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Grey Art Gallery
www.nyu.edu/greyart
100 Washington Square East
212 998 6780

New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection
July 19, 2008

Deitch Projects
www.deitch.com
18 Wooster St.
212 343 7300

Substraction
Through May 24, 2008

Participant Inc.
www.participantinc.org
253 East Houston St.
212 254 4334

Alice O’Malley: Community of Elsewheres
Through May 4, 2008

Miguel Abreu Gallery
www.miguelabreugallery.com
36 Orchard St.
212 995 1774

Blake Rayne
Through May 18, 2008

Lehmann Maupin
www.lehmannmaupin.com
201 Chrystie St.
212 254 0054

You & Me, Sometimes
Through May 10 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art 2008-5-1 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_165 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_192 Peter Blum
www.peterblumgallery.com
526 West 29th St
212 244 6055

Rudolf De Crignis: Paintings 1992-2006
April 24 – June 14, 2008

Paul Kasmin Gallery
www.paulkasmingallery.com
293 10th Ave.
212 563 4474

Walton Ford
May 8 – July 3, 2008

Robert Miller Gallery
www.robertmillergallery.com
524 West 26th St.
212 366 4774

Joseph La Piana: Kinetic State
March 27 – May 3, 2008

Gary Snyder
www.garysnyderart.com
250 West 26th St.
212 818 1351

Tadaaki Kuwayama: Paintings from the 1970’s
March 7 – May 24, 2008

Cheim & Read
www.cheimread.com
547 West 25th St.
212 242 7727

Milton Resnick: A Question of Seeing, Paintings 1959-1963
May 1 – June 7, 2008

Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
www.lennonweinberg.com
514 West 25th St.
212 941 0012

Joan Mitchell: Paintings and Pastels 1973-1983
May 1 – June 21, 2008

Charles Cowles Gallery
www.cowlesgallery.com
537 West 24th
212 741 8999

Roberto Juarez
April 17 – May 17, 2008 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit,Chelsea Galleries 2008-5-1 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_192 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_194
Acquavella
www.acquavellagalleries.com
18 East 79th St.
212 734 6300

Fausto Melotti
April 16 – June 13, 2008

Gagosian Gallery
www.gagosian.com
980 Madison Ave @ 76th St.
212 744 2313

Lichtenstein Girls
May 12 – June 28, 2008

Zwirner & Wirth
www.zwirnerandwirth.com
32 E. 69th St.
212 517 8959

Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Exhibition
March 6 – May 3, 2008

Edelmen Arts
info@edelmanarts.com
47 East 63rd St.
212 472 7770

Dennis Oppenheim: My Mind is My House
May 8 – June 28, 2008 ]]> Pompei A.D. Exhibit 2008-5-01 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_194 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_124
Richard Meier's Studio
Arranged by appointment: 212 967 6060

Friday visits to Richard Meier's Studio

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
www.ps1.org
22-25 Jackson Ave. @ 46th Ave.
Long Island City, Queens
718 784 2064

Take Your Line: Olafur Eliasson
April 13 - June 30, 2008

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
Through May 12, 2008

Noguchi Museum
www.noguchi.org
32-37 Vernon Boulevard
Long Island City, Queens
718 204 7088

Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi
Through May 25, 2008

BRONX

Bronx Museum of the Arts
www.bronxmuseum.org
1040 Grand Concourse @ 165th St.
718 681 6000

A new building by the Arquitectonica Firm
Ongoing

BROOKLYN

The Brooklyn Museum
www.brooklynmuseum.org
200 Eastern Parkway @ Prospect Park
718 638 5000

About Time: 700 years of European Painting
Long-Term Installation

Murkami
Through July 5, 2008

Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900
Through June 15 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit,PS 1,New York City 2008-4-30 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_124 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_126
Centre George Pompidou
www.centrepompidou.fr
Place Georges Pompidou
75004
01 44 78 12 33

Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective
March 5, 2008 – June 2, 2008

GREAT BRITAIN

Sadie Coles HQ
www.sadiecoles.com
69 South Audley Street
London W1K 2QZ
44 20 7434 2227

John Currin
April 2 – May 10, 2008 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Europe,Exhibit 2008-4-30 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_126 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_127
Chichu Art Museum
www.chichu.jp/
Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation
3449-1 Naoshima, Kagawa 761-3110 Japan
81 (0) 87 892 3755

Claude Monet, Walter De Maria, James Turrell, Tadao Ando

CHINA

Galleria Continua / Beijing
www.galleriacontinua.com
2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst.
Dashanzi 798, 100015
Beijing
86 643 61 005

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Opening January 19, 2008 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit 2008-4-30 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_127 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_193
The Dan Flavin Art Institute
www.diaart.org
Corwith Avenue off Main St.
631 537 1476

Dan Flavin Retrospective
Permanent Exhibit

EAST HAMPTON

The Drawing Room
www.drawingroom-gallery.com
16R Newton Lane
631 324 5016

Sharon Horvath: Peaceable
April 25 – May 26, 2008 ]]> Pompei A.D. Exhibit 2008-4-30 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_193 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_336 Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure
At the New York Botanical Garden

“Charles Darwin is best known for his theory of evolution and other natural history achievements, but little is known about his enduring and insightful work with plants and the important role they played in formulating his ideas. Yet from cradle to grave, botany played a pivotal role in Darwin's life. From counting peonies and playing under the apple trees in his father's garden as a boy to collecting "all the plants in flower" on his famous voyage to the Galápagos as a young man and testing the sex and sensitivity of plants at his home, Down House, in his later years, plants were a lifelong preoccupation for Darwin.

Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure explores the untold story of Darwin's botanical influences, his research, and his contribution to our understanding of plants, and ultimately, of life in general. The exhibition is featured in three Botanical Garden venues and includes an "evolutionary tour" of living plants that demonstrate key points on the tree of life, which links all living beings through a common ancestry.

A symposium with leading Darwin scholars headlines the list of events and programs scheduled throughout the duration of the show.” ]]> Pompei A.D. Events,Weekend 2008-05-08 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_336 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_335 Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum

"The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist’s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space.

Born in Tokyo in 1962, Murakami is one of the most influential and acclaimed artists to have emerged from Asia in the late twentieth century, creating a wide-ranging body of work that consciously bridges fine art, design, animation, fashion, and popular culture. He received a Ph.D. from the prestigious Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he was trained in the school of traditional Japanese painting known as Nihonga, a nineteenth-century mixture of Western and Eastern styles. However, the prevailing popularity of anime (animation) and manga (comic books) directed his interest toward the art of animation because, as he has said, “it was more representative of modern day Japanese life.” American popular culture in the form of animation, comics, and fashion are among the influences on his work, which includes painting, sculpture, installation, and animation, as well as a wide range of collectibles, multiples, and commercial products.

The exhibition © MURAKAMI explores the self-reflexive nature of Murakami’s oeuvre by focusing on earlier work produced between 1992 and 2000 in which the artist attempts to explore his own reality through an investigation of branding and identity, as well as through self-portraiture created since 2000. Two works examining these subjects were a part of a group show, My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, presented at the Brooklyn Museum in 2001.

