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If you would like the PDF for my free for the community zine titled “Fentanyl Kills”, please reach out to me and I’m more than happy to share it. Together we can educate the community, and fight to stop overdoses caused by fentanyl.

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COLLAGE MAKING AT KOLAJ FEST

Brown Papier Bag Project

Anastasia "Stacy" Kirages sources imagery and content from vintage cookbooks, magazines, found photography, discarded textbooks, and beauty catalogs; nothing is off limits. She is a Houston-based collage artist, zinester, and community organizer for Zine Fest Houston. From Missouri City, Texas, Chasity Porter is "inspired by everyday life experiences, dreams, and memories, and it is the darkness that makes the most impression." She asks, "What makes people and objects unique, inspired, haunted? I am attracted to the absurd and how absurdity has become a part of everyday society; how it has affected us–how it has affected me–and what effect will it have on our futures?" For World Collage Day 2022 they are partnering with The Orange Show, a visionary artspace unique to Houston, where they will set up a Brown Papier Bag collage making station, something they will recreate during this session at Kolaj Fest New Orleans. MORE

Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival & symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, June 15-19, 2022.

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Zine Fest Houston 2019: Zine Cuisine is THIS WEEKEND!!! This year’s poster is by The Center for Imaginative Cartography & Research. <3

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Okay, I let a couple of weeks slip by without posting anything.... Update, I ended the year with my last event with Decent Collective, not many sales, but it was fun. No video or pics from the event either. I’m not to sure about that double digit fest trash I was talking in the last posting. Maybe if I spread everything out over year.

Next year, I want to try Portland and / or Seattle’s festivals. Seattle’s Short Run Comic and Art fest just happened last weekend, so that’s something to mark on the calendar for next year. Portland’s Zine Symposium is in July. Both fests are over the course of several days, so I’d like to slow down and hang out some, especially Portland’s (since I’ve never been to Portland). I’m also thinking about Cincinnati’s zine fest, as well as their Art Book fair (June & December). Then I want to try going back to LA for their zine fest (had a great event in 2016 when I went), which is in May. Then I want to try my luck at Houston’s again, which wasn’t the best the last time I was there, and I’ve got to go to San Antonio’s. Plus I’m going to see about how I could possibly do a fest in Dallas, since we haven’t had one in 3 years. So all of this, plus trying to make plans to make new work (zine work and otherwise) on top of all that, and 2020 is shaping up to be a busy, busy year for me...

Oh, printed my last book for the year, American Made Machines. Came out pretty good, looking forward to tabling with it next year....

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2018 Zine Pavilion Tabler #20

(In anticipation of the Zine Pavilion at the ALA conference in New Orleans happening June 22nd-25th we’ll be posting bios of all of the zinesters who’ll be tabling with us!)

Maria-Elisa Heg

Maria-Elisa Heg is an illustrator, cartoonist, and an organizer with Zine Fest Houston. She has lived in Houston since 2005. She received BAs in Medieval Studies and Visual & Dramatic Arts from Rice University in 2009. Since then she has been active in various capacities as an activist and artist, participating in shows at the Blaffer Art Museum, CentralTrak (Dallas, TX), Hardy & Nance Studios, Matchbox Gallery, and the Caroline Collective. She has also participated in various festivals including The Portland Zine Symposium, NOCAZ, and STAPLE!, where she was a featured speaker on the Comics Alliance "Hire This Woman Panel" in 2015. She has been organizing with Zine Fest Houston since 2012. She is currently a MA candidate in the Arts Leadership program at the University of Houston. 

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Anastasia will be tabling with Zine Fest Houston and University of Houston.

