bug-horror graphite drawing (new) vs her fabric/nature humanoid sculpture (TX*09). The Biennial proper is up through early November, but this exhibition at Big Medium runs through 28 September, so hop to it, yo.</div>
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* Matthew Day Jackson "Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue" @ <a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/">Hauser & Wirth</a> / 511 W 18th St. Yeah, alright, I may roll my eyes at the gallery press release dubbing Jackson a "modern American frontiersman", but I dig the guy, really! His hewn wood and heavy metal sculpture and mixed-media oeuvre, which I've been into since at least 2008, hit a deep emotional point that I can't quite express in words but feel, inevitably, indescribably, each time I encounter his works. Beefy automobiles, astronauts, and scholarly landmarks recur here, each with narratives personal to the artist and probably not so far away from our own respective experiences.</div>
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* Greg Haberny "Burn All Crayons" @ <a href="http://www.lyonswiergallery.com/">Lyons Wier Gallery</a> / 542 W 24th St. Haberny takes on pharmaceutical culture via his own experiences as a child with dyslexia and ADHA. "Just go draw," his teachers used to admonish him. And, brother, did he ever, so expect a signature, sensorial-overloading installation to follow.</div>
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* Charline von Heyl @ <a href="http://www.petzel.com/">Petzel Gallery</a> / 456 W 18th St. Much as I hype Kadar Brock's upcoming solo at The Hole and his contributions to contemporary abstraction (all deserved, trust me), I gotta give dap to von Heyl, who has over 20 years of boundary-crushing abstraction under her belt, including participation in this year's "Abstract Generation" group show at MoMA. I loved her 2010 solo at the gallery, and this one — her seventh solo at Petzel — should be no doubt right up my alley.</div>
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+ Allan McCollum "Plaster Surrogates Colored and Organized by Andrea Zittel". Let that title sink in for a minute. While McCollum's motif of repetitive yet entirely unique "surrogates", which he's produced since the early '80s, bears the imprint of factory production with a handmade twist, the involvement of Zittel adds another layer to the equation. She selected the colors, then McCollum and team painted his monochromatic "surrogates", then with Zittel they collated 24 "panel collections" of the entire production. A new foray into communal artist practice indeed.</div>
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* James Cullinane "Limbus" @ <a href="http://www.roberthenrycontemporary.com/">Robert Henry Contemporary</a> / 56 Bogart St, Bushwick. Animal traps copied onto Mylar, map pins as "readymade pointillist brushstrokes", lacquer-like red acrylic mixed to vary slightly between each panel, 3D vs 2D, collage vs the artist's direct hand. Lots of push-pull here.</div>
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* "LAME LEWD AND DEPRESSED" feat. Lane Hagood, Mark Flood, and Jeremy DePrez @ <a href="http://co-labprojects.org/">Co-Lab</a> / 721 Congress. Can Austin handle the mayhem? An entire show of DePrez's typically refined, patterned abstract paintings in a reduced palette of unmixed colors would be a fine statement in and of itself. Up the ante with the cross-national punk powerhouse Flood and Hagood's art-history-referential and self-referential salon style, and… well, that's one bold way to kick off the Texas gallery season. Considering Russell Etchen, manager of the beloved former Domy Books, co-presents this three-artist extravaganza, I expect we're in for something awesome. Don't sleep, Austin!</div>
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* Phil Collins @ <a href="http://tanyabonakdargallery.com/">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. No, not "that" Phil Collins. I write of the Turner Prize-winning artist, whose 2006 debut at the gallery was also my debut into that most formidable of NY exhibition spaces. I was much younger than, much dumber and perhaps somewhat better looking, but I was doubly hooked on the videos and photography of the artist who shared a name and nationality with a pop musician whom I am unashamed to dig plus on the eclectic international programming of the gallery itself. So here we are, over seven years later, definitely older and probably wiser, returning to my favorite NY gallery and to the artist who started the whole damn thing.</div>
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* Blek le Rat "Ignorance is Bliss" @ <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. LeVine's gallery comes off a major and successful celebration of graffiti power-hub Wooster Collective's 10th anniversary with a major solo exhibition of new works by the pioneering French stencil artist Blek le Rat. How hugely influential is this dude? For you scenesters, consider a quote from guerrilla artist Banksy: "every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier." Oh, and: Blek le Rat will create a public mural in the city, so get stoked for that, too.</div>
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* Carol Bove "RA, or Why is an orange like a bell?" @ <a href="http://www.maccarone.net/">Maccarone</a> / 630 Greenwich St. Bove is everywhere right now, from a major project "Caterpillar" commissioned by High Line Art to a seven-part sculpture "The Equinox" at MoMA that opened last month. So can a "mere" gallery contain her? Considering Maccarone's spacious, raw space, and what they've shown of her in the past, I'd say it's not so much "contain" as it is "blossom".</div>
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* Kim Gordon "Design Office, since 1980" @ <a href="http://www.whitecolumns.org/">White Columns</a> / 320 W 13th St. The first major survey of the rock legend and former Sonic Youth bassist/frontwoman's ongoing art practice, ahead of a monograph this fall. Gordon's first show at this space was in 1981 and called "Design Office". For the expert reader: Gordon's new noise-rock duo Body/Head unleashes a guitar maelstrom at Union Pool in Williamsburg on Tuesday, 10 September.</div>
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* David Adamo + James Castle @ <a href="http://www.peterfreemaninc.com/">Peter Freeman Inc</a> / 140 Grand St. An intriguing dialogue happening here, between Adamo's chalk floor and typically hewn-to-emaciation wood forms with historic soot drawings from Castle, selected by Adamo in close collaboration with the James Castle Collection and Archive.</div>
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* Merike Estna "spinach & banana" @ <a href="http://www.winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. In her NY solo debut, the young Estonian artist 'flips the script', as it were, crumpling her stretcherless abstract paintings around the gallery while projecting small videos on the walls. This will be a variation of a multimedia installation Estna staged at Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn) in 2012.</div>
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* Charles Gaines "Notes on Social Justice" @ <a href="http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. Ahead of his major exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem next year comes a four-part survey of Gaines' language-imbued and sociopolitical juxtaposition works. Included here are works from "Night/Crimes" (begun in '94) and the newest series, which shares the exhibition title and features musical scores dealing with political subject matter.</div>
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* Michael Raedecker "tour" @ <a href="http://www.andrearosengallery.com/">Andrea Rosen Gallery</a> / 544 W 24th St. The London-based Dutch artist hasn't had a proper show in this city since 2009, his previous, captivating exhibition at the gallery. Raedecker incorporates thread into his austere, almost monochromatic acrylic compositions, to where even glitzy subject matter like tricked-out chandeliers take on an almost sinister undertone, like "The Shining".</div>
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* Robert Polidori "Versailles" @ <a href="http://maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 541 W 24th St. Photographs from the artist's acclaimed series depicting the Château de Versailles.</div>
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* Matthew Craven "Oblivious Path" @ <a href="http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/">DCKT Contemporary</a> / 21 Orchard St. Craven curated the group show "Acid Summer" in the gallery this past, very very hot NY summer. Now it's his time to shine, revealing deliriously colorful test-pattern compositions and archaeological collages in his solo debut at DCKT. Who's up for a sweltering September?</div>
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* "The New Sincerity" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. When Wes Anderson, Lil B, and the ineffable, late great David Foster Wallace get name-dropped in a press release, you know dopeness is gonna ensue. Granted, none of the three aforementioned gentlemen have works in this show, but the duality of irony and sincerity coursing through their respective oeuvres is an apt springboard to the six artists featured here. Florian Baudrexel, Julia Rommel, Fabrice Samyn, Colby Bird, Roy McMakin, and Rosy Keyser deliver refreshing doses of relatable (and sometimes quite raw) emotion through a range of media. </div>
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+ Frank Selby "Candles and Games". Selby's debut solo in the gallery's project room provides a concise counterpoint (or deeper truth?) to the main show. His method is hyperrealistic graphite drawings on mylar, each depicting either social conflict or natural disaster but usually both, collaged deftly to heighten the emotive impact depicted within and from us, the viewers.</div>
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* Takeshi Ikeda "All Day Long" @ <a href="http://www.art-is.com/ja/aikowadagallery/">Ai Kowada Gallery</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). In his return to Tokyo after a scholarship stint in NYC, Ikeda considers experimental music and its relationship to post-Tohoku earthquake Japanese society. In other words, temporal art.</div>
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* Saori Ono @ <a href="http://www.gallery-momo.com/">Gallery MOMO</a> / 1-7-15 Kamezawa, Sumida-ku (Toei Oedo/JR Sobu to Ryogoku Station). The Tohoku devastation continues to resonate in the Japanese art scene. Ono's hometown of Fukushima was the literal epicenter of the destruction, and the odyssey of her family and their collective experience during that time culminated in a mature, hopeful shift in her naturalistic paintings.</div>
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* Nici Jost "ROSAROT" @ <a href="http://www.balzer-art-projects.ch/">balzerARTprojects</a> / Wallstrasse 10, 4051 Basel. My favorite li'l Basel gallery made the leap across the Rhine to its new location this past summer, and it inaugurates the larger space with lotsa pink. This color is Jost's signature hue, and she delivers every loaded ideology across the pink spectrum in her nostalgic and/or perception distorting video installations and photography. </div>
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* Cynthia Daignault "Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?" @ <a href="http://www.lisa-cooley.com/">Lisa Cooley</a> / 107 Norfolk St. The artist's user-interactive invite (evite?) for her upcoming solo show reads like an acutely emotive Mad Lib, concluding with the "send" button changed to "I am trying to tell you something". Meaning, is it us communicating with Daignault? Or Daignault with us? In that, though we select the words in the blanks, she set the parameters. Her own works, paintings with multiple viewpoints or showing the same setting over time, require such duality and deep investigation. Consider me intrigued.</div>
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* Raha Raissnia "Series in Fugue" @ <a href="http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/">Miguel Abreu Gallery</a> / 36 Orchard St. Raissnia is proficient in triangulating the relations between her experimental filmmaking, drawing, and painting. What does this mean. Like, uh, layering and erasing media, creating that same sort of slow flux present in her layered dual slide projections, each bearing a different frame rate. My prognosis: essential.</div>
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* "PIZZA TIME!" @ <a href="http://marlboroughchelsea.com/broome-st/exhibitions">Marlborough Broome St</a> / 331 Broome St. A group show of hot modern and contemporary artists centered around NY-style slices. What could be better? (hint: that's a majorly rhetorical question, yo) Expect that Domino's Perl script hack "Pizza Party" by Cory Arcangel and Michael Frumin, an outsized slice of "regular" by Claes Oldenburg, surrealistic food pron from Michelle Devereux, plus contributions from John Baldessari, Catharine Ahern, Reena Spaulings, and, uh, Willem de Kooning? Why not! A pizza joint installation by madcap duo Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe? We can only hope.<br />
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* Valerie Piraino "Photoplay" @ <a href="http://cindyruckergallery.com/">Cindy Rucker Gallery</a> / 141 Attorney St. I think the exhibition title is particularly apt, for in Piraino's NY solo debut, she unveils a new body of work called 'drawn sculptures' that incorporate burnishing photographic transfers onto drywall, which just sounds dope.</div>
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* Beth Dary "New Nature" @ <a href="http://www.murielguepingallery.com/">Muriel Guépin Gallery</a> / 83 Orchard St. Dary emphasizes transformation and temporality in her cross-media works, utilizing egg tempera and beeswax in organic compositions — like Yayoi Kusama under an electron microscope.</div>
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* John Houck "A History of Graph Paper" @ <a href="http://onstellarrays.com/">On Stellar Rays</a> / 1 Rivington St. Much to celebrate here: the gallery inaugurates its new location (the former Sue Scott Gallery space) and its fifth anniversary as a commercial gallery (I've clocked four of those years attending its exhibitions) with its first solo exhibition of LA-based artist Houck. For one, I'm stoked to see what the team does with this larger, 2nd-fl space, which must like double the size of its former street-level (and tiny basement) gallery on Orchard. For two, Houck's a photographer, but he's as keen on experimenting with commercial printing as he is fashioning models to snap the shots. So this could be quite dope.</div>
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* Aaron Fowler + Michael Shultis @ <a href="http://www.thierrygoldberg.com/">Thierry Goldberg Gallery</a> / 103 Norfolk. "Pirate paintings" and pillow fight scenes belie the chromatic overdose and transgressive undertones present in these two young artists' respective works. Their NY gallery debut includes a multipanel collaborative work loaded with cultural signifiers and youth culture relevance. <br />
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* Caetano de Almeida @ <a href="http://elevenrivington.com/">Eleven Rivington</a> / 11 Rivington + 195 Chrystie St. The gallery celebrates its third solo exhibition for the Campinhas, Brazil-born artist with a two-venue show, featuring large-scale watercolors and Op-tastic paintings. </div>
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* Will Rogan "Sculptures in the Wind" @ <a href="http://www.laurelgitlen.com/">Laurel Gitlen</a> / 122 Norfolk St. Subtle interventions factor into Rogan's work, be it altered or erased magazine pages, considered photographic pairings, the transience of time captured on film or, more obliquely, in sculpture — that sort of thing. Expect to spend more than a few minutes in this show. </div>
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* Shinro Ohtake @ <a href="http://www.takeninagawa.com/">Take Ninagawa</a> / 1F 2-12-4 Higashi-azabu, Minato-ku (Tokyo Metro Namboku/Toei Oedo Lines to Azabu-Juban Station, Exit 6). The most recent 10-year encapsulation of Ohtake's assemblagist and mixed-media oeuvre. He has a major installation of archival works in The Encyclopedic Palace at this year's Venice Biennale, and I am pretty stoked to see his contemporary endeavors.</div>
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* Piet Mondrian + Barnett Newman + Dan Flavin @ <a href="http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/">Kunstmuseum Basel</a> / Sankt Alban-Graben 16, 4051 Basel. I've enjoyed seeing singular works by these three abstract artists from three different generations within the museum's permanent collection, but now MoMA and the Centre Pompidou and other institutions lend their power plays on this 20th-C investigation into color, form, and space.</div>
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* John McCracken "Works from 1964-2011" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 537 W 20th St. In short, a career survey of the West Coast plank pioneer, featuring his signature propped sculptures with those succulent minimalist finishes, plus paintings and sketches to really trick out his oeuvre. A comprehensive McCracken monograph, featuring an essay by art historian and curator Robin Clark, accompanies the exhibition.</div>
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* Jean Dubuffet "Late Drawings" @ <a href="http://www.pacegallery.com/">Pace Gallery</a> / 32 E 57th St. 'Landscapes of the mind', said the late great 'low art' maestro of these like four dozen drawings from the last decade of his career. The gallery mounted an immersive exhibition of Dubuffet's final two years of works last year, but "Late Drawings" is just that: a bunch of works on paper, feverishly detailed, vibrantly colorful and figurative or elementally abstract. </div>
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* Hayv Kahraman "Let the Guest be the Master" @ <a href="http://jackshainman.com/home.html">Jack Shainman Gallery</a> / 513 W 20th St. Kahraman encapsulates the "immigrant consciousness" in her works, having lived in Iraq through Hussein's reign and subsequent U.S. intervention (and now residing in San Francisco). Her solo debut at the gallery includes boundary-blurred nudes on wood panel and linen.<br />
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* Kerry James Marshall "Dollar For Dollar" @ <a href="http://jackshainman.com/home.html">Jack Shainman Gallery</a> / 524 W 24th St. Ahead of his major traveling survey that debuts at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp in October, the Chicago-based artist takes on socioeconomics and conceptual black aesthetics through paintings and a sculptural installation of big-ass coins.</div>
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* "New Photography 2012" @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (E/M to 5th Ave, 6 to 51st St). Five young heavyweights — Michele Abeles, the duo Birdhead, Anne Collier, Zoe Crosher, and Shirana Shahbazi — invigorate classic tropes and cutting-edge techniques in photography. I am super stoked to see Abeles' newest works, and Collier's re-photography style is not to be missed, either.<br />
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* "Failed States", a reading by Jill Magid @ <a href="http://www.artingeneral.org/">Art in General</a> / 79 Walker St, 6p. What timing! On the evening of this year's first U.S. Presidential Debate, Magid addresses war-on-terror paranoia and the U.S. security state via her new nonfiction "Failed States". Daniel Kunitz, executive editor of Modern Painters, will discuss Magid's oeuvre after the reading.</div>
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* Crystal Castles + HEALTH @ <a href="http://www.roselandballroom.com/">Roseland Ballroom</a> / 239 W 52nd St (CE to 50th St), 8p/$55. I love Crystal Castles live: they convert those fractured-synth suites into thunderous anthems, and petite Alice Glass is a perfect, goth-garbed, snarling frontwoman. Their new LP III is out next month, so expect new songs performed tonight. Expect HEALTH to bring the intensity, too, as their percussion-backed noise freakouts translate to feverish jams.</div>
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* RZA "The Iron Fists Tour" @ <a href="http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/">Music Hall of Williamsburg</a> / 66 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 8p/$25. OK few shows hold a candle to a Crystal Castles/HEALTH matchup, but this is true contender. Rizza, the mighty Wu-Tang's chief producer, leads an all-star lineup of lyricists, including veterans Supernatural and some surprise guests (Ghostface? GZA?).</div>
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* Taro Shinoda "Homo sapiens sapiens" @ <a href="http://www.takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Gallery</a> / 5F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Shinoda unveils "LRTT", a film piece and part of his ongoing lunar project, plus almost two dozen related celestial paintings.</div>
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* Who the Bitch @ <a href="http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/SHELTER/">Shelter</a> / B1 Daizawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, S Exit), 7p/2500 yen. Trust me, you don't want to miss a Who the Bitch party, two fierce riot-grrrls and their Guitar Wolf-looking dude drummer. w/ FULLSCRATCH</div>
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* Wade Guyton "OS" @ <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a> / 945 Madison Ave (6 to 75th St). To say that I am anticipating hotly Guyton's printer ink-fragrant career survey at the Whitney is like saying your taste-buds inflame just a tad after consuming a ghost chile. I am super-duper STOKED, son!</div>
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* "Japanese Power Delight" kickoff tour @ <a href="http://www.paperboxnyc.com/">Paperbox</a> / 17 Meadow St, E. Williamsburg (L to Grand St), 8p/$8. This sounds insanely dope: three kickass Japanese bands—scene stalwarts Otonana Trio (ex-mems. Dynamite Club), Kansai dynamos Babylon Breakers, and cartoon mashup Gelatine (actually based in NY)—collide w/ two local acts, Brooklyn's Hard Nips and Planet Peelander (actually East Asia/NYC) cuties PeeWonder-Z, in one night of rocking hard. Turning Japanese, are you?</div>
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* Weekend @ <a href="http://toddpnyc.com/">285 Kent Ave</a>, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$8. West Coast feedback fiends Weekend will barrage you straight into next week with their mile-long guitars and glorious, MBV+ soundscapes. w/ Cold Showers</div>
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* Ann Wood "Violent Delights" @ <a href="http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/">Women & Their Work</a> / 1710 Lavaca St. Wood gets crafty, pairing topiaries and taxidermy, plastic jewels and industrial accents, in a decadent exhibition of death and the hunt.</div>
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* Reiko Imoto "Miniascape Window" @ <a href="http://www.tosei-sha.jp/index_e.html">Gallery TOSEI</a> / 5-18-20 Chuo, Nagano-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Shin-Nakao Station, Exit 1-2). A personalized world as seen cropped through a camera's viewfinder. Imoto takes us into those worlds in a series of beautiful gelatin silver prints. </div>
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* "Picasso Black & White" @ <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/">Guggenheim</a> / 1071 Fifth Ave (456 to 86th St). So the Metropolitan Museum, a few blocks south, staged an overblown and relatively bland Warhol exhibition. Trust in the Gugg to tune the focus on an artist equally known into something very special. This is a full-career look at Pablo Picasso's exploration of b&w and sultry gray, from Cubism, austere portraiture, sex, sculpture, and much more. It sounds exquisite.<br />
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* Noah Becker + David Goodman "No Age" @ <a href="http://www.launchf18.com/Home.html">Launch F18</a> / 373 Broadway, 6 Fl. NY/Canadian Becker does emotively realistic portraiture. LESider Goodman shatters contemporary art tropes with his "new painting" virtuosity. I am stoked to see how their respective works play off one another and commend this newish Tribeca space for making it happen. A LIST must-see.</div>
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* "V/H/S" (various dirs, 2012) @ <a href="http://landmarktheatres.com/Market/NewYork/NewYork_frameset.htm">Sunshine Cinema</a> / 143 E Houston St (F to 2nd Ave). Reactions in the horror community have been mixed to this new found-footage scare suite, but considering the directors' pedigree — Ti West, Adam Wingard, Joe Swanberg, David Bruckner, Gleen McQuaid, and Radio Silence — I'm willing to bet the dope outweighs the lame.</div>
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* Demdike Stare + Andy Stott @ <a href="http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/">Public Assembly</a> / 70 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 10p/$20. I've been counting the days since this Modern Love showcase was announced. If you can get into dense and cryptic techno, Lynch-ian soundscapes and ethereal beats, you'll love this night. Demdike Stare's duo Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty trade DJ sets before their headlining live act.</div>
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* Jennifer Caine & Joshua Goode "Trajan's Column" @ <a href="http://www.bigmedium.org/gallery_current.htm">Big Medium</a> / 5305 Bolm Road #12. I'm a fan of that all too rare feat of skillful light-sculpting, taking the ethereal and evanescent and displaying it in a very physical — yet still quite emotive — way. Think Anthony McCall and James Turrell. I think the product of Caine and Goode's collaboration, containing an enormous hexagonal column of light via household goods, is akin to trapping a ray of sunshine, just as warming but far grander in scale.<br />
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* GZA + Killer Mike @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 8p/$20. NICE. Two of my favorite lyricists — Shaolin vet GZA ("Liquid Swords" forever) and younger man-mountain outta Brooklyn Killer Mike (his latest LP "R.A.P. Music" is perfect) — school the live music capital of the world. What's it take to be an MC? Class is in session!</div>
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* Satoshi Uchiumi "Square and Round Vessel" @ <a href="http://www.artfrontgallery.com/">Art Front Gallery</a> / Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku (JR Lines etc to Shibuya). Uchiumi participated in a rather transcendent group exhibition, "My Place Our Scenery", at MA2 Gallery this past summer. I'm interested in how he explores space in this exhibition, featuring vividly colored prints.</div>
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* "The Long Hair of Death" (dir. Antonio Margheriti, 1964) screening @ <a href="http://spectacletheater.com/">Spectacle</a> / 124 S 3rd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 7:30p. The consummate pre-Giallo Italian classic. One one side we have Fellini and Antonioni doing their Modernist thing. On the other, we have Mario Bava and Margheriti promoting blood-curdling Goth, like this mid-'60s beauty. Young Helen's mom is burned at the stake, then Helen herself is killed by a sex-deprived Count. So what does she do? Come back from the dead a year later to exact revenge!</div>
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* Grimes @ <a href="http://www.emosaustin.com/">Emos</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 10p/$17. Pint-sized producer/singer Claire "Grimes" Boucher is a powerhouse on the stage. Surrounded by synths, she discharges cyborg-pop beats while managing to look awesome and sing damn well, like a possessed faerie. Get enchanted tonight.</div>
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* Hollis Brown Thornton @ <a href="http://aishomiura.com/">Aisho Miura Arts</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). The young S. Carolina "vintage" painter's debut solo in Japan happens to occur at one of my favorite edgy galleries. Stoked about this!</div>
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* Masahiko Kuwahara "Only in Dreams" @ <a href="http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/">Tomio Koyama Gallery</a> / 7F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station). Koyama's Singapore branch features Kuwahara in a trio show w/ Japanese heavyweights Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito. In Tokyo, we get his dreamlike waifs and fauna all to ourselves.</div>
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* Hideyuki Nagasawa "Painting on Painting" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO Ryogoku</a> / 1F 1-7-15 Kamezawa, Sumida-ku (Toei Oedo/JR Sobu Line to Ryogoku Station). There is an incredible depth to this Saitama-born artist's dappled paintings, which he executes in pointillist waves and veils over enigmatic figures and landscapes.</div>
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* Takanobu Kobayashi @ <a href="http://www.kidopress.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Exquisite etchings and aquatints of somnambulant scenes and figures in repose. </div>
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* "<a href="http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/outrage2/">Outrage Beyond</a>" (dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2012) @ Marunouchi TOEI / 3-2-17 Ginza, Chuo-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Hibiya/Ginza Lines to Ginza Station). If Kitano ushered Yakuza cinema into a new echelon w/ his hyper-violent "Outrage", starring a Dostoevskian-scale cast of vengeful gangsters, the sequel launches it even further. I loved this at Fantastic Fest, and now that Kitano pulls Kansai into the fray, well…you know those Osaka thugs can throw down. </div>
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* "<a href="http://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0015445">Lost in Beijing</a>" (dir. Li Yu, 2007) @ K's Cinema / 3F 3-35-13 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, East Exit). An intriguing repertory screening of this sexy indie film of nouveau riche and Beijing transplants (led by Tony Leung and Fan Bingbing), which premiered at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival. </div>
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* Call and Response Records LP party @ <a href="http://den-atsu.com/">20000 Den-atsu</a> / B1 1-7-23 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Higashi-koenji Station, Exit 2), 5p/2300 yen. Call and Response Records' new compilation LP "Dancing After 1AM" drops in two weeks, but some of that post-punk, indie wave plays at this overstuffed showcase, feat. Twee Grrrls Club DJs, Hysteric Picnic, Extruders, and headlined by LIST favorites She Talks Silence!</div>
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* BABYMETAL @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">O-East</a> / 2F 2-14-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 6p/3500 yen. I don't know…I mean, it's three extremely preteen girls throwing "devil horns" and dancing headbanging choreography while a masked metal band performs behind them. Idol innocence and hard-rock anthems clash together…and from the ruins comes BABYMETAL.</div>
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NYC</div>
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* Flying Lotus @ <a href="http://www.terminal5nyc.com/">Terminal 5</a> / 610 W 56th St (AC/BD to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p/$35. Flying Lotus is on the bleeding edge of electronic music: he combines shattered beats, eclectic funk, shards of hip-hop and glitch, even the odd, angelic guest vocal…and it all works so perfectly. Celebrate his new LP "Until the Quiet Comes" by dancing up a sweat.</div>
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* <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">パスピエ</span> @ <a href="http://sputniklab.com/redcloth/home.html">Shinjuku Red Cloth</a> / B1 6-28-12 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, East Exit, Toei Oedo/Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Lines to Higashi-Shinjuku Station), 7p/3000 yen. Tokyo electro-pop darlings <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">パスピエ</span> (Passepied) channel Brooklynites Twin Sister with a hazy, nocturnal gloss. w/ <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">日本マドンナ</span></div>
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* Maria Minerva @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 9p/$6. Thanks to a certain "dope music-loving fashionista" in NYC, I got tuned in and turned on to Minerva's wonderful 2nd LP "Will Happiness Find Me?". It's songbird pop psychedelia with enough edgy "The Knife"-esque undertones to keep it outta the mainstream. </div>
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* Audrey Kawasaki "Midnight Reverie" + Jeff Soto "Decay and Overgrowth" @ <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. I thank the gallery for introducing me to both these artists and their fascinating, personal oeuvres. Soto's polluted pop cosmos continues to intrigue, but it's Kawasaki's new series of stunning oil and graphite portraits on wood panel that really have me jazzed.</div>
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* Ernst Wilhelm Nay @ <a href="http://www.maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 745 Fifth Ave + 541 W 24th St. The first comprehensive stateside exhibition of the powerful, Berlin-born painter is a collaboration between Mary Boone's two spaces and Michel Werner Gallery. Boone's Chelsea hangar features Nay's intensely colorful, brushily abstract paintings from the '50s and '60s, while the midtown gallery features Nay's drawings.</div>
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* "Searching" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. Ever since I was exposed to Bas Jan Ader at MoMA's wonderful "In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976" back in 2009, I've been increasingly captivated by the elusive conceptualist…I say "elusive" because he disappeared while working on his traveling project "In Search of the Miraculous" back in '75. That unfinished (and still missing) body of work grounds this group exhibition, which also features Arianna Carossa and Mie Olise. </div>
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* Anthony W. Garza @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 1101 Navasota St. The biting, harsh light of Austin summers befits Garza's naturalistic practice: he either draws or paints highly realistic renderings of nature that work in an incredible attention to lighting itself. There is an entire cycle of discovery going on here, from breathtaking graphite drawings of weathered rocks and truncated branches, to seductive collages of animal and inanimate in watercolor (what seems overwhelming at first becomes far more compelling as you stare into them, the animals' eyes, the texture of fur), to a pair of romantic night skies in varying acrylic washes and textures. Garza's oeuvre cues us back into our discovery sides and bears a deep nostalgia in doing so.</div>
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* Taishi Niimi @ <a href="http://www.ycassociates.co.jp/">Yumiko Chiba Associates</a> / 2F 4-32-6 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Tochomae Station, JR etc to Shinjuku Station, West Exit). The Nagoya-area artist unveils new illustrations, ranging from intimate to monumental but all totally encapsulating his jiggity-jaggety style.</div>
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* Hiroshige Fukuhara @ <a href="http://www.aikowadagallery.com/">Ai Kowada Gallery</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Fukuhara introduces new silkscreens featuring silver leaf embossing alongside pencil and gesso compositions on panel, all featuring hyperrealized wildlife. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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Note: I consider <a href="http://fantasticfest.com/">Fantastic Fest</a> a pause in regular LIST programming, <i>not</i> a break nor holiday. From September 20-27, I will be camped out (practically) at Austin, TX's Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. Last year I caught 24 films (25 if you count seeing the world premiere of Noboru Iguchi's <i><a href="http://zombieass.jp/">Zombie Ass</a></i> twice, which I did).<br />
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This will be my third Fantastic Fest and second as an Austin local. I think I can break that film-viewing record. Right not it's all about scheduling conflicts, like "do I pick <i>Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman </i>over <i>The Shining: Forwards and Backwards </i>or...?" That kind of thing.<br />
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Game plan is #FF2012 -related updates throughout the next two weeks, and a return to regular programming on <b>OCT 3</b>. 'til then, let's get Fantastic!b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-89278105826230633512012-09-12T08:35:00.000-04:002012-09-12T08:35:36.580-04:00fee's LIST / through 9/18<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">WEDNESDAY</span><br />
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* "A Visual Essay on Gutai" @ <a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/">Hauser & Wirth</a> / 32 E 69th St. A landmark survey of the postwar Japanese art movement's legacy via 12 of its core artists: Norio Imai, Akira Kanayama, Takesada Matsutani, Sadamasa Motonaga, Shuji Mukai, Saburo Murakami, Shozo Shimamoto, Kazuo Shiraga, Yasuo Sumi, Atsuko Tanaka, Tsuruko Yamazaki, and founder Jiro Yoshihara. This exhibition, curated by Midori Nishizawa and organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément, features two decades of masterworks and coincides with the half-century anniversary of Gutai's first U.S. exhibition.</div>
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* Gerhard Richter "Painting 2012" @ <a href="http://www.mariangoodman.com/">Marian Goodman Gallery</a> / 24 W 57th St. His German eminence has been challenging traditional art tropes — the portrait, the drawing, the abstract, the minimal — for decades, at every turn of his oeuvre. Here, Richter combines rigorous structure and the explosiveness of chance in his sublime new "Strip Paintings". Which, ostensibly, are colorful stripes. Perhaps a sublime experience? Also perhaps: a big middle-finger to richies getting off on Richter's telltale abstract paintings (so hot right now).</div>
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* Teresita Fernández "Night Writing" @ <a href="http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/">Lehmann Maupin</a> / 201 Chrystie St. I have a…complicated relationship with Fernández's output, which (in this writer's opinion) tends to favor highly stylized "stuff" over contemplative objets d'art. That her latest solo exhibition consists of a single, site-specific installation based on night-sky viewing and utilizing fully Lehmann Maupin's lofted space heartens me that it'll be a subtler, more rewarding experience.</div>
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* Karin Kneffel @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 980 Madison Ave. The brilliant German artist's vividly patterned, naturalist paintings haven't received fair play in NY (her last solo stateside was in 2008), so I'm stoked to see what Kneffel unveils at tony Gagosian.</div>
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+ Mark Grotjahn. Earthy, painted-bronze sculpture from the Pasadena, CA-born artist, a grounded complement to Kneffel's sublime pairings.</div>
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* "8 Artists Making Sculpture", curated by Jamie Sterns @ <a href="http://imawabbit.blogspot.com/2012/08/8-artists-making-sculpture-5th-annual.html">BRIC Rotunda Gallery</a> / 33 Clinton St, Brooklyn Heights (NR to Court St, 23 to Clark St). A properly edgy grouping of young sculptors, awash in an art climate of painting, photography, and "performance". Sounds dope to me. Feat. Arielle Falk, Jamie Felton, Mary-Kate Maher, Abraham McNally, Jong Oh, Carolyn Salas, Ian Umlauf, and Matthew C. Wilson.</div>
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* "Ms. 45" (dir. Abel Ferrara, 1981) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. So much awesomeness going on here: same director of cult splatterpunk classic "Driller Killer"; one of the preeminent "Girls With Guns" films; the debut for ultra-gorgeous actress/screenwriter Zoë Tamerlis Lund, playing the titular role (subhed: "Angel of Vengeance"!). </div>
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* "Hausu" (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Village</a> / 2700 W Anderson Ln, 7p. If you've never seen this Technicolor- and blood-soaked meta-horror favorite on the big-screen (or — shriek! — AT ALL), schedule this screening on your iCal NOW. And even if you, like me, have seen "Hausu" in a proper theatre multiple times, in multiple cities, see it again. This tale, the feature film debut of a man known for his caffeinated commercials and co-written by his then-13-year-old daughter, is classic as all time and yet unlike anything you've ever experienced. Cute high-school girls visit old auntie's country house, which is haunted, and features a regal Himalayan cat with lasers or something shooting out of its eyes. And carnivorous pianos. And killer futons. And action soundtrack sequences. And tons else that just doesn't translate to "text". ALSO THURS</div>
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* Mr. "Metamorphosis: Give Me Your Wings" @ <a href="http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/">Lehmann Maupin</a> / 540 W 26th St. My favorite otaku-loving artist transforms the gallery into a contemplative sanctuary of angst and frustration in post-3/11 Japan. This is the first time Mr. has created such an installation outside his native Japan, and its blending of traditional "cute" subculture and uplifting imagery with the chaos of everyday life should elicit an insightful look into the contemporary Japanese subconscious.</div>
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* Mike Kelley "Memory Ware Flats" @ <a href="http://www.skarstedt.com/">Skarstedt Gallery</a> / 20 E 79th St. The gallery presents the nonpareil late artist's meditative series "Memory Ware Flats", an eight-part suite begun in 2000 of shimmering doodads and trinkets floating across seas of grout. </div>
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* Gelitin @ <a href="http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/">Greene Naftali Gallery</a> / 508 W 26th St 8th Fl. The Austrian art collective promise a large-scale interactive piece that'll probably keep in line with their messy, exuberant style. Plus, apparently noise-rockers Japanther are planning a related performance to coincide with Gelitin's exhibition. The two groups collaborated in the preview days of the 2011 Venice Biennale at the site-specific Gelitin Pavilion (of course).</div>
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* Diana Al-Hadid * "The Nature of Disappearance", curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart @ <a href="http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/">Marianne Boesky Gallery</a> / 509 W 24th St. The young, internationally recognized, and supremely awesome artist investigates the 2D picture plane within sculpture's three dimensions. She re-stages "Suspended After Image", the wonderful, gracefully monumental sculpture that premiered at Austin, TX's Visual Arts Center last year, plus showcases works referencing a 14th C. fresco by Jacopo Pontorno and more. </div>
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* Wendy White "Pix Vää" @ <a href="http://leokoenig.com/">Leo Koenig Inc</a> / 545 W 23rd St. The NY-based artist presents her new Fotobild and PVC series, which incorporate photography and sculptural framing into her painting practice.</div>
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* Barney Kulok "Building" @ <a href="http://www.nicoleklagsbrun.com/">Nicole Klagsbrun</a> / 532 W 24th St. Full disclosure: I've not seen Klagsbrun's new 24th St space, but I'm pretty stoked about this new exhibition of Kulok's marvelous, gelatin-silver print photography, and the related artist's monograph (published by Aperture in October).</div>
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* Desi Santiago "This Pop is Perfection" @ <a href="http://www.envoyenterprises.com/">Envoy Enterprises</a> / 87 Rivington St. The LES hotspot keeps it rrrreal (and real edgy), unveiling a dark funhouse of fetish fun and idol brilliance courtesy the former NY club-kid. Of note: Santiago is christening the gallery's newly expanded space with his multisensory tour-de-force, plus he contributes a satellite installation at Envoy's project space (131 Chrystie St).</div>
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* Louise Fishman @ <a href="http://www.cheimread.com/">Cheim & Read</a> / 547 W 25th St. Big, brushy, and new: Fishman's re-appropriation of Abstract Expressionism after decades in the biz demand your full visual participation.</div>
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* Gino Saccone @ <a href="http://anacristeagallery.com/">Ana Cristea Gallery</a> / 521 W 26th St. The young Amsterdam-based artist's oeuvre explores space and painterly deconstruction. This is his first solo exhibition in New York.</div>
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* Chris Johanson "Windows" @ <a href="http://www.miandn.com/">Mitchell-Innes & Nash</a> / 534 W 26th St. The West Coast artist's paintings on found wood and containers (and even the gallery walls) are "meditations on being" and portals to the greater world. This is Johanson's first solo in NY since 2008's "Totalities" at Deitch Projects.</div>
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* The Joshua Light Show @ <a href="http://www.nyuskirball.org/calendar/thejoshualightshow">NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts</a> / 566 LaGuardia Pl (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 7:30p/$20. The legendary light show, founded by multimedia artist Joshua White and showcased in "Midnight Cowboy" and all your or your parents' favorite '60s psychedelia live bands, returns to Greenwich Village for a sequence of special events. Tonight's the kickoff bash, pairing virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie (a rare NY appearance!) with experimental harpist Zeena Parks. </div>
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* WHY? @ <a href="http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/">Music Hall of Williamsburg</a> / 66 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 8p/$18. I gotta remind myself that WHY? — aka founder Yoni Wolf, brother Josiah, Doug McDiarmid, and keyboardist Liz — have come quite a way from ethereal, sunny nerd-hop debut "Oaklandazulasylum" (and I LOVED that album). Punchy, loopy, and pretty damn groovy, replete w/ Yoni's nasally lyricism. That's new EP "Sod in the Seed", and I'm still a fan. w/ Doseone</div>
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* Turbo Fruits (TN) @ <a href="http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/">Mercury Lounge</a> / 217 E Houston St (F to 2nd Ave), 9:30p/$10. These liquor-chugging, southern-fried punks BRING the party, kids. We just have to show up and mosh. w/ Roomrunner</div>
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* Thomas Hirschhorn "Concordia, Concordia" @ <a href="http://gladstonegallery.com/">Gladstone Gallery</a> / 530 W 21st St. Big time. Remember Hirschhorn's 2009 exhibition in this space, the bonkers "Universal Gym"? Well, he's gonna one-up that, do something Big with a capital "B", like…re-imagine the crash of cruise ship Costa Concordia within a gallery setting. Note: this statement solo coincides with Hirschhorn's collage survey at Dia:Chelsea's new project space at 541 W 22nd St. Mayjah.</div>
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* Alessandro Pessoli @ <a href="http://antonkerngallery.com/">Anton Kern Gallery</a> / 532 W 20th St. The Italian artist celebrates his stateside museum solo debut at SFMOMA later this month. But first! Pessoli returns for his fifth solo gallery show at Anton Kern, an "anarchic" affair of gorgeous, painted ceramic sculptures.</div>
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* "The Master" (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) @ <a href="http://www.villageeastcinema.com/">Village East Cinema</a> / 181 2nd Ave (F to 2nd Ave). Straight off the 69th Venice International Film Festival comes Anderson's bracing followup to "There WIll Be Blood", and whether you buy that it's a thinly-veiled depiction of post-WWII Scientology, or not, let's nonetheless state the facts. The cast — Philip Seymour Hoffman as the titular figure, plus Amy Adam, Joaquin Phoenix, and Laura Dern — is all-star, and this theatre is screening it the right way, in glorious 70mm. If you plan to see it NY, see it here.</div>
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* "Phantom of the Paradise" (dir. Brian De Palma, 1974) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). "Phantom of the Opera" told through a glam-rock lens (which facets of "Faust" thrown in for good measure), feat. Gerrit Graham (the dad in "TerrorVision") as a jaded counterpart to our Phantom dude and Alice Cooper as himself! Now THIS is the De Palma I know! ALSO SAT</div>
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* The Joshua Light Show @ <a href="http://www.nyuskirball.org/calendar/thejoshualightshow">NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts</a> / 566 LaGuardia Pl (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 7:30p/$20. Terry Riley, minimalist pioneer and pan-musical guru, joins his son, guitarist Gyan Riley, in front of a soaring Joshua Light set. Start your evening transcendently, yo.</div>
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* The Joshua Light Show @ <a href="http://www.nyuskirball.org/calendar/thejoshualightshow">NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts</a> / 566 LaGuardia Pl (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 10p/$40. OR…stay for the big event, featuring downtown legends John Zorn, Lou Reed, Bill Laswell, and Milford Graves revisiting the cinematic colorplay of Joshua Light. For the record: I am envious of anyone attending this spectacular event.</div>
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* Sodalitas "Core" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. Local art collective all-stars Sodalitas, aka Joseph Phillips, Shea Little, and Jana Swec, are founding members of non-profit studio/gallery Big Medium, the East Austin Studio Tour (hereafter known as "E.A.S.T."), and The Texas Biennial. I reiterate: all-stars. Their collaborative spirit and individual strenghts follow in this exhibition, which focuses on relating the individual and the group via cross-media practices.</div>
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* "Ghostbusters" (dir. Ivan Reitman, 1984) 70mm screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 3:45p. Lemme ask you: are you ready to see big-screen ectoplasm in stunning 70mm Alamoscope?! How about Stay-Puft stomping into the skyline, while the only thing standing between marshmallowy death and a cowering populace is four jumpsuited wisecrackers? Bask in '80s paranormal bliss! Who ya gonna call? SCREENINGS THRU WED</div>
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* "2 Days in New York" (dir. Julie Delpy, 2012) @ <a href="http://violetcrowncinema.com/">Violet Crown Cinema</a> / 434 W 2nd St. Delpy's smart rom-com followup to "2 Days in Paris" finally visits Austin, and it looks sweet. This time, as one may preclude from the title, Delpy's "family" (incl real-life, scene-stealing Dad Delpy) visit her and beau Chris "Mingus" Rock in NYC.</div>
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* Swans + Xiu Xiu @ <a href="http://www.lazonarosa.com/">La Zona Rosa</a> / 612 W 4th St, 8p. I can't stop listening to Swans' stunning new LP "The Seer": it perfectly encapsulates this venerable noise-rock band's live experience and entire history w/o sounding precisely like any previous Swans release. Does that make any sense? Crank up track "Mother of the World" and hear what I mean. Genre-defying duo Xiu Xiu and their simultaneously caustic and comforting new LP "Always" make a good match for Swans' aural assault.</div>
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* Masumi Nakaoka "Parapraxis" @ <a href="http://www.artfrontgallery.com/">Art Front Gallery</a> / Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku (JR Lines etc to Shibuya). Ethereal landscapes rendered in soft acrylics and oils, with a deft interplay between colorful forms and cut-out expanses of gauzy white.</div>
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* Who the Bitch @ <a href="http://www.gar-den.in/pc/index.php">GARDEN</a> / 2-4-5 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, S Exit), 7p/2800 yen. Trust me, you don't want to miss a Who the Bitch party, two fierce riot-grrrls and their Guitar Wolf-looking dude drummer. w/ HERE</div>
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* Zeni Geva + Melt-Banana @ <a href="http://www1.odn.ne.jp/shinjuku-dom/index.html/menu.html">Earthdom</a> / B1 2-32-3 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku (JR Yamanote Line to Shin-Okubo Station), 7p/2500. Venerable noise-rockers Zeni Geva, like a musical rocketship piloted by guitarist KK Null and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, headline this bracing lineup. Melt-Banana blitz the stage w/ their caffeinated punk. w/ Maruosa + Murochin</div>
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* i8u "Surface Tension" @ <a href="https://www.super-deluxe.com/">SuperDeluxe</a> / B1F 3-1-25 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku (Toei Oedo/Hibiya Lines to Roppongi Station), 7:30p/4000 yen. The Quebecois sound artist France "i8u" Jobin touches down in Tokyo for this night of eclectic, electroacoustic pairings. The program includes Yoshio Machida x Tadahiko Yokogawa, Jun Iijima x hakobune + Yuki Aida, Toshimaru Nakamura x sawako, and it caps off with i8u x Keiichiro Shibuya. Sounds good to me.</div>
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* Rodney McMillian @ <a href="http://maccarone.net/">Maccarone</a> / 630 Greenwich St. The LA-based artist inaugurates Maccarone's refurbished gallery space in a big way. For though McMillian's "desiccated familiarity" awesomeness had him in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and Rashida Bumbray's curated show at the Kitchen that same year, he rarely shows in NYC. This should be a treat.</div>
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* Mamiko Masumura "Scab" @ <a href="http://www.waitingroom.jp/">waitingroom</a> / 4B 2-8-11 Ebisu-nishi, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote Line/Hibiya Line to Ebisu Station, West Exit). Remarkable, small-scale carved and painted wood figures by the young Tokyo-born artist. Though this is her debut solo at the gallery, Masumura's been making the rounds of the hot indie scene, including appearances at hpgrp Gallery's NY space this March and the recent Gallerist Meeting x SOMEWHERE group show.</div>
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* <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">住所不定無職</span> @ <a href="http://www.unit-tokyo.com/schedule/live_event/">Unit</a> / 1-34-17 Ebisu-nishi, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote/Hibiya Lines to Ebisu Station), 6p/3500 yen. Killer tune explosions! The candy color-coded cuties behind <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">住所不定無職</span> (lit. "no job nor fixed address") rock the house with their potent combo of vintage sway and garage rasp. w/ Keiichi Sokabe's BAND</div>
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* "Process 01: Joy" @ <a href="http://p-exclamation.org/post/28311939509/process-01-joy">P! </a>/ 334 Broome St. The inaugural exhibition at this "Mom-and-Pop Kunsthalle" from Project Projects co-founder Prem Krishnamurty features works by Chauncey Hare, Christine Hill, and Karel Martens. I'm super stoked to see what Hill, of the "Volksboutique" persona, does in this space, though graphic design impresario Martens (who created P!'s logo) and the sleight-of-hand photographic documentation from Hare sounds dope as well. Put this one on your radar, NY.</div>
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* The Joshua Light Show @ <a href="http://www.nyuskirball.org/calendar/thejoshualightshow">NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts</a> / 566 LaGuardia Pl (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 7:30p/$20. The final night of Joshua Light Show's return to Greenwich Village promises a funky bang, feat. powerhouse groove-mavens Debo Band & Forro in the Dark. Sending it out in style, yo.</div>
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* nisennenmondai presents "souzousuruneji+" @ <a href="http://ochiaisoup.tumblr.com/">Ochiai Soup</a> / B1F 3-9-10 Kami-Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Tozai Line to Ochiai Station), 7:30p/TOTES SOLD OUT! It all comes to this, and count yrselves lucky if you scored a ticket to this way intimate performance. Tokyo's consummate kraut-rock starlets nisennenmondai take it back to their punk and no wave roots for one unforgettable night.</div>
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* "Wet Dream" @ <a href="http://www.aisotope.net/schedule.html">AiSOTOPE LOUNGE</a> / 1F 2-12-16 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Fukutoshin/Shinjuku Lines to Shinjuku-sanchome Station), 9p/3000 yen. Why am I sending you (again) to deepest Ni-chome? For a sinful, end-of-summer fetish party, that's why! Feat. scene DJs incl RINKO and Zil, a kinky performance by Nasty Cats (aka Nancy & Aloe of tokyoDOLORES), a fashion show, and more surprises courtesy Torture Garden Japan.</div>
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* Deerhoof @ <a href="http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/">Music Hall of Williamsburg</a> / 93 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 10p/$15. I am so in love with Deerhoof's vibrant, upbeat, contrasty new LP "Breakup Song", which takes their enviable formula for art-rock and kicks it up a notch. "Then you bring me flowers", indeed! w/ Buke and Gase</div>
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* "White Agenda" @ <a href="http://iflyer.tv/warehouse702/event/112351-WhiteAgenda/">Warehouse702</a> / B1F 1-4-5 Azabu-Juban, Minato-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Azabu-Juban Station, Exit 7), 3:15p/3000 yen. It's not often that I happen across mid-afternoon fetish parties, but the chilled-out nature of this sporadic bash seems super cool. Feat. Nasty Cats (aka Aloe and Nancy of tokyoDOLORES), plus Erebos party DJ Toru Shimizu, White Agenda resident DJ Toru Takeda, some guest stars from Japan Pole Dance, a "white candle artist", and a VIP lounge just for the girls.</div>
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* "Remembering Warhol: 60 Artists, 50 Years" @ <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> / 1000 Fifth Ave (456 to 86th St). The Pop purveyor's influence in contemporary art runs deep, whether we like to admit it or not (or whether we prefer Picasso's notoriety to young(er) artists over Warhol). The museum stages a grand dialogue between Warhol and 60 contemporary artists — spanning alphabetically from Ai Weiwei and Polly Apfelbaum to Kelley Walker and Christopher Wool — over five thematic sections, "Daily News", "Portraiture", "Queer Studies", "Consuming Images", and "No Boundaries". The befuddling fly in the ointment? The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' idea to sell off some 20,000 remaining pieces of Warhol's estate at auction, beginning this fall. Though if we take the (hopefully) carefully considered 45 Warhols in this Met exhibition purely on an aesthetic/historical level — vs their 20,000 kin floating on the market — then maybe we're still good?</div>
