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Meow Meow

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A Very Meow Meow Holiday Show at BAM (it was mid-December, practically Christmas).

Not knowing what to expect can, sometimes, lead to great discoveries. Melissa Madden Gray, her massive talent and roller coaster of a show, was one of them.

BAM

December 14th, 2019

Warehouse Comics

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Out there in Sunset Park, not far from the Industry City complex, among auto parts, plumping equipment, building products, and wholesalers we discovered this: a warehouse packed with comics, paperbacks, magazines, action figures – the lot! Easy to mistake it for yet another hardware equipment warehouse, had it not been for the two feline guides, we would have totally missed it.

Koch Comics Warehouse

November 30th, 2019

The Great Tamer

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Time

Humanity’s journey through time. Violence, Beauty, Ritualism, Abstraction, transitioning with each passing scene seamlessly, every brilliantly constructed moment sending electric shocks to the brain, heightening the senses, letting energy flow freely through the body. Life going full circle, tamed only be Time. The Great Tamer.

It takes a certain kind of visionary to conceive and direct a piece as complex as this, and make it feel so effortless and organic, sleek and elegant.

The Great Tamer, by Dimitris Papaioannou

With

Pavlina Andriopoulou
Costas Chrysafidis
Ektor Liatsos
Ioannis Michos
Evangelia Randou
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Drossos Skotis
Christos Strinopoulos
Yorgos Tsiantoulas
Alex Vangelis

Full credits BAM Program

New York Premiere, BAM

November 16th, 2019

The Benefits of Gentrification

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These are views from the Empire Stores, the red brick warehouse on Water St., owned by coffee magnates Arbuckle Bros, before it was sold and left abandoned for most of the second half of the 20th century. As Brooklyn gradually dropped its industrial features for a gentrified, trendier look, the building too received a total facelift, and was restored to an urban food and market place.

PS: the last two images are from the ferry back to Manhattan.

Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC

September 15th, 2019

Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper

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Highlights

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti || Silence, 1870
  • Pablo Picasso || Head of a Young Boy, 1923
  • Edvard Munch || Moonlight, 1896
  • Käthe Kollwitz || The Widow I / The Volunteers || from the portfolio War, 1922-23
  • Edvard Munch || Eva Mudocci, 1903
  • Pablo Picasso || Nude Standing in Profile,1906
  • Tsuguharu Foujita || Portrait of a Girl with Cat, c. 1926
  • Amedeo Modigliani || Adolphe Basler, c. 1916
  • Egon Schiele || Male Nude (Self-Portrait), 1912

Brooklyn Museum

August 25th, 2019

Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion

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Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion was a retrospective of the work of the pioneering couturier, known for his futuristic creations and extensive licensing, which ultimately had a negative impact on the brand’s image (I remember growing up, the Cardin signature was omnipresent, from exclusive, out of my reach fashions, to cheap lighters and pens sold at the corner newspaper shop). The exhibition presented over 170 objects drawn from Cardin’s atelier and archive, which may sound like a lot, but was a mere fraction of the designer’s work over the decades.

Brooklyn Museum

August 25th, 2019