Kate Bush Dance Troupe, 2008. Courtesy Jennifer Sullivan

Because who doesn’t want to watch a heartfelt, quirky tribute to one of music’s most beloved, haunting eccentrics?

The Kate Bush Dance Troupe (Samara Davis, Erica Magrey, Cassie Thornton, Kate Scherer, Renata Espinosa and Jennifer Sullivan) will be performing as the closing act of choreographer Chase Granoff’s piece in Nancy Garcia/Chase Granoff at The Kitchen, November 5, 6, and 7. In addition, Garcia and Granoff will each be premiering new works inspired by sources ranging from noise and punk music to the writings of Doris Humphrey and Simone Forti.

The Kate Bush Dance Troupe is an ongoing collaborative ensemble of non-dancers who create dance performances inspired by the music and emotive movement stylings of Kate Bush.

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The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street
Thursday–Saturday, November 5-7, 8pm
$12
Curated by Matthew Lyons

Tags: Cassie Thornton, Chase Granoff, choreographers, dance, Erica Magrey, Kate Bush Dance Troupe, Kate Scherer, Nancy Garcia, Renata Espinosa and Jennifer Sullivan, Samara Davis, The Kitchen.

TONIGHT, August 20th: Artists’ reception for Trains and Trips from Cement to Cemetery at Heist Gallery, featuring Peter Feigenbaum’s model-railroad-scale depiction of outer-borough NYC in the 1980s, and eerie woodland paintings by Marissa Bluestone.

Friday, August 21st: EAI Project Space at X-Initiative presents a video tribute to the late Merce Cunningham, featuring works by Charles Atlas, Nam June Paik and Shigeto Kubota. Noon-8pm, free.

San Francisco artists Lisa Rybovich Cralle and Jessalyn Aaland’s Good News opens at Painted Bird, with music by Jealousy. 8-10pm. Thru Sept. 11th.

Saturday, August 22nd: The 8th annual San Francisco Zine Fest celebrates small-press and DIY publications from the Bay Area and beyond this weekend. At the SF County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park thru Sunday, August 23rd, 11am-6pm, free.

Sunday, August 23rd:  One of our favorite storytellers, Juliet Wayne, is spinning a 40-minute tale, “The Moron Years,” about her life which is already the stuff of legend. If you haven’t seen her at various performance events around NYC or Philadelphia, don’t miss your chance this weekend. 6pm, Cornelia Street Cafe, $10. (via Jeff Simmermon)

Monday, August 24th: Your last week to catch I Don’t Believe in Miracles, a group exhibition focusing on the natural elements curated by Alana Celii at Space Womb gallery in Long Island City. Open Thursday-Monday.

Tags: Alana Celii, Cornelia Street Cafe, EAI, Good News, Heist Gallery, I Don't Believe In Miracles, Jeff Simmermon, Jessalyn Aaland, Juliet Wayne, Lisa Rybovich Cralle, Marissa Bluestone, Merce Cunningham, Painted Bird, paintings, Peter Feigenbaum, railroad model, SF Zine Fest, Space Womb, storyteller, storytelling, The Moron Years, Trains and Trips from Cement to Cemetery, video, X Initiative.

Slideluck Potshow's attendees mingle before the slideshow.

Slideluck Potshow is a non-profit organization formed around two great ideas: food and art. Last night in New York City’s spacious Canoe Studios in Chelsea, SLPS put on its thirteenth NYC show. The event started, as the name would suggest, with a potluck dinner. Guests were asked to bring a dish and/or drink to share. I arrived about an hour later than the 6:30pm starting time, but there was still enough food around, a grill for brats and dogs on the balcony and plenty of desserts. DJ Moni provided the mingling music, as guests stuffed their faces watching the sun set over Jersey.

A sampling of the fare at the potluck

Eating and mingling while the sun sets over the Hudson River

The dessert table (with icebox pie, cupcakes, lemon crumb cake...)

Slideluckers wait for the show to begin.

The main event of the evening started around 9:30. The slideshow was simulcast into at least three packed standing-room only gallery rooms. This slideshow was anything but your grandparents’ last summer vacation. Each of the featured artists’ works were multimedia spectacles accompanied by music and sometimes video. The theme of this year’s SLPS XIII was “Now.” The diverse group of artists rose to the challenge wonderfully, from Chief White House photographer and esteemed photojournalist Peter Souza’s photos of the first family’s first year (set to the audio of the President’s Inauguration Address), to San Francisco’s Lisa Wiseman and her The New Polaroid series, a collection of dreamy whimsical images all captured with an iPhone.

