Here's a link to the site that outlines graduation requirements. You don't really need to worry about it right now, but it's probably a good idea to look them over:
http://www.newschool.edu/lang/academics.aspx?id=508
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Jennifer Garner on Broadway
For those who haven't heard yet, Jenifer Garner has just come to Broadway, to star with actor Kevin Kline in the play "Cyrano d Bergerac" (she plays Roxanne, Cyrano's love interest). The play will be opening November 1 at Richard Rodger's Theater, 226 W. 46th STreet; (212) 239-6200.
Where, oh werewolf (as the Post so imaginatively called it)
Werewolf? There wolf-- at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, which is hosting an all-night marathon of werewolf flicks for Halloween.
The frighfest kicks off at 9 Saturday night with Joe Dante's "The Howling" (1981) and shuts down with the 5:40 showing the next morning of an erotic number called "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman" (1971), starring Spanish horror superstar Paul Naschy, who has appeared in a dozen or so werewolf films.
In between, fans will be treated to Neil Jordan's "The Company of Wolves" (1984); Terence Fisher's "The Curse of the Werewolf" (1961); Mike Nichol's "Wolf" (1994), with Jack Nicholson as a book ediotr turned creature; and Rod Daniel's "Teen Wolf" (1985), in which Michael J. Fox discovers that being a werewolf makes him popular on campus.
"It's a good chance to rediscover some classics, and to have a lot of fun," Pioneer programmer Ray Privett says of the marathon.
The Pioneer is on Third Street at AVenue A, in the East Village; (212) 591-0434.
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This was in the Post last week, and it sounds really cool, especially if you're one of those people who's into old-fashioned horror movies.
The frighfest kicks off at 9 Saturday night with Joe Dante's "The Howling" (1981) and shuts down with the 5:40 showing the next morning of an erotic number called "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman" (1971), starring Spanish horror superstar Paul Naschy, who has appeared in a dozen or so werewolf films.
In between, fans will be treated to Neil Jordan's "The Company of Wolves" (1984); Terence Fisher's "The Curse of the Werewolf" (1961); Mike Nichol's "Wolf" (1994), with Jack Nicholson as a book ediotr turned creature; and Rod Daniel's "Teen Wolf" (1985), in which Michael J. Fox discovers that being a werewolf makes him popular on campus.
"It's a good chance to rediscover some classics, and to have a lot of fun," Pioneer programmer Ray Privett says of the marathon.
The Pioneer is on Third Street at AVenue A, in the East Village; (212) 591-0434.
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This was in the Post last week, and it sounds really cool, especially if you're one of those people who's into old-fashioned horror movies.
Travelling Party this Saturday
Within the Land of Ash
Saturday, October Twenty Seventh
From 8pm through 9am (13 hours)
Starting at 195 Morgan Ave., Brooklyn and continuing
throughout the night at another secret location...
Details: http://www.thedanger.com
The end of October breeds nights made for mischief. This
Saturday we offer an ambitious mixture of the beautiful
and the bizarre with two infamous Brooklyn art spaces
built out into 13 visions of the afterlife. There is a
land just beyond here where surreal shares the stage with
the sublime. This is how we live forever-after within the
land of ash.
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I've never been to one of these travelling parties, but I hear they're pretty legit. It's $15 if you wear an "inspired" costume (I guess this means dressing in all black with cat ears and painted whiskers doesn't count), $20 if you don't.
It starts @ 3rd Ward Brooklyn
195 Morgan Ave., in the East Williamsburg Industrial Zone
Take the L train to Morgan Ave. and walk four blocks north.
Saturday, October Twenty Seventh
From 8pm through 9am (13 hours)
Starting at 195 Morgan Ave., Brooklyn and continuing
throughout the night at another secret location...
Details: http://www.thedanger.com
The end of October breeds nights made for mischief. This
Saturday we offer an ambitious mixture of the beautiful
and the bizarre with two infamous Brooklyn art spaces
built out into 13 visions of the afterlife. There is a
land just beyond here where surreal shares the stage with
the sublime. This is how we live forever-after within the
land of ash.
