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‘Dada Bomb’: An Evening of Artistic Absurdity on the Lower East Side

May 19, 2014 By Coral Silverman Leave a Comment

Artist Clarina Bezzola greets guests entering the Whitebox Art Center: Dada Bomb (Photo by Vitor P Teixeira)

On Saturday, May 17th, the ‘Zurich Meets New York Festival’ presented an amusing evening of absurdist artwork and performances that played homage to the founders of the Dada movement.

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ATOMIC BOMB! The Music of William Onyeabor

April 27, 2014 By Culture Crux Leave a Comment

Atomic Bomb!

BAM, Luaka Bop, and Red Bull Music Academy present an amazing, not-to-be missed lineup of musicians at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 2 and 3 to celebrate the music of the elusive Nigerian synth-funk pioneer William Onyeabor.

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Unsound Festival Review: Demdike Stare and Michael England’s Haunting ‘Concealed’

April 7, 2014 By Coral Silverman Leave a Comment

Phil Niblock at the Unsound Festival

It was fitting that the Unsound Festival’s “The Long Tone” concert was held at the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn on Friday, as the evening was more akin to a religious experience, a narcotic intoxication, or a sexual awakening, than a mere music show.

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Unsound Festival NY April 2–6

April 2, 2014 By Culture Crux Leave a Comment

Unsound Ephemera Installation

Based in Krakow, Poland, Unsound brings its fourth festival of electronic ambient weirdness to New York with five days of programming featuring exploratory music from an international network of cities and scenes.

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The Hum

Mondays this April, The Hum, Manhattan Inn

Hypnocraft presents a Monday night residency dedicated to creating new music and video art, featuring first time collaborations across various genres with some of New York’s best musicians and video artists.

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2015 Battle of the Boroughs: Brooklyn

Battle of the Boroughs: Brooklyn-March 6 in The Greene Space

WNYC and WQXR’s Battle of Boroughs pits bands from each of the city’s boroughs against each other for a chance to compete in the final Ultimate Battle. One of our favorite Brooklyn bands, Teletextile will be one of the acts representing the fair county of Kings in the Battle’s Brooklyn edition.

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William Kentridge

‘Paper Music’: A Ciné Concert by William Kentridge and Philip Miller – October 27 at Carnegie Hall

As part of the current ‘UBUNTU’ festival celebrating the music and arts of South Africa, Carnegie Hall will present the U.S. premiere of the collaboration between the artist and composer.

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

‘By Marguerite Duras’ Retrospective–October 15-22 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center

A weeklong festival presents a selection of her formally daring films, movies adapted from her writing, and a newly restored re-release of ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour.’

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Nick Cave

Thursday Gallery Openings–September 4

As the summer winds to an end, the New York City gallery scene heats back up again, with shows by Nick Cave, Justine Kurland, Marco Breuer, among others.

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