The Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) and its Visual Arts Department graciously invites the New York City community to experience the work of HSA’s faculty and staff through its first ever juried faculty and staff exhibition. Homemade begins with an Opening Reception, Thursday, December 3rd from 6pm to 8pm in The G-Space at 645 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Art’
November 21, 2009
El Museo 40th Anniversary
Super Sabado Target Free Third Saturdays at El Museo
Saturday, November 21, 11:00am – 9:00pm
Once a month, El Museo del Barrio opens its doors to everyone interested in exploring the vibrancy and diversity of Latino Culture. Through free concerts, exhibitions, gallery tours, art making workshops, walking tours, film screenings, and Spoken Word recitals, Super Sábado showcases [...]
November 17, 2009
Harlem: Music, Fashion, Home Decore
The Harlem Holiday Trunk Show will be on Saturday, November 21st from 12pm – 6pm at Casa Frela Art Gallery in Harlem (47 West 119th Street bet. Lenox and 5th Ave) and will feature 10 designers within the landscape of an art installation by the gallery. While a DJ spins at the event, attendees [...]
November 11, 2009
Salters Scene: EXXXOTICA Expo 2009
September 25th, 2009 began the three-day extravaganza EXXXOTICA Expo 2009. Some of the biggest names of the adult entertainment industry were in attendances: Sean Michaels, Heather Hunter, Mr. Marcus, Tera Patrick and Nyomi Banxxx to name a few. Holding such an adult-themed event for the masses can draw some attention. While there was less controversy [...]
November 5, 2009
Happenings in Harlem!
“I LOVE JAZZ!”
Dee Ramsey, Producer /Host
Wednesday, November 18 through Wednesday, December 30
Listen Up Jazz Fans… we’ve got something for everyone, spread the word!
“Precious”
Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 Theater
Friday, November 6 through Thursday, December 31
This much anticipated film stars Mo’Nique and introduces Gabourey Sidibe!
”Dark Matters and Entropy”
New paintings by Jack [...]
November 3, 2009
Peace Party, Poster Art & Calendars
War Resisters League is pleased to invite you to
a launch party for our ‘10 Peace Calendar
& a discussion about poster art and politics
Wednesday, November 4
7:30 pm
at the Brecht Forum
451 West St. (btwn Bank & Bethune)
West Village, NYC
Luba Lukova & Others TBA
The War Resisters League has just published its 2010 peace calendar, Sparking Change: Poster [...]
November 1, 2009
“I make medicine sick…” Ali (video)
Art
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of what is arguably one of the most historic sporting events of all time, NYC label/agency No Mas created Rumblevision—a set of three animated short films reinterpreting the fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman.
October 30, 2009
Roy DeCarava Dies
Art
Roy DeCarava, the child of a single mother in Harlem who turned that neighborhood into his canvas, becoming one of the most important photographers of his generation by chronicling the lives of its ordinary people and its jazz giants, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 89 and lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
His [...]
October 28, 2009
HangNight 6×6 Show
Art
HangNight presents
6×6 Show
Please join us for one of Harlem art community’s most creative events. Hundreds of well known and up and coming artists have been invited to create unique works of art, all measuring 6 x 6 inches. Works will be displayed anonymously. The artists’ identity is disclosed when their work is purchased. Cost [...]
October 12, 2009
Averlyn Archer: The Prophetic Bullhorn
Art
In Celebration of Arts Awareness Week
An old religious maxim says prophecy and imagination go hand-in-hand. So while society’s collective conscience can be limited, prophets operate on an elevated understanding of the world around them.
These individuals were community historians and storytellers of their generation. Ask Averlyn Archer, founder and director of the Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery in [...]
October 8, 2009
Facebook: Peter Randall-Page …
Art
In Celebration of Arts Advocacy Week
From Diana Balton at facebook.com/hwmag
The British sculptor Peter Randall-Page is concerned with the underlying principles determining growth and the forms it produces. In his words “geometry is the theme on which nature plays her infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle
October 8, 2009
Target Seeks Writers for Converse Ad
Art
From Eisaulen
Target is looking for “real” artist to feature in new Converse One Star print
ad.
The shoot is 2 days in Minneapolis @ 3,500 per day + air/hotel/per diem; first week of Nov (days tbc). The usage is 6 months all print advertising and internet.
