Keith haring ..dancing

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/w7towh02qhmz6zj/AACvLsugmb_TcB_k2nt3Pitsa

Monday April 20 Be Here Tseng Kwong Chi East Meets West Manifesto, 1983, from the East Meets West series Grey Gallery

Tonight : a gathering of the tribe. You know who you are . Tseng Kwong Chi
East Meets West Manifesto, 1983, from the East Meets West series. Kwong Chi was central to the documentation of who were were at a particular vibrant art and club world world-wide... he also almost invented the concept of a selfie ..placing himself in a photo with great and notorious public figures and public monuments .. style. attitude and humanity saturated his work . Grey Gallery Monday the 20th, 6PM . Be there

MARRIAGE , MEN AND WOMEM, ART, DIVORCE AND FAME KIM GORDON'S GIRL IN A BAND

MARRIAGE , MEN AND WOMEM, ART, DIVORCE AND FAME 
KIM GORDON'S GIRL IN A BAND 
Many words have been written about Kim Gordon's memoir book "GIRL IN THE BAND". Her life before during and after SONIC YOUTH. Many of them particularly by male critics have been subtly critical of her telling her personal truth about her life with and with out her ex husband and band mate Thurston Moore. Too many times critic have expressed her aloofness and called her cold . I suggest because she did not participate in the usually unauthentic, fake intimacy of critic and artist so much of what pop culture journalism basked in . I will admit to being sad when SONIC YOUTH broke up . I knew the members of the band some better than others but would not claim to be an intimate friend of any of them. We shared personally certain cultural values that in the art world resonated a resistance to the codification of almost everything by capital (my words not hers) , I always believed we saw each other in a room uncluttered with fantasy and fame. You know we lived in the same location of cultural landscape. Sara Marcus has written the most insightful review I have seen of Gordon's book , I suggest you read the review and most importantly read Kim Gordon GIRL IN A BAND . What I like best is in Gordon is her he willingness to speak directly from her experience without ever romanticizing her role. Here are two quotes form Marcus' review that are sticky : "Maybe true power lies not in managing to have it all, whatever that means, but in how one reacts when things come undone." And "Let me also say Gordon's writing is much like her singing, deadpan and spacious" Divorce is a devastating moment for a couple. Women still no matter how smart or "feminist"are, still, in my experience, suffer the most ... a class distinction based on cultural definitions of male and female . Note : I still respect both Kim and Thurston as artists and it is not my place to make a personal judgement on their private life except to gain insight in male/female relationship and how now in same sex marriage the challenge and perhaps the insight on how same sex couples navigate the ruptures in trust that sexual and emotional betrayal provided they do not just imitate heterosexual marriage.

please click the link to see Sara Marcus review


http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-kim-gordon-20150222-story.html

Remembering Chris Marker

Chris Marker: Film Maker : WHY HE MATTERS  SHORT THOUGHTS

Some of What I saw at SPRINGTIME in NICKYLAND 2015 David Cale, Joseph Keckler, Heather Mitteer, Ronald Peet and NICKY PARAISO

SPRING TIME in NICKYLAND at La MaMa

A couple of times a year La MaMa's guiding hand Nicky Paraiso steps up and reminds all of his friends and downtown people in the  know that in fact he is an actor and a crooner too. He gently reminds all of us performers, presenters and audiences that we are family ,, the downtown ARTS family . Nickyland is an intimate  family celebration and no one in town that is part of the La MaMa family will miss it ,, So I went Saturday night. The La MaMa theaters is  is chock full of performers you have see and are here to honor Nicky and have a little family fun. Across the island sat  MarthaWilson and mate and in front of me was Michael Burke,  Jackie Rudin and James Gavin..it was that kind of a night

Here is a taste (just a taste0  of what I was lucky enough to Have witnessed  Saturday night ...

The multi-gifted Joseph Keckler  singing Tim Buckley's classic Song to the Siren 

Master story teller and monologist, actor David Cale 

The wake up cal lof new talent in town was Ronald Peet .. playwrite, actor ( hearing him sing Sam Cooke made me think he was Sm Cooke!) sooo talented 

Downtown's Susan Hayworth , Penny Arcade inspired Heather Litteer shares a section of her one woman show to premier later titled Lemonade. Be prepared : Heather delivers it straight up, no chaser!

VID Zephyr Teachout returns to Village Independent Democrats talks iss...

VID welcomes Zephyr Teachout back to talk Politics and her new book .. VID was the firs Club to nominate her in her race against Andrew Cuomo... (uh..I nominated her along with John Braden)

(1) Jim Fouratt - STEVEN W. THRASHER HAS WRITTEN A PROFOUND INSIGHT...

