The Lugubrious Cafe

James Strahs Memorial

2011-10-18T10:28:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday, the 26th of October, from 7-10 pm, there will be a memorial service for Jim Strahs. This event will take place at The Performing Garage. 33 Wooster Street. Feel free to say something.

Adam Marnie: New Work

2011-09-08T13:54:00.000-07:00

Adam Marnie has his first solo show opening on Friday at
Derek Eller Gallery at 615 West 27th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues

Hear the story here.

Tim Foljahn website

2011-07-22T06:50:00.000-07:00

Dear, Old, Tim, has foresworn the electronic presence of TDG and put up a website devoted to him and him only.

new Tim Foljahn website

Go to the site, read his personal accounts, and listen to him sing of Songs For An Age of Extinction.

Joan As Police Woman Single Cover

2011-07-08T19:08:00.000-07:00

The single cover for the song Chemmie from the album The Deep Field by Joan As Police Woman. My 5th cover for this record.

Amaryllis PR photos

2011-07-01T19:25:00.000-07:00

Romain Gaia's band Amaryllis shot in New York while they recorded at Trout.

Joan As Police Woman Cover Photo

2011-06-24T09:15:00.001-07:00

One of the publicity photos made it onto the cover of an Australian Rock Rag this month.
Power Femme. String Revolutionary. Meow Musician. Interior Warrior. Soul Sister.

Steve Fitch

2011-05-21T18:01:00.001-07:00

Steve Fitch, one of the great NYC Mope-Core artists of the late 20th century, is making music again here in his lair:

This 21st century version of Stitch can be heard here:

http://www.mymusicbymebystevefitch.com

Yusef Lateef Robot Man

2011-04-26T03:26:00.000-07:00

It's a good idea to watch this Yusef Lateef clip of Robot Man once a year if given the opportunity.

Banners & Cranks

2011-04-23T06:25:00.000-07:00

Dave Buchen and Clare Dolan are happy to announce Banners and Cranks 2011, a
festival of cantastoria and cranky performance this June in New York City! There
will be a special outdoor kickoff show (produced by Great Small Works) in the
Brooklyn Bridge Park Sunday June 19th from 4-8pm and then the fest at HERE,
(145 6th ave, nyc ) June 22-26th, with Wed-Sunday shows at 7pm, plus a late
night show Friday at 11pm, and a matinee Sunday at 2pm. We hope you will help us
spread the news far and wide, come and see the shows, and, of course, we want
you to know how you can help support this fabulous confluence of some of north
america's finest cranky and cantastoria artists! We are selling a set of deluxe
posters, featuring woodcuts by Dave and Clare, hand printed on Dave's trusty
Vandercook Press in San Juan. $50 gets you the set of four posters, and all of
the money goes directly to the many worthy artist who will be performing at the
fest. Please see our website http://bannersandcranks.wordpress.com/

Sarah Sloat

2011-04-21T09:21:00.000-07:00

At supper with the poet-sister Sarah Sloat.
Her work spills forth from here: The Rain In My Purse

Dusty's Daily Animations

2011-02-24T17:12:00.001-08:00

I'm going to start this for the month of February (but dont' wait to leave a message), maybe longer if the response is good. I've set up a voicemail service where people can leave messages. Then I am going to select a few of these to animate. I'm going to try to do one every day. I'll try. They should definitely be under thirty seconds, but preferably around ten or fifteen seconds. Just a few sentences, an idea, a word that you think sounds cool, a line from a book that you like, something you heard in the hall that afternoon, a secret that you don't want anyone to know, or maybe you do, something that bothers you, something that... you get the idea, right? Basically anything. I just think it is a perfect project for you, partially because I want to animate something you say, but also because you can give it to the students and let them run with it. You can do more than one, you can do as many as you want. You can do it a few times a day. If it runs long term, I might have regulars that I do often. I don't know. Of course, the idea is in its infancy and will change ten times by the end of this email. Everything will be anonymous, unless the person leaves his name and wants to be recognized.