An image from Claudio Papapietro's Demolition Derby series. c. Claudio Papapietro

For me personally, many of the most surprising, poignant and beautiful images of the night came from several photographers examining American subcultures. Claudio Papapietro’s Demolition Derby series shows a group of friends as they make preparations for and compete in a demolition derby. Papapeitro’s use of light and composition endows his working-class subjects with subtle nobility. Like Papapietro, Brooklyn’s Kim Reierson focuses on an underside of American culture in her Exotic World Dancer portraits. The photos of the burlesque competition’s contestants range from ages 18-80 and allows her subjects’ beauty to manifest through their flaws, rather than in spite of them. The Chicago-based Brian Ulrich’s Dark Store, Ghost Boxes and Dead Malls is a haunting reminder and warning of America’s financial struggles as photograph after photograph depicts empty malls, weed-plagued barren parking lots, and lonely storefronts with only ghost-letter impressions of the corporate names they used to carry.

I (Lego) New York by Christoph Niemann. c. Christoph Niemann

A major part of what made the collection of slideshows work so well was the juxtaposition of the vastly different artists and mediums. Whimsical and playful pieces like Jonah Sampson’s Pleasantville, a series of toy-like model people engaged in many comically-placed scenes of violence and debauchery, or Christoph Niemann’s crowd-favorite Lego art in I (Lego) New York were placed directly next to heavy, thought-provoking, difficult images like Portrait of a Genocide’s stark and heart-wrenching reminders of the atrocities in Rwanda by French documentary photographer Myriam Abdelaziz.

The evening was a success and a tribute to the work that directors Casey Kelbaugh and Alys Kenny have put into these shows nationally and internationally. I strongly recommend making your best dish and attending the next Slideluck Potshow either in its next return to New York or in the myriad of other locations where they set up a projector.

The spacious Canoe Studios on W. 26th Street hosted Slideluck Potshow's thirteenth New York show.

All photos by Joyce Tota unless noted.

Tags: American subculture, Brian Ulrich, Canoe Studios, Christoph Niemann, Claudio Papapietro, iPhone art, Jonah Samson, Kim Reierson, Myriam Abdelaziz, New York, Obama, Pete Souza, Photography, potluck, Rwanda, Slideluck Potshow, slideshow, White House.

Daniel Salemi, Ikea vs. Beuer, 2009, c-print. Courtesy of Kris Graves Projects.

Not able to see Swoon’s Swimming Cities, or Bruce Nauman’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale in person this year? Well, you could opt to visit what is being touted as the Biennale’s “largest pavilion” here, or just take advantage of an abundance of homegrown activities this weekend and beyond:

TONIGHT: Honey Space hosts a benefit and celebration for Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima, with a silent auction that includes works by many of the artists on the boats’ crew, and a raffle for original artwork by Swoon and Thomas Beale. 7-9pm, $10 admission.

Artists Daniel Salemi and Austin Thomas have concurrent openings of their work tonight in the main and project spaces of Kris Graves Projects. Salemi’s photographs and Thomas’ drawings and collages share an affinity for architectural forms. 6-9pm

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF presents Big Idea Night, featuring the delicious stylings of Mission Street Food. 9pm-3am. FREE, RSVP recommended.

Friday June 5th: Varnish Gallery hosts a party to raise awareness about eminent domain issues with guests Jello Biafra, Matt Gonzalez, etc. The gallery is one of over 30 local businesses and residences being evicted by a San Francisco city agency under the property law. 7-Midnight, 21+. Free.

Saturday June 6th: As part of Michael Cataldi and Nils Norman’s The University of Trash at Sculpture Center in Long Island City, guest artists McKendree Key and the neuroTransmitter collective have been invited to give public courses at the museum. Key will teach a family workshop on making recycled paper and paper-pulp sculptures, and neuroTransmitter will lead a radio transmitter building workshop. 1pm. Courses available with $5 admission to museum. ($25 materials fee and a reservation for the transmitter class is recommended.)

Your last chance to see Sophie Calle (and 107 other women)’s collaborative breakdown of a breakup, Take Care of Yourself at Paula Cooper Gallery.