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* Emily + Andy's Film Club @ <a href="http://utvac.org/">Visual Arts Center Courtyard</a> / UT Art Building, 23rd St at Trinity, 6:30p. Ahead of Emily Roysdon's multimedia survey in the VAC's Vaulted Gallery (opening FRI!) comes the third iteration of her co-curated film series with art historian Andy Campbell. They've been saving this one for maximum impact, so attune your eyes to NY underground heavyweight Charles Atlas and his '85 docu-fantasy "Hail the New Puritan" on London's '80s post-punk subculture. </div>
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* TOP SECRET TERRORTIME! screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:15p. Terror Tuesday programmer Zack Carlson won't reveal much about this potential gem, except it's from the '80s and a definite "R". One thing: he and Drafthouse programmer Lars recently rescued some 1,300 35mm prints from the midwest…and this super-rare print comes from that haul. That info alone gives me a shot-in-the-dark idea of what it might be, and if so it's gonna be unmissable! </div>
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* Anthony W. Garza @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 1101 Navasota St. The biting, harsh light of Austin summers befits Garza's naturalistic practice: he either draws or paints highly realistic renderings of nature that work in an incredible attention to lighting itself. There is an entire cycle of discovery going on here, from breathtaking graphite drawings of weathered rocks and truncated branches, to seductive collages of animal and inanimate in watercolor (what seems overwhelming at first becomes far more compelling as you stare into them, the animals' eyes, the texture of fur), to a pair of romantic night skies in varying acrylic washes and textures. Garza's oeuvre cues us back into our discovery sides and bears a deep nostalgia in doing so.</div>
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* Jim Torok "There Is Nothing Wrong with You" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. Go for it! Don't give up (yet)! (You can do it; just hang in there a little bit more; nobody said it would be easy; it will be worth it (most likely)!). This is the kind of positivity we need, drenched in bright colors and bearing a nuanced realism, highlighted by that deft comma placement. Torok installed 52 cheery — and sometimes quite poignant — ink on paper "cartoons" in two commanding grids across two gallery walls. We are literally caught in the middle, permitting his color washes and talking Jim heads to do their work. Maybe some of the positivity will stick. Outside, in the larger gallery, hangs the titular text-based work and one super-tiny, ultra-realistic self-portrait, a nonjudgmental reminder of the man behind the mottos.</div>
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+ Cordy Ryman. Incredible color-slinging and composition awaits visitors to the gallery's project room. I thought I "knew" Ryman from his many solo shows at NY's DCKT Contemporary, but he continues to delight in works like "Green Book" (ostensibly "just" a painting in photographs, but actually a three-dimensional object in real life, swinging open from its right side to reveal like the inner machinations of the artwork). Or the subtle drama in "Strip Line" and its gorgeous pairing of two unpainted blocks of wood sandwiched between two painted blocks. Elsewhere, arrangements of paint-streaked stir sticks or chunks of wood embedded in Gorilla Glue ooze never looked quite so striking.</div>
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* Toru Nogawa "Sanctuary of Darkness" @ <a href="http://span-art.co.jp/">Span Art Gallery</a> / 2-2-18 1F Ginza, Chuo-ku. (Yurakucho Line to Ginza-Itchome Station). Sumptuous oils of Gothic Lolitas and sorta domino types? Sign me up! (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Kazuhiro Ito "bridge" @ <a href="http://hpgrpgallery.com/">hpgrp Tokyo</a> / B1 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote to Harajuku Station, Tokyo Metro Chiyoda/Ginza/Hanzomon Lines to Omotesando Station). The Fukuoka-born artist continues to redefine the possibilities of bronze sculpture, from blobs and twisting spears to meteoric figurative works. I am particularly stoked about his centerpiece "Starman Loves You" and its "Earthbound"-referencing properties. (ENDS MON)</div>
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* Shimon Minamikawa @ <a href="http://www.47canalstreet.com/">47 Canal</a>. The artist's debut US show features works made in residence at gallery this past summer. Minamikawa shows w/ <a href="http://www.misakoandrosen.com/">Misako & Rosen</a>, one of the chicer residential Tokyo galleries.</div>
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* "Props For Memory" @ <a href="http://invisible-exports.com/">Invisible-Exports</a> / 14A Orchard St. Joseph Beuys, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Paul P.: sounds dope to me! I'm intrigued by Ross-Ho's recycling of the creative process, which tends to incorporate scans of her parents' commercial photography, plus P.'s portraiture resembles lucid dreams. LIST readers should know my deep admiration for Beuys by now. A thoughtful opener to NY's gallery season.</div>
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* "Line Color Space Gesture" @ <a href="http://www.galerie-roepke.de/index.php?mod=ausstellungen&action=details&id=138&page=1">Site/109</a> / 109 Norfolk St. Cologne's Galerie Stefan Röpke plunges into the LES with four of its artist heavyweights, incl some locals! Brooklyn-based Jason Gringler, Aleksandar Duravcevic (I've not seen his work in NYC since "Now through a glass darkly" at Arario NY, back in 2010) and Greg Allen-Müller, plus Spain's Jordi Alcaraz, present works with heavy industrial backbones and reflective elements as painterly tools.</div>
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* "Hard Ticket to Hawaii" (dir. Andy Sidaris, 1987) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:30p. When you have a group of bikini-wearing crimefighters called L.E.T.H.A.L. and a "doobie-smoker" skateboarding on his hands upside down, who needs crafty dialogue and SFX? Guess what: Sidaris' exotic locale schlock-fest has those, too!</div>
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* Susan Philipsz + Analia Saban @ <a href="http://tanyabonakdargallery.com/">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. Take a world-premiere "sound-sculptor" (that's Philipsz: Scottish, Turner Prize winner, does disarming installations with "just" audio) and a fascinating young painting "destructor" (that's Saban: Argentinian, worldwide recognition, enjoying her debut NYC solo) and whaddaya get? Another brilliant Fall gallery season opener for one of my favorite NY galleries. Don't miss it!</div>
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* Robert Irwin "dotting the i's & crossing the t's: part II" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 510 W 25th St + 32 E 57th St. Pace continues its Irwin extravaganza, ahead of the seminal light and perception artist's 85th birthday this month. The Chelsea space contains Irwin's last "studio" works, monumental acrylic columns completed some 50 years ago, while the midtown space features the artist's light installations and a site-conditioned installation utilizing the gallery windows. </div>
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* Rosemary Laing "leak" @ <a href="http://galerielelong.com/">Galerie Lelong</a> / 528 W 26th St. Laing focuses her lens on New South Wales in photographic series "leak", exposing suburbanization's threat to the Australian landscape. Four of her moving prints have never been shown, and the entire series makes its U.S. debut here. Laing returns to the gallery on SAT at 3p for a related book signing.</div>
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* Liu Ye "Bamboo Bamboo Broadway" @ <a href="http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html">Sperone Westwater</a> / 257 Bowery. The artist merges traditional Chinese imagery with modernist edge, like bamboo with Bauhaus, in his third solo exhibition at the gallery.</div>
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* Simon Starling "Triangulation Station A" @ <a href="http://caseykaplangallery.com/">Casey Kaplan Gallery</a> / 525 W 21st St. Cheeky conceptualist that Starling is, he's staging the "same" show here and at Berlin's neugerriemschneider, commenting on parallax view while mirroring sculpture and film projection.</div>
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* Michael Rakowitz "The Breakup" @ <a href="http://www.lombard-freid.com/">Lombard-Freid Projects</a> / 518 W 19th St. Rakowitz unveils a cross-media Beatlemania, centered on a ten-part series for a Ramallah-based radio station in Palestine, a cascading narrative generated from Michael Lindsay-Hogg's documentary "Let It Be".</div>
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* "The Feverish Library", organized in cooperation w/ Matthew Higgs @ <a href="http://www.petzel.com/">Friedrich Petzel Gallery</a> / 537 W 22nd St. Expect multilayering on a Jorge Luis Borges level at this group exhibition, inspired by the book as a conceptual, psychological, and cultural device. Feat. Wade Guyton, Sean Landers, Jorge Pardo, Seth Price, Stephen Prina, John Stezaker, and Heimo Zobernig…you know, the heavyweights.</div>
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* "Searching" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. Ever since I was exposed to Bas Jan Ader at MoMA's wonderful "In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976" back in 2009, I've been increasingly captivated by the elusive conceptualist…I say "elusive" because he disappeared while working on his traveling project "In Search of the Miraculous" back in '75. That unfinished (and still missing) body of work grounds this group exhibition, which also features Arianna Carossa and Mie Olise. </div>
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* Kwang Young Chun @ <a href="http://www.hastedkraeutler.com/home.php">Hasted Kraeutler</a> / 537 W 24th St. You gotta see this dude's oeuvre in person to fully understand the badassery present. Check it: what appears to be foliage-covered canvases from across the room — or heavily impastoed canvases, if we're keeping it art-related — transform into intricate sculptural reliefs, thousands of subtly colored, hand-molded paper triangles creating a forest floor, rock wall, sun through the leaves…something naturalistic and mind-blowing.</div>
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* Jonah Bokaer & Anthony McCall "Eclipse" @ <a href="http://www.bam.org/">BAM Fisher</a> / 321 Ashland Place, Ft Greene (23/45 to Nevins St, G to Fulton St), 7:30p/$20. Choreographer Bokaer and light-sculpting pioneer McCall inaugurate BAM Fisher with a brilliant concert of dance and light. ALSO FRI-SAT 7:30p, SUN 3p.</div>
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* The Sour Notes @ <a href="http://stubbsaustin.com/">Stubb's</a> / 801 Red River, 10p/FREE. Hometown indie heroes The Sour Notes play their first local show following their summer 2012 US tour…and it's a free one! Way to have it back to school, kids. Rock on.</div>
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* Momus + nisennenmondai @ <a href="http://www.ufoclub.jp/index2.html">UFO Club</a> / 1-11-6 Koenji-minami, Suginami-ku (Toei Marunouchi Line to Higashi-koenji Station), 7:30p/2500 yen. Wowsers! Globe-trotting performance artist/musician/tender pervert Momus follows Japanese kraut-thrashers nisennenmondai for a truly transcendent performance. w/ OBANDOS </div>
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* Tony Smith "Source" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 522 W 22nd St. Meet "Source", Smith's dynamic, 12,000-pound steel sculpture that once graced Documenta iV in Kassel, Germany, back in '68. BOOM. Way to open NY's fall gallery season, Matthew Marks. </div>
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* Richard Tuttle "Systems, VII-XII" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 534 W 25th St. Less is more with this pivotal postminimalist. You may know Tuttle for his stretched fabric "reliefs", but he can't be "pinned" down to just one practice. The artist continues his investigation into sculpture with space physicality that maintains the discreetness of his earlier, smaller works. In these "Systems", he focuses on the relationship between the works' horizontal axis and the floor.</div>
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* Robert Adams "On Any Given Day in Spring and Light Balances" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 523 W 24th St. For those seeking a…subtler answer to Tony Smith's monumental "Source" sculpture (at MM's 22nd St space), check these two graceful b&w series, the titular one and "Light Balances", which find Adams training his lens on flocks of seabirds and a forest, respectively.</div>
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* Ernst Wilhelm Nay @ <a href="http://www.maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 745 Fifth Ave + 541 W 24th St. The first comprehensive stateside exhibition of the powerful, Berlin-born painter is a collaboration between Mary Boone's two spaces and Michael Werner Gallery. Boone's Chelsea hangar features Nay's intensely colorful, brushily abstract paintings from the '50s and '60s, while the midtown gallery features Nay's drawings.</div>
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* Al Taylor "Pass the Peas and Can Studys" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 519 W 19th St. The cheeky title alludes to its comprehensive study of Taylor's surveys "Pass the Peas" (1991-2) and "Can Studys" [sic] (1993) of deftly abstracted ephemera, plus related works from "Cans and Hoops" (1993).</div>
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* Toba Khedoori @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner Gallery</a> / 525 W 19th St. New hyperrealistic paintings of "virtual" landscapes from the LA-based artist.</div>
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* James Welling "Overflow" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner Gallery</a> / 533 W 19th St. The artist presents a hybrid relationship between photography and painting, basing some prints off Andrew Wyeth's classic mid-century compositions. Others are even more malleable and watercolor-like, created by exposing wet photographic paper to light from a color enlarger.</div>
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* Guido van der Werve "Nummer veertien, home" @ <a href="http://www.luhringaugustine.com/">Luhring Augustine</a> / 531 W 24th St + 25 Knickerbocker Ave, Bushwick. The Dutch artist's latest film, which shares title with this exhibition, takes its form from a classical Requiem, intertwining Alexander the Great, Frédéric Chopin, and van deer Werve himself. He includes the multimedia work "Nummer dertien: emotional poverty", which features photography, text, and a slide projection with the HD film. The gallery's Bushwick location hosts eight of van der Werve's earlier "Nummer" films, from 2003-2009.</div>
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* Chris Dorland "Permanent Vacation" @ <a href="http://winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. The hallucinogenic titular video reminded me of Arboria from "Beyond the Black Rainbow". So expect a seriously hallucinogenic, pop-cultural trip from this dude. </div>
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* Xeno & Oaklander + Led Er Est @ <a href="http://toddpnyc.com/">285 Kent Ave</a>, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 11:45p/$9. Resident "Wierd"-o's Xeno & Oaklander (Brooklyn analog aficionados) and '80s-obsessed Led Er Est drop the temperature 60 degrees in their chilly pop persuasion. w/ IKE YARD</div>
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* Anthony W. Garza @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 1101 Navasota St. Garza, an Austinite and heavy presence in Texas' inaugural Biennial, unveils truly humanizing, richly detailed paintings and drawings based on geology and the cosmos.Ties in nicely with the 70mm release of "Baraka" today (read on!).<br />
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* Ink Tank "More Awkward Than Heavy" @ <a href="http://www.upcollective.org/">UP Collective</a> / 2326 E Cesar Chavez. The local artist collective and 2011-12 winner of the Austin Critics' Table "Outstanding Work of Art: Independent or Public Project" (for Rosewood House's "LAST NEW YEAR" exhibition) carpetbomb their next venue with a fluid, experimental installation, guaranteed to elicit diverging experiences like the members themselves.<br />
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* "Compliance" (dir. Craig Zobel, 2012) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar</a> / 1120 S Lamar. Finally Zobel's sophomore chiller hits Austin, guaranteed to turn you off to fast food — as it's the indirect player in this based-on-true-events thriller of blind obedience. A "cop" (Pat Healy, totally one-upping the creep factor) calls in, blaming cute register girl blamed for stealing. Instructs world-weary female manager to strip-search girl. And it gets wincingly worse, quickly.</div>
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* Pujol (TN) @ <a href="http://stubbsaustin.com/">Stubb's</a> / 801 Red River, 10:30p/$10. Aw yeah, "y'all": Austin gets served up a funky night of southern-fried rock tonight, courtesy Daniel Pujol and his Nashville crew. Now buy those boys a beer!</div>
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* Taishi Niimi @ <a href="http://www.ycassociates.co.jp/">Yumiko Chiba Associates</a> / 2F 4-32-6 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Tochomae Station, JR etc to Shinjuku Station, West Exit). The Nagoya-area artist unveils new illustrations, ranging from intimate to monumental but all totally encapsulating his jiggity-jaggety style.</div>
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* Torturing Nurse + NOJIJI @ <a href="http://ochiaisoup.tumblr.com/">Ochiai Soup</a> / B1F 3-9-10 Kami-Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Tozai Line to Ochiai Station), 9p/2000 yen. Straight outta Shanghai come harsh noise performance duo Torturing Nurse (aka Misuzu and Junky, both formerly of no wavers Junkyard). They're joined by Beijing collective NOJIJI, featuring core noisicians Mafeisan and Mei Zhiyong, plus Hong Kong alt-improvisor Sin:Ned. One helluva tight night of noise.f </div>
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* Audrey Kawasaki "Midnight Reverie" + Jeff Soto "Decay and Overgrowth" @ <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. I thank the gallery for introducing me to both these artists and their fascinating, personal oeuvres. Soto's polluted pop cosmos continues to intrigue, but it's Kawasaki's new series of stunning oil and graphite portraits on wood panel that really have me jazzed.</div>
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* Paul Pfeiffer "Playroom" @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 534 W 21st St. Pfeiffer returns in his first solo in NYC since 2007 by recreating the "playroom" from basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain's LA mansion. Film works and photography set the mood.</div>
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* Dave Cole @ <a href="http://dodge-gallery.com/">DODGEgallery</a> / 15 Rivington St. Nostalgia and a personal take on national identity. Cole conveys these in labor-intensive works, like his lead and stainless steel sewn flag and the absolutely bonkers-sounding centerpiece: a functioning music box powered by a steamroller. </div>
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* Jim Torok "There Is Nothing Wrong with You" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. The Brooklyn-based artist's previous exhibition here focused on his hyperrealistic, super-tiny portraiture. This new one turns to Torok's other strength: loosely gestural, "cartoon-y" ink drawings. If the 50-some-odd works on paper overwhelm you, have a perusal through Torok's first major monograph "Portraits", coinciding with this exhibition.</div>
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+ Cordy Ryman. The artist son of white-paint nonpareil Robert Ryman — well, one of his artist sons, anyway — gets all visceral in the gallery project room with his genre-blurring conglomerate reliefs.</div>
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* "Baraka" (dir. Ron Fricke, 1992) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 1p/4p. The Drafthouse's ongoing presentation of gorgeous classics in 70mm "Alamoscope" continues w/ this wordless, global journey! ALSO MON 7p.</div>
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* "<a href="http://www.livid.jp/">Livid</a>" (dirs. Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury, 2011) @ Theatre N Shibuya / 2F 24-5 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, West Exit). Sick shit goes down good in this fairytale for f'ed-up adults. What begins as a robbery heist by a young caregiver and her stupid BF at a Brittany-area estate leads to darker passageways and devilish nastiness.</div>
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* Tokyo Decadance "Oedo" @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/347451762000704/">Christon Cafe</a> / 5-17-13 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, East Exit), 11:30p/3000 yen. This kitschy venue goes supremely old-school, transforming into an Edo-era castle town. UK-based performer/choreographer YUSURA headlines, while the requisite tech-house DJs, Geisha go-go dancers, and more fill out the lineup.</div>
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* nisennenmondai @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-Nest</a> / 6F Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 7p/3000 yen. Another outing for Tokyo's esteemed kraut-rock trio, anchored by Sayaka Himeno's ferocious drumming! This is all building towards—spoiler!—nisennenmondai's "Souzousuruneji+" show on SEPT 16 in Ochiai, Tokyo. Stay tuned! w/ AUTORA</div>
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* AISHA @ <a href="http://www.harlem.co.jp/harlem/">HARLEM</a> / Maruyama-cho 2-4, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 10p/3000 yen. Hip-hop cutie AISHA celebrates the release of her new single, with lyrical b-boys Chehon, Richee, and Simon backing her up. Plus DJs and "supa dupa Saturday" opulence, don't miss it! </div>
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* Bernadette Corporation "2000 Wasted Years" @ <a href="http://artistsspace.org/">Artists Space</a> / 38 Greene St, 2nd Fl. The NY-based conceptual art trio's first major retrospective encompasses signature video works from the mid-'90s to today, plus faux-corporate promotional materials for as-yet unrealized projects, branded gear, "Made in USA" (the magazine!), and a veritable hotbed of other awesomeness.<br />
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* Alex Olson "Palmist and Editor" @ <a href="http://www.lisa-cooley.com/">Lisa Cooley</a> / 107 Norfolk St. New paintings with a strong graphic element and emphasis on the works' respective surfaces. Sounds like my style of abstraction.</div>
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* Alix Pearlstein "The Drawing Lesson" @ <a href="http://onstellarrays.com/">On Stellar Rays</a> / 133 Orchard St. Pearlstein presents two new videos, "Moves in the Field" and the titular work, ahead of her newly commissioned solo exhibition at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in January.</div>
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* Anya Kielar "WOMEN" @ <a href="http://www.racheluffnergallery.com/">Rachel Uffner Gallery</a> / 47 Orchard St. Large-scale fabric prints boxed within wooden frames and hung from the ceiling, revealing Kielar's ongoing investigation of the female form. A catalogue accompanies her second solo show at the gallery.</div>
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* Naama Tsabar "Propagation" @ <a href="http://www.thierrygoldberg.com/">Thierry Goldberg Gallery</a> / 103 Norfolk St. I've been a huge fan of Tsabar's since her rockin' performances at MoMA PS1's "Greater NY" — her audio-infused sculpture takes on whole new levels. Tsabar contributes a site-specific installation in her debut solo exhibition, featuring sculpture that double as instruments. Plus, she performs at this evening's opening (7:30p!) and will enact other performances with musicians on Sundays throughout the show's run; check the gallery website for further details.</div>
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* Richard Phillips @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 555 W 24th St. Classical portraiture, pop culture, and La Lohan. Oh yeah, but I can't help myself. See you there?</div>
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* Cosmetics @ <a href="http://glasslands.blogspot.com/">Glasslands</a> / 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8:30p/$10. Canada's Cosmetics emerge from the venue's haze (no doubt the smoke machine will be tuned to full blast) with their intoxicating glacial electro-pop. w/ Black Marble + Warm Ghost</div>
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* Emily + Andy's Film Club @ <a href="http://utvac.org/">Visual Arts Center Courtyard</a> / UT Art Building, 23rd St at Trinity, 6:30p. Ahead of Emily Roysdon's multimedia survey in the VAC's Vaulted Gallery (opening Sept 21, tune back in!) comes the second iteration of her co-curated film series with art historian Andy Campbell. They pair up with PhD candidate Kara Carmack to screen three short films: Cecilia Barriga's "The Meeting of Two Queens"; Isaac Julien's "Looking for Langston"; and Todd Haynes' "Dottie Gets Spanked".</div>
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* "A Burning Hot Summer" (dir. Philippe Garrel, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar</a> / 1120 S. Lamar, 7p. Reasons to see this: 1) the latest searing drama from French auteur Garrel, 2) his brooding, oft-acting son Louis is the lead, 3) Monica Bellucci plays Louis' wife (what the hell?) and 4) John Cale scored the film. Summer ain't over just yet, kids.</div>
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* "Piranha II: The Spawning" (dir. James Cameron, 1981) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 9:45p. Whatta feature film debut, right? Before Cameron, lover of the deepest deep, went transcendent in "The Abyss", he tackled B-Movie bliss with airborne piranhas (did you know the alternate title was "Piranha II: Flying Killers"? sick, right?). 30 years later, John Gulager's "Piranha 3DD" may have had more boobs, but Cameron's sequel wins in good ol' bloodshed.</div>
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* Lightning Bolt (Providence) @ <a href="http://www.emosaustin.com/">Emo's</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 8p/$15. The guerilla-rock Brians—Chippendale mauling the shit outta the kit, Gibson pummeling the bass—will decimate the newer, larger Emo's. Prepare to sweat.</div>
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* Satoru Aoyama "The Man-Machine (Reprise)" @ <a href="http://mizuma-art.co.jp/top.php">Mizuma Art Gallery</a> / 2F 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku (Yurakucho/Nanboku Lines to Ichigaya Station). Aoyama continues his investigation of man and machine's relationship, and that of labor, with a new series of embroidered newsprints on polyester that reference politics and societal concerns. </div>
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* Xiu Xiu + Talk Normal @ <a href="http://www.boweryballroom.com/">Bowery Ballroom</a> / 6 Delancey St (F/JMZ to Essex/Delancey), 9p/$15. Xiu Xiu's combo of self-lacerating lullabies and blistering art-rock production continue to compel to this day, as kindreds Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo walk the feel bad/feel good line. Brooklyn neo No Wavers Talk Normal commence the heavy percussion and skronky guitars.</div>
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* Kazuhiro Ito "bridge" @ <a href="http://hpgrpgallery.com/tokyo/">hpgrp Tokyo</a> / B1 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote to Harajuku Station, Tokyo Metro Chiyoda/Ginza/Hanzomon Lines to Omotesando Station). The Fukuoka-born artist continues to redefine the possibilities of bronze sculpture, from blobs and twisting spears to meteoric figurative works. I am particularly stoked about his centerpiece "Starman Loves You" and its "Earthbound"-referencing properties.</div>
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* Group Show @ <a href="http://www.gallerykoyanagi.com/">Gallery Koyanagi</a> / 1-7-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku (Tokyo Metro Ginza/Marunouchi/Hibiya Lines to Ginza Station). Risaku Suzuki (exhilarating photography), Ataru Sato (his graphite compositions made a splash at the 2010 Gwangju Biennale), Makoto Ofune (spatial-disruption), and Kimitake Sato (twisted traditionalism) form the gallery's end-of-summer group show.</div>
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* "Fargo" (dirs. Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996) midnight screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). A jag of blood shed across a snowy field. Two thugs swing near the Twin Cities, Steve Buscemi (basically playing an overly caffeinated version of himself) and the sociopathic Peter Stormare. They're meeting the tragic figure of William H. Macy, a bottled-up storm of politeness with dark intentions. Finally, there's Frances McDormand, the "Minnesota Nice"-speaking Sherlock Holmes and linchpin to this creative crime film. ALSO SAT-SUN</div>
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* Zambri + The Suzan @ <a href="http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/">Mercury Lounge</a> / 217 E Houston St (F to 2nd Ave), 7:30p/$10. Sisters Zambri are big on image, but it doesn't overshadow their potent mix of '80s electronic and noise-pop. Couple that with their fashion sense, and they paint a strong stage presence. w/ Brooklyn-via-Tokyo tropic-pop darlings The Suzan.</div>
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* Brooke Bamford "Endless Bummer" @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Forus-Gallery/305826309444692">Forus Gallery</a> / 1502 W 34th St #A. Local art-lovers have seen this young Studio Art major's style already: Bamford co-designed the VAC's Center Space Project's identity. Now she leads us through the last embers of summer with an exhibition of her vivid print media.<br />
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* "Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai" (dir. Takashi Miike, 2011) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar</a> / 1120 S Lamar. Finally! Miike's grandiose re-imagining of '62 classic "Harakiri" hits the Drafthouse, in glorious 3D.</div>
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* "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1989) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. The Holy Grail, the desiccated Donovan, Dad and son Jones (Sean Connery and ol' Harrison, respectively), in glorious 70mm Alamoscope! With special screenings through next WED.</div>
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* "Memento" (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2000) midnight screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. While the commercial geek world usurped Nolan for the Dark Knight Trilogy, before he did all that he directed a chilling, labyrinthine thriller on compromised memories and self-deception called "Memento". I caught its Austin premiere and still remember the heated, enlightening conversations it inspired. ALSO SAT</div>
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* James Rosenquist "Multiverse You Are, I Am" @ <a href="http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/">Acquavella Gallery</a> / 18 E 79th St. I remain a huge fan of this consummate American Pop master, despite his sorta funny exhibition of moving canvases from 2010. This one restores his singular vision, speeding ever forward into the cosmos, yet fully embedded with memories of the American experience. </div>
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* Erik Parker "Bye Bye Babylon" @ <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/">Paul Kasmin Gallery</a> / 293 10th Ave. Henri Rousseau on acid doesn't even begin to encapsulate the experience of seeing Parker's large psychedelic jungle landscapes up close. The Brooklyn-based artist celebrates his related monograph with a signing at the gallery shop around the corner, beginning at 6p.</div>
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* "Zombie Doom" (dir. Andreas Schnaas, 1999) midnight screening @ <a href="http://spectacletheater.com/">Spectacle</a> / 124 S 3rd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), $5. AKA "Violent Shit III: Infantry of Doom". That's about all I need to write about this German gore god Schnaas and his metal-masked avatar Karl Jr (not Carl's Junior), son of cyborg zombie Karl the Butcher, who lord over an island of ultraviolent mercenaries. Once two vengeful ninja brothers dare trespass, the only answer is a splatteriffic brawl for the ages. Violent!</div>
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* Ryan McGinley "Reach Out, I'm Right Here" @ <a href="http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/">Tomio Koyama Gallery</a> / 7F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station). The young rockstar-ish artist presents perhaps the pinnacle of his oeuvre: color photographs chronicling summer road trips he took with nude models across the grand ol' US of A.</div>
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* Yuichi Hirako "The Green Pieces" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO Ryogoku</a> / 1F 1-7-15 Kamezawa, Sumida-ku (Toei Oedo/JR Sobu Line to Ryogoku Station). Hirako's marriage of greenery sculpture with floral, figurative paintings appeared earlier this year at Copenhagen's Galleri Christoffer Egelund. Now the Okayama-born artist conjures some of that magic in Tokyo.</div>
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* Yoshihiro Kikuchi "Nullized Layers Inside the Institutional Coverups 1" @ <a href="http://aishomiura.com/">Aisho Miura Arts</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). Don't paint Kikuchi into a corner. The young Tokyo-based painter and printmaker is equally adept at creating visceral collage and highly technical inkjet abstractions.</div>
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* "Autumn Place" @ <a href="http://nug.jp/">Nanzuka Underground</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). Five artists with strong image-making properties constitute this group show, feat. Kohei Akiba, Hiroki Tsukuda, Julia Chiang (Brooklyn), Johannes Weiss (Berlin), and Klaus Scheckenbach (Switzerland).</div>
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* "Blindsight" @ <a href="http://www.ma2gallery.com/">MA2 Gallery</a> / 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Yamanote Line to Ebisu Station). Yasushi Kurabayashi curated this perceptive group exhibition, feat. contributions from Kei Imazu, Toru Kuwakubo, Tadasuke Go, Junji Sakai, Midori Sato, Minoru Nomata, Aki Yamamoto, and Heechang Yoon, with a special project by Yasuko Iba.</div>
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* Hiroshige Fukuhara @ <a href="http://www.aikowadagallery.com/">Ai Kowada Gallery</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Fukuhara introduces new silkscreens featuring silver leaf embossing alongside pencil and gesso compositions on panel, all featuring hyperrealized wildlife.</div>
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* Yusuke Tsuchiya "gilding" @ <a href="http://www.kidopress.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Very weird-ass figurative sculpture, created with terra-cotta and painted paper, from the young Chiba-born artist.</div>
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* Toru Nogawa "Sanctuary of Darkness" @ <a href="http://span-art.co.jp/">Span Art Gallery</a> / 2-2-18 1F Ginza, Chuo-ku. (Yurakucho Line to Ginza-Itchome Station). Sumptuous oils of Gothic Lolitas and sorta domino types? Sign me up!</div>
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* Emily + Andy's Film Club @ <a href="http://utvac.org/">Visual Arts Center Courtyard</a> / UT Art Building, 23rd St at Trinity, 6:30p. Ahead of Emily Roysdon's multimedia survey in the VAC's Vaulted Gallery (opening Sept 21, tune back in!) comes this first iteration of her co-curated film series with art historian Andy Campbell, kicking off with two films of rock 'n roll and queer culture by G.B. Jones: "The Troublemakers" (1990) and "The Yo-Yo Gang" (1992).</div>
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* "Pieces" (dir. Juan Piquer Simón, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:30p. THIS epitomizes '80s cult slasher classics, baby, a psycho stalking college coeds with an oversized chainsaw! If the locker room chase doesn't give you nightmares, the batshit shocker of an ending totally will! BAAASSSTAAARRRD!</div>
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* Koji Enokura @ <a href="http://www.takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Gallery</a> / 5F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Two decades of Enokura's "Documentation" prints, photographs echoing respective exhibitions throughout Japan and abroad, plus additional photographic materials from the mid-'60s through '80s. Enokura's documentation also appears at "RAUM 2012 Revision with Photographs SPACE TOTSUKA 70", at Shigeru Yokota Gallery.</div>
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* MERZBOW + Guitar Wolf @ <a href="http://www-shibuya.jp/schedule/">WWW</a> / 13-17 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 6:30p/3000 yen. Aural ferocity, via Nagoya jet-rockers Guitar Wolf and noise god himself MERZBOW! Decibel levels be damned! w/ VJ Rokapenis (ahem)</div>
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* "Possession" (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. Rejoice, for this deeply disturbing (and blood-drenched) divorce drama, which won lead Isabelle Adjani the Palme d'Or, sees the light of day once again! The disintegration of a marriage is at the heart of this psychological horror film, which somehow balances political undertones, splatter SFX, and superb cinematography in one unclassifiable, unforgettable cinematic package. LIST-recommended! </div>
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* Electric Eel Shock @ <a href="http://den-atsu.com/pc0.html">20000 Den-atsu</a> / B1 1-7-23 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Higashi-Koenji Station, Exit 2), 6:30p/2300 yen. Punk is bunk, in a tongue and cheek way, to these rip-roaring metalheads. If Motörhead were Japanese and Lemmy a mop-topped guitarist, they might look and sound a bit like Electric Eel Shock. w/ Mangadoron</div>
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* "Eraserhead" (dir. David Lynch, 1977) midnight screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). The sodden industrial landscape, the contrasty shadows and flagellate-like figures, the hiss of a radiator (and the woman living inside it). Very little compares to cult surrealist film like Lynch's nonpareil debut. ALSO SAT</div>
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* Little Dragon (Sweden) + Frankie Rose @ <a href="http://www.celebratebrooklyn.org/">Prospect Park Bandshell</a> / Prospect Park West & 9th St (F/G to 7th Ave), 7:30p/FREE. Celebrate Brooklyn continues with local indie mainstay Frankie Rose, mesmerizing the crowd w/ her '60's-channeling gossamer charms. Then the stage opens up for songbird Yukimi Nagano and synth-pop absolutes Little Dragon, cuing an otherworldly dance party. Show up early, kids. w/ Voices of Black</div>
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* "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (dir. Alison Klayman, 2011) @ <a href="http://violetcrowncinema.com/">Violet Crown Cinema</a> / 434 W 2nd St. The auspicious timing behind this documentary on one of contemporary art's finest activists is just too great: Klayman met Ai back in '08 and created a short film for his photography exhibition…then came Ai's beating by Chinese police and eventual detention, which captivated and alarmed the global community. A gripping portrait of a relentless figure, never stifled by threats nor repression.</div>
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* "Carrie" (dir. Brian De Palma, 1976) midnight screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. I am beyond stoked about the remake adaptation to Stephen King's debut published novel…which is extremely rare for me and probably has a lot to do w/ Chloe Grace Moretz as the titular figure. But decades before her came awkward Sissy Spacek, in a heart-wrenching role as the glasslike, abused high-school girl with ferocious telekinetic powers. "Carrie" has lost little to none of its original bracing cinematic power. See it on the big screen! ALSO SAT</div>
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* PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET @ <a href="http://koenji-high.com/">Koenji High</a> / 4-30-1 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku (Chuo Line to Koenji Station), 7p/2500 yen. My favorite Iwate-area dream-popstars PGIC are just bursting with twee joy, tempered by waves and waves of snarling guitar feedback — these kids are LOUD live! They're joined by 7eyes40days, who celebrate their "Blind City/Closed Mind" EP release!</div>
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* Warm Up 2012: Photek (UK) @ <a href="http://momaps1.org/">MoMA PS1</a> / 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City (E/M to 23rd St/Ely Ave), noon/$15. Rupert Parkes' seminal '97 LP "Modus Operandi" changed my appreciation for d'n'b—as Photek, his razor-sharp drum edits and spare, sinister soundscapes added a whole new zenith of (not totally) dancefloor-friendly drama. In his later years and increasingly progressive sound…I've fallen off. But I hear he's working on a 2K12 take on "MO", and he's still undeniably among the best beatmasters around. w/ Morgan Geist and Shlohmo (LA) (FREE for members)</div>
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* Aesop Rock (San Fran) + Rob Sonic (NYC) @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 8p/$20. Ace-rizzle is among my favorite lyricists, and though he moved to Cali he still lives, breathes, and speaks NYC. He answered commercial success from the "Daylight" EP with the impenetrable, thematic "Bazooka Tooth", and now the recent, superlative "Skelethon". Rob Sonic's got the rhyme chops to hold his own with Aesop's sinuous prose. Going to be a hot night for 'heads everywhere.</div>
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* Juicy J (Memphis) @ <a href="http://thebeautyballroom.ticketfly.com/">Beauty Ballroom</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 9p/$25. So much hip-hop in the city tonight! If cerebrum-shattering soliloquies isn't your jam, Three-6 Mafia frontman Juicy J is the thing. He's still among the crunkest out there. w/ Chevy Woods and Smoke DZA</div>
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* "<a href="http://www.albatros-film.com/sleepingtight/">Sleep Tight</a>" (dir. Jaume Balaguero, 2011) @ Theatre N Shibuya / 2F 24-2 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, West Exit). A lowly, brawny concierge of a hoity-toity condo takes a severely demented liking in a sunny-dispositioned, young resident. As in, hiding under her bed, drugging her all clandestine-like, and just wait 'til her boyfriend returns…or a neighbor finds out! One of the creepier entries at 2011's Fantastic Fest.</div>
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* Janice Lee & Anna Joy Springer @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 1101 Navasota St, 6p. The "Daughter & VRRL" book tour—featuring writer/curator Lee's "Daughter" and Springer's memoir "The Vicious Red Relic, Love"—touches down in ATX. The writers read queer literature, weird science, and other assuredly mind-expanding texts. </div>
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* <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">住所不定無職</span> @ <a href="http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/">Shinjuku LOFT</a> / 1-12-0 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, Kabukicho Exit), 5p/3000 yen. Killer tune explosions! The candy color-coded cuties behind <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">住所不定無職</span> (lit. "no job nor fixed address") rock the house with their potent combo of vintage sway and garage rasp. w/ THE NEATBEATS</div>
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* "Drive" (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (E/M to 5th Ave/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 8p. Call me the biggest holdout to "Drive" mania—possibly b/c I don't get the fervor for Ryan Gosling. But whatever, I saw it, and I really dug it. Take raw '80s glam and neon-lit LA with a kickass soundtrack and a decent Gosling role, as a former getaway driver trying to make good, and you've got a pretty solid picture</div>
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* "Alligator" (dir. Lewis Teague, 1980) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. Imagine you're a kid in industrial-town Texas, and you see a creature-feature starring a huge-ass (animatronic, but whatever, you're young!), human-devouring alligator in the sewers. You now believe all NYC sewers contain such reptiles! Yes, I realize this schlock-tastic film is set in Chicago, but as a kid all big cities look the same. Anyway, it was scary enough that I haven't seen it since.</div>
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* "The Nature of Disappearance", curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart @ <a href="http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/">Marianne Boesky Gallery</a> / 509 W 24th St. The gallery produced a stunning advert for this group exhibition, an image of participating artist Mathias Kessler's wonderful aquarium diorama "Nowhere to Be Found", feat. a human skull slowly consumed by a flourishing coral ecosystem. In a subtle gesture, he reclaimed the ubiquitous art-world symbol—the skull—from post-Warholian emo-trendiness and Damien Hirst glitz. That alone receives my highest praise to see this unmissable exhibition. But beyond this, all the artists here are interested in the material integrity of their works and the possibilities of total loss from their respective experimentation and transgressive practices. Feat. Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Bas Jan Ader, Dieter Roth, Gustav Metzger, Félix Gonzalez-Torres, and Kessler.</div>
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* "Painting is History" @ <a href="http://winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. O RLY? I ask myself at this cheeky titling. Edward Winkleman himself, along w/ Jay Grimm, curated this intriguing group show, feat. six artists who use traditional painterly techniques in representing historical events. Don't expect to be bored, though, considering Charles Browning's raw imagery and Valerie Hegarty's cheeky alterations.</div>
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* "Size Matters" @ <a href="http://dodge-gallery.com/">DODGEgallery</a> / 15 Rivington St. Artists comfortable w/ shifting scales within their respective practices. Some of this sounds tongue-in-cheek, like Rebecca Chamberlain presenting simultaneously her largest work (a 5ft-tall diptych) and smallest (a 12-inch double-sided plinth), but her adaptability within architecture and that of her peers Ted Gahl, Cassie Ralhl, Matt Rich, and Michael Zelehoski, sounds dope to me. (ENDS FRI)</div>
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* "Manscape: Male as Subject and Object", curated by Christopher Eamon @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. There is a disclaimer on the gallery door noting that this group show "may not be suitable to all viewers". Sounds like my kind of show! But seriously, Eamon pulls off a thoughtful dissection of traditional male imagery and hierarchy in art via three young and compelling female artists (Mariah Robertson, Michele Abeles, and Adina Popescu) and tempered by a less-known male some 25 years their senior (John Massey). Photography is the focal point here: Robertson's two-pronged visual assertion of lone phalluses infringing onto optical illusion backdrops and Abeles' stealthy still-lifes (in one, she makes a compelling critical portrait of blue-drenched objectifier Yves Klein). Popescu gives her male subject a face (in her video "Jeremiah", screened earlier this year in "Blind Cut" at Marlborough Chelsea in NYC), but his voice is really her own words, a dialogue on consumption. Massey is not simply counterbalance here as the sole male artist and older figure. I wonder what the exhibition would be like without him. His contribution, a sensitive gaze into his own head and thoughts via his "Studio Projections" photographs (involving a maquette of Massey's studio and projections of images rephotographed from newspapers in the '70s), gives a vulnerability to this male artist via the admitted failures of depicted male-headed modernist activities. Back to the women: are they striving for the same sort of utopian goals in their respective truncations and takedowns of male imagery? I think when you take these works into the greater contexts of their respective oeuvres—like Robertson's darkroom experimentation and Abeles' continually groundbreaking compositional techniques—then the answer is not so clear. At the very least, I do not see these artists' progresses "destined for failure" like Massey's mining of decades' old modernism. </div>
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* Hiroko Okada "No Dress Code" @ <a href="http://mizuma-art.co.jp/">Mizuma Art Gallery</a> / 2F 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku (Yurakucho/Nanboku Lines to Ichigaya Station). Okada reinterprets the "human-painting relationship" via photorealistic renderings of…underwear! Expect a multimedia installation related to her continued pointed takedowns of hypercommodified society. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Michiko Sago + Shoko Matsumiya "Harmony" @ <a href="http://www.ma2gallery.com/">MA2 Gallery</a> / 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Yamanote Line to Ebisu Station). The gallery creates a dialogue b/w two young artisans: Matsumiya's brilliant, organic glassworks and Sago's contemporary ceramic forms. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-8831323596406870782012-08-01T08:35:00.000-04:002012-08-01T08:35:17.657-04:00fee's LIST / through 8/7<br />
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* Yoshiro Takeuchi @ <a href="http://hpgrpgallery.com/tokyo/">hpgrp Tokyo</a> / B1 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote to Harajuku Station, Tokyo Metro Chiyoda/Ginza/Hanzomon Lines to Omotesando Station). Takeuchi returns to the gallery with two years' worth of new paintings, beguiling and minimalist pools of color surrounded by almost ornate ribboned borders.</div>
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* Dirty Projectors (Brooklyn) @ <a href="http://www.emosaustin.com/">Emo's</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 9p/$22. Confession: I know Dirty Projectors for the girls' wordless harmonizing over "A Peace of Light" (on The Roots' wonderful "How I Got Over" LP), that and "Stillness is the Move". Not Dave Longstreth's decade-long, multilayered project and pretty kick-ass live band. That's changing w/ new LP "Swing Lo Magellan". Call me what I am, a johnny-come-super-lately, but I dig it: astute and emotive, almost totally genre-less. w/ Wye Oak</div>
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* Ryoichi Saito <span style="font: 12.0px 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">「如是」</span> @ <a href="http://www.tosei-sha.jp/TOSEI-NEW-HP/html/EXHIBITIONS/j_exhibitions.html">Gallery TOSEI</a> / 5-18-20 Chuo, Nagano-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Shin-Nakao Station, Exit 1-2). "Nyoze" is a Buddhist term roughly translating to "like this", as an opener to a sutra. It's a good indicator of the Tokyo-based photographer's new show, ephemeral and luscious gelatin silver prints of floodplains, mirrored lakes, and weathered plains.</div>
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* Hiroko Osugi @ <a href="http://www.artfrontgallery.com/">Art Front Gallery</a> / Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku (JR Lines etc to Shibuya). The Fukuoka-born shod master delights in her continued prowess with ink and calligraphy as a contemporary art form.</div>
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* "Hausu" (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) midnight screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). The now almost-monthly late-night screenings of this spastic art-house horror classic returns! Think black cats are the only harbingers of evil? You haven't met Auntie's Himalayan! With enough painted landscapes, in-camera FX, fight-sequence theme-songs and cute girls to overwhelm even the most discerning crowd. See it on the big screen, again! ALSO SAT</div>
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* "<a href="http://www.another-movie.com/">Another</a>" (dir. Takeshi Furusawa, 2012) @ TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills / 6-10-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Toei Oedo/Hibiya Lines to Roppongi Station). "Another" began as a mystery horror novel, then a serialized manga, then a recent 12-part TV anime series. Thank you, Japan, for your thoroughness! I really dig this: it's a middle-school drama where young dude and his eerie, doll-like classmate (played by mop-topped cutie Ai Hashimoto, who was the titular villain in "Sadako 3D") investigate the senseless, violent murders of their classmates.</div>
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* nisennenmondai @ <a href="http://asia.iflyer.jp/venue/events">clubasia</a> / 1-8 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 11p/3500 yen. Tokyo's all-female, instrumental krautrock champs just clobber the hell out of clubasia. Think rubber-band basslines that slap against your spinal column, searing guitar loops, and Sayaka's ferocious spitfire drumming.</div>
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* tokyoDOLORES "<a href="http://ameblo.jp/cay663/entry-11303860486.html">Bionic Trigger</a>" Summer Showcase @ Differ Ariake / 1-3-25 Ariake, Koto-ku (Rinkai Line to Kokusai-Tenjijo Station), 4p/4000 yen. Earlier this year, Japan's premiere pole-dance team tokyoDOLORES defended Italy from a deep-space viral terror. Led by Cay Izumi, the girls must now defend Japan against certain danger! </div>
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* "Possession" (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. Rejoice, for this deeply disturbing (and blood-drenched) divorce drama, which won lead Isabelle Adjani the Palme d'Or, sees the light of day once again! The disintegration of a marriage is at the heart of this psychological horror film, which somehow balances political undertones, splatter SFX, and superb cinematography in one unclassifiable, unforgettable cinematic package. LIST-recommended! ALSO MON</div>
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* Yuuji Kaida "KAIJU" @ <a href="http://span-art.co.jp/">Span Art Gallery</a> / 2-2-18 1F Ginza, Chuo-ku. (Yurakucho Line to Ginza-Itchome Station). You need not be a geek to know Kaida, aka Japan's "monster painter" and top-notch fantasy illustrator. He's responsible for contributing artwork to Godzilla, Transformers, Gundam, and decades of general mind-blowing monster design.</div>
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* "Tamed Territory" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. I see three levels of abstraction, or tweaking of reality, in this group show, focused on animals and their environments. Areca Roe uses the zoo as backdrop to her photographs, manufactured dioramas of "realistic spaces" for their animal inhabitants. Calder Kamin's ceramics tread the spectrum of pure kitsch—candy-colored and nostalgic, Koons-like—and disturbing, for even her sculpted roadkill appears cute under gloss and glaze. Casey Polachek's smallish-scale paintings (besides one rendering of a mammoth puppy frolicking in the snow) appear ostensibly the most lifelike, but in fact Polachek extracted elements from multiple photographs and studies—like painterly, analogue Photoshop—to execute his scenes. They have little to no semblance with reality beyond memory and imagination, yet his compositions are convincingly real. </div>
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* "Manscape: Male as Subject and Object", curated by Christopher Eamon @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. There is a disclaimer on the gallery door noting that this group show "may not be suitable to all viewers". Sounds like my kind of show! But seriously, Eamon pulls off a thoughtful dissection of traditional male imagery and hierarchy in art via three young and compelling female artists (Mariah Robertson, Michele Abeles, and Adina Popescu) and tempered by a less-known male some 25 years their senior (John Massey). Photography is the focal point here: Robertson's two-pronged visual assertion of lone phalluses infringing onto optical illusion backdrops and Abeles' stealthy still-lifes (in one, she makes a compelling critical portrait of blue-drenched objectifier Yves Klein). Popescu gives her male subject a face (in her video "Jeremiah", screened earlier this year in "Blind Cut" at Marlborough Chelsea in NYC), but his voice is really her own words, a dialogue on consumption. Massey is not simply counterbalance here as the sole male artist and older figure. I wonder what the exhibition would be like without him. His contribution, a sensitive gaze into his own head and thoughts via his "Studio Projections" photographs (involving a maquette of Massey's studio and projections of images rephotographed from newspapers in the '70s), gives a vulnerability to this male artist via the admitted failures of depicted male-headed modernist activities. Back to the women: are they striving for the same sort of utopian goals in their respective truncations and takedowns of male imagery? I think when you take these works into the greater contexts of their respective oeuvres—like Robertson's darkroom experimentation and Abeles' continually groundbreaking compositional techniques—then the answer is not so clear. At the very least, I do not see these artists' progresses "destined for failure" like Massey's mining of decades' old modernism. </div>
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* Colin Doyle "An Inquiry Concerning" @ <a href="http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/galleries/att_eec_gallery.cfm">Courtyard Garden, AT&T Center</a> / 1900 University Ave, 2nd Fl. This handsome photography presentation by young Austin-based artist Doyle left me hungry for more. And that was after staring for like an hour at the five well-sized prints, each focusing crisply on a single object or several related elements on a non-fussy, usually monochrome backdrop. I felt an intriguing kinship b/w Doyle's compositions and those of camera-geek Christopher Williams, some 30 years Doyle's senior. Both capture the purportedly mundane or banal, boosting that image into something quite beautiful and thought-provoking. Though Williams gets a bit funny sometimes with his bisected cameras and lengthy titles, while Doyle features only one funny print of five, "Picture For Maggie", the oldest work in the show. Compare this— the red funnel, enlarged to bucket proportions and topped off with white powder, floating tuliplike on a just-there clear test-tube—to "Three Lines", both a gigantic staple and three finger-sized black lines forming a most elementary shape. The former feels almost excessive and flashy now, yet it is practically as elegant as can be. Ditto "Six Bricks", a Carl Andre-style array that speaks both to preschool-age counting exercises and my favorite style of Minimalism. Couple these with the blinged-out "Triangle" and the graceful curves and bright colors of "Sum Sum" (refrigerator magnets?), and you have a whole reductive visual language. You might be surprised at how long you spend looking at them.</div>
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* "Wish You Were Here" @ <a href="http://anacristeagallery.com/">Ana Cristea Gallery</a> / 521 W 26th St. Nobody in NYC is showing young E. European talent like Ana Cristea. Case in point: laddish Andrej Dubravsky, whose murkily titillating scenes I first discovered via Prague's Jiri Svestka Gallery. Or the jewellike subversion by Oana Farcas (seen her in Copenhagen's LARMgalleri). Their elder Gideon Kiefer rounds out the lot with his subtly surreal scenes. Recommended! </div>
