Showing posts with label Howl! Happening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howl! Happening. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Precious metal: Howl! Happening presents the work of Linus Coraggio

Tomorrow (Sept. 12) night, Howl! Happening opens its fall season with an exhibition featuring the work — sculpture, painting and mixed media — of Linus Coraggio.

Here's more via the EVG inbox...

Howl! mounts its most ambitious installation to date. Linus Coraggio is a central figure in downtown New York’s early period of explosive art experimentation and cross-pollination of cultural ideas. Street artist and New York City native, Coraggio is best known for his abstract metal sculpture.

The current exhibition surveys Coraggio’s entire body of work, including paintings in expressionist and graffiti style, mobiles, furniture, neon, sculpture, mixed-media collage, and both classic and 3-D graffiti. The exhibition will also include recent collaborations with well-known downtown artists, and an installation of his painted and “sculpturalized” car that has become a recognized cultural fixture on the streets of New York City over the last 10 years.

Coraggio is a founder of the Rivington School sculptors group. He welded a massive post-apocalyptic sculpture garden of rusted metal that was a landmark at Forsyth and Rivington Streets in New York’s Lower East Side. Coraggio was also the architect of the Gas Station, a performance space, after-hours club, and sculpture garden that sat on Second Street and Avenue B well into the 90s. These seminal downtown art spaces were the vanguard of wild autonomous art activism in the face of rapid gentrification.

The opening for the show, titled "Ramifications," takes place from 6-8 p.m. tomorrow. You have until Oct. 10 to see the exhibit. There's also a special closing event on Oct. 12.

Find more details at the Howl! website. The gallery is located at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

You can also find some of his work in the sculpture garden behind the Kenkeleba House on Second Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Curt Hoppe's 'Downtown Portraits'



The work of Curt Hoppe, a longtime resident of the Bowery, is currently on view in two venues — Howl! Happening (above) and the Frank Bernaducci Gallery — in an exhibit titled "Downtown Portraits."

Here are more detail via the EVG inbox...

"Downtown Portraits" explores Hoppe’s work as a photographer and realist painter — penetrating layers of cultural history to reveal the changing faces of the neighborhood. The 105 photographs in the series will be shown at Howl! Happening, while 20 larger-than-life paintings will be shown at Frank Bernaducci Gallery.

Hoppe, a realist painter and photographer, has enjoyed a successful 40-year career driven by meaningful relationships with pioneering downtown creators. While many of the artists, writers, musicians, activists, and art entrepreneurs appearing in the photographs that make up the series at Howl! are now well known, this project is conceived not as a hall of fame but as personal homage.

Hoppe has been inspired not only by his subject's youthful achievements but also by their lifelong perseverance and creativity. These are definitely not images of beautiful young creatives, but rather visions of determined survivors who continue to influence our culture.

"I want this exhibition to be forward-looking," he says. "These artists found a way to survive and to thrive, and their wisdom continues to have a profound impact on today’s culture. We're cooler now than we were back then. Our lives are on our faces."

His project is not about vanity or celebrity or self-promotion, but rather, like a yearbook of friends one hung with, learned from, and created mischief with, the show traces the lines of connection of some of the most influential creators of our time including John and Charlie Ahearn, Penny Arcade, Patti Astor, Beth B, James Chance, Diego Cortez, Brett DePalma, Jane Dickson, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Richard Hambleton, John Holmstrom, Lady Pink, Arto Lindsay, Colette Lumíère, Tom Otterness, Walter Robinson, Marcia Resnick, and Robin Winters, among others.


[Photo from the Frank Bernaducci Gallery]

The exhibits are up through May 22. Find more info here.

Howl! Happening is at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery. Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday

The Frank Bernaducci Gallery is at 525 W. 25th St. in Chelsea. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday

Previously on EV Grieve:
Bettie and the Ramones head back to the Bowery

Lower East Side artists now larger than life — on canvas

Q-and-A with Curt Hoppe: Living on the Bowery, finding inspiration and shooting Mr. Softee

Sunday, March 24, 2019

HBD Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Howl! Happening

Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 today ... and Howl! Happening has a day of activities planned to honor the poet, painter, activist and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco.