Saturday & Sunday, June 6th & 7th: Oakland’s Pro Arts Gallery presents the 2009 East Bay Open Studios. Over 400 artists exhibit their work this weekend and the weekend of June 14th-15th. Visit site for more info.

Sunday June 7: The Exploratorium hosts a talk, reception and book signing by scholar Edward Shanken, author of the new book Art and Electronic Media, interviewed by arts commentator Dorka Keehn. Innovative Bay Area electronics artists Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul DeMarinis, Ken Goldberg, Jim Campbell, Survival Research Labs, and Alan Rath are among the over 200 artists featured in Shanken’s book. 3pm. Free with Exploratorium admission.

Monday June 8th: David Byrne will perform a selection of music created with Brian Eno at the Prospect Park Bandshell as part of BRIC Art’s Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. Other performers this summer include Femi Kuti, Blonde Redhead, Big Daddy Kane and They Might Be Giants. 8pm, gates open at 6:30pm. FREE, first come first served.

Tags: Alan Rath, artists, auction, Austin Thomas, benefit, Big Idea Night, Brian Eno, BRIC Arts, Bruce Nauman, Celebrate Brooklyn!, Daniel Salemi, David Byrne, Dorka Keehn, East Bay Open Studios, Edward Shanken, eminent domain, Exploratorium, festival, Honey Space, Internet Pavilion, Jello Biafra, Jim Campbell, Ken Goldberg, Kris Graves Projects, Matt Gonzalez, McKendree Key, Michael Cataldi, Miltos Manetas, Mission Street Food, Nils Norman, Oakland, paper, Paul DeMarinis, Paula Cooper Gallery, Prospect Park Bandshell, radio transmitter, Rafael Rozendaal, recycled, Sculpture Center, Sophie Calle, Survival Research Labs, Swimming Cities of Serenissima, Swoon, Take Care of Yourself, University of Trash, Varnish Gallery, Venice Biennale, workshop, Yerba Buena Center,  Art and Electronic Media,  Lynn Hershman Leeson,  neuroTransmitter.

In celebration of the extraordinary range of artistic expression in the Muslim world, Asia Society, BAM, and New York University Center for Dialogues proudly present Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas. Muslim artists and speakers from as far away as Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and as near as Brooklyn will gather for an unprecedented ten-day festival and conference, offering New York audiences the opportunity to experience the cultural diversity and multiple perspectives that represent the Muslim world.

Official festival events will take place at the Asia Society, BAM, and the American Museum of Natural History, with a 2-day, 150-vendor outdoor souk at BAM during the opening weekend. There will be related events and programming around the city and on public television at WNET Channel THIRTEEN, and in celebration, the Empire State Building and Brooklyn Borough Hall will be lit green from June 5—7.  

Our top picks include:

Thursday, May 21st (Festival Partner Event): The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil- 14 contemporary artists from the Middle East, Europe, and New York, including celebrated graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, present approaches to the ideas that surround both the literal and metaphorical meaning of the veil. Opening reception from 6-8pm at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Free, through August 29th.

Friday, June 5th: Opening reception for New York Masjid: The Mosques of New York City. Photographer Edward Grazda and CUNY Professor of Architecture Jerrilynn R. Dodds not only documented the mosques and analyzed their architectural forms, but conducted interviews with community members, revealing an alternative image of American Islam in the process. Natman Room at BAM’s Peter Jay Sharp Building, though June 28th.

Monday, June 8th: Shirin Neshat presents a rare screening of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad’s landmark short film The House Is Black (1962), which has had a profound influence on the New Wave in Iranian cinema as well as Neshat’s work. Neshat will also screen excerpts of her own films. At BAMcafé. 7pm, $10 ($5 for members), reception follows. 

Friday, June 12th & Saturday, June 13th: BAMcafé Live presents contemporary Muslim musicians in concert- Brahim Fribgane and zerobridge perform on Friday night, and Saturday night features global hip-hop by Muslim-American artists such as Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Kenny Muhammad The Human Orchestra, and Nihan Devecioglu, selected by the fantastic beatboxer and composer Adam Matta. 9:30pm both nights, FREE.

