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:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD 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:20221119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230101 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20221201T060023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230221T190715Z UID:10000639-1668816000-1672531199@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:CITY OF KINGS: A History of New York City Graffiti DESCRIPTION:Exhibition in Two Parts:  \nHowl! Happening: November 19  – January 15\, 2023\n(6 E 1st St\, New York) \nHowl! Arts/Howl! Archive: December 3  – January 29\, 2023\n(250 Bowery Second Floor\, New York) \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n ►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n CITY OF KINGS: A History of New York City Graffiti\n \n \n \n\n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n ►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n CITY OF KINGS: A History of New York City Graffiti Part 2\n \n \n \n\n\n\nNew York\, NY: How did a subculture born on the streets of New York City evolve into a ubiquitous global phenomenon? From its origins in the late 1960s through today\, the story of street art and graffiti in New York City is still being told. Creating a rich\, visual contextualization of that history\, Howl! Happening is pleased to present CITY OF KINGS – an exhibition tracing the historical chronology of graffiti’s emergence as an art form and elevating the under-recognized artists and other players who pushed the medium forward. The exhibition is held in two parts\, the first at Howl! Happening and the second at Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive (HA/HA). \nCurated by first-generation graffiti artist Al Díaz (who worked under the name Bomb One before partnering with Jean-Michel Basquiat to create the SAMO©… tag) with additional curation from graffiti archivist and artist  Eric ‘DEAL CIA’ Felisbret and art educator Mariah Fox\, the exhibition features stories\, photos\, ephemera\, videos\, documentaries\, and the accounts of historical experiences\, many of which are previously unseen. \nGrounded in personal narratives from the inventors\, participants\, and innovators who shaped graffiti culture over the last five-and-a-half decades\, this exhibition highlights untold stories and lesser-known artists who contributed to graffiti’s emergence and spread across New York City’s five boroughs. At the heart of the exhibition is a timeline that offers a visual representation of how and where graffiti evolved\, to indicate the flow of ideas and inspiration among artists and groups. The timeline also contextualizes the graffiti movement by referencing key historical events\, such as the Son of Sam murders\, street-gang activity\, the financial decline of New York City\, and efforts to “clean up” the city. \nThe chronological display creates a framework to help explain how graffiti has become so lodged and influential within our present popular culture. What makes this exhibit particularly unique is that the narrative is told through the lens\, and voice of the actual players who created graffiti. An accessible\, concise\, clear account for the general public is long overdue in New York City\, the “birthplace of graffiti culture.” \n– Al Díaz\, NYC. August 2022 \nIn total\, the exhibition features the contributions of dozens of graffiti artists\, world-renowned photographers\, collectors and archivists. The exhibition includes photographs\, video\, and audio recordings — some of which come from personal archives. Public programs and a series of panel discussions will hone in on themes and periods that evolved across time; touching on topics such as the movement’s roots\, the evolution of graffiti styles and social and cultural practices. \nCITY OF KINGS includes contributions from artists and historians including CoCo 144\, Taki 183\, Crash\, LEE\, Jay Edlin\, Charlie Ahearn\, FLINT\, Carlo McCormick\, and Martha Cooper. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/city-of-kings-a-history-of-new-york-city-graffiti/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ny-cityofkings-scaled.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T200000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220711T195516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T170404Z UID:10000416-1657735200-1657742400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:MY COMRADE: Final Gathering DESCRIPTION:Join Linda Simpson for the final special event in connection with her exhibition My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary. Celebrate the release of The My Comrade Anthology\, a collection of pages from past issues of My Comrade selected by Linda Simpson\, printed in a substantial 256-page volume on newsprint. Linda will be signing books at the event. \nCome mix and mingle\, see a fashion show of the newest My Comrade T-Shirts\, and listen to DJ Michael Magnan — Designer of the latest issue of My Comrade. \nIf you can’t make it to the event Click Here to purchase The My Comrade Anthology published by Boo-Hooray. \n\nLinda Simpson’s My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary is 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. