Exhibition Opening | Thurs, Sept 15, 6 - 8 PM | Jonathan Prince

This looks like a cool event but I am going to Andrea Bocelli that night.

Check out Jonathan Prince website

www.jonathanprince.com

SOLILOQUY III: JOSHUA SEIDNER and BLVCK AMERICA | UV Nile this Saturday!!

Saturday, September 17, 20117 pm - 9 pm

P.P.O.W. Gallery 535 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor

New York, New York

(NEW YORK) - P.P.O.W. and the Create Art Today (C.A.T.) initiative, founded by P.P.O.W. Director Jamie Sterns, are proud to present Soliloquy III: UV Nile, a performance by multi-disciplinary artist JOSHUA SEIDNER and art collective BLVCK AMERICA.

Organized by curator Joseph Whitt, "Soliloquy III" is the third installment in "Soliloquies," an invitational series that features collaborations between emerging and established talents in the worlds of film/video and performance art.

UV Nile is an immersive, start-stop performance that draws connections between spiritualism, exoticism, false-idolatry and themes of tribal unity in 90's rave culture. The piece casts the gallery space as a house of worship, the performer as a high priest, and each spectator as a congregant. Throughout the night, Blvck America will project multiple layers of live video and sound to isolate the most escapist elements of contemporary nightlife. In response, Joshua Seidner, prompted by constant and intermittent siren interruptions, will borrow aspects of Egyptian initiation ritual and go-go worship to offer both himself and a younger apprentice as an objectified, mummy-wrapped, father-and-son of the cloth.

All costuming will be created especially for this event by TELFAR.

Slowly transforming a secular experience into one of mystical reverence, UV Nile uncovers often overlooked connections between nihilistic artifice and holy abandon that characterize much of underground club culture.

UV Nile will begin promptly at 7pm. The performance will continue for a minimum of two hours and is open to the public.

RSVP at rsvp@blvckamerica.com

For additional information, please visit the following websites:

www.ppowgallery.com
www.joshua-seidner.com
www.blvckamerica.com
www.createarttoday.com

-- BLVCK AMERICA

Come meet Sapphire at the Central Brooklyn Library

Sapphire

Monday, August 15, 6:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Sapphire, author of the modern classic Push (the basis for the award-winning movie Precious), will read from her brand new novel. In The Kid, Sapphire brings her readers deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, the son of Precious, the unforgettable heroine of Push. Starting when Abdul is nine, the story moves from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday, and from a Catholic orphanage to downtown artist’s lofts, as it tells of a twenty-first century young man’s fight to find the path to his future. ( BK Library)

For more info check out the website:http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/culturearts/

Tiny Art by Mexican Artist Pablo Delgado

to see more of his work go to http://www.pablodelgadomc.com

Two week left before the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibit closes

Today I went to the exhibit and I had to wait in line to see the Alexander McQueen exhibit. I guess it because it's weekend but so worth the wait.

You are not allowed to take pictures but I did, just one. I took it with my iPod and the lens was aiming towards the mirror and I got the reflection of this black feather dress.

The exhibition celebrates the late Mr. McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity. ( from the met)

To read more about the exhibit click on link:

http://www.metmuseum.org/press_room/full_release.asp?prid=%7BDF7267FE-C1DC-44A3-AADC-8DF2B36FA870%7D

R.I.P Amy Winehouse !

Sad news today in the music world that Amy passed away.

We will sure miss her.

To read more about from the dailynews click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2018025/Amy-Winehouse-dead-The-rapid-rise-tragic-fall-deeply-flawed-prodigy.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Check out the new Dekalb Market that will open this Saturday July 22, 2011. I can't wait to check it out. The layout will be 22 shipping containers in different colors.

Will post some pictures up soon.

I love how we are using the shipping containers for other then shipping stuff across the world.

The nearest trains are the R and Q. You would get off the Dekalb Stop. 332 Flatbush Avenue, BK.

This is some additional information from the site:

Dekalb Market is about a square block, at 332 Flatbush Avenue Extension, bordered by Willoughby Street and Gold Street, north of the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn. All vendors will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and some will be open as early as 8 a.m., and stay open as late as midnight. The market will have four entrances.

To read more on this click on link:http://dekalbmarket.com/2011/07/20/the-new-york-times-dekalb-market-opening-in-brooklyn/#more-727