[prisperview]

Prisperview’s 2017 Year Reflection

Worldwide Favorites

Women’s March

Lady Gaga at Superbowl LI in Houston

Marriage legalization and improved LGBT+ Rights around the world

Solar Eclipse

Worldwide Worsts

Trump and most things American government

Hurricane Harvey and Irma

Neo Nazis

Hollywood Sexual Assault crackdown (but also positive because we acknowledged the individuals who spoke up about it)

Las Vegas, O2 Arena, and Sutherland Springs attack and all gun violence without reformed laws

Music

Favorite albums of 2017

Atom Bomb (1999) - The Strike (for some reason, this album doesn’t exist anymore?) | Fav Song: Atom Bomb

Christine And The Queens (2015) - Christine And The Queens (Heloise became my new style icon) | Fav song: Tilted

Live and Let Ghosts (2008) - Jukebox the Ghost (I listened to it multiple times a day) | Fav song: Victoria

Harry Styles - Harry Styles (who do you think I am of course its on the list) |Fav song: Woman

Flicker - Niall Horan (see above) |Fav song: On My Own

Something To Tell You - HAIM (new old favorites!) |Fav song: Little of Your Love

You - EP - dodie (never followed her before, but her music is great) |Fav song: In the Middle

Steven Universe Vol.1 (Original Soundtrack)- (because its Steven Universe) | Fav song: Peace and Love

The Best of Kate Miller-Heidke: Act One (2016) - KMH | Fav song: Australian Idol

Other favorite songs

Footloose - Kenny Loggins

State of Mind - Satchmode

Basically any song on the Footloose AU playlist

Anniversary - Autoheart (Top song of 2017 according to Spotify)

Liam and Louis’ solo songs/collabs

Sonsick - San Fermin

La La Land Soundtrack

All I Ask - Adele

Light Up by Mutemath

More songs by Jukebox the Ghost

Boom Boom - Donora

Moana Soundtrack

You Knew - Mother Falcon 

Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It! - Kishi Bashi

You! Me! Dancing!  - Los Campesinos

Books

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

I re-read An Invisible Sign of my Own by Aimee Bender

I finally finished the Harry Potter Series!

(Fanfics count too, right?)

I got into podfics:

In Dreams by dolce_piccante (podfic) - the first podfic I fell in love with

Naked and Proud by kiwikero (podfic) - absolutely hilarious. I listened to this while working on portfolio applications

The Bucky Barnes Recovery Project: A series by FrostyEmma - I was obsessed with this during the spring

I’d Rather Hear my Dog Bark at a Crow by sunsetmog - I never thought I’d be into Tomlinshaw (or this super NSFW fic dont @ me) but I was up for hours trying to read this in one sitting

Couer du soleil by messofgorgeouschaos - havent finished it yet, but easily a favorite (Ot5!)

YouTube/Podcasts

Dan and Phil - never thought I’d get back into them after 2013 but here I am and I’m having a good time

The Drawfee Channel 

SprinkleofChatter - Louise’s vlogs made doing my hair on Sunday mornings easier

TalkDirection (podcast)-  not listening as much as I used to, but Caitlin and Cara are still good, especially around Harry’s album release time

What Should We Draw? (podcast)

MBMBaM (podcast) - new favorites!

Movies

La La Land (2016)

Trolls (2016) - it was good okay? Anna Kendrick is an all time fav

Wonder Woman - duh

The Big Sick -even though I just saw it a few nights ago

The Wind Rises (2013) - a studio ghibli movie

The First Monday in May (2016) - a documentary about putting together The Met Ball

One Small Hitch (2013) - indie film I found cute

Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl (2015)

TV

Andi Mack - !!! that’s all I can say. 

Silver Spoon - 1 of the 2 anime I watched in the past year

Terrace House: Aloha State

Hjørdis - A short feel good series

Criminal Minds - my sister brought this into our house and its our new family show

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - another show my sister brought up and we bond over it now

Stranger Things Season 2 

Voltron

Sherlock S4 - sucked

I watched a lot of Justice League/DC cartoons from the early 2000s to get ready for WW

Good Girls Revolt - though I never made it all the way through

Art

The DnP Terrarium!

LA LA Land gif

Got into an art school though I didn’t go (again)

Almost did a commission for someone

I did sell art!