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/my-comrade-final-gathering/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Final-Happening.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;TZID=America/New_York:20220706T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220706T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220701T012051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220709T194841Z UID:10000414-1657134000-1657134000@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:MY COMRADE READS DESCRIPTION:“The exhibit emphasizes the magazine’s graphic design\, but each issue featured plenty to read\, too.” — Linda Simpson \nHowl! Happening presents  “My Comrade Reads\,” a reading of articles from past issues of the magazine in connection with the exhibition\, Linda Simpson My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary. An illustrious cast of performers and others share funny\, provocative\, and sexy articles chosen for them by editor Linda Simpson. Classic and hilarious articles from the gay zine are read by: Mike Albo\, Nora Burns\, Glace Chase\, and Eileen Dover. \n\n \nSince the 1980s\, Linda Simpson 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 \n\n\n\nMike Albo\nWriter\, playwright and performer\, whose upcoming sci-fi novel is Another Dimension of Us.\n\nNora Burns\nOne-third of the comedy trio Unitard and creator of the one-woman show David’s Friend.\n\nGlace Chase\nRecently returned from Australia where she starred in her play Triple X\, a trans love story.\n\nEileen Dover\nNightlife veteran and social butterfly. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/my-comrade-reads/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MY_COMRADE_PROPAGANDA2.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;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220619T181622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T182155Z UID:10000412-1655924400-1655931600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:My Comrade LIVE DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Live Talk Show on Wednesday\, June 22 at 7pm. In conjunction with the My Comrade magazine at Howl! Happening\, editor Linda Simpson hosts a live talk show with special guests: \nInternational DJ Honey Dijon (@honeydijon)\, photographer Andrew Whyland (@andewhyland)\, performer Macy Rodman (@macyrodman)\, cover girl for the new issue of My Comrade\, and performer Jonah Almost (@jonahalmost)\, the centerfold model. \nHoney Dijon is an internationally-known DJ who moved to NYC in the late 1990s and now lives in Berlin. Her recent projects include collaborating on a fashion label with Comma des Garcons.\n\nAnde Whyland is a photographer who has shot many images for My Comrade’s lesbian flip side\, Sister! Tonight she shows slides from her photo book Shots\, which spotlights the creative scene going on in the early 1980s at such venues as Club 57 and the Pyramid.\n\nMacy Rodman is the covergirl of the new issue of My Comrade\, which is the first in 16 years and was published to coincide with the exhibit. Over the past several years\, she has developed a cult following as a rock and pop performer in Brooklyn and beyond.\n\nJonah Almost is the centerfold model of the new issue of My Comrade. He is en electric music performer\, nightlife enthusiast and part-time model and skateboarder.\n\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. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/my-comrade-live/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MC_LIVE_v3.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;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220601T184751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T173100Z UID:10000408-1655406000-1655413200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Linda Simpson's Indie Gay Magazine Panel DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening presents a panel discussion in connection with the exhibition\, Linda Simpson My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary.  My Comrade editor Linda Simpson moderates a discussion about the joys and travails of publishing an alternative queer publication with staff members from Buds Digest\, Butt\, Frock\, Gayletter and Straight to Hell.\n\n\n\n\n Buds Digest is an online magazine for queer stoners. Frock is a showcase for photographer Eli Schmidt’s erotic images. BUTT reigned from 2001 to 2011 with its chic\, sexy and conversational format. A new issue was printed earlier this year. Gayletter focuses on queer art\, fashion and culture. Straight to Hell was founded in 1971 and features real life sex adventures submitted by anonymous contributors. \n\n\n\n\n\n \nSince the 1980s\, Linda Simpson 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 URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/indie-gay-magazine-panel/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/aaa-panel-invite-635-1.