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  • Curt Hoppe Downtown Portraits

    Opening Reception: April 24, 2019 / 6–9 PM / Free   Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to showcase the work of Curt Hoppe, an artist whose work […]

  • Curt Hoppe: The Hyperrealist Experience Workshop

    The Vega Arts Workshop Series Curt Hoppe hosts a master class in Hyperrealism. This three-part experience starts at Howl! Happening with a 45 minute tour of the Bowery then transitions […]

  • Local Knowledge Issue #7

    Magazine Launch Party Howl! Happening invites you to celebrate the release of Local Knowledge #7. A journal of art and literature, the magazine brings together poets, prose writers (fiction and […]

  • Fence 35 Launch Party

    With Readings by Tess Brown-Lavoie, Rachel Levitsky, and Serena Solin Howl! Happening is pleased to host a launch party for Fence 35. Editor Rebecca Wolff is joined by Fence contributors, […]

  • Walter Robinson: Artist Provocateur

    A Paul Tschinkel Film Discussion with Paul Tschinkel, Carlo McCormick, Jane Dickson, and Marc H Miller. Walter Robinson has been on the New York art scene since the early 70s. […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Phyllis Galembo: Mexico, Masks & Rituals

    Book Launch and Slide Show Howl! Happening is pleased to host a book signing and party to celebrate the launch of Phyllis Galembo: Mexico, Masks & Rituals. For this project, […]

  • Happy Birthday Allen Ginsberg!

    Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman’s an angel! —Allen Ginsberg Howl! Happening is delighted to present a 2019 birthday celebration for Allen Ginsberg, the […]

  • Conversations with Gay Elders: Gene Fedorko

    Film and Discussion with Paul C. Bellman, MD, Jack Water, Peter Cramer and Gene Fedorko Back by popular demand, Howl! Happening is pleased to present a screening of a segment […]

  • Guy Woodard: We the People

    Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 19, 6–8 PM   I’ve done so much with so little for so long that now I believe I can do anything with nothing at all. […]

  • Gay Sex in the 70s: A Film by Joseph Lovett

    Screening and Q&A Sex had become the great equalizer. Young men of all financial strata and backgrounds met in New York to experience a freedom of sexual expression that hadn’t […]

  • Beautiful Darling Screening and Panel Discussion

    Howl! Happening is delighted to present a screening of the 2010 feature length documentary Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. Part of our celebrations […]

  • Ladies & Gentlemen

    A Kindbud Music Video World Premiere and Performance Howl! Happening is pleased to host the premiere of Kindbud’s official music video for his track Ladies & Gentlemen, with special performances […]

  • The Fortune Society @ Howl! Happening

    David Rothenberg, founder of The Fortune Society, moderates a conversation with Guy Woodard, Ervin Hunt and others who have benefited from the organization’s prison reentry and alternatives to incarceration programs […]

  • Guy Woodard Self-Portrait Drawing Workshop

    “If you can write, you can draw,” says Guy Woodard, an artist who elevates the humble ballpoint pen to produce compelling works of art. Guy brings his talent and charm […]

  • Guy Woodard: Catalog Launch and Conversation 

    Join us for an intimate conversation with artist and master forger Guy Woodard, about his work featured in the current exhibition We the People. Woodard describes the stories and inspiration […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Linus Coraggio Ramifications

    Opening Reception, Thursday, September 12 / 6–8 PM / Free "Coraggio found larger inspiration and notoriety as a founding member of the Rivington School. Coraggio and sculptors Ray Kelly and […]

  • Re-visions by Marcia Resnick | Book Launch and Signing

    Re-visions by Marcia Resnick Book Launch and Signing 7–9pm / Free In 1975, while driving her car in Manhattan, Marcia Resnick became embroiled in a car accident, and her entire […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Linus Coraggio Explains It All

    Walkthrough of Ramifications with the Artist Join us for an intimate moment with artist Linus Coraggio. A self-confessed “odd kid,” Coraggio spent an entire summer creating a 36-inch tall pyramid […]

  • Vega Arts Workshop: Sculpturmania with Linus Coraggio

    7 PM / Free Vega Arts Workshop Series: By Reservation Only Click HERE to Register. Sculpturmania with Linus Coraggio kicks off the fall Vega Arts Workshop Series. Workshop participants will […]

