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Love Among the Ruins Closing Party: Performances by John Kelly & Joseph Keckler
September 27, 2017Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project are pleased to celebrate Love Among the Ruins with a culminating performance by two masterful performers: John Kelly and Joseph Keckler. On October 7 at 7pm, Kelly performs excerpts from Time No Line, a solo performance work presented as a live memoir. Keckler will perform three…
ContinuedA Brief History of Glamour, Glory and Gold
September 20, 2017Craig Highberger Published on Dec 1, 2007 The complete “Lefty” scene from my 1974 documentary of Jackie Curtis’ fabulous hit play “Glamour Glory & Gold” at the Fortune Theatre. The wonderful actor Andrew Amic-Angelo plays Lefty! Fifty years ago, in 1967, the Off-Off-Broadway classic Glamour, Glory and Gold (The Life & Legend of Nola…
ContinuedChris Tanner’s Mural at Extra Place
September 15, 2017Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project & La Mama are thrilled to welcome Chris Tanner to Extra Place! A famous alley if there ever was one, this little enclave was home to the rear entrance of CBGBs and many legendary band photos. “Butterflies are Free” will have a formal opening celebration soon… so stay tuned…
ContinuedFloating Among the Better Sort of Modern Angels: An Introduction to Love Among the Ruins Exhibition and Catalog
September 7, 2017I hate to begin with the big D—death—but there it is. My co-curator Bill Stelling’s brilliant title for the exhibition, taken from Robert Browning’s poem “Love Among the Ruins”, aptly describes the main themes—love and mortality—that were the impetus for this show. As I lost so many friends so suddenly and unexpectedly in…
ContinuedTony Stinkmetal on the Full Moon Show and Tom Murrin, Beloved Alien Comic
September 6, 2017The Full Moon Show is an ongoing series of performances going on every 28 days since the early 1970s. It is also the invention seminal performance artist and Alien Comic Tom Murrin… Sort of. This is the way I heard Tom tell it during a Full Moon Show at Dixon Place, but I have…
ContinuedBill Stelling’s Essay from the catalogue of “Love Among the Ruins” Opening September 10th @ Howl! Happening
August 17, 2017As new generations rediscover New York in the late 80s, in his essay Bill Stelling, gallery director of 56 Bleecker Gallery and co-curator of Love Among the Ruins, writes about the gallery and the era of AIDS with truthfulness and clarity. Art Lives Forever Love Among the Ruins is a memoir written on the walls of…
Continued#HowlWrites Featuring Bob Holman
July 26, 2017Howl Happening features a new writer each month for the #HowlWrites series. Today we are excited to present Bob Holman’s “Grandly and Centrally”. “Grandly and Centrally” was commissioned by the MTA for a centennial reading at Grand Central station. Bob Holman is a native New Yorker from Kentucky currently living over the Bowery Poetry Club,…
ContinuedPride March!
June 29, 2017This year Howl Arts marched in Pride for the very first time! We were joined by the Lower East Side’s finest. Videos from the march can be found below… https://www.facebook.com/HowlHappening/videos/vb.1448473318777206/1779914315633103/?type=2&theater Scooter LaForge, who designed the Howl! float, getting a boost from our Gallery Director Ted Riederer https://www.facebook.com/HowlHappening/videos/vb.1448473318777206/1779958355628699/?type=2&theater Getting ready to MARCH! https://www.facebook.com/HowlHappening/videos/vb.1448473318777206/1779960405628494/?type=2&theater And we’re off!…
Continued#HowlWrites Feature: Catherine Texier
June 20, 2017The Guitarist By Catherine Texier He asked for a picture of her the day before Christmas. Which he didn’t observe. Later it occurred to her – raised the perfect Catholic girl, dressed in blue as an infant in honor of the Virgin Mary, mass every Sunday, confession every week, confirmation, first communion, patent leather…
ContinuedTalking about Talking . . . Carlo McCormick on Pierre Huyghe’s Sleeptalking
June 8, 2017With a keenly observed arc of history and personal narrative from lived experience, Carlo McCormick reflects on Howl! Happening’s chapter of the city-wide festival, Ugo Rondinone’s: I ♥ John Giorno To live in New York is to live with the noise of your neighbors. The volume of this city, both in terms of its loudness…
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