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;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220609T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220512T205002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T200906Z UID:10000619-1654797600-1654808400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Nora Burns:David's Friend DESCRIPTION:NYC Premiere of David’s Friend by Nora Burns. Directed by Adrienne Truscott\, featuring Billy Hough\, and Filmed by David Ebersole and Todd Hughes. \nPerformance by Kevin Aviance to follow the screening. \nA feisty and funny one-woman show…..her odyssey will bring alive the period and its pleasures (and poisons) with pungent animation… —Charles Isherwood\, New York Times \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present the hometown premiere screening of Nora Burns’ David’s Friend\, The story of a crazy friendship in 1980s New York City—a restless city during a reckless time\, the film began as a solo show by Burns that opened at La MaMa in 2017 and toured for the next 3 years. It is a comic odyssey about cruising\, disco\, drag queens\, strippers\, sex\, love\, loss\, and AIDS\, told with music\, videos\, costumes\, characters\, tall tales and torrid truths.  \nFilmed In March 2020 at Casita del Campo in Los Angeles\, it played at a few film festivals\, which were mostly virtual\, and due to the pandemic\, it never got to have its hometown premier.  \nBurns is a founding member of the comedy groups Unitard and the Nellie Olesons. She has performed across the country in various venues including PS122\, La MaMa\, and Joe’s Pub in New York City\, Highways\, Cavern Club and The HBO Workspace in Los Angeles and appeared in the comedy festivals Just for Laughs in Montreal and We’re Funny That Way in Toronto\, and at the Aspen Comedy Festival (now HBO Comedy Festival). Her first solo show\, “Honey\, I’m Home\,” premiered at Dixon Place in NYC\, and toured to Los Angeles\, Provincetown and Hudson\, NY. \nSince 2014 Nora has curated and hosted a series called New York Stories at the historic Stonewall Inn where celebrated New Yorkers like Michael Musto\, Anthony Haden-Guest and Brenda Bergman tell entertaining and sordid stories about their lives in the city of yore.  \nHer show “David’s Friend\,” opened at La MaMa in January 2017 after premiering at Dixon Place and the Provincetown Afterglow festival and touring Los Angeles\, Toronto and Seattle. \nIn addition to stage work\, Nora has appeared in the films “Broken Hearts\,” “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist\,” “Club\,” “Boys Life 3” and the documentary “Florent: Queen of the Meat Market.” Her TV appearances include Logo’s “Wisecrack” comedy show and “The Sandra Bernhard Experience.” noraburns.net \nPhoto by Christopher Makos URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/nora-burnsdavids-friend/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Makos.jpg 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:20260603T210201 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! 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220528T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220519T172624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220611T172346Z UID:10000644-1653764400-1653771600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Alan Moore: A World in Which DESCRIPTION:Book Signing and Panel Discussion \nA World in Which—an allusion to the Zapatista slogan\, “A world in which many worlds fit.” (Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.) \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present an evening celebrating the release of Alan Moore’s Art Worker: Doing Time in the NY Artworld\, a memoir that casts a raking light on a classic period in cultural history—the 70s and 80s in downtown Manhattan. Confirmed participants in the panel discussion: Marc H. Miller\, Yasmin Ramirez\, Leonard Abrams\, Alan W. Moore\, Stephen Zacks. Published this year by Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press\, books will be on sale at the event. \nThe New York City artworld of the late 20th century seems far more fluid and changeable\, with many more positions for its different actors to inhabit than the artworld of today. The market rules in all spheres of image-making\, enforced by super-high valuations of traditional artwork\, and global social media and streaming platforms. \nFrom art critic and video artist to radical organizer and academic\, Moore played multiple roles in a seething scene of art galleries\, nightclubs\, and small publications. Written in an accessible style\, Art Worker is in three parts\, with characters\, anecdotes\, footnotes\, and an extensive bibliography. It’s a book by a scholar written for a general audience. \nAbout the Participants \nAlan W. Moore worked as a critic\, artist\, and organizer in NYC for 30 years. He worked with the artists’ group Colab\, and co-directed ABC No Rio and the MWF Video Club. He took a PhD in Art History from CUNY in 2000\, and published Art Gangs in 2011. He has recently studied squatting in Europe; he published the zine House Magic (2009-16)\, co-edited Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces and wrote Occupation Culture (both 2015). He lives in Madrid\, and blogs at “Occupations & Properties” and “Art Gangs”. His book Art Worker launches this month. \nMarc H Miller arrived in New York from California in 1968 and lived at 98 Bowery\, NYC from 1969 to 1989 with extended stays in Washington DC and Amsterdam\, Holland.  