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‘Secret Signals’: The Otherworldly Photography of Christina Dallas

April 15, 2014 By Coral Silverman Leave a Comment

Christina Dallas "Portrait of the Royal Family"

Bushwick’s Catland Books holds their first ever art show with haunting, symbol-laden photographs by artist Christina Dallas, AKA “Teen Angel”.

Art Review: Richard Renaldi’s Creepy and Unaffecting ‘Touching Strangers’

April 11, 2014 By Coral Silverman Leave a Comment

Sonia, Zach, Raekwon, and Antonio, 2011, Tampa, FL from Touching Strangers (Aperture, May 2014) © Richard Renaldi

As a New Yorker forced to touch strangers almost anytime I find myself on the subway at rush hour, I find it hard to romanticize the premise behind Richard Renaldi’s “Touching Strangers” exhibition which opened last week at the Aperture Foundation Gallery in Chelsea.

HAMBURGER EYES Show and After Party-Friday, April 4

April 3, 2014 By Culture Crux Leave a Comment

Hamburger Eyes Elevations Exhibition

The San Francisco based photo magazine HAMBURGER EYES will mount a black and white photo exhibition at MUDDGUTS gallery in Brooklyn this Friday.

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.

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.

‘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.

‘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.’

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.