Among the activities planned from 2:30 to 8:30 p.m.: screenings of WNET's segment "USA: Poetry" and the documentary "Ferlinghetti" as well as readings by Ed Sanders, Hettie Jones, David Henderson, Eileen Myles, Bob Holman, Anne Waldman, Helixx C. Armageddon, Puma Perl, Maggie Dubris and Michael McClure (via video) along with performances by Eric Andersen, Len Chandler and Lenny Kaye.

The day will include a launch of Ferlinghetti’s new novel "Little Boy."

Find more details at this link. Howl! happening is at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Tonight: A discussion on the East Village in the 1960s



Happening tonight from 7-9 at Howl! Happening — "Cary Abrams: The East Village in the 60s" ...

Panel Discussion with Penny Arcade, Agosto Machado, Ben Morea, and Robert Watlington

Many fondly look back on the 60s as the heyday of the East Village when throngs of youth descended on the neighborhood. Diggers arrived from San Francisco and opened a free store on East Tenth Street, Bill Graham turned a local theater into the Fillmore East, be-ins were held in Tompkins Square Park, and artists and craftsmen offered their wares in local shops.

The arts flourished during the period, as many influential theater, poetry, and dance groups formed which helped reshape American culture — and continue today. St. Mark’s Church became a focal point for poets, political activists, radical community organizing, and dance and theater groups. Ellen Stewart started Café La MaMa, presenting theatrical works in a basement on East Ninth Street. Rock music from the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane to The Group Image bellowed from the Tompkins Square bandshell at free concerts.

While the era has become mythologized over time, this evening Howl! Happening invites a panel of intrepid souls who lived in the East Village during the 1960s to reflect on their experiences.

Check the Howl! Happening website for more details and info on the panelists. The Howl! space is at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Saturday, March 9, 2019

At Howl! Happening tonight: 'A Reading from the Old Neighborhood'


[International Bar & Grill, 119 St. Marks Place, 1986 © Ted Barron]

Tonight from 7-9 at Howl! Happening — "A Reading from the Old Neighborhood" ... via the EVG inbox...

Howl! Happening invites you to join us for a reading and fantastic music from the old neighborhood, featuring LES luminaries:

Samoa

Kurt Wolf of Pussy Galore

Poet legends David Huberman & EAK! Angie Glasscock

East of Bowery (which includes the photography of Ted Barron)

Darius James

Annecy TK

Puma Perl

…and many more

Host Drew Hubner is the author of "American by Blood," "We Pierce" and "East of Bowery." Produced by Kristin Mathis.

Find more details at this link. Howl! Happening is at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Saturday's parting shot



One of the murals by East Village-based artist Scooter LaForge on display now at Howl! Happening. His show, titled Homo Eruptus, is up through March 13 at the gallery, 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Deconstruction at Theater for the New City; Homo Eruptus at Howl! Happening

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Deconstruction at Theater for the New City; Homo Eruptus at Howl! Happening



A new group show opens this evening (5-8) at the Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. between Ninth Street and 10th Street.

Per the Facebook event page: "Deconstruction will deal with the use of construction signs and materials through a means of artistic expression."

The work will be on display through March 29.

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East Village-based artist Scooter LaForge has a new exhibition opening tomorrow evening (6-9) at Howl! Happening, 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Per the Howl! website:

Homo Eruptus [is] a new body of work by Scooter LaForge including large, mural-size paintings that mine the artist’s fertile inner emotional realm. Whether it’s expressed on the mammoth pictorial canvases on view at the gallery, or a t-shirt or cast-off article of clothing — Scooter paints with an earnestness that responds in the moment to what he sees and hears and feels about the world around him.

The show will remain up through March 13.

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Holiday music from Howl! Happening



Over in Extra Place off First Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery ...Howl! Happening is presenting some "Cool Bowery 'Sounds" for the holidays.