Tags: Adam Matta, American Museum of Natural History, artists, Asia Society, Austrian Cultural Forum, BAM, BAMcafe, beatbox, Brahim Fribgane, Brooklyn, concert, Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Edward Grazda, Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, Islam, Kenny Muhammad The Human Orchestra, Marjane Satrapi, mosques, Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas, New York Masjid, Nihan Devecioglu, Shirin Neshat, souk, The House Is Black, The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil, zerobridge.

Following the opening of two installations at Location One this week, Laurie Anderson’s new solo performance, Transitory Life—a collection of adventure stories, poems, and music drawn from her life’s work, has been created specifically in response to the themes of the Guggenheim’s The Third Mind exhibition. These pieces reflect a sensibility she attributes to her “practice of attention” and interest in Buddhism. Set within the intimate space of the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed theater,Transitory Life promises to be a uniquely personal and compelling opportunity to experience Anderson’s world-renowned performance work.

(If you have time to visit the Guggenheim before the performance, don’t miss experiencing the theatrically spare, meditative work of James Lee Byars as part of The Third Mind exhibit, as well as 2008 Hugo Boss Prize recipient Emily Jacir’s solo exhibition in the upstairs gallery.)

Guggenheim Museum

Thursday, March 12, & Friday, March 13, 8pm. $30; $25 for members; $10 for students under 25. Tickets

Tags: Emily Jacir, Guggenheim, Hugo Boss Prize, James Lee Byars, Laurie Anderson, Location One, Third Mind, Transitory Life.

DON’T MISS: On the occasion of the exhibition DARKNESS DESCENDS: Norwegian Art Now at Chashama and the Pulse Art Fair during Armory Week, the Norwegian invasion continues with a weekend-long musical extension at the experimental performance venue Monkeytown, organized by Signe Prøis and Christina Vassallo. 

The Norwegian preoccupation with darkness is a common thread uniting the musicians and artists included in this showcase. Of special note are this Saturday’s performances by Eivind Opsvik and Aaron Jennings, and visuals by Michelle Arcila:

Eivind Opsvik 
Bassist/composer/record label owner Eivind Opsvik blends a daring variety of jazz, progressive rock, classical, ambient and electronic influences—from Neil Young and Pink Floyd to Brian Eno—in his music. His main projects consist of his band Overseas, his duo Opsvik & Jennings, and his solo bass project.  He’s also currently a member of a number of other cutting-edge New York bands like The UP, Kris Davis Quartet, David Binney’s Out of Airplanes w/ Bill Frisell, Tone Collector, Tony Malaby’s Paloma Recio, Rocket Engine and Ben Gerstein Collective. 

Eivind Opsvik has an unusual gift for writing small, poignant pieces of music. The color and mood of his music, along with its rhythmic patterns, bleed over into pop, and the sound has a sheer, weightless quality.  -Ben Ratliff, New York Times

The solo set will be accompanied by visuals by Michelle Arcila.

Opsvik & Jennings

Led by the bassist Eivind Opsvik and the guitarist Aaron Jennings, with Brian Drye on Farfisa organ and Dave Christian on drums, this group advanced a series of tuneful provocations, self-contained and pregnant with detail. And appropriately… balanced precision against a spirit of wonder. -Nate Chinen, New York Times, March 4, 2009

Accompanied by a slideshow of photographs by Beathe Rønning.

Halvor Bodin
Artist and graphic designer Halvor Bodin is known for his visual work with Satyricon, Darkthrone, Thorns and Bjarne Melgaard. Combining a fierce visual aesthetic with a danceable and eclectic mix of electronic music, dubstep, nu jazz, dub and electrois, his DJ set will be accompanied by live mixed black & white excerpts from his own video works and found imagery. 

Bathroom Sound Series: Thora Dolven Balke’s The Wave, 2008. 6 min.

MONKEYTOWN 

Admission: $10, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8 & 10:30pm
Reservations are recommended

Tags: Aaron Jennings, Armory week, Art, Beathe Rønning, Brian Drye, Chashama, Christina Vassallo, Darkness Descends, Dave Christian, DJ, Eivind Opsvik, Halvor Bodin, jazz, Michelle Arcila, Monkeytown, music, New York Times, Norway, Norwegian, Opsvik and Jennings, Pulse, Signe Prøis, Thora Dolven Balke.

Trevor Paglen, Four Geostationary Satellites Above the Sierra Nevada, C-Print, 48 x 60 inches. Courtesy Bellwether.