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* Yuki Tawada "Burnt Photographs" @ <a href="http://www.taronasugallery.com/">Taro Nasu Gallery</a> / 1-2-11 Higashi-kanda, Chiyoda-ku (Sobu Line to Bakurocho Station). The Shizuoka-born artist returns to the gallery with a truly transformative solo exhibition. She burns inkjet prints and paints them in acrylic, creating a new image phoenix-like from the gnarly, ashen remains of its previous state. Much emotional involvement and sense of place occurs here.</div>
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* Katsumi Hayakawa "PHASE III" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO</a> / 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Intricate, gridlike paper structures emulating mathematical formulas, superconductor circuits, futuristic city-plans straight outta "Neuromancer" and a whole helluva lotto other cool stuff.</div>
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* Ine Izumi @ <a href="http://taimatz.main.jp/">Taimatz</a> / 1-2-11 Higashi-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku (JR Sobu Line to Bakurocho Station, Toei-Shinjuku Line to Bakuro-Yokoyama Station). I'm totally a fan of Izumi's thoughtful, delicate ink and acrylic renderings of the mundane, ornamental, and dreamlike. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Yutokutaishi Akiyama @ <a href="http://aishomiura.com/">Aisho Miura Arts</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). The performance artist, who gained nationwide fame in the '70s by running in the Tokyo gubernatorial election under "politics to be pop art", unveils a new performance work plus Buriki sculpture.</div>
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* Keiichi Tanaami @ <a href="http://nug.jp/">Nanzuka Underground</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). Tanaami is one of Japan's strongest answers to classic Pop art — think more the acid-toned Chicago school than NYC — which he's been producing since the '60s. This exhibition traces his creative and subversive illustrated history, plus includes a new digital animation. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-24447842501826673862012-07-18T08:37:00.000-04:002012-07-18T18:44:36.685-04:00fee's LIST / through 7/24<br />
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* "Ghosts in the Machine" @ <a href="http://newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St). A three-floor tackling of technology and machines in art. Co-curators Massimiliano Gioni (who in his spare time is organizing the 55th Venice Biennale!) and Gary Carrion-Murayari wisely go historic, featuring Hans Haacke, Otto Piene, Robert Breer, Gego and constructions by Emery Blagdon, amid others. The scientific approach to perceptual abstraction—i.e. Op Art—sounds, well, I'll give it a chance, and it includes Victor Vasarely, Richard Anuskiewicz, the mighty Bridget Riley and others. Plus a contemporary take on technological advances, via thought-provoking artists like Christopher Williams and Henrik Olesen.</div>
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* Otto Piene in conversation w/ Massimiliano Gioni @ <a href="http://newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St), 7p. Even cooler: the German kineticist and founder of the group ZERO talks about the interconnectivity of his art with technology and nature to Gioni, "Ghosts in the Machine" co-curator and Associate Director and Director of Special Exhibitions at the New Museum.</div>
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* Japan Cuts 2012 at <a href="http://japansociety.org/">Japan Society</a> / 333 E 47th St (E/M to 53rd/5th Ave, 6 to 51st St). Crazy-ass contemporary Japanese cinema felt a bit lacking in this year's NYAFF? Don't you worry, friends, they're all here in the bonkers 2012 edition of Japan Cuts. Read on for my picks (just look for the <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a> slug):</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Girls for Keeps" (dir. Yoshihiro Fukagawa, 2011) at 7:30p. In last week's screening of "Love Strikes!" I opined 'whatever happened to Kumiko Aso?' Well, she's in this film too, a beyond glamourous Japanese equivalent of "Sex and the City" whose original title is "Girl" but more closely means "Super-Stylish—and Possibly Very Materialistic—Girl".</div>
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* "The Fifth Element" (dir. Luc Besson, 1997) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. Sci-fi with HUMOR…what a rare concept! Park Bruce Willis (playing basically himself) behind a flying taxi, give him a huge-ass gun and a hot alien dame (Milla Jovovich as redhead), then send him off to defeat a roiling dark-matter planet of pure evil. And that ain't even the Cliffs Notes version to this awesome, sexy action romp.</div>
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* "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave" (dir. Emilio Miraglia, 1971) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:15p. Lord Alan Cunningham is so disturbed by his disloyal dead wife that he begins torturing sexy redheads in his castle's S&M dungeon! Replete w/ a psychedelic soundtrack!</div>
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* Heliotropes @ <a href="http://union-pool.com/">Union Pool</a> / 484 Union Ave, Williamsburg (L/G to Lorimer), 9p/$10. Brooklyn's fiercest doom-pop foursome Heliotropes have the indie winds at their backs. From early ripping sets that produced the rumbling and yowling cohesion of "Holy Cross" and "True Love's Knot", to the psychedelic enchantment of new single "Moonlite", a headlining set benefiting Russian riot-grrrls Pussy Riot and an upcoming show at 92Y Tribeca supporting the BrooklynVegan photo exhibition this August. Yeah, I'm a huge fan, and a friend of these rockin' ladies. Their set tonight hints at new songs. w/ The Phantom Family Halo </div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">日本マドンナ</span> @ <a href="http://sputniklab.com/redcloth/home.html">Shinjuku Red Cloth</a> / B1 6-28-12 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, East Exit, Toei Oedo/Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Lines to Higashi-Shinjuku Station), 7p/2300 yen. Three young riot-grrrls who look like juvenile delinquents but follow the rules of rocking out HARD. Meet "Nippon Madonna".</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "The Woodsman and the Rain" (dir. Shuichi Okita, 2011) at 7p. Ah, Koji Yakusho, he's a superlative actor. Got the charisma of George Clooney and the action chops of Bruce Willis. Japan Society pays homage to this total badass, and "The Woodsman and the Rain" begins the Yakusho focus. In it, he plays…a lumberjack! A lumberjack caught up in the on-site shooting of a zombie film! Too awesome. w/ Koji Yakusho in attendance!</div>
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* "Tamed Territory" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. The focus of this gallery's summer show is animals and their environments, feat. paintings by Casey Polacheck, photography by Areca Roe, and—rather intriguingly—animal ceramics by Calder Kamin.</div>
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* "The Dark Knight Rises" (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2012) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S Lamar</a> / 1120 S Lamar. I put off thinking about this one for a long time—hey, I had "Prometheus" consuming my full anticipation!—but now the final chapter of Nolan's darker take on Batman comes to an end, and it's looking like a good one. I'll admit: I read "Knightfall" back in the mid-'90s, so I'm super-stoked to see Batman finally go toe-to-toe w/ Tom "Bane" Hardy. </div>
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* Kingdom of Suicide Lovers @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 9p/$8. KOSL unleash addictively groovy noise-rock licks tempered by woozy coed harmonizing. If you told me they were from NYC circa 1992 vs Austin TX, I'd believe you. w/ Nervous Curtains </div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">キノコホテル</span> @ <a href="http://koenji-high.com/">Koenji High</a> / 4-30-1 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku (Chuo Line to Koenji Station), 7p/3300 yen. "Group Sounds" (think Japanese Beatles) live on in the all-female Tokyo-area garage-rockers Kinoco Hotel, whose perfect uniforms and hair-dos are equalled by their mega-fuzzy riffs and vintage organ lines. Tiny venue High should be extra cozy tonight.</div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">パスピエ</span> @ <a href="http://www.gar-den.in/pc/index.php">Shimokitazawa GARDEN</a> / B1F 2-4-5 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, South Exit), 7p/1500 yen Tokyo electro-pop darlings <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">パスピエ</span> (Passepied) channel Brooklynites Twin Sister with a hazy, nocturnal gloss. w/ FLiP</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Chronicle of my Mother" (dir. Masato Harada, 2011) at 6p. A sensitive look at family life, filtered through the greats like Yasujiro Ozu. Koji Yakusho plays a hard-ass dad coming to terms w/ his elderly mother's growing dementia. w/ Yakusho in attendance!</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "13 Assassins" (dir. Takashi Miike, 2010) at 8:20p. Miike adapts Eiichi Kudo's '63 original into a sprawling nonstop fight-scene, with stalwart actor Koji Yakusho leading his ragtag band of samurai against the decadent masses. They're destined to lose, but not before decapitating a whole mess of bad guys! w/ Yakusho in attendance!</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Cure" (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997) at 11p. Hands down one of the scariest films I've ever seen, pure psychological dread starring Koji Yakusho (a frequent Kurosawa collaborator) as a grizzled gumshoe facing off w/ a psychic psycho. w/ Yakusho in attendance!</div>
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* Prurient @ <a href="http://www.saintvitusbar.com/">Saint Vitus</a> / 1120 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint (G to Greenpoint, 7 to Vernon Blvd/Jackson Ave), midnight/$10. Oh mother. Dominick Fernow is really nice dude, seriously, but when he removes his shirt (probably) and grabs like three microphones (totally), he's full-on noisician Prurient, among the loudest, most aggressive acts I've ever witnessed firsthand. Don't let the synth-heavy "Bermuda Drain" confuse you: he's liable to bury all that under shrill feedback and charming titles like "Cocaine Death".</div>
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* Warm Up 2012: Matthew Dear (DJ set) @ <a href="http://momaps1.org/">MoMA PS1</a> / 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City (E/M to 23rd St/Ely Ave), 2p/$15 (FREE for members). Ghostly guru Matthew Dear is "only" DJing Warm Up, but considering the microhouse crooner's got a new LP on the way (with autumn dates to follow), maybe he'll debut some heavy stuff? "Her Fantasy" is pretty sweet. w/ Sepalcure (Berlin/NYC) and Le1f (NYC)</div>
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* The Sour Notes @ <a href="http://red7austin.com/">Red 7</a> / 611 E 7th St, 7p/$7. Austin indie-rock powerhouse collective The Sour Notes kick off their 2012 tour "The Endless Sour" by playing a massive two-stage showcase, also feat. local dudes Royal Forest, Knifight, Jess Williamson, Little Brave, and many others.</div>
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* Futoshi Miyagi "American Boyfriend" @ <a href="http://www.aikowadagallery.com/">Ai Kowada Gallery</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Miyagi injects his Okinawan heritage and gay identity in this semi-narrative exhibition, utilizing traditional dyeing and stenciling to manipulate his photography.</div>
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* "<a href="http://killermotel.com/">Killer Motel</a>" (dir. Kazuya Ozawa, 2012) @ TOLLYWOOD / 2F 5-32-5 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, South Exit). Considering "Robogeisha" producer Akira Yamaguchi has his hands in this blood-drenched chiller, a decidedly Japanese take on the slasher film.</div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">「<a href="http://www.bitters.co.jp/garrel-ai/">灼熱の肌</a>」</span>"A Burning Hot Summer" (dir. Philippe Garrel, 2012) @ Imageforum / 2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, East Exit). Reasons to see this: 1) the latest searing drama from French auteur Garrel, 2) his brooding, oft-acting son Louis is the lead, 3) Monica Bellucci plays Louis' wife (what the hell?) and 4) John Cale scored the film. Summer just got a helluva lot hotter, kids.</div>
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* "<a href="http://www.iron-girl.net/">Iron Girl</a>" (dir. Masatoshi Nagamine, 2012) @ Ginza Cinepathos / 4-8-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku (Ginza/Hibiya/Marunouchi Lines to Ginza Station). Maybe you caught "Female Prisoner No. 701: Sasori", one of a series of Japanese-style "Women in Cages" sexploitation films. If you did, or if that title/theme even piques your sicko curiosity (hey, own up!), you'll be happy to know "Sasori"'s star, AV idol Kirara Asuka, plays the titular superheroine in "Iron Girl". She wears a powered-up (figure-accenting) suit and kicks lots of ass. Co-starring a bunch of gravure idols like Rina Akiyama.</div>
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* Miila and the Geeks @ <a href="http://www.geocities.jp/xxxheavensdoorxxx/">Heaven's Door</a> / 1-33-19 Sangen-jaya, Setagaya-ku (Den-en-toshi Line to Sangen-jaya Station), 7p/2500 yen. Tokyo singer/songwriter Moe Wadaka's incredible, indie-pop trio Miila and the Geeks (she's Miila, saxophonist Komori and drummer Ajima the geeks), whose slightly sinister, garage-rock debut "New Age" is a triumph for the indie scene. Plus Moe's behind the band's fractured lovely music videos. w/ Grayson Gilmour (New Zealand)</div>
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* "Surreal Performances with Photo-Projections, Words, and Voice" @ <a href="http://www.tribes.org/web/">Tribes Gallery</a> / 285 E 3rd St, 2nd Fl, 5p. Barbara Rosenthal curated this multilayered jaunt into the subconscious, starring contemporary NYC Surrealist artist/writers producing words and sounds against large-screen projections. Plankhead, Dean Ebben, Peter Grzybowski, Heide Hatry, and Rosenthal will each participate. Open your minds and dive in.<br />
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Love Strikes!" (dir. Hitoshi Ohne, 2011) at 1p. You have to be under 25 to understand the Japanese title, "Moteki", i.e. "unexplained romantic popularity with the opposite sex". Thus is the wave that crashes over nerdish pop culture writer Yukiyo (Mirai Moriyama), who unexpectedly befriends mega-cutie Miyuki (Masami Nagasawa). So the only natural thing happens: all these other hotties start digging him too, incl. Kumiko Aso (HELLO, where has she been??), Riisa Naka, Yoko Maki, and more. Rom-com to the max, baby.</div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">パスピエ</span> + <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">快速東京</span> @ <a href="http://www.toos.co.jp/lush/">Shibuya LUSH</a> / B1 1-10-7 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, East Exit), 6:30p/2300 yen. Dreamy electro-pop Tokyoites play ANOTHER show (see FRI), meaning I'm in heaven. Interesting contrast tonight, though, as they precede local spazz-rockers <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">快速東京, </span>which is half the fun of these "Beat Happening" showcases.</div>
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* "The Eurythmics Live" (dir. Geoff Wonfor, 1997) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:30p. A child of the '80s like yours truly cannot miss this Music Monday screening, a 35mm print of synth-pop legends The Eurythmics live in concert during their "Revenge Tour" in February '87.</div>
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* "Q: The Winged Serpent" (dir. Larry Cohen, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a>, 320 E Sixth St, 10:45p. A batshit bonkers monster movie about the mythical Quetzalcoatl roosting atop the Chrysler Building sounds unfathomable in the directorial hands of anyone besides the true mayhem-master Larry "It's Alive" Cohen. Makes me miss the Big Apple that much more.</div>
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* COH @ <a href="https://www.super-deluxe.com/">SuperDeluxe</a> / B1F 3-1-25 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station), 8p/2000 yen. Consider what your getting into when facing a COH (né Ivan Pavlov) show: the sound engineer's debut on Raster-Noton was called "Enter Tinnitus". That said, the Sweden-based producer's retooling of Cosey Fanni Tutti ("COH Plays Cosey") and last year's wonderful "IIRON" LP promise a glacial, mesmerizing set tonight. Decibels be damned! w/ VOVIVAV & Shotaro Hirata</div>
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* "Texas Prize 2012": Jamal Cyrus, Will Henry, Jeff Williams @ <a href="http://amoa-arthouse.org/">AMOA-Arthouse</a> / 700 Congress. Texas-based professionals nominated these three contemporary artists for an exhibition, then another panel of jurors pick one for a significant award. Cat's out the bag: Williams won it, for a dripping, unnerving site-specific installation on the museum's second floor, combining Central Texas fossils with industrial objects and the light smell of unseen—or absent—chemicals. Like I wrote in my earlier LIST, I was pulling for Cyrus, for his outstanding work at the New Museum's "Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet" and the literary workshop "Book Club" at Project Room Houses in Houston, TX's Third Ward (w/ collaborator Steffani Jemison). His large installation of animal hide-covered objects, stereo equipment, and electronics is echoed in a video performance where he douses a tenor saxophone in batter, deep-fries it, and points microphones at the process. Noisily good, but then I'm into Merzbow (see MON, NYC). Henry's rather quiet paintings of landscapes in wrong colors all hang downstairs (I mostly understand why the museum didn't incorporate the three artists) and are all the more silent paired with Cyrus and Williams' work.</div>
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* Takuma Nakahira "Circulation: Date, Place Events" @ <a href="http://bld-gallery.jp/">BLD Gallery</a> / 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo Ward Tokyo (JR Yurakucho Station, Marunouchi Line to Ginza Station). Nakahira's series from the 7th Paris Biennale in 1971, where he represented Japan, are restaged here for the first time, reflecting his youthful vivacity along the lines of peer and modernist photographer Daido Moriyama. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-82576537874541606472012-07-11T08:27:00.000-04:002012-07-11T08:27:22.902-04:00fee's LIST / through 7/17<br />
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* "Blasting Voice" @ <a href="http://www.suzannegeiss.com/">The Suzanne Geiss Company</a> / 136 Grand St. As the title sort of precludes, this group exhibition is performance-driven and features a tricked out sound system. Ashland Mines developed the stage and concept while Mevin McGarry and Isabel Venero organized some two dozen artists, each performing variations of amplified poetic concepts nightly. The talent here is great and vast, incl. Wu Tsang, Math Bass, James Ferraro, and TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone throughout the exhibition's run.</div>
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* "Painting is History" @ <a href="http://winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. O RLY? I ask myself at this cheeky titling. Edward Winkleman himself, along w/ Jay Grimm, curated this intriguing group show, feat. six artists who use traditional painterly techniques in representing historical events. Don't expect to be bored, though, considering Charles Browning's raw imagery and Valerie Hegarty's cheeky alterations.</div>
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* Future Islands (Baltimore) + Darlings @ <a href="http://www.entertainment4every1.net/shows/">Death By Audio</a> / 49 S 2nd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$10. I've been koo-koo for Brooklyn lo-fi rockers Darlings since 2007 and their pop-punk LP "Yeah I Know". Their singsong coed harmonies shine through last year's high-fivable EP "Warma". They set the stage for Future Islands and force-of-nature vocalist Samuel T. Herring.</div>
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* Hiroko Okada "No Dress Code" @ <a href="http://mizuma-art.co.jp/">Mizuma Art Gallery</a> / 2F 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku (Yurakucho/Nanboku Lines to Ichigaya Station). Okada reinterprets the "human-painting relationship" via photorealistic renderings of…underwear! Expect a multimedia installation related to her continued pointed takedowns of hypercommodified society.</div>
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* Yayoi Kusama @ <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a> / 945 Madison Ave (6 to 75th St). Finally. A proper retrospective for the superlative Japanese artist, whose diverse media—paintings, video, installation, sculpture etc—defy easy categorization yet are simultaneously unmistakably HERS. Kusama's hallucinatory "infinity nets", her mirrored kinetic carpets and immersive soft-sculpture apparatuses. And pumpkins. Revel in this most prominent of Japanese contemporary artists who left a deep impression on the global art scene. Plus: don't miss Kusama's disorienting "Fireflies on the Water", a truly transporting chamber of hanging lights, mirrors, and water, installed in the museum's lobby gallery.</div>
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* "Post-Op" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. Winner of "best summer group show title" comes this thoughtful, eye-crossing exhibition. Eight contemporary artists advancing new concepts in visual illusion, incl. Rachel Beach, Suzanne Song, Rebecca Ward, and Emilio Gomariz.</div>
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* Japan Cuts 2012 at <a href="http://japansociety.org/">Japan Society</a> / 333 E 47th St (E/M to 53rd/5th Ave, 6 to 51st St). Crazy-ass contemporary Japanese cinema felt a bit lacking in this year's NYAFF? Don't you worry, friends, they're all here in the bonkers 2012 edition of Japan Cuts. Read on for my picks (just look for the <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a> slug):</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Smuggler" (dir. Katsuhito Ishii, 2011) at 8:15p. Ishii's latest brings him back to his gonzo Yakuza world of "Party 7" (think "Dick Tracy" on uppers); as in, it's just as colorful and off-kilter humorous, but it's also Ishii's darkest, most brutal work, too. The ensemble cast — good guy and suffering actor Kinuta (Satoshi Tsumabuki); weathered ex?-thug Jo (Ishii regular Masatoshi Nagase); razor-sharp cute Chiharu (Hikari Mitsushima); deranged Verebrae (Masanobu Ando) — are in top form.</div>
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* "Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom" (writer: Jennifer Haley) @ <a href="http://bluetheatre.org/">Blue Theatre</a> / 916 Springdale Rd, 8p/$12-20. Like "The Twilight Zone" for the "Resident Evil" generation, feat. four teenagers trying to escape their suburban hellhole from an onslaught of zombies!</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Hard Romanticker" (dir. Gu Su-yeon, 2011) at 6:30p. Shota Matsuda plays a blond-coiffed, porn-stached zainichi thug-wannabe cracking skulls and hurling insults around the local hoods in a seaside town. It's also a semi-autobiographical account of director Gu's own rough youth as a Korean delinquent in working-class Japan.</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "The Atrocity Exhibition", feat. "Let's Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage Club" (dir. Eisuke Naito, 2012), "Henge" (dir. Hajime Ohata, 2012) and "The Big Gun" (dir. Hajime Ohata, 2008) at 8:40p. Prepare for a batshit trio of zero-budget psycho shorts that blend splatterpunk and topical scenarios in one boiling cinematic nabe-pot. Naito's HD short film basically sells itself: a band of beastly junior high girls entrapping their pregnant prof. Ohata's "Henge" (lit. "Goblin" or "Changeling") is like Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" crossed w/ Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo", while his debut short "The Big Gun" is just that, an iron-worker conned by the mob to make guns for them, so he crafts a huge-ass one in retaliation. </div>
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* Peelander-Yellow @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/436447339709008/">Guzu Gallery</a> / 5000 N Lamar Blvd, 8p. A high-energy, wicked-times block-print exhibition by that fantastic punk-rocker also known as Kengo Hioki, frontman for Peelander-Z. And if you see him w/ that scratched and stickered up guitar, it might be an opening reception performance! Taco, taco, taco, taco, taco say YEAH. </div>
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* "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (dir. Benh Zeitlin, 2012) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S Lamar</a> / 1120 S Lamar. This 2012 Sundance winner sounds truly magical, the strained realities of a marooned "New Orleans" community in an uncertain near future as refracted in the gaze of a precocious little girl, who discovers paradise amid the brambles. </div>
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* "Friday the 13th part III in 3D" (dir. Steve Miner, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S Lamar</a> / 1120 S Lamar, 7p. Plenty of the Drafthouse's Summer of 1982 series has caught my attention, but admittedly few films play to my priorities like this slasher classic, screened like it should be in glorious 3D.</div>
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* "The Fifth Element" (dir. Luc Besson, 1997) midnight screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. Sci-fi with HUMOR…what a rare concept! Park Bruce Willis (playing basically himself) behind a flying taxi, give him a huge-ass gun and a hot alien dame (Milla Jovovich as redhead), then send him off to defeat a roiling dark-matter planet of pure evil. And that ain't even the Cliffs Notes version to this awesome, sexy action romp. ALSO SAT</div>
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* Kazumasa Noguchi "Synthetic Garden" @ <a href="http://www.artfrontgallery.com/">Art Front Gallery</a> / Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku (JR Lines etc to Shibuya). Op-tastic art exposing surfaces and framework, whether on wood panels or the gallery walls themselves, reflecting Noguchi's background in architecture and his modus in approaching artwork.</div>
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* Ine Izumi @ <a href="http://taimatz.main.jp/">Taimatz</a> / 1-2-11 Higashi-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku (JR Sobu Line to Bakurocho Station, Toei-Shinjuku Line to Bakuro-Yokoyama Station). I'm totally a fan of Izumi's thoughtful, delicate ink and acrylic renderings of the mundane, ornamental, and dreamlike.</div>
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* Zombie Lolita 11th anniversary "Alice in Dead" @ <a href="http://www.geocities.jp/xxxheavensdoorxxx/">Heaven's Door</a> / 1-33-19 Sangen-jaya, Setagaya-ku (Den-en-toshi Line to Sangen-jaya Station), 7p/2800 yen. Take two things I dig: zombies and "lolita", and you get the bizarrely Japanese pop-idol group Zombie Lolita, feat. a bunch of cute girls in sailor suits and horror makeup playing thrash metal. </div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Tokyo Playboy Club" (dir. Yosuke Okuda, 2011) at 3:15p. Despite the glittery name, this violent and off-kilter humorous look at Tokyo's shadowy underworld has earned serious acclaim since its Busan Film Fest premier, incl. that of young director Okuda. Think Quentin Tarentino crossed w/ Kinji Fukusaku, w/ a grinding guitar soundtrack and hardboiled dudes Nao Omori and Ken Mitsuishi (in one of his most frenetic roles yet) balanced by cutie Asami Usuda.</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Love Strikes!" (dir. Hitoshi Ohne, 2011) at 7:15p. You have to be under 25 to understand the Japanese title, "Moteki", i.e. "unexplained romantic popularity with the opposite sex". Thus is the wave that crashes over nerdish pop culture writer Yukiyo (Mirai Moriyama), who unexpectedly befriends mega-cutie Miyuki (Masami Nagasawa, who attends tonight's screening!!!). So the only natural thing happens: all these other hotties start digging him too, incl. Kumiko Aso (HELLO, where has she been??), Riisa Naka, Yoko Maki, and more. Rom-com to the max, baby.</div>
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* Jamal Cyrus "Ancestor" @ <a href="http://amoa-arthouse.org/">AMOA-Arthouse</a> / 700 Congress Ave, 7p. Texas Prize 2012 finalist Cyrus stages one final performance w/in his installation at the Jones Center, an audio-visual feast w/ movement in collaboration with Autumn Knight and Megan Jackson. Yeah, I'm a fan.<br />
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* Mikaylah Bowman "La Fille Qui Ment" @ <a href="http://redspacegallery.com/">Red Space Gallery</a> / 1203 W 49th St #B. Lit. "The Girl Who Lies", Bowman's latest series of performative photography, furthering her investigation of self and memory, with a related installation.</div>
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* Peelander-Z @ <a href="http://red7austin.com/">Red 7</a> / 611 E 7th St, 9p. The color-coded Japanese art-punks are a frequent local presence, despite hailing from Planet Peelander (aka East Village NYC). Expect sing-alongs involving tacos, sunglasses, and dudes named "Mike". w/ Ghost Knife and Biters</div>
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* Michiko Sago + Shoko Matsumiya "Harmony" @ <a href="http://www.ma2gallery.com/">MA2 Gallery</a> / 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Yamanote Line to Ebisu Station). The gallery creates a dialogue b/w two young artisans: Matsumiya's brilliant, organic glassworks and Sago's contemporary ceramic forms.</div>
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* Print Show vol 7 @ <a href="http://www.kidopress.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Main draw for me in this seventh edition of the gallery's gathering of unique-edition prints is Kumi Machida, whose contemporary take on traditional "nihonga" style artwork (coupled w/ some VERY surreal imagery) is just marvelous. Plus: O Jun, Atsushi Suwa, Tokuro Sakamoto, and Wisut Ponnimit.</div>
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* "<a href="http://www.iamrogue.com/sharknight3d/fullsite/index.html">Shark Night 3D</a>" (dir. David R. Ellis, 2011) @ TOHO Cinema Nichigeki / 2-5-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku (Yurakucho Line to Yurakucho Station, Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Hibiya/Ginza Lines to Ginza Station). An absolutely fascinating and bloodthirsty film about snobbish PYTs (led by cutie Sara Paxton) attacked in creative ways by a variety of sharks controlled by those backwoods good ol' boys.</div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">「<a href="http://www.piranha-3d.jp/">ピラニアリターンズ</a>」 (dir. John Gulager, 2012) </span>@ HT Cinema / 7F 1-23-16 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit). AKA "Piranha 3DD" (what, breast-implant jokes don't translate?), which should've been as dope as the extra-gory, Alexandre Aja-directed revamp….only it's not. But hell, it's still mutated piranha wreaking havoc on plasticine women and Ken doll-looking dudes, and David Hasselhoff plays a lifeguard.</div>
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* "WET DREAM: ReBORN Special" w/ RITUALS @ <a href="http://www.aisotope.net/">Aisotope Lounge</a> / 1F 2-12-16 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, 9p/3000 yen. Why would I send you off to a venue known for its "Banana Fridays"? Because tonight is fetish night, sporting punk-goth brand RITUALS and feat. a slinky dance-off from Nasty Cats, aka Aloe and Nancy of tokyoDOLORES! Plus the full roster of Nightmare/Torture Garden DJs, incl. ME:CA, Rinko, and Zil. Partying in Ni-Chome is fun!</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Ace Attorney" (dir. Takashi Miike, 2012) at 1:30p. The video game-style hairdos transferred from Capcom's gonzo courtroom module "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" to this Japanese box-office blockbuster. Expect caffeinated jump-cuts and frenzied dialogue as young prosecutors and holographic mediums duel to the death — nahh, not totally that, but it's still bonkers.</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Tormented" (dir. Takashi Shimizu, 2011) at 4:15p. Alice in Wonderland. Rabbit demon. Hikari Mitsushima. Everything I've seen about this film thus far, tiny measured doses of surreally creepy film clips, have freaked me the hell out…which includes scenes of Mitsushima in her absolute most distressed. While the title lacks the spirit of the Japanese original ("Rabbit Horror", in phonetic English) AND this isn't screening in blood-curdling 3D like it should, but it'll still give you plenty of nightmares.</div>
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Chips" (dir. Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2012) at 8p. Nakamura serves up a bittersweet slice-of-life in post-tsunami Sendai, japan, revolving around the intersecting existences of a baseball player and a burglar. </div>
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* "Masters of the Universe" (dir. Gary Goddard, 1987) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. As a kid of the '80s, my playtime revolved around He-Man and other toys of the Eternia universe. Imagine my delight when "they" made a He-Man film! Imagine my disappointment when that meant a spray-tanned Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and a heavily SFXed Frank Langella (like in old-lady makeup) as sworn foe Skeletor! Imagine further the inclusion of weak-ass character Gwildor who had way too big a role, plus the absurd amount of screen-time devoted to, uh, these two TEENAGERS (incl a young Courtney Cox!)…who accidentally swipe the Key to Earth b/c they mistook it for a "Japanese synthesizer"! Hell, it was the '80s then, and this bonkers flop quantifies what made that decade so special.</div>
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* "White Agenda" @ <a href="http://iflyer.tv/warehouse702/event/108512-WhiteAgenda/">Warehouse702</a> / B1F 1-4-5 Azabu-Juban, Minato-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Azabu-Juban Station, Exit 7), 3p-10p/3000 yen. It's not often that I happen across mid-afternoon fetish parties, but the chilled-out nature of "White Agenda" seems something extra special. Feat. the "White Fascination Girls", aka Aloe and Nancy of Nasty Cats plus some Japan Pole Dance girls, rope performers, and White Queens (Margarette and Lady-J, both of The Ring), plus DJs (helmed by Toru Takeda) and a VIP lounge for women only.<br />
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* <a href="http://japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012">Japan Cuts 2012</a>: "Zombie Ass" (dir. Noboru Iguchi, 2011) at 7:30p. An epic of epic epicness, straight from the bowels of post-NOTLD cinema and thoroughly doused in Iguchi's deviant world of scat zombies, anal alien parasites…and lotsa cute girls. I loved the world premiere (at 2011 Fantastic Fest) so much that I saw the damn film twice, it's that great. </div>
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* Best Coast @ <a href="http://www.terminal5nyc.com/">Terminal 5</a> / 610 W 56th St (1/AC/BD to Columbus Circle), 7p/$25. Bethany Cosentino & crew banish much of their debut fuzzy reverb for hard-hitting (dare I say "folksy"?) melodies. But this being Best Coast, that Cali sunshine permeates everything. w/ DIIV</div>
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* "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (dir. Tommy Lee Wallace, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. In this oddity to the "Halloween" franchise, who needs Michael Myers when you have Silver Shamrock jack-o'-lantern masks that nuke kids' heads? Even the signature piano melody is eschewed by an '80s-friendly synthesizer! Now it's up to Tom "Maniac Cop" Atkins to stop the evil corporation behind all this mayhem!</div>
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* "Greatest Hits" @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 1101 Navasota St. Tiny Park achieved some very big things in their first year as an apartment gallery, curating three thoughtful two-artist shows feat. such talent as local heroes Miguel Aragon (winner of Austin Critics' Table Outstanding Artist, who also had a major solo exhibition at Austin's Mexic-Arte Museum) and Leah Haney (solo museum exhibition at AMOA-Arthouse this past spring), plus Chicago's Deborah Stratman (2004 Whitney Biennial) and LA-based painter and printmaker Nick Brown — plus a laudable drawing annual. Now they've relocated to a high-ceilinged commercial gallery space, filling it with some of the best-of from their past exhibitions. The reconfiguring works to Tiny Park's advantage, as it's less of a "been there, seen that" than a very concrete adjustment of scale and space. Brown's massive canvases and Aragon's large-scale media aren't so squeezed for room here, though they retain their respective impacts. It's a solid group show. This fall, Tiny Park must throw caution to the wind, using the potential for experimentation to go full-bore and, trusting their instincts, leave an even deeper impression on the local gallery scene. Consider me super stoked for what is to come.</div>
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* "Manscape: Male as Subject and Object", curated by Christopher Eamon @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. There is a disclaimer on the gallery door noting that this group show "may not be suitable to all viewers". Sounds like my kind of show! But seriously, Eamon pulls off a thoughtful dissection of traditional male imagery and hierarchy in art via three young and compelling female artists (Mariah Robertson, Michele Abeles, and Adina Popescu) and tempered by a less-known male some 25 years their senior (John Massey). Photography is the focal point here: Robertson's two-pronged visual assertion of lone phalluses infringing onto optical illusion backdrops and Abeles' stealthy still-lifes (in one, she makes a compelling critical portrait of blue-drenched objectifier Yves Klein). Popescu gives her male subject a face (in her video "Jeremiah", screened earlier this year in "Blind Cut" at Marlborough Chelsea in NYC), but his voice is really her own words, a dialogue on consumption. Massey is not simply counterbalance here as the sole male artist and older figure. I wonder what the exhibition would be like without him. His contribution, a sensitive gaze into his own head and thoughts via his "Studio Projections" photographs (involving a maquette of Massey's studio and projections of images rephotographed from newspapers in the '70s), gives a vulnerability to this male artist via the admitted failures of depicted male-headed modernist activities. Back to the women: are they striving for the same sort of utopian goals in their respective truncations and takedowns of male imagery? I think when you take these works into the greater contexts of their respective oeuvres—like Robertson's darkroom experimentation and Abeles' continually groundbreaking compositional techniques—then the answer is not so clear. At the very least, I do not see these artists' progresses "destined for failure" like Massey's mining of decades' old modernism. </div>
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* Carl Andre/John Wesley "Serial Forms" @ <a href="http://www.miandn.com/">Mitchell-Innes & Nash</a> / 534 W 26th St. This ain't the first time I've encountered an intriguing pairing w/ cartoonishly idiosyncratic painter Wesley – that'd be "Jo & John", Matthew Marks' primo "dialogue" b/w Wesley and his ultra-minimalist partner Jo Baer, back in 2010. But I unabashedly love Andre's systemic sculpture and am pretty stoked to see the visual analogy posited by the gallery b/w his heavy metal and Wesley's equally flat paintings. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Charles Atlas "The Illusion of Democracy" @ <a href="http://www.luhringaugustine.com/">Luhring Augustine Bushwick</a> / 25 Knickerbocker Ave, Bushwick (L to Morgan). Bushwick has a teeming, fertile art-scene, full of creatives and creative gallery spaces. Now W. Chelsea powerhouse Luhring Augustine states its claim in a new space w/ a brilliant exhibition, the American post-punk video artist Charles Atlas, who despite participating in the upcoming Whitney Biennial hasn't shown locally in a long while. The exhibition feat. two video installations never seen before in NYC, "Painting by Numbers" (2008) and "Plato's Alley" (2009), plus a new large-scale video work created specifically for this show and space. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-51572550413732539562012-07-04T09:20:00.001-04:002012-07-04T09:20:21.368-04:00fee's LIST / through 7/10<br />
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* Takuma Nakahira "Circulation: Date, Place Events" @ <a href="http://bld-gallery.jp/">BLD Gallery</a> / 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo Ward Tokyo (JR Yurakucho Station, Marunouchi Line to Ginza Station). Nakahira's series from the 7th Paris Biennale in 1971, where he represented Japan, are restaged here for the first time, reflecting his youthful vivacity along the lines of peer and modernist photographer Daido Moriyama.</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">New York Asian Film Festival 2012</a> @ Walter Reade Theatre / Lincoln Center at 65th St (1 to 66th St). NYAFF is the baddest-ass of NY film festivals without question. Seasoned LIST-readers know you better be holding tickets for the hotter shows (as these babies tend to sell out majorly), so I'll eschew regurgitating my yearly rules and tips and just include a rundown of films I think you should see. Just look for the NYAFF 2012 tag.</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "All About My Wife" (dir. Min Kyu-dong, 2012) at 9p. Brian's gone soft? Yeah yeah, but look: Korea knows its rom-coms. Plus, adding cutie Im Su-jeong into the mix, like a well-timed spark for her kindling beaus, just makes it that much more effective. Trust me on this one.</div>
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* "Hara-Kiri" (dir. Takashi Miike, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=40">BAM Cinemas</a> / 30 Lafayette St, Ft Greene (23/45 to Nevins St, C to Lafayette St), 7p. Oh snap! BAMcinématek totally tried to slip this one by. We're in the midst of NYAFF's double-barreled cinematic awesomeness when, out in Fort Greene, comes Takashi Miike's scintillating, sumptuous seppuku epic, in stunning 3D! It's a not-so-sneak preview, too (opens in theaters JUL 20), but if you just can't wait, hell, go out there and bask.</div>
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* Katsumi Hayakawa "PHASE III" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO</a> / 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Intricate, gridlike paper structures emulating mathematical formulas, superconductor circuits, futuristic city-plans straight outta "Neuromancer" and a whole helluva lotto other cool stuff.</div>
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* the milky tangerine @ <a href="http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/SHELTER/schedule/">Shimokitazawa SHELTER</a> / B1 2-6-10 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station), 7p/2500 yen. Super-cute local garage-rockers the milky tangerine do it '90s style: think screeching guitars tempered by smooth vocals. w/ GUMI</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Infernal Affairs 1 & 2" (dirs. Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, 2002/2003) at 6/8:40p. Maybe you recall last week when I was raging at how America bones up proper Asian crime dramas w/ its paltry remakes? Hong Kong box-office juggernaut "Infernal Affairs" was one of my main examples. So what's better than seeing the original good cop-as-gangster vs. gangster-as-good-cop thriller on the big screen? Seeing it then immediately seeing its explosive sequel! w/ heartthrob Edison Chen and Will Yun Lee in attendance</div>
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* "Tron" (dir. Steven Lisberger, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7/10:30p. The Drafthouse's "Summer of 1982" goes cybernetic, with this once-belittled, now-hallowed if tremendously dated geek classic. For any nerds out there (self included!) who took apart their family's big-box computer and stared at that motherboard, pretending it was the glittering green map to some futuristic bit-city, you're in luck. ALSO SAT-SUN 1:15/4p </div>
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* Yuki Tawada "Burnt Photographs" @ <a href="http://www.taronasugallery.com/">Taro Nasu Gallery</a> / 1-2-11 Higashi-kanda, Chiyoda-ku (Sobu Line to Bakurocho Station). The Shizuoka-born artist returns to the gallery with a truly transformative solo exhibition. She burns inkjet prints and paints them in acrylic, creating a new image phoenix-like from the gnarly, ashen remains of its previous state. Much emotional involvement and sense of place occurs here.</div>
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* Kozo Fukuoka "Somewhere in England" @ <a href="http://www.tosei-sha.jp/TOSEI-NEW-HP/html/EXHIBITIONS/j_exhibitions.html">Gallery TOSEI</a> / 5-18-20 Chuo, Nagano-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Shin-Nakao Station, Exit 1-2). A love of the Beatles and Brit-rock carried the photographer on a tour of northern England and beyond, turning to the rural landscape for inspiration.</div>
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* "Document Haino Keiji" (dir. Kazuhiro Shirao, 2012) @ <a href="http://www.theater-n.com/">Theater N Shibuya</a> / 2F 24-4 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, West Exit). HELL YEAH. The definitive doc on the silver-coiffed, sexagenarian multi-instrumentalist and noise lord Keiji Haino, troubadour to avant-guardians the world over. </div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "The Miami Connection" (dirs. Grandmaster Y.K. Kim and Park Woo-sung, 1987) at 11:15p. Maybe you recall the batshit midnight mayhem caused by "L.A. Streetfighters" at NYAFF 2010. Get ready for a redo, only this time there's Benetton-style New Wave rockers and tons of ninja. Luckily the former's terrible (and terribly quotable) dialogue holds up. You'll definitely not want to miss this one, sucka.</div>
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* Warm Up 2012: Todd Terry, Light Asylum, Nguzunuguzu @ <a href="http://momaps1.org/">MoMA PS1</a> / 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City (E/M to 23rd St/Ely Ave), 2p/$15 (FREE for members). This year's delirious summer art-concert series Warm Up opens with proper Chicago-tinged four-on-the-floor, courtesy legendary DJ/producer Todd Terry. Preceding him are sun-sweetened bass lovers Nguzunguzu and local disco darlings Light Asylum, so be sure to hydrate before this nonstop dance-athon. Be sure to spend ample time in Wendy, the super-sized blue sea urchin-looking creation of architects Marc Kushner and Matthias Hollwich, a monolith of misty bliss and air-cleaning titanium nanoparticles. Of note: PS1 instigated advanced tickets for 2012 Warm Up, and considering the red-hot lineup you may want to reserve early. </div>
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* oOoOO (San Fran) @ <a href="http://thebeautyballroom.ticketfly.com/">Beauty Ballroom</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 9p/$13. What's up with these "witch house" dudes (and girls) and their ridiculous names? oOoOO (pronounced "oh") ain't the only one, neither: local musician Stefanie Franciotti goes by Sleep<span style="color: #232323;"> ∞ </span>Over ("sleepover forever"?). Though this doesn't detract from oOoOO's darkly glamourous, electro jams. Get down now. w/ Beat Imprint</div>
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* Yutokutaishi Akiyama @ <a href="http://aishomiura.com/">Aisho Miura Arts</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). The performance artist, who gained nationwide fame in the '70s by running in the Tokyo gubernatorial election under "politics to be pop art", unveils a new performance work plus Buriki sculpture.</div>
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* Keiichi Tanaami @ <a href="http://nug.jp/">Nanzuka Underground</a> B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). Tanaami is one of Japan's strongest answers to classic Pop art — think more the acid-toned Chicago school than NYC — which he's been producing since the '60s. This exhibition traces his creative and subversive illustrated history, plus includes a new digital animation.</div>
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* Jiro Takamatsu "These Seven Characters" @ <a href="http://www.ycassociates.co.jp/">Yumiko Chiba Associates</a> / 2F 4-32-6 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Tochomae Station, JR etc to Shinjuku Station, West Exit). The followup to the gallery's focus on the pivotal neo-Dadaist and forerunner of "Mono-Ha", the youth-driven antimodernist movement of the late '60s that includes Lee Ufan and Nobuo Sekine. An emphasis on Takamatsu's copying and reproductions, born out of "these seven characters".</div>
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* Who the Bitch + <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">つしまみれ</span> @ <a href="http://www.shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-Crest</a> / 5F 2-14-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 7p/3300 yen. Trust me, you don't want to miss a "Who the Fuck" night, the titular showcase for Who the Bitch, two fierce riot-grrrls and their Guitar Wolf-looking dude drummer. Even better, the ladies behind <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">つしまみれ </span>join the party. Expect one rippin' night.</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Kill Zone" (dir. Wilson Yip, 2005) at 5:15p. Yip channels this return to form for Hong Kong action cinema, feat. a Who's Who of greats (Simon Yam as driven inspector with a dirty secret, Donnie Yen as a badass detective, Sammo Hung as a severe kingpin and Wu Jing his raging enforcer). Oh but brace yourselves, boys and girls: Donnie "Ip Man" Yen is attending the screening!</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Honey Pupu" (dir. Chen Hung-I, 2011) at 10:30p. I'm calling "Honey Pupu"—a beautiful, mesmerizing melange of youthful social media and love on both sides of reality—the sleeper hit of NYAFF 2012. Sure it's not jaw-bruising action nor outrageously sexual nor shockingly bloody, my usual watermarks for awesome NYAFF films, but its dreamy cyber-heart beats true. </div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Dragon" (dir. Peter Chan, 2011) at 7:45p. Better known as simply "Wu Xia", one solid slugfest between arts of the martial (that'd be Donnie Yen) and the scientific (Takeshi Kaneshiro) variety. Better yet, Tang Wei (HELLO) plays Yen's wife. Better still: Donnie Yen is attending the screening. Guaranteed to sell out by the time you read this.</div>
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* PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET @ <a href="http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/SHELTER/schedule/">Shimokitazawa SHELTER</a> / B1 2-6-10 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station), 7p/2500 yen. My favorite Iwate-area dream-popstars PGIC are just bursting with twee joy, tempered by waves and waves of snarling guitar feedback — these kids are LOUD live! They play tonight's "strange ROCK SHOW" w/ Violent is Savanna.</div>
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* "Greatest Hits" @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 1101 Navasota St. Tiny Park achieved some very big things in their first year as an apartment gallery, curating three thoughtful two-artist shows feat. such talent as local heroes Miguel Aragon (winner of Austin Critics' Table Outstanding Artist, who also had a major solo exhibition at Austin's Mexic-Arte Museum) and Leah Haney (solo museum exhibition at AMOA-Arthouse this past spring), plus Chicago's Deborah Stratman (2004 Whitney Biennial) and LA-based painter and printmaker Nick Brown — plus a laudable drawing annual. Now they've relocated to a high-ceilinged commercial gallery space, filling it with some of the best-of from their past exhibitions. The reconfiguring works to Tiny Park's advantage, as it's less of a "been there, seen that" than a very concrete adjustment of scale and space. Brown's massive canvases and Aragon's large-scale media aren't so squeezed for room here, though they retain their respective impacts. It's a solid group show. This fall, Tiny Park must throw caution to the wind, using the potential for experimentation to go full-bore and, trusting their instincts, leave an even deeper impression on the local gallery scene. Consider me super stoked for what is to come.</div>
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* "Manscape: Male as Subject and Object", curated by Christopher Eamon @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. There is a disclaimer on the gallery door noting that this group show "may not be suitable to all viewers". Sounds like my kind of show! But seriously, Eamon pulls off a thoughtful dissection of traditional male imagery and hierarchy in art via three young and compelling female artists (Mariah Robertson, Michele Abeles, and Adina Popescu) and tempered by a less-known male some 25 years their senior (John Massey). Photography is the focal point here: Robertson's two-pronged visual assertion of lone phalluses infringing onto optical illusion backdrops and Abeles' stealthy still-lifes (in one, she makes a compelling critical portrait of blue-drenched objectifier Yves Klein). Popescu gives her male subject a face (in her video "Jeremiah", screened earlier this year in "Blind Cut" at Marlborough Chelsea in NYC), but his voice is really her own words, a dialogue on consumption. Massey is not simply counterbalance here as the sole male artist and older figure. I wonder what the exhibition would be like without him. His contribution, a sensitive gaze into his own head and thoughts via his "Studio Projections" photographs (involving a maquette of Massey's studio and projections of images rephotographed from newspapers in the '70s), gives a vulnerability to this male artist via the admitted failures of depicted male-headed modernist activities. Back to the women: are they striving for the same sort of utopian goals in their respective truncations and takedowns of male imagery? I think when you take these works into the greater contexts of their respective oeuvres—like Robertson's darkroom experimentation and Abeles' continually groundbreaking compositional techniques—then the answer is not so clear. At the very least, I do not see these artists' progresses "destined for failure" like Massey's mining of decades' old modernism. </div>
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* "Fake Empire" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. Lee Stoetzel curated and is participating in this five-artist examination and hyperbolization of historical sites and monuments. Feat. Olivo Barbieri, Rob Carter, Susan Giles, and Dionisio Gonzalez in a cross-media presentation. (ENDS FRI)</div>
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* Hisaharu Motoda @ <a href="http://www.kidopress.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Disused sports stadiums take on the emotive light of crumbling architectural relics thanks to Motoda's compelling duotone printwork.</div>
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* Jon Pylypchuk @ <a href="http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/">Tomio Koyama Gallery</a> / 7F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station). The Canadian artist's debut solo at the gallery, featuring his half-human, half-animal lifeforms moving through dreamlike landscapes, rendered in paint and mixed media. (ENDS SAT)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-35013282794438664792012-06-27T08:23:00.000-04:002012-06-27T08:24:16.816-04:00fee's LIST / through 7/3<br />
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* Caro Niederer @ <a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/">Hauser & Wirth</a> / 32 E 69th St. H&W focuses on the Swiss artist's paintings, some 18 electrifying new works ranging from still-lifes to nighttime scenes that provide context for her broader cross-media oeuvre.</div>
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* "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (dir. Behn Zeitlin, 2012) @ <a href="http://landmarktheatres.com/Market/NewYork/NewYork_frameset.htm">Landmark Sunshine Cinema</a> / 143 E Houston St. This 2012 Sundance winner sounds truly magical, the strained realities of a marooned "New Orleans" community in an uncertain near future as refracted in the gaze of a precocious little girl, who discovers paradise amid the brambles. </div>
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* "The Thing" (dir. John Carpenter, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. The Drafthouse's wonderful Summer of '82 roars on with the horror master's slow-burning classic. Screw the 2011 "prequel" and see the original, in full claustrophobic 35mm glory, as an Antarctic team try to capture and escape from a shapeshifting menace from beyond. ALSO SUN 7p</div>
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* "The Nature of Disappearance", curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart @ <a href="http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/">Marianne Boesky Gallery</a> / 509 W 24th St. The gallery produced a stunning advert for this group exhibition, an image of participating artist Mathias Kessler's wonderful aquarium diorama "Nowhere to Be Found", feat. a human skull slowly consumed by a flourishing coral ecosystem. In a subtle gesture, he reclaimed the ubiquitous art-world symbol—the skull—from post-Warholian emo-trendiness and Damien Hirst glitz. That alone receives my highest praise to see this unmissable exhibition. But beyond this, all the artists here are interested in the material integrity of their works and the possibilities of total loss from their respective experimentation and transgressive practices. Feat. Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Bas Jan Ader, Dieter Roth, Gustav Metzger, Félix Gonzalez-Torres, and Kessler.<br />
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* "Wish You Were Here" @ <a href="http://anacristeagallery.com/">Ana Cristea Gallery</a> / 521 W 26th St. Nobody in NYC is showing young E. European talent like Ana Cristea. Case in point: laddish Andrej Dubravsky, whose murkily titillating scenes I first discovered via Prague's Jiri Svestka Gallery. Or the jewellike subversion by Oana Farcas (seen her in Copenhagen's LARMgalleri). Their elder Gideon Kiefer rounds out the lot with his subtly surreal scenes. Recommended! </div>
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* "Size Matters" @ <a href="http://dodge-gallery.com/">DODGEgallery</a> / 15 Rivington St. Artists comfortable w/ shifting scales within their respective practices. Some of this sounds tongue-in-cheek, like Rebecca Chamberlain presenting simultaneously her largest work (a 5ft-tall diptych) and smallest (a 12-inch double-sided plinth), but her adaptability within architecture and that of her peers Ted Gahl, Cassie Ralhl, Matt Rich, and Michael Zelehoski, sounds dope to me.</div>
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* Alex Van Gelder "Line of Inquiry" @ <a href="http://www.cheimread.com/">Cheim & Read</a> / 547 W 25th St. The Paris-based artist's photographic meditations on death and decay aren't everyone's cup of tea, but his sumptuous platinum prints and transformative portraiture exemplify that old saying: "a picture is worth a thousand words".</div>