Press play to hear Christmas songs by the Fleshtones, Stiv Bators, the Ramones and the Dickies, among others...

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Funtime? 'Stooge,' which documents Iggy Pop's No. 1 fan, debuts next month at Howl! Happening



"Stooge," a feature-length documentary film about Iggy Pop's No. 1 fan, will make its NYC premier next month at Howl! Happening.

Here are details via Howl!

Nominated in 2017 for “Best UK Feature” at London’s Raindance Film Festival, director Madeleine Farley’s epic odyssey has been described as "Spinal Tap" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." A discussion with director Farley and co-producers Stephen Smith and Martin Kloiber follows the screening.

The film narrates the story of Robert Pargiter, a magnetic, childlike superfan of Iggy and The Stooges, who goes on a fanatical quest to keep rock alive. Like a fly on the wall, we follow him on a trek to London, San Francisco, L.A., and Miami, as the film becomes an intimate introspection into his journey — and more broadly — a study of one man’s personal obsession.

Comedy and tragedy intermingle with the pathos of his personal demons, and ultimately the serious business of dealing with his life offers him a way back to his joie de vivre.

Take a look...



The film screens Sept. 13 from 7-9 p.m. Howl! Happening is at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.

Friday, June 8, 2018

Howl! Happening's Basquiat exhibit extended through July 29



Howl! Happening's current exhibit, "Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat," was originally set to close after Sunday.

However, Howl! has announced that the group exhibition focusing on the artists and scene around Basquiat's teen-age, pre-fame years, has been extended through July 29. (Find more details here.)

"Zeitgeist" complements the recent theatrical release of Sara Driver’s documentary "Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat." That film's run continues at the IFC Center over on Sixth Avenue.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Teenage fan club: Basquiat exhibit opens tonight at Howl! Happening

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Teenage fan club: Basquiat exhibit opens tonight at Howl! Happening


[Image from 1979 by Robert Carrithers]

"Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat" opens this evening (6-8) at Howl! Happening, 6 E. First St. near the Bowery. Here are details via the EVG inbox...

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to announce "Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat," a group exhibition focusing on the artists and scene around Jean-Michel Basquiat's teen-aged, pre-fame years.

Curated by Howl! Happening, Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, and Mary-Ann Monforton, "Zeitgeist" complements and amplifies the theatrical release of Sara Driver’s film "Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat."

The period covered in the exhibition and film tells the story of Jean-Michel’s early work, peers, and creative community in gritty, pre-AIDS, downtown New York — before the rise of the 80s art and real-estate juggernaut.

Special events will include:

• A panel discussion featuring Alexis Adler, Felice Rosser, Lee Quiñones, Al Diaz, and more
• A screening of Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary "Burroughs: The Movie" from the Criterion Collection
• An evening of films featuring an experimental film by Basquiat’s bandmate Michael Holman, with a soundtrack by Gray, the band he and Basquiat formed; David Schmidlapp’s film of Walter Steding playing beneath the Brooklyn Bridge; and Paul Tschinkel’s film about New York/New Wave, curator Diego Cortez’s groundbreaking exhibition at PS1 in 1981
• A performance by Felice Rosser
• A special series of film screenings in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives

Find more details here. The exhibit is up through June 10.

"Boom for Real" opened back on Friday at the IFC Center.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

'Candy Coated Evil' — live



"Candy Coated Evil," a solo exhibition by Samoa, is up through Feb. 11 at the Howl! Happening space on First Street.

To date, we've heard really good things about the exhibit, especially the special live events put on in conjunction with the show.

Here, Walter Wlodarczyk shares photos from this past Saturday evening, when Samoa and Kembra Pfahler, the curator of "Candy Coated Evil," performed for an enthusiastic audience. (The two are the founders of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.)









Caroline Tennessee was also on hand to perform her song "I Want Some Sweet Corn."



Tomorrow (Thursday!) from 7-9 p.m., Samoa and Pfahler host an evening of films ... selections include Samoa’s short features "My Way to Hell" and "Until the Day I Die" as well as performance videos from the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.

