A series of paintings created by the late Arturo Vega imprinted with irrelevant and honest text fragments in a cocktail of insults and mystic thoughts. Painted in primary colors as a way to ponder the crudeness of the society he was a part of, they poke fun at the uncertainty and ambivalence of the artist in the face of the cultural climate of his adopted city.
New York Music New York is a compilation of bands recorded or videoed in New York clubs for Paul Tschinkel's Inner-Tube, a cable TV show. Broadcast between 1979-1983 on Sunday […]
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Tuesday, March 15th / 2 PM / Free Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This […]
The 2016 ACKER Awards Thursday, March 17th, 7pm-9pm / FREE Presented by Clayton Patterson The ACKER Awards were created by Alan Kaufman in San Francisco and Clayton Patterson in New […]
A Film Festival Howl! Happening hosts the fourth Secrets of the Heart Film Festival that is dedicated to getting past the propaganda about that most sacred sentiment—love. Does love thrive […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Wednesday, March 23 / 2 PM / Free In keeping with the irrepressible spirit of Tom Murrin, Howl! Happening is pleased to present Tony […]
Friday, March 25th - Sunday, March 27th Conversation with Pat and the Artists: Sunday, March 27 / 3 PM / FREE Howl! Happening is pleased to present a very special […]
Closing Event for Arturo Vega Insults Exhibition Thursday, March 31 / 7 PM / Free If it wasn’t for Artie, Joey Ramone and I would’ve starved to death. —Legs McNeil Join us […]
At times we choose to collaborate, at other times we work alone, but we always work, and we are always a family. No strangers to controversy, in the exhibition at […]
Saturday, April 9th 7pm - 9pm / Free Sneak Preview Premiere and Other Shorts Howl! is pleased to present a 20-minute preview sample of Wengrofsky’s The Song of Hiawatha, a […]
Wednesday, April 13 / 7 PM / Free Howl! Happening is pleased to present a series of readings and multimedia events curated by writer and publisher Mike DeCapite with his long-time […]
Reading and Release Party Friday, April 15 / 7 PM / Free Marilyn Monroe Didn't Marry Henry Miller: Howl! Happening, Ping-Pong Free Press, and the Henry Miller Memorial Library invite you […]
Tuesday, April 19th / 2 PM / Free Did you know that New York City is planning to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years? This two-hour […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Friday, April 22, 2016 / 2 PM / Free Spend your lunch break with the lunatic fringe! Outside, on the sidewalk, in front of Howl! […]
Paul Tschinkel is a painter with an MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture. In the early 1970s he turned to video as an art form and thus became one of the first video artists in this new medium. After showing video pieces in New York galleries, he turned to the fledgling New York cable system (Manhattan Cable downtown and Warner Cable uptown), producing a half hour weekly arts program – a gallery on television. From 1974 to 1979 Paul “Tschinkel’s Inner-Tube” was devoted to conceptual and narrative video art pieces.
In 1979, Tschinkel turned from taping in his studio in Soho to recording and producing live Punk/New Wave music from New York clubs. This program, which ran from 1979 to 1984, presaged MTV and was the seminal Rock show that featured music from CBGB’s, The Mudd Club, Max’s Kansas City and many other venues in New York. It presented many young bands like the Ramones, Mink de Ville, The Cramps, The Heartbreakers, The Dead Kennedy’s among many others.
In 1979 Tschinkel also created and produced a documentary series called ART/new york, that today consists of over 68 programs on contemporary art and artists. This ongoing series features artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kiki Smith, Nan Goldin, Elizabeth Murray and many more. The series has been screened in major museums, such as The Whitney and MOMA, and on television in the US and Abroad. They have become an important historic document of the New York Art culture.
In 2006 Paul Tschinkel completed and released his first feature length documentary on the noted photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The centerpiece of Robert Mapplethorpe is a never-before-seen interview conducted in his studio on Bond Street in 1983. This was followed by another feature length documentary on the irascible, multitalented, Mark Kostabi in 2010.
April 29th / 7pm / FREE Jeffrey Wengrofsky's three-part residency at Howl! Happening concludes with "Dreaming is Free," an evening of psychedelic delights. The night begins with a screening […]
When Jackie Met Ethyl Guest curated by Dan Cameron This exhibition considers the cultural and historical impact of Jackie Curtis (1947-1985) and Ethyl Eichelberger (1945-1990) two of the most influential […]
Featuring Paul Serrato, The Eichelburglers, and surprise guests! Saturday, May 7 / 7 PM / FREE Join Jackie and Ethyl musical collaborators for an evening of music and song. Jazz […]
Readings by Mike DeCapite and Max Blagg Short Films by Ted Barron Wednesday, May 11th / 7PM / FREE In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what […]