I'm going to set up a site on vimeo.com, and the address will be:
http://vimeo.com/channels/animationhotline

warmly,
dusty
The animation hotline number is:
212-683-2497

put it in your speed dial!

Writing Workshop with Brooke Shaffner and Lulu Sylbert

2011-02-21T12:01:00.000-08:00

MARCH-MAY BETWEEN THE LINES FICTION AND NONFICTION WORKSHOPS

Between the Lines is offering two 8-week workshops at Park Slope’s 440 Gallery this spring, a nonfiction workshop starting Tuesday, March 15th; and a fiction workshop starting either Wednesday, March 16th or Friday, March 18th, depending on student availability. The fiction workshop will be co-taught by Between the Lines director Brooke Shaffner and writer Lulu Sylbert (instructor bios below). Contact Brooke Shaffner at brshaffner@hotmail.com if interested.

Description: Writers in these workshops will investigate and discuss aspects of craft—plot structure, scene development, point of view, pacing, characterization, conflict, setting, tone, language, imagery, dialogue, beginnings, and endings—in both student submissions and published works. Optional writing prompts for inspiration and developing craft techniques will be offered. By sharpening their ability to discern and evaluate the stylistic and structural choices in the work of others, students will develop the ability to better manipulate craft elements in their own work.

Workshops will be capped at 8 writers. Each writer has the opportunity to submit up to 25 pages twice (stories, essays, articles, flash fiction, novel excerpts, etc.) and receives written critiques from the instructors and the other workshop members, as well as an individual conference with the instructors. We will meet from 8 pm--10 pm weekly at the 440 Gallery at 440 6th Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Fiction Workshop Dates: Starts either Wednesday, March 16th or Friday, March 18th, depending on student availability, and meets from 8-10 pm eight times.
Cost: $450 (The cost of the fiction workshop is slightly more as students will receive detailed feedback from two instructors.)

Nonfiction Workshop Dates: Meets from 8-10 pm eight times, weekly on Tuesdays: March 15th , 22nd, and 29th; April 5th, 12th, and 26th; May 3rd and 10th.
Cost: $350

To see student testimonials and find information about private consultations and other services that Between the Lines offers, see www.betweenthelinesnyc.com.

Instructor Bios:
Brooke Shaffner has led fiction and nonfiction workshops through The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop and Between the Lines, and at Northwestern University. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Dean’s Fellow. Her memoir, Between That Body and This One, is represented by Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. and currently under submission, and she is at work on a novel, Borderlands. An excerpt of her memoir appeared in The Hudson Review, and her personal essays were included in Lost and Found: Stories from New York. She has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Albee Foundation, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, and the I-Park Foundation; and scholarships from VCCA-France, Summer Literary Seminars, and the Prague Summer Program. She curates the 440 Gallery’s reading and artist talk series.

Lulu Sylbert received her BA from U.C. Berkeley and Columbia University, where she studied with Maxine Hong Kingston, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Gordon. She has been awarded fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, and The Millay Colony. Her screenplay, Swimming Sweet Arrow, is represented by Sandford Gross Agency, and her novel, Greedy Street, by The Wylie Agency.

Joan As Police Woman: The Deep Field

2011-01-20T09:30:00.000-08:00

The New Joan As Police Woman album releases in Europe on the 25th of January. See my photographic work:

Three Sisters through Austin Pendleton's filter

2011-01-10T09:35:00.000-08:00

The great director (writer actor teacher) Austin Pendleton has directed a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters with Maggie Gyllenhaal at CSC running now. Go See It.

Bread and Puppet at Theater for the New City

2010-12-17T13:16:00.000-08:00

Worth going to see Bread and Puppet at the Theater for the New City, through Sunday. It's astute political parable as played by John Gavanti, all done on the set of Fellini Satyricon.

Joan As Police Woman: The Magic

2010-12-16T16:03:00.000-08:00

The Magic video from the new album The Deep Field can be seen here.