Among the works included in this large-scale survey tracing the trajectory of Murakami’s artistic development are many of his acclaimed sculpture figures including the 23-foot-high Tongari-kun (2003–4); Miss Ko2 (1997), a long-legged waitress who has become one of the artist’s signature characters; and Hiropon (1997), a Japanese girl jumping a rope created by milk spurting from her gargantuan breasts. Among the paintings on view will be Tan Tan Bo (2001), as well as Tan Tan Bo Puking—a.k.a. Gero Tan (2002). " ]]> Pompei A.D. Events,Weekend 2008-05-02 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_335 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_122
The Jewish Museum
www.thejewishmuseum.org
1109 5th Ave @ 92nd. St.
212 423 3200

Warhol’s Jews: 10 Portraits Reconsidered
Through August 3, 2008

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
www.cooperhewitt.org
2 East 91st St.
212 849 8400

Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1703- 2008
Through July 6, 2008

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org
Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St.
212 535 7710

The New Greek and Roman Galleries
Opens to the public April 20

Jasper Johns: Gray
February 5 – May 4, 2008

Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
January 22 – May 11, 2008

Tibetan Arms and Armor From the Permanent Colletion
Through Fall 2009

Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Through May 11, 2008

Gustave Courbet
Through May 18, 2008

Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens
Through June 1, 2008

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
www.guggenheim.org
1071 Fifth Ave. @ 89th St.
212 423 3500

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
February – May, 2008

The Whitney Museum
www.whitney.org
945 Madison @ 75th St.
1 800 944 8693

Whitney Biennial 2008: Where American Art Stands Today
March 6 – June 1, 2008

Asia Society
www.asiasociety.org
725 Park Ave. @ 70th St.
212 288 6400

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860
Through May 4, 2008

MIDTOWN

Museum of Modern Art
www.moma.org
11 West 53rd St.
212 708 9400

Design and the Elastic Mind
February 24 – May 12, 2008

Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Through May 12, 2008

International Center of Photography
www.icp.org
1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St.
212 857 0000

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
Through May 4, 2008

Japan Society
www.japansociety.org
333 East 47th St.
212 832 1155

The Genius of Japanese Lacquer: Masterworks by Shibata Zeshin
Through June 15

The Morgan Library and Museum
www.morganlibrary.org
225 Madison Ave @ 36th St
212 685 0008

Philip Guston: Works on Paper
May 2 – August 31, 2008 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,MoMA,Exhibit,New York City 2008-05-01 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_122 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_164
The Yale University Art Gallery
www. artgallery.yale.edu
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
203 432 0600

Remodeled Louis Kahn building
Ongoing

MASSACHUSETTS

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
www.massmoca.org
87 Marshall Street
North Adams, Mass.
413 662 2111

Anselm Kiefer: Sculpture and Paintings From the Hall Collection
Through 2008

Jenny Holzer: Projections
November 18, 2007 - Fall 2008

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
www.mfa.org
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
617 267 9300

Jim Lambie, Musical Chairs
In the I.M. Pei Wing
November 10, 2007 – May 25, 2008

Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art, part of the Smithsonian
www.americanart.si.edu/reynolds
8th and F Streets, NW
202 633 1000

Norman Foster’s new courtyard addition
Opens November, 2007

SEATTLE, WA

Henry Art Gallery
www.henryart.org
University of Washington
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St.
206 543 2280

James Turrell: Light Reign
Permanent sky space with exterior lamination

LOS ANGELES

Gemini G.E.L
www.geminigel.com
8365 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
323 651 0513

Richard Serra: Venice Notebook Series
Ongoing

Ann Hamilton: Face
Ongoing

Bruce Nauman: Infrared Outtakes
Ongoing

John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc.: The Gemini Series, 2006
Ongoing

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323 857 6000

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum: Renzo Piano’s building at LACMA
Scheduled to open in February, 2008


Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA
www.lacma.org/info/GeneralTransformingOpening.html

Inagural Exhibition: 180 Works on view. 30 from Eli Broad. Others include Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Ellsworth Kelly.
Opens February 15, 2008

Museum of Contemporary Art
www.moca.org
250 Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213 626 6222

Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective
November 25, 2008 – January 1, 2009

LA Contemporary
www.lacontemporary.com
2634 South La Cienga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310 559 6200

Robert Rauschenberg: Samarkand Stitches
April 12 – May 11, 2008 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit 2008-04-30 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_164 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_334 The Fifth Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair

Over 100 Community Organizations. Music. Art. Poetry. Dance. Film. Hip-Hop. Spoken Word.

Speakers and presenters include: Debbie Almontaser, Eric Adams, Major Owens, and more!

Performances by: Abiodun (Last Poets), Aja Monet (Def Poet), Ajah-Yo, Amanda Diva and friends, Dragons of Zynth, Invincible (Anomolies), Queen Gods, Ra Hendrix, Remi Kanazi, Spiritchild, Stephanie Roker and more! ]]> Pompei A.D. Events,Weekend 2008-04-25 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_334 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_333 Imrpov Comedy Show: Statues of Liberty

“Coming straight out of Chicago, USA, the Land of Lincoln, these four cats bring a funk unsmelt before in New York City. Flowing like amber waves of grain and poppin' off like the rockets red glare, it's fast, it's outrageous, it's dangerous, it's hilarious, it's rock 'n roll lil mama, so plug it in, baby! So...Are you ready to breathe free?”

Featuring: Peter McNerney, Nick Kanellis, Chris Hejl, Russ Armstrong
Directed by: Christian Capozzoli of 4-TRACK

Friday, April 18; 11:30pm

Magnet Theater
254 West 29th Street
New York, NY 10001
212 244 8824

http://magnettheater.com/

$5 ]]> Pompei A.D. Events,Weekend 2008-04-18 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_333 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_332 The Art Monastery Project Fundraiser Galla

“The Art Monastery Project, an arts production house and artist's community in a monastery in Italy, is coming to the Big Apple! Come and meet the Alpha Team, see the art, hear the music, watch the dance. An evening jam-packed with entertainment, silent art auction, tasty Italian tidbits, and more!”

Saturday, April 12; 7:00pm

Shepard Hall at the City College of New York's Architectural Center
Convent Avenue near 138th Street, 3rd floor

Rsvp: ben@artmonastery.org

$20 student
$40 suggested
$60 deluxe (includes a drink ticket and an entry for the door prize) ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2008-04-11 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_332 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_330 The Armory Show

“Recession be damned! The Armory Show takes over the city this weekend with the world’s most prominent art dealers hawking works at whimper-inducing prices. Now in its tenth year, the show has established itself as one of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs, and early reports confirm that business is on as usual: A Lichtenstein painting has already sold for close to $1 million. Accordingly, smaller fairs like Pulse Contemporary Art Fair and Scope New York take advantage of the feeding frenzy, featuring less mainstream dealers and niche art pieces, but the Armory Show, which commissioned works from John Waters this year, remains the big boy on the block. — Michael Alan Connelly”

Through March 30th
Thursday-Saturday, 12pm-8pm; Sunday, 12pm-7pm

Pier 94
755 Twelfth Ave.
at 55th St.
212-645-6440 ]]> Pompei A.D. Graphic Design,Events,Weekend 2008-03-28 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_330 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_329 Pillow Fight NYC

“A global phenomena comes to Union Square. Grab your fluffiest down pillow and prepare to beat the stuffing out of strangers--literally!

A massive pillow fight in New York City! Feathers fly and teddies soar as we gather for a massive urban pillow fight! Swing and whack as you evade pillow-wielding assailants. Bring a pillow to Union Square and wait for the signal. Pillow fight!

Costumes and funky pillows encouraged."

Saturday, March 22nd at 3:00pm
Union Square Park
East 14th Street and Broadway

Cost: FREE

http://www.newmindspace.com/ ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2008-03-21 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_329 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_326 The International Asian Art Fair

Since its launch in 1996, The International Asian Art Fair has been regarded as the world's leading Asian art fair and the centerpiece of New York's annual Asia Week. Leading dealers from the United States, Europe and the Far East, offer works of art from across the Near East, South East Asia and the Far East, including the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. The International Asian Art Fair presents museums and private collectors with a rare and very special opportunity to view and buy from among the finest Asian art currently on the market. There is a wide range of these art works on view, from antiquity up to contemporary.

Saturday 15th March - Wednesday 19th March
Saturday 11am - 7.30pm; Sunday 2pm - 7.30pm;
Monday and Tuesday 11am - 7.30pm; Wednesday 11am - 4.30pm

Admission: $20 ]]> 2008-03-14 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_326 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_327 2008 Benefit
Live Auction
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Artwork by approximately 75 contemporary artists will be on view from May 6 – May 17, 2008. Silent bidding on the majority of lots is open to the public during that time. A live auction for select lots will be held on the evening of May 17. Tickets start at $150 and can be reserved by calling 212 924 4212.

www.whitecolumns.org

]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events 2008-03-14 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_327 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_325 Whitney Museum Biennial 2008

“The 2008 Biennial, the seventy-fourth in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions held since 1932, presents eighty-one artists working at a time when art production is above all characterized by heterogeneity and dispersal. However, within the enormously differentiated field that we (perhaps absurdly) continue to yoke under the term “contemporary art,” certain prevalent modes of working and thematic concerns are particularly germane to the moment.