Though the focus is on the art fairs this week, The Totam has still found plenty of concurrent happenings to provide balance to the collector frenzy that usually descends upon the west side of Manhattan:

TODAY, March 4th: The New Museum and Creative Time present It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, a new commission by British artist Jeremy Deller. A revolving cast of participants including veterans, journalists, scholars and Iraqi nationals have been invited to take up residence in the New Museum’s gallery space with the express purpose of encouraging discussion with visitors to the Museum. Through March 22nd.

Thursday, March 5th: Armory Arts Week opens to the public at Pier 94 in New York. In addition to special projects like Kenny Scharf’s customized, donut-delivering golf-cart being mounted onsite, sister fair VOLTA NY will present curated invitational projects and a launch event for Humble Arts Foundation’s Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography. Public events include tours of arts districts in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Contemporary art fairs exhibiting during the same week include Pulse, SCOPE, Fountain, Bridge, and PooL. Through March 8th.

The discards of industry and technology found in Sergio A. Fernandez‘ photos form a unique counterpoint to Dana Gentile’s collages, which focus on modern agriculture. Opening at Kris Graves Projects, 6-9pm.

Friday, March 6th: Bay Area artist Trevor Paglen’s spacescapes and other astronomy-themed works open in New York at Bellwether Gallery, in conjunction with his SECA Award exhibit at the SF MoMA.

Saturday, March 7th: Past, Present, Future of Food at the Bushwick Library. As part of the Arts in Bushwick Festival, librarian Nate Hill and cook Gabe McMackin will engage in an open public discussion exploring how Brooklyn and Bushwick in particular went from being a rich agricultural community to the desert it is today, and talk about what people can and ARE doing to grow food locally. 1-4pm. Free.

The Yerba Buena Center for Contemporary Art’s Screening Room in San Francisco presents a double bill of films by Chinese directors, distributed by Strand Releasing: Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming-Liang, and Help Me Eros, by Lee Kang-Sheng. 7pm. Advance tickets available, or with gallery admission.

Sunday, March 8th: The last day to catch the adaptation of Adam Mansbach’s novel Angry Black White Boy at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, a satire about race, Hip-Hop pop culture, identity and violence in the 21st century. 8pm, $15-25.

Monday, March 9th: As part of its recent project/exhibition, Branding Democracy, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School presents The Rogue State- a panel lecture on fundamental (in)divisibility of sovereignty using philosophy, history, and art as a framework. 6:30-8:30pm. $8

still from The Wayward Cloud, 2005

Tags: Angry Black White Boy, Armory Show, Art Fairs, Arts Week, Bellwether, Branding Democracy, Bridge, Collectors, conversations, Creative Time, Dana Gentile, fairs, Fountain, Gallery, Guide to Emerging Art Photography, Help Me Eros, Humble Arts Foundation, Intersection for the Arts, Iraq, Jeremy Deller, Kris Graves Projects, lecture, Lee Kang-Sheng, New Museum, novel, play, Pool, Pulse, SCOPE, screening, SECA Award, Sergio A. Fernandez, SF MoMA, Strand relasing, The Rogue State, Trevor Paglen, Tsai Ming-Liang, Vera List Center, VOLTA, Wayward Cloud, Yerba Buena Center.

Martin Kippenberger, detail from The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika," 1994/1999, installation of tables and chairs and mixed media on Astroturf

This week’s Totam choices are all about fun; fun with monsters, technology and science. Possibly even more fun than finding a rare Francis Bacon rug in your storage closet, but I doubt it. (C-Monster)

Thursday, February 26th: Shepard Fairey, Lawrence Lessig, and Steven Johnson discuss “remixed” culture at the New York Public Library’s LIVE series. This event is sold out but there may be standby tickets at the door. 7pm

Friday, February 27th: During Southern Exposure’s 9th Annual Monster Drawing Rally at the Verdi Club in San Francisco, a rotating cast of thirty from over 100 of the Bay Area’s most prominent emerging artists, including Paul Madonna, Amy Franceschini and Andrew Schoultz, will be making $60 original monster drawings for purchase before your very eyes. Proceeds from the event provide direct support for Southern Exposure’s exhibitions and Artists in Education Programs. 6-11pm, $5.