@ the Gill Scott Heron show

2010-12-07T08:13:00.000-08:00

With Tim Foljahn on the Forty Duece.
Gil: "I put out this record called I'm New Here. The critics said it was dark and angry, 'cause I'd just gotten out of jail. First of all, I've been dark since I was born. Second of all, when you get out of jail, you ain't angry, you are very happy!"

ORDINARY THINGS opening

2010-12-01T06:59:00.000-08:00

ORDINARY THINGS opening

2010-12-01T06:57:00.001-08:00

ORDINARY THINGS opening

2010-12-01T06:56:00.001-08:00

ORDINARY THINGS opening

2010-12-01T06:53:00.000-08:00

Trophy Pictures

2010-11-09T12:10:00.000-08:00

ORDINARY THINGS

2010-11-05T05:59:00.000-07:00

When artists make their private life public

Opening reception: Saturday, November 13, 6-8PM

Carrie Haddad Photographs
318 Warren Street
Hudson, NY. 12534
Tel. 518.828.7655

November 11, 2010 through December 12, 2010

What is it like living with a photographer? Family members, children, spouses, partners, and friends – all those closest to an artist - often see every move or moment of their daily life turned into subject matter. Sometimes these subjects are willing participants, sometimes not. Some open up and give access to intimate situations; others withdraw, lose patience or remain altogether apathetic. The recorded moments can range from heroic life and death struggles to lighter, more quotidian passages of time; morning rituals, the gradual aging of a wife and child, sharing meals, birthday celebrations, arriving home from an afternoon at school.

Together these ordinary images demonstrate ‘sudden lightning flashes of significance’ - a phrase borrowed from writer Virgina Woolf’s 1919 essay, Modern Fiction. In this critical essay on modern novels, Woolf suggests, “Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.” The title of the exhibition is a nod to this line in Woolf’s essay, to the small, familiar moments that fill a day. The corresponding show aims to celebrate the nobility in examining everyday life, and illuminate the complexity and richness of human relationships.

The idea of photographing one’s family is not new, and there is a long history of photographers concerned with the private world of familial relationships and individuality, including Edward Steichen, Sally Mann, Emmet Gowin, Larry Sultan, Nan Goldin and Nicholas Nixon. The work by David Lebe, Harry Wilks, Thatcher Keats, Sabine Delafon and Allyson Levy on exhibit in Ordinary Things, continues in this tradition. It is exciting to make these discoveries and be able to show and make them available to our clients.

In many of the works on exhibit, there exists a pattern of sequential experiences; when viewed as a complete series, these works become fascinating studies of both portraiture and the passage of time. Each image in a series may capture something part ritual, part performance, part obsession, but their overall meaning is discovered only when considered in relation to one another. These photographs connect with us, the viewer/reader, almost instantly, causing us to reflect on our own changes and maturity. In the end, they serve to remind us of the common human experience of joy and suffering, loss and gain. To borrow once more from Ms. Woolf’s essay, “If we want life itself, here surely we have it.”

The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog, available for purchase for $30.00. For more information, please contact the gallery at 518.828.7655 or email hello@carriehaddadphotographs.com.

Dan Wasser: Planet Rock @ As If

2010-09-09T05:31:00.000-07:00

AS IF Gallery is pleased to announce as the inaugural exhibition of its new gallery in Harlem, the first one-person show in NYC by artist Daniel Amazu Wasser. In "Planet Rock", a series of over 40 vibrant collage works, Wasser pays homage to both the Grand Masters of Hip Hop who were the cultural heroes of his youth, as well as to his ancestral and artistic forebearers in the traditional African arts. In so doing he narrates some of the giant societal steps along the way – a journey of survival, uprising and ongoing struggle.

Wasser explains: "Racism, its practices and history, needs to be recalled despite how much progress we have made. We need to keep the dialogue going, keep talking until all the chains are gone!" When Hip Hop surfaced in New York, it gave us something that our generation was craving, and we couldn't get enough of it. It was a combination of rhyme and reason. It gave us a voice, gave us a purpose to be imaginative rather than submit to the mindless meanderings in life. It enabled us to master our own destinies, our crafts, whether making graffiti, rhyming, DJing or breaking. That was a time that awakened me!"