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* Rineke Dijkstra @ <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/">Guggenheim</a> / 1071 Fifth Ave (456 to 86th St). The mid-career retrospective for the Dutch photographer, whose signature compositional style—single portraits or small groups against a minimal backdrop—carry an innate relational aesthetic. From lads in sportswear to adolescents in school uniforms or young male soldiers, the familiarity of Dijkstra's subjects remains uncanny. This exhibition includes over 70 color photographs and five video installations. </div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">New York Asian Film Festival 2012</a> @ Walter Reade Theatre / Lincoln Center at 65th St (1 to 66th St). NYAFF is the baddest-ass of NY film festivals without question. Seasoned LIST-readers know you better be holding tickets for the hotter shows (as these babies tend to sell out majorly), so I'll eschew regurgitating my yearly rules and tips and just include a rundown of films I think you should see. Just look for the NYAFF 2012 tag.</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Vulgaria" (dir. Pang Ho-cheung, 2012) at 8:30p. The N. American premiere of Pang's madcap, talk-heavy, filthy new meta-comedy. That this is the powerhouse director of 2010's astonishingly violent "Dream Home" only reemphasizes Pang's adaptable nature. Oh, and he's attending this opening night screening.</div>
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* "A Burning Hot Summer" (dir. Philippe Garrel, 2012) @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). Reasons to see this: 1) the latest searing drama from French auteur Garrel, 2) his brooding, oft-acting son Louis is the lead, 3) Monica Bellucci plays Louis' wife (what the hell?) and 4) John Cale scored the film. Summer just got a helluva lot hotter, kids. </div>
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* "Greatest Hits" @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park Gallery</a> / 1101 Navasota St. Tiny Park inaugurates its new space with both a history of artists it has shown in the past and a preview of possibilities for the new larger space. Feat. works by locals Michael Sieben, PJ Raval, Leah Haney, David Culpepper, and Miguel Aragon, plus Sam Prekop (Chicago), Deborah Stratman (Chicago), Nick Brown (Los Angeles), Stephanie Serpick (NYC), and Rob Lomblad (NYC).</div>
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* Kaoru Hirano @ <a href="http://www.scaithebathhouse.com/ja/">SCAI the Bathhouse</a> / 6-1-23 Yanaka, Taito-ku (JR Yamanote to Nippori Station). Hirano works with wedding dresses here, unravelling them and then rejoining them to capture both hints of their former wearers and their respective histories and experiences while simultaneously transforming them into threaded webs of memory.</div>
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* LAGITAGIDA @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-West</a> / 2F 2-3 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 7p/3000 yen. Local instrumental noise-rock quartet Lagitagida fried my braincells during SXSW, and you bet they bring that same intensity to the home crowd. w/ NINGEN OK</div>
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* Jason deCaires Taylor "Human Nature" + Fulvio di Piazza "Ashes to Ashes" @ <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. Taylor features large-scale photographs of some of his ambitious public projects, involving cast-cement figures within massive aquatic environments. In di Piazza's debut stateside solo exhibition, he echoes Taylor's eco awareness with new oil paintings of anthropomorphized landscapes.</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Oldboy" (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2003) at 1p. One of the greatest openers in contemporary cinema and THE film that put Korean auteur Park on the Western film map. Feat. a batshit side-scrolling-style action sequence involving a rangy Choi Min-sik and his trusty hammer vs. like 30 bad guys! Also feat. so many devastating plot twists, it's better I don't tell you any more. The less you know, the heavier this ultimate revenge drama hits. Even awesomer: Choi and Yoon Jin-seo attend the screening. Intense!</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Nameless Gangster" (dir. Yun Jong-bin, 2012) at 9p. For every awesome American gangster film like "Casino", we get some horrible, horrible knockoff remake like "Infernal Affairs", a mere splinter of its bigger, badder Chinese Triad original. Word of advice, America: do not even ATTEMPT to tackle this crazy-ass late '80s-stylin' Korean gangster film, w/ an addictingly clueless Choi Min-sik as the non-gangster mafioso. Plus: Choi attends this screening! ALSO TUES 1p</div>
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* Laurel Halo @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/285kentave">285 Kent Ave</a>, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$12. I am sorta surprisingly WAY into Laurel Halo's debut LP "Quarantine", whose release party we celebrate tonight at assuredly sweaty 285 Kent. But that shouldn't be so surprising, right? She can totally sing, she blankets her compositions in jarring beats and distressing soundscapes, plus she used a deviant Makoto Aida painting as her album art. Yeah, I'm down. w/ Gatekeeper</div>
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* "Manscape: Male as Subject and Object", curated by Christopher Eamon @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces. Eamon turns art's traditional male gaze on its ear, featuring cross-media works by three young women artists and the conceptualist John Massey. I'm a major fan of Michele Abeles' peculiar and thought-provoking photographic dioramas—she and darkroom experimenter Mariah Robertson are both MoMA PS1 "Greater NY" alums and are featured here. Meanwhile Adina Popescu's "Jeremiah" and Massey's "Studio Projections" add further insight and conversation.</div>
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* Leticia Bajuyo "Event Horizon" @ <a href="http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/">Women & Their Work</a> / 1710 Lavaca St. The Visual Artists Network partner solidifies our technological detritus in a major site-specific installation of cable ties and reused CDs.</div>
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* Tomoo Gokita "Variety Show" @ <a href="http://www.takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Gallery</a> / 5F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Like black and white? Gokita condenses his paintings into formidable, hypnotic symbols, semaphores in a sea of abstraction.<br />
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* Shinnosuke Yoshida "Unknown Future and Forgettable Past" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO Ryogoku</a> / 1F 1-7-15 Kamezawa, Sumida-ku (Toei Oedo/JR Sobu Line to Ryogoku Station). The young Saitama-area artist (and recent graduate from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the ARts) returns with his second solo at the gallery, oil paintings of varying scales featuring uneasy cohabitations between humans and the environment.</div>
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* nisennenmondai presents "souzousuru neji+" @ <a href="http://ochiaisoup.tumblr.com/">SOUP</a> / B1F 3-9-10 Kami-Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku (JR Sobu Line to Higashi-Nakano Station), 7p/SOLD OUT. Japan's awesomest math-rockers nisennenmondai stage a super-intimate show for the hometown crowd. You lucky ticketholders get to experience these three fierce women ripping through their blistering early catalogue, throwing props to "This Heat" and "Sonic Youth" (plus the percussive, free-jazz blaster "Ikkyokume", i.e. "First Composition").</div>
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* CAUCUS @ <a href="http://den-atsu.com/pc0.html">20000 Den-atsu</a> / B1 1-7-23 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Higashi-Koenji, Exit 2), 6:45p/2300 yen. A local lineup of proper indie rock, helmed by darlings CAUCUS and pop-punk stalwart trio TACOBONDS sets up headliners Fragile, all the way from Nara. Show some love.</div>
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* Alighiero Boetti "Game Plan" @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (E/M to 53rd St/5th Ave). The Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid) and the Tate Modern (London) helped stage the largest presentation of works by Italian artist Alighiero Boetti outside Italy to date—and believe me, brother, it's major. This chronological retrospective follows the Arte Povera forerunner from his early sculptural "objects" at Galleria Christian Stein (Turin) in 1967 through his growing prowess with geography, mapping, and eventually embroideries of locations. An enriching look at a seminal conceptual master.</div>
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* <a href="http://www.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/">NYAFF 2012</a>: "Crying Fist" (dir. Ryoo Seung-wan, 2005) at 9p. Ryoo's early boxing drama sealed his capacity for ass-kicking action films, and in this one he pairs a burly Choi Min-sik and his own badass brother Seung-beom as underdog boxers yearning for another shot in the ring. w/ Choi Min-sik in attendance!</div>
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* Pablo Picasso "Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Paris-Vallauris 1943-1953" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 980 Madison Ave. One more museum-worthy Picasso show for the art-adoring populace. Gagosian brings the action uptown in this fourth iteration, feat. a visual and conceptual dialogue b/w the modern master and his (then) 21-year-old muse, who was an artist herself when she met Picasso. Gilot's own paintings (imbued with Picasso contemporary Georges Braque) will be shown in concert w/ Picasso's postwar innovations. One word: mayjah.</div>
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* "4 Films: Adrian Paci, Luisa Rabbia, SUPERFLEX, Su-Mei Tse" @ <a href="http://peterblumgallery.com/">Peter Blum Chelsea</a> / 526 W 29th St. Feat. Paci's "Inside the Circle", Rabbia's "Travels With Isabella", SUPERFLEX's "Modern Times Forever" and Tse's "Vertingen de la Vida" (w/ Jean-Lou Majerus).</div>
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* Lucio Fontana "Ambienti Spaziali" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 555 W 24th St. Hold everything: I know Frieze NY is about to go down, but THIS is the must-see show in NYC. The gallery reconstructs six of Fontana's innovative environments (from 1949 through 1968) in what sounds to be a truly transcendent exhibition. You may know him for his "Concetti spaziali", where Fontana cut into canvas, but his more elaborate installations, feat. illuminated papier-mâché, gouged forms, and lots of surfaces w/ holes in 'em, make for a much fuller appreciation of this modern master.</div>
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* Will Cotton @ <a href="http://www.maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 745 Fifth Ave. Get yr sugar fix at Cotton's new array of unctuous candy paintings and cast-plaster cake sculpture, riffing off his artistic direction on Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video. Dig in.</div>
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* Ulrich Gebert "The Negotiated Order" @ <a href="http://winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. Mixed-media incorporating found images of people subjugating animals, in the Munich-based artist's continued exploration w/ human urges to rule everything. </div>
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* Ellen Heck "Variations" @ <a href="http://www.wallyworkmangallery.com/">Wally Workman Gallery</a> / 1202 W 6th St. The young Cali-based artist uses her printmaking background at the Art Institute of Chicago to great and emotive effect, in this series of portraiture. </div>
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* Waka Yoshida "Going to bed in the underwear of the Mammoth" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO</a> / 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Somehow this young artist's mixed-media paintings and sculpture resemble both geological finds and delicate, melted ice-cream artwork, simultaneously – that's fine with me. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* "My Place, Our Scenery" @ <a href="http://www.ma2gallery.com/">MA2 Gallery</a> / 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Yamanote Line to Ebisu Station). Five Japanese artists lend very personal, individualized takes on the embodiment of landscapes. My immediate favorite is young mixed-media painter Aki Eimizu (who had a wonderful show at the gallery back in December 2011), but Yasutake Iwana's impastoed canvases intrigues as well. Plus: Maki Ohkojima, Yuki Hamamura, and Satoshi Uchiumi.</div>
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* Kyotaro Hakamata "Hotei and Grape" @ <a href="http://aishomiura.com/">Aisho Miura Arts</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). Objects stripped of their usual context, transformed into precarious surrogates by the Tokyo-based artist. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-84913842420322999772012-06-06T04:42:00.001-04:002012-06-06T04:42:13.544-04:00fee's LIST / through 6/12<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">WEDNESDAY</span><br />
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* Xiu Xiu @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 9p/$12. Notable noise-rockers Xiu Xiu haven't toned it down, though their current mashups of 8-bit crunch with signature plaintive yowling has them at perhaps their most melodic post-Eau Claire.</div>
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* Jiro Takamatsu "Smashing of Everything" @ <a href="http://www.ycassociates.co.jp/">Yumiko Chiba Associates</a> / 2F 4-32-6 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Tochomae Station, JR etc to Shinjuku Station, West Exit). An encyclopedic survey of the late, great master's alchemical grasp of sculpture, revealing relations and juxtapositions with works in glass, metal, plastic and more.</div>
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* Adi Nes "The Village" @ <a href="http://www.jackshainman.com/">Jack Shainman Gallery</a> / 512 W 20th St. Dramatically staged large-format photography reveals fictional village life and complex sexual connotations.</div>
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* "Fake Empire" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. Lee Stoetzel curated and is participating in this five-artist examination and hyperbolization of historical sites and monuments. Feat. Olivo Barbieri, Rob Carter, Susan Giles, and Dionisio Gonzalez in a cross-media presentation.</div>
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* "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding" (dir. Bruce Beresford, 2012) @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). Somehow the Academy Award-nominated director's latest film slipped by me, but I'll underscore its importance in two words: Elizabeth Olsen. She stars in this summer vacation of a family trip, generational coming-of-age film.<br />
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* DIIV + MINKS @ <a href="http://toddpnyc.com/">285 Kent Ave</a> , Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$10. So DIIV (formerly Dive) are so hot right now, swirling psychedelia with a garage-rock earnestness that puts be right back at 2007, when I really submerged myself in the Brooklyn indie scene. Plus MINKS (welcome back!) pull a glamorous darkness to their sound. w/ Life Size Maps</div>
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* "Prometheus" (dir. Ridley Scott, 2012) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S Lamar</a> / 1120 S Lamar. It has arrived, my most anticipated film of the summer (and hell, perhaps 2012 for that matter)...and as I am currently in Switzerland, I won't get to see it for another 2+ weeks. The "Alien" not-entirely-prequel that needs no further introduction. Absolutely see it, just don't gloat to me about it.</div>
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* "Moonrise Kingdom" (dir. Wes Anderson, 2012) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S Lamar</a> / 1120 S Lamar. It's been hard living in not-NY and having Anderson's natty new film open like two weeks late. Precocious preteens and awkward elders, replete with Anderson's typically stellar ensemble cast.</div>
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* "Donnie Darko" (dir. Richard Kelly, 2001) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 11:40p. The creepiest rabbit in the history of cinema, at least in this writer's opinion. A truly mesmerizing, pitch-perfect doomsday film. ALSO SAT</div>
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* Prefuse 73 @ <a href="http://thebeautybar.com/austin/">Beauty Ballroom</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 9p/$15. Scott Herren may have mellowed his sound from collagey hip-hop ("One Word Extinguisher") to Catalan cool (his work with Savath & Savalas), but no doubt Prefuse still brings unrivaled intensity to a party.</div>
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* Hisaharu Motoda @ <a href="http://kido-press.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Disused sports stadiums take on the emotive light of crumbling architectural relics thanks to Motoda's compelling duotone printwork.</div>
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* Jon Pylypchuk @ <a href="http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/">Tomio Koyama Gallery</a> / 7F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station). The Canadian artist's debut solo at the gallery, featuring his half-human, half-animal lifeforms moving through dreamlike landscapes, rendered in paint and mixed media.</div>
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* Osamu Kanemura "Human Noise Amplifier" @ <a href="http://bld-gallery.jp/">BLD Gallery</a> / 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo Ward Tokyo (JR Yurakucho Station, Marunouchi Line to Ginza Station). Viewer participation is key in this performative exhibition, feat. a darkened gallery with slide projectors showing Kanemura's work AND the artist on-site photographing guests' shadows as they intermingle w/ the projections. The resulting exposures will create a photobook, to be completed about a week after his exhibition concludes.</div>
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* Kyotaro Hakamata "Hotei and Grape" @ <a href="http://www.aishomiura.com/">Aisho Miura Arts</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station). Objects stripped of their usual context, transformed into precarious surrogates by the Tokyo-based artist.</div>
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* "The Mission" (dir. Johnnie To, 1999) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. A cadre of superstar bodyguards protect a threatened triad boss in To's thoughtfully violent gunplay film, feat. an ensemble cast of heavyweights incl Simon Yam, Anthony Wong, and Francis Ng.</div>
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* "Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom" (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 8p. If you attend this screening of the late Italian subversive modernist's final film, you must have at least an inkling of what you are getting yourself into. If not, does a loose adaptation of the titular Marquis de Sade novel, filtered through a filthy post-Nazi Germany veil, do it for you? Even better: this 35mm print (!) comes w/ a special live intro by East Village legends Jack Waters and Peter Cramer.</div>
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* Heliotropes @ <a href="http://www.entertainment4every1.net/shows/">Death By Audio</a> / 49 S 2nd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$7. MAYJAH. My favorite Brooklyn-area doom rockers Heliotropes not only have a rippin' new single out ("Moonlight"), but they promise to rock the checkered tiles off DbA tonight, in this benefit concert for feminist punk band Pussy Riot, currently detained in Russia for "hooliganism". w/ Tinvulva and DJ AdRock!<br />
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* TADZIO + Gagakirise @ <a href="http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/">Loft</a> / B2 1-12-9 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, Kabukicho Exit), 7p/2500. Dueling duos of the ages! Noise-rock cuties TADZIO share the same space as full-throttle metalheads Gagakirise. Sounds like music to this writer's ears. w/ Manga Shock</div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro';">パスピエ</span> @ <a href="http://www.gar-den.in/pc/plist.php">Shimokitazawa GARDEN</a> / B1F 2-4-5 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, S. Exit), 7p/2800 yen. Tokyo electro-pop darlings channel Brooklynites Twin Sister with a hazy, nocturnal gloss. w/ Heavenstamp</div>
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* Tauba Auerbach @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. The young NY-based trompe-l'oeil abstract artist continues pioneering her "Fold" paintings, exhibiting the powdery works alongside new "Weave" paintings shown for the first time stateside. Auerbach's drawings appear in "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language", on view at MoMA.</div>
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* Lucian Freud "Drawings" @ <a href="http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/">Acquavella Gallery</a> / 18 E 79th St. The modernist figuratist's acclaimed drawing show at London's Blain/Southern (co-organized by Acquavella) now moves to NYC. The sheer range of styles and mediums here—from pencil and watercolor emotions of animals to crayon landscapes and Freud's signature gooey human studies in charcoal—well, it's all just incredible. </div>
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* Jill Moser @ <a href="http://lennonweinberg.com/flash.html">Lennon, Weinberg Inc</a> / 514 W 25th St. Spare swooshes of color against arctic-frigid backdrops elevates Moser's latest series into possibly my favorite-est ever from the NY-based gestural abstraction painter. Stellar stuff, this lot.</div>
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* Anish Kapoor @ <a href="http://gladstonegallery.com/">Gladstone Gallery</a> / 515 W 24th St. Yeah, I caught Kapoor's super-shiny show here like four years ago. He now trades some of that finish-fetish stuff for heaped concrete and looming Cor-Ten, a physicality all the more sinister.</div>
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* Daido Moriyama "COLOR" @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/jp/news/index.html">Taka Ishii Photography</a> / 2F 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Moriyama-san is a photographing beast! I learned this when he visited Japan Society in NYC last November, kicking off Performa 11 w/ a reinterpretation of his "PRINTING SHOW-TKY". He photographs for hours every day, and he even espoused his delight of digital color photography. That may be at odds w/ your interpretations of his style, decades of contrasty b&w prints done the Leica way, but this new series of lush prints – a mix of digital prints and enlarged lambda versions – is as stunning, challenging, garish, emotive, and "Daido-ish" as Moriyama's earliest. Plus, the color really clobbers you, the whole sweaty, neon-drenched, sexy essence of the Tokyo I know best. The 99-odd prints on view are like a third of those in the cover-to-cover photographic tome "COLOR" published a few months ago, and a mere droplet of the 30,000 shots he captured in Tokyo.</div>
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* Yosuke Bandai "Disordered Bandai: His Unequalled Passion" @ <a href="http://aikowadagallery.com/">Ai Kowada Gallery</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Heavily reconstructed and manipulated digital images, incorporating both stuff from Bandai's earlier work and Internet images, but they're so abstracted they more readily resemble discreet abstract paintings trapped in Plexiglas. Bandai was going for "the best visual experiences have a strange boringness and difficulty to understand"—you'll get that here. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Cindy Sherman @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (E/M to 5th Ave/53rd, 6 to 51st). A great element of Sherman's fine career retrospective is its nonchronological arrangements. For though the exhibition flows in groupings of key series–beginning with the wonderful, breakthrough "Untitled Film Stills" from the late '70s (and showing the American Sherman as a convincingly Felllni-esque ingenue)–there are intriguing temporal juxtapositions throughout. Meaning a few prints from the early '80s hung amid Sherman's millenial "Clowns" and still reverberating with energy and beauty. Though technology has changed, her "Erotic Centerfolds" and brilliant "History Portraits" (the latter hung salon-style in a burgundy-walled room, and featuring a few male roles) retain as much impact as her 2008 "Society Portraits" and the show-stopping mural installed outside the exhibition proper. Sherman has more creativity in her left pinkie than most artists' their entire oeuvres (not naming names) and she's got a helluva lot left. (ENDS MON)</div>
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* Busdriver (Cali) @ <a href="http://santospartyhouse.com/">Santos Party House</a> / 96 Lafayette St (NR/6/JZ to Canal St), 7p/$12. Regan Farquhar, the silver-tongued speed-rapper heretofore dubbed Busdriver, brings the heat on new LP "Beaus $ Eros", but I've had love for his mind-bending prose since "'Fear of a Black Tangent".</div>
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* TUNE-YARDS (CT) @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 7:30p/$20. Magnetizing, polyphonous looper and socks-rocker Merrill Garbus may have a duo of saxophonists and other instrumentalists backing her up, but this is her show, brother. Serious "Bizness" indeed.</div>
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* Carl Andre/John Wesley "Serial Forms" @ <a href="http://miandn.com/">Mitchell-Innes & Nash</a> / 534 W 26th St. This ain't the first time I've encountered an intriguing pairing w/ cartoonishly idiosyncratic painter Wesley – that'd be "Jo & John", Matthew Marks' primo "dialogue" b/w Wesley and his ultra-minimalist partner Jo Baer, back in 2010. But I unabashedly love Andre's systemic sculpture and am pretty stoked to see the visual analogy posited by the gallery b/w his heavy metal and Wesley's equally flat paintings.</div>
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* D[dl:] "Eternally unrequited love…probably" @ <a href="http://hpgrpgallery.com/tokyo/">hpgrp Tokyo</a> / B1F 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku (Chiyoda/Hanzomon/Ginza Lines to Omotesando Station. Threads of famous animator (and "Deeth"'s mentor) Hayao Miyazaki appear in the artist's lushly illustrative, naturalistic works on paper.</div>
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* Ulrich Gebert "The Negotiated Order" @ <a href="http://winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. Mixed-media incorporating found images of people subjugating animals, in the Munich-based artist's continued exploration w/ human urges to rule everything. </div>
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* "Hausu" (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) midnight screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). This everything-and-the-kitchen-sink horror plot (partially conceived by the director's then-preteen daughter) of a cutie high-school coed and her mostly cute friends visiting old auntie's house in the Technicolor countryside is just wild enough to work enormously. Scarily entertaining! ALSO SAT</div>
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* "Poltergeist" (dir. Tobe Hooper, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:30p. Summer of 1982 rumbles onward, denying all worthless contemporary films w/ a 35mm pimp-slap. "Poltergeist" is how you do a creepy-ass ghost story…even if static-riddled TV sets are a thing of the distant past, they will still elicit audience shivers when Carol Anne intones that signature line. ALSO SUN 3:30p</div>
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* Tokuro Sakamoto "Distant Landscape" @ <a href="http://www.artfront.co.jp/jp/index.html">Art Front Gallery</a> / Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku (JR Lines etc to Shibuya). A great longing seems fixed within Sakamoto's flattened scenery of anonymous suburbia and unfurling Tokyo cityscapes, achieved through acrylic painted on Japanese paper.</div>
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* Sayaka Ikemoto "The Slow Flow of Time, Underwater" @ <a href="http://www.tosei-sha.jp/TOSEI-NEW-HP/html/EXHIBITIONS/j_exhibitions.html">Gallery TOSEI</a> / 5-18-20 Chuo, Nagano-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Shin-Nakao Station, Exit 1-2). Ikemoto's subsurface prowess is an asset – her underwater photography is transcendent. Gelatin silver prints echo our interconnectedness with the world beneath the waves and the greater infinite space beyond the earth's atmosphere.</div>
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* Tomás Saraceno @ <a href="http://tanyabonakdargallery.com/">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. Have you "experienced" Saraceno's brilliant installation "Cloud City" on the <a href="http://metmuseum.org/">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>'s rooftop? Yeah I know it's been raining, but nothing says summer like an afternoon beer outdoors amongst an awesome installation. Saraceno's long contributed intriguing artwork to Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (granted 2010's "Connectome" distanced the viewer too much, but his previous "Galaxies Forming Along Filaments…" was just awesome, brainy and spontaneous at once), and I hope his latest is less a study of "Cloud City" than a potent accompaniment.</div>
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* Ellen Heck "Variations" @ <a href="http://www.wallyworkmangallery.com/">Wally Workman Gallery</a> / 1202 W 6th St. The young Cali-based artist uses her printmaking background at the Art Institute of Chicago to great and emotive effect, in this series of portraiture. </div>
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* Waka Yoshida "Going to bed in the underwear of the Mammoth" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO</a> / 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Somehow this young artist's mixed-media paintings and sculpture resemble both geological finds and delicate, melted ice-cream artwork, simultaneously – that's fine with me.</div>
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* "My Place, Our Scenery" @ <a href="http://www.ma2gallery.com/">MA2 Gallery</a> / 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Yamanote Line to Ebisu Station). Five Japanese artists lend very personal, individualized takes on the embodiment of landscapes. My immediate favorite is young mixed-media painter Aki Eimizu (who had a wonderful show at the gallery back in December 2011), but Yasutake Iwana's impastoed canvases intrigues as well. Plus: Maki Ohkojima, Yuki Hamamura, and Satoshi Uchiumi.</div>
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* Best Coast @ <a href="http://www.emosaustin.com/">Emo's</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 8p/$15. Consummate West Coaster Bethany Cosentino may have discarded most of the sun-drenched reverb in Best Coast's new LP "The Only Place", but her warming vox still equals the onset of summer – now if it weren't already 90+ degrees in Austin, that would be even better. </div>
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* Merzbow @ <a href="http://saintvitusbar.com/">Saint Vitus</a> / 1120 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint (G to Greenpoint, 7 to Vernon Blvd/Jackson Ave), 8:30+10p/$15. Like 'em loud? Masami "Merzbow" Akita is the godfather of noise, and it doesn't get any louder than this. Trust me: I've experienced My Bloody Valentine's jet-engine feedback session during "You Made Me Realize" from like many many meters back and while that was the loudest band-related sound I've ever heard, for pure, focused, aural mayhem, whipping over you and dragging you into its burning grasp, nothing comes close to Merzbow. Enjoy!</div>
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* Ellsworth Kelly "Plant Drawings" @ <a href="http://metmuseum.org/">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> / 1000 Fifth Ave (456 to 86th St). Yeah, this isn't how I know the hard-edge painter, either. I've seen Kelly's prints and collages before, but they all figure into the same geometric language of his rigorously reductive paintings. There's a reason for this: Kelly's plant drawings have NEVER had an exclusive museum exhibition, though he's been creating them throughout his six-decade career. The Met stages about 80 of them, reaching back to the late '40s and continuing today.</div>
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* Rinôçérôse (Montpellier) @ <a href="http://glasslands.blogspot.com/">Glasslands</a> / 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8:30p/$15. Psychologists by day, rock 'n roll electro-pop musicians by night. Irretrievably French. I loved Rinôçérôse's "Installation Sonore", which melded jabs of guitar with filtered disco, but that was back in '99! Can they still do it up? Don't forget your dancing shoes, people. w/ Knife City</div>
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* "Never Too Young To Die" (dir. Gil Bettman, 1986) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:20p. What did '80s movies have that yearning cinemaphiles will never see in re-imagined form ever again? A: John "Full House" Stamos and ex-Prince ingenue Vanity (and her cheekbones) vs. Velvet von Ragnar, a be-wigged evil hermaphrodite played by Gene Simmons. That's what.</div>
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* "Texas Prize 2012": Jamal Cyrus, Will Henry, Jeff Williams @ <a href="http://amoa-arthouse.org/">AMOA-Arthouse</a> / 700 Congress. Texas-based professionals nominated these three contemporary artists for an exhibition, then another panel of jurors pick one for a significant award. Cat's out the bag: Williams won it, for a dripping, unnerving site-specific installation on the museum's second floor, combining Central Texas fossils with industrial objects and the light smell of unseen—or absent—chemicals. Like I wrote in my earlier LIST, I was pulling for Cyrus, for his outstanding work at the New Museum's "Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet" and the literary workshop "Book Club" at Project Room Houses in Houston, TX's Third Ward (w/ collaborator Steffani Jemison). His large installation of animal hide-covered objects, stereo equipment, and electronics is echoed in a video performance where he douses a tenor saxophone in batter, deep-fries it, and points microphones at the process. Noisily good, but then I'm into Merzbow (see MON, NYC). Henry's rather quiet paintings of landscapes in wrong colors all hang downstairs (I mostly understand why the museum didn't incorporate the three artists) and are all the more silent paired with Cyrus and Williams' work.</div>
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* "This Is It With It As It Is" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. LA-based artist Eve Fowler created the titular work behind this four-person exhibition, a poster-sized panel of glittering, asphalt-colored letters on fluorescent yellow. The words are derived from Gertrude Stein, but the lettering design was determined by the poster-making company: so Fowler's hand in the work is more that of guiding rather than dictating. I sense a little of her in the other three showing here, all youngish cross-media Los Angeles artists who either know or have worked with Fowler in varying degrees. Probably her closest neighbor is multidisciplinary artist Math Bass, who collaborated on a performance/sculpture/photography project with Fowler at Easthampton's Fireplace Project last year – though Bass eschews her own text-derived work in favor of these sphinxlike, watery ink drawings. Their ambiguous portraiture gives up almost exactly zero, but they hint at Bass' overarching oeuvre and accented her Fusebox Festival performance. Likewise Barry Macgregor Smith's objects and painted banners, both taking on different modes than their initial intent. I found Dashiell Manley's two-sided framed works the linchpin to the show and the antipode to Fowler's text paintings. While Manley's contributions – painted canvas on one side, painted and smeared glass on the obverse – are covered in numerals, many of the silvery digits are flipped into their mirror images (like they're seen from the painting's opposite side) and as a result resemble roman letters. It is this breakdown or blurring of language and communication, like Bass' representational transience, that I find really super interesting.</div>
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* Colin Doyle "An Inquiry Concerning" @ <a href="http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/galleries/att_eec_gallery.cfm">Courtyard Garden, AT&T Center</a> / 1900 University Ave, 2nd Fl. This handsome photography presentation by young Austin-based artist Doyle left me hungry for more. And that was after staring for like an hour at the five well-sized prints, each focusing crisply on a single object or several related elements on a non-fussy, usually monochrome backdrop. I felt an intriguing kinship b/w Doyle's compositions and those of camera-geek Christopher Williams, some 30 years Doyle's senior. Both capture the purportedly mundane or banal, boosting that image into something quite beautiful and thought-provoking. Though Williams gets a bit funny sometimes with his bisected cameras and lengthy titles, while Doyle features only one funny print of five, "Picture For Maggie", the oldest work in the show. Compare this— the red funnel, enlarged to bucket proportions and topped off with white powder, floating tuliplike on a just-there clear test-tube—to "Three Lines", both a gigantic staple and three finger-sized black lines forming a most elementary shape. The former feels almost excessive and flashy now, yet it is practically as elegant as can be. Ditto "Six Bricks", a Carl Andre-style array that speaks both to preschool-age counting exercises and my favorite style of Minimalism. Couple these with the blinged-out "Triangle" and the graceful curves and bright colors of "Sum Sum" (refrigerator magnets?), and you have a whole reductive visual language. You might be surprised at how long you spend looking at them.</div>
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* Daido Moriyama "COLOR" @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Photography</a> / 2F 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Moriyama-san is a photographing beast! I learned this when he visited Japan Society in NYC last November, kicking off Performa 11 w/ a reinterpretation of his "PRINTING SHOW-TKY". He photographs for hours every day, and he even espoused his delight of digital color photography. That may be at odds w/ your interpretations of his style, decades of contrasty b&w prints done the Leica way, but this new series of lush prints – a mix of digital prints and enlarged lambda versions – is as stunning, challenging, garish, emotive, and "Daido-ish" as Moriyama's earliest. Plus, the color really clobbers you, the whole sweaty, neon-drenched, sexy essence of the Tokyo I know best. The 99-odd prints on view are like a third of those in the cover-to-cover photographic tome "COLOR" published a few months ago, and a mere droplet of the 30,000 shots he captured in Tokyo.</div>
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* Yosuke Bandai "Disordered Bandai: His Unequalled Passion" @ <a href="http://www.aikowadagallery.com/">Ai Kowada Gallery</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Heavily reconstructed and manipulated digital images, incorporating both stuff from Bandai's earlier work and Internet images, but they're so abstracted they more readily resemble discreet abstract paintings trapped in Plexiglas. Bandai was going for "the best visual experiences have a strange boringness and difficulty to understand"—you'll get that here.</div>
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* Teppei Kaneuji "Something on the Planet" @ <a href="http://shugoarts.com/">Shugo Arts</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). While traversing this visually overwhelming, mixed-media exhibition, I tweeted (in Japanese) something like "if you mixed Kenny Scharf and Brody Condon, the end result might resemble Kaneuji's work". Think bold, brash colors in unlikely but potent combinations, cartoony elements and formalist structuring, photo-collage and stuff that looks like acid-toned Play-doh or toothpaste, and that's not counting the sculpture! Really neat.</div>
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* Sherrie Levine "A Dazzle of Zebra" @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 534 W 21st St. What in the hell does this exhibition title mean? Who knows! Something about the duality b/w the real world and Levine's set-piece installation. The cerebral meta-artist just had a phenomenal survey at the Whitney, and now she unveils new "encounters", works made of glass, bronze, or handmade paper. </div>
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* Michael DeLucia @ <a href="http://www.elevenrivington.com/">Eleven Rivington</a> / 11 Rivington St. Just off an eye-opening group show "In Practice" at Long Island City's SculptureCenter comes DeLucia's reductive housepaint-on-plywood sculpture, inaugurating Eleven Rivington's newly expanded space at 195 Chrystie St, around the corner from the tiny gallery.</div>
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* Kimberley Hart "Promise" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. New Martin House-inspired birdhouses built to Amish specifications and colored-pencil drawings in the Americana vernacular constitute Hart's third solo at the gallery.</div>
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* Yuichiro Natori @ <a href="http://www.kidopress.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Gorgeous, painted cut-paper animation in a charming, new video from the Tokyo artist, plus static works and sketches.</div>
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* Nana Funo @ <a href="http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/">Tomio Koyama Gallery</a> / 7F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station). The young artist from Shizuoka includes drawing notebooks in her second solo exhibition at the gallery, plus kaleidoscopically detailed mixed media paintings of engrossing fantasy worlds. </div>
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+ Mika Ninagawa "Plant a Tree". The photographer and director (her feature film debut "Sakuran" I dug like totally) amps up the seasonal saturation. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Tom McGrath "Profiles in Fugitive Light" @ <a href="http://suescottgallery.com/">Sue Scott Gallery</a> / 1 Rivington St. Spanking new moody, nocturnal abstract oil paintings from McGrath, whose last solo was at Mexico City's Zona Maco.</div>
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* Pier Paolo Calzolari "When a dreamer dies what happens to the dream? @ <a href="http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/">Marianne Boesky Gallery</a> / 509 W 24th St and <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 510 W 25th St. Pretty dope: the two galleries will be temporarily conjoined in hosting an in-depth historic exhibition of the Arte Povera artist, featuring his "activated" materials and temporal achievements. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-28581801458743395782012-05-03T16:31:00.000-04:002012-05-03T16:33:26.519-04:00Traveling/旅行中<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No new posts for the next two(?) weeks, as I will be returning to my favorite place. Just stare at this GIF for awhile and you'll get the idea.<br />
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お気に入り場所に戻ってされるように、次の約二つ週間のブログを更新できません。唯しばらくの間、このGIFをじっと見て、分かりになるでしょうね。b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-70251173906190235992012-05-02T10:02:00.000-04:002012-05-02T10:02:13.556-04:00fee's LIST / through 5/8<br />
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* Phyllida Barlow "siege" @ <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St). The debut NY solo exhibition by the British sculptor, activated as a site-specific installation of found objects from the street (scaffolding, security fences, fabric) shacking up on the museum's fourth floor.</div>
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+ Nathalie Djurberg "The Parade". The young Berlin-based multimedia artist's most ambitious installation to date, and that's saying something, considering her repertoire of stop-animation figures and related mixed-media dioramas. Djurberg presents five animations, set to a soundtrack by her collaborator and partner Hans Berg, plus a menagerie of bird sculptures formed by painted canvas, clay and wire. Significantly awesome. See it at the New Museum's 231 Bowery space.</div>
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* Pablo Picasso "Picasso and Françoise Gilot, Paris-Vallauris 1943-1953" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 980 Madison Ave. One more museum-worthy Picasso show for the art-adoring populace. Gagosian brings the action uptown in this fourth iteration, feat. a visual and conceptual dialogue b/w the modern master and his (then) 21-year-old muse, who was an artist herself when she met Picasso. Gilot's own paintings (imbued with Picasso contemporary Georges Braque) will be shown in concert w/ Picasso's postwar innovations. One word: mayjah.</div>
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* Liam Gillick "Scorpion and und et Felix" @ <a href="http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/">Casey Kaplan Gallery</a> / 525 W 21st St. Karl Marx's early unpublished manuscript "Scorpion and Felix" (don't worry, I haven't read it, either!) is the jump-off to Gillick's decidedly cerebral show, drawing ideas like writer's block and semi-autonomous abstraction.</div>
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* Dana Schutz "Piano in the Rain" @ <a href="http://www.petzel.com/">Friedrich Petzel Gallery</a> / 537 W 22nd St. I've come around to digging Schutz, whose brutal figurative style and garish palette definitely ain't for everyone. In her latest works, she begins w/ unstable narrative dilemmas (like the show title) and produces abraded, physically worked-over paintings feat. characters who are maybe just a bit TOO relatable.</div>
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* Jutta Koether "The Fifth Season" @ <a href="http://www.bortolamigallery.com/">Bortolami</a> / 520 W 20th St. The title: get it? Koether references her ethereal paintings on glass panels, which take inspiration from Nicolas Poussin's cycle "The Four Seasons" (1660-64) and are installed at the Whitney Biennial. A huge part of the reason that worked so well is natural light and the Whitney's big-ass windows. I wonder how these large-ish works will relate to Bortolami's white-box interior and concrete floors. </div>
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* Philippe Decrauzat @ <a href="http://now.elizabethdee.com/">Elizabeth Dee</a> / 545 W 20th St. The Lausanne-based artist produced a perception-tweaking array at the gallery back in 2009, and now after several exhibitions around the globe — including such knowing titles like "screen-o-scope" at Praz-Delavallade, Paris; and "on the retina" at House of Art Ceské Budejovice — he returns. Think he's going to mess with us some more? Next question.</div>
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* "Paintings and Jugs", curated by Gianni Jetzer @ <a href="http://www.swissinstitute.net/">Swiss Institute NY</a> / 18 Wooster St. The curious exhibition title hints at the matter-of-fact juxtaposition happening here: large-scale paintings with reductive palettes by Linus Bill and Adrien Horni, plus ceramics by FLAG (aka Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard) – all with a heightened sensibility to collaborative production.</div>
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* Lower Dens (Baltimore) + Air Waves @ <a href="http://glasslands.blogspot.com/">Glasslands</a> / 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8:30p/SOLD OUT. Baltimore brings the fuzz (rock). I'm real stoked about Jana Hunter's hypno-punk outfit Lower Dens, which accents nicely w/ singer-songwriter Nicole Schneit's indie stalwarts Air Waves. w/ Twisted Wires</div>
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* "Emanuelle in Bangkok" (dir. Joe D'Amato, 1976) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 9:45p. Because YOU asked for it! Wait…didn't you? I mean, you must know Laura Gemser, right? The model-tall force of nature playing globetrotting detective Emanuelle, who gets up to all kinds of sexy adventures while beating the bad guys. I wonder what she'll find in Bangkok?</div>
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* TADZIO + Hair Stylistics, DODDODO, Hirakuta Decorder etc @ <a href="http://www.unit-tokyo.com/">Unit</a> / B1F 1-34-17 Ebisu-Nishi, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote/Hibiya Line to Ebisu Station), 11p/3000 yen. This is an inspired pairing, noise-rock grills TADZIO w/ noise collagist Masaya "Hair Stylistics" Nakahara. Add Kansai-area electroacoustic siren DODDODO to the mix and things just got a helluva lot more interesting. w/ original "jet-rockers" Guitar Wolf and a bunch more acts.</div>
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* bira + <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">ミダリ</span> + ni-hao! @ <a href="http://www.geocities.jp/xxxheavensdoorxxx/">Heaven's Door</a> / 1-33-19 Sangenjaya, Setagaya-ku (Den-en-toshi Line to Sangen-jaya Station), 7p/2300 yen. Ever been to a "zombie lolita" show? The pure visual/sonic/psychological onslaught delivered by "Midari" and new zombie lolita band bira (one of the girls wears a skull mask) is thankfully tempered by Kansai psych-rock girls ni-hao! </div>
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* Lucio Fontana "Ambienti Spaziali" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 555 W 24th St. Hold everything: I know Frieze NY is about to go down, but THIS is the must-see show in NYC. The gallery reconstructs six of Fontana's innovative environments (from 1949 through 1968) in what sounds to be a truly transcendent exhibition. You may know him for his "Concetti spaziali", where Fontana cut into canvas, but his more elaborate installations, feat. illuminated papier-mâché, gouged forms, and lots of surfaces w/ holes in 'em, make for a much fuller appreciation of this modern master.<br />
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* Will Cotton @ <a href="http://maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 745 Fifth Ave. Get yr sugar fix at Cotton's new array of unctuous candy paintings and cast-plaster cake sculpture, riffing off his artistic direction on Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video. Dig in.</div>
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* Kimberley Hart "Promise" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. New Martin House-inspired birdhouses built to Amish specifications and colored-pencil drawings in the Americana vernacular constitute Hart's third solo at the gallery.</div>
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* Lara Favaretto "Just Knocked Out" @ <a href="http://momaps1.org/">MoMA PS1</a> / 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City (E/M to 23rd St/Court Square, 7 to 45th Rd/Courthouse Sq). The debut survey of the curious conceptualist, feat. 15 years of disintegrating confetti sculptures, found paintings, recycled installations, moving assemblages, and more, replete w/ an extensive archive of Faveretto's source materials and inspirations.</div>
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* "Trauma" (dir. Dario Argento 1993) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. When I call this Argento film "weird-ass", you really must believe me. I know the man's work very well, and I still consider this a verrrry strange Argento film, feat. his young daughter Asia as an anorexic in a perpetually raining city chased by a madman with a homemade garrote (charmingly dubbed the "noose-o-matic" by SFX king Tom Savini).</div>
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* Light Asylum (LP release party) @ <a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com/">(le) poisson rouge</a> / 158 Bleecker St (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 11p/$15. Shannon Funchess saved '80's soul-house. She and Bruno (the bloke behind the decks) will get that body grooving in no time flat, all right, but it's Funchess' formidable vox that rule the night. w/ oOoOO and Black Marble</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: Max Warsh & Vanesa Zendejas @ <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana/max-warsh-a-vanesa-zendejas-sofa-at-rosewood-2">Sofa at Rosewood</a> / 1319 Rosewood Ave, 7-9p. NY-based Warsh pairs photography to LA artist Zendejas' sculpture, as the pair investigate abstraction and built spaces. I am poring through "RUINS" (edited by Brian Dillon, part of Whitechapel Gallery's "Documents of Contemporary Art"), and find the timing of this exhibition just perfect. ALSO SAT-SUN, noon-5p</div>
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* "King of Alternative" @ <a href="http://www.geocities.jp/xxxheavensdoorxxx/">Heaven's Door</a> / 1-33-19 Sangenjaya, Setagaya-ku (Den-en-toshi Line to Sangen-jaya Station), 3:30p/2000 yen. An all-day primer on the local indie scene, feat. garage-pop girls Merpeoples, sunny punks CHARLTON, sludgy lovelies Oh my God you've gone, these girls called – uh – "breast" (<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">乳</span>) , plus The Loyettes, ampcharwar and like a half dozen more. Insane.</div>
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* Sturtevant "Rock & Rap /C Simulacra" @ <a href="http://gavinbrown.biz/home/exhibitions.html">Gavin Brown's Enterprise</a> / 620 Greenwich St. Ah, Elaine Sturtevant, a superlative chameleon in the art-making world, equally adept in painting, sculpture, film, photography, performance, and her "copies" of other artists' works is nothing short of incredible. She currently carries the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement (54th Venice Biennale) and the Kurt Schwitters Prize for Lifetime Achievement (Sprengel Museum, Hanover). The advert to her new solo show at the gallery is a closeup of a sex doll. Mull over that one for awhile.</div>
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* Richard Avedon "Murals and Portraits" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 522 W 21st St. An exhibition of the classic modernist photographer's legendary photographic murals and related portraits, presented in a dramatic spatial composition designed by super-cool architect David Adjaye — because if you're gonna do it, Gagosian, you'll do it up all the way. Nice.</div>
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* Rachel Harrison "The Help" @ <a href="http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/">Greene Naftali Gallery</a> / 508 W 26th St 8th Fl. Though this Brooklyn-based artist was one of the heavyweights in "Neoassemblage", the New Museum's inaugural show in its Bowery location, I think it's time we drop that whole "neo" bit. It's too ephemeral and transient, and Harrison's not going anywhere. She has cobbled a signature style of complicated-ass sculpture that can be as humorous as it is thought-provoking, and I am psyched for her solo return to the gallery.</div>
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* Chantal Joffe @ <a href="http://www.cheimread.com/">Cheim & Read</a> / 547 W 25th St. I think the last time I saw a bunch of Joffe's angular portraits in the same temporal space as her senior, NY-based kindred Alice Neel was in their group show "The Female Gaze, Women Look at Women" at this gallery. Now David Zwirner stages a survey of Neel's late-period works, while Cheim & Read turn to Joffe's recent portraiture. Disarmingly beautiful.</div>
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* Yan Pei-Ming "Black Paintings" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 519 W 19th St. The title hints at some of the subject matter behind the Dijon, France-based artist's latest works: Francisco Goya. Interesting thing is, Yan goes beyond his acclaimed darkly monochromatic color palette in rethinking Goya, drenching the work in blood red. The other works, recalling Picasso and the Arab Spring, find Yan in his famed, inky hues.</div>
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* Alice Neel "Late Portraits & Still Lifes" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 533 W 19th St. Fluidic, brightly colored portraits and still lifes — the latter I've NEVER seen before — from the final two decades of the NY-based artist's life.</div>
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* Kristin Baker "Illume-Mine" @ <a href="http://www.suzannegeiss.com/">The Suzanne Geiss Company</a> / 136 Grand St. Full disclosure: I was NOT a fan of Baker's hi-octane, Nascar-ish abstract paintings back in her Deitch days. But I'll give her the benefit of the doubt here, as her large works take on increasing notions of shattered photography and super-futurist subject matter.</div>
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* Giuseppe Penone @ <a href="http://www.mariangoodman.com/">Marian Goodman Gallery</a> / 24 W 57th St. Neat: Gagosian's major installation of Lucio Fontana is matched here by the gallery's survey on Arte Povera sculptor Penone, who has some 40+ years of prints and figure-infused sculpture behind him but remains fairly underrepresented in the States. He's participating in dOCUMENTA (13) next month, plus will contribute a commissioned work for Madison Square Park in Autumn 2013. NYers, get to know him now.</div>
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* "An Accumulation of Information Taken From Here to There" @ <a href="http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html">Sperone Westwater</a> / 257 Bowery. Yep, that sounds like a Lawrence Weiner quote. This exhibition highlights American and European artists from the '60s and '70s who were trying new things, like Arte Povera (ahem), Minimalism, and Conceptualism. Feat. Weiner, Carl Andre, Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini, Mario Merz, Joseph Kosuth, and a bunch of other artists I really dig.</div>
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* Anish Kapoor @ <a href="http://gladstonegallery.com/">Gladstone Gallery</a> / 515 W 24th St. Yeah, I caught Kapoor's super-shiny show here like four years ago. He now trades some of that finish-fetish stuff for heaped concrete and looming Cor-Ten, a physicality all the more sinister.</div>
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* Xiu Xiu + Dirty Beaches (Montreal) @ <a href="http://www.boweryballroom.com/">Bowery Ballroom</a> / 6 Delancey St (F/JMZ to Essex/Delancey), 8p/$18. Feels so bad it feels good. Meet Alex Zhang Hungtai, aka Dirty Beaches, whose stripped-down guitar rock and machismo comes straight outta an early '90s Wong Kar-wai film. Then Xiu Xiu conquer all: matching abrasion w/ "Always", perhaps their most sickly positive LP yet. </div>
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* 2012 Drawing Annual @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 607 1/2 Genard St. This ain't your mom's drawing show: the gallery flexes and pushes the concept of drawing with five innovative artists, like recent MFA graduate Miguel A. Aragón, who may sooner drill holes in structures to convey mark-making; and NY artist Stephanie Serpick, whose works on paper convey a startlingly 3D haze. Also featured are David Culpepper, Leah Haney (her solo exhibition at AMOA-Arthouse just concluded), and Rob Lomblad.</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: Dashiell Manley + Math Bass performances @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St, 7p. This four-LA-artist group show (see my review under CURRENT SHOWS) left you craving more awesomeness? Performance is an intrinsic part to Bass' oeuvre, and it figures in Manley's practice as well. Each should be illuminating, set in situ to their exhibition at the gallery.</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: Joan Jonas "The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things" @ <a href="http://texasperformingarts.org/">UT-McCullough Theatre</a> / 2375 Robert Dedman Dr, 8p/$19. Just major: the pioneering video and performance artist re-stages her 2004 production, drawing from Noh and Nordic theatre, classic fairytales and storytelling, creating a cosmic and ultimately very humanistic experience. ALSO SAT, 8p.</div>