  • Tessa Hughes-Freeland: Passed and Present

    Opening Reception: Thursday, October 17 / 6 PM / Free Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present Passed and Present, an exhibition and installation by Tessa Hughes-Freeland […]

  • Jed Davis’ Rise and Shine: Day 1

    Performance and Album Release Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present a live performance of songs from Rise and Shine, Jed Davis’ musical theater collaboration with Arturo […]

  • 98 Bowery, 1969-89: View from the Top Floor

    Marc H Miller Website Relaunch and Talk Artist and curator Marc H Miller talks about his life in downtown New York City and unveils an updated version of his website […]

  • Tessa Hughes-Freeland: Sex, Drugs & Art

    Film Screening Artist and filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland presents a group of her renowned short films in the Cinema of Transgression canon, which were made in the 1980s. Included are Baby […]

  • Actors Fund Affordable Housing Workshop

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Celebrating Bob Kaufman

    Raymond Foye Hosts an Evening of Poetry, Film, and Music Bob Kaufman's life is written on mirrors in smoke. —Jack Kerouac So much did he embody a French tradition of […]

  • Actors Fund Affordable Housing Workshop

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Tessa Hughes-Freeland: Girls on Film

    Film Screening Looking deeper into her filmmaking, Hughes-Freeland shows work made from the 1990s to the present, including the premiere of the recently completed film Lost Movie/The Bug, a cautionary […]

  • Antony Zito: My Father Was a Satyr

    Opening Reception: Friday, November 22 6–8 PM Zito is one of my very favorite New York artists, partly because he thinks of himself as an artisan and partly because he’s […]

  • Photo: Jayne County-Beth Lasch

    PUNK: Crashing into Being

    A film by Lasch Archives Pulled from archival interviews and rare first-person stories, this 75-minute film details the punk scene from the inside—including how the business of punk got done—and […]

  • Vega Arts Workshop Series: Collage Portraits with Antony Zito

    Dynamic painter, sculptor, and collagist Antony Zito leads the final installment of the Vega Arts Workshop Series for 2019. A brilliant mentor, Zito brings his tour-de-force skills—combining painting, collage, and […]

  • Full Moon Show with John Pizza: DEAD COWS

    “Its morning. I'm looking in the mirror. I see no fangs, no fur, I hear no howling. So why is my shower curtain so bloody? And why are there piles […]

  • Roberta Bayley: She Just Takes Pictures

    A film by Beth Lasch Howl! is pleased to present the world premiere of Beth Lasch’s Roberta Bayley: She Just Takes Pictures. The documentary showcases Bayley’s punk-era photography from 1975 […]

  • HOWLABALOO! Holiday Party And Reception For LiVE MAG! #16

    Featuring poetry, performance, and projections, Howl! is pleased to host Live Mag!’s publication party and celebration. The launch of issue 16 also honors Bob Hershon—the editor and publisher of Hanging […]

  • Insurance Doctor Is In

    Insurance Doctor Is In
    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    The Insurance Doctor Is In!  Questions about a health insurance bill? Don't understand your insurance and can't get a straight answer? Need some advice on how to negotiate medical debt? […]

  • Antony Zito: Catalog Launch and Artist Talk

    Catalog Launch and Panel Discussion Howl! Happening presents a lively discussion with writers, artists, and luminaries Penny Arcade, Anthony Haden-Guest, Clayton Patterson, and Marguerite Van Cook about Zito’s work and the themes present […]

  • Happy HOWLadays!

    Celebrate a great year at Howl! Happening and the closing of Antony Zito's My Father was a Satyr with art, music, and refreshments. Ring in the Holiday Season with the […]

  • Closed for the Holidays

    Howl! Happening will be closed for the Holidays. Join us for the Opening Reception for Jane Dickson's HOT, HOT, HOT   January 9, 2020, from 6 PM - 8 PM. […]

  • Jane Dickson: HOT, HOT, HOT

    Opening Reception: Thursday, January 9th / 6-8 PM Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present Jane Dickson’s Hot, Hot, Hot, a series of rarely seen and moody […]

  • Siamese John Pizza

    John Pizza in My Shell

    Friday, January 10, 2020 / 4 PM / Free The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention All silver and shiny and metallic, the full moon reflecting on my armor […]

