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March 19, 2020The safety of our guests and our community is our top priority. While the number of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases in NYC remains small, we are carefully monitoring this issue and taking measures for all of us to stay healthy.
Continued‘Humanist Alchemy: The Paintings of Helen Oliver Adelson’ By David Ebony
March 16, 2020Most often the alchemy that produces a poem or a work of fiction is hidden within the work itself, if not embedded in the coiling ridges of the mind. —Patti Smith, Devotion[1] Helen Oliver Adelson’s portrait paintings of her friends, family, and acquaintances seem to result from a kind of alchemical process. The sitter poses,…
Continued2019 Howl Arts Inc. Annual Report
March 6, 2020Howl Arts Inc. is excited to share our 2019 Annual Report. Throughout 2019, Howl expanded to offer more for the community—reaching a larger and more diverse audience, developing and launching new programs unlike any others offered in downtown New York, and continuing to champion and reveal currents in the culture and counterculture that flourish on…
Continued‘Unfolding Lee Quiñones and Ori Carino’ Essay by Cary Abrams
March 4, 2020Exhibition curated by Carlo McCormick Spring/Break Art Show 2020 From Unfolding by Lee Quiñones and Ori Carino Howl Arts recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Named to honor Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem, his clarion call against what he believed to be a narrow, stultifying 50s American culture, Howl Arts has become a…
Continued‘Jane Dickson: Times Square Revisited’ By Carlo McCormick
February 3, 2020It was called the Tenderloin, not for any array of fancy steakhouses but because in a society of graft and corruption it offered the choicest cuts. Populated by pimps, prostitutes, chicken hawks, hustlers, and all manner of predators, Times Square, New York City, was in its way a kind of meat market, catering to a…
Continued‘Whose World Is This?’ By Deborah Frizzell
January 27, 2020As an artist, Jane Dickson is compelled to witness, examine, and interpret. She works with the tools at hand, with observation and analysis distilled in paint. Figuration, her vehicle of expression, is flexible enough to accommodate either a narrative impulse or poetic metaphor. The figure invites projection and identification for artists and viewers alike. Dickson…
Continued‘Jane in Peepland: The Painter of Modern Life’ By Miss Rosen
January 20, 2020Jane Dickson was just 25 when she arrived in New York in 1977. The following year she began working the weekend night shift as an animation designer operating the Spectacolor billboard at One Times Square—the first computer light board in New York City—bringing a woman’s perspective to a low-down dirty world. Times Square in the…
Continued“Stereo” from Marriage: A Sentence / “En estéreo” de Al casarse: Una condena
January 16, 2020“Stereo” from Marriage: A Sentence By Anne Waldman Marriage marriage is like you say everything everything in stereo stereo fall fall on the bed bed at dawn dawn because you work work all night. Night is an apartment. Meant to be marriage. Marriage is an apartment & meant people people come in in because when…
Continued‘Antony Zito and the Hero’s Journey’ by Penny Arcade
December 30, 2019There is a history of painters who paint what they know, and there is a history of painters who paint whom they know. Caravaggio based his paintings of the Madonna and the saints on the rough-and-tumble denizens of his demimonde. Many a prostitute posed as the Virgin Mary, queen of heaven. In the 1880s Toulouse-Lautrec painted the people…
Continued‘An Interview with Antony Zito’ by Oriah Abera
December 22, 2019What is the concept of this show? My Father Was a Satyr is an autobiographical myth rooted in the universal theme of “the hero’s journey” and other archetypes of mythology described in the work of Joseph Campbell. This is the story of my life, beginning with a childhood steeped in art and nature, where…
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