Sold something on RedBubble

Fake music festival poster

Participating in the Phandom Big Bang

School

Finally started attending college

Got A’s in all classes. Out of 3 classes, don’t get excited

Learned more about Mathematics and coding

Life

Got closer to my sister

Brother moved out

Got back in touch with church

Reconnected with friend after 10 years

Found some hair solutions

I’m Bisexual! - that’s been creeping up on me since 8th grade and I finally ‘labeled’ it in 2016

Favorite Thrift Finds

Striped knit shirt

Brown ankle boots

Floral romper

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink - a book I loved in 4th grade that I thought I’d never see again

Vermont Teddy Bear Factory Tee

One Direction Where We Are Tour 2014 shirt!!! - that I’ll only wear once a year on July 23

Wrap around skirt

Fancy too-short romper I have yet to wear

Friends

Getting ice cream w/ the gang over spring break

Spending multiple hours @ Fuddruckers catching up w/ church friends

Going to see Sorcerer’s Stone in concert with M and D

That day O and I spent together where I was in hysterics over making music with water bottles

Late nights with my sister watching CM

S’s Grad party

Getting my ears pierced with B

Learning to Longboard

Cold playground chat with C

The Park wth C even though I wanted to puke after the fireworks thing

Hours long talks and BG with T

Finding and connecting with A and everyone else in small group, especially K, G, and E

Getting to know Tumblr mutuals better and gaining some new internet acquaintances

Joyfuls

Going to the theater to see LA LA Land by myself

Finally painting the game room

Waking up at 2 am to listen to Sign of the Times live

I started learning to play the ukulele

Making colored queues

Camping with the college ministry

Birthday with church friends

B’s end-of-Summer get together

Made a Link costume for my first Halloween party ever

Not-as-Joyfuls

H’s suicide, other deaths at old school and 13 reasons why

That one confrontation by an older family “friend”  in July - ouch 

Not being able to do VBS

More hair loss

College upsets

Every single conversation I had w/ my parents about the future

Seeing my friends hurt

Things I’m looking forward to in 2018

Getting to know friends better

More art

I might make a zine

Finding more good music/movies

Reading more

The different opportunities I could take

The Winter Olympics

Getting out of my little area of Texas maybe?

Finishing my first year of college

Dogs :)

Anything else positive that the world throws at us ★

[asiansdoingeverything]

Name Jia Sung

Location Brooklyn, NY, USA

What do you do?

I am an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, raised in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn. Questions of identity and belonging are central in my practice, and my interest in animal symbols and literature drive my work, through projects ranging from paintings, zines and poetry comics, to murals. Since graduating from RISD in 2015, I’ve done editorial illustration for clients including TED Talks, Lenny Letter, Nautilus, and shown work at the RISD Museum, the Whitney Houston Biennial, La Mama Galleria, and Wook + Flavio. Currently, I am art fellow at Guernica Magazine, a selected muralist for the O+ art activism festival this year, and the inaugural Teaching Artist in Residence at the Museum of Chinese in America.

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Website:Jia-sung.com

Twitter: @jiazilla

Instagram: @jiazilla

Contact

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Artist: Ari Marcopoulos

Venue: Frank Elbaz, Paris

Exhibition Title: Machine

Date: September 6 – October 15, 2017

Click here to view slideshow

Full gallery of images, video, press release, and link available after the jump.

Video:

Ari Marcopoulos, excerpts from The Machine, 2017, 8 screen video installation, 22 mins 33 secs

See more videos included in the show on the artist’s website.

  Images:

  Images and video courtesy of the artist and Frank Elbaz, Paris. Photos by Raphael Fanelli.

Press Release:

Andy Warhol said he wished he could be a machine but I’m not about all that, not exactly. I use a Machine, several in fact – sometimes a Leica, Canon, Contax, or Hasselblad – to take pictures with. Why? It’s hard to explain, it’s easier to just look and to find patterns, repetition is key. These days everyone has a camera in their pocket and in the Warhol sense they have become machines, empty recorders continually taking aim at the time, trying to capture the elusive and the mundane. The trouble is that time slips away and fades anyway. I make books, zines, and films as a way to extend the life of the photograph, to make it move.

For my show at galerie frank elbaz I am considering the filmic quality of still photographs, making fast photocopies and slower color pigment prints, with the intention of papering the walls with thousands of images. I have been selecting photos from my extensive archive, guided mostly by intuition, this allows me to regroup old and new and to see the patterns within my work. I have been taking wayward paths across time, in predominantly recent work with diversions. The range of places I’ve been and the people I have encountered are what guide me, those people include edge dwellers, skaters, rap gods, athletes, kids, trees, graffiti, faces, tangles, and cars.