Identity and advocacy are crucial elements of early Rap and Hip Hop. We see the same basic promotional principles at work in Wasser's lyrical imagery. Like collagist Kurt Schwitters, whose prototypical vocal performances were strangely connected to the hypothesis of Rap, Wasser remixes musical and art histories with the fluidity and speed of the DJ or trickster. Pop principles of repetition and multiplication are at play in his "Planet Rock" collages. We witness the evolution from "I AM A MAN" to the individualistic calligraphies of the masters of the New York graffiti underground. Are Wasser's characters, awash in 'bling', any different from the ostentation of the Ziegfield Follies or the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers? They take on the guise of the urban ghetto to effect both a panacea and an escape from institutionalized racism. The emergence of Hip Hop and graffiti was more likely to have reduced crime in New York in the 80s and 90s than Rudolph Giulliani's addition of police to our city's streets. The viral cultures of graffiti and Hip Hop created identity and brought power to the powerless. It became cooler to rap about gangsterism than to do it.

Daniel Amazu Wasser was born in 1971 in Maine and grew up in Norwalk, CT, before moving to New Haven to teach elementary school in the inner city. He has taken part in a number of exhibitions in his home city.

AS IF Gallery is a collaboration between Nicole Rauscher, fabric designer, Seth Tillett, scenographer and artist, and Diego Cortez curator. The gallery is dedicated to their friend Sylvère Lotringer, Editor of Semiotext(e) and the Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series.

For further information please contact Nicole Rauscher

+1 646 338 2140 or asif@asifgallery.com

Gallery Hours by appointment only: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 noon to 6 pm

The Empathetic Photographer Class

2009-12-28T09:19:00.001-08:00

The Photography Class will begin Wednesday, January 27th, 2010.

The class will run for 8 weeks.

Your Host and professor is Thatcher Keats

This class could be called "A Life With Photography"

Issues of technical competence, aesthetic concerns, differing lives in photography, artistic deficiencies, as well as the issue of exploitation and empathy will be addressed through discourse, presentation, and critique sessions.
There will be visiting artists who will present their work to the class.
Much of what will be accomplished is a more active and comfortable relationship with photography. If one shoots landscapes, they will get better taking pictures of people. If you are a a people person, you will work on shooting things or places. We will also consider the issue of fairness in intimate photographs. Think of the class as personal training for your visual sense.

The class is open to anyone with a film or digital camera. Basic knowledge of the operation of one's camera is essential, as this class will cover some technical issues slightly above the Photo 1 level. The ability to make small and rough prints, at home, online, at a lab or in a darkroom will be necessary for aesthetic discussions within the class. The issue of electronic versus analogue imaging will be considered.
Students will also post images online for class perusal, in the form of an electronic diary.

The Classes will be held on Wednesdays starting at 7pm at
The Christopher Henry Gallery,
which is located at 127 Elizabeth just below Broome.

The cost for the 8 sessions in $500.00 (or about $20 an hour).

Thatcher Keats has exhibited at ClampArt, The Christopher Henry Gallery, The National Arts Club, and Fashion Moda, among others. Tinyvices.com hosts a portfolio of his work. Keats has been a guest of Yaddo, and has published a book, Confidence Games, in 2006. Keats has taught publicly and privately in New York for four years, including at the International Center of Photography in 2010.

Please call @ 347-728-1141, or send an email to thatcher.keats@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

thatcherkeats.com
thatcherkeats.blogspot.com

NOTHING HUMAN DISGUSTS ME ...

2009-04-20T20:21:00.000-07:00

... unless it's unkind or violent.

Wed. - Sat. noon-6pm

Thru May 9

The Lugubrious Cafe: Monday Nov. 24, 2008

2008-11-23T19:08:00.001-08:00