Many of the projects presented in the exhibition explore fluid communication structures and systems of exchange that index larger social, political, and economic contexts, often aiming to invert the more object-oriented operations of the art market. Recurring concerns involve a nuanced investigation of social, domestic, and public space and its translation into form—primarily sculptural, but also photographic and cinematic. Many artists reconcile rigorous formal and conceptual underpinnings with personal narratives or historical references. While numerous works demonstrate an explicit or implicit engagement with art history, particularly the legacy of modernism, as well as a pronounced interest in questioning the staging and display of art, others chart the topography and architecture of the decentralized American city and take inspiration from postindustrial landscapes and urban decay. Using humble or austere materials or employing calculated messiness or modes of deconstruction, they present works distinguished by their poetic sensibility as they discover pockets of beauty in sometimes unexpected places.

There is an evident trend toward creating work of an ephemeral, event-based character, in the form of music and other performance, movement workshops, radio broadcasts, publishing projects, community-based activities, film screenings, culinary gatherings, or lectures. Such projects do not stand in opposition to institutions; rather, considering each of these multiple platforms equally important, artists show objects in the museum or gallery even as they seek ways to complicate and transcend its parameters. In this spirit, from March 6–23 the 2008 Biennial continues at Park Avenue Armory with an extensive program of events and performances. ]]> Pompei A.D. Events,Weekend 2008-03-06 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_325 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_323 75 Years of Architecture at MoMA

“MoMA's Department of Architecture, founded in 1932, was the world's first curatorial department of its kind. This exhibition of drawings and models from the collection celebrates the department's seventy-fifth birthday and demonstrates the development of its collecting practice, with several recent acquisitions on view. The installation examines themes in the history of modern architecture—including organicism and expressionism; urbanism; visionary architecture; and the art of drawing—that were overlooked in MoMA's inaugural architecture exhibition, Modern Architecture: An International Exhibition, which defined the International Style for several generations. 75 Years of Architecture at MoMa is on view through March 10, 2008.” ]]> Pompei A.D. Events,Weekend 2008-02-28 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_323 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_320 The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival

www.NYADFF.org

Cuba, An African Odyssey (2007) 118min
Sat, Feb 23 at 2pm
Wed, Feb 27 at 4:30pm

Directed by Jihan el Tahri, France

“This enthralling documentary describes the intensive Cuban support for African liberation movements. Beginning with Che Guevara’s mission into the Congo after the assassination of Lumumba and Cuba’s support of Amílcar Cabral’s decolonization movement in Guinea-Bissau, the film traces the pivotal role played by Cuba’s international policy in helping independence struggles on the Africa continent.” In French, English, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish with English subtitles.

No Time To Die (2006) 95min
Sat, Feb 23 at 4:30pm
Mon, Feb 25 at 4:30pm

Directed by King Ampaw, Ghana/Germany

“In this beguiling, comical love story by renowned Ghanaian filmmaker Ampaw, a hearse driver will do anything to win a lady's affections—from offering to convoy dead bodies of her relations to showering her with gifts of grasscutter meat and driving out to Kokrobite Beach to see her. However, the suitor faces very stiff opposition from his father-in-law to be, who vows that his daughter will not marry a hearse driver.”

A Winter Tale (2007) 100min
Sat, Feb 23 at 6:50pm*
Mon, Feb 25 at 6:50pm*
*Q&A with filmmakers

Directed by Frances-Anne Solomon, Canada

“Set against the backdrop of a multicultural community’s unrealized hopes and dreams, A Winter Tale is bitter and tragic, yet funny and hopeful. The film tells a uniquely Canadian story featuring the city of Toronto as a central character, while also revealing the universal story of Black men looking to assert their humanity.”

Made in Jamaica (2006) 110min
Sat, Feb 23 at 9:30pm
Tue, Feb 26 at 9:30pm

Directed by Jerome Laperrousaz, Jamaica/France/US

“This thrilling musical documentary presents an overview of the reggae music movement from past and present. Touching on issues including ghetto violence; the history of slavery and colonization; the legacy of Bob Marley; the Rasta movement; and sex, women, and their role in reggae, Made in Jamaica explores the multifaceted reality of reggae music. Features interviews and performances with artists Capleton, Elephant Man, Bunny Wailer, Toots & the Maytals, Bounty Killer, Gregory Isaacs, Tanya Stephens, Beres Hammond, and more.”

Iron Ladies of Liberia (2007) 77min
Sun, Feb 24 at 2pm
Thu, Feb 28 at 4:30pm

Directed by Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge, US

“After nearly two decades of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. Follow Liberia’s newly elected president
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first freely elected female head of state in Africa, and other extraordinary women she placed in leadership positions, as they strive to improve the daily life of their people, renegotiate the debt, face internal corruption, and multiple other social, economic and political crises during their first year in office.” In French with English subtitles.

African Americans in Exile Program 97min
Sun, Feb 24 at 6:50pm
Wed, Feb 27 at 7pm
Black as Ink (1997) 52min France

Directed by Jacques Goldstein and Blaise N’Djehoya

“This thought-provoking film details the migration of African-American writers to France at the end of WWII— writers such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Chester Himes, and Gordon Parks.” In English and French with English subtitles. ]]> Anna Engelbrekston Events,Weekend 2008-02-21 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_320 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_319 Michael Gondry: Be Kind Rewind

"Be Kind Rewind, an exhibition of new work by Michel Gondry, opens at Deitch Projects on February 16, 2008, shortly before his identically titled film is released in theaters. ]]> Pompei A.D. Events,Weekend 2008-02-15 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_319 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_318
New York’s annual flamenco celebration, now in its eighth year, features dancers, vocalists and guitarists direct from Spain in a mesmerizing display ranging from flamenco puro to innovative new works. This year’s festival includes artists who were highlights from previous years: celebrated dancers Merche Esmeralda, Eva Yerbabuena, and Rocío Molina; vocal giants Carmen Linares and Miguel Poveda; guitar maestros Tomatito and Juan Carlos Romero; and the captivating Latin Grammy-nominated group Son de la Frontera. New to the festival are two rising stars – vocalist Diana Navarro and dancer Pastora Galván in her New York debut - and the superb dancer Belén Maya. The festival includes for the first time the participation of Mario Maya, who will be directing the gala program, Mujeres. The New York Flamenco Festival 2008 is dedicated to the vitality of the flamenco arts of Andalucía, the birthplace of flamenco.

February 8 – 24, 2008

http://www.worldmusicinstitute.org/flamenco/ ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City 2008-02-07 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_318 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_315 “First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum”

At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment the first Saturday of each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of food and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City 2008-02-01 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_315 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_313 The Bamboo Kids (with The Anabolics and The Mighty Five)

"Pounding out rock'n'roll devoid of irony or trends, NYC's Bamboo Kids seem to be one of only a few bands that have no wall dividing their hearts from their music. No wall dividing gutter-fun from social conscience. Cheep booze and sex, share the same space in their world as Iraq and civil rights."

Saturday, January 26th, 7:30 p.m.

Magnetic Field
97 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
718 834-0069

$8 ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2008-01-25 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_313 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_312 Seher Shah: “Jihad Pop”

“Seher Shah was voted one of the most significant emerging artists in 2007 by Frieze Magazine. Her work navigates the many permutations of personal nostalgia. Shah’s black and white prints and drawings explore the dimensions and incarnations of the geometry of the Cube with its multiple associations and connections within the Islamic cultural collective. The exhibition is comprised of large-scale drawings as well as work that ranges in size down to a series of small print details. The impetus of her artistic exploration is the space of memory. This began with her personal recollection and retracing of iconic Islamic spaces and forms. Shah’s drawings begin to illustrate the infinite possible permutations of individual conceptions of the idea of the collective Cube or Kaaba form.”

Opening Reception with the artist: Friday January 11, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Show runs from January 11 – February 23

Boce Pacia Gallery
508 West 26th Street
11th Floor
212.989.7074 ]]> Ron Pompei New York City,Events,Weekend 2008-01-11 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_312 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_311 Guggenheim Museum First Fridays

“Enjoy a drink with friends, explore the galleries, and listen to some of the best DJs in town, all in the spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building. Open from 9 PM to 1 AM, admission is $25.”