Miller is an artist\, curator\, writer\, publisher\, and educator.  His multi-faceted career is unified by an interest in pictorial images and their inherent ability to tell stories. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (1979). He runs the website 98bowery.com. \nYasmin Ramirez is an art worker\, curator\, and writer. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center\, CUNY.  Born in Brooklyn\, Ramirez was active in the downtown art scene of the early 1980s as a club kid and art critic for the East Village Eye. She has curated exhibitions on the Young Lords\, Martin Wong\, Jean-Michel Basquiat\, and the Nuyorican art movement\, and collaborated on curatorial projects with the Bronx Museum\, El Museo Del Barrio\, the Loisaida Center\, the New Museum\, the Studio Museum in Harlem\, Franklin Furnace\, and Taller Boricua. \nLeonard Abrams is a writer\, editor\, and filmmaker. He was editor and publisher of the East Village Eye monthly newsmagazine\, in circulation from May 1979 until January 1987. From 1987-89 he co-produced the underground clubs Milky Way and Hotel Amazon\, venues that mixed early hip hop with reggae\, funk\, soul and house music. In 2007 he made the documentary film “Quilombo Country\,” about contemporary Brazilian communities founded by escaped slaves. He presented the East Village Eye Show at Howl Happening in 2016.  \nStephen Zacks is an advocacy journalist\, architecture writer\, urbanist\, and project organizer based in New York City. He publishes regularly in Abitare\, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui\, Architect’s Newspaper\, Architectural Record\, Art in America\, Dwell\, Landscape Architecture\, Oculus\, and Metropolis. He was director of the Flint Public Art Project\, co-founder of the Bring to Light–Nuit Blanche festival\, and past co-director of Collective Unconscious performance space. He wrote Situationist Funhouse on the work of artist G.H. Hovagimyan which launches this month. \nPhoto: Alan Moore in 1975 by Marc Miller. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/alan-moore-a-world-in-which/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Marc-Miller-photo-1975.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220516T153154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T153856Z UID:10000642-1653145200-1653152400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Christy Rupp in Conversation with Carlo McCormick DESCRIPTION:Artist Talk and Book Signing \nAn informal conversation with cultural critic and curator Carlo McCormick and artist Christy Rupp growing from the exhibition Othered\, currently at Howl! Happening through May 29\, and also celebrating the recent publication of Rupp’s monograph\, Noisy Autumn\, published by Insight Editions. The book’s title pays homage to Rachael Carson’s groundbreaking book Silent Spring upon its 60th anniversary. Six decades after the publication of Silent Spring\, chemical companies still maintain a website venting their anger at the journalist who would point out that 90% of all insects are beneficial. Special guest Bob Holman will join Rupp and McCormick\, reading new poems inspired by the events in Ukraine and Buffalo\, New York. \nIn the exhibition Othered\, Rupp investigates topics including resource extraction 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. Embodying irony and resilience\, her sculpture of fish\, mammals\, and micro-organisms made from single use plastic and bits of industrial debris expresses the voices of invisible microbes and species caught in the crosshairs. Rupp has long explored how we form our opinions of nature and the role of art in helping us understand climate chaos. \n 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. \n\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. \nAbout Carlo McCormick \nCarlo McCormick is an American culture critic and curator living in New York City. He is the author of numerous books\, monographs\, and catalogs on contemporary art and artists. \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/christy-rupp-in-conversation-with-carlo-mccormick/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/033A2022_web.