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* "The Avengers" (dir. Joss Whedon, 2012) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar</a> / 1120 S. Lamar. An over-the-top comic book action film that actually pulls it off…that's what I've heard, anyway, and the ensemble cast here (snarky Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, suave Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, and Mr. Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, amid others) is on par w/ "X-Men: First Class", my favorite Marvel film by far. See this one in 2D.</div>
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* "Lady Vengeance" (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2005) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 11:30p. The final film in Park's harrowing "Vengeance Trilogy" could begin with "Oldboy"'s snow, in the way "Lady Vengeance"'s palette de-evaporates from b&w to color. Just in time for the killing! Yeong-ae Lee plays bravely a young woman wrongly accused of something unmentionable here…and sets her on a course to catch the murderer and make them suffer something good. ALSO SAT</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: CHRISTEENE @ <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana?view=events&ohanah_venue_id=9&ohanah_category_id=&filterEvents=all">Fusebox Festival Hub</a> / 1100 E 5th St, 11p/$5. I hesitate to laud CHRISTEENE (aka glamorous Rebecca Havermeyer, né Paul Soileau) as a performer in the live-music sense, as her lewd choreography and vile rapping works really well in the performance ART sense. That's half thanks to PJ Raval, cinematographer for CHRISTEENE's music videos and a solid moving-image artist in his own right. But it's appropriate this sexy and shameless soirée occurs late at night.</div>
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* DODDODO + Makoto Inada + Shinji Wada (DMBQ) @ <a href="http://minamiikebukuromusic.org/">Minami-ikebukuro Music.Org</a> / B2 1-20-11 Minami-ikebukuro,Toshima-ku (JR Yamanote/Tokyo Metro lines to Ikebukuro Station, West Exit), 6:30p/2500 yen. What's iller than Kansai noise-sprite Namin Haku, aka DODDODO? A: almost nothing, but pairing her w/ bassist Inada and DMBQ drummer Wada turns her fractured kineticism into a full-on band.</div>
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* Tauba Auerbach @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. The young NY-based trompe-l'oeil abstract artist continues pioneering her "Fold" paintings, exhibiting the powdery works alongside new "Weave" paintings shown for the first time stateside. Auerbach's drawings appear in "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language", on view at MoMA.</div>
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* Hélio Oiticica "Penetrables" @ <a href="http://galerielelong.com/">Galerie Lelong</a> / 528 W 26th St. Tis the (gallery) season for restaged, multi-sensorial installations! That's the case w/ Lucio Fontana's "Ambienti Spaziali" at Gagosian (sorry, I cannot hype this awesomeness enough), and it's happening at Lelong. They feature three of the late Brazilian avant-garde artist Oiticica's rarely-seen, colorful installations, including the dazzlingly mazelike "Penetrável Filtro" (1972), made of multiple corridors and curtains of color, whose journey ends by having the participant "drink" the final color (orange juice). Dope, right?</div>
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* Thomas Demand @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 522 W 22nd St. So the Brice Marden show(s) next door are totally stealing all the thunder — a slew of new paintings! on marble! he hasn't done that in…30 years! — MMarks still has much else to show us. Like perception-distorter Thomas Demand, whose highly ambitious film (yes: FILM) "Pacific Sun" takes his telltale cut-paper dioramas and ANIMATES them, 2,400 frames of constructed paper following the video of a cruise ship caught in a storm on the Tasman Sea. </div>
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* Gary Hume "Anxiety and the Horse" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 523 W 24th St. Seven of Hume's signature bright enamel on aluminum panel paintings — they're all totally abstract, but he says "it just looks like anxiety, and a horse….that's exactly what they are." OK, if you say so, Gary!</div>
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* Loris Gréaud "The Unplayed Notes" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 534 W 25th St. Tick off ONE MORE exhibition centered on "site-specific, multi-sensorial installations". Though this makes total sense w/ Gréaud, who is very into investigating altered realities, so his ashen corridor (made from actual ashes of previous works) and monumental, photosensitive panels fit quite well in the mix. Plus, this exhibition comes before the artist's big new solo project next year, a joint collaboration between the Musée du Louvre and the Centre Georges Pompidou.</div>
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* Amie Siegel "The Black Moon Project" @ <a href="http://amoa-arthouse.org/">AMOA-Arthouse</a> / 700 Congress. How to make classic sci-fi scarier? Set it ambiguously in the present day, and amp us the dystopia. That grounds Siegel's film "Black Moon", which partially remakes Louis Malle's '75 original but juxtaposes abandoned real estate with women wordlessly navigating a desert wasteland. She includes a two-channel work "Black Moon/Mirrored Malle", a shot-by-shot comparison of an interview with Malle and a new version, with Siegel playing the director.</div>
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+ "Texas Prize 2012: Jamal Cyrus, Will Henry, Jeff Williams". Texas-based professionals nominated these three contemporary artists for an exhibition, then another panel of jurors pick one for a significant award. Me, I'm pulling for Cyrus, for his outstanding work at the New Museum's "Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet" and the literary workshop "Book Club" at Project Room Houses in Houston, TX's Third Ward (w/ collaborator Steffani Jemison). Though Henry's West Texas minimalism and Williams' site-specific sculpture could be dope, too.</div>
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* America Martin @ <a href="http://www.wallyworkmangallery.com/">Wally Workman Gallery</a> / 1202 W 6th St. New large-scale figurative paintings – I'm detecting Leger-level intensity and Picasso-bright boldness – by the LA-based Colombian-American artist. Stoked? Very much yes.</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: Tamy Ben-Tor & Noah Simblist @ <a href="http://www.fluentcollab.org/testsite/index.php/projects/index/30">testsite</a> / 502 W 33rd St, 5p. Writer/curator Simblist invited one of my favorite performance artists to Austin. Already, this is dope. Ben-Tor unleashes her culturally salient oeuvre, incl. video-performance "Time and Space" and her new development "AVNER". In other news: Ben-Tor just staged a performance at NYC's Zach Feuer Gallery, in conjunction w/ her new show there.</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: Barry Macgregor Johnston performance @ <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana?view=events&ohanah_venue_id=9&ohanah_category_id=&filterEvents=all">Fuxebox Festival Hub</a> / 1100 E 5th St, 7p/FREE. As much as I dug Johnston's objects and banners in "This Is It With It As It Is", the four-LA-artist show on now at Lora Reynolds Gallery (see my review under CURRENT SHOWS), it's only two-thirds of his practice. That fated third, performance, apparently includes "hardcore music, tragic theatre, and dance", all of which I sincerely hope figure into his off-site performance at Fusebox Hub. Unmissable.</div>
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* Ellen Altfest "Head and Plant" @ <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St). The NY-based artist enjoys her debut museum show, presenting a group of extremely physical, figurative paintings.</div>
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+ Tacita Dean "Five Americans". Multimedia pioneer Dean comes off a very successful and innovative commission at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall ("FILM") with her most substantial NY presentation to date. The Berlin-based artist shows "moving portraits" of Merce Cunningham, Leo Steinberg, Julie Mehretu, Claes Oldenburg, and Cy Twombly.</div>
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+ Klara Lidén "Bodies of Society". I don't expect any Christmas trees this time, like at Lidén's wonderful installation this past January at Reena Spauldings Fine Art. But I've not doubt the young Swedish art has some tricks up her sleeve to activate and change the cold museum space into something altogether physically and psychologically NEW.</div>
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* Kehinde Wiley "An Economy of Grace" @ <a href="http://www.skny.com/">Sean Kelly Gallery</a> / 528 W 29th St. Wiley's debut solo at the gallery coincides with his first instance of focusing only on women as his portraiture subjects. He collaborated with Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci, who designed six long dresses for Wiley's models, so you know this is going to be mad fierce. </div>
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* "Better Off Dead" (dir. Savage Steve Holland, 1985) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. After "Sixteen Candles" but before "Stand By Me" comes John Cusack as a very tall high-schooler in this extremely un-PC teen comedy. Even better: Diane Franklin (Cusack's "foreign-exchange" love interest in "Better Off Dead", plus the "totally '80s" sister in "TerrorVision") attends this screening!</div>
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* Keiko Ajito <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">「夢違」</span> @ <a href="http://www.span-art.co.jp/">Span Art Gallery</a> / 2-2-18 1F Ginza, Chuo-ku. (Yurakucho Line to Ginza-Itchome Station). The title of Ajito's fantastical exhibition is just perfect, if nearly untranslatable in English: "a prayer so that a bad dream does not come true"…something close to that. Her illustrations of fitful sleep illustrate Riku Onda's brand-new, award-winning novel of the same name.</div>
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* "Miracle Mile" (dir. Steve de Jarnatt, 1988) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:30p. Few films have utilized phone booths and "realtime" to such diabolical, disgusting degrees as this apocalyptic cult film. Feat. a young Anthony Edwards as the receiver of bad news: there's gonna be a nuclear war in less than an hour! Oh, and this was nominated for "Best Film" at 1989 Sitges Film Festival…chew on that for awhile.</div>
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* Patrick Taberna "Au Fil Des Jours" @ <a href="http://www.tosei-sha.jp/TOSEI-NEW-HP/html/EXHIBITIONS/j_exhibitions.html">Gallery TOSEI</a> / 5-18-20 Chuo, Nagano-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Shin-Nakao Station, Exit 1-2). Gorgeous square-format photographs detailing Taberna's journeys and the smaller, finer details of life. This series was collected in a monograph in 2004.</div>
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* "This Is It With It As It Is" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. LA-based artist Eve Fowler created the titular work behind this four-person exhibition, a poster-sized panel of glittering, asphalt-colored letters on fluorescent yellow. The words are derived from Gertrude Stein, but the lettering design was determined by the poster-making company: so Fowler's hand in the work is more that of guiding rather than dictating. I sense a little of her in the other three showing here, all youngish cross-media Los Angeles artists who either know or have worked with Fowler in varying degrees. Probably her closest neighbor is multidisciplinary artist Math Bass, who collaborated on a performance/sculpture/photography project with Fowler at Easthampton's Fireplace Project last year – though Bass eschews her own text-derived work in favor of these sphinxlike, watery ink drawings. Their ambiguous portraiture gives up almost exactly zero, but they hint at Bass' overarching oeuvre and her upcoming performance for Fusebox (MAY 4, check back!). Likewise Barry Macgregor Smith's objects and painted banners, both taking on different modes than their initial intent. I found Dashiell Manley's two-sided framed works the linchpin to the show and the antipode to Fowler's text paintings. While Manley's contributions – painted canvas on one side, painted and smeared glass on the obverse – are covered in numerals, many of the silvery digits are flipped into their mirror images (like they're seen from the painting's opposite side) and as a result resemble roman letters. It is this breakdown or blurring of language and communication, like Bass' representational transience, that I find really super interesting.</div>
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* Colin Doyle "An Inquiry Concerning" @ <a href="http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/galleries/att_eec_gallery.cfm">Courtyard Garden, AT&T Center</a> / 1900 University Ave, 2nd Fl. This handsome photography presentation by young Austin-based artist Doyle left me hungry for more. And that was after staring for like an hour at the five well-sized prints, each focusing crisply on a single object or several related elements on a non-fussy, usually monochrome backdrop. I felt an intriguing kinship b/w Doyle's compositions and those of camera-geek Christopher Williams, some 30 years Doyle's senior. Both capture the purportedly mundane or banal, boosting that image into something quite beautiful and thought-provoking. Though Williams gets a bit funny sometimes with his bisected cameras and lengthy titles, while Doyle features only one funny print of five, "Picture For Maggie", the oldest work in the show. Compare this— the red funnel, enlarged to bucket proportions and topped off with white powder, floating tuliplike on a just-there clear test-tube—to "Three Lines", both a gigantic staple and three finger-sized black lines forming a most elementary shape. The former feels almost excessive and flashy now, yet it is practically as elegant as can be. Ditto "Six Bricks", a Carl Andre-style array that speaks both to preschool-age counting exercises and my favorite style of Minimalism. Couple these with the blinged-out "Triangle" and the graceful curves and bright colors of "Sum Sum" (refrigerator magnets?), and you have a whole reductive visual language. You might be surprised at how long you spend looking at them.</div>
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* Leif Low-beer @ <a href="http://okaymountain.com/">Okay Mountain</a> / 1619 E Cesar Chavez. I was pretty stoked to hear that Brooklynite Low-beer—who I'd met at Astoria, Queen's Socrates Sculpture Park last May (his array of brightly colored objects and forms was a highlight of that group exhibition and turned notions of "public sculpture" on its ear)—was inaugurating Okay Mountain's new space. I was doubly stoked when I arrived and found one of Low-beer's beguiling arrays (I think titled "Olive pit pedestal") crowning off an exhibition including sculptural/mixed-media hybrids and works on paper. Agglomerations including painted bead-like stacks, geometric interventions and what resembles Haim Steinbach's signature "dog chew-toys" rearrange themselves depending on POV, retaining the artist's presence and hand much as his collaged drawings and spatially distorting photography. </div>
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* EVOL "Repeat Offender" @ <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. I got tuned into Berlin-based artist EVOL's transcendent interventions—meticulously layered stencils on used cardboard, morphing them into startlingly realistic street scenes—at VOLTA NY 2010. Then LeVine picked him up for one of their legendary summer group shows in 2010. Now they stage EVOL's debut solo stateside exhibition! Mad stoked.</div>
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* Kathy Ruttenberg "The Earth Exhales" @ <a href="http://stuxgallery.com/www/currentExhibitions">STUX Gallery</a> / 530 W 25th St. New, disturbing ceramics in Ruttenberg's debut at the gallery, including woodland creatures, humans, and the forest itself blurred into wild amalgams.</div>
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* Conrad Bakker "Untitled Project: RECORD SHOP [45s] @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. I visited Tokyo indie gallery eitoeiko during New City Art Fair in NYC and noted they were showing artist Masaru Aikawa, whose signature style includes hand-painting CD-sized squares of canvas to expertly replicate CD artwork, only in obviously painterly style. Bakker is also re-presenting music as art, in this case rough-hewn wooden "45's" painted to mimic album jackets, but his execution feels uniquely Bakker-ish. Meaning: he doesn't go as far as Aikawa in the trompe-l'oeil effect, so his artwork, while clearly resembling LPs (Depeche Mode and Phil Collins here, Bob Marley and Joni Mitchell there), more accurately look like little paintings, down to their respective quirky, handmade essences. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Andy Coolquitt "chair w/ paintings" @ <a href="http://www.lisa-cooley.com/">Lisa Cooley</a> / 107 Norfolk St. Even in Lisa Cooley's new gallery space, Coolquitt's assemblage-style sculpture is guaranteed dense and intense, as his discarded and chosen-object groupings gravitate to and play off one another.</div>
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* "The Crystal Chain" @ <a href="http://invisible-exports.com/">Invisible-Exports</a> / 14A Orchard St. Matthew Porter and Hannah Whitaker co-curate this photography group exhibition, coinciding w/ Blind Spot magazine's issue 45. Feat. several historical photographers (Eliot Porter, Ellen Auerbach, Josef Breitenbach) plus more recent works by Matthew Brandt, Kate Costello, Boru O'Brien O'Connell, Erin Shirreff and others.</div>
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* Charles Dunn "hell on earth" @ <a href="http://numberthirtyfive.com/">Number 35 Gallery</a> / 141 Attorney St. Apocalyptic possibilities enrich Dunn's vibrant color palette in his paintings and enrapture his Plexiglas and wood sculpture. Hell, if the world's going to end in 2012, might as well go for broke. Year of the Dragon. Carpe Diem.</div>
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* "Memento Mori" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. I've been working off a mortality tip in these Austin-area galleries. First Tiny Park, now Grayduck. This group exhibition, w/ Suzanne Koett (photography), John Mulvany (painting), and Cherie Weaver (mixed media), features local talent adept at locking humanity in a historical context. Mulvany, Irish-born and Texas-based, achieves this by painting figures from the Irish Civil War as beatific spirits looming over the sun-bleached Hill Country landscape. Retaining the figures' sepia-toned palette against the vistas' blues, greens, and earth-tones—plus the ornate retablo/devotional halos crowning them—Mulvany comments on the cyclical presence of his subjects. As in: the recurrences of war and religious movements. Weaver utilizes a ton of vintage cabinet cards in her ageless works, but they tend to be linking points or jump-offs to larger or multi-part dialogues, like the almost titular "Momentum Mori" and its pools of sumi-e echoed in the photograph's checkerboard floor, or her composites on translucent unstretched linen. I first began digging Koett's photography at this Austin-area artist group show at Gallery Black Lagoon last year, thanks to her bracing "Sabbat" series. She includes works from "The Study of Aloneness" here, ghostly composites of same-looking girls levitating in a forest's fog ("Power For Power") or in a Brutalist garage ("Rejoice, We Made the Right Choice"). It's like her "twins" are the guides for this exhibition's ideas and imagery, ushering us between consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death, to contemplate our respective existences. </div>
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* Ay-O "Over the Rainbow Once More" @ <a href="http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/">Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo</a> / 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station). The "Rainbow Artist" and Fluxus member's full-spectrum career arc, depicted in full color. Featuring a large, participatory installation (as Ay-O's oeuvre is typically multisensory), plus a new large painting, classic other paintings and videos. </div>
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+ Atsuko Tanaka "The Art of Connecting". Define MAJYAH. The first major Tokyo retrospective of the foremost female member of Gutai Art Association, the postwar avant-garde artist group. This includes Tanaka's famous "Electric Dress" but includes loads else, like paintings, collages, and video records of her performances. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-42164206952497762762012-04-25T08:58:00.000-04:002012-04-25T08:58:49.455-04:00fee's LIST / through 5/1<br />
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* Robert Irwin "Dotting the i's & Crossing the t's" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 32 E 57th St. Irwin's new site-conditioned installation, incorporating the gallery's upper-floor windows, is the first of a two-pronged exhibition—the second part occurs at Pace's boxier 510 W 25th St space in September. Look: anytime this sublime interventional artist unveils something NEW, it's a guaranteed must-see.</div>
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* The Weeknd @ <a href="http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/">Music Hall of Williamsburg</a> / 66 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 8p/SOLD OUT. Did you luck out and score tix to Canadian crooner The Weeknd's (né Abel Tesfaye) first proper NYC show? Or were you skeptical b/c he hadn't "performed live yet"—stateside, anyway—and you slept on it? Guess what: Tesfaye and band totally blew up Coachella. Dude can <i>sing</i>. You lucky ticket-holding readers: prepare to perspire tonight.</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival 2012</a> @ multiple venues. Since moving to Austin last summer, I've had to acclimatize myself to "how things work" in the South, from the gallery scene to indie film releases and local bands. The usual LIST stuff. I've been on the search for unique cultural opportunities and Fusebox Festival is definitely that, an annual gathering of international and Hill Country pan-media artists, programmed by the Austin "idea engine" Fusebox. The fest itself runs thru May 6, so check back for my picks (tagged as "<a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>"). Full schedule <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">here</a>. Now get to it.</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: The Coathangers (ATL) @ <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana?view=events&ohanah_venue_id=9&ohanah_category_id=&filterEvents=all">Fusebox Festival Hub</a> / 1100 E 5th St, 10p/$5. Dude(tte): way to kick off this year's Fest w/ Atlanta's deliriously irreverent grrrl-punks The Coathangers, whose latest LP "Larceny and Old Lace" is girly when it needs to be but refreshingly in-your-face, too. Stoked!</div>
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* Makiko Tanaka "Aurora vs Portrait" @ <a href="http://hpgrpgallery.com/">hpgrp Tokyo</a> / B1F 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku (Chiyoda/Hanzomon/Ginza Lines to Omotesando Station. The Tokyo-born artist expresses the feeling of air and the aurora over the world in a series of pencil and gesso works.</div>
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* Eikoh Hosoe @ <a href="http://bld-gallery.jp/">BLD Gallery</a> / 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo Ward Tokyo (JR Yurakucho Station, Marunouchi Line to Ginza Station). "Killed by Roses" or "Bara-kei" is among Hosoe's most famous photo series from the early '60s, darkly erotic images of the male figure, with Yukio Mishima as model. That Mishima would later follow up those fantasies with ritual suicide in 1970 makes them that much more impactful.</div>
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* <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">パスピエ </span>@ <a href="http://www.gar-den.in/pc/index.php">Shimokitazawa GARDEN</a> / B1F 2-4-5 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, S. Exit), 7p/2800 yen. The magnetizing Tokyo quintet PASSEPIED won me over back in December, channeling a distinctly Japanese "Twin Sister" in their heady cocktail of electronics, rock accoutrements and songbird Natsuki's soaring vox. w/ Heavenstamp</div>
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* Domenico Gnoli @ <a href="http://www.luxembourgdayan.com/">Luxembourg Dayan</a> / 64 E 77th St. Eighteen late-period creepy-ass paintings by the "Italian cult figure" Gnoli who, like his countryman Piero Manzoni, died way too young (aged 36 in 1970). </div>
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* Jill Moser @ <a href="http://lennonweinberg.com/flash.html">Lennon, Weinberg Inc</a> / 514 W 25th St. Spare swooshes of color against arctic-frigid backdrops elevates Moser's latest series into possibly my favorite-est ever from the NY-based gestural abstraction painter. Stellar stuff, this lot. </div>
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* Shay Kun "Be First, Be Smarter or Cheat" @ <a href="http://www.bcontemporary.com/exhibitions/">Benrimon Contemporary</a> / 514 W 24th St 2nd Fl. Kun's evocative and vibrantly colorful landscape paintings are all somehow…wrong, somewhat off…which doesn't prevent your gaze from locking deep into 'em.</div>
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* "4 Films: Adrian Paci, Luisa Rabbia, SUPERFLEX, Su-Mei Tse" @ <a href="http://peterblumgallery.com/">Peter Blum Chelsea</a> / 526 W 29th St. Feat. Paci's "Inside the Circle", Rabbia's "Travels With Isabella", SUPERFLEX's "Modern Times Forever" and Tse's "Vertingen de la Vida" (w/ Jean-Lou Majerus).</div>
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* "Profondo Rosso/Deep Red" (dir. Dario Argento, 1975) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. An Argento-worthy giallo classic. Think music teacher (played by David Hemmings!) turned detective, creepy-ass music scores (courtesy Goblin!), and strains of general insanity! </div>
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* Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen "Theater and Installation 1985-1990" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 545 W 22nd St. One huge facet of the consummate NY modernist's oeuvre that I am just not that clued into: his collaborative stage performances with long-time partner van Bruggen. The exhibition includes an installation of enlarged costumes and props used in "Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife)", performed by Oldenburg and van Bruggen on the Campo dell'Arsenale in Venice, plus "The European Desktop", their 1990 installation and finale as a duo.</div>
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* "Loughelton Revisted" @ <a href="http://winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. The artist Barbara Bourghei curated this group exhibition, named after the namesake East Village gallery she co-founded with Amy Lipton in '86. Expect works originally exhibited at Loughelton Gallery, incl. John Baldessari, Barbara Bloom, and Annette Lemieux, plus works by artist/curators connected to the institution, like Peter Nagy (Gallery Nature Morte) and Colin deLand.</div>
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* "Opera" (dir. Dario Argento, 1987) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. What is it about opera houses that elicit bloodshed? Argento did it in "Four Flies on Gray Velvet", and he amps the intensity like a million times here by having the killer bind our heroine, pry open her eyelids w/ needles and, in a subversive twist to "A Clockwork Orange", force her to watch the murders take place! </div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: Max Warsh & Vanesa Zendejas @ <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana?view=events&ohanah_venue_id=12&ohanah_category_id=&filterEvents=notpast">Sofa at Rosewood</a> / 1319 Rosewood Ave, 7p. NY-based Warsh pairs photography to LA artist Zendejas' sculpture, as the pair investigate abstraction and built spaces. I am poring through "RUINS" (edited by Brian Dillon, part of Whitechapel Gallery's "Documents of Contemporary Art"), and find the timing of this exhibition just perfect. THRU MAY 6</div>
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* "Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance" (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2002) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 11:30p. Park may be best known in the Western filmic world for "Oldboy", the second iteration of his bracing Vengeance Trilogy, but the first chapter, "Sympathy…", is as dark and bloody, plus it's more emotive in its cunning use of off-kilter humor. Starring Shin Ha-kyun as a green-haired mute so desperate to save his dying sister that he dives deep into the black market organ trade; and a super-serious Song Kang-ho ("Thirst", "The Host") seeking closure and the title's word over his missing little daughter. ALSO SAT</div>
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* Saya Kubota "Melting Monster" @ <a href="http://aishomiura.com/">Aisho Miura Arts</a> / B1F 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR lines etc to Shibuya Station). The young Tsukuba graduate's developing style of singeing paper and rusting metal takes a deeper context here, as she compresses time and history in works relating to archeological finds. Sounds dope!</div>
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* Sherrie Levine "A Dazzle of Zebra" @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 534 W 21st St. What in the hell does this exhibition title mean? Who knows! Something about the duality b/w the real world and Levine's set-piece installation. The cerebral meta-artist just had a phenomenal survey at the Whitney, and now she unveils new "encounters", works made of glass, bronze, or handmade paper. </div>
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* Holton Rower "Pour Paintings" @ <a href="http://theholenyc.com/">The Hole</a> / 312 Bowery. This ain't your dad's AbEx pour paintings, son. This child of the psychedelic '60s creates tectonic rainbows of flowing paint and small pours of multicolored "hats" over wooden protrusions — think the aurora, distant nebulas, undersea creatures, and the best acid trip you ever had, all at once.</div>
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* Pier Paolo Calzolari "When a dreamer dies what happens to the dream? @ Marianne Boesky Gallery / 509 W 24th St and <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 510 W 25th St. Pretty dope: the two galleries will be temporarily conjoined in hosting an in-depth historic exhibition of the Arte Povera artist, featuring his "activated" materials and temporal achievements. </div>
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* "Tenebrae" (dir. Dario Argento 1982) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. Tied w/ "Phenomenon" (aka "Creepers") for my favorite '80s Argento film. This time, it's an American writer of violent horror novels tracking a razor-wielding killer whose modus operandi mimics the author's books! The whole vibe is clinically slick, like Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville", only a giallo!</div>
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* Jeff Mills @ <a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com/">(le) poisson rouge</a> / 158 Bleecker St (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 11p/$15. What, so you didn't get score tix to The Weeknd, either? No sweat (yet), just put that money towards Detroit wünderkind Jeff Mills, whose furious sets of icy-cold techno will keep you moving all night.</div>
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* The Weeknd @ <a href="http://www.boweryballroom.com/">Bowery Ballroom</a> / 6 Delancey St (F/JMZ to Essex/Delancey), 8p/SOLD OUT! Readers, see my effusive compliments toward Canadian crooner Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye" under WED. Because he rocks live.</div>
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* Eleanor Friedberger (NYC) @ <a href="http://hotdogscoldbeer.com/austin/events/">Frank</a> / 407 Colorado St, 9:30p/$12. Friedberger, the beguiling songbird half of NYC psych-pop duo The Fiery Furnaces, graces my favorite gourmet hotdog joint for an evening of transcendent vox. w/ Brooklynites Hospitality</div>
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* Jaye Moon "Luminous" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/index.html">Gallery MOMO</a> / 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). This exhibition highlights the NY-based artist's recent Plexiglas and Legos—yes, really!—series "Mirrors", "Mondrian Corners", and "Lunchboxes".</div>
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* MoRpHO @ <a href="http://www.shibuyamilkyway.com/">Shibuya Milkyway</a> / 3F 4-7 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 7p/3000 yen. The busily named visual-kei electro rockers MoRpHO make Milkyway their "Theater" tonight.</div>
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* Pines Mines @ <a href="http://www.toos.co.jp/basementbar/b_main.html">Basement Bar</a> / B1F 5-18-1 Daizawa, Setagaya-ku (Odakyu/Keio Inokashira Line to Shimo-kitazawa Station, South Exit), 7p/2000 yen. I usually take the indie-rock or noise route when mining local live acts, but paisley-proud trio Pines Mines do a pretty fine Doors rendition, only w/ sunny coed harmonies. Hell, I'm impressed. w/ snap</div>
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* deNOISE 4 @ <a href="https://www.super-deluxe.com/">Super Deluxe</a> / B1F 3-1-25 Nishi-azabu, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station), 5:30p/2800 yen. First night of a two-night sonic feast courtesy Feedback Tokyo and LUFF does TOKYO is a doozy. Local noisicians Hair Stylistics and PAIN JERK claim sets w/ the notoriously evil Rudolf Eb.Er (aka Runzelstirn und Gurglestock) + Swiss hardcore "pyro-acoustic" Dave Phillips (ex Fear of God).</div>
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* "XXX Fest" @ <a href="http://www.geocities.jp/xxxheavensdoorxxx/">Heaven's Door</a> / B1 1-33-19 Sangenjaya, Setagaya-ku (), 5p/3000 yen. "Explosive carnivorous girls!" That's the tagline for this huge lineup of grrrl-fronted and all-grrrl rock. Feat. Red Bacteria Vacuum, <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">マジョ</span>, Jinny Oops!, The Harpy's, <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">ヒーヒズヒムイズム、ザリガニ$</span> etc. What else do you need?? </div>
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* Vlatka Horvat "Unleveling" @ <a href="http://racheluffnergallery.com/">Rachel Uffner Gallery</a> / 47 Orchard St. I was WAY into Horvat's subtle intervention at MoMA PS1's 2010 Greater NY. Her debut solo exhibition at this LES gem should provide deeper insight into Horvat's processes, incl. relating figures and ground, reconfiguring objects excised from previous works in new ways, and shifting visitors' movements via installation. Very cool.</div>
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* Tom McGrath "Profiles in Fugitive Light" @ <a href="http://suescottgallery.com/">Sue Scott Gallery</a> / 1 Rivington St. Spanking new moody, nocturnal abstract oil paintings from McGrath, whose last solo was at Mexico City's Zona Maco.</div>
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* Michael DeLucia @ <a href="http://www.elevenrivington.com/">Eleven Rivington</a> / 11 Rivington St. Just off an eye-opening group show "In Practice" at Long Island City's SculptureCenter comes DeLucia's reductive housepaint-on-plywood sculpture, inaugurating Eleven Rivington's newly expanded space at 195 Chrystie St, around the corner from the tiny gallery.</div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: "Night Sky" @ <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana?view=events&ohanah_venue_id=9&ohanah_category_id=&filterEvents=all">Fusebox Festival Hub</a> / 1100 E 5th St, 9p/$5. Church of the Friendly Ghost – the local sonic pioneering co-op whose electroacoustical voyages light up the Hill Country approx monthly – presents Alison O'Daniel's film "Night Sky", like a desert-set dance-off, set to the live musical accompaniment of Ethan Frederick Greene. Followed immediately by "So We Got That Going For Us – Which Is Nice", a half-hr of sound and movement courtesy Henna Chou, Justin Sherburne, and Lindsey Taylor. And yo: O'Daniel participated in PERFORMA11 (screening "Night Sky") and the critically acclaimed "Pacific Standard Time" at LA's Blackbox.</div>
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* deNOISE 5 @ <a href="https://www.super-deluxe.com/">Super Deluxe</a> / B1F 3-1-25 Nishi-azabu, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station), 5:30p/2800 yen. Just to rub salt in the wound, here's night 2 of Feedback Tokyo/LUFF does TOKYO's deNOISE fest: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">非常階段</span> (that's Hijokaidan, the legendary noise rockers!)+ HIKO (Gauze), Jim O'Rourke + Norbert Möslang, plus Dave Phillips + ASTRO (Hiroshi Hasegawa, ex CCCC). </div>
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* <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">Fusebox Festival</a>: Jenny Larson & Sterling Price-McKinney "Dream Cabinet" @ <a href="http://eponymousgarden.com/">Eponymous Garden</a> / 1202 Garden St, 10p/FREE. A site-specific video projection and choreographed show (plus, erm, haunted house), written by Price-McKinney and directed by Larson, leading the audience through an early 20th c. dreamscape.</div>
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* Lucian Freud "Drawings" @ <a href="http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/">Acquavella Gallery</a> / 18 E 79th St. The modernist figuratist's acclaimed drawing show at London's Blain/Southern (co-organized by Acquavella) now moves to NYC. The sheer range of styles and mediums here—from pencil and watercolor emotions of animals to crayon landscapes and Freud's signature gooey human studies in charcoal—well, it's all just incredible. A must-see ahead of Frieze NY.</div>
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* "Science on the back end", selected by Matthew Day Jackson @ <a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/">Hauser & Wirth</a> / 32 E 69th St. The space-tinged artist Jackson makes it clear in H&W's press release that he's not a curator—rather, he selected five artists who inspire him and left them to their own mechanics in creating this pretty neat show. Each artist gets a room: Larry Bamburg, Marc Ganzglass, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff, and Nick Van Woert; each does what they want with that room. Will there be cross-chamber communication? Cross-pollination, if you will?</div>
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* Charlene Kaye @ <a href="http://thegramercytheatre.com/index">Gramercy Theatre</a> / 127 E 23rd St (6 to 23rd St), 8p/$10. I am bonkers proud of NYC chanteuse Charlene Kaye, who celebrates her 2nd LP "Animal Love" release party tonight. Be enamored. w/ Alicia and Theo Katzman</div>
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* "Don't Go in the House" (dir. Joseph Ellison, 1980) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. I would suggest doing as the title says – only see the damn film, it's got that charm that only early '80s American horror carries. Low budget as hell, think "Psycho" with a pyromaniac, trapping PYTs in his modified incinerator/crematorium boudoir!</div>
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* Electric Eel Shock @ <a href="http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/SHELTER/">Shelter</a> / B1 2-6-10 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, South Exit), 6:30p/2500 yen. Punk is bunk, in a tongue and cheek way, to these rip-roaring metalheads. If Motörhead were Japanese and Lemmy a mop-topped guitarist, they might look and sound a bit like Electric Eel Shock. w/ local noise-rockers Lagitagida</div>
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* SUNDAYS @ <a href="http://marble-web.jp/">Shinjuku Marble</a> / 2-45-2 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, Kabukicho Exit), 7p/2500 yen. SUNDAYS frontwoman Fuyumi Kobayashi is like a much cuter, female version of Iggy Pop, sashaying about the stage while shouting her vocals and flinging sweat into the mouths of adoring fans. Who's harder-core than SUNDAYS? A: in Tokyo? Nobody. w/ <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">青春スカトロジー</span></div>
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* "This Is It With It As It Is" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. LA-based artist Eve Fowler created the titular work behind this four-person exhibition, a poster-sized panel of glittering, asphalt-colored letters on fluorescent yellow. The words are derived from Gertrude Stein, but the lettering design was determined by the poster-making company: so Fowler's hand in the work is more that of guiding rather than dictating. I sense a little of her in the other three showing here, all youngish cross-media Los Angeles artists who either know or have worked with Fowler in varying degrees. Probably her closest neighbor is multidisciplinary artist Math Bass, who collaborated on a performance/sculpture/photography project with Fowler at Easthampton's Fireplace Project last year – though Bass eschews her own text-derived work in favor of these sphinxlike, watery ink drawings. Their ambiguous portraiture gives up almost exactly zero, but they hint at Bass' overarching oeuvre and her upcoming performance for Fusebox (MAY 4, check back!). Likewise Barry Macgregor Smith's objects and painted banners, both taking on different modes than their initial intent. I found Dashiell Manley's two-sided framed works the linchpin to the show and the antipode to Fowler's text paintings. While Manley's contributions – painted canvas on one side, painted and smeared glass on the obverse – are covered in numerals, many of the silvery digits are flipped into their mirror images (like they're seen from the painting's opposite side) and as a result resemble roman letters. It is this breakdown or blurring of language and communication, like Bass' representational transience, that I find really super interesting.</div>
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* Leif Low-beer @ <a href="http://okaymountain.com/okmt-gallery/exhibitions">Okay Mountain</a> / 1619 E Cesar Chavez. I was pretty stoked to hear that Brooklynite Low-beer—who I'd met at Astoria, Queen's Socrates Sculpture Park last May (his array of brightly colored objects and forms was a highlight of that group exhibition and turned notions of "public sculpture" on its ear)—was inaugurating Okay Mountain's new space. I was doubly stoked when I arrived and found one of Low-beer's beguiling arrays (I think titled "Olive pit pedestal") crowning off an exhibition including sculptural/mixed-media hybrids and works on paper. Agglomerations including painted bead-like stacks, geometric interventions and what resembles Haim Steinbach's signature "dog chew-toys" rearrange themselves depending on POV, retaining the artist's presence and hand much as his collaged drawings and spatially distorting photography. </div>
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* "Memento Mori" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. I've been working off a mortality tip in these Austin-area galleries. First Tiny Park, now Grayduck. This group exhibition, w/ Suzanne Koett (photography), John Mulvany (painting), and Cherie Weaver (mixed media), features local talent adept at locking humanity in a historical context. Mulvany, Irish-born and Texas-based, achieves this by painting figures from the Irish Civil War as beatific spirits looming over the sun-bleached Hill Country landscape. Retaining the figures' sepia-toned palette against the vistas' blues, greens, and earth-tones—plus the ornate retablo/devotional halos crowning them—Mulvany comments on the cyclical presence of his subjects. As in: the recurrences of war and religious movements. Weaver utilizes a ton of vintage cabinet cards in her ageless works, but they tend to be linking points or jump-offs to larger or multi-part dialogues, like the almost titular "Momentum Mori" and its pools of sumi-e echoed in the photograph's checkerboard floor, or her composites on translucent unstretched linen. I first began digging Koett's photography at this Austin-area artist group show at Gallery Black Lagoon last year, thanks to her bracing "Sabbat" series. She includes works from "The Study of Aloneness" here, ghostly composites of same-looking girls levitating in a forest's fog ("Power For Power") or in a Brutalist garage ("Rejoice, We Made the Right Choice"). It's like her "twins" are the guides for this exhibition's ideas and imagery, ushering us between consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death, to contemplate our respective existences. </div>
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* Corinne Wasmuht @ <a href="http://www.petzel.com/">Friedrich Petzel Gallery</a> / 537 W 22nd St. I had a mild acid flashback when experiencing the Berlin-based artist's 2008 solo at the gallery, covered with her huge, brightly colored and varnished abstract paintings on wood. Believe me, it was a good feeling. She returns to NYC after a series of exhibitions in Berlin and Nürnberg, celebrating her catalogue "Supracity".</div>
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* Henning Bohl "Namenloses Grauen" @ <a href="http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/">Casey Kaplan Gallery</a> / 525 W 21st St. Massive Bohl fan here, considering his discreetly engaging solo "Psyc Holo G yHe Ute" at the gallery in 2009 and Bohl's recent architectural installation at Johann König in Berlin. Here, he screws with monochromatic paintings—sorry: "conceptualizes" them—with Japanese tape dispensers shaped like doughnuts, and other things.</div>
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* Kim Dingle "still lives" @ <a href="http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html">Sperone Westwater</a> / 257 Bowery. The Cali-born painter of compelling and creepily faceless dolly-sized figures hasn't had a solo here since 2007, and her tongue-in-cheek press release announcing that "if what is depicted makes the artist laugh then all the more fun for the artist and maybe for the viewer, too – but it is usually an accident", sounds properly beguiling.</div>
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* Michelangelo Pistoletto "Lavoro" @ <a href="http://www.luhringaugustine.com/">Luhring Augustine</a> / 531 W 24th St. Pistoletto staged this new series of mirror "paintings" at London's Simon Lee Gallery last autumn, which features his signature mirrors overlaid w/ elements of construction, dust, and rubble—not exactly out of place within W. Chelsea. This show will draw mad crowds (tourists love taking photos of themselves w/in a Pistoletto mirror), but you can't really miss it either, right?</div>
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* Stan Douglas "Disco Angola" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 525 W 19th St. I dug Douglas' "Midcentury Studio" installation in the gallery last year, but I think his assuming the role of a fictional photojournalist amid NYC's roiling early '70s disco underground sounds even doper. He includes works from Angola (considering saxophonist Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa", widely considered the first disco hit) and NY, plus the historical, political and cultural moments encompassing them.</div>
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* David Lyle "Misbehaving" @ <a href="http://lyonswiergallery.com/">Lyons Wier Gallery</a> / 542 W 24th St. Classic Americana imagery warped and contextualized to with contemporary influences. That's only the tip of the proverbial artistic iceberg, though, as Lyle's methodical layering and removal of oily black veneer to his "grayscale" paintings adds a startling vintage sheen.</div>
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* Jacqueline Humphries @ <a href="http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/">Greene Naftali Gallery</a> / 508 W 26th St 8th Fl. Some of the most…damn gorgeous kinetic abstract paintings you've ever seen, washes of oil paint, drips of enamel, sometimes silver and glitter for multiple-POV effect. Humphries hasn't had a solo stateside since 2009, and she's pretty prolific, so I'm stoked about this new body of work.</div>
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* Caio Fonseca @ <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/">Paul Kasmin Gallery</a> / 293 10th Ave. Embellishments and extraneous elements have evaporated in Fonseca's latest series of large- and intimately-scaled paintings, which remain refreshing in their bold, reductive forms.</div>
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* Ron Gorchov @ <a href="http://www.cheimread.com/">Cheim & Read</a> / 547 W 25th St. A recent selection of concave and convex shaped paintings by this "perennially emerging artist" (so writes Robert Storr in a 1990 catalogue essay). The curved works' innate sensuality and pleasing color combinations are traits of Gorchov's signature awesomeness.</div>
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* Peter Saul @ <a href="http://maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 541 W 24th St. Who'dathunk Peter Saul—he of the acid-toned, hypnagogic-subject palette of The Hairy Who—would be getting all this buzz? Yet the grandmaster of bad taste agitprop had both a stunning solo at David Nolan Gallery in 2009 and a superb career survey at Haunch of Venison in 2010. Now Mary Boone showcases new paintings by the artist, who hasn't dialed down the lurid colors nor subject matter an ounce. Considering Occupy Wall Street and other contemporary excesses, Saul has a LOT to work with.</div>
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* Takashi Ishida @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Gallery</a> / 5F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). This isn't quite Anthony McCall—in Ishida's "drawing with 16mm film animation"—but I am pretty totally stoked for the artist's debut solo at the gallery.</div>
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* Ikko Narahara @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Photography</a> / 2F 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). A two-part exhibition of the Fukuoka-born artist, focusing on two distinct bodies of work. The show opens with Narahara's portraiture as the theme "Sights of Civilization". Beginning Apr 17, the gallery switches to photographs of the urban landscape.</div>
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* Junta Egawa "Forgetting the new world seen a while ago, and the moment of seeing again" @ <a href="http://eitoeiko.com/">eitoeiko</a> / 32-2 Yaraicho, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Tozen Line to Kagurazaka Station, Toei Oedo Line to Ushigome-kagurazaka Station). In the Kanagawa-born artist's third solo at the gallery, he internalizes his paintings to meditate was what lost in the Tohoku earthquake.</div>
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* Yoko Oyama "Melody of Mephisto" @ <a href="http://www.tosei-sha.jp/">Gallery TOSEI</a> / 5-18-20 Chuo, Nagano-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Shin-Nakao Station, Exit 1-2). Oyama's latest series of atmospheric photographs were taken in Hungary and bear influence of Bartok, Liszt and other composers on the artist.</div>
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* Yuichi Higashionna "Apparition" @ <a href="http://www.ycassociates.co.jp/jp/">Yumiko Chiba Associates</a> / 2F 4-32-6 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Tochomae Station, JR etc to Shinjuku Station, West Exit). I credit NY's Marianne Boesky Gallery for exposing me to this mid-career Japanese artist, whose loopy, fluorescent light sculptures and refreshingly neo-Op installations have been wigging me out since 2008. He's created a mostly new array for this exhibition.</div>
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* Yu Siuan "Greenhouse-Program" @ <a href="http://www.roentgenwerke.com/">Radium</a> / 2-5-17 Bakurocho, Chuo-ku (JR Yamanote Line to Bakurocho Station). The Taipei-born artist echoes Belgian Surrealist master Rene Magritte in his painterly, decaying objects.</div>
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* Trevor Brown "Toy Box" @ <a href="http://www.span-art.co.jp/">Span Art Gallery</a> / 2-2-18 1F Ginza, Chuo-ku. (Yurakucho Line to Ginza-Itchome Station). Cutie-pie and devious, Brown's new series of gorgeous paintings are like children's "Golden Books" illustrations w/ sinister undertones. His wife contributes some adorable stuffed teddybear poppets as HippieCoco. (ENDS SAT)</div>
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* Aki Yamamoto "Cut" @ <a href="http://www.artfront.co.jp/jp/index.html">Art Front Gallery</a> / Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku (JR Lines etc to Shibuya). Yamamoto returns to the gallery with her abstract color acuity, incorporating collage into her paintings to reconstruct particular worldly observations.</div>
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* Hisami Tanaka "NOSELF" @ <a href="http://waitingroom.jp/">waitingroom</a> / 4B 2-8-11 Ebisu-nishi, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote Line/Hibiya Line to Ebisu Station, West Exit). New jagged mixed-media paintings and drawings by the Kanagawa-based artist, in his debut at the gallery. I saw a little preview of Tanaka's work at waitingroom's booth at New City Art Fair in NYC, and guess what: it's dope. (ENDS SUN)</div>b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-39625769644090817982012-04-18T09:57:00.000-04:002012-04-18T09:57:24.769-04:00fee's LIST / through 4/24WEDNESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Bad Brains + GZA @ <a href="http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/">Music Hall of Williamsburg</a> / 66 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 7p/SOLD OUT. Duh, of course this is sold out, dudes. Bad Brains' frontman HR might be pulling that blissed-out routine but don't doubt for a second these DC original punks squander any full-throttle ferocity on his smoked dub. Plus, steely Wu-Tang lyricist GZA performs "Liquid Swords", one of the pillars of East Coast hip-hop. That's right.<br />
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* Unsound Opening Night: Jenny Hval + Julia Holter + Julia Kent @ <a href="http://www.issueprojectroom.org/">ISSUE Project Room</a> / 110 Livingston St, Boerum Hill (45 to Borough Hall, 23 to Hoyt St, AC/F to Jay St/Metrotech), 9p/$15. The third annual Unsound Festival kicks off in a big way, in this gathering of the "J's": Norwegian avant-garde soundscaper Hval, NYC-based cellist/vocalist Kent, and LA singer-songwriter Holter.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* "Four Sticks" feat. unkie + about tess @ <a href="http://www.fever-popo.com/">Fever</a> / 1-1-14 Hanegi, Setagaya-ku (Odakyu Inokashira Line to Shindaita or Shimokitazawa Stations), 6p/2500 yen. Totally apt name for this night of fast and furious instrumental rock. The math-y six-piece about tees contribute two of those "sticks", and a third goes to unkie's thrash-happy drumming. w/ Aureole <br />
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THURSDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Nina Yuen "The School" @ <a href="http://www.lombard-freid.com/">Lombard-Freid Projects</a> / 518 W 19th St. Huge Yuen fan here, ever since her 2010 debut at the gallery enchanted me to no end. The NJ-based artist debuts a series of five recent videos as "The School", revolving around memory, childhood, and related rites of passage, incl. "Mr. President" and "Heather Who". <br />
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* Alan Michael "Back to the Docks" @ <a href="http://www.marcjancou.com/">Marc Jancou Contemporary</a> / 524 W 24th St. The Scottish artist's first NY exhibition, feat. a new series of paintings and works on paper appropriating abstract ideas.<br />
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* "Suspiria" (dir. Dario Argento, 1977) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. THE Dario Argento film (and more broadly, THE giallo film) finds the mad Italian master at his bloodiest Technicolor best. Beginning w/ a breath-catching opening gore-fest and sweeping into a tornado of Goblin-induced psychedelia w/ girls dying off one by one as their dance academy manifests a portal to a witches' coven! <br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Melvins (Washington) + Unsane (NYC) @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 7p/$20. Original drone-rock lords Melvins coat the 'Hawk in several layers of rumbling sludge. That's after NY's anti-fun Unsane wallop you upside the head with the most cathartic noise rock, ever. Think you're hardcore? w/ Same Sack<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* SUNDAYS @ <a href="http://marble-web.jp/top.html">Shinjuku Marble</a> / 2-45-2 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, Kabukicho Exit), 6p/2500. SUNDAYS frontwoman Fuyumi Kobayashi is like a much cuter, female version of Iggy Pop, sashaying about the stage while shouting her vocals and flinging sweat into the mouths of adoring fans. Who's harder-core than SUNDAYS? A: in Tokyo? Nobody. w/ The Homesicks<br />
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FRIDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Martha Rosler "Cuba, January 1981" @ <a href="http://www.miandn.com/">Mitchell-Innes & Nash</a> / 534 W 26th St. The first exhibition of Rosler's vintage b&w photography series, taken during a cultural tour of Cuba organized by artist Ana Mendieta and writer/curator Lucy Lippard, presenting a crucial period in modern history. Rosler was just honored at the Brooklyn Museum's annual gala.<br />
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* "Goodbye First Love" (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011) @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). Youth romance never looked so stunning, starring cutiepie Lola Créton ("Bluebeard") and shot by the amazing young director Hansen-Løve. Part of the 2011 NYFF.<br />
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* "Inferno" (dir. Dario Argento, 1980) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. What "Suspiria" started, this underappreciated supernatural "sequel" of sorts sends straight to hell, a hell full of torrential downpours, mysterious music-school students (cue the beguiling Ania Pieroni, wind and sun in her hair), possessed cats and lots of killin'! <br />
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* Unsound Fest 2012: Pole + Sun Araw Band @ <a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com/">(le) poisson rouge</a> / 158 Bleecker St (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 6p/$15. Dude, this is MAYJAH: Stefan "Pole" Betke, the Cologne genius behind glitch-electronic trilogy "1, 2, 3" performs LIVE during Unsound Fest. Apparently he's become pretty funky now, but I'm game for whatever. Plus avant-afrobeat champs Sun Araw Band.<br />