Friday January 4th, 9 p.m.

Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave. ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2008-01-04 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_311 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_310 In The Evening: Norton Records Holiday Spectacular

“Reigning Sound with MARY WEISS (lead singer of the Shangri-Las), The A Bones, Luis [amp] The Wildfires, The Nouvellas...special guests including Roy Loney, The Mighty Hannibal, Handsome Dick Manitoba [amp] more...”

Saturday, December 15th 8 p.m.

Southpaw
125 Fifth Ave.
Brooklyn

PH: 718.230.0236

$15 advanced tickets

NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program Student Show

"Featuring the experimental video, screen and installation-based works from classes on: Video Art, 2 x 2, and Interactive Screens and Cinematic Objects."

Sunday, December 16th 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Monday, December 17th 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor (cross street Waverly Place) ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-12-14 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_310 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_309 “Invasion” Draw-a-thon

“Michael Alan and friends bring you 10 hours of live models for one of the coolest, strangest “performance art modeling” events every weekend in December, featuring live music and theatrical situations to draw from life.”

Saturday, December 8th, 2 sessions: 4-8pm and 8pm-1am.

64 East 4th street, 2nd floor
between Bowery and 2nd avenue.

First session: $15, second session: $15, whole marathon: $24
]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-12-07 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_309 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_308 vBrooklyn – A Video Festival in Brooklyn

“The vBrooklyn video-festival documents Brooklyn, NY's, evolving cityscape, culture and people with contemporary video-art.

The festival presents innovative and entertaining video-artists through live video-performances, screenings and installations.

Brooklyn's urban development and population has hit critical-mass — vBrooklyn asked video-artists to tape the borough before it permanently transforms, building a visual historic record through personal interpretation and documentation.”

Saturday, December 1st, 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 2nd, 1-6 p.m.

Wunsch Hall
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
718 260-3600 ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-11-30 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_308 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_304 Nordic Shorts: New Short Films from Sweden

“For years, Nordic short films have been presented at major film festivals around the world, regularly winning top international prizes. This fall Scandinavia House presents the Nordic Shorts series, a wide-ranging survey spanning many styles and genres that introduces some of the finest new shorts by the next generation of Nordic filmmakers. The series began with seven short films by Finnish directors on October 18 and continues with films by Swedish directors on Thursday, November 15 at 6:30 pm, and shorts from Denmark and Norway in the spring of 2008 (dates TBA). The Swedish shorts will be followed by a Q[amp]A with several of the directors.”

Thursday, November 15, 6:30 pm
Saturday, November 17, 5:30 pm

Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue at 38th Street, New York City.
(212) 879-9779

$8 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,SoHo,Exhibit,New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-11-16 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_304 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_303 Kino! 2007 – Part of the Berlin Art Exhibition at MoMA

“MoMA's twenty-eighth annual survey of contemporary German cinema is augmented by Berlin in Lights, a citywide celebration of the arts in Berlin, organized by Carnegie Hall.

a selection of Berlin-set films from the past ten years that celebrate the return of Berlin as a filmmaking capital. These include Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others, and Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, as well as the Hissen brothers' Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Wrapped Reichstag. Of particular interest are Andreas Dresen's well-regarded comic drama Night Shapes, which has yet to be distributed in the U.S., and the American premiere of Manfred Wilhelms's wordless documentary about Berlin's fourth architectural renaissance, Berlin—Pictures of a City. All films are from Germany and in German, with English subtitles, except where noted.”

November 1st through the 14th

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street ]]> Brittany Myers MoMA,Exhibit,Museum,New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-11-09 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_303 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_299 The ING New York City Marathon

"The premier event of New York Road Runners, the ING New York City Marathon is one of the world's great road races, drawing more than 90,000 applicants. The race attracts many world-class professional athletes, not only for the more than $600,000 in prize money, but also for the chance to excel in the media capital of the world before two million cheering spectators and 315 million worldwide television viewers. As any one of the more than 700,000 past participants will attest, crossing the finish line in Central Park is one of the great thrills of a lifetime."

Sunday November 4th

Official starts are from 8am to 10:08 a.m.

Live Coverage on Channel 4 (WMBC) begins at 9 a.m. ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-11-01 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_299 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_297 Art Show: Karin Sander

At first, this show of all-white paintings with scuff marks and plastic bands seems like an annoying riff on Robert Ryman—and then you realize that all of these paintings were mailed to the gallery, and the marks created by the USPS. You’re seeing the wear and tear of time on objects that aren’t afforded special “art” status, and yet you also get a sense of government as somehow artistic. These could be an interesting footnote to the monochrome tradition by way of Situationism. — Jerry Saltz

Now through November 3rd
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

D'Amelio Terras Gallery
525 W. 22nd St ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-10-26 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_297 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_295 13th Annual Tour de Bronx

“New York's Largest Free Cycling Event! The 25-mile and 40-mile routes will take riders onto the Sheridan Expressway, which will be closed for the Tour de Bronx. Don't miss this special chance to see the Bronx from a whole new point of view!”

Sunday, October 21st

Register before Friday, October 19th at 5pm

Check website for registration, check-in locations and times. ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-10-19 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_295 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_293
The opening is Friday, November 9, from 6pm to 10pm, at 161 Avenue of the Americas (Spring Street), second floor. Please direct inquiries to Monte Bartlett at 212 431 1262.

The gallery is located at the headquarters of architecture and branding firm Pompei A.D. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, and Saturday 12pm-4pm. The gallery will be closed from Wednesday, November 21 until Monday, November 26.

As the title suggests, women are the focus of the exhibit and Aiello’s expertise in various styles. The selection of works from various periods of his nearly five-decade career gives this collection of nudes the distinction of being quite varied while also cohering as a single body of work.

Pompei A.D. founder Ron Pompei personally curated Aiello’s work for this 45-year survey. According to Pompei, “The immense diversity of Aiello’s work awakens the innate potential to appreciate our own erupting visions and worlds unfolding in a primordial grove down the lane from where we live. We seldom remember the path leading there from our greener years. Aiello brings it around again.” ]]> Exhibit,Painting,New York City,Events,C3 Gallery 2007-10-15 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_293 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_292 Andreas Feininger - Stockholm 1933 – 1939

“This exhibition features 51 photographs of Stockholm, Sweden by the German-American photographer Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) taken between 1933 and 1939. Best known today for his stunning urban panoramas of Manhattan and the extreme close-ups of natural objects he took during his 20 years as a staff photographer for Life Magazine, Feininger began his career in Stockholm in the 1930s. Trained at the Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany, he moved to Paris and then Stockholm when the Nazis came to power and quickly established himself as one of Sweden’s foremost architectural photographers. The Stockholm photographs reflect his architectural training as well as Bauhaus theories of photography considered provocative by the Swedish establishment in the 1930s. During Feininger’s years in Stockholm he developed the techniques and themes he was to explore throughout his long career, honing his photographic vision in a city he considered superior to other European and American capitals from a photographer’s point of view. His carefully-composed, sharply-focused street scenes and harbor panoramas—often taken with a super-telephoto camera of his own design—demonstrate the great technical skill that astonished American audiences in later decades. The exhibition is organized by the Stockholm City Museum (Stockholms stadsmuseum).”

Now until November 7th
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm

Scandinavia House – The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue at 38th Street

Blood Manor

“Blood Manor is a first class Haunted Attraction comprised of approximately 5,000 square feet of themed rooms, corridors, and a labyrinth of passageways designed to maximize one’s fears.”

7:30pm - 1:00am Thursday & Sunday
7:30pm - 2:00am Friday & Saturday

542 W. 27th Street
212-290-2825 ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-10-12 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_292 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_290 JC2K - A New Musical Comedy By Brian Fountain

“The U.S. Army had a simple plan: Breed a battalion of Jesus Christ clones and turn them into elite super-soldiers. But something went wrong and one of the six million dollar messiahs escaped. Now, they must do the unthinkable: bring him home or take him down.

The cast is crammed full of amazingly talented people including current cast members from Broadway shows such as Legally Blonde, Rent and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee . Three performances only!”