Find more details on the exhibit as well as the dates and times of the other special events here.



Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is located at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue.

Thanks to Walter Wlodarczyk for the photos! Find more of his work here.

Friday, January 12, 2018

At the opening reception of Samoa's 'Candy Coated Evil' at Howl! Happening



"Candy Coated Evil," a solo exhibition by Samoa, curated by Kembra Pfahler, had its opening reception Wedneday night at Howl! Happening.

Text and photos by Dan Efram

Samoa's beautiful opening was inspiring. Artists and supporters from the past and present of the NYC arts scene packed the space on East First Street at the Bowery.


[Samoa]







Curated by his longtime artistic partner Kembra Pfahler, the show encompassed props and costumes from many of their performances together. However, to these eyes, the real stars of this show are Samoa's voluminous painted works. Most of these brightly colored pieces, mixed in subjects with a dark political humor and history. These are social injustice pieces that engage and enlighten.









Highly recommended. Runs until Feb. 11.

And don't miss a performance by Kembra and Samoa tomorrow night from 7-9. (Find more info on that here.)


[Kembra Pfahler and Samoa]

Find more details on the exhibit as well as the dates and times of the special events here.

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is located at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Samoa's 'Candy Coated Evil' opens tomorrow at Howl! Happening

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Samoa's 'Candy Coated Evil' opens tomorrow at Howl! Happening



Via the EVG inbox...

Howl! Happening is pleased to present "Candy Coated Evil," a solo exhibition by the multifaceted Samoa, curated by artist and performer Kembra Pfahler.

The exhibition encompasses the full range of Samoa’s diverse art forms — an installation recreating his now-legendary Candy Coated Evil store, which opened in 1996 within The Pink Pony; costumes and props from his performances and music groups; and paintings that capture his deep experience of living in New York City. A major element of the artist’s show are live events — performances by Samoa and Kembra Pfahler, as well as a panel discussion, and an evening of video and film. The exhibition continues through Feb. 11.

The opening reception is tomorrow (Wednesday!) night starting at 6. Find more details on the exhibit as well as the dates and times of the special events here.

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is located at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

'Zhe Zhe' is 'Back from the Dead' tomorrow night



Season two of the web series "Zhe Zhe" premieres tomorrow night at the Howl! Happening space on First Street.

The show follows ...:

"the glamorous misadventures of three fame-famished posers in a post-reality New York. Created by stars Ruby McCollister, Leah Hennessey, Emily Allan and director E.J. O’Hara, 'Zhe Zhe' offers an unflinching look at the dystopia that has become our reality."

Mickey Boardman had this to say about it at Paper: "The show reminds us of old school East Village performance mayhem from the likes of Dancenoise, Alien Comic and any other act that used to play at La Mama."

Allan was born and raised in the East Village.

"It's definitely inspired in part by my childhood memories of ye olde East Village aesthetics, while also poking fun at our present culture of hyperbolized downtown mythos and manufactured nostalgia," she told me via email.

Here's a trailer for season No. 2...



The screening of episode one, titled "Back From the Dead," is tomorrow night starting at 7. Howl! Happening is at 6 E. First St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery. Find out more about "Zhe Zhe" here.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Rise of the 'Empire' — Arturo Vega retrospective through April 20 at the Howl! Happening space



The "Empire: An Arturo Vega Retrospective" debuted this past Thursday at the Howl! Happening space on First Street.

Here's more about it via the Howl! website:

This ambitious survey runs through April 20 and will include guest lectures, performances and a panel discussion exploring Arturo Vega’s broader impact on popular culture while contextualizing his work as a visual artist.

Howl! Happening was established to honor Vega, his life and work, and his support for East Village artists, and we are particularly proud to be the second stop for the late Mexican-born artist’s U.S. museum retrospective. The exhibition features photography, collage and a number of iconic canvases from the artist’s Supermarket and Silver Dollar series (begun in the 70s); his Flags and so-called “word paintings” from Insults; and other series produced during the 80s, 90s and aughts. Of special note is his last major work, Life isn’t tragic, love is just being ignored, a mural commissioned in 2013 that hung on the corner of Prince and Elizabeth streets.

