Dais Records was started in 2007 by record collectors Ryan Martin and Gibby Miller with the specific mission of releasing and distributing ‘lost’ recordings, while promoting new and underexposed artists. The first Dais record, a collection of unreleased Genesis P’orridge tapes from 1968, would set the tone of the Dais project overall: raw, extreme and occult. Despite [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Zoetropes, Gestalt and the Promised Land of Inspired Art
October 27, 2009 – 5:57 am
The new issue of the Francis Ford Coppola published quarterly literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story combines modern literature with current events and creative greats past, present and future to provide a seasonal, Gestaltian closure for art of many mediums. For sale on newsstands (and online) now, Volume 13, Number 3 is an introspective selection of short stories. From [...]
Atlas Sound: Logos
October 26, 2009 – 3:45 am
Even by indie rock’s broad aesthetic standards, Bradford Cox is not your prototypical scene leader. His ubiquitous presence in the music blogosphere belies a popular appeal rarely found within the experimental and often challenging catalog of his primary band Deerhunter. Under the guise of side-project-turned-main-event Atlas Sound, however, Cox has found a niche comfortably ensconced [...]
Stuart Sherman opening at 80WSE
October 26, 2009 – 3:00 am
There will be an opening reception for Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing, an exhibition of the works of writer, visual artist, and theater/film/videomaker Stuart Sherman (1945-2001) at 80WSE (between W. 4th and Washington Place) on Tuesday night from 5-8pm. The show will be up until December 19th.
The Emperor Jones at the Irish Repertory Theatre
October 25, 2009 – 4:18 am
Those who haven’t read Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones will leave the Irish Repertory’s new production occupied with a single question: is this a bad play, or is it just a contrived staging? They’ll be nearly mystified at their dulled senses and likely disappointed that the spectacle hasn’t inspired less ireful considerations. (Those who’ve read [...]
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
October 23, 2009 – 11:56 am
It was unlikely that Werner Herzog’s re-visitation of the Abel Ferrara cult classic Bad Lieutenant was ever going to be as funny as the directorial war of words it provoked back in 2007. With Ferrara in the anti-remake corner crying “Burn in Hell” and the hubristic Herzog in the other howling “fight the windmills”, the stage [...]
Dennis Hopper: Sign of the Times at Tony Shafrazi Gallery
October 23, 2009 – 7:25 am
If you only know Dennis Hopper’s film and TV work, run, don’t walk, to catch the show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery that’s up until October 24. As long ago as the mid-1950s, Terry Southern called Hopper an up-and-coming photographer to watch. He’s only improved over the years. Oh yeah, he also paints. Dennis Hopper: [...]
Peter Greenaway’s J’Accuse at the Film Forum
October 22, 2009 – 1:30 pm
Peter Greenaway is nothing if not ambitious. Behind his overall project is the notion that the vast majority of the population is “visually illiterate.” The result of this is an “impoverished cinema” that has been producing little but illustrated Victorian novels for the past century. These claims are stated early in Greenaway’s new film, Rembrant’s [...]
The Day the Factory Died
October 22, 2009 – 11:08 am
Tonight in New York the photographer Christophe von Hohenberg will be signing copies of his latest book Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died at Clic Gallery at 255 Centre Street. The book features images from Warhol’s memorial service shot by von Hohenberg in 1987. Visit the gallery’s website for more information.