Monday, October 1st, 4:30pm and 8pm
Friday, October 5th: 11pm

45th Street Theater
354 West 45th Street

Tickets $15

Open House New York

“Mark your calendars to discover new neighborhoods, explore with friends and family, and experience NYC's architecture and design in all five boroughs through special talks, tours, performances and family-friendly workshops - all free of charge!”

Saturday and Sunday, October 6th and 7th

Check the website for more information on program and site listings. ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-10-05 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_290 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_289 Atlantic Antic Street Festival

“Spanning 10 blocks of Atlantic avenue, from 4th Avenue in Boerum Hill all the way to Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights, the Atlantic Antic is New York's number one street festival, offering something for everyone:

Enjoy live performances all day long on ten musical stages, featuring blues, rock, country, R&B, jazz, music for kids, and belly-dancing.

Sample food from around the world and street fair favorites including baklava, funnel cake, grilled sardines, pulled pork sandwiches, fresh lemonade, fried mozzarella, and roasted corn.

Shop for the trendiest art, clothing, and home accessories from Atlantic Avenue merchants and a host of local vendors and craftspeople.

Families should take advantage of pony rides, face painting, balloon sculptures, live storytelling, and more!”

Sunday, September 30th, 10am-6pm

Atlantic Avenue between 4th Avenue and Hicks Street.






The 2007 Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park

“The Medieval Festival brings to life the customs and spirit of the Middle Ages. Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park is transformed into a medieval market town decorated with bright banners and processional flags. Performers, guests and festival goers dress in medieval costume. Visitors are greeted by authentic medieval music, dance, magic, and minstrels, as well as jugglers and jesters. The afternoon is concluded with a thrilling joust between four knights on horseback. Costumed vendors will be on hand to demonstrate and sell a wide variety of medieval crafts as well as food and drink.”

Sunday, September 30th, 11:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Rain Date: Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Phone 212/795-1600
]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-09-28 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_289 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_287 Chemical Brothers - concert

Saturday, September 22nd
5 p.m.

“The Chemical Brothers are a Grammy Award winning electronic music duo from England.”

McCarren Park
Lorimer Street & Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn

http://www.mccarrenpark.com/tickets.html

Tickets
]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-09-21 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_287 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_283 "Urban Camouflage" and the Conflux Block Party

“Part of the Glowlab group show in conjunction with the Conflux Festival - a contemporary psychogeography festival with over 100 artists involved, all experimenting with ways of reinterpreting urban space.”

Gitane Rose Gallery
19 Hope Street

Williamsburg, Brooklyn
19 Hope Street

Opening Friday 9/14
7-10 pm

Conflux Block Party

Sunday, September 16th
12-5 p.m.
Havermeyer between Metropolitan and Hope

Brooklyn Book Fair

Featuring great young Brooklyn writers like Colsen Whitehead, Jonathon Lethem, Jonathan Safron Foer, and Edwige Dandicot.

Sunday, September 16th
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Brooklyn Borough Hall and Columbus Park
Brooklyn

http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/ ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-09-14 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_283 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_281 Seher Shah - Jihad Pop

“Viewers never approach a work of art with an innocent eye. This is certainly the case when viewing the work of Seher Shah, whose detailed drawings and prints merge diverse iconographies. Having lived multinationally, between Pakistan, the UK, Belgium, and the US, Shah has absorbed more perspective than most. Combining that experience with her dazzling aesthetic sensibility and draftsmanship, Shah produces drawings that are as smart and relevant as they are beautiful.

The title Jihad Pop engages with two loaded words. They are words that have been loaded by the media to imply that Muslims are extremists and Americans are facile. Yet Jihad by definition does not call for armed conflict, and pop culture is not the harbinger of American consumerism. The work in this show revives the traditional definition of jihad, of an inner struggle to resolve contradictions. In both the media’s and the traditional definitions, both jihad and pop are self replicating, finding resolution through their own inner logics. However, the drawings of Shah find resolution in more than one world, where, in theory, only contradiction should exist. The black cube (the holy Kaaba) unfolds into a cross; Islamic ornamentation takes on the characteristics of animation or graffiti; architectural traditions destroy each other and reform; childhood snapshots get confused with fairytale – until Shah’s migratory drawings collect her memory into collective symbols familiar to everyone and to none, into the Black Star of Jihad Pop.”

Momenta Art
359 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn
Reception: Friday, September 7th, 7-9 pm
September 7th through October 8th, 2007

The Art Parade

“Deitch Projects, Creative Time and Paper Magazine are pleased to announce the third annual Art Parade. The parade will take place on Saturday September 8, at 4PM, on West Broadway. Following the success of the past two Art Parades, artists, performers and designers are again being invited to create floats, placards, portable sculptures, kites, performances and street spectacles. Highlights from previous years have included The Dazzle Dancers, Yoko Ono, E.V. Day, The Citizens Band, Taylor McKimmons, Pia Dehne, Steve Powers and Fisherspooner.

Saturday, September 8th 2007 4:00pm
on West Broadway

Photos ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-09-07 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_281 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_280 New York Korean Film Festival

"The seventh annual celebration of recent Korean film, with a special focus on films by legendary director Im Kwon-taek, and new works by Yoo Ha, Lee Chang-jae, Choi Ho, and others."

Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street, 12th St., Between 5th Ave and University Place

Check official website for dates and show times ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-08-31 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_280 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_275 The National

“The critically lauded local orchestral-rock act plays a free seaport show. With Takka Takka and the Forms.”

Friday August 17th, 7:00pm

South Street Seaport
19 Fulton St.,
at South St.
212-732-8257

4th Annual Tiger Beer Chili Crab Festival

Festival Includes:

Chili Crab and other Southeast Asian festival foods, Chinatown Young Lion Dancers, Asian Cultural Dancers, Shaolin Martial Artists, Chinese Folk Dancers, Thai Dancers, Live DJs, Vanillamania, and Live Music from Byron Wu.

Sunday, August 19th, Noon to 6:00pm
Riverview, NY, Long Island City
between 49th and 50th Avenues.

Tiger Beer website

The Mp3 Experiment Four

An interactive public performance involving 50 to 100 people.

The World Financial Center Plaza by the North Cove Yacht Harbor
200 Vesey Street

Saturday the 18th, 4:00 PM

Check out their site for details:

Improve Everywhere ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-08-17 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_275 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_273 Melville Day

A celebration of the life and times of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville, complete with readings, boat rides, lectures, and walking tours.

Saturday, August 11th
12pm – 4pm

South Street Seaport Museum

12 Fulton St, New York,
South St.
212-748-8600

$30 full-day pass, $10-$12 per event ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-08-10 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_273 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_271 Jim Isermann at Deitch Projects

Through August 4th

Candy-colored vinyl decals create dizzying optical illusions, and morph the gallery space.

18 Wooster Street

deitch.com/


Paul Taylor Dance Company

August 3rd and 4th at 8pm

“We also love this season for the biblical heat and sunburns, but summertime’s Out of Doors festival, when great modern-dance troupes storm Lincoln Center, holds a special place in our hearts. Paul Taylor Dance Company’s cameo is a special treat: His dancers match ballet’s technicality with the exuberance of the best of modern choreography (much of which Taylor created). These short programs cherry-pick Taylor’s best, from the cheerful, all-American ‘Esplanade’ to his timely meditation on war, ‘Lines of Loss’”

Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
62nd St. at Amsterdam Ave.

www.ptdc.org/
www.lincolncenter.org ]]> Pompei A.D. Exhibit,Performance,Deitch,Events,Weekend 2007-08-03 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_271 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_268 Solid Surf Contest

Eastern Surf Association New York District will host their Solid Surf Contest at Ditch Plains Montauk.

July 28, 8:00 pm

Ditch Plains Montauk, NY

Sketch120

“Sketch 120 is a design charrette presented by Design in 5, a new group of the Architectural League, formed for designers of all disciplines 5 years or less out of school.

With all five New York boroughs under construction, it’s impossible to walk more than a block or two without seeing some part of the city being reinvented. Construction is expected to reach a record level high this year. Here’s your chance to respond to and rethink an inevitable physical and visual result of all of this construction. A design problem will be given to participants promptly at 3:00 pm to solve in roughly two hours. All work will then be pinned up and the invited jury will hold an open discussion and critique with participants. A critical conversation will emerge from the work generated and the questions posed by the original brief.