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220505T163812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T163930Z UID:10000637-1652468400-1652475600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:LiVE MAG! No. 18 A Journal of Art and PoetryThe EDGY ISSUE DESCRIPTION:HOWL! HAPPENING PRESENTS Another in the long line of fabulous celebrations of LIVE MAG! and its contributors Join us for a night of Howling Fun as we celebrate the 18th issue of the edgiest magazine East of the Pecos. With Legends and Downtown royalty: Andrei Codrescu of NPR notoriety\, Bowery Poetry Club’s Bob Holman\, and radical deconstructionist photographer and Howl! artist Gail Thacker. Plus award-winning translator and poet brilliante\, Mr. Smoothie\, Vincent Katz! Paragon of Gen Noo; Elizabeth Guthrie; and the poetic pile-driver\, Ama Birch. Photo kaliedoplosions by photographer and filmmaker Luigi Cazzaniga. With Live Mag! Deputy Editor\, Ilka Scobie\, LIVE’s token socialite. Hosted by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright\, aka Uncle Fun\, joined by Contributing Editor and Designer Lori Ortiz. \nWith \nAma Birch\nLuigi Cazzaniga\nAndrei Codrescu\nElizabeth Guthrie\nVincent Katz\nBob Holman\nGail Thacker \n\nHosted by \nJeffrey Cyphers Wright\, \nEditor and Publisher\nIlka Scobie\, Deputy Editor\nLori Ortiz\, Designer and Contributing Editor \nwww.livemag.org URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/live-mag-no-18-a-journal-of-art-and-poetrythe-edgy-issue/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Clowning-Around.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;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220513T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220505T023233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T181756Z UID:10000622-1652464800-1652468400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Margaret RandallReading and Book Signing DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening is pleased to present Margaret Randall\, a longtime friend of the gallery and revered feminist poet\, essayist\, translator\, photographer\, and social activist. Coming from her home in Albuquerque to New York\, we are excited to host her in celebration of her two new books–Artists in My Life and Risking a Somersault in the Air\, both published by New Village Press. \nArtists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet activist Margaret Randall on her own journey as an artist. Randall writes of each relationship through multiple lenses: as makers of art\, social commentators\, women in a world dominated by male values\, and in solitude or collaboration with communities and the larger artistic arena. Each story offers insight into the artist’s life and work and analyses the impact it had on Randall’s own work and its impact on the larger art community. The work strives to answer bigger questions about visual art as a whole and its lasting political influence on the world stage. \nAmong those playing major roles in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution were many of the nation’s leading poets and writers. First published in 1983\, Risking a Somersault in the Air is a collection of interviews with fourteen of Nicaragua’s most important writers/revolutionaries. Filling in the gaps with new photographs and updates on the writers in the time since the original edition\, the book looks at the sacrifices\, conflicts\, and solutions of the creative artists of Nicaragua’s revolution. \nAbout Margaret Randall \nMargaret Randall is a feminist poet\, essayist\, translator\, photographer\, and social activist. A New York native\, she lived among the city’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s\, Mexico in the ‘60s\, Cuba in the ‘70s\, and Nicaragua in the ‘80s. She returned to the US in 1984 only to fight deportation due to the controversial content of her books. She is the founder and former editor of the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn\, which started an iconic bridge between cultures in the 1960s. She has more than 150 published books in several genres. \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/margaret-randallreading-and-book-signing/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/margaret-Randall-by-Magdalena-Lily-McCarson.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220430T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220430T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220423T190838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T182338Z UID:10000620-1651345200-1651352400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Kerouac Festival DESCRIPTION:6th New York Edition\nPoetry | Music | Performance \nPoetry mixes with music in this meeting of poetic voices from both sides of the Atlantic. A cultural synergy that works as a communicating vessel between cities and that takes musicians and poets from one continent to another\, with artistic collaborations that enrich the poetic language and its expansion towards the stage\, either as a play\, classical reading or in concert. of pop and hip-hop. \nPOETS FROM SPAIN MEET POETS FROM NEW YORK\nAnne Waldman\nFátima Delgado\nMalvares\nLupita Hard\nMarcos de la Fuente \n\nMore info: \nwww.festivalkerouac.com \nhttps://www.instagram.com/kerouacfestival/ \nhttps://www.facebook.com/festivalkerouac URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/kerouac-festival/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KEROUACNY-2022HOWLPOSTER-14-scaled.