---
I've never been to one of these travelling parties, but I hear they're pretty legit. It's $15 if you wear an "inspired" costume (I guess this means dressing in all black with cat ears and painted whiskers doesn't count), $20 if you don't.
It starts @ 3rd Ward Brooklyn
195 Morgan Ave., in the East Williamsburg Industrial Zone
Take the L train to Morgan Ave. and walk four blocks north.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Showcase
For those who weren't there last week, the class decided that for the final showcase they want to do a photo essay of new experiences had since arriving at Lang. It seems like you all still need to work out the details, such as: how many photos per person; size and format of the final photos (I suggest higher quality than digital print outs. You could print your own, if you all know how to do that, or we can get money to have them printed at a photo place); how they'll be arranged and displayed; if you want to include a written accompaniment, etcetera. Some of these details will need to be decided in the next week or so that we can submit our budget to Bertha (remember, no more than $100). Let's talk about it in class, or post on here.
If there's anyone who's not happy with this decision and wants to do a different project, talk to me after class or email me. We can work something out whereby you can do something more independent, but you'll have to tie it into the larger group project.
If there's anyone who's not happy with this decision and wants to do a different project, talk to me after class or email me. We can work something out whereby you can do something more independent, but you'll have to tie it into the larger group project.
Cheap copies
Photocopies at the New School cost $.10/page ($.20 for double-sided, I think).
Photocopies at Village Copier, on 13th between 5th ave and University Pl., cost $.07/page, even if it's double-sided.
I just learned that today, but I really wish I'd learned it sooner. With the amount of photocopying you'll be doing at Lang, it's worth walking the extra half block from the library.
(note: I'm talking only B&W copies.)
Plus, I found 5 bucks on the floor there, so it seems like a lucky place.
Photocopies at Village Copier, on 13th between 5th ave and University Pl., cost $.07/page, even if it's double-sided.
I just learned that today, but I really wish I'd learned it sooner. With the amount of photocopying you'll be doing at Lang, it's worth walking the extra half block from the library.
(note: I'm talking only B&W copies.)
Plus, I found 5 bucks on the floor there, so it seems like a lucky place.
Lang course catalog
Here's the link to a PDF version:
http://www.newschool.edu/pdf/Lang_Catalog.pdf
I'm still trying to find out where you can get a real-life copy.
http://www.newschool.edu/pdf/Lang_Catalog.pdf
I'm still trying to find out where you can get a real-life copy.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
See IT
GZA from the Wu Tang Clan is performing his landmark album Liquid Swords at The Knitting Factory on December 15th. I highly recommend.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Call me a dork but...
We're studying pirates. So this kinda counts. I think.
Madame Tussauds Haunted:
See, hear and feel the awakening of spirits trapped at the historic Madame Tussauds. Legendary ghost stories come alive in a month long spine tingling exhibit also featuring Haunted Scavenger Hunts and a Chamber of Horrors LIVE!
Madame Tussauds New York
Telephone:
800-246-8872
Starts: 10/01/07
Ends: 10/30/07
$29
Madame Tussauds is usually pretty cool. Now picture it HAUNTED.
Madame Tussauds Haunted:
See, hear and feel the awakening of spirits trapped at the historic Madame Tussauds. Legendary ghost stories come alive in a month long spine tingling exhibit also featuring Haunted Scavenger Hunts and a Chamber of Horrors LIVE!
Madame Tussauds New York
Telephone:
800-246-8872
Starts: 10/01/07
Ends: 10/30/07
$29
Madame Tussauds is usually pretty cool. Now picture it HAUNTED.
CultureFest NYC 2007
New York City's seventh annual CultureFest takes place both tomorrow and Sunday (Oct. 13-14) at Battery Park, 11:00 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.
More than 125 cultural organizations come together at Battery Park to share the magic of the upcoming season with you. This spectacular festival of music, art, dance, hands-on activities, entertainment and food is your once-a-year opportunity to discover all of New York City culture—and a chance to plan your personal arts calendar for the months ahead.
Sounds entertaining, right?