The charrette is open to all young designers five years or less out of school, whether you are a graphic, industrial, or fashion designer, an artist or architect. Drinks will be available. You may participate as an individual or as a team of up to three people.

For reservations email anderson@archleague.org or call 212.980.3767.

Saturday, July 28 3:00 – 6:00 pm

Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street and Third Avenue
Gowanus, Brooklyn ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-07-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_268 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_267 Art Students League Exhibition: Marshall Jones at the Bronxville Public Library

The Bronxville Public Library will be exhibiting the work of six artists working in various mediums, from the Art Students League of New York. Marshall Jones will be showing 12 realism oil portraits and all works will be for sale at the library. Since the exhibition opened on July 15th, one of Marshall Jones’ portraits was stolen by a person claiming to be the artist. An investigation is underway to find the small town art thief.


Through August 31st

201 Pondfield Road
Bronxville, NY
914-337-7680

twogunslucky@hotmail.com

The Rural Route Film Festival

“The Rural Route Film Festival has been created to highlight works that deal with rural people and places. While the term "rural" is defined by Webster's Dictionary as: 1) Of or relating to the country: RUSTIC 2) Of or relating to people who live in the country 3) Of or relating to farming: AGRICULTURAL, the creators of Rural Route Film Festival leave it up to you, the film and video artists, to explain your own definition of "rural." Whether it be a documentary about an organic turnip farm in West Virginia, a fictional backpacking drama set in Peru, or a personal/experimental work about life in a small town in Wisconsin, we want to see and hear what you have to say. Works that include alternative country, country western, and folk music are encouraged, as are those that play loud rock in cornfields.”

Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave at 2nd Street ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-07-20 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_267 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_262 ]]> Brittany Myers Exhibit,New York City,Office,Events 2007-07-17 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_262 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_261 Ballet National de Marseille

“Lincoln Center Festival 2007 will present the Ballet in the North American premiere of Metapolis II, a spectacular convergence of ballet, film, video and architecture. Created by the company’s artistic director, the choreographer and avant-garde theater director Frédéric Flamand, with scenic design and costumes by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, Metapolis II reflects the ballet company’s radical aesthetic: a commitment to joining world-class architects who create a scenic design that intersects with ideas of the human body moving through space and time.”

July 25-27, 8:00 pm

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
New York State Theater
63rd Street and Broadway ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-07-12 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_261 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_257
Pompei A.D.’s C3 Gallery is pleased to announce Jeesoo Lee’s first solo show in New York. After graduating from Sungshin Women’s University in her native Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee moved to New York in 2004 to complete her studies at State University of New York at New Paltz. She graduated in 2006 with a Master’s degree in Fine Art.

Jeesoo Lee’s forceful yet delicate works often evolve into vast installations that can fill entire rooms and reveal a whole new understanding of the material world. She rarely buys materials at the store but uses scraps of metal and plastic wire, string, copper foil, nails, paper, cardboard, and textiles that she finds in dumpsters and in the street and then weaves and works into wild, seemingly chaotic artworks. Her work is process-oriented and she never makes sketches or blueprints. Drawing on her emotions, which frequently change over the course of a work, she is suspicious of too much intellectualizing. People close to her and classical music often inspire her but these sources, too, change and cannot be reduced to a common denominator. Asked to name influences or models from art history, she mentions Cy Twombly as an artist who has been important for her. Despite their apparent painterlyness, Ms. Lee says her works are rooted in drawing or, as she also calls it, ‘drawing with materials’.

In her current exhibition ‘she’ Jeesoo Lee presents drawings and installations that she made over the last two years.

Curated by Marion Wild

(translation by Dieter Kuhn) ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit,Painting,Events,C3 Gallery 2007-07-06 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_257 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_256 Concert: Fujiya and Miyagi with Black Moth Super Rainbow

“Heavily influenced by 1970s Krautrock bands such as Can and Neu!, as well as early-1990s electronica bands like Aphex Twin, this contemporary disco-punk band from the United Kingdom are practitioners of a sound that swings and compels you to dance

Pennsylvania band Black Moth Super Rainbow has racked up comparisons to pre arena rock Pink Floyd meets Sesame Street. Full of atmosphere, soaring synthesizer rushes and bent phaser-blasts, it's the stuff of early-80s PBS children's programming intros, damaged film strips and decaying VHS tapes. BMSR's latest, Dandelion Gum, has garnered much attention from the likes of Pitchfork, Spin, Blender and NPR, among others.”

South Street Seaport
Pier 17 Stage
Fulton & South Street

Friday July 6th, 7:00pm

Event Info
Band Website

Concert: The Boredoms

“Celebrating their 20th anniversary, the legendary Japanese avant-garde rock band the Boredoms will debut 77 DRUM on 07/07/07 on the lawn of the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The band will lead 77 drummers in a once-in-a-lifetime performance. 4pm until dusk.”

Saturday July 7th, 4:00pm

Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park
(Check website for more details) ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Performance,Music,Events,Weekend 2007-07-05 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_256 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_252 Jim Isermann’s - Vinyl Smash Up

“Vinyl Smash Up, 1999-2007, an exhibition of Jim Isermann’s decal works will open on June 28th at Deitch Projects. Six different vinyl pieces, made between 1999-2007 and executed in Los Angeles, Grenoble, Paris, and Frankfurt, will cover the interior walls of the gallery’s 18 Wooster Street space from floor to ceiling.”

June 28 - August 4, 2007
Opening Thursday June 28, 6pm to 9pm

Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
212.343.7300

]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-06-28 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_252 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_249 Lecture & workshop in New York City

“Biomimicry is a new discipline that studies nature's best ideas and imitates them to solve human problems. Applications range widely, from architecture, product design, and engineering, to software development, communication systems and organizational evolution.

Dayna Baumeister, PhD, co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, will lead a journey of discovery through an evening lecture. On the two days that follow, Dayna and a team of Guild biologists, including Rose Tocke, Taryn Mead, and Tim McGee, will lead a two part design workshop." ]]> Pompei A.D. Green Design,Architecture,New York City,Sustainability,Education,Events 2007-06-25 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_249 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_247 Manufactured Landscapes

“Manufactured Landscapes begins as a portrait of acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, who specializes in large-scale images of vast industrial landscapes. It quickly develops into a meditation on the human and environmental costs of the permanent and profound changes our planet is experiencing. Focusing on Burtynsky’s images of China as it undergoes an unprecedented transformation into a 21st century powerhouse, the film’s surface is beautiful, its implications frightening. Largely shot by Peter Mettler, it captures a brave new world that manages to be both luscious and unutterably repellent, often simultaneously.”

Wednesday, June 20 - Tuesday, July 3
Showtime’s: 1:00pm, 2:45pm, 4:30pm, 6:20pm, 8:10pm, 10:00pm

Film Forum
209 West Houston Street,
between 6th Ave and Varick (7th Ave) ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-06-22 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_247 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_245 Richard Serra talks at Strand Book Store

The sculptor will be talking about his work, his current retrospective at MoMA, and his new book.

Thursday June 14, 7 pm

Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, at 12th St.
(212-473-1452) ]]> Pompei A.D. 2007-06-14 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_245 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_244
RICHARD SERRA: By far the most ambitious, monumental, and immersive work out there, the Richard Serra retrospective at MoMA is this summer's blockbuster. Try to time your visit when the maddening crowds are at a minimum (good luck). The two pieces in the courtyard are beautiful (see photos), as they catch the natural light and frame the surrounding midtown views. More interesting, however, are in the interior galleries. Here, Serra has two new pieces that are logical steps in his work. He links the organic and fluid spirals of his recent work into continuous pathways. One can honestly get lost in these installations, literally and emotionally.

TOBIAS PUTRIH @ Max Protech: Simple material and connections taken to the extreme. The furniture "language" is impressive in these quantities and jumbled combinations. ]]> Art,Colin Brice,Exhibit,Chelsea Galleries,Sculpture,Painting,Photography,New York City,Weekend 2007-06-13 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_244 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_241
Generation 1.5

Generation 1.5 is a new exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art featuring the work of Pompei A.D. Studio Director Randir Singh’s wife Seher Shah. The exhibition examines whether artists of the 1.5 generation (people who come to America when they are in their adolescence) present a particular orientation in their work as they are confronted by issues of immigration, cultural dislocation, memory, hybridity, acceptance, and exile in their everyday lives.