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* Heliotropes @ <a href="http://www.thegrandvictory.com/">The Grand Victory</a> / 245 Grand St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$8. I think my second or third time seeing Brooklyn all-grrrl stoner rockers Heliotropes was at Bruar Falls, now called The Grand Victory. I mean, the joint could be called "Terminal 5" and I'd still haul my ass out to see Heliotropes rock the roof off with their sludgy riffs. w/ Vagina Panther<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Oldboy" (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2003) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 11p. One of the greatest openers in contemporary cinema and THE film that put Korean auteur Park on the Western film map. Feat. a batshit side-scrolling-style action sequence involving a rangy Choi Min-sik and his trusty hammer vs. like 30 bad guys! Also feat. so many devastating plot twists, it's better I don't tell you any more. The less you know, the heavier this ultimate revenge drama hits. ALSO SAT<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Brice Marden "New Paintings" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 526 W 22nd St. Considering his measured and deliberate (OK: slow) work style, this new two-part exhibition of Marden's paintings unveils a ton of new material, all created after his traveling retrospective that commenced at MoMA in 2007. At the gallery's 502 space, Marden shows "Ru Ware Project", nine small rainwater-blue panels echoing the rarest of ancient Chinese pottery. Twelve oil-on-marble works from Hydra fill the 526 space, plus the large oil on linen work "Polke Letter", in homage to Marden's contemporary Sigmar Polke. <br />
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* "La terza madre/Mother of Tears" (dir. Dario Argento, 2007) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. Twenty-seven years after "Inferno", Argento concludes his "Three Mothers" trilogy w/ this gruesome contemporary masterpiece, unloading his dear daughter Asia as the witch's target and only threat.<br />
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* Memoryhouse (Ontario) @ <a href="http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/">Public Assembly</a> / 70 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 8p/$14. Nascent hypnopop par excellent! C'est Memoryhouse. w/ Matteah Balm<br />
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* The Suzan @ <a href="http://glasslands.blogspot.com/">Glasslands</a> / 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8:30p/$10. I count Japanese all-girl tropic-pop band The Suzan as among the coolest, most creative acts on the local scene. Japan, let's keep 'em awhile longer, please? w/ Terry Malts<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "This Is It With It As It Is" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. The exhibition title is echoed in Eve Fowler's text painting, riffing off Gertrude Stein's "How to Write" and forming a conceptual framework of language and reference explored by Fowler and her LA-based artistic kindred. Math Bass, Dashiell Manley, and Barry Macgregor Johnston add respective ingredients to the equation, plus each contribute a performance, in conjunction with Fusebox's eponymous <a href="http://fuseboxfestival.com/">2012 Festival</a> (check back in early May for that info). <br />
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* Garbage @ <a href="http://www.lazonarosa.com/">La Zona Rosa</a> / 612 W 4th St, 8p/SOLD OUT! The epic, glorious crunch of "Blood for Poppies", lead single off upcoming LP "Not Your Kind of People"—Garbage's first in six years and signaling their first live performances since 2007—caused many a darkling to swoon…or just totally get down. Because the wildly influential alt-rockers, anchored by überproducer Butch Vig and fronted by celestial contralto Shirley Manson, are totally back again.<br />
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* Curren$y @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 8p/$25. In my experience, Austin tends to have better weed than NYC—or better immediate connections unless we're talking Canada. That's a good thing when smoked-out lyricist Curren$y rolls up on his "Jet Life Tour", w/ The Jets (Smoke DZA, Fiend 4 Da Money, Corner Boy P, Trademark and Young Roddy).<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Yuichiro Natori @ <a href="http://www.kidopress.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Gorgeous, painted cut-paper animation in a charming, new video from the Tokyo artist, plus static works and sketches.<br />
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* Nana Funo @ <a href="http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/">Tomio Koyama Gallery</a> / 7F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station). The young artist from Shizuoka includes drawing notebooks in her second solo exhibition at the gallery, plus kaleidoscopically detailed mixed media paintings of engrossing fantasy worlds. <br />
+ Mika Ninagawa "Plant a Tree". The photographer and director (her feature film debut "Sakuran" I dug like totally) amps up the seasonal saturation.<br />
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* 「裏切りサーカス」/"<a href="http://focusfeatures.com/tinker_tailor_soldier_spy">Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</a>" (dir. Thomas Alfredson, 2011) @ TOHO Cinemas Charter / 1-2-2- Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku (Yurakucho Line to Yurakucho Station, Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Hibiya/Ginza Lines to Ginza Station). Japanese title for the labyrinthine adaptation of John le Carré's modern espionage novel translates as "Traitor Circus", which sounds both kind of funnily to-the-point and also reveals the circa '73 codeword for British Intelligence, i.e. "the Circus". Anyway, Gary Oldman and team are awesome, no matter how dense the plot.<br />
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* 「<a href="http://yasuko.asia/main/cast">センチメンタルヤスコ</a>」 @ Eurospace / 1-13 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit). Living in the darkness of solitude in this modern age, "Sentimental Yasuko" tries to overcome loneliness via blips of love from the dudes around her. Then some bad shit goes down. Starring Azusa Okamoto, the teen idol from detective story J-drama "Strawberry Night".<br />
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* Japan Shoegazer Fest 2012 @ <a href="http://koenji-high.com/">Koenji High</a> / 4-30-1 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku (Chuo Line to Koenji Station), 12p/3500 yen. Yep, I absolutely definitely wish I were in Tokyo now for this awesome slice of regional, glorious noise. Feat. Lemon's Chair (Osaka), PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET (Morioka-shi), Sugardrop (Tokyo), Shojo Skip (Tokyo) +tons more.<br />
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* Who the Bitch @ <a href="http://www.loft-prj.co.jp/SHELTER/">Shelter</a> / B1 2-6-10 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, South Exit), 7p/SOLD OUT! What do you expect with a night billing itself as "Who the Fuck vol. 13: WILD Bitch Party!!", with suggestions for enjoying Who the Bitch vs. FUZZY CONTROL as 1) go bonkers (at least 3x more than usual), 2) pound back drinks, and 3) get naked (body and mind).<br />
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* Miila and the Geeks @ <a href="http://www.toos.co.jp/home/h_info.html">Shibuya HOME</a> / B1F 1-10-7 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Miyamasuzaka Exit), 11p/2000 yen. After like a solid year of touring in support of slightly sinister, garage-rock debut "New Age", the lovable indie-pop trio Miila and the Geeks are baaaack! Singer/songwriter Moe Wadaka's group (she's Miila, saxophonist Komori and drummer Ajima the geeks), are a triumph for the indie scene, plus Moe's behind the band's fractured lovely music videos. w/ Moscow Club<br />
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* DODDODO @ <a href="http://www.toos.co.jp/basementbar/b_main.html">Basement Bar</a> / B1F 5-18-1 Daizawa, Setagaya-ku (Odakyu/Keio Inokashira Line to Shimo-kitazawa Station, South Exit), 6:30p/2500 yen. What's iller than Kansai noise-sprite Namin Haku, aka DODDODO? A: almost nothing, but the addition of consummate spaz-rockers Zoobombs comes close! <br />
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SUNDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* "Towards a Warm Math" @ <a href="http://onstellarrays.com/">On Stellar Rays</a> / 133 Orchard St. The title riffs off exhibiting artist Lucas Blalock's book and hints at what's in store: works that mingle mathematics and science with ooey-gooey humanism and personal effects. Feat. Brody Condon, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Ionel Talpazan, Guy de Cointet, Barbara Kasten, the mighty Yayoi Kusama, and more.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Shabazz Palaces (Seattle) + !!! (Cali) @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 6:30p/$14. Bicoastal funk-bop ensemble !!!—Chk Chk Chk to you newbies—lead the Hill Country's sweatiest dance-off, w/ short-shorts-clad Nic Offer and (hopefully!) Light Asylum's Shannon Funchess directing the action. Seattle hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces headline, led by Ishmael Butler (aka "Butterfly", one esteemed third of next-level rappers Digable Planets) and multi-instrumentalist Tendai "Baba" Maraire. w/ 10yr <br />
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TOKYO<br />
* "Makoto Aida's World" @ <a href="http://www.mori.art.museum/">Mori Art Museum</a> / Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (53F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station), 3p/FREE. In expectation for Nov's surely bonkers career retrospective of Japanese contemporary art's most subversive—think the anti-pop Murakami—the museum stages a three-part seminar on Aida-san, feat. a talk by Mori curator Mami Kataoka; Tetsuya Ozaki (editor-in-chief of "REALTOKYO") leads a wild discussion on Aida's work w/ Mariko Asabuki (author of "KITOTOWA" and winner of the 144th Akutagawa Prize), Eiichiro Kokubo (Division of Theoretical Astronomy at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), and Nameko Shinsan (media activist, columnist, and manga artist); finally an overview of the "Makoto Aida: Heisei-kanjin Project".<br />
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* FEVER 3rd Anniversary, feat. TADZIO, Shinji Masuko etc @ <a href="http://www.fever-popo.com/">Fever</a> / 1-1-14 Hanegi, Setagaya-ku (Odakyu Inokashira Line to Shindaita or Shimokitazawa Stations), 7p/3000 yen. The two PYTs who play as TADZIO unleash some of Tokyo's most ferocious noise-rock. Don't underestimate 'em. Plus the charismatic Shinji Masuko (of Boredoms!) and the Floating Guitar Orchestra. w/ Live Loves<br />
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MONDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Lotte Van den Audenaeren "Potentialis" @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/400157203342232/">Moore St Market</a> / 110 Moore St, Bushwick (L to Montrose, JM to Flushing), 5:30p. The engaging Belgian multimedia artist, completing her ISCP residency this May, unveils her most recent site-specific urban intervention. She leads a walkthrough at 5:30p, followed by a roundtable discussion.<br />
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* "Sound of my Voice" (dir. Zal Batmanglij, 2011) @ <a href="http://reruntheater.com/">reRun Theatre</a> / 147 Front St, DUMBO (F to York St, AC to High St), 7p/FREE (arrive early!). Pretty neat: straight off Sundance and SXSW comes this contemporary cultish infiltration by lovably nerdy couple Peter & Lorna…only once inside, the otherworldliness of the group—and particularly charismatic young leader Maggie (Brit Marling)—could prove to be their undoing. Marling, who cowrote the film, attends this preview screening w/ dir. Batmanglij for a Q&A.<br />
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TUESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Nite Jewel @ <a href="http://www.boweryballroom.com/">Bowery Ballroom</a> / 6 Delancey St (F/JMZ to Essex/Delancey), 7:30p/$15. I've been digging the gauzy pop refrains of Nite Jewel (né Ramona Gonzalez) since her 2010 EP "Am I Real?"—and her spanking new LP "One Second of Love" totally affirms that. w/ Mac deMarco<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" (dir. Robert Fuest, 1971) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. The late, great Vincent Price plays a severely disfigured genius enacting revenge on the doctors he believes killed his hot wife—via the "Ten Plagues of Egypt" method! Like: a mechanical frog mask, ice machine, and a "Hostel"-worthy death by locusts. So I ask you: "Are you…ready…for Dr. Phibes?"<br />
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CURRENT SHOWS<br />
AUSTIN<br />
* Leif Low-beer @ <a href="http://okaymountain.com/okmt-gallery/exhibitions">Okay Mountain</a> / 1619 E Cesar Chavez. I was pretty stoked to hear that Brooklynite Low-beer—who I'd met at Astoria, Queen's Socrates Sculpture Park last May (his array of brightly colored objects and forms was a highlight of that group exhibition and turned notions of "public sculpture" on its ear)—was inaugurating Okay Mountain's new space. I was doubly stoked when I arrived and found one of Low-beer's beguiling arrays (I think titled "Olive pit pedestal") crowning off an exhibition including sculptural/mixed-media hybrids and works on paper. Agglomerations including painted bead-like stacks, geometric interventions and what resembles Haim Steinbach's signature "dog chew-toys" rearrange themselves depending on POV, retaining the artist's presence and hand much as his collaged drawings and spatially distorting photography. <br />
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* "Memento Mori" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. I've been working off a mortality tip in these Austin-area galleries. First Tiny Park, now Grayduck. This group exhibition, w/ Suzanne Koett (photography), John Mulvany (painting), and Cherie Weaver (mixed media), features local talent adept at locking humanity in a historical context. Mulvany, Irish-born and Texas-based, achieves this by painting figures from the Irish Civil War as beatific spirits looming over the sun-bleached Hill Country landscape. Retaining the figures' sepia-toned palette against the vistas' blues, greens, and earth-tones—plus the ornate retablo/devotional halos crowning them—Mulvany comments on the cyclical presence of his subjects. As in: the recurrences of war and religious movements. Weaver utilizes a ton of vintage cabinet cards in her ageless works, but they tend to be linking points or jump-offs to larger or multi-part dialogues, like the almost titular "Momentum Mori" and its pools of sumi-e echoed in the photograph's checkerboard floor, or her composites on translucent unstretched linen. I first began digging Koett's photography at this Austin-area artist group show at Gallery Black Lagoon last year, thanks to her bracing "Sabbat" series. She includes works from "The Study of Aloneness" here, ghostly composites of same-looking girls levitating in a forest's fog ("Power For Power") or in a Brutalist garage ("Rejoice, We Made the Right Choice"). It's like her "twins" are the guides for this exhibition's ideas and imagery, ushering us between consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death, to contemplate our respective existences. <br />
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* Holly Wilson "It's a Thin Line" @ <a href="http://www.wallyworkmangallery.com/">Wally Workman Gallery</a> / 1202 W Sixth St. My favorite part of this Oklahoma-based artist's solo exhibition was her molding of shiny encaustic on painted birch panels, blending the cast-bronze long-limbed sprites that recur elsewhere in the show w/ 2D space in a really stunning sculpture-painting hybrid. Elsewhere, the bird-masked girls (or sometimes boys) perched on carved poplar and red oak are handsome in their inherent vulnerabilities.<br />
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* Sarah Milbrath "Territory" @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Forus-Gallery/305826309444692">Forus Gallery</a> / 608 W 51st St. Pair domestic animals with their respective understandings of personal boundaries and invisible borders, and you have a very conscious, very cute photography show by the Austin-based artist. Milbrath's own connection with her subjects adds a whole 'nother layer to this series, as her nearness could elicit a dog's mournful gaze or a cat's wary stare—then she clicks the shutter.<br />
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* Conrad Bakker "Untitled Project: RECORD SHOP [45s] @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. I visited Tokyo indie gallery eitoeiko during New City Art Fair in NYC and noted they were showing artist Masaru Aikawa, whose signature style includes hand-painting CD-sized squares of canvas to expertly replicate CD artwork, only in obviously painterly style. Bakker is also re-presenting music as art, in this case rough-hewn wooden "45's" painted to mimic album jackets, but his execution feels uniquely Bakker-ish. Meaning: he doesn't go as far as Aikawa in the trompe-l'oeil effect, so his artwork, while clearly resembling LPs (Depeche Mode and Phil Collins here, Bob Marley and Joni Mitchell there), more accurately look like little paintings, down to their respective quirky, handmade essences. <br />
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CLOSING SOON<br />
NYC<br />
* Fred Sandback "Decades" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 519 W 19th St. A really fine survey of Sandback's long career of spatial interventions spanning three decades of work. His "Untitled (Sculptural Study, Four-part Mikado Construction)" features four aqua acrylic yarns zigzagging across half the front gallery, while the Kerf-cut Plexiglas "Untitled" emulates his linear sculptures while remaining fully 2D. The even crazier "16 Variations of 2 Diagonal Lines" explores front and back galleries with opposing pinkie-thick bands of yellow yarn, boring through walls and careening through diagonal space. An artist's book and selection of drawings fill out the show.<br />
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* Douglas Huebler "Crocodile Tears" @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. I went into this sorta Existentialist show from the Estate of Huebler knowing little about the man except that he paired text and images with panache. I left with a solid appreciation of his "Variable Piece"—a project to "photographically document the existence of everyone alive"—that slid between conceptual reconfigurations of Magritte, Cézanne, Gauguin and Mondrian with photography and Huebler's own text. <br />
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* Paul Graham "The Present" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 545 W 22nd St. Pace debuts the NY-based British photographer's latest body of work, his first exhibition in the States since 2009. "The Present" includes diptych and triptych photographic works, highlighting serendipitous moments of a city constantly in motion. A new monograph, published by MACK, accompanies the exhibition.<br />
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* Liz Magic Laser @ <a href="http://derekeller.com/">Derek Eller Gallery</a> / 615 W 27th St. Were you cool enough to catch Laser's Performa-commissioned video "I Feel Your Pain", performed, filmed and edited live in the midst of a theatre audience during last year's Performa 11? The end result is featured here, alongside the live performance "The Digital Face", which became a two-channel slide projection in the gallery.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Hitomi Motoki "The fantasy bedroom-Girl and Foretaste-" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/">Gallery MOMO</a> / 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Motoki conjures a dreamworld of absurdity and nostalgia in her figurative carved-wood sculpture and installation. (ENDS SAT)<br />
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NYC<br />
* The Generational: "The Ungovernables" @ <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St). Eungie Joo curated a superb iteration of the New Museum's Generational triennial. Stoked as I was for the 2009 inaugural, cheekily coined "Younger Than Jesus", it was so in-your-face that it left little deep meanings after I left the exhibition. Not so with "The Ungovernables", a panoply of 34 artists, groups and temporary collectives who are all about as young as Jesus and most have never exhibited "here" before. Here meaning in the U.S., so this is an awesome gaze into the greater art-making world, with its complicated cultural surroundings—take the artist-led initiative Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Project for one, Tel Aviv-based performative research group Public Movement as another. Lebanese artist Hassan Khan's booming, swaying video installation "Jewel", of a dance-off b/w two Middle Eastern men; Mounira Al Solh's wall of figurative drawings executed in the guise of a male; and Jose Antonio Vega Macotela's temporal "Time Exchanges" with inmates each comment on identity and relation, as does Pilvi Takala's impassive takedown of a Helsinki office-space—and all this is on just the 2nd fl. Julia Dault's delicate rolled Plexi and Slavs & Tatars' "Prayway" rug with rice-burner fluorescents are some of the 3rd Fl's most eye-catching. And on the 4th fl, even the artists who have shown "here" bring a multifaceted experience of moving through contemporary society, like Danh Vo's "WE THE PEOPLE", a deconstructed part of the Statue of Liberty, fabricated with pounded copper sheets in China and installed like parts of a massive candy wrapper; or Londoner Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's haunting portraiture paintings of figures existing not in reality, though their enlivening gaze won't leave us alone. And there's Adrian Villar Rojas' much-buzzed modular behemoth "A person loved me", rendered on-site in fragile clay as artifact and beautiful artwork formed by minimal resources and expert teamwork. You'll want to excavate further, to really know these artists, their backgrounds and current concerns and approaches. (ENDS SUN)<br />
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NYC<br />
* E.V. Day & Kembra Pfahler "GIVERNY" @ <a href="http://theholenyc.com/">The Hole</a> / 312 Bowery. So beyond the gorgeous photographs by Day (taken at an artist residency at Giverny) feat. Pfahler in her Karen Black getup posing amid waterlilies and Japanese foot-bridges is the artworks' surrounding installation: a recreation of Monet's Giverny garden, replete w/ aforementioned waterlilies and Japanese foot-bridge. Damn awesome. (ENDS TUE)b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-57911222825807312782012-04-11T08:20:00.000-04:002012-04-11T08:20:26.455-04:00fee's LIST / through 4/17WEDNESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Charles Atlas "Ocean" screening @ <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a> / 945 Madison Ave (6 to 77th St), 2/4p. Have you seen Atlas' video installation inaugurating Luhring Augustine's Bushwick gallery? This one is totally different!: a feature-length recording of Merce Cunningham's ambitious public performance "Ocean" (1994), set at the bottom of Minnesota's Rainbow Granite Quarry and involving a 150-piece orchestra, Cunningham's dance company, and some 4,500 audience members. Atlas filmed three performances from this production, among the final living record of Cunningham's work. ALSO THU 12/4p, SAT 12/2p, SUN 2/4p.<br />
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* "L'uccello dale plume di cristallo/The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" (dir. Dario Argento, 1970) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. All Argento, all the time! The MAD Museum's eye-dilating fest on the brutally creative film family continues w/ giallo maestro Dario Argento's directorial debut. And no matter how spacey ("Four Flies on Grey Velvet") or weak ("The Mother of Tears") he got, no matter how many other directors copied those black leather gloves and sharp objects, there will always be "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage"—stalked women, sadomasochism, and visionary cinematography.<br />
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* The Aislers Set + Pipas + Bridget St John @ <a href="http://www.thebellhouseny.com/">Bell House</a> / 149 7th St, Gowanus (F/G/R to 9th St/4th Ave), 7p/SOLD OUT!. For the love of pop! The classic (i.e. circa '92) indie-pop 'zine "chickfactor" turns 20 and they're throwing a mega-massive three-night residency at Bell House, feat. legendary and local bands. Night two is a biggie: Bay Area combo The Aislers Set headline, plus chickfactor-approved duo Pipas (from both sides of "the Pond"), and Brit folk-pop artist Bridget St John.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Breathless" (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. There's never been an American in Paris film quite like JLG's Nouvelle Vague forerunner, pairing wide-eyed Jean Seberg w/ rakish Bogart wannabe Jean-Paul Belmondo, played out in truly cutting-edge jump-cuts as they evade the police until, like the film's title, "a bout de souffle".<br />
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* Real Estate (NJ) @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 7:30p/$15. In the wave of surf-rock that crashed into the northeast a few years back, no one played it sunnier or smarter than Ridgewood four-piece Real Estate. Which is why they're still around today, and better than ever. w/ The Twerps<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Eikoh Hosoe @ <a href="http://bld-gallery.jp/">BLD Gallery</a> / 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo Ward Tokyo (JR Yurakucho Station, Marunouchi Line to Ginza Station). Part 5 and the penultimate installment of the gallery's season-long series on the modernist photographer focuses on Hosoe's portraiture. <br />
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* Naoko Majima "Fey" @ <a href="http://mizuma-art.co.jp/top.php">Mizuma Art Gallery</a> / 2F 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku (Yurakucho/Nanboku Lines to Ichigaya Station). A milestone exhibition for the mid-career artist, whose large-scale, ominous drawings took on a renewed vitality in the wake of last year's devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. She pairs these works with new sculptures.<br />
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* <a href="http://tokyodolores.com/">tokyoDOLORES</a> 「赤頭巾」/"Dear my red hunter" @ Atelier Fontaine / 5-13-13 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station), 6&8p/4000 yen. Actress and dancer Cay Izumi leads her contemporary dance troupe tokyoDOLORES in a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood" that puts the psychological realm of human darkness front and center. Mesmerizing and very sexy. ALSO THURS<br />
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THURSDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Honey Bunch + Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian) + The Softies @ <a href="http://www.thebellhouseny.com/">Bell House</a> / 149 7th St, Gowanus (F/G/R to 9th St/4th Ave), 7p/SOLD OUT! For the love of pop! The classic (i.e. circa '92) indie-pop 'zine "chickfactor" turns 20 and they're throwing a mega-massive three-night residency at Bell House, feat. legendary and local bands. The final night goes off w/ a velvet-wrapped bang, courtesy early Slumberland band Honey Bunch, Londoners The Pines (feat. chickfactor co-founder/Black Tambourine singer Pam Berry), self-titular The Softies and Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson (the guy who wrote a song called "chickfactor").<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Rebecca Jane Rodriguez & Dustin Kilgore "Sacred Land Grab" @ <a href="http://colabspace.org/">Co-Lab</a> / 613 Allen St, 8p. The artists host a Super 8 video installation and two-channel slideshow that blend footage of the American West with ambient audio for a self-reflective road trip.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Oreskaband @ <a href="http://www.club-quattro.com/shibuya/schedule/">Club Quattro</a> / 5F 32-13 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station), 7p/2800 yen. A Kansai-area all-grrrl ska band sounds right up my alley, and Oreskaband are super dope, too. They perform a sorta-rare local show before heading back west for a bunch of dates. Don't miss it!<br />
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FRIDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Joanna Malinowska "Fieldwork" @ <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a> / 945 Madison Ave (6 to 77th St), 7:30p. The Polish-born artist's contribution to this year's Biennial relates around American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier (a "smuggled in" canvas), plus a video installation of the artist juxtaposing indigenous culture with art via some "chic de yucca" elixir. Her performance this evening, in collaboration w/ NY's Hungry March Band, examines de-contextualized rituals, from transcendentalism to the Native American Ghost Dance.<br />
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* "Il gatto a nove code/The Cat o' Nine Tails" (dir. Dario Argento, 1971) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. Rejoice! The MAD Museum is smartly showing the full edit of Argento's second directorial effort, which has less to do w/ whips and felines than NINE leads used by a journalist and "puzzle solver" to catch a knifer of women. <br />
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* Black Pus @ <a href="http://entertainment4every1.net/">Death By Audio</a> / 49 S 2nd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$7. Brian Chippendale, the kinetic half of local trash lords Lightning Bolt, once again decimates my favorite indie Brooklyn venue under his noisier personal, Black Pus. How one guy in a knit mask can cause that much devastation on a tricked-out drumkit is anyone's guess…but Chippendale brings it every damn time. w/ Mounds & Alien Whale (both ex-usaisamonster)<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Cabin in the Woods" (dir. Drew Goddard, 2011) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. Ever since last December, I've been hearing how dope this film is, how it's a gamechanger in the horror realm, one of THE BEST American horror films in a long while. So I've done my best to block out every/single/trailer/image/review/Q&A whatever and go into this chiller totally fresh. I cannot wait any longer.<br />
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* "The Kid with a Bike" (dirs. les freres Dardenne, 2011) @ <a href="http://violetcrowncinema.com/">Violet Crown Cinema</a> / 434 W 2nd St. They should subhed this "starring Cécile de France" and BAM I'm there. But really, this 2011 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner is a delightful turn for Belgian bros Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. It could almost be a decade sequel to their heart-wrenching film "L'enfant", w/ the abandoned baby now a preteen boy befriending sweet Cécile.<br />
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* "Juan of the Dead" (dir. Alejandro Brugués, 2011) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Village</a> / 2700 W Anderson Ln, 10p. Fantastic Fest 2011 favorite from a right-likable director, this isn't just Cuba's first proper horror film, it's also a damn fine tale of zombies! If you're thinking "Shaun of the Dead", you're mostly right: that level of creative humor and disgusting wit.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Aki Yamamoto "Cut" @ <a href="http://www.artfront.co.jp/jp/index.html">Art Front Gallery</a> / Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku (JR Lines etc to Shibuya). Yamamoto returns to the gallery with her abstract color acuity, incorporating collage into her paintings to reconstruct particular worldly observations.<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* "Bad Girls of 2012", organized by Jamie Sterns @ <a href="http://www.interstateprojects.com/">Interstate Projects</a> / 56 Bogart St, E. Williamsburg (L to Morgan). What does it mean to be a "bad girl" in contemporary art? Marcia Tucker (New Museum founder/director) organized the original "Bad Girls" exhibition in '94. Now Sterns takes it on, culling eight bleeding-edge talents, incl. Croatian-born duo Dora + Maja, painter Denise Kupferschmidt, and LIST-favorite (and participant in MoMA PS1's "Greater NY") Amy Yao. <br />
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* Ernesto Neto @ <a href="http://tanyabonakdargallery.com/">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. The Brazilian artist achieves the most beguiling atmospheres via "just" crocheted netting and spices, transforming dull white-boxes into exciting, emotive environments. He has free reign over both floors of Bonkadar's gallery this time and puts them to good use: via a monumental installation on the ground floor, a bridgelike structure that visitors can climb inside, and biomorphic interventions on the stairs and second floor.<br />
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* Mike Kelley: video tribute @ <a href="http://www.diacenter.org/">DIA Art Foundation</a> / 541 W 22nd St (CE to 23rd St), 10a-10p. Clear your schedules, art-lovers: DIA and Electronic Arts Intermix organized a 12-hour tribute to the late, great artist, feat. screenings of his seminal films incl. "The Banana Man" (1983), "Heidi" (1992, w/ Paul McCarthy), personal favorite "Day is Done, Part 1" (2005-6) and recent work "A Voyage of Growth and Discovery" (2011, in collab w/ Michael Smith).<br />
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* "Quattro mosche di velluto grigio/Four Flies on Gray Velvet" (dir. Dario Argento, 1971) screening @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle), 7p. Among Argento's most batshit films—and that's saying something—is this bloody web of blackmail, masked assassins, and a truly stunning slo-mo car crash (and that's not counting the "image caught in the retina" plot device).<br />
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* Miguel Migs + Mark Farina @ <a href="http://lepoissonrouge.com/">(le) poisson rouge</a> / 158 Bleecker St (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 11p/$20. OK so this is like taking it back to '02, but you pair Migs' sun-drenched deep-house jams (see "Colorful You") and Farina's smoked-out "mushroom jazz" (see titular series), you'll have a damn good time.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Leif Low-beer @ <a href="http://okaymountain.com/">Okay Mountain</a> / 1619 E Cesar Chavez. The artist collective reopens its doors to a Brookynite, the supremely mind-blowing Low-beer (I've seen his work in Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens), who contributes new collaged drawings, sculpture, and photography to this exhibition.<br />
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* Frankie Rose (Brooklyn) + DIVE (Brooklyn) @ <a href="http://red7austin.com/">Red 7</a> / 611 E 7th St, 9p/$10. Brooklyn's indie-rock mainstay Miss Frankie Rose traded drumsticks for the mic, but luckily her charisma and knockout songbird vox followed her. Her second LP "Interstellar" is starry-eyed cool and just gorgeous to hear. She's joined by Beach Fossils' guitarist Cole Smith's young psych-rock outfit DIVE, who are just doing everything right and have an LP on the way.<br />
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* The Pharcyde (LA) @ <a href="http://thebeautyballroom.ticketfly.com/calendar/">Beauty Ballroom</a> / 2015 E Riverside Dr, 9p/$25. South Central alt-rap all-stars The Pharcyde reunited! Meaning both charismatic Tre (aka Slimkid3) AND storyteller Fatlip. Gonna be a bizarre ride indeed. w/ ZEALE<br />
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* Artificial Music Machine 10th Anniversary party #2 @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whitehouseaustin">Space Tower</a> / 3410 E. Pennsylvania Ave, 7p/FREE. The local alt-electronic label celebrates a decade of drone and ambience, w/ live sets by Thomas Fang, Daze of Heaven, Smokey Emery, Spagirus, and R. Lee Dockery, w/ special guests.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Mats Gustafson "Trees and Rocks" @ <a href="http://www.ma2gallery.com/">MA2 Gallery</a> / 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Yamanote Line to Ebisu Station). Not to be confused w/ Mats GUSTAFSSON, the futuristic sax player, this is the NY-based Swedish artist Gustafson, whose cool palette and silky figurative style contribute a scintillating mono-no-aware to the Tokyo gallery.<br />
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* TETTA "incloud" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/">Gallery MOMO Ryogoku</a> / 1F 1-7-15 Kamezawa, Sumida-ku (Toei Oedo/JR Sobu Line to Ryogoku Station). The Kanagawa-born artist presents a contemporary take on Kannon imagery and Buddhism in this series of ink and oils on plywood.<br />
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* 昭和な夜 @ <a href="http://www.bar9259.com/top.html">Bar 9259</a> / 2F 1-1-2 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku (Fukutoshin/Toei Oedo Lines to Higashi-shinjuku Station), 11p. Get past front-door security and you'll be ushered into this fetish bar's take on the glorious Shojo Period, meaning the Swingin' '20s through, uh, Japanese Nationalism and the 2nd World War, up into prosperity and the postwar bubble economy in the '80s. Expect excess, decadence, and deviance, w/ special guests Aloe (of pole-dancing artisans tokyoDOLORES and go-go girls Nasty Cats) and AV actress and stripper Miho Wakabayashi. Tantalized much??<br />
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* CAUCUS @ <a href="http://minamiikebukuromusic.org/">Minami-ikebukuro Music.Org</a> / B2 1-20-11 Minami-ikebukuro,Toshima-ku (JR Yamanote/Tokyo Metro lines to Ikebukuro Station, West Exit), 7p/2000 yen. A night of primo dream-pop. I'm smitten w/ Tokyo darlings CAUCUS ever since I saw 'em at NYC Popfest 2011 (the sole Japanese band there, though they share members w/ Smilelove) and their prowess for catchy indie-pop spans both covering intriguing underground '90s acts (Rocketship) and their own unique arrangements. w/ Hello Hawk<br />
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* SUNDAYS @ <a href="http://marble-web.jp/top.html">Shinjuku Marble</a> / 2-45-2 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, Kabukicho Exit), 6p/2500. SUNDAYS frontwoman Fuyumi Kobayashi is like a much cuter, female version of Iggy Pop, sashaying about the stage while shouting her vocals and flinging sweat into the mouths of adoring fans. Who's harder-core than SUNDAYS? A: in Tokyo? Nobody. w/ toitoitoi & Menoz<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Sylvia Kastel + Ninni Morgia, Marcia Bassett @ <a href="http://toddpnyc.com/">285 Kent Ave</a>, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$10. Local free-rock guitarist Morgia and avant synth goddess Kastel pair beautiful sonics together and in their "two couples" collabs w/ neo-Dadaists Mama Baer and Kommissar Hjuler. Marcia Bassett is a former member of psychedelic noisicians Double Leopards. w/ Licker (Pengo)<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* RECORIDE @ <a href="http://shibuya-glad.com/venue/pickup_events">Shibuya Glad</a> / 3F 2--21-7 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 6:30/3000 yen. Celebrate gritty '80s style in local electroclash punks RECORIDE's debut LP release party! The lead video for track 「星屑のmp3」 (uh, "stardust mp3") is so untrendy that it's actually super-cool and sexy. <br />
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* BORZOIQ @ <a href="http://www.shibuyamilkyway.com/">Shibuya Milkyway</a> / 3F 4-7 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 6p/3500 yen. BORZOIQ is a local supergroup of sorts, comprised of members from local indie-rock mainstays TRICERATOPS and Jake stone garage, and anchored by Mellowhead guitarist Motoaki Fukanuma and vocalist/force-of-nature Lucy. Their debut LP release party coincides w/ RECORIDE's and you gotta ask yourself: do you want melodic alt-rock that cuts deep? If so, BORZOIQ is the answer.<br />
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* 住所不定無職 @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-Nest</a> / 6F 2-3 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 6:30p/3200 yen. "Sound and Smile Chemistry" is the name of this showcase. You put art-rock grrrls 住所不定無職 (lit. "No job nor permanent address") on that roster, and I'll believe it! w/ THIS IS PANIC and WEEKEND<br />
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MONDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Asobi Seksu @ <a href="http://highlineballroom.com/">Highline Ballroom</a> / 431 W 16th St (ACE to 8th Ave), 8p/$30. The 5th Annual Roe on the Rocks Benefit for Planned Parenthood of NYC, with local dream-pop darlings Asobi Seksu headlining. It's a good thing in so many ways.<br />
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TUESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Atari Teenage Riot @ <a href="http://highlineballroom.com/">Highline Ballroom</a> / 431 W 16th St (ACE to 8th Ave), 8p/$25. 1-2-3-4! Digital hardcore—ATR's signature blend of roiling sonics and shout-and-response vocals—made a lot of anarchic sense 15 years ago. And yet, with last year's LP "Is This Hyperreal?" and the surrounding economic and social climate, they prove they're as relevant as ever. Plus, noisician-turned-frontwoman Nic Endo can scream AND sing. w/ Otto Von Schirach<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Two Ships Passing: w/ David Heymann" @ <a href="http://utvac.org/">Visual Arts Center</a> / UT Art Building, 23rd St at Trinity, 6:30p. Pastelegram collaborates w/ the VAC in organizing this conversation w/ architect and professor Heymann, on thinking about and reacting to landscapes.<br />
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* "The Incubus" (dir. John Hough, 1982) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. A demon that rapes women. If you've seen Hough's harrowing "The Legend of Hell House" you /might/ be negligibly prepared for this lurid film. Though if you go into it knowing only Hough's Disney stuff ("Escape to Witch Mountain" and its inconceivable sequel), then you're totally on your own.<br />
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* Chairlift (NY) + Nite Jewel (Cali) @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 6:30p/$12. You might not peg me for a Chairlift fan—their particular brand of Brooklyn indie-pop skews from my general listening habits—but I dig their second LP "Something" w/o embarrassment. It's fun to be upbeat! Plus I've been into singer-songwriter Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, since her 2010 EP "Am I Real?". A: she totally is.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Trevor Brown "Toy Box" @ <a href="http://www.span-art.co.jp/">Span Art Gallery</a> / 2-2-18 1F Ginza, Chuo-ku. (Yurakucho Line to Ginza-Itchome Station). Cutie-pie and devious, Brown's new series of gorgeous paintings are like children's "Golden Books" illustrations w/ sinister undertones. His wife contributes some adorable stuffed teddybear poppets as HippieCoco.<br />
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* Lagitagida @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-Nest</a> / 6F 2-3 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 7:30p/2500 yen. Local instrumental noise-rock quartet Lagitagida fried my braincells during SXSW, and you bet they bring that same intensity to the home crowd. w/ fresh!<br />
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CURRENT SHOWS<br />
AUSTIN<br />
* "Memento Mori" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. I've been working off a mortality tip in these Austin-area galleries. First Tiny Park, now Grayduck. This group exhibition, w/ Suzanne Koett (photography), John Mulvany (painting), and Cherie Weaver (mixed media), features local talent adept at locking humanity in a historical context. Mulvany, Irish-born and Texas-based, achieves this by painting figures from the Irish Civil War as beatific spirits looming over the sun-bleached Hill Country landscape. Retaining the figures' sepia-toned palette against the vistas' blues, greens, and earth-tones—plus the ornate retablo/devotional halos crowning them—Mulvany comments on the cyclical presence of his subjects. As in: the recurrences of war and religious movements. Weaver utilizes a ton of vintage cabinet cards in her ageless works, but they tend to be linking points or jump-offs to larger or multi-part dialogues, like the almost titular "Momentum Mori" and its pools of sumi-e echoed in the photograph's checkerboard floor, or her composites on translucent unstretched linen. I first began digging Koett's photography at this Austin-area artist group show at Gallery Black Lagoon last year, thanks to her bracing "Sabbat" series. She includes works from "The Study of Aloneness" here, ghostly composites of same-looking girls levitating in a forest's fog ("Power For Power") or in a Brutalist garage ("Rejoice, We Made the Right Choice"). It's like her "twins" are the guides for this exhibition's ideas and imagery, ushering us between consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death, to contemplate our respective existences. <br />
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* Sarah Milbrath "Territory" @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Forus-Gallery/305826309444692">Forus Gallery</a> / 608 W 51st St. Pair domestic animals with their respective understandings of personal boundaries and invisible borders, and you have a very conscious, very cute photography show by the Austin-based artist. Milbrath's own connection with her subjects adds a whole 'nother layer to this series, as her nearness could elicit a dog's mournful gaze or a cat's wary stare—then she clicks the shutter.<br />
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* Conrad Bakker "Untitled Project: RECORD SHOP [45s] @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. I visited Tokyo indie gallery eitoeiko during New City Art Fair in NYC and noted they were showing artist Masaru Aikawa, whose signature style includes hand-painting CD-sized squares of canvas to expertly replicate CD artwork, only in obviously painterly style. Bakker is also re-presenting music as art, in this case rough-hewn wooden "45's" painted to mimic album jackets, but his execution feels uniquely Bakker-ish. Meaning: he doesn't go as far as Aikawa in the trompe-l'oeil effect, so his artwork, while clearly resembling LPs (Depeche Mode and Phil Collins here, Bob Marley and Joni Mitchell there), more accurately look like little paintings, down to their respective quirky, handmade essences. <br />
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CLOSING SOON<br />
NYC<br />
* Terry Winters "Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures, & Notebook" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 522 W 22nd St. Confession: I missed Winters' stateside debut of his layered found-photo collages, nearly a decade's worth of work at MM's tiny boutique gallery on 22nd. The reason is b/c I was totally immersed in Winters' massive kaleidoscopic new paintings, Some are watery worlds, others vaguely cosmic, a bit like Jim Rosenquist's more "Water Planet" stuff but less representational. Winters' palette is dazzling and his technique beautiful without reducing to pure decoration.<br />
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* Anne Truitt "Drawings" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 523 W 24th St. The gallery mounted a wonderful retrospective of Truitt's serene, totem-like sculpture two years ago (one my 2010 favorites). They continue the awesomeness w/ four decades of her drawings, a vital part of her daily creative activity. Some of these do resemble her gentle monoliths, but others are fields of brilliant tonal shifts or a single growing line across a white expanse. Pretty awesome.<br />
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* Mounir Fatmi "Oriental Accident" @ <a href="http://www.lombard-freid.com/">Lombard-Freid Projects</a> / 518 W 19th St. Exhibition as noise show, Fatmi's second solo at the gallery is INTENSE. He pairs recordings from Maghreb during the Arab Spring in speakers sprinkled with nails and embedded into a Persian rug. Sonic squalls recur in "Modern times, a History of the Machine", a video projection in the side gallery that morphs Arabic calligraphy into a kinetic Duchamp-ian affair. Even Fatmi's static pieces threaten to attack, whether bas-reliefs of the number zero composed of coaxial antenna cables or lace loops drenched in oily black paint. <br />
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* "I Know This But You Feel Different", curated by Shara Hughes and Meredith James @ <a href="http://www.marcjancou.com/">Marc Jancou Contemporary</a> / 524 W 24th St. A pretty superb group show inspiring dialogue on interior spaces. Hughes' own large painting "My Head's Really Not In This" locks the whole idea together as she contorts and flattens multi-planar space with gusto, pairing the experience with a vivid color palette. But there's much other awesomeness as well, beginning with Hughes' oil-on-paper drawings and extending to highly textural oil on linen paintings by Clare Grill and a nook installation by Miles Huston and Jacques Louis Vidal. Jesse Greenberg's visceral homemade objects and Jacob Robichaux's deconstructed remnants keep the show's tone loose and compelling.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Tom Molloy "New World" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. Molloy strips away the noise and distractions in his historically leaning or contemporarily relevant bodies of work—oftentimes by incredibly meticulous practices—leaving a sort-of podium for us to contemplate, discuss, argue. While he's not explicitly putting his own politics behind the dozens of thrift-store framed Internet-culled b&w images of male world leaders pressing the flesh in "Shake", the works circuitous nature and site-specific installation—where "Hussein/Mubarak" slides into "Mubarak/Bush" and "Bush/Putin", until we're back at "Hussein" again—, plus the fact these nonchronological shots span from 9-11 to the Arab Spring, naturally presents some theories. How these men are friends one minute, wheeling and dealing the next, and sworn enemies separated by several frames of their "friends" after that. Molloy's nine-part titular work features nine different LP sleeves of Dvorák's "New World Symphony", the texts painted over (Molloy's analogue to Photoshop, he said) to show only benign, sunny images of the Western frontier. That "incredibly meticulous practices" bit I alluded to earlier is most clear in "Somewhere", Molloy's hand-painted sheet music to the "Wizard of Oz"'s sweetly optimistic anthem, a work that began with a black sheet of paper and lots and lots of carefully applied white gouache.<br />
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* PJ Raval + Nick Brown @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 607 1/2 Genard St. Fleeting moments of our collective mortality, captured on canvas and animated on film. Austin-based filmmaker Raval eschews his notable collabs w/ local performance artist and "drag terrorist" CHRISTEENE (like the music video "Fix My Dick", part of UT VAC's "Queer State(s)" exhibition) in favor of three early, experimental videos. "Clean" goes from jittery, wince-worthy toothbrushing to kinetic, croaking bandaids that eventually cover the titular neat-freak, while "NET06" is a flickering slice of noise recalling Hans Richter and Dadaist visual arts. LA-based painter Brown looks like Troy Sanders from Mastodon and he creates a mean, visceral canvas, too. Beyond the beauty of these impasto creations is an ephemeral moment—the twin-edged bloodshed and psychedelia within a field of "Poppies", the discomfiting sleep of "South Pacific"—frozen in time. His fiery red pastel drawings are as strong as the paintings and reflect Brown's printmaking background, as etched marks couple with negative space and smears of pastel to conjure very realistic, occasionally harrowing scenes of natural demise. A very moving show within such a cute, boutique gallery.<br />
(ENDS SAT)<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Etsuko Taniguchi "light" @ <a href="http://hpgrpgallery.com/">hpgrp Tokyo</a> / B1F 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku (Chiyoda/Hanzomon/Ginza Lines to Omotesando Station). Taniguchi creates a disarming illumination in her nightlife cityscapes but cutting into lacquered canvases and then painting them over in acrylic. (ENDS SUN)b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-15140648643605725532012-04-04T08:50:00.000-04:002012-04-04T08:50:38.151-04:00fee's LIST / through 4/10WEDNESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* "Funky Forest: The First Contact" (dirs. Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki, Hijimine Ishimine, 2005) screening @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (F/M to 5th Ave/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 4p. So for the following week+, MoMA is giving Cindy Sherman (who has a fab retrospective on the 6th Fl, see under CURRENT SHOWS) "Carte Blanche" to select films that "informed her artistic practice". Luckily she's into the more bonkers stuff! Just picture it: 150 minutes of Japanese Youtube videos daisy-chained into a cerebrum-melting visual riot of sci-fi, hot-springs, cute girls, and anime! "Funky Forest" is tons more than that, and technically it has a plot—an absolutely adorable, tentative love story b/w young prof and student—but who cares when you've got a high-school girl sticking a cable in her navel to conjure a mini sushi-chef alien or a beachside dance-off b/w Ryo Kase (in a tracksuit) and various animated challengers? See you on the other side!<br />
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* The Naked and Famous @ <a href="http://www.terminal5nyc.com/">Terminal 5</a> / 610 W 56th St (1/AC/BD to Columbus Circle), 7p/SOLD OUT. Kiwi cuties The Naked and Famous are wrapping up their final tour for starry-pop debut "Passive Me, Aggressive You". Hopefully this means they will to the studio Down Under tout de suite.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Barbed Wire Dolls" (dir. Jesus Franco, 1976) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 9:40p. A batshit insane gem from the power couple of '70s sexploitation, courtesy Franco and his wife/muse/lead Lina Romay. Of particular note, in this cut from Franco's "women in prison" cycle, Romay is jailed for killing her father (played by, uh, Franco!) who tried to rape her. <br />
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TOKYO<br />
* "Before and After Superflat" talk @ <a href="http://www.nadiff.com/">NADiff A/P/A/R/T</a> / 1F 1-18-4 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote Line/HIbiya Line to Ebisu Station, East exit), 6:30p. Adrian Favell, author of "Before and After Superflat: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990-2011" leads a discussion on the publication and contemporary trends, alongside artists Hideki Nakazawa, Midori Mitamura, Satoru Aoyama, and art writer Chie Sumiyoshi.<br />
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THURSDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Kim Dingle "still lives" @ <a href="http://www.speronewestwater.com/">Sperone Westwater</a> / 257 Bowery. The Cali-born painter of compelling and creepily faceless dolly-sized figures hasn't had a solo here since 2007, and her tongue-in-cheek press release announcing that "if what is depicted makes the artist laugh then all the more fun for the artist and maybe for the viewer, too – but it is usually an accident", sounds properly beguiling.<br />
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* Nick Nowicki @ <a href="http://anacristeagallery.com/">Ana Cristea Gallery</a> / 521 W 26th St. The first stateside solo exhibition from London-based Nowicki features unstretched linen and paper covered in lyrically composed figures, hinting at their respective "human contact".<br />
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* Anne Collier @ <a href="http://www.antonkerngallery.com/">Anton Kern Gallery</a> / 532 W 20th St. After a full 2011 of international group exhibitions (incl "Singular Visions" at the Whitney, "Anti-Photography" in Essex UK, and "The Techniques and Aesthetic of Appropriation" at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria), Collier returns to the gallery w/ her makes-you-look-twice prints. Plus, she was commissioned to do a billboard for the High Line art series.<br />
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* David Lyle "Misbehaving" @ <a href="http://lyonswiergallery.com/">Lyons Wier Gallery</a> / 542 W 24th St. Classic Americana imagery warped and contextualized to with contemporary influences. That's only the tip of the proverbial artistic iceberg, though, as Lyle's methodical layering and removal of oily black veneer to his "grayscale" paintings adds a startling vintage sheen.<br />
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* Taylor Davis @ <a href="http://dodge-gallery.com/">DODGEgallery</a> / 15 Rivington St. This sounds dope: Davis, who is equally adept in 2- and 3D art that showcases her knack for incorporating text and color, celebrates her debut at the gallery. She has shown extensively elsewhere (including the Whitney Museum), and I am stoked to see how she utilizes the two-floor gallery setting for this new body of work.<br />
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* "Inland Empire" (dir. David Lynch, 2006) screening @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (F/M to 5th Ave/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 4:15p. If you've recovered from "Funky Forest" (see WED), and yearn to be further plunged into a cinematic rabbit-hole, silvery rooster-coiffed renaissance man Lynch has your answer! Three hours of Hollywood Boulevard grime, Polish film-noir and bizarro choreographed dance sequences by prostitutes! <br />
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* The New Monuments + Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski + Lasse Marhaug @ <a href="http://www.issueprojectroom.org/">ISSUE Project Room</a> / 110 Livingston St, Boerum Hill (45 to Borough Hall, 23 to Hoyt St, AC/F to Jay St/Metrotech), 8p/$10. Have you checked out ISSUE's new-ish digs? Tonight's a solid intro: Norwegian noisician Marhaug, drone/folk duo Bassett (of Double Leopards/Purple Haze) and Lubelski, culminating w/ industrialscape improv trio The New Monuments (C. Spencer Yeh, Ben hall, and Don Dietrich)!<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Sarah Milbrath "Territory" @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Forus-Gallery/305826309444692">Forus Gallery</a> / 608 W 51st St. Pair domestic animals with their respective understandings of personal boundaries and invisible borders, and you have a very conscious, very cute photography show by the Austin-based artist.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* 「ニッポン最先端」 feat. TRIPPPLE NIPPPLES @ <a href="http://www.marz.jp/">Shinjuku MARZ</a> / B1F 2-45-1 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, East Exit), 7p/1500 yen. The sixth installment of "Most Bleeding Edge Japan" doesn't let up, w/ Yuka, Qrea and Nabe of Tokyo performance art-punk collective TRIPPPLE NIPPPLES covering the place in feathers, washable fake blood, and/or gold-leaf—or whatever they've concocted for tonight. Plus スカートの中 (uh "inside the skirt"?) and THIS IS PANIC<br />
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FRIDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Valentin Carron @ <a href="http://www.303gallery.com/">303 Gallery</a> / 547 W 21st St. Carron includes a human-scale "stone" cube (composed of polystyrene), achromatic stained glass and other new sculpture in his focus on neo-occultism and a historical arc of physiological reaction.<br />
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* "Profondo Rosso/Deep Red" (dir. Dario Argento, 1975) midnight screening @ <a href="http://www.nitehawkcinema.com/screenings.php">Nitehawk Cinema</a> / 136 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy). MAD Museum's Argento family retrospective "Il Cinema Nel Sangue" powers on, and now Williamsburg indie theatre Nitehawk gets in on the akshun, screening this Dario-style giallo classic. Think music teacher (played by David Hemmings!) turned detective, creepy-ass music scores (courtesy Goblin!), and strains of general insanity! ALSO SAT<br />
