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Dustin Pittman’s Photo Album of NADA Miami with Brett De Palma, Scooter LaForge, and the Howl! Team
December 14, 2018Brett De Palma, Ted Riederer, Joshua Nierodzinski and Scooter LaForge at booth 10.26, NADA Miami 2018
ContinuedScooter LaForge “Creation of the Animals” on view at Empirical Nonsense 9 November 2018 – 26 January 2019
November 9, 2018Howl! is pleased to announce the exhibition of three new paintings by Scooter LaForge at Empirical Nonsense, the new gallery promoting the legacy of the late Feature Gallery founder Hudson, a beloved member of the NY art community, who passed away in 2014. Hudson was widely acclaimed as “one of the most prescient, independent-minded and…
ContinuedFrom Sur Rodney (Sur)’s Everybody’s Something Else
October 15, 2018We both can easily recall how we were seen as exceptions to everybody’s something else. Our black queer creatively-inspired and intellectually dexterous minds could produce possibilities for something more than what many might have anticipated possible. Admired for our tolerance, our courage, our rage, and sometimes seeming outrageousness, I’m admiring of Tony Whitfield’s love for…
ContinuedWHERE’S THE PICTURE? An Appreciation of Fred W. McDarrah by Tom McGovern
September 21, 2018WHERE’S THE PICTURE? An Appreciation of Fred W. McDarrah by Tom McGovern Fred was an old-school curmudgeon photographer and a first-class ballbuster. —Tom McGovern Most of us in the Howl! family grew up with the Village Voice. It was our newspaper of record. It told us who was playing at what nightclub, the latest in…
ContinuedZeitgeist Opens at The Maier
September 20, 2018ZEITGEIST: THE ART SCENE OF TEENAGE BASQUIAT TRAVELS TO MAIER MUSEUM IN VIRGINIA We’re pleased to announce the opening of Zeitgeist at the Maier Museum in Lynchburg, Virginia. It all began with Sarah Driver’s documentary, BOOM FOR REAL The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Zeitgeist, the exhibition curated by Howl! Happening, Sara Carlo McCormick, and…
ContinuedPeacocks per Tutti by Robert Kushner
September 12, 2018“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” Oscar Wilde. “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” Mae West Chris Tanner’s latest excesses are definitely too much and are definitely wonderful. In this amazing exhibition covering the entire span of Tanner’s work, two recent diptych paintings of mirrored peacocks steal…
ContinuedStooge Director Madeleine Farley on Extreme Fandom
September 7, 2018I’m interested in outsiders—people who seem to have the type of freedom dreaded by so-called normal people. I heard about Robert, a man in his 50s tearing around Europe in a 1980s hot hatch following his rock ‘n’ roll hero Iggy Pop. I’d just returned from filming gorillas in Africa, and here was this madman trying to…
ContinuedA Call To Love: Chris Tanner by Karen Finley
September 5, 2018Glitter, glamour, melody and voice. Loyalty, adornment, lilac icing on cake His last dollar, will gladly give to you A tinsel tiger carries your weight Made for you from heaven’s gate It is art, my dear We are here Have a cup of tizzy tea And wear your best frock We are together…
ContinuedPhilly: My Once and Future Queen by Todd Verow
April 21, 2018Todd Verow remembers Philly, his dear friend and inspiration for his movie Once and Future Queen in the catalogue for her memorial exhibition at Howl!. Don’t miss the screening of the film of the same name coming up this Saturday at 7 PM. It’s FREE, of course. Philly: My Once and Future Queen Todd Verow…
ContinuedUnusual Pairings of Legendary Downtown Creators at Howl!
April 12, 2018DUO #1: The Cutouts: Keith Patchel and The Venus Orbit with Poet Bob Holman Thursday, April 12, 2018 / 7 PM Free The performance at Howl! Happening will debut Patchel’s The Cutouts (Matisse), a new music song cycle using the poetry of Bob Holman—who will be performing—and based on Henri Matisse’s cut paper works. Featured performers…
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