Participating Artists: Ellen Harvey, Pablo Helguera, Emily Jacir, Lee Mingwei, Shirin Neshat, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Nari Ward and Seher Shah.

Reception: Sunday, June 10th, 3pm -6pm
Exhibition through June 14th, 2007

Queens Museum of Art
New York Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, New York

The Year of Magical Thinking on Broadway

“The Year of Magical Thinking,” a new play written by Joan Didion based on her celebrated memoir, is coming to Broadway in a strictly limited, twenty-four-week engagement, starring one of the world's greatest living actresses, the Academy Award and Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave.

Directed by Oscar nominee David Hare (The Hours), this heart-rending and ultimately inspiring new work is already the most anticipated of the spring season.

Redgrave re-lives that unimaginable night in Didion’s life when her husband of 40 years, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly of a massive coronary as they sat down to dinner in their New York apartment. With raw candor and a storyteller’s gift for the absurd, Redgrave tells Didion’s story of unfathomable grief as lived in a thousand details.

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage, told with raw candor and a brilliant storyteller's gift for the absurd.”

Now through June 30th, 2007
Wednesday through Sunday 8pm
Thursday and Sunday matinee 2pm

Limited availability of tickets $165-$210 ]]> Pompei A.D. New York City,Events,Weekend 2007-06-08 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_241 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_238 Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years

Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years displays the extraordinary vision of this formidable artist, who has radicalized and extended the definition of sculpture. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

June 3rd –September 10th , 2007

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497

Sculpture (and Nerves) of Steel: New York Times

Reebok Grand Prix

Two-time Olympic medallist Bernard Lagat, and Craig Mottram, the World Championship bronze medallist at 5000 meters, will face each other in the Mile at the Reebok Grand Prix.

Saturday, June 2nd 5pm
Icahn Stadium at Randall’s Island
20 Randall's Island Park
New York, NY 10035 USA

$20 - $30

New York Road Runners - New York Mini 10K

At a time when even Olympic officials believed that women were physically incapable of running long distances, the 1972 Mini was the world's first and only women-only road race. This event commemorates an extraordinary achievement in women’s running that helped to advance the world’s view of women in sports. 78 runners participated in the very first Mini - a huge turn out at the time - and the race now draws over 3,000 runners, including some of the world’s top distance runners.

Saturday, June 9th, 9am
Central Park

$30 non-nyrr members if you pre register
$30 on day of race

http://nyrr.org/races/2007/mini/index.asp ]]> Pompei A.D. 2007-05-31 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_238 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_230 The Wordless Music Series

“The wordless music series is devoted to the idea that the sound worlds of classical and contemporary instrumental music - in genres such as indie rock, free jazz, and electronic music - share more in common than conventional thinking might suggest.”

Saturday, May 26th at 7:30pm

Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church
152 West 66th Street, New York City
between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.

http://wordlessmusic.org/Schedule.html

$15

Matt Kanelos Solo Show

"Originally from Chicago, singer/songwriter and pianist, Matt Kanelos has recently emerged as an exciting new voice in New York City’s downtown music scene. With a vocal style calling to mind Paul Simon and James Taylor, a songwriting concept in the realm of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, and a touch at the keyboard reminiscent of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, Matt commands the stage with a disarming grace distinctly his own.”

The Rockwood Music Hall:
196 Allen Street (between Houston & Stanton)
(F or V train to 2nd Ave)

Saturday, May 26th at 7pm

No Cover

http://www.myspace.com/mattkanelos

Postopolis!

Postopolis! is a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design. Four bloggers from four different cities will host a series of live discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and other presentations, and fuse the informal energy and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural blogosphere with the immediacy of face-to-face interaction.

BLDGBLOG (Los Angeles), City of Sound (London), Inhabitat (New York City), and Subtopia (San Francisco) will meet in person to orchestrate the event, inviting everyone, from practicing architects, city planners, and urban theorists, to military historians, game developers, and materials scientists to share their opinions on both built and natural environments.

Over the past five years, blogging has helped to expand the reach of architectural discussion; its influence has spread far beyond the Internet to effect museums, institutions, and even higher education. Postopolis! is an historic opportunity to look back at what architecture blogs have achieved – both to celebrate their strengths and to think about their future.

Tuesday, May 29th, to Saturday, June 2nd

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012

One Step Beyond

Since 2005, Flavorpill has teamed up with New York's Guggenheim Museum to throw a dance party under the rotunda on the first Friday of each month.

The event will take place in three unique spaces at the museum, with the launch line-up including DJs Daniel Bell and Le Castle Vania in the Hall of Universe (with simultaneous screenings of "Cosmic Collisions" in the Planetarium), live performances by Toronto's electro duo, Crystal Castles in the Powerhouse, and jazz pianist legend Jean Michel Pilc and NYC's own, Akim Funk Buddha holding it down in the Annex.

Friday, May 25th 9pm-1am

The Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History
81st St. and Central Park West

$25 (includes admission to the show and one free future admission to the museum) ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit,Architecture,New Media,Performance,Music 2007-05-25 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_230 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_227 The Turkish American Day Parade

Singing, folklore dancing, performances, speeches and Turkish street food following the parade in the plaza.

May 19th , 12 noon

60th and 5th Avenue to 47th Street and ends in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations.

Fifth Avenue Street Fair

Local merchants, restaurants, bars and music take to the streets of Park Slope in the annual Fifth Avenue Street Fair.

During the street fair make sure to check out Spring Blossoms, new work by our very own Scott Faucheux, on display at the V-Spot Café on 5th Ave. The café will also be selling small prints.

May 20th, 11am-6pm

5th Avenue Brooklyn, from Flatbush Avenue to 14th Street.

V-Spot Café
156 5th Avenue
(between Douglass and Degraw)
Park Slope, Brooklyn

Park Slope Open Studio Tours

65 plus artists, including Pompei A.D’s Scott Faucheux, open their private studio doors to the public as part of a free, self-guided tour through the Park Slope, Windsor Terrance and Gowanus neighborhoods.

May 19th - 20th, 12-6pm

Park Slope, Brooklyn
Scott Faucheux’s studio
94th and 9th street
4th floor
studio # 22
maps and addresses

Work

A new gallery/work space called WORK is opening in Red Hook on Friday night. The opening party will feature champagne spirits, a BBQ dinner and music.

May 18th 8pm
Red Hook
65 Union Street (corner of Union and Van Brunt)

South of the Navy Yard Artists Studio Stroll

May 19th, and 20th 12:00-6:00pm
Fort Greene, Clinton, Wallabout, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Over 100 artists will exhibit over 1000 works of art at 31 different locations. Start anywhere you’d like, and plan your own tour.

Map:
http://sonyaonline.org/MapBrochure07-finalWEB.pdf
http://sonyaonline.org/

718-857-8696

Tim Hawkinson

Nyehaus is pleased to present sculpture by Tim Hawkinson made between 1993 and 2000.

Tuesday-Saturday
11am-6pm

Nyehaus Gallery
15 Gramercy Park South
212-995-1785


International Contemporary Furniture Events

The 19th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) will transform New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center into the global haven for design devotees.

Tuesday, May 22nd
10am–4pm

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street

Events
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2648

$40/person ]]> Pompei A.D. 2007-05-18 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_227 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_223 Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Presentation - End of the Year Show

Showcasing graduate students work.

Saturday, May 12th, 2007, 6-8pm

Avery Hall – Columbia University


BKLYN DESIGNS™

2007 Line-up Showcases Art, Design and Architecture Icons and Some of Brooklyn's Best Designers in the Heart of DUMBO.

“Spring is in the air, and that means it’s time to make plans for BKLYN DESIGNS™, New York’s only curated design show open to the trade and public. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, BKLYN DESIGNS 2007 is now an established design event that attracts buyers and attendees from all over the world. The three-day show being held May 11 to 13, is presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and has expanded to include three venues, free seminars hosted by some of the industry’s best talent and an impressive list of trend-setting exhibitors of contemporary furnishings, including furniture, lighting, linens, rugs and decorative accessories.”