STEVEN W. THRASHER HAS WRITTEN A PROFOUND INSIGHT INTO HOW RACISM WORKS I read this profound articulation of the internalized power of racism as inflicted on a human being by another human being either individually or collectively. It made me reflect in a very personal way how not to distance myself from the other and to commit to individual and collective action to combat racism and racial violence. It made me realize that empathy and compassion are necessary in the fight against racism, but I will never know what it is like to be a black person dealing with the ordinary daily practice of racism and the impact it has on all people particularly our young women and men of color that starts in children . A first step is to find in my life those circumstances that resonate my difference and the consequences of someone else's almost irrational judgement expressed by both dismissal and powerful yet ordinary behavior , For me it is called homophobia despite what I am told about the incredible progress since that day in 1969 when lesbian and gay people in New York City found inside themselves the courage to rise up and threw off the psychic restrains and emotions that homophobia subtle or brutal practices. The essential need to heal oneself and fight back. Black Lives Matter has deeper meaning when I locate inside of me that which seeks from outside and yes inside the chockhole of homophobia to limit and or frighten me and my imagination , creativity and sometimes simple survival . PLEASE READ < THINK ABOUT WHAT THRASHER IS SAYING AND SHARE



(1) Jim Fouratt - STEVEN W. THRASHER HAS WRITTEN A PROFOUND INSIGHT...

White outrage over Walter Scott doesn't fix black fear of living in racist America | Steven W Thrasher | Comment is free | The Guardian

STEVEN W. THRASHER  HAS WRITTEN A PROFOUND INSIGHT INTO HOW RACISM WORKS I read this profound articulation of the internalized power of racism as inflicted on a human being by another human being either individually or collectively. It made me reflect in a very personal way how not to distance myself from the other and to commit to individual and collective action to combat racism and racial violence. It made me realize that empathy and compassion are necessary in the fight against racism, but I will never know what it is like to be a  black person dealing with the ordinary daily practice of racism and the impact it has on all people particularly our young  women and men of color that starts in children . A first step is to find in  my life those circumstances that resonate  my difference and the consequences of someone else's  almost irrational judgement expressed by both dismissal and powerful yet ordinary behavior , For me it is called homophobia despite what I am told about the incredible progress since that day in 1969 when lesbian and gay people in New York City  found inside themselves the courage to rise up and threw off the psychic restrains and emotions that homophobia subtle or brutal practices. The essential need  to heal oneself and fight back. Black Lives Matter has deeper meaning when I locate inside of me that which seeks from outside and yes inside the chockhole of homophobia to limit and or frighten me and my imagination , creativity and sometimes simple survival .  PLEASE READ < THINK ABOUT WHAT THRASHER IS SAYING AND SHARE



White outrage over Walter Scott doesn't fix black fear of living in racist America | Steven W Thrasher | Comment is free | The Guardian

White outrage over Walter Scott doesn't fix black fear of living in racist America | Steven W Thrasher | Comment is free | The Guardian

STEVEN W. THRASHER  HAS WRITTEN A PROFOUND INSIGHT INTO HOW RACISM WORKS I read this profound articulation of the internalized power of racism as inflicted on a human being by another human being either individually or collectively. It made me reflect in a very personal way how not to distance myself from the other and to commit to individual and collective action to combat racism and racial violence. It made me realize that empathy and compassion are necessary in the fight against racism, but I will never know what it is like to be a  black person dealing with the ordinary daily practice of racism and the impact it has on all people particularly our young  women and men of color that starts in children . A first step is to find in  my life those circumstances that resonate  my difference and the consequences of someone else's  almost irrational judgement expressed by both dismissal and powerful yet ordinary behavior , For me it is called homophobia despite what I am told about the incredible progress since that day in 1969 when lesbian and gay people in New York City  found inside themselves the courage to rise up and threw off the psychic restrains and emotions that homophobia subtle or brutal practices. The essential need  to heal oneself and fight back. Black Lives Matter has deeper meaning when I locate inside of me that which seeks from outside and yes inside the chockhole of homophobia to limit and or frighten me and my imagination , creativity and sometimes simple survival .  PLEASE READ < THINK ABOUT WHAT THRASHER IS SAYING AND SHARE



White outrage over Walter Scott doesn't fix black fear of living in racist America | Steven W Thrasher | Comment is free | The Guardian

Young and Zazeela’s ‘Dream House’ Is Getting a New Lease at Dia - NYTimes.com

If you have never had the pleasure to sit and sit and sit and sit and sit.......at a concert by Lamont Young and Marian Zazaala than you will in June .... oh boy !


Young and Zazeela’s ‘Dream House’ Is Getting a New Lease at Dia - NYTimes.com

Iggy chats with jarvis as he starts his new BBC6 radio gig. How cool is that?

Jarvis Cocker meets Iggy Pop: 'The more money a band has, the worse their records get' http://gu.com/p/478x8

DOn;t know about you ...but I am a HUGE Mountain Goats fan.....