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April 8th, 2010
 Christine Schulz, Still from “GODSPEED IV,” 5 mins. 2010 Although it’s a little lower and farther east than we usually tread, there is an interesting public event happening over the next three nights on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage (at intersections of Front St./Pearl/Anchorage Place in Dumbo). “Force of Forward,” curated by Leo Kuelbs Collection, is a screening by four video artists with international backgrounds, focusing on ideas of momentum and forward motion. The program begins at sundown and is comprised of four short videos (mostly around 5 minutes) set to loop until Midnight. March 3rd, 2010
 Cathryn Davis Zommer. Her film, Fully Awake, screens this weekend. It wasn’t until North Carolina native Cathryn Davis Zommer moved to New York City in 1998 that she discovered the intriguing story of Black Mountain College. An experiment in education that began in 1933 and ended just 24 years later, the school is still praised for it’s profound influence on modern art and progressive education. “I was an intern at the Charlie Rose show and some of the guests that came in kept talking about Black Mountain College,” Zommer told me recently. Continue reading LES Filmmaker Cathryn Davis Zommer “Awakens” March 1st, 2010
Make sure to catch Derrick Adams‘ solo exhibit, Welcome To Monument City, at the Collette Blanchard Gallery on Clinton St. (it closes Wednesday). We recently visited with Derrick at the gallery and he told us a little about his inspiration and intentions for the show. February 28th, 2010
“Cages,” by artist Afruz Amighi, is a wonderful show that is closing today at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (21 Orchard Street). I was able to do an interview with Amighi where she talked about the story behind her illuminating sculpture pieces.
February 23rd, 2010
If you’ve noticed our art postings flourishing over the last few weeks, it’s thanks to our newest intern and arts contributor, Ashlie Cotton. Ashlie recently visited the Ramiken Crucible Gallery on E. Broadway for a video interview with artist Shane Caffrey about an exciting and creative community event coming up in March.
 The Olympic Committee: left to right - Mike Egan, Ted Riederer, Nicholas Brooks, Jason Losh, and Shane Caffrey. Photo by Allison Bosworth - afiala.carbonmade.com
A group of unsung heroes is rallying for a highly anticipated event, The Art Handling Olympics, coming to Ramiken Crucible Gallery on March 21st. WHAT exactly is an Art Handler, you ask? Well, he or she is the invisible pair of hands behind every piece of art that is packaged, transported and installed in galleries and museums throughout the city. November 23rd, 2009
We stopped by the opening party for Malachi Farrell's exhibit, The Shops Are Closed, at Abrons Arts Center on Friday. Along with a version of his famous electronically animated air-conditioning tubes, there is a sculptural installation involving two missiles "on vacation" with an audio track (see video below), various projected video animations and even some shoes thrown over a wire, strung across the courtyard at Abrons. Malachi told us about the show (held in concurrently with his show Malachi Farrell: Strange Fruit in the Streets, at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects) and talked about why the shoes hanging from wire are such an intriguing urban symbol. (Although he denies it, we think Malachi was most likely doing a tribute to The Lo-Down's logo.) November 20th, 2009
It was a raucous, tense evening inside the filled-beyond-capacity auditorium of P.S. 20 on Essex Street Wednesday night (see video after the jump). Hundreds of parents came to speak out against the Department of Education’s proposed plans to accommodate the expansion of the Girls Prep Charter School. The crowd was overflowing into the aisles and out into the school’s entryway. People carried signs, chanted, heckled DOE officials and shouted down other parents. The unmistakable message: there’s no room for Girls Prep in any of their schools. Continue reading Girls Prep Debate Attracts Huge Crowd, Stirs High Emotions November 11th, 2009
The Lo-Down attended the opening reception for Puerto Rico Fest 2009 at the Clemente Soto Velez arts center last weekend. The reception was held in the LES and Abrazo Interno Gallery where there is a special exhibit celebrating the life of Clemente Soto Velez himself. The festival is hosted by SEA, The Society of the Educational Arts, Inc., a bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization & Latino Theatre Company for Young Audiences. Visit the Puerto Rico Fest website for a full schedule of events continuing through November. Here are a few words from the producer/director of the festival, Dr. Manuel A. Moran. November 10th, 2009
Earlier this year, the stretch of Orchard Street just below Broome found itself at the epicenter of the city's banh mi hysteria. The brand new restaurant, An Choi, helped fuel the frenzy for the Vietnamese street food phenom. Now, across the street, the guys behind Orchard Street's new South African outpost are hoping bunny chow will become the new banh mi. Bunny chow consists of a hollowed out hunk of bread filled with curry stew, and topped with a chutney. Popular in Durban, it's a messy affair – meant to be eaten with your hands. The hearty dish is a fast-food staple in much of South Africa. Recently, I stopped by the restaurant, which has been named after its signature dish, to talk with co-owners Paul Simeon, who was the chef at New York's South African trailblazer, Madiba, and Manu Dhingra, a partner in Bunny Chow" predecessor "Sonia Rose." |
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