Friday, May 11th, 10am to 8 pm; Saturday, May 12th, 10am to 7pm; and Sunday, May 13th, 10am to 6pm.

There are three locations:
St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water St.
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth St.
BKLYN DESIGNS Annex, 81 Front St.

Tickets are $12 per person per day – purchase online or at the show.

There will be free shuttle bus service all weekend between Union Square, DUMBO, and 110 Livingston, and between DUMBO and Forté Condominiums in Fort Greene.

https://www.ibrooklyn.com/brooklyndesignssignup/attend.html

Takashi Murakami's Exhibition

Acrylic and silver gold leaf on canvas mounted on board.

May 1st - June 9th

Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
212-744-2313
Tuesday – Saturday 10-6pm

New York Times: The Warhol of Japan Pours Ritual Tea in a Zen Moment

New York City Ballet - Romeo and Juliet

This is the last weekend to see the world premier of the New York City Ballet's Romeo and Juliet.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lincoln Kirstein's birth, the New York City Ballet presents Peter Martins' Romeo and Juliet, set to Prokofiev's now-classic score.

Through May 13th

New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Columbus Avenue at 63rd Street
212-721-6500

http://www.tragiclovenyc.com/
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition

A show of 300 artists, each with 10 feet of wall space, in an amazing civil war era warehouse on the waterfront overlooking the Statue of Liberty. It is the largest artist run group in the country.

Saturday May 12th 1-5pm

BWAC
499 Van Brunt Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn
]]> Pompei A.D. 2007-05-10 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_223 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_218 Bill Viola: Works from The Tristan Project at the James Cohan Gallery

The gallery will present three video works from The Tristan Project: The Fall Into Paradise, 2005; Isolde's Ascension (The Shape of Light in the Space After Death) 2005; and Passage into Night, 2005.

April 28 - May 15, 2007

James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
New York NY 10001
Tel: 212-714-9500
Fax: 212-714-9510
Hours: Tue-Sat 10-6



Andreas Gursky Exhibition

Large-format color photographer

May 4 - June 30

Matthew Marks Gallery
523 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
212-243-0200



Design for the other 90%

“This exhibition highlights the growing trend among designers to create affordable and socially responsible objects for the vast majority of the world's population (90 percent) not traditionally serviced by professional designers.”

May 4 - September 23

Cooper Hewitt
2 East 91st Street New York, NY 10128
212-849-8400



TJ & DAVE

Top notch long-form improvised comedy.

TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi will be at the Barrow Street Theater this weekend. The New York Times said, "TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi miraculously improvise a one-hour play at every performance. This is an impressive feat of mental athletics, but the results are also observant, complex and frequently enormously funny."

May 4-6: Fri, 11pm; Sat, 11pm; Sun, 9pm

Barrow Street Theatre
27 Barrow Street (at 7th Ave.)
New York, NY 10014

Tickets: $20 ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Chelsea Galleries,Photography 2007-05-04 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_218 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_219 Deitch Projects will present a retrospective exhibition of Francesco Clemente's work from the 1970's. More than one hundred pieces will represent Clemente’s work. His work was influenced by the political and cultural situation in Rome in the 70's, but also by music, particularly American music and art.

It’s fascinating to explore his concept of how the body is connected to the idea of travel, and how he often represents his works through paper, an ephemeral and 'flowing media' itself. ]]> Emilia Belloni Art,Exhibit,Deitch 2007-05-04 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_219 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_208
Wednesday through Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Art Gotham
547 West 27th Street., between 10th and 11th Ave. ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit,New Media,Technology 2007-04-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_208 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_209 WFMU is takin' the act on the road! On Saturday, April 28th, we'll be staging a freeform styled invasion of Brooklyn's wonderful Southpaw nightclub. On the evening's menuThe menu for the evening will includes be live sets from The Major Stars, Jonathan Kane's February, Flaming Fire, and DJ/Rupture (w/ accompanying video by Daniel Perlin). Admission will be free!

This event will be the kickoff for a multi-part series of WFMU-sponsored FREE live music events to be held in the city over the coming months.

Southpaw is located at 125 Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. ]]> Pompei A.D. Performance,Music 2007-04-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_209 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_210 PS 107 and Community Bookstore present the 3rd Annual Readings on the 4th Floor to benefit the library at PS 107 in Brooklyn.

This Wednesday, May 2nd at 7.30pm:

HUMOR NIGHT
with authors John Hodgman (The Areas of My Expertise, public radio's This American Life, and The Daily Show), David Rakoff (Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable), and Sarah Vowell (Radio On, Salon, and McSweeney's).

PS 107 is located at 1301 8th Ave, in Brooklyn.

Click on the link to the left to download the flyer (PDF). ]]> Pompei A.D. Books,Literary Reading 2007-04-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_210 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_211 Bose Pacia Gallery presents Put it On, a solo exhibition by the duo known as Thukral & Tagra. The gallery is located at 508 West 26th Street on the 11th Floor, in the Chelsea district of New York City. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 12 to 6 pm and by appointment. There will be an opening reception with the artists in attendance on Friday, April 27th from 6 to 8 pm. The public is invited." ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Chelsea Galleries,Painting 2007-04-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_211 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_212 4–5:30 pm

"Philosopher Alain de Botton’s latest book, The Architecture of Happiness, looks at the spaces we live in and why some make us feel happier than others. In her novel Duke of Egypt, Margriet de Moor explores notions of home and permanence among Europe’s Sinti and Roma peoples. For Lee Stringer, places such as Grand Central Station, shelters, and tunnels were his home for more than a decade, while Carlos María Domínguez writes about a house made of books in his latest novel, The House of Paper."

More information here.

At the Instituto Cervantes New York: 211–215 East 49th St.

Free and open to the public. No reservations. ]]> Pompei A.D. Architecture,Literary Reading 2007-04-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_212 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_213
The Shawangunk Mountains - 90 miles north of New York City.

For more information check out:

http://www.gunks.com/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0509/sports/rock_climbing.html

$15 admission into the park for climbers
Photo: Arturo Quinones coming over the roof ]]> Brittany Myers Travel,Weekend 2007-04-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_213 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_204 V-Spot Cafe - 156 5th Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn, NY. Opening is May 9th, 2007 7:00-10:00.

I will also be participating in two Open Studio tours through Brooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition (BWAC). The first tour is the Park Slope Studio Tour, May 19th-20th, 12-6pm. The second is the Red Hook/Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens Studio Tour on June 9th-10th, 12-6pm.

My studio is located at #22, 94 9th Street, 4th Floor, between Smith St. and Second Avenue in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. Visit my website to see examples of my work. ]]> Pompei A.D. 2007-04-25 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_204 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_200 James Cohan Gallery. Through the medium of light and sound, the artist interprets the theme of the body's movement in space, within different stories. His unique way of working with light and sound is always very striking. ]]> Emilia Belloni Art,Exhibit,Chelsea Galleries 2007-04-24 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_200 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_201 Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue. ]]> Emilia Belloni Art,Exhibit,Painting 2007-04-24 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_201 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_132 -Art Guide: Manhattan Museums
-Art Guide: Manhattan Galleries
-Art Guide: Other U.S. Locations
-Art Guide: Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn
-Art Guide: Asia
-Art Guide: Europe ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Exhibit,Museum 2007-02-13 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_132 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_114 Creative Time and MoMA sponsor a public exhibition of the video art of Doug Aitken, titled SLEEPWALKERS. Projected on the outside surfaces of MoMA, the eight stories depict eight individuals going about their dreamlike night jobs in New York City. ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,MoMA,Creative Time,Public Art,Video Art,New York City 2007-02-02 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_114 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_113 Diesel Denim Gallery in SoHo on display from February 1st to April 15th. The Gallery is located at 68 Greene St, between Broome St and Spring St. ]]> Pompei A.D. Art,Ellen Depoorter,SoHo,Exhibit,Painting 2007-02-01 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_113 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_5 Nathan Kurach 2006-12-22 http://pompeiad.com/data/assets/image6.jpg http://www.pompeiad.com/Events and Exhibitions/5 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/7_5