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* "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1976) screening @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (F/M to 5th Ave/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 8p. Bravo to Cindy Sherman for choosing some of the bonkers-est films I can think of (and have seen!) for her "Carte Blanche" series. Case in point w/ Akerman's acclaimed union of feminism and anti-illusionism, a practically realtime telling of a single mother's daily routine: caring for her son, cleaning, cooking, errands, and prostituting herself to make ends meet! The time-stretching only makes Dielman's situation that much more oppressive and the denouement that much more explosive.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Memento Mori" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. I've been working off a mortality tip in these Austin-area galleries. First Tiny Park (see my review of PJ Raval and Nick Brown's art there under CURRENT SHOWS), now Grayduck. This group exhibition, w/ Suzanne Koett (photography), John Mulvany (painting), and Cherie Weaver (mixed media), features local talent adept at reminding ourselves of our own respective existences, and related historical connotations. <br />
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* "Fire Walk With Me" (dir. David Lynch, 1992) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 11:30p. Prologue and epilogue to Lynch's daring early '90s TV series "Twin Peaks", of young Laura Palmer's murder in a sleepy (and increasingly surrealist) Washington town. Not only does Kyle MacLachlan return as coffee-loving "Special Agent Dale Cooper", but we also get new roles by Kiefer Sutherland and, incredibly, David Bowie. Oh but it's grim, too, and probably incomprehensible if you've never seen a "Twin Peaks" episode. ALSO SAT<br />
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* Chain and the Gang (DC) + Kingdom of Suicide Lovers @ <a href="http://hotdogscoldbeer.com/austin/events/">Frank</a> / 407 Colorado, 9:30p/$8. Hyper-intellectual wordsmith Ian Svenonius leads DC misfits Chain and the Gang on an upbeat rock groove-fest. Locals Kingdom of Suicide Lovers contribute a hip-swaying noise-punk vibe that wouldn't be out of place in my favorite Brooklyn venues. w/ Franny and Zooey<br />
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* Pure X @ <a href="http://red7austin.com/">Red 7</a> / 611 E 7th St, 9p/$8. Shoegaze-tinged garage-rock, Austin style. That's trio Pure X (né Pure Ecstasy, before last year's syrupy wonderful "Pleasure" debuted), smoked-out surf and freak psychedelia. w/ God's Gun <br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Yoko Oyama "Melody of Mephisto" @ <a href="http://www.tosei-sha.jp/">Gallery TOSEI</a> / 5-18-20 Chuo, Nagano-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to Shin-Nakao Station, Exit 1-2). Oyama's latest series of atmospheric photographs were taken in Hungary and bear influence of Bartok, Liszt and other composers on the artist.<br />
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* Yuichi Higashionna "Apparition" @ <a href="http://www.ycassociates.co.jp/jp/">Yumiko Chiba Associates</a> / 2F 4-32-6 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Toei Oedo Line to Tochomae Station, JR etc to Shinjuku Station, West Exit). I credit NY's Marianne Boesky Gallery for exposing me to this mid-career Japanese artist, whose loopy, fluorescent light sculptures and refreshingly neo-Op installations have been wigging me out since 2008. He's created a mostly new array for this exhibition.<br />
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* Yu Siuan "Greenhouse-Program" @ <a href="http://www.roentgenwerke.com/">Radium</a> / 2-5-17 Bakurocho, Chuo-ku (JR Yamanote Line to Bakurocho Station). The Taipei-born artist echoes Belgian Surrealist master Rene Magritte in his painterly, decaying objects.<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* EVOL "Repeat Offender" @ <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. I got tuned into Berlin-based artist EVOL's transcendent interventions—meticulously layered stencils on used cardboard, morphing them into startlingly realistic street scenes—at VOLTA NY 2010. Then LeVine picked him up for one of their legendary summer group shows in 2010. Now they stage EVOL's debut solo stateside exhibition! Mad stoked.<br />
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* "Funny Games" (dir. Michael Haneke, 1997) screening @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (F/M to 5th Ave/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 5p. Mannnnnn….people didn't know WHAT to think when Haneke unveiled this predecessor to the millennium's "torture porn" genre. Mind you, he'd done "Benny's Video", so his potential for filmic cruelty was in place, but this almost realtime home invasion by two silver-tongued twits is just brutal in its deadpan delivery. <br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Paul McLean "NO MAS: Occupational Art School" @ <a href="http://colabspace.org/">Co-Lab Projects</a> / 613 Allen St. Despite this new media acuity and Occupy with Art co-organizer's densely written press release, what I believe McLean is doing is working in situ, drawing from mythology and contemporary social concerns (i.e. Occupy Wall Street and the 99% art world), interacting with visitors in crafting new works.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* "<a href="http://www.kotoko-movie.com/">KOTOKO</a>" (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 2012) @ Theatre Shinjuku / 3-14-20 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Fukutoshin/Shinjuku Lines to Shinjuku-sanchome Station). Compelling trauma for the eyes and ears, and quite potentially Tsukamoto's most unrelentingly aggressive film yet. His intimate depiction of J-Pop star Cocco as the titular single-mother character, losing her grip on reality and custody of her baby son, is VERY tough to stand. Plus he's using full color now, to glorious and very bloody effect. It's a cathartic view, maybe, but don't say I didn't warn you.<br />
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* 「別離」/"<a href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/aseparation/">A Separation</a>" (dir. Asghar Farhadi, 2011) @ Le Cinema / 2-24-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit). Thing to keep in mind during Farhadi's bracing drama between an Iranian middle-class couple, very religious, lower-class caretakers, double-talk and bouts of explosive anger is the divorcing family at its core, and the smart teen girl caught in the middle of her parents' "separation". It's clear why this won the 2012 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.<br />
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* TsushiMaMire @ <a href="http://www.gar-den.in/pc/index.php">Shimokitazawa GARDEN</a> / B1F 2-4-5 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku (Keio Inokashira Line to Shimokitazawa Station, S. Exit), 6:30p/3300 yen. The final date of Chiba grrrl-punk cuties TsushiMaMire's "SHOCKING" solo tour 2012. You can't imagine how I wish I were in Tokyo for this. <br />
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* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/137845693008297/">Tokyo Dark Castle</a> vs RITUALS The Head Shop @ <a href="http://www.marz.jp/">Shinjuku MARZ</a> / B1F 2-45-1 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku (JR etc to Shinjuku Station, East Exit), midnight/3500 yen. This late-night mashup is always an "out-there" trip. Feat. RITUALS by KENZO-A fashion show (w/ models Aloe & Nancy from tokyoDOLORES/Nasty Cats, plus many others), Tokyo visual-kei band Gabriels Stiletto (feat. DJ KENZO-A), French performance/art-rock group Dead Sexy Inc. & more deviance. <br />
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MONDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (dir. Tobe Hooper, 1974) screening @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (F/M to 5th Ave/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 4:30p. The film geek in me wonders if they're screening this in 35mm, but the general film lover in me urges you to SEE THIS AT ALL COSTS. "Chain Saw" is the original slasher film, the original f-ed up family of murderers tale, eons scarier and more satisfying than its many, many sequels and derivatives. And maybe it'll draw a few inklings into why Cindy Sherman filmed "Office Killer".<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Dustin Wong + nisennenmondai @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-Nest</a> / 6F 2-3 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 7:30p/3000 yen. The LP release party for Dustin Wong's "Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads" just got a million times more nuts thanks to Tokyo math-rock grrrls nisennenmondai, who will rhythmically whup your ass. w/ mma (Aya Oshida, Mirei Hattori, and Takako Minekawa) <br />
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TUESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Black Tambourine + Small Factory + Versus + The Lois Plus @ <a href="http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php">Bell House</a> / 149 7th St, Gowanus (F/G/R to 9th St/4th Ave), 7p/SOLD OUT! For the love of pop! The classic (i.e. circa '92) indie-pop 'zine "chickfactor" turns 20 and they're throwing a mega-massive three-night residency at Bell House, feat. legendary and local bands. Think Popfest but w/ historical resonance. They don't get much more high profile than extra-fuzzy quartet Black Tambourine, among the earliest in Slumberland's contingent, who despite disbanding early on influenced legions of raw-edged dreamers (incl. personal faves The Pains of Being Pure at Heart), plus formed Velocity Girl, Magpies, Bye!, and…the 'zine "chickfactor". Black Tambourine regroup to headline this extra-special opening night, alongside NYC's Versus, Providence's Small Factory (first show since '95!), The Lois Plus (aka Olympia's Lois Maffeo w/ Heavenly guitarist Peter Morntchiloff). MAYJAH.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Sleepaway Camp" (dir. Robert Hiltzik, 1983) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. Damn…this has gotta be among the most iconic "coming of age" teen slasher films ever, from its surreal opening minutes to 90 minutes of creative bloodshed and a truly bonkers conclusion. The less you know, the better—and the more destructively shocking. Have fun!<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Hair Stylistics @ <a href="http://sprout-curation.com/">SPROUT Curation</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station), 7p/1000 yen. The wonderful gallery bloc adjacent to the Sumida River has been hosting "Japanese charismatic noise musician" Masaya Nakahara's (aka Violent Onsen Geisha/Hair Stylistics) latest exhibition of works on paper, towards his upcoming monograph. To cap off the show, Nakahara teams w/ avant-turntablist Toshio Kajiwara and choreographer/dancer Yoko Higashino in an evening performance.<br />
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CURRENT SHOWS<br />
NYC<br />
* Cindy Sherman @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (E/M to 5th Ave/53rd, 6 to 51st). A great element of Sherman's fine career retrospective is its nonchronological arrangements. For though the exhibition flows in groupings of key series–beginning with the wonderful, breakthrough "Untitled Film Stills" from the late '70s (and showing the American Sherman as a convincingly Felllni-esque ingenue)–there are intriguing temporal juxtapositions throughout. Meaning a few prints from the early '80s hung amid Sherman's millenial "Clowns" and still reverberating with energy and beauty. Though technology has changed, her "Erotic Centerfolds" and brilliant "History Portraits" (the latter hung salon-style in a burgundy-walled room, and featuring a few male roles) retain as much impact as her 2008 "Society Portraits" and the show-stopping mural installed outside the exhibition proper. Sherman has more creativity in her left pinkie than most artists' their entire oeuvres (not naming names) and she's got a helluva lot left.<br />
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* Whitney Biennial @ <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a> / 945 Madison Ave (6 to 77th St). My take-away thoughts from the 2012 iteration of the Whitney's unavoidably must-see biennial is "this is a very pretty, very safe show". If you reside in NYC, then you've got the advantage, as like 33% of the exhibiting artists contribute performances or films throughout the Biennial's several-month run. Which means those of us lot who can only see the show once will miss a cool third of what's good. We must rely on what's hanging on the walls, what's displayed over two and a half floors of Whitney, knowing well that we aren't getting the whole picture by any means. What IS there is very pretty, and creatively installed for the most part. Richard Hawkins' Francis Bacon-esque paintings recur on two walls of the 2nd fl, accompanying a Kai Althoff installation of paintings on a silk curtain bisecting the gallery and K8 Hardy's brutal prints of shoes and cropped figures. It's here that three of the strongest elements of the Biennial reside: LaToya Ruby Frazier's wonderful array of prints that address a Levis ad campaign that appropriated images of her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania; an intimate room of outsider artist Forrest Bess' paintings and life-story, curated by Robert Gober; and Werner Herzog's museum debut with the soul-stirring film "Heresay of the Soul". Andrew Masullo's small-scale, sunny abstract paintings brighten up the third floor, which adds a bit of creative impulse from Nick Mauss' installation "Concern, Crush, Desire". All in all, it's fine, totally, but if I hadn't encountered the Frazier (or the Herzog, really) I don't think I would have been moved nearly as deeply.<br />
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* John Chamberlain "Choices" @ <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/">Guggenheim</a> / 1071 Fifth Ave (456 to 86th St). Moving Chamberlain's very new monolith "C'ESTZESTY", a finger of painted and chromium-plated steel and stainless soaring nearly 20 vertical feet, outside the Guggenheim proper was a wonderful decision, as this skyscraper dwarfed uncomfortably its previous occupation within the Gagosian's mammoth 24th St gallery space. Here it breathes, gleaming in the early-spring sunlight. It is one of many successful instances in a superb sendoff to the American sculptor, who passed away just months before this career retrospective opened to the public. Inside, Chamberlain's ginormous aluminum twist "SPHINXGRIN TWO" holds court in the rotunda, while battered and discolored works from decades' previous begin the exhilarating run up the Gugg's ramps. Some remarkable collages and reliefs mix with early masterpieces like "Hillbilly Galoot" (1960, a crouching red beetle) and "Miss Lucy Pink" (1962, like a rose rendered in steel). Small-scale auto-origami recurs as well, playing off the galvanized steel "Ultima Thule" and some curious, slippery mineral-coated polymer resin pieces. The human-scale array "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (like Picasso's "Musicians" re-imagined as Transformers) and the soda-straws of "Whirled Peas" (1991) prepare our eyes for the final thrust, Chamberlain's drive into chrome-love (which figured into that Gagosian show and his very last works), but the shiny shavings atop "HAWKFLIESAGAIN" (2010), with its mottled old-school base, tie the whole experience together.<br />
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* Fred Sandback "Decades" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 519 W 19th St. A really fine survey of Sandback's long career of spatial interventions spanning three decades of work. His "Untitled (Sculptural Study, Four-part Mikado Construction)" features four aqua acrylic yarns zigzagging across half the front gallery, while the Kerf-cut Plexiglas "Untitled" emulates his linear sculptures while remaining fully 2D. The even crazier "16 Variations of 2 Diagonal Lines" explores front and back galleries with opposing pinkie-thick bands of yellow yarn, boring through walls and careening through diagonal space. An artist's book and selection of drawings fill out the show.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* PJ Raval + Nick Brown @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 607 1/2 Genard St. Fleeting moments of our collective mortality, captured on canvas and animated on film. Austin-based filmmaker Raval eschews his notable collabs w/ local performance artist and "drag terrorist" CHRISTEENE (like the music video "Fix My Dick", part of UT VAC's "Queer State(s)" exhibition) in favor of three early, experimental videos. "Clean" goes from jittery, wince-worthy toothbrushing to kinetic, croaking bandaids that eventually cover the titular neat-freak, while "NET06" is a flickering slice of noise recalling Hans Richter and Dadaist visual arts. LA-based painter Brown looks like Troy Sanders from Mastodon and he creates a mean, visceral canvas, too. Beyond the beauty of these impasto creations is an ephemeral moment—the twin-edged bloodshed and psychedelia within a field of "Poppies", the discomfiting sleep of "South Pacific"—frozen in time. His fiery red pastel drawings are as strong as the paintings and reflect Brown's printmaking background, as etched marks couple with negative space and smears of pastel to conjure very realistic, occasionally harrowing scenes of natural demise. A very moving show within such a cute, boutique gallery.<br />
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* Conrad Bakker "Untitled Project: RECORD SHOP [45s] @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. I visited Tokyo indie gallery eitoeiko during New City Art Fair in NYC and noted they were showing artist Masaru Aikawa, whose signature style includes hand-painting CD-sized squares of canvas to expertly replicate CD artwork, only in obviously painterly style. Bakker is also re-presenting music as art, in this case rough-hewn wooden "45's" painted to mimic album jackets, but his execution feels uniquely Bakker-ish. Meaning: he doesn't go as far as Aikawa in the trompe-l'oeil effect, so his artwork, while clearly resembling LPs (Depeche Mode and Phil Collins here, Bob Marley and Joni Mitchell there), more accurately look like little paintings, down to their respective quirky, handmade essences. <br />
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CLOSING SOON<br />
NYC<br />
* Georg Baselitz @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 522 W 21st St. The superlative German artist revisits aspects of his own history, but in paintings larger than he's ever created before: huge figures painted in bold colors against a shifting, constrast-y backdrop. Baselitz adds a rough-hewn wood and bronze-cast sculpture to this exhibition of new works, but my eyes were locked alone on those massive paintings, with their electric, Egon Schiele-like emotive personalities. <br />
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* Roy Lichtenstein "Landscapes in the Chinese Style" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 555 W 24th St. I wasn't in town for the blessedly polarizing spectacle that was Damien Hirst's dots, but I love the chilled-out vibe emanating from Lichtenstein's minimalist, pastel-toned landscapes. They feature a bunch of atypical Lichtenstein-ian elements—a horizontal smear of grey-blue paint in "Small Landscape"; sponged-on foliage in "Landscape with Scholar's Rock"—that echo the traditional Chinese style. There is very little Pop here, and the vertical scroll-like "Landscape with Cliff" almost does away with Lichtenstein's signature Benday dots altogether. I'm not complaining here: these are lovely paintings, and like the aforementioned "Scholar's Rock" (whose meandering gauzy white conveys more physicality and emotion than the artist's more famous comic-inspired works) inspire deep contemplation.<br />
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* Charles Long + Nicole Wermers @ <a href="http://tanyabonakdargallery.com/">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. Long continues to twist and elasticize the boundaries of sculpture, in his ninth solo at the gallery. Think organic, semi-translucent resiny drips, a cooler, alienesque echo of his previous works that more closely resembled supersized bird droppings. Upstairs, Wermers accents with a photo series from the Rodin Museum in Paris, contrasted with her own modernist sculpture. It's terribly subtle but works in concert w/ Long's quieter, compelling sculpture. (ENDS SAT)b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-10455213844671007662012-03-28T09:15:00.000-04:002012-03-28T09:15:29.684-04:00fee's LIST / through 4/3WEDNESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Yang Fudong @ <a href="http://mariangoodman.com/">Marian Goodman Gallery</a> / 24 W 57th St. SO: in addition to the gallery's marvelous Francesca Woodman show "The Blueprints" (concurrent w/ her too-brief career retrospective at the <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/">Guggenheim</a>), the gallery stages a third exhibition on Yang, who presents two new video works exploring themes of historical fantasies, theatricality and the conflation of fiction and reality, plus a photography series.<br />
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* Nir Hod "Mother" @ <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/">Paul Kasmin Gallery</a> / 515 W 27th St. The Tel Aviv-born, NYC-based artist turns his focus to the Warsaw Ghetto, specifically the anonymous mother in Nazi Franz Konrad's iconic "Boy from Warsaw" photograph taken during the Holocaust.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Mulholland Drive" (dir. David Lynch, 2001) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. Lynch's circuitous dive into Hollywood kink snorts a suitably outrageous line of glamourous nose-candy this evening, courtesy Rebecca Havemeyer's Celluloid Handbag act. That whole Club Silencio scene is gonna feel even eerier, kittens.<br />
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THURSDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Nari Ward "Liberty and Orders" @ <a href="http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/">Lehmann Maupin</a> / 201 Chrystie St. Ward's solo debut at the gallery in 2010, as "LIVESupport", was nothing short of elevating. He commands the LES space this time, taking NYPD's "stop-and-frisk report" to task, plus reconfigures a tactical police tower as a symbol of control in a new and undoubtedly riveting installation. Don't sleep.<br />
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* Henning Bohl "Namenloses Grauen" @ <a href="http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/">Casey Kaplan Gallery</a> / 525 W 21st St. Massive Bohl fan here, considering his discreetly engaging solo "Psyc Holo G yHe Ute" at the gallery in 2009 and Bohl's recent architectural installation at Johann König in Berlin. Here, he screws with monochromatic paintings—sorry: "conceptualizes" them—with Japanese tape dispensers shaped like doughnuts, and other things.<br />
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* Rudy Shepherd "Psychic Death" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. Shepherd ties his earlier "Black Rock Negative Energy Absorber" sculptures into a new video feat. a transdimensional, ambivalent Healer, plus new sculptural "relics" and paintings that incorporate imagery from the media.<br />
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* Jacqueline Humphries @ <a href="http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/">Greene Naftali Gallery</a> / 508 W 26th St 8th Fl. Some of the most…damn gorgeous kinetic abstract paintings you've ever seen, washes of oil paint, drips of enamel, sometimes silver and glitter for multiple-POV effect. Humphries hasn't had a solo stateside since 2009, and she's pretty prolific, so I'm stoked about this new body of work.<br />
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* Caio Fonseca @ <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/">Paul Kasmin Gallery</a> / 293 10th Ave. Embellishments and extraneous elements have evaporated in Fonseca's latest series of large- and intimately-scaled paintings, which remain refreshing in their bold, reductive forms.<br />
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* Ron Gorchov @ <a href="http://www.cheimread.com/">Cheim & Read</a> / 547 W 25th St. A recent selection of concave and convex shaped paintings by this "perennially emerging artist" (so writes Robert Storr in a 1990 catalogue essay). The curved works' innate sensuality and pleasing color combinations are traits of Gorchov's signature awesomeness.<br />
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* eMediaLoft Projects presents "Berlin Videos in NY" (dir. Barbara Rosenthal, 2009-12) + "80th Birthday Tribute of Super-8 films and Video History Videos by Bill Creston" @ <a href="http://www.emedialoft.org/">Westbeth Artists Complex</a> / 55 Bethune St, 6th Fl, A-629 (ACE/L to 14th St/8th Ave), 8p/FREE. Rosenthal dialogues with the audience in a presentation of her latest series of performance- and text-based conceptual video shorts. Program two feat. seminal video artist Creston and some of his classic works.<br />
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* Ducktails @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/285kentave">285 Kent Ave</a>, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$8. NJ surf-rockers Real Estate have buoyed their awesome band w/ some pretty significant side projects for years, and my all-time favorite of the lot is guitarist Matt Mondanile's looping atmospherics outfit Ducktails. He's joined by NJ power-pop band Home Blitz and What Next (mems. Cause Co-Motion!—those legendary NYC garage-rockers—and German Measles).<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* "Diversity in Photography" @ <a href="http://www.g-sho.com/">Galerie Sho Contemporary</a> / B1F 3-2-9 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku (Ginza/Tozai Lines to Nihonbashi Station). Some 15 international photographers draw from diverse sources—fashion, hard realism, abstraction—and mediums—gelatin silver prints to lambda and digital—to present the open-endedness of photography through the 20th century and today. Feat. Guy Bourdin, Mimmo Jodice, Sheila Metzner, Herb Ritts and more.<br />
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FRIDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* E.V. Day & Kembra Pfahler "GIVERNY" @ <a href="http://theholenyc.com/">The Hole</a> / 312 Bowery. So beyond the gorgeous photographs by Day (taken at an artist residency at Giverny) feat. Pfahler in her Karen Black getup posing amid waterlilies and Japanese foot-bridges is the artworks' surrounding installation: a recreation of Monet's Giverny garden, replete w/ aforementioned waterlilies and Japanese foot-bridge. Damn awesome. <br />
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* Andy Coolquitt "chair w/ paintings" @ <a href="http://www.lisa-cooley.com/">Lisa Cooley</a> / 107 Norfolk St. Even in Lisa Cooley's new gallery space, Coolquitt's assemblage-style sculpture is guaranteed dense and intense, as his discarded and chosen-object groupings gravitate to and play off one another.<br />
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* Sarah Raha & Mauricio Ancalmo "Not a Particle or a Place but an Action" @ <a href="http://www.jamescohan.com/">James Cohan Gallery</a> / 533 W 26th St. The California-based artists open their NY gallery debut with solo output and a unique juxtaposition. Rara shows her hour-long film "A Ray Array" (2011) while Alcalmo presents his installation "Dualing Pianos: Agapé Agape in D Minor" (2011) from the 6th edition of "Bay Area Now". Finally, Ancalmo's photograms from the "Dualing Pianos" series play against Rara's prints from "A Ray Array".<br />
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* "The Crystal Chain" @ <a href="http://invisible-exports.com/">Invisible-Exports</a> / 14A Orchard St. Matthew Porter and Hannah Whitaker co-curate this photography group exhibition, coinciding w/ Blind Spot magazine's issue 45. Feat. several historical photographers (Eliot Porter, Ellen Auerbach, Josef Breitenbach) plus more recent works by Matthew Brandt, Kate Costello, Boru O'Brien O'Connell, Erin Shirreff and others.<br />
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* Nigel Cooke @ <a href="http://www.andrearosengallery.com/">Andrea Rosen Gallery</a> / 525 W 24th St. Cooke's spare, overpainted canvases of burnout figures roaming squalid landscapes take on a blissfully brushy inclination now, like being trapped in a tropical carwash of psychedelic awesomeness.<br />
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* "Prince of Darkness" (dir. John Carpenter, 1987) midnight screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St). Carpenter's coupling of sci-fi and Satan not only stars Alice Cooper as a possessed hobo, it still scares the hell outta me. ALSO SAT<br />
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* Sonic Boom + Crystal Stilts @ <a href="http://bk.knittingfactory.com/">Knitting Factory</a> / 361 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, G to Lorimer), 8p/$15. I was actually remarking recently "where have Crystal Stilts"—those moody neo-Velvet Underground dudes—"gone off to?" A: supporting Spaceman 3's Pete Kember (as Sonic Boom) in an extra-fuzzy night of pop noise.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Traditional Family Values" @ <a href="http://utvac.org/">Visual Arts Center</a> / UT Art Building, 23rd St at Trinity. Austin-based artists Arturo Aguero, Sarah Holman, and Marcella Mendez explore different circles of connections, including immigrants, queerness, non-normative and non-nuclear families. The exhibition features a "home" installation with individual gallery spaces.<br />
+ "Finale": 2012 Senior Art Exhibition. Go 2012 Studio Art and Visual Art Studies graduates!<br />
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* "The Raid" (dir. Gareth Evans, 2011) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar</a> / 1120 S. Lamar. HELL YES, and about damn time. Oh I've had a rough dozen months waiting for Evans' broken-boned bonkers action followup to "Merentau", and when this opened last week seemingly everywhere BUT Austin, I was cursing the sky gods for forsaking me. But finally, finally, it's here: Iko Uwais and his handful of SWAT vs. a high-rise full of mixed martial arts bad guys. Stoked to the nth.<br />
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* "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" (dir. Lasse Hallström, 2011) @ <a href="http://violetcrowncinema.com/">Violet Crown Cinema</a> / 434 W 2nd St. What's a bigger challenge w/ an even bigger feel-good payoff: actualizing a sheikh's (Amr Waked) goal to bring fly-fishing to the desert, or the two Brits in charge of making it happen, a consultant (Emily Blunt) and a fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) gettin' it on? <br />
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* "Wrath of the Titans 3D" (dir. Jonathan Liebesman, 2012) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Village</a> / 2700 W Anderson Ln. Full disclosure: I saw "Clash of the Titans" in theaters. I saw it for that whole Ralph Fiennes "release the Kraken!!" bit, which was admittedly dope, but beyond that I wanted to burn my eyes out. Yet…I am oddly compelled to see "Wrath of the Titans". More monsters? Hell yeah! I mean, that whole clip where Sam Worthington as Perseus goes head-to-heads w/ a chimera? This is action cinema, man!<br />
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* "Blue Velvet" (dir. David Lynch, 1986) midnight screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. Pabst Blue Ribbon!!! Credit Dennis Hopper for one of cinema's most iconic antagonist onscreen entries, as the nitrous huffing, dry-humping sadist Frank Booth. A pre-"Twin Peaks" Kyle MacLachlan is wayyy over his head as wannabe detective Jeffrey, whose discovery of a severed human ear gets him all sorts of nigh-giallo style surrealist entanglements. Hot stuff. ALSO SAT<br />
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* Megafauna + Black Cock @ <a href="http://www.flamingocantina.com/">Flamingo Cantina</a> / 515 E Sixth St, 9p/$5. Heavy. Guitarist Dani Neff (formerly of CT outfit Triple Threat Blues Band) anchors Megafauna, who do garage rock w/ an ATX twist. Noise-pop trio Black Cock channel classic Whale with decibel-shredding aplomb. w/ Lick Lick<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Ikko Narahara @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Photography</a> / 2F 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). A two-part exhibition of the Fukuoka-born artist, focusing on two distinct bodies of work. The show opens with Narahara's portraiture as the theme "Sights of Civilization". Beginning Apr 17, the gallery switches to photographs of the urban landscape.<br />
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* Miila and the Geeks @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-Nest</a> / 6F 2-3 Maruyama-cho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 6:30p/4500 yen. After like a solid year of touring in support of slightly sinister, garage-rock debut "New Age", the lovable indie-pop trio Miila and the Geeks are baaaack! Singer/songwriter Moe Wadaka's group (she's Miila, saxophonist Komori and drummer Ajima the geeks), are a triumph for the indie scene, plus Moe's behind the band's fractured lovely music videos. w/ Norwegian all-Marie grrrl-indies Razika and locals DJ Twee Grrrls Club<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Charles Dunn "hell on earth" @ <a href="http://numberthirtyfive.com/">Number 35 Gallery</a> / 141 Attorney St. Apocalyptic possibilities enrich Dunn's vibrant color palette in his paintings and enrapture his Plexiglas and wood sculpture. Hell, if the world's going to end in 2012, might as well go for broke. Year of the Dragon. Carpe Diem.<br />
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* Independent Art Spaces Symposium and "Art Spaces Directory" Launch @ <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St), noon/$8. A two-panel symposium, moderated by 2012 Triennial "The Ungovernables" (read my props under CURRENT SHOWS) Curator Eungie Joo and "Art Spaces Directory" Co-editor Ethan Swan. Part one highlights the unique challenges of independent spaces, feat. Lia Gangitano (Founder/Director of PARTICIPANT INC, New York); Stefan Kalmár (Executive Director and Curator of Artists Space, New York); Heejin Kim (Director of Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea); and Tobias Ostrander (Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Miami Art Museum). Part two looks at nonphysical alternatives, like online platforms and nomadic initiatives, and feat. Lauren Cornell (Executive Director, Rhizome, and Adjunct Curator, New Museum); Deana Lawson (Co-founder/Co-director, 68 Months Discussion Group, New York); and Daniela Perez (Co-founder, de_sitio, Mexico City, Mexico).<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* The Skatalites @ <a href="http://www.flamingocantina.com/">Flamingo Cantina</a> / 515 E Sixth St, 9p/$15. Ah, Skatalites: Kingston's own, the mighty frontrunners of ska decades before the punks got hold of it. The ensemble has about 50 years in it, but check these tireless groove innovators: this is the kickoff of their 2012 U.S. tour!<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Takashi Ishida @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Gallery</a> / 5F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). This isn't quite Anthony McCall—in Ishida's "drawing with 16mm film animation"—but I am pretty totally stoked for the artist's debut solo at the gallery.<br />
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* Junta Egawa "Forgetting the new world seen a while ago, and the moment of seeing again" @ <a href="http://eitoeiko.com/">eitoeiko</a> / 32-2 Yaraicho, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Tozen Line to Kagurazaka Station, Toei Oedo Line to Ushigome-kagurazaka Station). In the Kanagawa-born artist's third solo at the gallery, he internalizes his paintings to meditate was what lost in the Tohoku earthquake.<br />
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* "<a href="http://youtu.be/Pe6eOqheva8">Drive</a>" (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) @ Shinjuku Wald9 / 3-1-26 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Fukutoshin/Shinjuku Lines to Shinjuku-sanchome Station). Call me the biggest holdout to "Drive" mania—possibly b/c I don't get the fervor for Ryan Gosling. But whatever, I saw it, and I really dug it. Take raw '80s glam and neon-lit LA with a kickass soundtrack and a decent Gosling role, as a former getaway driver trying to make good, and you've got a pretty solid picture.<br />
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* Miila and the Geeks @ <a href="http://www.fever-popo.com/">Fever</a> / 1-1-14 Hanegi, Setagaya-ku (Odakyu Inokashira Line to Shindaita or Shimokitazawa Stations), 5:30p/2800 yen. Note my effusive praise for Moe Wadaka and her indie-pop group Miila and the Geeks under FRI, then come to this show. w/ CENTRAL and SOSITE<br />
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* クチナシ @ <a href="http://ochiaisoup.tumblr.com/">SOUP</a> / B1F 3-9-10 Kami-Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku (JR Sobu Line to Higashi-Nakano Station), 7p/2000 yen. This raw poppy Osaka quartet "Kuchinashi" use keyboards to buoyant effect, propelling their tight arrangements and Yuko Hirooka's bright vocals. Also: their name translates as "Gardenia". w/ locals RENTALHOPE and 90centjokes<br />
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* オーラルヴァンパイア @ <a href="http://www.koenji-high.com/">Koenji High</a> / 4-30-1 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku (Chuo Line to Koenji Station), 7:30p/3000 yen. That would be "Aural Vampire" for those of you incapable of reading the katakana-ized name. This is Exo-Chika (vocalist) and Raveman (DJ), and they sound like of like Ayumi Hamasaki with a harsh electroclash beat. And vampire imagery. I think I'm in love. w/ COSMO-SHIKI<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* "Caro Diaro" (dir. Nanni Moretti, 1993) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 5:45p. About damn time! Italian filmmaker/writer/comedian/leftist Moretti hasn't had much love in the States, at least in my recollections. So IFC stages a mini-Moretti fest and is playing my all-time favorite film by him. "Caro Diario" is semi-autobiographical and winsomely sweet, but that first part "On My Vespa" hits you like a wave of Mediterranean Sea, it is that refreshing and fun.<br />
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MONDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* SBTRKT (DJ set) @ <a href="http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/">Music Hall of Williamsburg</a> / 66 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 8p/SOLD OUT. Duh. Go nuts for this soulful dubstep revivalist. "With very special guests"? I wonder who they might me?<br />
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TUESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Noveller @ <a href="http://www.entertainment4every1.net/shows/">Death By Audio</a> / 49 S 2nd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$7. Brooklyn guitar goddess Sarah Lipstate aka Noveller shredded into the Year of the Dragon w/ a lauded LP "Glacial Glow" (her approachable atmospheric side) and an ultra-limited looping cassette/DVD "ARTIFACT" (her avant-experimental side), plus she's working on a commissioned project w/ Low End String Quartet—and hopefully she will tour nationally in 2012! Until then, check this dope show, feat. Electric Jellyfish (all the way from Melbourne, Australia) and local axe-wielding duo Tall Firs.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Art in Practice: Mark Allen, Executive Director of Machine Project @ <a href="http://utvac.org/">Visual Arts Center</a> / UT Art Building, 23rd St at Trinity, 6:30p. Mark Allen, the LA-based artist/educator/critic and Executive Director of non-profit performance and installation space Machine Project, discusses the Echo Park organization and contemporary creative cultural issues.<br />
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* "The Toolbox Murders" (dir. Dennis Donnelly, 1978) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10:15p. The slumlord from hell! The tagline reads "Bit by bit…by bit he carved a nightmare!", but that "bit" means the kind from a drill, like in the sadistic super's toolbox! Rather than fix his tenants' leaky faucets and cracked ceilings, he'd rather kill them! Of note: Tobe Hooper remade this video nasty in 2003—kinda—and the ineffably weird Angela Bettis starred as the lead force against certain evil! Honestly, the original sounds way better. <br />
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CURRENT SHOWS<br />
NYC<br />
* The Generational: "The Ungovernables" @ <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St). Eungie Joo curated a superb iteration of the New Museum's Generational triennial. Stoked as I was for the 2009 inaugural, cheekily coined "Younger Than Jesus", it was so in-your-face that it left little deep meanings after I left the exhibition. Not so with "The Ungovernables", a panoply of 34 artists, groups and temporary collectives who are all about as young as Jesus and most have never exhibited "here" before. Here meaning in the U.S., so this is an awesome gaze into the greater art-making world, with its complicated cultural surroundings—take the artist-led initiative Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Project for one, Tel Aviv-based performative research group Public Movement as another. Lebanese artist Hassan Khan's booming, swaying video installation "Jewel", of a dance-off b/w two Middle Eastern men; Mounira Al Solh's wall of figurative drawings executed in the guise of a male; and Jose Antonio Vega Macotela's temporal "Time Exchanges" with inmates each comment on identity and relation, as does Pilvi Takala's impassive takedown of a Helsinki office-space—and all this is on just the 2nd fl. Julia Dault's delicate rolled Plexi and Slavs & Tatars' "Prayway" rug with rice-burner fluorescents are some of the 3rd Fl's most eye-catching. And on the 4th fl, even the artists who have shown "here" bring a multifaceted experience of moving through contemporary society, like Danh Vo's "WE THE PEOPLE", a deconstructed part of the Statue of Liberty, fabricated with pounded copper sheets in China and installed like parts of a massive candy wrapper; or Londoner Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's haunting portraiture paintings of figures existing not in reality, though their enlivening gaze won't leave us alone. And there's Adrian Villar Rojas' much-buzzed modular behemoth "A person loved me", rendered on-site in fragile clay as artifact and beautiful artwork formed by minimal resources and expert teamwork. You'll want to excavate further, to really know these artists, their backgrounds and current concerns and approaches.<br />
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* Roy Lichtenstein "Landscapes in the Chinese Style" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 555 W 24th St. I wasn't in town for the blessedly polarizing spectacle that was Damien Hirst's dots, but I love the chilled-out vibe emanating from Lichtenstein's minimalist, pastel-toned landscapes. They feature a bunch of atypical Lichtenstein-ian elements—a horizontal smear of grey-blue paint in "Small Landscape"; sponged-on foliage in "Landscape with Scholar's Rock"—that echo the traditional Chinese style. There is very little Pop here, and the vertical scroll-like "Landscape with Cliff" almost does away with Lichtenstein's signature Benday dots altogether. I'm not complaining here: these are lovely paintings, and like the aforementioned "Scholar's Rock" (whose meandering gauzy white conveys more physicality and emotion than the artist's more famous comic-inspired works) inspire deep contemplation.<br />
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* "I Know This But You Feel Different", curated by Shara Hughes and Meredith James @ <a href="http://www.marcjancou.com/">Marc Jancou Contemporary</a> / 524 W 24th St. A pretty superb group show inspiring dialogue on interior spaces. Hughes' own large painting "My Head's Really Not In This" locks the whole idea together as she contorts and flattens multi-planar space with gusto, pairing the experience with a vivid color palette. But there's much other awesomeness as well, beginning with Hughes' oil-on-paper drawings and extending to highly textural oil on linen paintings by Clare Grill and a nook installation by Miles Huston and Jacques Louis Vidal. Jesse Greenberg's visceral homemade objects and Jacob Robichaux's deconstructed remnants keep the show's tone loose and compelling.<br />
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* Mounir Fatmi "Oriental Accident" @ <a href="http://www.lombard-freid.com/">Lombard-Freid Projects</a> / 518 W 19th St. Exhibition as noise show, Fatmi's second solo at the gallery is INTENSE. He pairs recordings from Maghreb during the Arab Spring in speakers sprinkled with nails and embedded into a Persian rug. Sonic squalls recur in "Modern times, a History of the Machine", a video projection in the side gallery that morphs Arabic calligraphy into a kinetic Duchamp-ian affair. Even Fatmi's static pieces threaten to attack, whether bas-reliefs of the number zero composed of coaxial antenna cables or lace loops drenched in oily black paint. <br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* PJ Raval + Nick Brown @ <a href="http://tinyparkgallery.com/">Tiny Park</a> / 607 1/2 Genard St. Fleeting moments of our collective mortality, captured on canvas and animated on film. Austin-based filmmaker Raval eschews his notable collabs w/ local performance artist and "drag terrorist" CHRISTEENE (like the music video "Fix My Dick", part of UT VAC's "Queer State(s)" exhibition) in favor of three early, experimental videos. "Clean" goes from jittery, wince-worthy toothbrushing to kinetic, croaking bandaids that eventually cover the titular neat-freak, while "NET06" is a flickering slice of noise recalling Hans Richter and Dadaist visual arts. LA-based painter Brown looks like Troy Sanders from Mastodon and he creates a mean, visceral canvas, too. Beyond the beauty of these impasto creations is an ephemeral moment—the twin-edged bloodshed and psychedelia within a field of "Poppies", the discomfiting sleep of "South Pacific"—frozen in time. His fiery red pastel drawings are as strong as the paintings and reflect Brown's printmaking background, as etched marks couple with negative space and smears of pastel to conjure very realistic, occasionally harrowing scenes of natural demise. A very moving show within such a cute, boutique gallery.<br />
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* Tom Molloy "New World" @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. Molloy strips away the noise and distractions in his historically leaning or contemporarily relevant bodies of work—oftentimes by incredibly meticulous practices—leaving a sort-of podium for us to contemplate, discuss, argue. While he's not explicitly putting his own politics behind the dozens of thrift-store framed Internet-culled b&w images of male world leaders pressing the flesh in "Shake", the works circuitous nature and site-specific installation—where "Hussein/Mubarak" slides into "Mubarak/Bush" and "Bush/Putin", until we're back at "Hussein" again—, plus the fact these nonchronological shots span from 9-11 to the Arab Spring, naturally presents some theories. How these men are friends one minute, wheeling and dealing the next, and sworn enemies separated by several frames of their "friends" after that. Molloy's nine-part titular work features nine different LP sleeves of Dvorák's "New World Symphony", the texts painted over (Molloy's analogue to Photoshop, he said) to show only benign, sunny images of the Western frontier. That "incredibly meticulous practices" bit I alluded to earlier is most clear in "Somewhere", Molloy's hand-painted sheet music to the "Wizard of Oz"'s sweetly optimistic anthem, a work that began with a black sheet of paper and lots and lots of carefully applied white gouache. <br />
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CLOSING SOON<br />
NYC<br />
* Ellen Berkenblit @ <a href="http://www.antonkerngallery.com/">Anton Kern Gallery</a> / 532 W 20th St. Berkenblit's large and mid-sized, loosely figurative paintings are just haunting, like pages of a girl's fairytale book streaked with charcoal and soaked in gasoline. Cartoonish animals and doe-eyed girls emerge from clouds of amorphously contoured chroma, or are otherwise obliterated by hazy hues. She hasn't had a solo at the gallery since '08, so I'm considerably stoked for this one.<br />
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* Not Vital @ <a href="http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html">Sperone Westwater</a> / 257 Bowery. A shimmering stainless steel monolith extending two vertical floors of gallery space, called "Tongue". An array of Chinese coal mini-mountains. Disarmingly organic plaster forms hanging off stainless steel rods, called "Hanging & Weighting". A solid 18-Karat gold Peking duck hanging in the lift. Such is the Swiss sculptor's latest exhibition, fashioned in his Beijing studio to creep us out.<br />
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* Chris Consnowski "American Metal" @ <a href="http://lyonswiergallery.com/">Lyons Wier Gallery</a> / 542 W 24th St. The Chicago artist tunes his focus to trophies—that slightly gaudy symbol of victory—in large, photorealistic renderings with assuredly multilayered, unromanticized undertones. <br />
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* Michiel Ceulers "Des malentendus et le temps perdu" @ <a href="http://anacristeagallery.com/">Ana Cristea Gallery</a> / 521 W 26th St. The gallery debuts the young Belgian artist in his first stateside solo show, who focuses on the bare essentials—canvases, wood panels, paint and spraypaint—in his deft exploration of abstraction. Roughly half the works are gridded, abraded monochromes and the other smaller, shaped canvases in glittering spraypaint.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Sashie Masakatsu "Invisible Hand" @ <a href="http://mizuma-art.co.jp/">Mizuma Art Gallery</a> / 2F 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku (Yurakucho/Nanboku Lines to Ichigaya Station). Masakatsu pairs his oil paintings—surrealist orbs of townships and consumer objects floating over ruins—with a huge Japanese sliding door. (ENDS SAT)<br />
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NYC<br />
* Ellen Harvey "The Nudist Museum Gift Shop" @ <a href="http://dodge-gallery.com/">DODGEgallery</a> / 15 Rivington St. Harvey explores the art nude in all its permutations, from the glitzily framed portrait to the boob-mug, in these brushy old-school oil paintings of images culled from Ebay. Plus postcards of historical nudes, sourced from NYC art museums and modified by Harvey to depict only the figures—because what is a "museum gift shop" without postcards?<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Absurdities Crept In" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. Metaphysically dope neatly codifies this group show, feat. two Minneapolis artists, Terrance Payne and Jennifer Davis, plus Dallas local Mark Nelson. The former two appeared in the gallery's 2010 all-Minnesota "Pilot" show, plus Payne runs the Minneapolis artist collective Rosalux (of which Davis used to be a member). A striking figurative, visual style carries in both these artists. Payne's colored-pencil diptychs deftly incorporate text around bold stripes and wallpaper patterns ("You can count on me just don't count high"), as he comments on human fallibility. Meanwhile Davis opens a door to a very personal psyche in her acrylic and charcoal graphite works on panel, blending a dark whimsy and washed-out palette with high realism ("Get Up & Go", "Cordelia"). Nelson's the wildcard, but his Texas-based Pop Pluralism—twisted surrealism and disarming verité coexisting like they were meant to be together—locks this exhibition in. (ENDS SUN)b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-51420248694681174602012-03-21T09:33:00.000-04:002012-03-21T09:33:10.824-04:00fee's LIST / through 3/27WEDNESDAY<br />
TOKYO<br />
* Eikoh Hosoe @ <a href="http://bld-gallery.jp/">BLD Gallery</a> / 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo Ward Tokyo (JR Yurakucho Station, Marunouchi Line to Ginza Station). The gallery's season-long retrospective on the pivotal Modernist photographer now follows his collaboration with and homage to Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, in "The butterfly dream". The series resulted in a collected monograph released in 2006, in celebration of Ohno's 100th birthday.<br />
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THURSDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Michelangelo Pistoletto "Lavoro" @ <a href="http://www.luhringaugustine.com/">Luhring Augustine</a> / 531 W 24th St. Pistoletto staged this new series of mirror "paintings" at London's Simon Lee Gallery last autumn, which features his signature mirrors overlaid w/ elements of construction, dust, and rubble—not exactly out of place within W. Chelsea. This show will draw mad crowds (tourists love taking photos of themselves w/in a Pistoletto mirror), but you can't really miss it either, right?<br />
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* Stan Douglas "Disco Angola" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 525 W 19th St. I dug Douglas' "Midcentury Studio" installation in the gallery last year, but I think his assuming the role of a fictional photojournalist amid NYC's roiling early '70s disco underground sounds even doper. He includes works from Angola (considering saxophonist Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa", widely considered the first disco hit) and NY, plus the historical, political and cultural moments encompassing them.<br />
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* Kathy Ruttenberg "The Earth Exhales" @ <a href="http://stuxgallery.com/">STUX Gallery</a> / 530 W 25th St. New, disturbing ceramics in Ruttenberg's debut at the gallery, including woodland creatures, humans, and the forest itself blurred into wild amalgams.<br />
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* Jackie Saccoccio @ <a href="http://www.elevenrivington.com/">Eleven Rivington</a> / 11 Rivington St. New brain-frying large-scale abstract paintings from the NY/CT-based artist, set as imageless "portraits" with lots of wild poured, splashed, and stained elements. Yum.<br />
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* Vibha Galhotra "Utopia of Difference" @ <a href="http://jackshainman.com/">Jack Shainman Gallery</a> / 512 W 20th St. The New Delhi-based artist celebrates her debut at the gallery (and NY, in broader terms) w/ her sewn-metal "ghungroos" and sculpture reflecting urbanization and the environment within contemporary society.<br />
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* Catherine Lee "Quanta" @ <a href="http://galerielelong.com/">Galerie Lelong</a> / 528 W 26th St. Lee bridges off from her glazed raku ceramic sculptures in this new series of grid paintings, most featuring layers of sublime differing hues.<br />
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* Susan Hartnett, Ralph Humphrey, Marilyn Lerner, Dona Nelson @ <a href="http://maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 745 Fifth Ave. My heart just jumped a little in my chest when reading the press release for this group show of sorta-abstract painters, curated by Klaus Kertess. Mainly for Nelson, whose iconic freestanding panels both highlight her choice of structural elements and the stretcher itself plus magnify her two-sided textural paintings.<br />
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FRIDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Adolph Gottlieb "Gravity, Suspension, Motion" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 534 W 25th St. Nearly two decades' worth of the Abstract Expressionist's large-scale later works, including examples from series "Labyrinths", "Bursts", and "Imaginary Landscapes", highlighting dialogues between disparate forms and planar space.<br />
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* "The Spirit Level", curated by Ugo Rondinone @ <a href="http://">Gladstone Galleryhttp://gladstonegallery.com/</a> / 515 W 24th St. That Swiss trickster and smile-inducer curated this 19-artist pan-medium group show, feat. Martin Boyce, Ann Craven, Latifa Echakhch, Amy Granat, Klara Liden, Rudolf Schwartzkogler, among others.<br />
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* Liz Magic Laser @ <a href="http://derekeller.com/">Derek Eller Gallery</a> / 615 W 27th St. Were you cool enough to catch Laser's Performa-commissioned video "I Feel Your Pain", performed, filmed and edited live in the midst of a theatre audience during last year's Performa 11? The end result is featured here, alongside the live performance "The Digital Face", which will ultimately become a two-channel slide projection in the gallery.<br />
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* Rory Donaldson "Shared Roadway Ahead" @ <a href="http://winkleman.com/">Winkleman Gallery</a> / 621 W 27th St. The Scottish-born, NY-based artist heavily works over his digital photographs of cityscapes and more rural environments, creating the illusion of paint (think particularly Gerhard Richter's abstract techniques) by stripping and distorting the prints' digital information. <br />
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* "<a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/series/argento-il-cinema-nel-sangue">Argento: Il Cinema Nel Sangue</a>" @ <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/">MAD Museum</a> / 2 Columbus Circle (CE/123 to 59th St/Columbus Circle). A three-month retrospective celebrating giallo god Dario Argento and his hot daughter Asia, punnily translated as "Cinema in the Blood"? Damn, MAD Museum, you're still cool in my books. Check back for LIST updates on the dopeness, but the series begins strong with:<br />
+ "Se tutee le donne del mondo/Kiss the Girls and Make them Die" (dirs. Henry Livin and Arduino Maiuri, 1966) screening @ 7p. This was Dario's dad Salvatore's first producing credit, harbingering the nonstop wave of black-leather gloves, razorblades and surrealist camerawork that his son would christen horror cinema just a few years later. OK, so "Kiss the Girls…" is kinda weirdo sci-fi (like that several years of Dick Tracy's "Space Coupe" period) but I say go for it.<br />
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* Nguzunguzu @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/285kentave">285 Kent Ave</a>, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 11:30p/$12. Cali cuties Nguzunguzu lead the sweat-inducement tonight, which also feat. Salva, Rezzie (of Weird Magic) and DJ MikeQ. I know you can dance, NYC!<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* PJ Raval + Nick Brown @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tinypark">Tiny Park</a> / 607 1/2 Genard St. This combo exhibition feat. animation works from Austin filmmaker Raval and visceral, impastoed paintings by LA-based artist Brown.<br />
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* "Sound of Noise" (dirs. Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, 2010) @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. Bonkers! A sleeper hit at 2010 Fantastic Fest, comparable to an anarchist, nattily dressed Blue Man Group enacting a "musical apocalypse" upon Malmö, Sweden! It's tons more fun than you can even imagine.<br />
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* "Eraserhead" (dir. David Lynch, 1977) midnight screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St. You don't need to sleep, right? Lynch's quintessential midnight movie, starring quixotic Jack Nance as the titular sad-case bloke trudging amid a wet, ruined industrialscape, fielding requests from his girlfriend (and her freaky family) while pining for the Woman Across the Hall…and hallucinating and all that…yeah, it'll keep you up until dawn. ALSO SAT<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Etsuko Taniguchi "light" @ <a href="http://hpgrpgallery.com/">hpgrp Tokyo</a> / B1F 5-1-15 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku (Chiyoda/Hanzomon/Ginza Lines to Omotesando Station). Taniguchi creates a disarming illumination in her nightlife cityscapes but cutting into lacquered canvases and then painting them over in acrylic.<br />