  • Charlie Ahearn: Times Square Videos

    Looking through Ahearn’s window, we enter a subjective view of the street preachers, lunatic ranters, sidewalk performers, drug addicts, hookers, thieves, police, homeless, pedestrians…it’s enough to entertain even the most […]

  • Anne Waldman Mundo Aparte /
    Offworld

    Book Launch   Poet Anne Waldman needs no introduction. We consider her part of the Howl family and are more than pleased to help celebrate the launch of her new […]

  • Voyeurs, Exhibitionists, Criminals, and Misanthropes

    Writers Remember Times Square Noah Prince, Peter Nolan Smith, and Claudia Summers Confetti lingers in lonely gutters and the crevasses of the sidewalks. It spins upward through spiraling gusts of […]

  • Ideas of Watching: Life Drawing with Jane Dickson

    Vega Arts Workshop Series WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED Ideas of Watching: Life Drawing with Jane Dickson kicks off our 2020 season of the Vega Arts Workshop series. Dickson is […]

  • Full Moon “Late” Show!

    John Pizza: How does it Feel to Die Via Jellyfish Hapi Phace: La Fête du Cœur Blessé   Celebrating the birth month of the Godfather of Performance Art, Alien Comic Tom […]

  • The Actors Fund Affordable Housing Seminar

    Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026? This two-hour seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview […]

  • Jane Dickson in Times Square

    Book Signing and Discussion Jane Dickson’s world is one that comes to life when the rest of us are fast asleep—a nighttime mix of tawdry carnival booths and tattoo parlors, […]

  • Gang of Four by Merrill Aldighieri

    Howl! Happening is pleased to present the film Gang of Four by Merrill Aldighieri In honor of the passing of Andy Gill (Jan 1, 1956 - Feb 1, 2020) – […]

  • Helen Oliver: The Road

    Helen Oliver…embodies those values of individuality grounded in an uncompromising intelligence. —Penny Arcade Praise for Helen Oliver's The Road: TOP 10 NEW YORK GALLERY EXHIBITIONS CAUGHT IN THE COVID-19 SHUTDOWN, […]

  • POSTPONED SPUNKT ART NOW Magazine Launch and Performances

    Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project hosts an evening of performances celebrating the launch of SPUNKT ART NOW. Highlighting the affiliations between contemporary art and the legacy of the punk […]

  • John Pizza, Full Moon Show, Distance

    The Full Moon Show: John Pizza in DISTANCE

    The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Streaming on the Howl! Homepage "The year is ... 2035? It's Monday? Saturday? Thursday? I've been holed-up in an empty art […]

  • Allen Ginsberg howling by Beth Bagey

    ALLEN GINSBERG BIRTHDAY FILM FESTIVAL

    Featured

    7PM Original Films and Highlights of Readings, Performances, and Music Celebrating Ginsberg’s Birthday Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is an eternity! Every an angel! — Excerpt […]

  • Reclaiming the Dream:

    The Unfinished Business of Queer Liberation and the Movement for Black Lives A Community Dialogue with Ann Northrop, Cypha, Lola Flash, and Jay W. Walker moderated by Howl education director […]

  • 'Mee Ae' photo-by Jari Poulin

    QUEER BUTOH 2020 (VIRTUAL)

    Premiering June 22 at 7:30 PM  VANGELINE THEATER/NEW YORK BUTOH INSTITUTE and HOWL ARTS In celebration of Pride 2020, Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute in collaboration with Howl Arts is pleased to present Queer Butoh […]

  • Samanatha CC in the Full Buck Moon Show

    The Full Moon Show The Full Buck Moon

    Untitled (Embodiment, Disembodiment and Desire) By Samantha CC For the Full Buck Moon, Howl is pleased to present Samantha CC’s Untitled (Embodiment, Disembodiment and Desire). Performance on the edge, Full […]

  • Bringing Back Bowery: Catt Caulley with Grace H. Gutekanst

    Bringing Back Bowery: Public Art as Protest

    Featured

    Open Wednesday–Sunday | 11 AM–6 PM  Curated by Sono Kuwayama, Bob Holman, and Howl! Happening Presented by Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project With the recent landscape of plywood, the […]