More than 125 cultural organizations come together at Battery Park to share the magic of the upcoming season with you. This spectacular festival of music, art, dance, hands-on activities, entertainment and food is your once-a-year opportunity to discover all of New York City culture—and a chance to plan your personal arts calendar for the months ahead.
Sounds entertaining, right?
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Want to visit the Whitney for free?
Fridays are pay-what-you-wish admission from 6-9pm.
New exhibit opens tomorrow: installations by Kara Walker, who has a piece in the lobby of the New School building on 13th, near 6th ave. (The New School, as you probably already know, has an amazing art collection. Later in the semester the school sponsors a writing competition in which you can submit an essay or creative piece inspired by one of its pieces. The winner gets money; I forget how much. Keep your eyes out for signs towards the end of the semester.)
New exhibit opens tomorrow: installations by Kara Walker, who has a piece in the lobby of the New School building on 13th, near 6th ave. (The New School, as you probably already know, has an amazing art collection. Later in the semester the school sponsors a writing competition in which you can submit an essay or creative piece inspired by one of its pieces. The winner gets money; I forget how much. Keep your eyes out for signs towards the end of the semester.)
Showcase
Tomorrow we'll need to figure out what you all want to do for the showcase, so I can submit our proposal to Bertha.
We should have time tomorrow to talk more and decide what you want to do (we're also having a presentation tomorrow, so it's a particularly important day to come). Remember, although we can use some of our class time for the project, you'll have to work together to complete it mostly on your own time. Also, there's a $100 budget, it's due at the beginning of December (the exact date is on your syllabus) and it's 80% of your semester grade.
Here are the ideas we discussed last week:
How-to video for first years: what not to say in class, what not to do on your first day, etcetera. Use of video and humor seemed popular...
Clay model: everyone make a model of one thing you brought to Lang, or one thing that represents your idea of arrival.
Some sort of parody skit or performance (could film this so it wouldn't have to be preformed).
A video retracing the first day at Lang or first day in New York (i.e. follow one person from the airport, one person from the train station, and their subsequent trip to Lang).
A mix CD with songs about arrival.
A giant mixed-media collage.
Everyone make a small work of art on the theme of arrival and install it in the showcase space, creating a kind of miniature gallery.
Interview the characters around Lang.
Photos of new experiences you've had since coming to Lang.
See you all tomorrow.
We should have time tomorrow to talk more and decide what you want to do (we're also having a presentation tomorrow, so it's a particularly important day to come). Remember, although we can use some of our class time for the project, you'll have to work together to complete it mostly on your own time. Also, there's a $100 budget, it's due at the beginning of December (the exact date is on your syllabus) and it's 80% of your semester grade.
Here are the ideas we discussed last week:
How-to video for first years: what not to say in class, what not to do on your first day, etcetera. Use of video and humor seemed popular...
Clay model: everyone make a model of one thing you brought to Lang, or one thing that represents your idea of arrival.
Some sort of parody skit or performance (could film this so it wouldn't have to be preformed).
A video retracing the first day at Lang or first day in New York (i.e. follow one person from the airport, one person from the train station, and their subsequent trip to Lang).
A mix CD with songs about arrival.
A giant mixed-media collage.
Everyone make a small work of art on the theme of arrival and install it in the showcase space, creating a kind of miniature gallery.
Interview the characters around Lang.
Photos of new experiences you've had since coming to Lang.
See you all tomorrow.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Radiohead
So, this doesn't really involve going anywhere outdoors, but it is fairly interesting. You are able to download the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows" for whatever price you want, the most interesting price being $0.00, starting on the 10th. You will be able to buy the actual album come December, I think. This is just one way of Radiohead trying to combat the pirating of their music by leaking it themselves, through this system, beforehand. Just search "radiohead in rainbows" in google and you'll find the link. Enjoy!
Habana Outpost in Fort Greene
If you can afford to eat out and you need a respite from cafeteria food, which it sounds like most of you do...
try Habana Outpost. You'll have to hoof it out to Fort Greene, though. It's not hard - take the L to Lorimer and transfer to the G, then take the G to Fulton. Habana Outpost is at 757 Fulton (go to hopstop.com or Habana's website, ecoeatery.com, if you want more specific directions).
