James pointed out an ad for 650 Sixth Ave in this’ weekend’s New York Times real estate magazine. The website for this new apartment building has a slide show which combines images of the apartments with works of artists represented by Jack Shainman Gallery.

James and I are going to two dance/theater works soon. They’re both people we love and have seen before:

• Ann Liv Young at The Kitchen — here is the NY Times review and an earlier post on her
• Adrienne Truscott at PS122 — she is also one half of the fabulous Wau Wau Sisters (pronounced vow vow)

Update

Via culturebot I learn there is a preview video on YouTube of the Adrienne Truscott show.

From MADtv, which I didn’t see last week as our Time Warner Cable Tivo-lite device died. Thanks to Noah Lyon for sending me a link to the YouTube video.

Idiocracy is one of my favorite films of the last couple of years. Speak Up has a great write-up on the amazing design of the movie. Via Signals vs. Noise.

We plan to attend this tomorrow. Ensemble Pi is a wonderful group of musicians with a social conscience.

Eyal Danieli (detail)

Ensemble Pi Presents

WHEN WORDS FAIL
 
Thoughts About Peace in a Time of War
Second Annual Concert

Friday, March 16, 2007
Judson Peace Church
55 Washington Square South
212.477.2419

Admission $15 at the door

Program:

John Harbison
Abu Ghraib (2006) for piano and cello

Kristin Norderval
Voices From Iraq (2007)
World Premiere

Frederic Rzewski
Down by the River – from North American Ballads for Piano (1979)

Alice Shields
Mioritza: Requiem for Rachel Corrie
for Trombone and Tape (2004)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, opus 67
1944

Philip Wharton
3 Sassoon Songs for voice and violin (2007)
World Premiere

Guest Speaker
Anat Biletzki

Performers:

Richard Burkhart, Cello
Monique Buzzarté, Trombone
Idith Meshulam, Piano
Kristin Norderval, Voice
Philip Wharton, Violin

Funded by the generosity of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Klavierhaus

In a program note for “Abu Ghraib ,” Harbison writes that this “piece is not a protest or a moral lesson. These would require little bravery. Instead it seeks music in a moment when words can fail.”</blockquote>

Jacques Louis Vidal, who was in the show we curated last year, has a new book project. There is a “hand bound limited printing of the book” for sale in addition to the pages on the web.

The Journey 2 the Center of the Internet

Here is a sample image, shrunk a bit for the blog.

I spotted these in Front Room’s area at Fountain last month.

I love the pricing structure:

• $90 nut only (no shell)
• $90 empty half shell
• $150 empty full shell
• $175 shell containing nut

He has a show at Pierogi 2000 opening on Friday, titled “Iraq Rock,” described thusly

This exhibition will feature an 8-by-8 foot tabletop model of a hypothetical benefit concert, Rock Iraq, which doesn’t exist but quite possibly could. It is a concert with corporate logos but no sponsors, no musicians, and no music. It exists as a tabletop model to American ambiguity, assuaging guilt, displaying compassion, condemning failure, and inventing triumph.

The artist Benjamin Evans is the new Gallery Director of NURTUREart. We first met him through Momenta, where he was helping out with grant writing and the annual benefit.

Not only does he have a new position, but he also has a solo show opening at Sarah Bowen Gallery in Williamsburg this Friday. A sample painting — a modified thrift store find — is pictured below.

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