  • John Pizza Full Moon Show October 31, 2020

    The Full Moon Show John Pizza: Masks

    Virtual Event

    John Pizza performs Masks—another installment of the Full Moon Show series on Howl TV. Join us for a performance video in honor of October's Blue Moon. The performer himself explains: […]

  • Felice Rosser

    HOWL! TV Presents Felice Rosser and Friends

    December 8, 15, and 22, 2020 at 8 p.m Rosser sings in a voice both plangent and wailing. —The New York Times  Howl! Arts is pleased to present a series […]

  • Edgar, ca. 1985, Oil on canvas, 75 x 55 ½ inches

    Haunting Portraits by Helen Oliver at Untitled

    Untitled: Art Miami Beach OVR 2020 December 2 — December 6, 2020 Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present the large-scale, theatrical paintings of Helen Oliver that […]

  • Gray - photo by Robert Northway

    FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE BY GRAY

    FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE BY INDUSTRIAL NOISE BAND GRAY  MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON We are pleased to announce a concert by Howl recording artists Gray. Howl Arts will release Gray’s […]

  • Antony Zito - Queen Elizabeth of Ferguson

    Master Class Arts Series: Antony Zito

    The Master Class Arts Series is a brand new program from Howl Education that showcases premier artists from the Howl community to host a multipart workshop series focused on the […]

  • Pamela Sneed headshot

    Pamela Sneed and Friends on Howl! TV

    Every Tuesday Night in March at 8 PM March 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2021 Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling […]

  • Pamela Sneed headshot

    Pamela Sneed and Friends on Howl! TV

    Every Tuesday Night in March at 8 PM March 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2021 Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling […]

  • John Pizza Portrait

    The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: What Goes Around Comes Around

    Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, United States

    On Howlarts.org This month's Full Moon Show is a dance-ritual of gestures of symmetry and opposition.  These wild and strange times can bring feelings that stretch between fear, weirdness, comfort, […]

  • Eszter Balint portrait by Peter Yesley

    Eszter Balint and Friends on Howl! TV

    Every Tuesday Night in April at 8 PM April 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2021 Miss Balint has her own film-noir sensibility as a songwriter. She puts arty twists into […]

  • Puma Perl portrait by Robert Butcher

    Puma Perl & Friends

    Every Tuesday Night in May at 8 PM May 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2021 Part of Howl’s Artist-in-Residence Series Puma Perl and Friends is art at its best—collaborative, thrilling, […]

  • Puma Perl portrait by Robert Butcher

    Puma Perl & Friends

    Every Tuesday Night in May at 8 PM May 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2021 Part of Howl’s Artist-in-Residence Series Puma Perl and Friends is art at its best—collaborative, thrilling, […]

  • Puma Perl portrait by Robert Butcher

    Puma Perl & Friends

    Every Tuesday Night in May at 8 PM May 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2021 Part of Howl’s Artist-in-Residence Series Puma Perl and Friends is art at its best—collaborative, thrilling, […]

  • Puma Perl portrait by Robert Butcher

    Puma Perl & Friends

    Puma Perl & Friends

    Every Tuesday Night in May at 8 PM May 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2021 Part of Howl’s Artist-in-Residence Series Puma Perl and Friends is art at its best—collaborative, thrilling, […]

  • John Pizza in The Full Moon Show

    The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: HARD

    Wednesday, May 26, 2021 On Howlarts.org We're coming out of quarantine and things have been pretty "hard." We've been chained to our apartments and confined to zoom meetings. But there's […]

  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti Photo

    HOWL! Remembers LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

    Saturday, May 29 12:30 PM – 7 PM Streaming Live on Howlarts.org Poets, come out of your closets, open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too […]

  • Al Diaz Text Art

    Al Diaz Virtual Panel Discussion

    Sunday, May 30 at 3 PM Watch on Howlarts.org Moderated by Luis Guzman With Jose “Pepe” Flores, Lee Quinones, and Sandra Santana Alphabet City and the adjacent Lower East Side […]

  • Silvia Sanza #howlathome collage

    #HowlAtHome Request for Proposals

    In celebration of the creativity of our Howl community, we are relaunching #HowlAtHome this fall and want to include your ideas for fun at-home creative activities as part of our […]