Saturday, February 28th: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be opens at Postmasters Gallery. Ten artists making work that addresses internet culture, including Marc Horowitz‘ Twitter drawings. 11am-6pm

On a related note, catch the last day of Ben Jones‘ psychedelic new-media installation The New Dark Age at Deitch Projects‘ Grand Street location. 12-6pm

Sunday, March 1st: Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective opens at the MoMA. A must-see for anyone who still believes in iconoclasts. And brilliant minds full of humor. Is there anyone out there who wants to buy me the catalogue? 10:30am-5:30pm

Tuesday, March 3rd: The Rock-It Science Festival at the Highline Ballroom. Billed as an event “celebrating the interface between music and science”; where else are you going to mingle with esteemed neuroscientists, musicians, and Dee Snider at the SAME TIME? 6:30pm, $25

Tags: Bay Area, Ben Jones, C-Monster, Dee Snider, Deitch Projects, emerging artists, Francis Bacon, fun, group, Highline Ballroom, internet culture, Lawrence Lessig, live, Marc Horowitz, Martin Kippenberger, MoMA, Monster Drawing Rally, neuroscience, New York Public Library, Postmasters, remix, Rock-It Science Festival, rug, Shepard Fairey, Southern Exposure, Steven Johnson, technology, Verdi Club.

Lot #16, Mary Temple, Corner Light (Miami), 2008. Hand-cut translucent abaca on Arches, colored pencil on verso. Courtesy of Artist and Mixed Greens Gallery.

A week’s worth of heartfelt culture picks…

TONIGHT: Lower East Side Printshop benefit. Works donated include pieces by Jim Dine, Robert Longo, Dana Schutz, James Siena, Nancy Spero, among others. We love the Mary Temple piece being auctioned, above. 6-9pm.

Thursday, February 12th: Voting closes for Reel 13’s Valentine’s week short film competition for the NYC area. We’ll be casting our ballots for Gibson Frazier’s delightful taxicab/toreador romance, Yellow. Voting closes at 5pm.

Sound-art pioneer Bill Fontana’s Spiraling Echoes opens in San Francisco’s City Hall Rotunda. Spiraling Echoes uses echolocation via ultrasound beams to carry a soundtrack of contemporary and historic sounds from various San Francisco events and locations around the Rotunda’s space. Opening reception, 5:30-7:30pm. free

Friday, February 13th: Social Media Week closing party at Santos Party House. 7-10pm. free

Also tonight: Gregory de la Haba’s pagan horse installation, Equus Maximus, opens at Jack The Pelican. NSFW!

Saturday, February 14th: the last weekend to catch Tadashi Kawamata’s wooden “Tree Huts” at Madison Square Park. Grab a burger at Shake Shack with your date and imagine spending your Valentines day like the Swiss Family Robinson. Free (burger not included).

Two of Tadashi Kawabata's Tree Huts, 2008. (Madison Sq. Park Conservancy)

If you’re in a more literary mood, check out the Bushwick Reading Series every second Saturday of the month, co-curated by Bushwick residents Niina Pollari and Parker Phillips at the Bushwick library, housed in a beautiful 1908 Carnegie building. 3-5pm. Free

MoMA presents Third World Newsreel’s (TWN) New Work from New Filmmakers, including Lottie Porch and Vanara Taing’s Beyond the Music, about the Inspirational Choir of New York’s Riverside Church. TWN fosters independent film and video by and about diverse communities, with a focus on people of color and social justice issues. 8pm.

Monday and Tuesday, February 16th and 17th: Dan Graham (2/16) and Shirin Neshat (2/17) speak about their work as part of the San Francisco Art Institute’s Spring 2009 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. 7:30pm, Free.

Tuesday, February 17th: Don’t miss Chiara Clemente’s Our City Dreams, a love letter to New York City through the eyes of five generations of women artists. Today’s screening includes a Q&A with Clemente and Ghada Amer. At the Film Forum, 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm.

Additional: The Foundation Vevey Ville d’Images has opened their call for entries for its 7th Vevey International Photo Awards. Projects that receive the approximately $25,000 worth of awards will be completed and shown at the next edition of the festival Images in September 2010. Deadline for the submission of projects is April 30, 2009.

Tags: Bill Fontana, Bushwick Reading Series, City Hall rotunda, Dan Graham, documentary, Film, Lower East Side Printshop, Madison Square Park, MoMA, Reel 13, romance, Shake Shack, Shirin Neshat, Social Media Week, Tadashi Kawamata, Third World Newsreel, tree huts, Yellow.