Works by Norman Hasselriis
I’ve heard this story from at least four different friends: driving down County Route 81, they stopped for what they thought was a garage sale and instead found themselves entering a breathtaking world of strange and magical sculptures, The Assemblage Art Gallery, and meeting its friendly, unassuming proprietor, Norman Hasselriis.
Time + Space Limited in Hudson is hosting the area premiere of the debut feature-length film directed by the powerful Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, “Women Without Men,” at 5:30pm Thursday.
The film – adaptated from of Shahrnush Parsipur’s magical realist novel of the same title – chronicles the interwoven lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953 – a cataclysmic time in Iranian history when an American-led, British-backed coup d’état brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and re-installed the Shah to power.
In Persian with English subtitles. 2009. 95 mins.
Here’s the schedule of screening at Time + Space:
Thursday-Sunday, September 2-5 at 5:30pm
Saturday, September 11 at 7:30pm
Sunday, September 12 at 3:30pm
Saturday-Sunday, September 18–19 at 3:30pm
Admission is $7; students $5.
Congrats go out to photographer-writer Chuck Miller, who is spreading the word about Nippertown’s namesake at the New York State Fair. His photograph, “Nipper’s Polar Panorama,” was awarded a red ribbon for its second place finish in the New York State Fair 2010 Photography Competition in the “color, non-traditional” category.
Miller was also awarded an honorable mention yellow ribbon for another of his photographs in the same category.
The photographs will remain on exhibit at the New York State Fair in Syracuse through Labor Day, Monday, September 6.
(Related story: Nipperlicious!: How Chuck Miller photographed Nipper)
The great R. Crumb – underground comix artist, Cheap Suit Serenader and Bible illustrator – is celebrating his 67th birthday today.
(Related story: R. Crumb book review)
Modern Art Notes, Tyler Green’s popular chronicle and critique of art and art institutions, is running a tournament to name America’s favorite art museum.
The final round of voting just opened and…The Clark is up against the Toledo Museum of Art.
Yep. The Clark. In Williamstown.
The Clark has already defeated The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art and The Philadelphia Museum of Art in previous rounds of voting. (They also just scored Metroland Magazine’s nod as the Best Museum in the Capital Region.)
Yes, it’s a popularity contest, but it illustrates the passion and commitment of The Clark’s patrons as well as the museum’s progressive vision in developing exhibitions, concert series, film screenings and lectures.
You can vote here. Voting runs through Sunday, and judging by some of the comments on the site, Toledo has mobilized their forces.
Dennis Herbert: Box Assemblages
Dennis Herbert has been making art assemblages from found materials for over 10 years. A self-trained artist, he lives in a church rectory in Hudson and spends his free time creating mysterious, dream-like boxes as well as free standing sculptures. His backyard garden overlooking the Hudson River is filled with wandering pathways that snake through and around large-scale sculptures and found objects.
Last fall, he converted his unused garage into an art gallery to showcase his works, offering them for sale to the public in a quest to free up more storage space. The Folk Art Gallery is open from 1-5pm on most Sundays (call ahead if you’re travelling a long distance) or by appointment.
Do you remember the first box you ever made?
Laurie Anderson: Delusion
But of course at EMPAC, you probably haven’t seen anything like it before.
Here’s a rundown of EMPAC events sure to intrigue adventurous minds and free thinkers:
Friday, September 10, 8pm: Brent Green’s “Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” (Theater) A stop-action film accompanied by musical narrative telling the poignant and darkly humorous true story of a man who built a bizarre “healing house” in an attempt to cure his wife’s terminal cancer.
Angela Bacon-Kidwell @ Galerie BMG
It seems as though the embers were barely cool on the fire that devastated Tess’ Lark Tavern, back in the early morning hours of May 6, when friends and family – pretty much one and the same when you’re talking about a beloved gathering place like Tess’ – began to wonder what might be next.
Then in early June, landlord Mike DiNapoli – the owner of the Delmar-based DiNapoli Opticians who also owns the historic building that housed the Lark Tavern – filed papers declaring the building a total loss, which would legally terminate the Lark Tavern’s lease.
And so, the rumor mill has been a-buzz ever since.
Grand Street Community Arts in Albany is hosting “The Conquest of Saturn,” an all-day audio art festival beginning at 12noon on Saturday.
The festival is curated and organized by ((audience)), a NYC group dedicated to the advancement of the aural arts and exploring “the cinema as a 21st century concert hall.”
From 12noon to 6pm Saturday, a program of 5.1 surround sound audio artworks – presented as “cinema in the dark” – will be “screened” in the GSCA Gallery. The program (with a running time of 110 minutes) will be repeated three times throughout the afternoon. The immersive experience in cinematic audio will feature works by Jamie Allen, Bryan Jacobs, the Loud Objects, Simona Brinkmann, Uli Schuster, Natasha Barrett, Emmanuel Madan & Anna Friz and Cedric Maridet. Admission is free, and listeners are free to wander in and out of the gallery during the event.
Then from 7pm until late night, ((audience)) will present a concert of improvisational electro-acoustic music featuring Ed Bear & Lea Bertucci (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, electronics), Michael Peters (vocalizations, electronics, grate, light, spring, cymbal, images) and Tianna Kennedy & Friends (cello, electronics, more), in collaboration with surprise guests. Admission to the evening performance is $10.
The evening concert will be recorded for later broadcast on free103point9 / WGXC, which is co-sponsor of “The Conquest of Saturn.”
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