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Scooter LaForge Paints Flowers for Dior
February 3, 2017Howl! Happening’s sensation Scooter LaForge kicked off Dior‘s U.S. launch of their latest scent “Poison Girl” at Up and Down last Tuesday night (Jan. 31) with spectacular florescent flowers. Covering the main room wall with large and lush flowers flowing through to the floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the loo, Scooter gave the minimalist bathroom a wake-up…
Continued#HowlWrites Series: Featuring Mike DeCapite
January 25, 2017Every month Howl! Writes invites a writer, poet, or essayist to contribute a short piece of their own work. We asked Mike DeCapite co-founder of Howl! Happening’s seasonal reading series, the Sparkle Street Social & Athletic Club, to be our inaugural writer. “Meeting Lincoln,” an excerpt from New Year’s Barber Shop I sat with Lincoln while he…
ContinuedA Message from HOWL! Emergency Life Project (Howl! H.E.L.P)
January 18, 2017The future has never been less certain. At this “scary place” for those we have assisted with their ACA and Medicaid health insurance, know that The Actors Fund will be there in the difficult days and years ahead to provide information and answer questions. The next workshop at Howl Happening is coming up on 1/23……
Continued(Really) High Fidelity by Carlo McCormick
January 12, 2017(Really) High Fidelity by Carlo McCormick This essay and more can be found in the catalogue for ‘Amplified Space’, available at Howl! Happening, An Arturo Vega Project. Join Howl! for the opening of ‘Amplified Space’ on 1/12/17 at 6pm (6 East 1st Street, NYC). Like curios scavenged from some impossibly chic future—or maybe more the…
ContinuedSound System by Richard Fleming
January 4, 2017Sound System by Richard Fleming This essay and more can be found in the catalogue for ‘Amplified Space’, available at Howl! Happening, An Arturo Vega Project. Join Howl! for the opening of ‘Amplified Space’ on 1/12/17 at 6pm (6 East 1st Street, NYC). Jonny Detiger creates environments and objects that engage at least four out…
ContinuedAnd I Will Always Love You (In Reach) by Larry Krone
November 29, 2016For those of you who have been to Howl! Happening, An Arturo Vega Project, you may have noticed a special work of art in an unlikely place: the bathroom. Here is the story behind And I Will Always Love You (In Reach). We are thrilled to be sharing the story behind the work with you,…
Continued99 Nights by Carlo McCormick
November 16, 2016The following is an excerpt from Carlo McCormick’s catalogue essay for Toyo Tsuchiya’s Invisible Underground exhibition at Howl! Happening. It is easy to obsess on the infamous and important artists who populate the photographs of Toyo Tsuchiya, to be impressed as we can be when encountering the likes of Tehching Hsieh, Kembra Pfahler, Stelarc, Jackie…
ContinuedLydia Lunch & Umar Bin Hassan at Joe’s Pub in NYC (11/2 & 11/3)
October 30, 2016Some Serious Business presents Lydia Lunch and Umar Bin Hassan in NO WAVE OUT, with Don Babatunde, Tim Dahl, Shaun Kelly and Weasel Walter. There are two nights to catch the performance, November 2 and November 3 at Joe’s Pub. Both nights start at 9:30pm, doors open at 9pm. Tickets are $20 and available…
ContinuedEmpire: An Arturo Vega Retrospective
October 28, 2016Empire: An Arturo Vega Retrospective will open at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at FSW on November 4. The opening reception is from 6-8pm. On November 5 at 1pm, there will be a panel discussion with special guests Carlo McCormick, Legs McNeil, Anthony Haden-Guest and Adam Lehrer. Join us in Florida, or online! Stay tuned in to the blog and…
ContinuedLocker Room Talk
October 26, 2016Locker Room Talk is a reading Mike DeCapite did from his novel Jacket Weather for the Enclave series at Cake Shop, on October 22, 2016. The video clip of the reading is available on vimeo, courtesy of Liza Béar: https://vimeo.com/188611984 “So . . . I was thinking we heard a lot lately—in the last few weeks—about locker…
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