Escaping the repressive violence of an authoritarian regime under Mexico’s “perfect dictatorship” in the late 60s, Arturo Vega made his way to New York City to study English, philosophy and photography at the New School for Social Research in the early 70s.

While working on his first painting series of supermarket signs, he befriended members of the Ramones. Designing the Ramones’ ubiquitous logo based on the Great Seal of the United States, painting backdrops for their stage, and creating a lighting scheme loosely adapted from Albert Speer’s Lichtdom to enhance their effect, Vega created visual imagery that defined the transgressive aesthetic of punk rock by co-opting and questioning symbols of power.

You can check out the Howl! site for dates and times for the panels (there are two tomorrow).

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday.

Vega died in June 2013. He was 65.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

'Still doing it:' A visit to Howl! Happening on East 1st Street


[Photo from January by Stacie Joy]

Today at The New York Times, Michael Musto writes a piece on Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project, the gallery and performance space that opened last March at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue.

Per the article:

“I want to remind people how great the neighborhood can be and reinvigorate it,” said Ted Riederer, the director of the gallery, which opened last year at a medium-size storefront at 6 East First Street, not far from the former CBGB, Sounds record shop and other departed East Village landmarks.

Exhibits rotate about once every three weeks, with openings that sometimes bring together the area’s cantankerous stalwarts.

An opening last October celebrated the Pyramid, the Avenue A club that was a hub of the downtown drag, music and art scene for much of the 1980s. At one point that night, the crowd cheered as the burlesque performer Paula Now flung her wig, which got stuck on the chandelier.

“Old-timers will say, ‘The East Village is nothing like it used to be,’ and I say: ‘Oh, really? Well, tonight we have performances with drag queens on the bar,’” Mr. Riederer said. “We’re still doing it.”

Previously on EV Grieve:
At the opening-night celebration for Punk Magazine

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Howl! Happening opens today on East 1st Street



Howl! Happening, a new gallery and performance space, makes its debut today at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue…

The exhibit "Arturo Vega American Treasure" runs through April 25.



You can read more about the space here.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Arturo Vega exhibition opens new Howl!-backed gallery on East 1st Street



Via the EVG inbox…

Howl! is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery and performance space — Howl! Happening — with the exhibition "Arturo Vega American Treasure" on Sunday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The exhibition runs through April 25. Howl! Happening is located at 6 E. First St. (between Second Avenue and the Bowery).

Arturo Vega (Oct. 3, 1947 – June 8, 2013) was a Mexican-born artist who lived and worked in New York City from 1971 until his death in 2013. As a young artist, he fled the violent government repression of the student movement of the late 1960s in Mexico and became widely known for graphic visual imagery that defined punk music and fashion.

Beginning in 1972 and over the course of his lifetime, he produced close to 100 silver-dollar paintings of the open palm of a hand holding a 1972 silver dollar. As Arturo Vega lived on the Bowery from the early 1970s until his death, the paintings can be viewed as depicting a beggar’s outstretched palm or as a means of co-opting the power of the symbols of the United States. In a disillusioned post-Vietnam America, the symbols of American power could be reimagined as corporate imperial logos.

Upcoming at Happening

April 30–May 3
Vangeline Theatre: Japanese Butoh dance company firmly rooted in tradition while carrying the art form into the 21st century.

May 8–June 5
Lydia Lunch: So Real It Hurts. Exhibition, installation, ephemera, performances by the artist and friends. In association with Some Serious Business, Inc.

June 11–14
Quintan Ana Wikswo: The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far. Performance, exhibition, book-signing in honor of her first novel, published by Coffee House Press. In association with Some Serious Business, Inc.

June 19–August 14
Clayton Patterson: The exhibition surveys of his work, focusing on the art, life, and times of the Lower East Side.