Target specifically wants to find upstart writers and poets or aspiring writers- [...]
October 6, 2009
Move Art: The Art of Collecting
Art
In Celebration of Arts Advocacy Week in Harlem
I recently had the pleasure of meeting one of the most innovative art dealers this town has to offer.
His name is Tod Roulette who deals in first tier artwork-meaning Roulette works directly with artists to sell their work to collectors. Most would assume that in these tough economic [...]
October 6, 2009
Harlem PoP In Harlem
Art
Society HAE (www.SocietyHAE.com) a destination site for the indie set and art/fashion/music enthusiasts has teamed up with metroPCS to host Harlem PoP: The Parlor Session on Saturday, October 17, 2009. Harlem PoP is part of an ongoing series of “PoP Up Experience Shops” that utilize unconventional spaces to house one-day installations of art, music and [...]
October 3, 2009
The Little Girl Giant
Art
It’s a little eclectic, but interesting. Here’s the text and video from youtube: “On the morning of Sunday 7th May the little girl giant woke up at Horseguards Parade in London…”
“…took a shower from the time-traveling elephant and wandered off to play in the park…”
October 1, 2009
Harlem Arts Advocacy Week Events
Art and Culture are at the core of Harlem’s mystique and legacy, and they are the key to Harlem’s future.
Harlem Arts Advocacy Week
helps to build awareness of the value of the arts in our community and [...]
September 28, 2009
Bicentennial Celeb at St. Philip’s
Art
“Breath on Me”-the Bicentennial Celebratory exhibition of contemporary art opens October 4th – November 29, 2009 at historic St. Philip’s Episcopal church, featuring the work of Fred Fleisher, Paul McHale, Jose Muchaypina and Clinteel Steed.
September 25, 2009
Harlem Arts Advocacy Week Oct. 5-7
Arts
Join us for Coffee & Refreshments on Monday, Oct. 5, at 9 am to Kick-off Advocacy Week at The Riverside Theatre! Our Special Monthly Meeting which opens Arts Advocacy Week will include:
Welcome and Address by Councilwoman Inez E. Dickens
Appearance and Address by Artist/Activist Sonia Sanchez
Remarks by Heather Hitchens, Executive Director, New York State Council on the Arts
Arts Advocacy Week Opening Reception [...]
September 8, 2009
American Museum of Natural History Schedule
ADVANCE SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS
AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
September 4, 2009
Underground Horns @ Nublu
Music
The underground horns will be cooking some audio gumbo at nublu, monday, 9/7, labor day, 11pm. Special recipe includes some funk, jazz, hip hop mixed with
August 13, 2009
America is changing—but are its art museums?
Art
From V. Holly
Most major institutions are still run by white people, are supported by them, and tailor their exhibitions to suit them
Nobody seems to have any meaningful statistics. But you do not have to look at major US art museums for long to realise that most of the senior management is white, unlike staff at [...]
August 12, 2009
Salters Scene: NYILFF- Vin Diesel
Tuesday July 28 marked the beginning of the 10th New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF). NYILFF’s mission is to showcase the works of the hottest emerging Latino filmmaking talent in the U.S. and Latin America, offer expansive images of the Latino experience, and celebrate the diversity and spirit of the Latino community.
On Wednesday night, [...]
August 4, 2009
Michael Jackson Painting, He Wore Red Velvet
Art
HW UPDATE: The owners of a long-hidden painting of Michael Jackson, reputed to be the only portrait he ever posed for, say they are trying to sell it amid the renewed interest after his death. The painting, last sold in 1990 for $2.1 million, was brought out of storage at New Jersey warehouse recently and [...]
July 30, 2009
Harlem Arts Alliance Cultural Calendar
Now through Monday, August 31, 2009
New York International Latino Film Festival ‘I am Happy’ (‘Eu Sou Feliz’) Premier
This week the City is hosting the New York International Latino Film Festival. Soraya Umewaka is a documentary filmmaker from Tokyo. Upon winning Princeton’s Labouisse Fellowship in 2006 she went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to make a [...]
July 26, 2009
Ginuwine by Stephen Garnett
Art
By Stephen Garnett in St. Louis for the new cover and insert.
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