Noise, exertion and rebellion and chaos have always been my métier and so for the first time I’m building an ambitious machine of my own, an 8-channel video contraption to show a randomized array of my rarely seen short films. The collection of works in view represents a broad range of images of the past and the present. The Machine adds the element of time and the cacophony of place to portraiture.

The Park is a 58-minute silent movie with one cut that fixes its gaze on an open basketball court in Brooklyn. I’m captivated by the everyday life of the park, the players challenging each other, the play of light and shadow in the physical but also the emotional sense. Situated across from the Walt Whitman housing projects, the basketball court becomes a site of freedom and expressivity. Its the only court I know of in New York that has no fence around it, so the court’s activity blends seamlessly with life around it. The New York Housing Authority has effectively cut off its denizens from the main street, and so, The Park is a microcosm of street life unbound.

Ari Marcopoulos

  Ari Marcopoulos (b. in 1957 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA) has had solo exhibitions at New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA and Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, the Netherlands, among others. His work has been featured in The Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA twice and in the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil along with group exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France, among others. His videos have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA and San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA. Editorials by Marcopoulos appeared in magazines such as Kaleidoscope, Purple, Dazed and Confused and W.

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A Better Yesterday: The Hidden Agenda

JooYoung Choi, “Paracosmic Viewing Station & Pleasure Vision Transmission Receiver [Gen. 1] Red,” 2016. From the exhibition “A Better Tomorrow” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

  This week brings in a diverse selection of arts events, including opening receptions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and BOX 13 ArtSpace and the Extremely Shorts Film Festival at Aurora Picture Show.

  Thursday, May 18

  Gissette Padilla, “No Tenemos Nada,” 2016

Opening Reception — A living, breathing brand at Rudolph Blume Fine Art | Artscan Gallery

From 6 to 8 pm, Rudolph Blume Fine Art | Artscan Gallery (1836 Richmond) will host the opening reception for the group exhibition A living, breathing brand. The exhibition, which features work by Pat Barry, Megan Harrison, Hillerbrand+Magasmen, Brendan O’Connell, Gissette Padilla, Brandon Ray, and Richard T Scott, explores the dynamics of branding and pop art, capturing the essence of our national fascination with products and promotion. The exhibition will be on view through June 10.

  In the Studio: Craft in Postwar America, 1950-1970 at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

On Thursday, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1001 Bissonnet) opens In the Studio: Craft in Postwar America, 1950-1970, an exhibition of nearly 40 objects made of clay, wood, fiber and metal. Working during a time that inspired a high degree of experimentation, artists began focusing increasingly on manual craftsmanship rather than industry, resulting in the birth of a new field of studio craft that embraced sculptural form as well as function. Providing a snapshot of American craft, the objects are made by masters who established new aesthetics and methods in their respective mediums. The exhibition will be on view in the Caroline Weiss Law Building through October 8.

  Friday, May 19

  The Martini: A Montrose Art Party at Art League Houston

From 6 to 9 pm, join Art League Houston (1953 Montrose) for The Martini: A Montrose Art Party, an event supporting the Healing Arts Program, which provides weekly art classes to adults living with chronic illnesses and physical disabilities, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia. The retro-inspired event, which serves as the opening of an exhibition of artwork by the Healing Art artists, will feature music by Flash Fordon Parks, light bites and a cash bar with beer from Saint Arnold Brewing Company and martinis from Deep Eddy. Admission is free and the exhibition will be on view in the main gallery through May 27.

  Jack Early, “Magical Surprises” (detail), 2015

Opening Reception — A Better Yesterday at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

From 6:30 to 9 pm, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (5216 Montrose) will present the opening reception for the three-person exhibition A Better Yesterday. Based on the concept that individuals must radically accept past traumas as part of the life experience and build from such, JooYoung Choi, Jack Early and Lily van der Stokker present musings on alternative narratives of their pasts. Choi creates an imaginary universe that draws upon childhood experiences, Early presents a multimedia installation focusing on his family, and van der Stokker’s large-scale paintings play on fond rememberances of a melancholic past. The exhibition, presented in the museum’s Zilkha Gallery, will be on view through September 3 and features a discussion with Choi and Early along with CAMH director and exhibition curator Bill Arning on Saturday from 2 to 3:30 pm.

  Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2017 at the Aurora Picture Show

Aurora Picture Show (2442 Bartlett) will host the annual Extremely Shorts Film Festival, an open-call, juried collection of new, wide-ranging short films, each lasting three minutes or less. For two decades, the event has showcased an array of new films from local, national and international artists, presenting a short format that encourages a diversity of approaches and tones. The main program, which features more than 20 new short films, includes screenings at 7 and 9 pm on Friday. On Saturday at 2 pm, Aurora will host the Extremely Young program, presenting a selection of short films by filmmakers under the age of 17. All screenings include a $10 admission fee. From 7 to 10 pm on Saturday, the festival concludes with the Extremely Shorts Celebration, a special closing night program and fundraiser celebrating the 20 year run of the festival that will feature drinks, hors d’oeuvres and a survey screening of work selected from the course of the festival’s lifespan. Admission to the reception is $50 for non-members.

  Saturday, May 20

  Reception — Floating World at Cindy Lisica Gallery

Cindy Lisica Gallery (4411 Montrose) will host a one-day trunk show and reception of Kimono Zulu, a creative effort led by Tina Zulu, that presents a series of redesigned and reimagined Japanese kimonos by multimedia artists and fashion designers. Creatives participating in the show include Selven O’Keef Jarmon, Katsola, Jennifer Gabiola of Dawning Soul, Royal McGee, Dandee Warhol, Mina Gaber, Soi-K, Judy Masliyah of My Flaming Heart, Elijah Coccetti, Rene Cruz, and Ann Brooks. The collection will be on view and available for purchase from 10:30 am to 5 pm with an artist reception from 6 to 8 pm.

  “Public Trust” by Paul Ramírez Jonas at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

From 1 to 5 pm, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will present “Public Trust,” an interactive artwork by Paul Ramírez Jonas as part of his exhibition Atlas, Plural, Monumental. The piece asks museum visitors to examine the value of a word by declaring a promise, the words of which are recorded in a drawing that is shared with them and posted on a marquee board alongside similar pronouncements made by notable figures from the week’s headline news.

  Build-A-Zine Workshop with Sarah Welch and Zine Fest Houston at Lawndale Art Center

From 2 to 5 pm, artist Sarah Welch and Zine Fest Houston will lead a zine-making workshop at Lawndale Art Center (4912 Main) focused on worldbuilding. When conceptualizing a project, worldbuilding can be extremely helpful for novelists, poets, comic writers or anyone looking to build a narrative. The workshop will present tips for creating a distinct sense of place and create their own original zine exploring a new reality. All materials will be provided at this free workshop, but personal collage materials and drawing tools are welcome.

  David Lynch. Courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Screening — David Lynch – The Art Life at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Art, Houston will host screenings of David Lynch – The Art Life, a new documentary about the legendary artist and filmmaker. The film presents an intimate journey through the early decades of Lynch’s life, from his idyllic upbringing in small-town America to his rebellious high school years in Philadelphia. The coming-of-age story follows through his time at film school in Los Angeles when he made his first feature film, Eraserhead. Screenings take place on Saturday at 7 pm and on Sunday at 5 pm.

  Openings Reception — Exhibitions at BOX 13 ArtSpace 

From 7 to 9 pm, BOX 13 ArtSpace (6700 Harrisburg) will host the opening reception for three exhibitions. In the Window BOX, Tere Garcia and Victoria Paige Gonzalez present The Knots In My Stomach, an installation that breaks down how images of women are utilized in advertising. In the Downstairs Back BOX, TEN Gallery and Collective from New Orleans address the issues related to the current cultural and political climate with Praying to the Giant Orange Head. With La ciencia avanaza pero yo no, presented in the Downstairs Front BOX, Angel Lartigue explores different aspects of language and what constitutes “life and death” of the physical body. The exhibitions will be on view through July 8.

  Melinda Laszczynski, “Yes, Honey,” 2017

Sunday, May 21

  Sparkling Canyon Workshop with Melinda Laszczynski at Lawndale Art Center

From 1 to 3 pm, Lawndale Art Center will host an afternoon workshop with artist Melinda Laszczynski inspired by her work Sparking Canyon, currently on view as part of Temporary Havens, Lawndale’s 2017 Artist Studio Program Show. In the workshop, attendees will create their own sparkling canyon worlds using marbled paint, glitter, feathers, sequins and rhinestones. Materials will be provided at this free, all-ages event.