Habana Outpost is an eco-friendly eatery, which means they employ earth friendly products and practices in all aspects of their restaurant (including solar power and a bike pedal powered blender). Entrees range from about $5.00 - 10.00. I haven't actually eaten there because it gets really crowded (beware), but I hear it's amazing. Fort Greene is a nice area to walk around, too, or it seemed like it that one time I walked around there....
try Habana Outpost. You'll have to hoof it out to Fort Greene, though. It's not hard - take the L to Lorimer and transfer to the G, then take the G to Fulton. Habana Outpost is at 757 Fulton (go to hopstop.com or Habana's website, ecoeatery.com, if you want more specific directions).
Habana Outpost is an eco-friendly eatery, which means they employ earth friendly products and practices in all aspects of their restaurant (including solar power and a bike pedal powered blender). Entrees range from about $5.00 - 10.00. I haven't actually eaten there because it gets really crowded (beware), but I hear it's amazing. Fort Greene is a nice area to walk around, too, or it seemed like it that one time I walked around there....
Parsons (free) Art Lectures, Wednesdays at 3:15
Some Wednesdays at 3:15, Parsons hosts free art lectures in the Swayduck Auditorium (1st floor of the 5th avenue and 14th st. building, immediately on your left when you enter). Tomorrow's lecture is about 15 female artists who radically impacted the contemporary art scene and about whom a book was recently published. There are other lectures on Nov. 7th, Nov. 14th and Dec. 5th, descriptions of which I've listed below. The document I cite also has information on other art lectures hosted by Parsons.
TOMORROW
"Parsons The New School for Design presents a panel discussion with the co-authors of the new publication After the
Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, which charts the rise of women artists since the advent of the
feminist movement, from Marina Abramowicz to Nancy Spero. The four co-authors and panelists are Eleanor Heartney,
author of Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads and Movements in Modern Art: Postmodernism; Helaine
Posner, organizer of many exhibitions and author of Kiki Smith; Nancy Princenthal, contributing editor to Art in America and
member of the faculties of Bard College and New York University; and Sue Scott, a curator whose articles have appeared in
ArtNews, Art Papers, and Art and Antiques."
(http://newschool.edu/pressroom/emails/ppad_fall07.pdf)
Nov. 7th:
"FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES: BECKY SMITH AND ZACH FEUER
The Department of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design presents a dialogue between Chelsea art gallery dealers
Becky Smith and Zach Feuer, both of whom are influential in the international art world.
Nov. 14th
"FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES: THOMAS NOZKOWSKI
The Department of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design presents Thomas Nozkowski, a painter who has had more
than sixty solo shows since 1979. His most recent exhibitions include an installation of new work at la Biennale di Venezia
(2007), a career survey at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany (2007), and solo exhibitions at Max Protetch Gallery
and BravinLee Projects, New York (2006)."
Dec.5th
"FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES: LORNA SIMPSON
The Department of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design presents Lorna Simpson, one of the leading artists of her
generation. Simpson first won acclaim in the mid-1980s with her elegant and subtly provocative large-scale photographs
and text works, which confront and challenge conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory.
TOMORROW
"Parsons The New School for Design presents a panel discussion with the co-authors of the new publication After the
Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, which charts the rise of women artists since the advent of the
feminist movement, from Marina Abramowicz to Nancy Spero. The four co-authors and panelists are Eleanor Heartney,
author of Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads and Movements in Modern Art: Postmodernism; Helaine
Posner, organizer of many exhibitions and author of Kiki Smith; Nancy Princenthal, contributing editor to Art in America and
member of the faculties of Bard College and New York University; and Sue Scott, a curator whose articles have appeared in
ArtNews, Art Papers, and Art and Antiques."
(http://newschool.edu/pressroom/emails/ppad_fall07.pdf)
Nov. 7th:
"FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES: BECKY SMITH AND ZACH FEUER
The Department of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design presents a dialogue between Chelsea art gallery dealers
Becky Smith and Zach Feuer, both of whom are influential in the international art world.
