Lydia Lunch So Real It Hurts
Surveying the sweep of Lunch's career from her days as a teenage runaway and instigator of no wave to the present, the exhibition includes ephemera, photos, posters and letters, and […]
Surveying the sweep of Lunch's career from her days as a teenage runaway and instigator of no wave to the present, the exhibition includes ephemera, photos, posters and letters, and […]
Clayton Patterson: an artist and gallery owner, editor and publisher, organizer, promoter, provocateur, and, over the last few years, historian and eulogizer.
Shocking and playful and messy and scary, Scooter LaForge’s new paintings and three-dimensional objects are madly over the top: anarchic yet composed, pretty yet provocative, they embody pleasure, discernment, and the spirit of play.
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 seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview of government-subsidized housing in New York City, which is available for both low- and middle-income households. This seminar will be offered again on October 20, November 24, and December 15.
More than a reunion, a retrospective, or a forced march through niche history, this exhibition and its related events showcase the club as a cultural laboratory that continues to resonate today. The club will be recreated in performances including "Cafe Iguana", featuring an all-star cast of characters from then and now; the infamous Pyramid bar a stage for myriad legendary performances; and archival artwork, posters and other arcane ephemera.
Opening Night: Cafe Iguana, Saturday October 17th, 8 PM Part Weimar-era Cabaret, part Great White Way, with a dash of the Merry Pranksters and Happenings thrown in, Cafe Iguana blended […]
Moderated by Hattie Hathaway. Panelists include Victor Mendolia (Anonymous? Productions), Kevin Malony (TWEED TheaterWorks), Hapi Phace, Kesutis Nakas, Paula Now, John Jeserun, Iris Rose, and of course more!
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 seminar for performing-arts and entertainment […]
Conceived as a response to the gentrification and pasteurization of New York in 1984, Whispers was billed as “The Complete Suburban Gay Experience†and as a party for “hairdressers, display queens, theatre folk, fashionistas, florists, and sensitive straight people.â€
Including works by: Disturbed Form Theater, Tennevision, Tom Rubnitz, Mark Oates, Nelson Sullivan, Tabboo!, Blacklips, Flloyd, Marjan Moghaddam, TWEED TheaterWorks & more.
We transform HOWL! Happening Gallery into the artist’s studio, with Scot, his models (in various stages of undress,) and gallery-goers alike, invoking the spirits of those dear and departed.
Despite a demanding career in publishing, Minnesota native Les Simpson found time to create the iconic Wednesday night bacchanal Channel 69 which featured DJ Dany Johnson and lasted into the […]
Join photographer Marcia Resnick and writer Victor Bockris at a book signing slideshow and reading from their new book. Featuring rockers Joey Ramone, David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger; […]
Alone at Last was conceived in 1981 as a video installation that explores issues of gender and fantasy at a time when traditional views of sexuality were not just being challenged but overturned. Created by artists Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong, both pro-sex feminists when pornography was a hot-button issue in the women’s movement, Alone at Last invites the viewer to initiate an encounter with a stranger in the dark and be seduced, in the process becoming part of the artwork.
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 seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview of government-subsidized housing in New York City, which is available for both low- and middle-income households. This seminar will be offered again on November 24 and December 15.
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 seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview of government-subsidized housing in New York City, which is available for both low- and middle-income households. This seminar will be offered again on December 15.
Threat Assessment by Tim Clifford, an exhibition of works that transform the visuals of American gun culture into meticulously rendered indictments of violence and death.
Revisit the magical beginning of Punk as documented in the early issues that capture the essence of the newly developing punk music scene and the flourishing urban cultural renaissance of art and fashion being played out in clubs such as CBGBs and Max's Kansas City.
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 seminar for performing-arts and entertainment professionals provides an overview of government-subsidized housing in New York City, which is available for both low- and middle-income households.
Moderator: John Holmstrom Guests: Roberta Bayley, Richard Hell, Mary Harron
Hippies hated New York City, in fact it was the epitome of everything they disliked. They wanted to go back to nature and live in communes. So it was natural […]
An exhibition featuring signed contemporary silver prints and large archival pigment prints from her photographic tour de force of the culture heroes of the 1970s and early 1980s. Taken in […]
Áine Phillips is a performance artist and Head of Sculpture at Burren College of Art in the west of Ireland. Her work has been shown across five continents, in places such […]
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 seminar for performing-arts and entertainment […]
Saturday, February 20th, 7pm Mary Bellis: Agent of Paradise (1982), 16 mm Howl! Happening and MM Serra of the New American Cinema Group, Inc/The Film-Makers Cooperative are pleased to present a very […]
Book Party and Reading with Paula Bomer, Chloe Caldwell, and Larissa Pham Catherine Texier, the co-editor of the legendary downtown literary magazine of the 1980s, Between C and D, returns with […]
A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Tom Murrin, the Alien Comic and 'Godfather of Performance Art', did his Luna Macaroona show—without fail—on every full moon. With a club date or not, […]
In conjunction with Marcia Resnick’s photo exhibit, Punks Poets and Provocateurs. What is it about the late 70’s and early 80’s that has everyone so fascinated? Anthony Haden-Guest, Carlo McCormick, […]
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 […]
Did you know you can still enroll in health insurance? If your income is below $23,500, you can enroll in coverage right now. Coverage is comprehensive and either free, or […]
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 […]