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Propaganda for the Digital Age

Today and tomorrow New Yorkers will be saddled by this terrible Northeaster storm, but that shouldn’t stop you from attending Hannah Cole’s talk on artist taxes today or Judith Bernstein’s talk and book launch dubbed dicks of death tomorrow. They’re too important to miss. By Wednesday art lovers will be able to head to the Lodge for an opening of John Wellington’s dystopian history paintings, and on Thursday to the New York City Opera to see electronic artist Dan Deacon’s “America” set to ballet. We’re particularly looking forward to seeing the ballet given Deacon’s connection to the blog. He’s a Baltimore resident and a long time muse for the blog.

By the time the weekend sets in, it’ll be all talks moderated by Art F City’s Paddy Johnson. On Saturday she’ll be discussing how the Nevada Test Site has influenced the paintings of Eric LoPresti with Eric LoPresti. Sunday, she’ll be discussing the evolving roll of storytelling in American culture with Jack Early and friends.

All of which is to say there’s plenty to see and do this week. So let’s not delay. Put these dates in your calendar and plan to compare notes later on!

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SVA Room 101C

133/141 West 21st Street New York, NY 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Art, Technology, Ecology: A Talk by Artist Frank Gillette

Frank Gillette is known as both a pioneer of experimental video work and eco-conscious art practice. That might sound like an unlikely combo, but that’s part of why this promises to be an interesting talk. Gillette’s multi-channel video installations are informed by everything from cybernetic theory to observations of natural phenomenon, and his processes involve experiments with feedback and closed-circuit loops.

NYSRP

20 Jay St, Ste. M10 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.Website

Hannah Cole

Art F City and the New York Studio Residency Program (NYSRP) present Taxes for Artists, a talk by accountant, artist and AFC Columnist Hannah Cole. Cole is a tax expert who specializes in working with creative businesses and artists. In this talk, she’s going to make sure you get every deduction you’ve never thought about.

Tue

Swiss Institute

102 Franklin St New York, NY 7:00 p.m.Website

Book Launch | Judith Bernstein: Dicks of Death

Judith Bernstein has been drawing dicks for more than half a century, because, in her own words, “men may own it in a bodily sense, but men don’t own the image!”

An artist after our own hearts, indeed. On the event of her publication launch, she’ll be joined in discussion by Hyperallergic co-editor Thomas Micchelli, who’s also drawn and painted his fair share of anatomy.

MoMA

11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 8:00 p.m. Website

Alexandra Bachzetsis’s "Massacre: Variations on a Theme"

This performance commission from MoMA involves dancers and pianists and “positions the female body as a technological form caught between animism and automatism…”

I’m not familiar with Alexandra Bachzetsis’s work, but this sounds promising. The piece will be installed as a video during museum hours, but there will be live performances starting Tuesday. If you can’t catch the opening night, there are a few other chances to see it live:

Wednesday, January 25, 8:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 10:00 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 8:00 p.m.

Wed

Gladstone 64

130 East 64th Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

Andro Wekua: A Dog's Fidelity

I’m not entirely sure what to expect from Andro Wekua’s latest installation at Gladstone 64. The description begins with a poem about dogs’ memories, promises seascapes and portraits that reference icons, and paintings inspired by video, collage, and sculpture. But if this painting that looks like a still from a parking garage surveillance camera is any indication, it should be good and strange.

The Lodge Gallery

131 Chrystie St. New York, NY 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

John Wellington: TEMPLE TOMB FORTRESS RUIN

John Wellington’s paintings are delightfully kitschy-dystopian—mashing up history painting, mythology, militarism, and pop-culture. A year ago, I would’ve likened his work to covers for really weird pulp sci-fi paperbacks. Today, I’m a little concerned these are eerily prescient of the world those creepy dancing “Freedom Kids” from Florida are going to inherit as adults.

Thu

Sean Kelly Gallery

475 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

James Casebere: Emotional Architecture

Photographer James Casebere created this series by painstakingly recreating models of Luis Barragán buildings. These tiny doll-house-like modernist masterpieces were then photographed, capturing the Mexican architect’s famously considered sense of light and color while adding an otherworldly sense of materiality and scale. These are so, so lovely and inviting.

