BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Howl! Arts - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.howlarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Howl! Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220416 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220530 DTSTAMP:20260618T124601 CREATED:20220310T180311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T204619Z UID:10000638-1650067200-1653868799@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Bobby Grossman: Low Fidelity DESCRIPTION:►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Bobby Grossman: Low Fidelity\n \n \n \n\nBobby Grossman had the foresight to bring his camera to CBGB and to start shooting photos that chronicle those intense and important early days. —Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth \nHowl! Arts/Howl! Archive (HA/HA) is pleased to present Low Fidelity\, a selection of photographs by Bobby Grossman that documents and sheds new light on icons of New York’s punk-rock scene and the culture that bred other trailblazing artists and musicians of the 70s\, 80s\, and 90s. \nGrossman arrived in New York in 1976 after receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)\, where he studied alongside friends Chris Frantz and David Byrne of Talking Heads. His first job was assisting Richard Bernstein\, the artist responsible for the covers of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. At Bernstein’s studio in the legendary Chelsea Hotel\, Grossman found himself at ground zero in the early days of punk and the downtown scene. \nTaking photographs of friends and newfound acquaintances—including Jean-Michel Basquiat\, Debbie Harry\, the Ramones\, David Bowie\, Iggy Pop\, and the milieu around Andy Warhol’s Factory—Grossman became a regular fixture at CBGB\, the Mudd Club\, and other downtown haunts. \nGrossman also served as the official photographer for Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party\, the seminal weekly public-access television show that David Letterman once described as “…the greatest TV show anywhere\, ever!” TV Party ran from 1978–1982 and captured the countless artists and innovators on the scene including Blondie\, George Clinton\, Basquiat\, “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite\, and Klaus Nomi. \nBobby was one of the first serious photographers to capture me in action back then\, and each image brings back valuable memories of a time when we did successfully change and subvert the direction of pop culture. —“Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite \nGrossman’s work was included in the groundbreaking 1981 exhibition\, New York/New Wave\, at P.S.1 alongside more than a hundred artists including Kenny Scharf\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Keith Haring\, Brian Eno\, and Nan Goldin. Grossman’s work has appeared in numerous publications and documentaries\, though the majority of his archive has remained unseen until now. \nThe exhibition includes photos of Andy Warhol\, Talking Heads\, Blondie\, the Ramones\, Lou Reed\, David Bowie\, The B-52’s\, Iggy Pop\, Jean-Michel Basquiat\, Diego Cortez\, Cookie Mueller\, John Waters\, Jackie Curtis\, Anya Phillips\, Lester Bangs\, Nile Rogers\, Robert Fripp\, Anya Phillips\, Richard Hell\, Grace Jones\, Glenn O’Brien\, William Burroughs\, and countless other cultural icons from the period. \nBobby\, above all an empathetic person\, has the ability to contribute to his subject’s freedom in front of the lens. —Debbie Harry \nThe exhibition also marks the start of a Kickstarter campaign to publish Low Fidelity\, a book that captures personal\, firsthand accounts by personalities including Debbie Harry\, Chris Stein\, Clem Burke\, “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite\, Richard Boch\, Walter Steding\, Sylvia Reed\, Godlis\, Vincent Fremont\, Duncan Hannah\, Victor Bockris\, Tina Weymouth\, Chris Frantz\, Lisa Jane Persky\, Robert Fripp\, Lenny Kaye\, Amos Poe\, Suzanne Mallouk\, Meg Griffin\, Jamie Nares\, Max Blagg\, Kate Simon\, Ed Stasium\, Robyn Geddes\, Guy Furrow\, Julia Gorton\, Hal and Randy Ludacer\, Claudia Summers\, Chocomoo\, and Punk magazine publisher John Holmstrom. With a preface by Lisa Jane Persky\, introduction by Glenn O’Brien\, and afterword by Richard Boch. \n\nABOUT BOBBY GROSSMAN \nBobby Grossman is an artist and photographer. He was born in Manhattan\, grew up in Westchester\, New York\, and earned his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Grossman moved to New York City in 1976\, taking up residency at the Hotel Chelsea. Working as a freelancer by day\, he found his way to Warhol’s Factory on Union Square\, where he was regarded as an insider. During that same period\, he became a regular presence while documenting the scene at CBGB and eventually the Mudd Club. Grossman’s reputation as a contributing photographer to both major publications and underground journals was soon well established. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions\, catalogs\, and films. His first photo credit was the cover shot for Talking Heads’ 1977 single “Psycho Killer”. \nGroup exhibitions include the legendary 1980 Times Square Show and the 1981 New York/New Wave at P.S.1. Bande a part\, The Cool and the Crazy\, and the 2013 show Just Chaos! Images of Early Punk Style at Bookmarc continued to place his work in the public eye. Grossman’s photographs have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide\, including solo exhibitions in New York\, Boca Raton\, Sarasota\, and the 2016 Low Fidelity show in Providence\, Rhode Island. His earliest contributions to film include The Radiant Child\, about Jean-Michel Basquiat; the William Burroughs documentary A Man Within; and the No-Wave documentary Blank City. Grossman was the official photographer for Glenn O’Brien’s public-access TV Party and made a cameo in the film Downtown 81. His work is included in the documentary Fifteen Minutes Eternal\, celebrating the Andy Warhol Museum’s 20th anniversary; the 2017 award-winning documentary Basquiat: Rage to Riches; and filmmaker Sara Driver’s 2018 release\, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Grossman collaborated with Richard Prince on the book Cowboy\, Shepard Fairey on the documentary Obey Giant\, Debbie Harry on her fashion collection with Obey\, and Junya Watanabe for Comme des Garçons. The iconic portrait of Harry shown at Deitch Projects in 2010\, along with the 2017 Blondie wall mural at Bleecker Street and Bowery\, are additional Fairey collaborations. Other photographic contributions include multiple images for Glenn O’Brien’s 2017 book Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Writings\, a 2018 episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown\, and Debbie Harry’s 2019 memoir Face It. \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/bobby-grossmanlow-fidelity/ LOCATION:HA/HA\, 250 Bowery\, 2nd Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery,HAHA,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bobby-Grossman-Portrait_crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220530 DTSTAMP:20260618T124601 CREATED:20220218T182416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230916T212246Z UID:10000630-1650499200-1653868799@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Christy Rupp Othered DESCRIPTION:An Installation of Sculpture and Works on Paper \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n ►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Christy Rupp: Othered\n \n \n \n\nWe live as part of an amazing organism that has the capacity to regenerate\, given a chance. We also live in the waste stream. Garbage is a combat zone where our desire for comfort and function meets the limits of our nest. —Christy Rupp \nPlastic—as both form and content—has figured prominently in her art… It serves as a perfect signifier for the conceptual underpinnings of her work\, its pointed critique\, and subversive humor. —Nina Felshin\, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper\, 2021 \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Othered\, a new installation integrating images and objects by artist\, activist\, and thought-leader Christy Rupp. The conceptual underpinnings of her long career have consistently called attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat—transmuting urban detritus through collage\, sculpture\, public art\, and activism to reveal what is hidden away from common view and understanding. A monograph on Rupp’s work\, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper\, with essays by Lucy Lippard\, Nina Felshin\, Amy Lipton\, and Carlo McCormick\, and poetry by Bob Holman\, was published in 2021 by Insight Editions. \nAs artists rummaged through the remnants of a crumbling city in the mid 1970s\, Rupp developed an interest in urban ecology\, noting that the city is an ecosystem with a delicate balance. Transforming that discovery\, she created work at the intersection of performance and site\, joining a stream of artists breaching the boundaries of the gallery system’s white box.  \nSubversive and prescient\, her early intervention into the landscape during New York City’s garbage strike of 1979—when swarms of rats became the symbol of urban decay—“was a seminal episode in the emergence of street art and a paradigm of what urban art can tell us\,” says writer Carlo McCormick. “But as much as the deluge of rubbish and rat attack may have constituted the kind of sensationalist scandal this town has always trafficked in\, this was very much Rupp’s point—that rats\, like the humans whose filth they have long thrived in\, are denizens of the city\, neither good nor evil\, they simply are.” Her work is less concerned with representation of animals than with the framing of our attitudes toward habitat\, and how we construct our opinions of nature. \nIn Othered\, Rupp investigates topics including climate chaos\, the industrialization of our food supply\, and water pollution through the lens of Discard Studies\, a discipline that examines the wider role of society and culture\, social norms\, and power on the waste stream. Her sculptures of birds\, fish\, mammals\, and microorganisms made from plastic\, commercial packaging\, credit cards\, and bits of industrial debris manifest the voices of invisible microbes and species long displaced. Using wall-scale collage\, “she juxtaposes scenes of nature and industrial development with biological specimens and nature-based patterns that are stylized\, tamed\, and made decorative for human consumption\,” says art critic Eleanor Heartney in a recent catalog.  \nLong before the climate crisis confronting us all was headline news\, her work was “galvanized by climate chaos and other ecological nightmares\,” says critic Lucy Lippard\, “and she pioneered a down-to-earth urban eco art at a time when ecology was understood as politically peripheral and nostalgically wilderness-oriented.”  \nFor Rupp\, the materiality of the work—plastic debris and other recycled examples of our rampant consumerism—is “both the medium and the message\,” and the subject of her practice points to issues that are current here and now. It is through the artist’s imagination that these timely topics come to life. As independent curator Amy Lipton says in Noisy Autumn\, “Few can match the wit\, irreverence and impeccable skills of Christy Rupp. Play between the poetic and the real requires a hard-sought balance that Rupp strives for and understands as necessary for taking on some of the most challenging issues of our time.” \nAbout Christy Rupp \nChristy Rupp is an American eco-artist and citizen scientist. Born in the Rust Belt of Upstate New York\, she was too young for Elvis and too old for Barbie. For the past five decades Rupp has continued the search for clues that might explain how we have arrived at the edge of the Extractocene\, a world permanently altered by the presence of Homo sapiens.  \nRupp was part of the artist collective Collaborative Projects (Colab)—organizer of the historic Times Square Show—as well as ABC No Rio and other East Village-era artist groups.  \nShe has received grants from Anonymous was a Woman Foundation\, Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL Award\, National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts\, and Art Matters Inc. Her work has been recently shown at the Schunck Museum in Heerlen\, Netherlands; Museum of Arts and Design\, New York; Zimmerli Art Museum; and ABC No Rio in Exile.She has just launched a career survey\, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper\, published by Insight Editions. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/christy-rupp-othered/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/backcover-twitter-HR_HALF.jpeg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! Happening 6 East 1st Street New York City NY 10003 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=6 East 1st Street:geo:-73.991658,40.7248189 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220604 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220718 DTSTAMP:20260618T124601 CREATED:20220502T171454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230916T212230Z UID:10000621-1654300800-1658102399@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Linda SimpsonMy Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary DESCRIPTION:►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Linda Simpson: My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary\n \n \n \n\nHowl Happening presents a special exhibition celebrating Linda Simpson’s photographs and her groundbreaking magazine\, My Comrade. Included are never-before-seen images and artifacts documenting a revolutionary and seminal period in gay history. In conjunction with the exhibit\, a brand-new issue of My Comrade will be published\, the first in 16 years. \nMy Comrade magazine was founded by drag queen Linda Simpson in 1987 during the dark era of the AIDS crisis and served as a symbol of hope and frivolity to the East Village gay scene and beyond. Armed with a tongue-in-cheek “revolutionary” agenda\, the magazine glorified heroic drag queens and sexy guys in a cut-and-paste mishmash of articles and photo spreads. Lesbians got their due when the flip side became Sister! The sporadic publishing schedule produced a total of eleven issues until 1994. It was revived in 2004 for two more. \nThe exhibit features reproductions and enlargements of My Comrade’s black-and-white pages. Notable contributors to the magazine included photographers Jack Pierson and David Armstrong\, painter Stephen Tashjian a.k.a. Tabboo!\, and drag stars RuPaul and Lady Bunny. The exhibit also features Simpson’s color photos of the era from her acclaimed 2021 photo book\, The Drag Explosion\, published by Domain.  \nThe Drag Explosion by drag artist Linda Simpson is a first-hand account of a very creative and vital moment in queer life from the 1980s to the early ’90s\, in which activism\, nightlife\, a D.Y.I. approach to drag\, and pre-Giuliani New York culture crash into each other\, creating a vibrant chapter in queer history. Mining her collection of snapshots from adventures with fellow drag queens\, Club Kids\, models\, performance artists\, and aspiring celebutantes\, Simpson creates a wonderful and vivid chronicle of a bright time that has since passed.  —Peter Piatkowski\, popmatters.com\, March 2021 \nSince the 1980s\, Linda has worked as a nightlife personality\, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books\, magazines\, exhibits and documentaries\, as well as her own touring slideshow. \nMy Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library\, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives. \nRead My Comrade: the revolutionary zine that transformed the New York drag scene In DAZED \nImage: Linda Simpson\, Hapi Phace with George and Adam\, Color Photograph\, 1988. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/linda-simpsonmy-comrade-magazine-happy-35th-gay-anniversary/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MC-photo-1-1.jpg GEO:40.7248189;-73.991658 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Howl! 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