street fashion

At ease in baseball caps.

burlesque

Rave review for this steamy burlesque version of the Nutcracker, now through Jan. 5th at NYC's Minetta Lane Theatre:

it felt like i knew you

Taking exhibition sleep to new heights?  Perchance to dream?  Aye, there's the rub with a daring subway performance art piece from George Ferrandi.

Antonellapavesse.com also comments here on a city that always sleeps on its underground along with 800 more pictures of  Big Apple MTA snoozing.  The blogger observes, "New York is the city that is chronically sleep deprived and takes naps on the subway."

street fashion

This writer in red plaid.

To sleep, perchance to Dream ..

Aye, there's the rub, in Tilda Swinton's  performance art piece, The Maybe, currently running at MoMA with random unannounced appearances throughout the year, each time in a different location in the museum.

The Gothamist carries photos here, reporting she's there today (March 25th), maybe and if you hurry over.

More photos at this link.

Ms. Swinton originally staged The Maybe with artist Cornelia Parker in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, then continuing solo in Rome and Paris.  MoMA's exhibition is part of an effort to bring back historic performance art.  Chief Curator Klaus Biesenbach and the artist have been discussing MoMA's inclusion of The Maybe since 2005.

*Photo credits/top, posted by the Gothamist/middle, Gothamist, photographer: Jen Chung/bottom, Gothamist, via gallerinaoffduty's Instagram, signage for The Maybe at MoMA/Various views of "The Maybe" with artist Tilda Swinton, currently running randomly at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City.

quay brothers

From the Brothers Quay, their 1986 Street Of Crocodiles.  MOMA had a retrospective last year reviewed by Roberta Smith.  Also a slideshow here from that exhibit, a MOMA video interview with the artist/filmmakers, and a video overview with MOMA curators from ThirteenWNET.

 

street fashion

Just love this New York Times video, Dandies In The West Village, speaking with random pedestrians about their great sense of street fashion.

the event of a thread

Ann Hamilton's installation, the event of a thread, opens at the Park Avenue Armory through January 6th.  Roberta Smith has a review here, replete with photostream and video, detailing the engineering of an immense, billowing white curtain strung throughout the rafters of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall's vast and seemingly cetological interior.  The cords and curtains toss and dance, put into motion by the audience, as individuals are pushed by one another on huge swing planks suspended on long cords from the towering ceiling.  Other visitors choose to perhaps lay beneath the waves of curtain or walk around holding radios wrapped in brown paper to their ears, listening to literature transmissions "murmured" by actors seated somberly at a refectory table and while a writer scribbles on a miked surface, seated off by herself in a corner.  Pigeons are supposed to be released at the end of each day, to fly around the space and then be homed back into their cages.

The work is described as reminiscent of Christo and Jean-Claude's 1972 outdoor land-art piece Valley Curtain.  Ms. Hamilton is also a weaver and has an extensive background in textiles.

new york narrative

Or, a history in 50 objects.













*Photo credit/New York Times/posted by Sam Roberts/The Automat Machine, 1912