David H Koch Theater

20 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 7:30 p.m.Website

The Times Are Racing (World Premiere)

Dan Deacon’s album America (2012) feels so urgent and timely nearly 5 years later it’s crazy. The music is anthemic but uncertain, frenetic and driving. When it first came out, it felt like the soundtrack to American life post-Occupy. Deacon described the album as “inspired by my frustration, fear and anger towards the country and world I live in and am a part of.”

Now, the New York City Ballet is inaugurating a new show set to America, choreographed by Justin Peck. If the gorgeous promo video they shot in the subway is any indication, they’ve succeeded in capturing that energy. We can’t wait to see this.

Fri

Bridget Donahue

99 Bowery New York, NY 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.Website

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Remote Controls

We’re looking forward to American artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson latest solo show at Bridget Donahue. Aside from being a trailblazer in the field of new media and feminism, she’s spent a lifetime exploring issues of voyeurism and surveillance—issues that couldn’t be more relevant today.

This show will include an interactive video from 1979-82, a sexual fantasy video disc from 1984 and a two channel synchronized installation inside a dollhouse (1993-2011).

Sat

MoCADA

80 Hanson Pl Brooklyn, New York 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Website

Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair

3 Dot Zine, founded by artist Devin N Morris, is hosting a weekend-long zine fest at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. The festival grew out of Morris’s realization that POC tend to be underrepresented in DIY publishing and zine culture.

Beyond vendors, the festival features programming such as workshops and screenings on Saturday and Sunday.

Elizabeth Houston

190 Orchard Street 2 p.m.Website

Eric LoPresti and Paddy Johnson in Conversation

IMG MGMT artist Eric LoPresti and Art F City’s own Paddy Johnson will discuss LoPresti’s recent work. LoPresti’s essay focused on massive scale land art and the Nevada Test Site, and his art work similarly focuses on the Nevada test site landscape and flora and fauna.

Sun

The Wythe Hotel

80 Wythe Ave 3:00 p.m.

Post-truth Storytelling: The Personal Narrative in the Digital Age

Time for a bit of face to face talk, as an antidote to the never-ending social media wars.

This talk, which is lead by Jack Early and moderated by Art F City’s own Paddy Johnson, will include Richard Agerbeek and Leja Kress, Co Founders of SwedenUnlimited, Jacob Bernstein, Director of “Everything is Copy” and other luminaries. Together they will focus on how the democratization of media has affected storytelling. What narratives do we chose to believe? Which ones tells us who we are and who we want to become and which are corrosive falsehoods that erode our sense of wellbeing?  How do we navigate fact and fiction in this new world?

Unlike the usual food-free talks we’re all used to in the art world, this one will include fries and drinks. And those are all the ingredients necessary to really connect in this world!

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[morrissforever]

“GIRLHOOD” zine, an 8 page zine that is printed out on glossy card stock. Each page contains personal writings and collages of images that I felt related to it. In it I discuss the pain of being woman, the highs and low points that sometimes we may experience. This zine is hand cut, punch holed, and held together by a metal ring. This allows for each card to be moved freely, and for each card to become its own letter to the ache of GIRLHOOD.

Will be for sale at zinefest this year for $4

[morrissforever]

Such a great turnout, I’m so happy I pushed myself to do this.

Looking forward to next years, I’ll definitely have more and better stock.

[morrissforever]

Finished my shop banner for my table at zinefest this year, took me a while but it’s complete and I’m happy with the results.

Note to reader: it’s okay to take breaks between projects to feel your emotions, eventually everything will get completed.

[morrissforever]

Free educational zine Ive created to pass out at zinefest this year, Im coming up on 3 years clean and I feel its my civic duty to protect other drug users. The message is not to go and get clean, although a link is provided for NA support. But rather to encourage everyone even non drug users to learn how to use Narcan.

If I can help educate and or save a life my little humble zine has done its job.

[morrissforever]

Today I completed my first zine in years, no one else's hands have touched this work, its my own and I'm very proud of it.

I hope other girls who read this feel seen and heard, this is the ache of girlhood.