Nov. 14th
"FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES: THOMAS NOZKOWSKI
The Department of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design presents Thomas Nozkowski, a painter who has had more
than sixty solo shows since 1979. His most recent exhibitions include an installation of new work at la Biennale di Venezia
(2007), a career survey at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany (2007), and solo exhibitions at Max Protetch Gallery
and BravinLee Projects, New York (2006)."
Dec.5th
"FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES: LORNA SIMPSON
The Department of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design presents Lorna Simpson, one of the leading artists of her
generation. Simpson first won acclaim in the mid-1980s with her elegant and subtly provocative large-scale photographs
and text works, which confront and challenge conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory.
ABC No Rio
Located in the Lower East Side, ABC No Rio is a great place for those who are interested in activist culture.
"ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. Known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture, ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and we retain these values to the present.
Over the years ABC No Rio has been host to an incredible range of artistic expression dealing with war, homelessness, drugs, sex, violence, and the politics of housing and real estate, among much else. In the mid-eighties No Rio helped energize the burgeoning East Village performance scene and was instrumental in the resurgence of spoken word and performance poetry. In the late-eighties No Rio became active in the hardcore music scene, instituting a policy of not booking racist, sexist or homophobic bands. ABC No Rio is one of the best-loved punk venues in the world."
They also have free/low cost public use of facilities like a silk-screen room, a dark room, and a computer center.
They also have art shows, concerts, host film & video screenings, performance events, workshops, forums and benefits.
http://www.abcnorio.org
"ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. Known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture, ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and we retain these values to the present.
Over the years ABC No Rio has been host to an incredible range of artistic expression dealing with war, homelessness, drugs, sex, violence, and the politics of housing and real estate, among much else. In the mid-eighties No Rio helped energize the burgeoning East Village performance scene and was instrumental in the resurgence of spoken word and performance poetry. In the late-eighties No Rio became active in the hardcore music scene, instituting a policy of not booking racist, sexist or homophobic bands. ABC No Rio is one of the best-loved punk venues in the world."
They also have free/low cost public use of facilities like a silk-screen room, a dark room, and a computer center.
They also have art shows, concerts, host film & video screenings, performance events, workshops, forums and benefits.
http://www.abcnorio.org
Monday, October 8, 2007
Hot Hot Heat this weekend.
I don't know how many of you are too cool for Hot Hot Heat, but seriously, Steve Bays is my lover. So naturally I'm a little bit upset that I can't see HHH play this Saturday at Webster Hall. Doors are at 6 and the first band takes the stage around 7. Tickets are $20 and worth every single penny, because Hot Hot Heat puts on a ridiculously good show.
I'm vaguely familiar with one of the openers, Bedouin Soundclash. They're not really my style so I can't speak to them too much, but I saw them open for another band a year or so ago and they were enjoyable, if not astounding.
Anyway, as I said, I can't make this show. I'll be in Massachusetts at my boyfriend's cousin's wedding. Instead of spending my Saturday night being wooed musically by Steve Bays & co., I'll instead be spending it at some country club being judged by people who think my boyfriend is too intelligent to be with a girl who goes to a college that doesn't even offer math classes. It's terribly unfair, really. So in order to correct the cosmic balance of the universe, I think at least one of you should be at Webster Hall, experiencing what I so sadly cannot.
Plus, Steve Bays!
I'm vaguely familiar with one of the openers, Bedouin Soundclash. They're not really my style so I can't speak to them too much, but I saw them open for another band a year or so ago and they were enjoyable, if not astounding.
Anyway, as I said, I can't make this show. I'll be in Massachusetts at my boyfriend's cousin's wedding. Instead of spending my Saturday night being wooed musically by Steve Bays & co., I'll instead be spending it at some country club being judged by people who think my boyfriend is too intelligent to be with a girl who goes to a college that doesn't even offer math classes. It's terribly unfair, really. So in order to correct the cosmic balance of the universe, I think at least one of you should be at Webster Hall, experiencing what I so sadly cannot.
Plus, Steve Bays!
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