Last week for the East Village-wide exhibit 'Energies' at the Swiss Institute

You have until next Sunday to see the ambitious, East Village-wide "Energies" exhibit at the Swiss Institute. 

Here's more about the show, which opened in September: 

"Energies" is "an international group exhibition that unfolds throughout the entire building at 38 St. Marks Place and expands into numerous partner locations in the surrounding East Village community. The exhibition includes influential historic artworks alongside contemporary positions and new commissions that address ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political arrangements attached to energy past and present." 

One of the pieces includes Gordon Matta-Clark's "Rosebush," which has been restored at its home since 1972 outside the St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street and Second Avenue. 

 The Art Newspaper recently published a piece on "Rosebush:" 

In a brief yet prolific career that ended with his death at age 35 in 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark responded to the neglect of New York City's urban environment with radical interventions, most famously colossal cuts in abandoned buildings. Much of his work was meant to be ephemeral, and little of it survives, especially in the places it was created. An exception is a small, rusted steel cage outside St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. For years, it has stood unmarked and empty of the flowers it was intended to hold. 

"It is, we believe, the only existent work in an outdoor public space of Gordon's," says Jessamyn Fiore, co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. 

The reactivation event this past fall was a collaboration between the Swiss Institute, the Poetry Project, Danspace Project and St. Mark's Church. Read more here. 

The Swiss Institute, on the SE corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place, is open Wednesday through Friday from 2 to 8 p.m., Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 

There is no admission fee.

About the St Mark's Community Rummage Sale on Saturday

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery is hounsing a community rummage sale tomorrow (Saturday). 

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., you'll find clothing, jewelry, antiques, household goods, etc., with all proceeds supporting the church's Welcome Center, "a place respite for our neighbors." 

The Welcome Center is open on Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m. and recently expanded its offerings to include haircuts. 

Tomorrow's event is at the church on Second Avenue and 10th Street.

Wednesday's parting shot

Photo by William Klayer 

A set late this afternoon by Twisted Wrist outside St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue and 10th Street... (check them out some time...) 

St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery highlights gun violence this Holy Week

Once again this Holy Week, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery installed an Anti-Gun Violence Memorial in the East Yard here along Second Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street. 

An EVG reader shared these photos from this past week.

Per the signage: 

Our commemoration this year is represented by the deaths of Women of Color who encountered violent and fateful interactions with law enforcement, and gun violence in general...

Wednesday's parting shot

Side view early this evening outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street at Second Avenue...

Friday's parting shot

Photo by Steven 

A visiting juvenile red-tailed hawk enjoys a squab lunch at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue and 10th Street today...

A celebration of Three Kings Day

Photos by Stacie Joy 

A coalition of community organizations, faith communities and local residents came together yesterday to celebrate Three Kings Day (Los Reyes Magos).

The festivities started with a procession — featuring the Batalá New York percussion ensemble — from the Loisaida Community Center on Ninth Street and Avenue C.

The procession stopped outside the former P.S. 64/Charas/El Bohio Community Center on Ninth Street, which included an appearance by longtime neighborhood activist Chino García, co-founder of Charas...

The final destination was St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue at 10th Street ...

... for a production of "Gifts of the Magi," written by local activist Angie Hernández, which tells "a story of the nativity that celebrates Puerto Rican culture and the rich history of Loisaida."

And making a return appearance on this occasion was the crowd-pleasing Chesney the camel...

This event was produced by a team of volunteers from the community with support from St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, Henry Street Settlement, L.E.S. CommUnity Concerns, the Loisaida Center, Save Our Storefronts, Trinity Lower East Side, JoeyBats Cafe, The March Hare, CONBODY, Exit9, La Sirena and Assemblymember Harvey Epstein's office, among others.

A walk among the trees on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street

Photos by Stacie Joy 

The Tree Riders have the most picturesque seasonal workspace in the neighborhood ... on Second Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street outside the historic St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery.

The vendors recently started their 12th year here... EVG contributor Stacie Joy recently walked through the 24/7 tree stand for a little holiday spirit ...

The list of other local tree sellers includes vendors on Astor Place (at Lafayette), Essex and Houston, and 14th Street at First Avenue.

Sunday's opening shot

Near peak fall at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue and 10th Street...

Farewells: Rev. Anne Sawyer has left St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery

Photos by Stacie Joy

Easter Sunday was the last day for the Rev. Anne Sawyer to preside over services at the historic St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery on 10th Street and Second Avenue.

Rev. Anne, who started as the 14th Rector in June 2017, is heading back to her native Arizona to be with her wife, the Rev. Susan Anderson-Smith.

Before moving to New York, the two co-founded a tuition-free school in Tucson, Ariz., modeled after the former Nativity School here. Anderson-Smith needed to return to the school last year. 

And as Rev. Anne told EVG contributor Stacie Joy:  "We've been doing the long-distance thing for a while. That's a big part of it — wanting to be back together," she said. "I will miss St. Mark's and all of you."

We'll miss Rev. Anne too — she was friendly and outgoing with a great affinity toward the neighborhood and its residents ... it was a pleasure to run into her at the church's many events in recent years (such as here and here...)

Previously on EV Grieve:

• A visit to St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery 

Sunday's parting shot

Thanks to EVG contributor Linda Dyett for sharing this aerial view of the socially distant Easter celebration today outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street...

To the memory of...

Multiple readers have shared photos of this memorial for Breonna Taylor on the fountain outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on Second Avenue at 10th Street...

Saturday at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

Morning views outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street and Second Avenue in Abe Lebewohl Park...



... and staying safe...

Blessing the pets at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

Yesterday morning, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery celebrated St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, with a blessing of the pets ceremony.



The Rev. Anne Sawyer presided over the service, blessing an array of dogs, a few cats and one Japanese fighting fish named Fifi. EVG contributor Stacie Joy stopped by the church yard on Second Avenue and 10th Street for the ceremonies...






















[Rev. Anne blessing Fifi the Japanese fighting fish]