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* Terror Familia + Oh my God, you've gone @ <a href="http://www.geocities.jp/xxxheavensdoorxxx/">Heaven's Door</a> / 1-33-19 Sangen-jaya, Setagaya-ku (Den-en-toshi Line to Sangen-jaya Station), 7p/2300 yen. Tokyo-style grunge in two ace coed groups, particularly Terror Familia (composed of charismatic vocalist Diana Chiaki, plus members of Lillie and Remains and The John's Guerilla). w/ BALLOON88<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Peter Saul @ <a href="http://maryboonegallery.com/">Mary Boone Gallery</a> / 541 W 24th St. Who'dathunk Peter Saul—he of the acid-toned, hypnagogic-subject palette of The Hairy Who—would be getting all this buzz? Yet the grandmaster of bad taste agitprop had both a stunning solo at David Nolan Gallery in 2009 and a superb career survey at Haunch of Venison in 2010. Now Mary Boone showcases new paintings by the artist, who hasn't dialed down the lurid colors nor subject matter an ounce. Considering Occupy Wall Street and other contemporary excesses, Saul has a LOT to work with. Should be dope.<br />
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* Grimes @ <a href="http://glasslands.blogspot.com/">Glasslands</a> / 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8:30p/SOLD OUT. Duh, I mean you put Claire Boucher, aka Montreal-based one-woman glitch-pop starlet Grimes, in über-DIY 285 Kent, you bet she'll draw crowds of punk-minded, groove-oriented youth just hankering to GET IT DOWN. Hence why it's been sold out for like ages. w/ Born Gold<br />
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* Widowspeak @ <a href="http://www.entertainment4every1.net/shows/">Death By Audio</a> / 49 S. 2nd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$7. Still the hottest deal in town for dope acts, and Captured Tracks' darklings Widowspeak make it extra-glamorous. w/ Massachusetts noise-pop act Eternal Summers and Bleeding Rainbow<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Conrad Bakker "Untitled Project: RECORD SHOP [45s] @ <a href="http://www.lorareynolds.com/">Lora Reynolds Gallery</a> / 360 Nueces St. I visited Tokyo indie gallery eitoeiko during New City Art Fair in NYC and noted they were showing artist Masaru Aikawa, whose signature style includes hand-painting CD-sized squares of canvas to expertly replicate CD album covers, only in obviously painterly style. So I am intrigued by Bakker's take, painting LP covers on carved wood slabs that mimic album sleeves. Yeah, I'll take a spin at his "RECORD SHOP".<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Hisami Tanaka "NOSELF" @ <a href="http://waitingroom.jp/">waitingroom</a> / 4B 2-8-11 Ebisu-nishi, Shibuya-ku (JR Yamanote Line/Hibiya Line to Ebisu Station, West Exit). New jagged mixed-media paintings and drawings by the Kanagawa-based artist, in his debut at the gallery. I saw a little preview of Tanaka's work at waitingroom's booth at New City Art Fair in NYC, and guess what: it's dope.<br />
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* Hitomi Motoki "The fantasy bedroom-Girl and Foretaste-" @ <a href="http://gallery-momo.com/">Gallery MOMO</a> / 2F 6-2-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Toei Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Motoki conjures a dreamworld of absurdity and nostalgia in her figurative carved-wood sculpture and installation.<br />
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* 「<a href="http://www.wakamatsukoji.org/kaien/">海燕ホテルブルー</a>」 (dir. Koji Wakamatsu, 2012) @ Theatre Shinjuku / 3-14-20 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Fukutoshin/Shinjuku Lines to Shinjuku-sanchome Station). Wakamatsu's latest—an ex-con's retribution plan royally screwed up after he meets a young woman in a seaside town—actually debuted at NY's Japan Society a few weeks back. <br />
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* "<a href="http://www.trollhunterfilm.com/">Trollhunter</a>" (dir. André Øvredal, 2010) @ Toho Cinema Hiho / 2-5-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku (Yurakucho Line to Yurakucho Station, Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Hibiya/Ginza Lines to Ginza Station). This is how you do a found-footage film: a likable, bright-eyed cast and a grizzly, charismatic hunter taking down huge-ass trolls in the Scandinavian north, that's how!<br />
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* DORAVIDEO x Keiji Haino x Toshiji Mikawa (Incapacitants/Hijokaidan) @ <a href="http://www.clubgoodman.com/">Goodman</a> / B1F 55 Kanda-Sakumagashi, Chiyoda-ku (JR Yamanote Line to Akihabara Station), 7p/3200 yen. Ah Mikawa-san, everybody's favorite banker by day just happens to be one of Japan's longest-reigning noise gods. That he teams w/ improv lord Haino and drummer/composer DORAVIDEO (Yoshimitsu Ichiraku) should be more than the series' titular "collaboration breakdown". Intense.<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
AUSTIN<br />
* "Funny Ha Ha" (dir. Andrew Bujalski, 2002) 10th anniversary @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 7p. I'm just full of surprises! I think it's clear to frequent LIST-readers that my style of film leans toward the dark, violent, sexy, bloody, and overall genre-riffic. Yet I pull a big softie here for Bujalski's debut, the mumblecore ne plus ultra way before mumblecore was a "thing" to be loved and/or reviled. The unpretentiousness of his presentation, of likable cutie Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer) navigating friends and post-grad responsibility in Boston, is just disarming. Join Bujalski tonight for trip down that very special memory lane.<br />
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* Galaxy Express (Seoul) @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 9p/$6. For better or worse, you say Korea and music in the same sentence, I'm thinking KPop: cute girl-groups with acid-tongued rappers and choreographed moves (and their boy kindred). Not so w/ Galaxy Express, a leather-clad, psych-rock middle finger to stylized, commercial radio. These dudes rock hard.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* CIRCUITRIP + ASTRO @ <a href="http://flat.rinky.info/">Flat</a> / 3-17-2 Nishiogi-minami, Suginami-ku (JR Chuo Line to Nishi-ogikubo Station), 6:30p/1500 yen. "Noise as social skill" figures into Singapore sound-screwer CIRCUITRIP's ethos, who filter field sounds and big-city ambience into their washes of big noise. They share the night w/ psych-noise master Hiroshi Hasegawa (formerly CCCC, now ASTRO), who teams w/ ROHCO and Manuel Knapp as trio Cosmic Coincidence. w/ Jah Excretion and Goum<br />
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MONDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* "An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt" @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 7&9:30p. This was a singular night in Austin last year, a blissful 2+ hours with the indie animation god (and Sundance winner, and Oscar nominee) Don Hertzfeldt, who premiered the final chapter of his Bill trilogy "It's A Beautiful Day" in glorious 35mm, after screening parts one and two to a transfixed full house. Plus lots of lovely little bits throughout ("Wisdom Teeth", though not "Rejected"). NYC, you are lucky to have the man for two screenings, tonight AND Tuesday.<br />
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TUESDAY<br />
AUSTIN<br />
* "Shakma" (dirs. Tom Logan and Hugh Parks, 1990) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. D&D freaks vs. a possessed baboon controlled by Roddy McDowall in this not-on-DVD "fatalityfest". What am I missing?<br />
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CURRENT SHOWS<br />
NYC<br />
* The Generational: "The Ungovernables" @ <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/">New Museum</a> / 235 Bowery (F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Spring St). Eungie Joo curated a superb iteration of the New Museum's Generational triennial. Stoked as I was for the 2009 inaugural, cheekily coined "Younger Than Jesus", it was so in-your-face that it left little deep meanings after I left the exhibition. Not so with "The Ungovernables", a panoply of 34 artists, groups and temporary collectives who are all about as young as Jesus and most have never exhibited "here" before. Here meaning in the U.S., so this is an awesome gaze into the greater art-making world, with its complicated cultural surroundings—take the artist-led initiative Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Project for one, Tel Aviv-based performative research group Public Movement as another. Lebanese artist Hassan Khan's booming, swaying video installation "Jewel", of a dance-off b/w two Middle Eastern men; Mounira Al Solh's wall of figurative drawings executed in the guise of a male; and Jose Antonio Vega Macotela's temporal "Time Exchanges" with inmates each comment on identity and relation, as does Pilvi Takala's impassive takedown of a Helsinki office-space—and all this is on just the 2nd fl. Julia Dault's delicate rolled Plexi and Slavs & Tatars' "Prayway" rug with rice-burner fluorescents are some of the 3rd Fl's most eye-catching. And on the 4th fl, even the artists who have shown "here" bring a multifaceted experience of moving through contemporary society, like Danh Vo's "WE THE PEOPLE", a deconstructed part of the Statue of Liberty, fabricated with pounded copper sheets in China and installed like parts of a massive candy wrapper; or Londoner Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's haunting portraiture paintings of figures existing not in reality, though their enlivening gaze won't leave us alone. And there's Adrian Villar Rojas' much-buzzed modular behemoth "A person loved me", rendered on-site in fragile clay as artifact and beautiful artwork formed by minimal resources and expert teamwork. You'll want to excavate further, to really know these artists, their backgrounds and current concerns and approaches.<br />
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* Whitney Biennial @ <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a> / 945 Madison Ave (6 to 77th St). My take-away thoughts from the 2012 iteration of the Whitney's unavoidably must-see biennial is "this is a very pretty, very safe show". If you reside in NYC, then you've got the advantage, as like 33% of the exhibiting artists contribute performances or films throughout the Biennial's several-month run. Which means those of us lot who can only see the show once will miss a cool third of what's good. We must rely on what's hanging on the walls, what's displayed over two and a half floors of Whitney, knowing well that we aren't getting the whole picture by any means. What IS there is very pretty, and creatively installed for the most part. Richard Hawkins' Francis Bacon-esque paintings recur on two walls of the 2nd fl, accompanying a Kai Althoff installation of paintings on a silk curtain bisecting the gallery and K8 Hardy's brutal prints of shoes and cropped figures. It's here that three of the strongest elements of the Biennial reside: LaToya Ruby Frazier's wonderful array of prints that address a Levis ad campaign that appropriated images of her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania; an intimate room of outsider artist Forrest Bess' paintings and life-story, curated by Robert Gober; and Werner Herzog's museum debut with the soul-stirring film "Heresay of the Soul". Andrew Masullo's small-scale, sunny abstract paintings brighten up the third floor, which adds a bit of creative impulse from Nick Mauss' installation "Concern, Crush, Desire". All in all, it's fine, totally, but if I hadn't encountered the Frazier (or the Herzog, really) I don't think I would have been moved nearly as deeply.<br />
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* John Chamberlain "Choices" @ <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/">Guggenheim</a> / 1071 Fifth Ave (456 to 86th St). Moving Chamberlain's very new monolith "C'ESTZESTY", a finger of painted and chromium-plated steel and stainless soaring nearly 20 vertical feet, outside the Guggenheim proper was a wonderful decision, as this skyscraper dwarfed uncomfortably its previous occupation within the Gagosian's mammoth 24th St gallery space. Here it breathes, gleaming in the early-spring sunlight. It is one of many successful instances in a superb sendoff to the American sculptor, who passed away just months before this career retrospective opened to the public. Inside, Chamberlain's ginormous aluminum twist "SPHINXGRIN TWO" holds court in the rotunda, while battered and discolored works from decades' previous begin the exhilarating run up the Gugg's ramps. Some remarkable collages and reliefs mix with early masterpieces like "Hillbilly Galoot" (1960, a crouching red beetle) and "Miss Lucy Pink" (1962, like a rose rendered in steel). Small-scale auto-origami recurs as well, playing off the galvanized steel "Ultima Thule" and some curious, slippery mineral-coated polymer resin pieces. The human-scale array "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (like Picasso's "Musicians" re-imagined as Transformers) and the soda-straws of "Whirled Peas" (1991) prepare our eyes for the final thrust, Chamberlain's drive into chrome-love (which figured into that Gagosian show and his very last works), but the shiny shavings atop "HAWKFLIESAGAIN" (2010), with its mottled old-school base, tie the whole experience together.<br />
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* Roy Lichtenstein "Landscapes in the Chinese Style" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 555 W 24th St. I wasn't in town for the blessedly polarizing spectacle that was Damien Hirst's dots, but I love the chilled-out vibe emanating from Lichtenstein's minimalist, pastel-toned landscapes. They feature a bunch of atypical Lichtenstein-ian elements—a horizontal smear of grey-blue paint in "Small Landscape"; sponged-on foliage in "Landscape with Scholar's Rock"—that echo the traditional Chinese style. There is very little Pop here, and the vertical scroll-like "Landscape with Cliff" almost does away with Lichtenstein's signature Benday dots altogether. I'm not complaining here: these are lovely paintings, and like the aforementioned "Scholar's Rock" (whose meandering gauzy white conveys more physicality and emotion than the artist's more famous comic-inspired works) inspire deep contemplation.<br />
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* Georg Baselitz @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 522 W 21st St. The superlative German artist revisits aspects of his own history, but in paintings larger than he's ever created before: huge figures painted in bold colors against a shifting, constrast-y backdrop. Baselitz adds a rough-hewn wood and bronze-cast sculpture to this exhibition of new works, but my eyes were locked alone on those massive paintings, with their electric, Egon Schiele-like emotive personalities. <br />
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* Fred Sandback "Decades" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner</a> / 519 W 19th St. A really fine survey of Sandback's long career of spatial interventions spanning three decades of work. His "Untitled (Sculptural Study, Four-part Mikado Construction)" features four aqua acrylic yarns zigzagging across half the front gallery, while the Kerf-cut Plexiglas "Untitled" emulates his linear sculptures while remaining fully 2D. The even crazier "16 Variations of 2 Diagonal Lines" explores front and back galleries with opposing pinkie-thick bands of yellow yarn, boring through walls and careening through diagonal space. An artist's book and selection of drawings fill out the show.<br />
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* "I Know This But You Feel Different", curated by Shara Hughes and Meredith James @ <a href="http://www.marcjancou.com/">Marc Jancou Contemporary</a> / 524 W 24th St. A pretty superb group show inspiring dialogue on interior spaces. Hughes' own large painting "My Head's Really Not In This" locks the whole idea together as she contorts and flattens multi-planar space with gusto, pairing the experience with a vivid color palette. But there's much other awesomeness as well, beginning with Hughes' oil-on-paper drawings and extending to highly textural oil on linen paintings by Clare Grill and a nook installation by Miles Huston and Jacques Louis Vidal. Jesse Greenberg's visceral homemade objects and Jacob Robichaux's deconstructed remnants keep the show's tone loose and compelling.<br />
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* Alex Gross "Product Placement" @ <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. LA artist Gross' lush painterly style is kind of like Jim Rosenquist (or Richard Hamilton) for a decidedly 21st C. world, a globe-flattening blend of posh designer labels, a polyglot of languages on adverts, exotic critters and nondescript environments. It's a foreshortened world thrust continuously into hyperdrive, Asia, America and the Middle East coalescing into one postmodern hybrid. Snake-eyed citizens from earlier series now bear reptiles for heads, like the Komodo Dragon in a Mr. Rogers cardigan tempting a PYT with a Coca-Cola in "Original Sin". Or people get their faces pixellated a la Japanese porn in "Best Friends (7-Eleven)" and "The Lover". Gross' super-saturated palette is in full effect here, but his combinations of people and adverts is his most naturalistic yet...like they're meant to be together. A grouping of Gross' manipulated cabinet card series (particularly chi-chi superheroes and monsters) accompany the big canvases.<br />
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* Mounir Fatmi "Oriental Accident" @ <a href="http://www.lombard-freid.com/">Lombard-Freid Projects</a> / 518 W 19th St. Exhibition as noise show, Fatmi's second solo at the gallery is INTENSE. He pairs recordings from Maghreb during the Arab Spring in speakers sprinkled with nails and embedded into a Persian rug. Sonic squalls recur in "Modern times, a History of the Machine", a video projection in the side gallery that morphs Arabic calligraphy into a kinetic Duchamp-ian affair. Even Fatmi's static pieces threaten to attack, whether bas-reliefs of the number zero composed of coaxial antenna cables or lace loops drenched in oily black paint. <br />
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* Douglas Huebler "Crocodile Tears" @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. I went into this sorta Existentialist show from the Estate of Huebler knowing little about the man except that he paired text and images with panache. I left with a solid appreciation of his "Variable Piece"—a project to "photographically document the existence of everyone alive"—that slid between conceptual reconfigurations of Magritte, Cézanne, Gauguin and Mondrian with photography and Huebler's own text. <br />
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* Not Vital @ <a href="http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html">Sperone Westwater</a> / 257 Bowery. A shimmering stainless steel monolith extending two vertical floors of gallery space, called "Tongue". An array of Chinese coal mini-mountains. Disarmingly organic plaster forms hanging off stainless steel rods, called "Hanging & Weighting". A solid 18-Karat gold Peking duck hanging in the lift. Such is the Swiss sculptor's latest exhibition, fashioned in his Beijing studio to creep us out.<br />
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CLOSING SOON<br />
NYC<br />
* Will Ryman @ <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/">Paul Kasmin Gallery</a> / 293 10th Ave + W 27th St. I expected something big and bold from Ryman in his debut at the gallery but had to wonder: he's been filling his previous gallery, Marlborough Chelsea, which is like eight times bigger (plus open-airs Park Ave w/ those big-ass flowers), so would he run out of room at Kasmin? No fear, he makes it work, wrapping the front room w/ the hunched form of his sad-sack everyman, comprised evidently of bottle-cap limbs, melted shoes for a body and like miles of denim for his trousers. In the back, Ryman erected a labyrinth of wooden brushes that could be a frottage fanatic's wet dream.<br />
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* Paul Graham "The Present" @ <a href="http://thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 545 W 22nd St. Pace debuts the NY-based British photographer's latest body of work, his first exhibition in the States since 2009. "The Present" includes diptych and triptych photographic works, highlighting serendipitous moments of a city constantly in motion. A new monograph, published by MACK, accompanies the exhibition.<br />
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* Marlo Pascual @ <a href="http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/">Casey Kaplan Gallery</a> / 525 W 21st St. A much subtler show from Pascual than I'd expected, less situations of warped C-prints and situational lighting than easy, cerebral gestures, like turning a print sideways so the waterfall flows horizontally, or hewing a rocky backdrop with a woman's limbs in two and recomposing it to delete most of her figure.<br />
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* Adia Millett "Portraits of an Escape" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. The Oakland-based artist revisits her old photographs of sculptural interiors, flipping them inside-out as new 2D façades. Her colorful architectural style holds a lot of personality, too, which is intentional as each structure reflects a portrait of someone in Millett's life.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Marijke van Warmerdam "Haru" @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Gallery</a> / 5F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). The Amsterdam-based artist presents a series of paintings based on film stills printed on canvas, like frozen moments.<br />
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* Ai Udagawa "Sign" @ <a href="http://www.kidopress.com/">Kido Press, Inc</a> / 6F 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto-ku (Hanzomon/Toei Oedo Lines to Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station). Udagawa typically incorporates embroidery into her mesmerizing, naturalistic acrylic and mixed-media paintings.<br />
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* Toshiaki Hikosaka + Takuro Sugiyama "Dead Paintings" @ <a href="http://www.roentgenwerke.com/">Radium</a> / 2-5-17 Bakurocho, Chuo-ku (JR Yamanote Line to Bakurocho Station). The two young artists present their own unique styles of abstraction, Hikosaka's systemic grids and Sugiyama's intertwined colors and planes. (ENDS SAT)<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Shoji Ueda "Mode in Dunes" @ <a href="http://takaishiigallery.com/">Taka Ishii Photography</a> / 2F 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Hibiya/Oedo Lines to Roppongi Station). Ueda fuses fashion photography with Rene Magritte-style surrealism in this classic series of prints in the desert. (ENDS TUES)b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538099754837681779.post-33848069082513277992012-02-29T11:00:00.106-05:002012-03-01T08:28:55.526-05:00fee's LIST / through 3/6WEDNESDAY<br />
TOKYO<br />
* Sashie Masakatsu "Invisible Hand" @ <a href="http://mizuma-art.co.jp/">Mizuma Art Gallery</a> / 2F 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku (Yurakucho/Nanboku Lines to Ichigaya Station). Masakatsu pairs his oil paintings—surrealist orbs of townships and consumer objects floating over ruins—with a huge Japanese sliding door.<br />
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* Eikoh Hosoe @ <a href="http://bld-gallery.jp/">BLD Gallery</a> / 2-4-9 Ginza, Chuo Ward Tokyo (JR Yurakucho Station, Marunouchi Line to Ginza Station). Part 3 of the gallery's retrospective on modernist photographer icon Hosoe: "Man and Woman + Embrace + La Luna Rossa", classic '60s portraits of the human figure and inverted b&w prints from "La Luna Rossa".<br />
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THURSDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Whitney Biennial @ <a href="http://whitney.org/">Whitney Museum</a> / 945 Madison Ave (6 to 77th St). The 2012 edition of the big American biennial, organized this time by the Whitney's Elisabeth Sussman and freelance curator/writer Jay Sanders, strikes a sombre note for me in the recent passing of artistic badass Mike Kelley. This would be his eighth Whitney biennial, which is awesome in itself. I look forward to his incredibly personal inclusion, plus the inventive roster of other artists, incl. Michael Clark, LaToya Ruby Frazier, K8 Hardy, Nick Mauss, Forrest Bess (selected by Robert Gober), Wu Tsang (splitting his time w/ "The Ungovernables" at the New Museum), Joanna Malinowska, Sarah Michelson and more.<br />
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* Roy Lichtenstein "Landscapes in the Chinese Style" @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 555 W 24th St. This selection of late-period works by the consummate American Pop artist, inspired in part by a '94 exhibition of Edgar Degas' monochromatic prints at the Met, combine Lichtenstein's signature Benday dot patterns with spare, ethereal atmosphere.<br />
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* SUPERFLEX "Bankrupt Banks" @ <a href="http://peterblumgallery.com/">Peter Blum Chelsea</a> / 526 W 29th St. The electrifying Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX took on troubled financial institutions in a series of vividly titled corporate logo works (like "Bankrupt Banks/Merrill Lynch Bank, Acquired By Bank of America September 14, 2008") at Peter Blum's booth during Art Basel Miami Beach. It totally worked as a criticism of the fair environment itself, so I'm interested to see how it carries over into the gallery setting.<br />
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* "FGFt" @ <a href="http://envoyenterprises.com/">Envoy Enterprises</a> / 131 Chrystie St. A properly LES-style homage to electronic musician-provacateur Frank Tovey, feat. a strong visual roster like Terence Koh, Casey Spooner, Slava Mogutin and VOLTA NY artist Erika Keck–plus most created work specifically for the show.<br />
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* Jenny Holzer "ENDGAME" @ <a href="http://www.skarstedt.com/">Skarstedt Gallery</a> / 20 E 79th St. Holzer's potent return to painting after 30 years of signature LED text should be a bracing encounter, keeping w/ her early investigations in redaction and opacity.<br />
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* Chris Consnowski "American Metal" @ <a href="http://lyonswiergallery.com/">Lyons Wier Gallery</a> / 542 W 24th St. The Chicago artist tunes his focus to trophies—that slightly gaudy symbol of victory—in large, photorealistic renderings with assuredly multilayered, unromanticized undertones. <br />
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* Ellen Berkenblit @ <a href="http://www.antonkerngallery.com/">Anton Kern Gallery</a> / 532 W 20th St. Berkenblit's large and mid-sized, loosely figurative paintings are just haunting, like pages of a girl's fairytale book streaked with charcoal and soaked in gasoline. Cartoonish animals and doe-eyed girls emerge from clouds of amorphously contoured chroma, or are otherwise obliterated by hazy hues. She hasn't had a solo at the gallery since '08, so I'm considerably stoked for this one.<br />
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* Harriet Korman @ <a href="http://lennonweinberg.com/flash.html">Lennon, Weinberg Inc</a> / 514 W 25th St. The NY-based abstract artist presents new paintings, sectioning her canvases in bold, tasty color combinations and shape overlaps. <br />
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* Corinne Wasmuht @ <a href="http://www.petzel.com/">Friedrich Petzel Gallery</a> / 537 W 22nd St. I had a mild acid flashback when experiencing the Berlin-based artist's 2008 solo at the gallery, covered with her huge, brightly colored and varnished abstract paintings on wood. Believe me, it was a good feeling. She returns to NYC after a series of exhibitions in Berlin and Nürnberg, celebrating her catalogue "Supracity".<br />
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* <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2012">Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012</a> @ <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/">Film Society of Lincoln Center</a> and <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a>. This unbearably chic festival of contemporary French cinema is back. I warn you to reserve your shows, b/c 1) this is a very popular film festival (IMO, third to New York Film Festival and NYAFF) and 2) Film Society members have been on it since FEB 9. Even with the Lincoln Center/IFC Center split (like last year), this dazzling array of like two dozen NYC premieres is gonna draw crowds. So go at it: http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2012. THRU MAR 11<br />
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* "The Intouchables" (dirs. Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/">Film Society of Lincoln Center</a> @ 65th St (1 to 66th St), 7:30p. Lincoln Center kicks off "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema" 2012 in style. The second most successful French film of all time locally, this quirkily heartwarming story of a handicapped white millionaire (played by François Cluzet) and his deepening friendship w/ his Senegalese caretaker (played by Omar Sy) just shattered French box-offices…and it looks pretty damn dope to me. w/ directors and star François Cluzet in person!<br />
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* P-Pop-Party #3 @ <a href="http://www.entertainment4every1.net/shows/">Death By Audio</a> / 49 S 2nd St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford, JM to Marcy), 8p/$8. Ready to go nuts? Peelander-Z, the original outer space Japanese art-punks, host the third installment of their psychedelic, sweaty, super-cute bash. Feat. Electric Eel Shock ("garage metal from Japan") and PeeWonder-Z (the adorable "sisters" of Peelander-Z), plus bicontinental Visual-kei dudes The Black Cherry…and who knows what other awesomeness.<br />
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FRIDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Franklin Evans "eyesontheedge" @ <a href="http://www.suescottgallery.com/">Sue Scott Gallery</a> / 1 Rivington St. A mixed-media process-driven installation incorporating paintings, photographs, sculpture and sound—and if it's anything like his meta-art installation during MoMA PS1's "Greater NY 2010", it'll be covered floor to ceiling in trompe-l'oeil objects.<br />
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* Simone Gilges @ <a href="http://www.foxyproduction.com/">Foxy Production</a> / 623 W 27th St. The Berlin-based artist and founding member of publishing house/project space Neue Dokumente returns from her stunning winter 2010 show with a nuanced series of placed found-objects, photographs, and sculptures.<br />
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* "<a href="http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film">Love Will Tear Us Apart</a>" film series @ <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/">Japan Societ</a>y / 333 E 47th St (E/M to Lexington/53rd St, 6 to 51st St). Note: "this series contains nudity, violence and strong sexual content." OK, sign me up. A wonderful two weeks of some 20-odd super-twisted love stories from Japan and Korea, mostly from the past decade and containing some mind-blowing U.S. premieres. And I gotta get behind the film series' title. THRU MAR 18.<br />
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* "Kotoko" (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/">Japan Society</a> / 333 E 47th St (E/M to Lexington/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 7:30p. The U.S. premiere of Japanese avant-film alchemist Tsukamoto, who won the Venice Horizons Award at the 2011 Venice Film Fest. J-popstar Cocco takes a dark turn as a young mother plunged into psychosis. Suspected of child abuse, her baby is taken from her…and it ain't gettin' any happier after that. Followed by the "Make Love" party—seriously, you'll need it after this downer—feat. Brooklyn-area Japanese riot-grrrls Hard Nips and hopefully lots of alcohol.<br />
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* "38 Witnesses" (dir. Lucas Belvaux, 2012) @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 7p. Belvaux's haunting film explores the limits of human responsibility. A woman is brutally murdered outside an apartment complex, and the residents don't do a damn thing. Based on Didier Decoin's best-selling novel that itself echoed the infamous '64 Kitty Genovese murder case.<br />
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* "17 Girls" (dirs. les soeurs Coulin, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/">Film Society of Lincoln Center</a> @ 65th St (1 to 66th St), 9:15p. A bunch of teenage girls decide to become pregnant at the same time. Note: this is decidedly NOT like "Village of the Damned", but rather a human choice, set in seaside N. France, and focuses mostly on the adults' reactions, rather than the girls' intentions. w/ directors in person!<br />
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* Beach Fossils @ <a href="http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/">Music Hall of Williamsburg</a> / 66 N 6th St, Williamsburg (L to Bedford), 8p/$15. I'd like to say I've been down w/ Brooklyn's hazy surf-rockers Beach Fossils from the start, but if the bio's to be believed that they formed in early '09, and I'm first saw their kinetic live set one sweaty May night, then that's pretty close. I've been waiting for Dustin & crew's next big thing—as guitarist Cole's psych-rock project DIVE has been totally taking off—and we get that tonight. A new 7" and lots and lots of unabashed dancing. w/ Mac DeMarco<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Dune" (dir. David Lynch, 1984) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 11:30p. While I consider Lynch's classic adaptation of the sprawling sci-fi saga an uncomfortable bridge between his surrealist art-house years (see "Eraserhead") and saturated-color mainstream success (see "Blue Velvet", "Twin Peaks"…and everything thereafter), no other director could've spiced-up Frank Herbert's novels like the coffee-lover himself. ALSO SUN 9:30p<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Albert Oehlen @ <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/">Gagosian</a> / 980 Madison Ave. New large-scale semi-abstract paintings, in Oehlen's debut at the gallery. He combines flat, figurative, CAD-aided cut-outs with gestural strokes of oil paint….damn.<br />
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* Douglas Huebler "Crocodile Tears" @ <a href="http://paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. The gallery begins their representation of the Conceptualist artist's estate with this cross-media survey, derived from a screenplay of the fictional performance artist Jason James.<br />
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* Not Vital @ <a href="http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html">Sperone Westwater</a> / 257 Bowery. The Swiss sculptor presents new materials in marble and plaster, plus techniques like hand-welded chased steel, all executed in China.<br />
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* "Air Doll" (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009) screening @ <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/">Japan Society</a> / 333 E 47th St (E/M to Lexington/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 2p. Who else would I trust in making a love story centered on an inflatable sex-doll (played by Bae Doona) come to life? Few but Koreeda can capture that melancholic, bittersweet melody.<br />
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* "Vital" (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 2004) screening @ <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/">Japan Society</a> / 333 E 47th St (E/M to Lexington/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 7p. Inky black, mostly linear Tsukamoto flick, starring Tadanobu "Johnny Depp" Asano as a long-haired surgeon-come-lately obsessed w/ dissecting a particular female cadaver ever since an auto accident wiped his memory.<br />
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* "A Snake of June" (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto, 2003) screening @ <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/">Japan Society</a> / 333 E 47th St (E/M to Lexington/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 9p. June is Japan's rainy month, and Tsukamoto coats this blue-tinted b&w film in sheets of downpour, guzzling drains and beads of perspiration across naked flesh. A sorta astringent career woman's hidden sexual desires flood this surreally sexy thriller. <br />
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* "17 Girls" (dirs. les soeurs Coulin, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 9:30p. A bunch of teenage girls decide to become pregnant at the same time. Note: this is decidedly NOT like "Village of the Damned", but rather a human choice, set in seaside N. France, and focuses mostly on the adults' reactions, rather than the girls' intentions. w/ directors in person!<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "Absurdities Crept In" @ <a href="http://www.grayduckgallery.com/">Grayduck Gallery</a> / 608 W Monroe Dr. Narrative strings—and the odd tales they encompass—flow through this three-artist show, feat. works on paper by Terrence Payne and illustrative paintings from Jennifer Davis and Mark Nelson.<br />
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* Saul Williams @ <a href="http://mohawkaustin.com/">Mohawk</a> / 912 Red River, 8p/$15. Legendary charismatic lyricist and encyclopedic poet Saul Williams graces the 'Hawk in a truly next-level night. Crown Heights agit-punk CX KiDTRONiK opens the event w/ a crackle of electro-rap.<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* 「<a href="http://yamagamikun.com/">はらぺこヤマガミくん劇場版</a>」(dir. Noboru Iguchi, 2012) @ Humax Cinema / 4-8-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Hibiya/Ginza Lines to Ginza Station). Super-hungry Yamagami-kun is a rubber-suited mountain god with a crazy craving for human flesh. And though this is an Iguchi film—he of splatterfied "Machine Girl" ilk—if the online shorts are any indication, it's more a candy-colored surrealist romp for older kids. As in, a solid PG. Plus, this is Iguchi-san, so expect Yamagami-kun to meet up with a bunch of cute girls.<br />
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* FOUR GET ME A NOTS @ <a href="http://www.fever-popo.com/">Fever</a> / 1-1-14 Hanegi, Setagaya-ku (Odakyu Inokashira Line to Shindaita or Shimokitazawa Stations), 4p/2500 yen. Having concluded their cross-country "Silver Lining Tour", Chiba pop-punks FGMAN contribute their caffeinated riffs to a benefit showcase for the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. w/ Think Again, Slang, Smash Your Face and more.<br />
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* Vidulgi OoyoO @ <a href="http://shibuya-o.com/">Shibuya O-Nest</a> / 6F 2-3 Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku (JR etc to Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit), 2p/3000 yen. Korean shoegazers Vidulgi OoyoO headline this massive showcase, which also includes Kagoshima-area テスラは泣かない (uh, lit. "Tesla Doesn't Cry"), locals The cold tommy +more.<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Brody Condon "LevelFive and Future Gestalt" @ <a href="http://onstellarrays.com/">On Stellar Rays</a> / 133 Orchard St. Condon debuts the two titular films, originated from recent performances projects at the Hammer Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. While I am not expecting any paint-throwing, the psychotherapeutic nature of "Future Gestalt" and "LevelFive"'s durational characteristics (plus the sheer number of performers) should make for an immersive show.<br />
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* Sam Moyer "Slack Tide" @ <a href="http://racheluffnergallery.com/">Rachel Uffner Gallery</a> / 47 Orchard St. Moyer increases the scale of her media-blending work, featuring dyed and treated fabric mounted on canvas and wood slats. You better believe I'm excited about this.<br />
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* "Vibrator" (dir. Ryuichi Hiroki, 2003) screening @ <a href="http://www.japansociety.org/">Japan Society</a> / 333 E 47th St (E/M to Lexington/53rd St, 6 to 51st St), 5:30p. Japan Times named this "Best Film of 2003", plus indie director Hiroki has a knack for nailing Tokyo's lonely erotic backstreets (like his earlier "Tokyo Trash Baby"). Here, a young trucker (Nao Omori, with a goatee!) and a semi-alcoholic freelance writer (Shinobu Terashima) take an impromptu love-in road-trip. <br />
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* "The Screen Illusion" (dir. Mathieu Amalric, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/">Film Society of Lincoln Center</a> @ 65th St (1 to 66th St), 6:15p. Actor-director Amalric (perhaps you remember him as the courageous lead in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"?) adapts Corneille's 17th C. tragicomedy into a dusty detective drama. That this is related to an ongoing project sponsored by La Comédie-Française, Amalric added no new lines of dialogue to capture Corneille's spirt (think Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" but WAY less MTV). Plus Amalric attends the screening!<br />
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* "The Intouchables" (dirs. Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 1:05p. The second most successful French film of all time locally, this quirkily heartwarming story of a handicapped white millionaire (played by François Cluzet) and his deepening friendship w/ his Senegalese caretaker (played by Omar Sy) just shattered French box-offices…and it looks pretty damn dope to me. w/ directors and star François Cluzet in person!<br />
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MONDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* "18 Years Old and Rising" (dir. Fred Louf, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 6p. The director takes us back to '81 France during election season in his debut feature, centered on a love affair b/w a bourgeois Parisian girl and a dude from the provinces.<br />
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* "The Screen Illusion" (dir. Mathieu Amalric, 2011) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 8p. Actor-director Amalric (perhaps you remember him as the courageous lead in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"?) adapts Corneille's 17th C. tragicomedy into a dusty detective drama. That this is related to an ongoing project sponsored by La Comédie-Française, Amalric added no new lines of dialogue to capture Corneille's spirt (think Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" but WAY less MTV). Plus Amalric attends the screening!<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Acid Mothers Guru Guru + Acid Mothers Temple SWR @ <a href="http://www.clubgoodman.com/">Goodman</a> / 55 Kanda-Sakumagashi, Chiyoda-ku (JR Yamanote Line to Akihabara Station), 7:30p/3300 yen. Free-jazz trio SWR (comprising original Acid Mother and guitar-slayer Makoto Kawabata, w/ Atsushi Tsuyama and Ruins drum guru Tatsuya Yoshida) plus Guru Guru, which swaps out Yoshida-san for Krautrocker Mani Neumeier. That's a helluva lotta Acid Mothers! <br />
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TUESDAY<br />
NYC<br />
* Bharti Kher "The hot winds that blow from the West" @ <a href="http://www.hauserwirth.com/">Hauser & Wirth</a> / 32 E 69th St. Kher transforms the townhouse gallery through a series of physical and psychological spaces, playing with notions of domesticity and defunctivity. <br />
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* "Paris By Night" (dir. Philippe Lefebvre 2012) screening @ <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/">IFC Center</a> / 323 Sixth Ave (ACE/BDFM to W 4th St), 10:10p. A tough police commander's tug-of-war w/ the City of Light's darkest twilight, the gang-enforced strip clubs, dives and discos!<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* "The Deadly Spawn" (dir. Douglas McKeown, 1983) screening @ <a href="http://drafthouse.com/austin">Alamo Drafthouse Ritz</a> / 320 E Sixth St, 10p. Homemade horror doesn't get any nastier than this '80s low-budget sloshfest, feat. a carnivorous alien meteorite terrorizing New Jersey and appropriately absurd teenagers out to stop it!<br />
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CURRENT SHOWS<br />
NYC<br />
* Cindy Sherman @ <a href="http://www.moma.org/">MoMA</a> / 11 W 53rd St (E/M to 5th Ave/53rd, 6 to 51st). A great element of Sherman's fine career retrospective is its nonchronological arrangements. For though the exhibition flows in groupings of key series–beginning with the wonderful, breakthrough "Untitled Film Stills" from the late '70s (and showing the American Sherman as a convincingly Felllni-esque ingenue)–there are intriguing temporal juxtapositions throughout. Meaning a few prints from the early '80s hung amid Sherman's millenial "Clowns" and still reverberating with energy and beauty. Though technology has changed, her "Erotic Centerfolds" and brilliant "History Portraits" (the latter hung salon-style in a burgundy-walled room, and featuring a few male roles) retain as much impact as her 2008 "Society Portraits" and the show-stopping mural installed outside the exhibition proper. Sherman has more creativity in her left pinkie than most artists' their entire oeuvres (not naming names) and she's got a helluva lot left.<br />
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* Zak Prekop @ <a href="http://harrislieberman.com/">Harris Lieberman</a> / 508 W 26th St. The young Brooklyn-based artist's suite of ostensibly reductive geometric abstract paintings at 2010 Greater New York at MoMA PS1 piqued my curiosity–not the least of which they were the rare painting in a group exhibition of "other media". Here in his second solo at the gallery, we really get to explore what he's about: paintings utilizing the most minimalist palette, with the occasional shock-blue for contrast, some incorporating paper as a textural and shadowy duality with raw canvas. Consider the excitement ignited by Picasso and Braque by collaging chair caning and newsprint on their Cubist works. That's the vibe I get with Prekop's ingenious use of paper bags, heightening their own distinctive tone and constitution under grids of black lines or diamonds of pastel paint.<br />
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* Ellen Harvey "The Nudist Museum Gift Shop" @ <a href="http://dodge-gallery.com/">DODGEgallery</a> / 15 Rivington St. Harvey explores the art nude in all its permutations, from the glitzily framed portrait to the boob-mug, in these brushy old-school oil paintings of images culled from Ebay. Plus postcards of historical nudes, sourced from NYC art museums and modified by Harvey to depict only the figures—because what is a "museum gift shop" without postcards?<br />
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* Paul Graham "The Present" @ <a href="http://www.thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 545 W 22nd St. Pace debuts the NY-based British photographer's latest body of work, his first exhibition in the States since 2009. "The Present" includes diptych and triptych photographic works, highlighting serendipitous moments of a city constantly in motion. A new monograph, published by MACK, accompanies the exhibition.<br />
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* Michiel Ceulers "Des malentendus et le temps perdu" @ <a href="http://www.anacristeagallery.com/">Ana Cristea Gallery</a> / 521 W 26th St. The gallery debuts the young Belgian artist in his first stateside solo show, who focuses on the bare essentials—canvases, wood panels, paint and spraypaint—in his deft exploration of abstraction. Roughly half the works are gridded, abraded monochromes and the other smaller, shaped canvases in glittering spraypaint.<br />
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* Adia Millett "Portraits of an Escape" @ <a href="http://mixedgreens.com/">Mixed Greens</a> / 531 W 26th St. The Oakland-based artist revisits her old photographs of sculptural interiors, flipping them inside-out as new 2D façades. Her colorful architectural style holds a lot of personality, too, which is intentional as each structure reflects a portrait of someone in Millett's life.<br />
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* Charles Long + Nicole Wermers @ <a href="http://tanyabonakdargallery.com/">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery</a> / 521 W 21st St. Long continues to twist and elasticize the boundaries of sculpture, in his ninth solo at the gallery. Think organic, semi-translucent resiny drips, a cooler, alienesque echo of his previous works that more closely resembled supersized bird droppings. Upstairs, Wermers accents with a photo series from the Rodin Museum in Paris, contrasted with her own modernist sculpture. It's terribly subtle but works in concert w/ Long's quieter, compelling sculpture.<br />
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* Alex Gross "Product Placement" @ <a href="http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> / 529 W 20th St 9th Fl. LA artist Gross' lush painterly style is kind of like Jim Rosenquist (or Richard Hamilton) for a decidedly 21st C. world, a globe-flattening blend of posh designer labels, a polyglot of languages on adverts, exotic critters and nondescript environments. It's a foreshortened world thrust continuously into hyperdrive, Asia, America and the Middle East coalescing into one postmodern hybrid. Snake-eyed citizens from earlier series now bear reptiles for heads, like the Komodo Dragon in a Mr. Rogers cardigan tempting a PYT with a Coca-Cola in "Original Sin". Or people get their faces pixellated a la Japanese porn in "Best Friends (7-Eleven)" and "The Lover". Gross' super-saturated palette is in full effect here, but his combinations of people and adverts is his most naturalistic yet...like they're meant to be together. A grouping of Gross' manipulated cabinet card series (particularly chi-chi superheroes and monsters) accompany the big canvases.<br />
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* Adel Abdessemed "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf" @ <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/">David Zwirner Gallery</a> / 525-533 W 19th St. A life-sized refugee lifeboat filled cunningly w/ rubbish bags. That's the first thing to greet visitors entering the gallery from the 533 side, but Abdessemed has much more up his sleeve. The show's titular work is a great expanse of forest roadkill, wolves and deer taxidermy flattened across one gallery wall into a sinister terrine. The larger than lifesized resin version of footballer Zidane's infamous headbutt occurs here, but for the show-stopping "Decor"–four human-scale crucified Jesuses composed entirely of razorwire–you'll have to travel down a corridor to 525. Just don't get too close, as these symbols of a savior will harm.<br />
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* Jean Dubuffet "The Last Two Years" @ <a href="http://www.thepacegallery.com/">The Pace Gallery</a> / 534 W 25th St. I felt this worked perfectly in NYC and wonder if street artists and the downtown stars (Basquiat, Haring et al) ever got to see Dubuffet's huge, colorful glyphs and graf-abstraction.The man was busting conventions and doing it his way until the end.<br />
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* Magnus Plessen @ <a href="http://www.gladstonegallery.com/">Gladstone Gallery</a> / 515 W 24th St. A delightful pronouncement of playful, bright colors and positive-negative impressions of a figure, in Plessen's fourth solo at the gallery. I dug his fall 2009 exhibition, but the paintings here are altogether more lively and figurative, and embody a rich depth thanks to his varying brushwork and tension between abstraction and form.<br />
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* Tom Friedman @ <a href="http://www.luhringaugustine.com/">Luhring Augustine</a> / 531 W 24th St. To see Friedman's beguilingly matter-of-fact yet exhaustively complex mixed-media work and truly appreciate the labor and love that goes into each, it's best to carry around one of those works guides. They take Friedman's humble descriptions, like "Untitled (sun)", and expand it into "approximately 3,650 12-inch wooden dowels, painted yellow, were stuck and glued into a 12-inch Styrofoam ball at varying angles". He created a lot of wood pieces for this show, like the miniscule carved figure holding a ceiling-spanning monofilament in "Untitled (kite)" or the scatter of Robert Gober-esque apples in "Untitled (apples)". It's a delight for the mind and eyes...and perhaps no less magical if you don't actually know how he made them.<br />
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* Will Ryman @ <a href="http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/">Paul Kasmin Gallery</a> / 293 10th Ave + W 27th St. I expected something big and bold from Ryman in his debut at the gallery but had to wonder: he's been filling his previous gallery, Marlborough Chelsea, which is like eight times bigger (plus open-airs Park Ave w/ those big-ass flowers), so would he run out of room at Kasmin? No fear, he makes it work, wrapping the front room w/ the hunched form of his sad-sack everyman, comprised evidently of bottle-cap limbs, melted shoes for a body and like miles of denim for his trousers. In the back, Ryman erected a labyrinth of wooden brushes that could be a frottage fanatic's wet dream.<br />
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* Marlo Pascual @ <a href="http://caseykaplangallery.com/">Casey Kaplan Gallery</a> / 525 W 21st St. A much subtler show from Pascual than I'd expected, less situations of warped C-prints and situational lighting than easy, cerebral gestures, like turning a print sideways so the waterfall flows horizontally, or hewing a rocky backdrop with a woman's limbs in two and recomposing it to delete most of her figure.<br />
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* Robert Grosvenor @ <a href="http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/">Paula Cooper Gallery</a> / 534 W 21st St. When Paula Cooper announces a "new work" (note the singular) from one of its heavyweights, you better believe it's a big deal. Particularly when that heavyweight is sculptor Grosvenor, and that new work is a two-part monster, half silvery cinderblocks supporting a honeycomb-like column, half a cloudlike tarp with white vinyl "rocks". He pairs it with a work from the mid-'80s, a chunk of concrete wall sheltered beneath a steel structure with rusty "wheels". You bet it leaves an impression.<br />
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* Mary Corse @ <a href="http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/">Lehmann Maupin</a> / 540 W 26th St. This is a treat: the Light & Space artist debuts five silky new paintings in her inaugural show at the gallery, each of which grabs at ambient and display light and shifts our impressions of them.<br />
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* Terry Winters "Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures, & Notebook" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 522 W 22nd St. Confession: I missed Winters' stateside debut of his layered found-photo collages, nearly a decade's worth of work at MM's tiny boutique gallery on 22nd. The reason is b/c I was totally immersed in Winters' massive kaleidoscopic new paintings, Some are watery worlds, others vaguely cosmic, a bit like Jim Rosenquist's more "Water Planet" stuff but less representational. Winters' palette is dazzling and his technique beautiful without reducing to pure decoration.<br />
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* Anne Truitt "Drawings" @ <a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/">Matthew Marks Gallery</a> / 523 W 24th St. The gallery mounted a wonderful retrospective of Truitt's serene, totem-like sculpture two years ago (one my 2010 favorites). They continue the awesomeness w/ four decades of her drawings, a vital part of her daily creative activity. Some of these do resemble her gentle monoliths, but others are fields of brilliant tonal shifts or a single growing line across a white expanse. Pretty awesome.<br />
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CLOSING SOON<br />
AUSTIN<br />
* Martin Sztyk "Narratives" @ <a href="http://www.bigmedium.org/">Big Medium</a> / 5305 Bolm Rd. The practicing architectural designer and researcher draws from his ongoing, narrative-based inhabitation series—including "Urban Forest", "Empty City" and "New London Stock Exchange"—in what looks to be a mind-blowing set of intricate photo-collages. (ENDS FRI)<br />
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NYC<br />
* Motoyuki Daifu "Lovesody" @ <a href="http://www.lombard-freid.com/">Lombard-Freid Projects</a> / 518 W 19th St. Last year this young Yokohama-based photographer wowed me and loads others at the gallery's awesome "Minor Cropping May Occur" group show. Daifu returns w/ his debut solo here, a followup to his "Family" series that traces his brief, intense personal relationship with a young single mother. <br />
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* Chris Martin @ <a href="http://www.miandn.com/">Mitchell-Innes & Nash</a> / 534 W 26th St. BIG Martin fan here — not the Coldplay guy but rather the Brooklyn-based painter. He just got off a solo at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and, in his third exhibition at the gallery, introduces newspaper clipping grids into his wildly textured, colorful paintings. I am stoked.<br />
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AUSTIN<br />
* Jill Magid "Failed States" @ <a href="http://www.arthousetexas.org/mainpage/">AMOA-Arthouse</a> / 700 Congress. So check this: on 1/21/10, a young man named Fausto fired six bullets into the air outside the Texas State Capitol. Jill Magid — whose oeuvre navigates bureaucracy and security/intelligence w/ Mission Impossible deftness — was like steps away, pursuing her own future work, and witnessed it. Now six blocks from the scene and two years later, Magid stages an intriguing Conceptual show that ties Fausto's mysterious actions — and his silence throughout his trial — with that of Goethe's "Faust". The ground-floor gallery is her stage, replete with wall-decal directions ("Enter Fausto", "shots fired skyward", "enter Magid" etc), Magid's own play "Fausto: A Tragedy" (mirroring "Faust"'s original intention as a closet drama, meant to be read and not performed), and contemplative works. Deep encodings here, from six translations of "Faust" silkscreened on top of one another, to six bullet casings and a six-slide projection of the sky over the Capitol. Magid wrote a letter to Fausto, requesting his voice (absent in his trial) to read passages from "Faust" (whose Spanish translation is "Fausto") — his answer is still forthcoming, but it would add an intriguing layer to all this. Finally, there is Magid's family's '93 Mercedes, armored to B4 level and parked in Fausto's spot outside the Capitol, and her writing appearing in the February issue of the "Texas Observer", drawing this dialogue beyond the art-scene realm as it should be. <br />
+ "Evidence of Houdini's Return". A really brilliant group show of fractured and re-envisioned realities, curated by Arthouse's Rachel Adams. I tweeted that it made me miss NYC, because it's precisely that sort of thoughtful exhibition that makes me look twice, thrice, at what I think I already know. Ex: Strauss Borque LaFrance's "BABE", a silvery lacquered wood plank pitched diagonally on the wall like classic John McCracken,…only just around the corner is that same plank, used as a shelf amid LaFrance's complex, mixed-media display. Another: Katja Mater's "Time Passing Objects", chromogenic prints that blur the line b/w photography and geometric drawings. Justin Swinburne's "Echo" works, multiple inkjet scans onto alu-dibond that echo (no pun) Gerhard Richter's signature abstracts while maintaining that sense of disarray like Wade Guyton's inkjet silkscreens. Bravo!<br />
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TOKYO<br />
* Ken Matsubara "The Sleeping Water" @ <a href="http://ma2gallery.com/">MA2 Gallery</a> / 3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Yamanote Line to Ebisu Station). Matsubara features the video installation "Mekong Delta", his signature antique-crafted glass dome showing children floating up the titular river, recalling the deaths of children in the many wars and disasters around the world. (ENDS SUN)b.feehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381011602502606312noreply@blogger.com