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T190000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220405T175044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T212559Z UID:10000624-1651258800-1651258800@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:A Wolf Inside:Natives\, Nuyoricans\, and the Beats DESCRIPTION:A film by Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo \nHowl! Happening is pleased to present the world premiere screening of A Wolf Inside: Natives\, Nuyoricans\, and the Beats\, a documentary film by Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo featuring the Native American poet Diane Burns\, Joy Harjo\, Allen Ginsberg\, Bob Holman\, Pedro Pietri. A panel discussion with poets Bob Holman of Bowery Poetry and Chavisa Woods\, executive director of A Gathering of the Tribes follows the screening. \nIn the mid-1980s\, Native poet Diane Burns\, whose searing words cut through the noise of the Santa Fe reservations and New York City’s Lower East Side\, took a once in a lifetime trip to Nicaragua with the Father of the Beats\, Allen Ginsberg. \nOrganized by Bob Holman of the Bowery Poetry\, a group of indigenous poets joined them\, including future Poet Laureate of the U.S. Joy Harjo\, and Nuyorican Poets Café member Pedro Pietri. \nDeep in the heart of the jungle\, it was a rollicking event filled with love\, poetry\, revolution\, and the search for identity in a time of radical changes in the Americas. \nWith narration by award-winning musician and Navajo activist Jeneda Benally\, interviews and performances from Diane Burns\, Allen Ginsberg\, Bob Holman\, and Joy Harjo; and never before seen archival photos from Joy Harjo\, Ilka Hartmann and Patrick Warner. \nBurns (Chemehuevi and Anishinabe) is currently featured in Greater New York at MoMA PS1. “A 1989 video of poet Diane Burns reciting a punk poem on the Lower East Side crackles with humor around Indigenous politics\, gentrification and displacement” says Marth Schwendener in her New York Times review of the show. Stills from the film debuted in the exhibit. \nA Gathering of the Tribes\, the poetry salon Burns was an original member of\, is currently featured in the Whitney Biennial “Quiet as its Kept.”  \nAs understanding of Native Americans in the arts deepens\, and the legacy of the Beat Poets is celebrated\, this archival documentary tells the story of what happened when those cultures clashed and sparked a revolution with poetry at its center. \n\nAbout Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo \nSandra Hale Schulman is an author of four books\, has contributed to shows at the Museum of Modern Art\, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian\, The Grammy Museum\, The Queens Museum\, and has produced four films on Native musicians. Her work has appeared in Billboard\, Variety\, Rolling Stone\, The New York Daily News\, and Entertainment Weekly. She appears regularly on PBS Indian Country Today Newscast. \nDamian Rojo is an art director\, set designer\, production designer\, filmmaker\, artist and sound designer. He debuted a film on Tomata du Plenty at Howl in 2017. He was art director for MTV U.S. and Latino\, stage sets and ad campaigns for personalities Grace Jones\, David Byrne\, and Calvin Klein. He has created videos for Coca Cola\, US / Brazil\, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts\, The de la Cruz Collection\, the Lowe Art Museum\, Miami\, Digital Images Visual Arts\, Experimental Works\, Taipei\, Taiwan. \n  \nKey Image: Pedro Pietri\, Bob Holman\, Allen Ginsberg\, Diane Burns\, Joy Harjo\, Carlos Rigby. Photo by Ilka Hartmann URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/a-wolf-insidenatives-nuyoricans-and-the-beats/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Pedro-Pietri-Bob-Holman-Allen-Ginsberg-Diane-Burns-Joy-Harjo-Carlos-Rigby-photo-Ilka-Hartmann_web.jpg 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:20220421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220530 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 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:20220226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220411 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220106T201510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220611T172918Z UID:10000632-1645833600-1649635199@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Mark Cooper Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery DESCRIPTION:►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Mark Cooper Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery\n \n \n \n\nHowl! Happening is pleased to present Mark Cooper’s fantastical and ornate mixed-media installation Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery. The installation uses visual signifiers to suggest multiple subtexts—from the importance of experiencing boundless joy to addressing the many issues that challenge our present and our future.  \nThe wildly diverse elements of this immersive experiential artwork are composed of an equally colorful array of materials that create the gestalt of the installation. The component parts reference the beauty and unpredictability of nature and reflect Cooper’s diverse influences\, from art and cultural history to biology\, architecture\, and cross-cultural exchange. \nThe biomorphic wooden sculptural forms suggest curio cabinets gone wild. The same shapes and images reappear in the quirky ceramic vessels and figures\, and in the paintings and rice-paper relief forms on the wall that incorporate photographic and printed imagery tucked into their many layers. Considering this riot of shapes and colors and materials in relationship to each other\, the notion of a singular genius moment is called into question\, and the viewer experiences a series of moments and events that form the foundation for bringing new ideas to the conversation and questioning the hierarchy of value. \n“I am interested in the conversation between the parts serving as triggers for individual viewer associations rather than presenting a linear narrative\,” says Cooper. “My work is based on collaboration and the idea that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’—using collage\, assemblage\, and installation as a metaphor for working together in a complex world.” \nIn creating the individual components in collaboration with others and in collaboration with the materials themselves—responding to how they bend and fold—unexpected outcomes arise in the same way that bringing individuals from different disciplines together can lead to solutions beyond one specific approach. \n“It is like an improvisational jazz piece\,” says Cate McQuaid\, writing in the Boston Globe. The conceptual framework brings individual voices together and references cultures and philosophies that allude to unbounded possibilities\, joy\, and love. A place of wonder and humanity\, the installation is a reminder for all of us to be our best selves and to work together to heal our planet.   \nCooper is an internationally recognized artist known for large-scale and site-specific installations and public commissions. His commissions include works for the Boston Children’s Hospital\, Boston Medical Center\, and Massachusetts Cultural Council; he has received a Gund Grant\, Daynard Grant\, and an Open Society Fellowship. In July 2020\, Cooper completed three permanent large-scale marble sculptures for the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum in Vietnam. In 2006\, he authored Making Art Together through Beacon Press. \nCooper’s major exhibitions include shows at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum; Vietnam University of Fine Arts; Da Nang Fine Arts Museum; Rough Point Museum—Doris Duke Mansion; Yuandian Art Museum; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art\, Kansas City; Lesley University\, Cambridge\, MA; Street Museum\, Seoul\, Korea; Whitney Museum at Philip Morris; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; ICA Boston; Corcoran Gallery of Art; The Butler Institute of American Art; Peabody Essex Museum; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; City Museum of Paris; and WestLicht Museum\, Vienna. The artist has had more than 100 solo and group shows combined. \nVisitation Guidelines \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/mark-cooper-unbounded-angels-in-the-nursery/ 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/2022/01/IMG_2164-scaled.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220214T181906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220218T185432Z UID:10000628-1645124400-1645131600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Impromptu Reading by Edgar Oliver DESCRIPTION:Howl Arts is pleased to present a reading of various works selected by renowned poet and playwright Edgar Oliver.  \n“Edgar is\, without doubt\, the greatest raconteur in the world\,” says George Dawes Green\, founder of The Moth. \nEdgar Oliver (b. October 31\, 1956) is a legend of the Lower East Side and has lived there since 1977. Oliver made his debut in New York City’s Pyramid Club in the mid 1980s and is a mainstay at La MaMa. He has written at least a dozen plays\, including The Poetry Killer\, The Ghost of Brooklyn\, When She Had Blood Lust\, The Master of Monstrosity\, I Am a Coffin\, My Green Hades\, and Chop Off Your Ear. Oliver has published two poetry collections\, A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There\, Summer\, and the novel The Man Who Loved Plants. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/impromptu-reading-by-edgar-oliver/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibition,Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/edgar-oliver-2_web.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20220201T190233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220206T191811Z UID:10000627-1644001200-1644008400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Seven Year VacationBy Edgar Oliver DESCRIPTION:A reading of a play by Edgar Oliver with sets by Helen Oliver \n“Edgar is\, without doubt\, the greatest raconteur in the world\,” says George Dawes Green\, founder of The Moth. \nHowl Arts is pleased to present a reading of The Seven Year Vacation\, by renowned poet and playwright Edgar Oliver\, starring Carine Montbertrand\, Angela Rogers\, Michael Laurence\, Alexandra Wolkowicz\, and Edgar Oliver. \nEdgar Oliver (b. October 31\, 1956) is a legend of the Lower East Side and has lived there since 1977. Oliver made his debut in New York City’s Pyramid Club in the mid 1980s and is a mainstay at La MaMa. He has written at least a dozen plays\, including The Poetry Killer\, The Ghost of Brooklyn\, When She Had Blood Lust\, The Master of Monstrosity\, I Am a Coffin\, My Green Hades\, and Chop Off Your Ear. Oliver has published two poetry collections\, A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There\, Summer\, and the novel The Man Who Loved Plants. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-seven-year-vacationby-edgar-oliver/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon,Performance,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Edgar-Oliver-Poster_crop.jpg 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:20220122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220221 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211216T212435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220123T174519Z UID:10000636-1642809600-1645401599@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Helen Oliver The Open Road DESCRIPTION:There is a theatrical quality to Helen Oliver’s paintings\, their scale and earthy palette recalling\, in one glance\, those eerily charmed circus or movie marquee posters of yesteryear. This feels especially true of her portraits\, which loom large enough to engulf the viewer in the formal contortions of their often-nude subjects. —Tom Breidenbach \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n ►\n Explore 3D Space \n \n \n \n Helen Oliver: The Open Road\n \n \n \n\nHowl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to present The Open Road\, a newly curated exhibition of paintings by Helen Oliver that takes off from her show which was cut short in 2019 by the pandemic. Known for her large-scale\, vivid portraits and nudes\, she delves below the surface of her subjects to uncover inner mysteries\, emotions\, and tensions.  \nThe expressivity of Oliver’s paintings might appear to be part of a long tradition of psychological portraiture—from that of Otto Dix to Alice Neel. There is a humanistic quality to Oliver’s endeavor that she shares with those artists. There is\, however\, a consistent ambiguity in her work. . . This singularity might best be observed in Oliver’s nude portraits. —David Ebony \nOn view will be a selection of portraits and intimate nudes that combine her eccentric\, gestural line with the deeply felt presence of the sitter to create “images [that] vacillate between the hallucinatory\, bordering on Surrealism\, and a raw pragmatic quality that makes them appear utterly truthful\,” says Ebony. Oliver’s blithe\, bohemian character imbues her paintings with an imaginative inner narrative\, and style that goes beyond any affiliations to contemporary art trends\, schools\, or movements. An air of whimsy permeates the portrait of her brother Edgar as harlequin\, while languid nudes stare frankly at the viewer.  \nSince the late 70s\, Helen Oliver has been an integral part of the artistic and performance-art scene of the Lower East Side\, tapping into the personalities of the vanguard and rendering oil paintings of artists\, musicians\, filmmakers\, and writers including Penny Arcade\, Lenny Kaye\, Mary Lou Wittmer\, Louie Cartwright\, Kembra Pfahler\, Samoa\, and Brian Damage. She is also well known for her stage-set design\, especially for her brother Edgar Oliver’s plays\, many of which premiered at La MaMa. \nShe was a founder of Pompeii Gallery on 10th Street (and later Forsyth Street) in New York City in the mid 80s. She has exhibited in New York\, Paris\, and Lucerne\, and has painted three rooms at the Carlton Arms Hotel. Originally from Savannah\, Georgia\, she moved to New York City in the late 70s after studying in Paris and receiving a B.A. from The George Washington University in Washington\, D.C. She now divides her time between New York and Tarquinia\, Italy\, where she makes her home. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/helen-oliver-the-open-road/ 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/2021/12/Key-Image-Helen-Oliver_web_crop.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211207T175354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T161541Z UID:10000603-1639681200-1639688400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Create the Gift Worth Giving: Holiday Collage Making Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join us for this fun\, holiday themed collage making in-person workshop with Amon Focus! Some of us might be gathering with loved ones after time apart so this is the perfect place to make that one of a kind gift only you can make. \nHoliday Collage Making Workshop workshop registration is available. \nClick Here To Register \nCreate the Gift Worth Giving: Holiday Collage Making Workshop with Amon Focus encourages participants to make a thoughtful and creative collage for family and friends during the holiday season. Amon Focus will facilitate this workshop sharing some of his own techniques and strategies for engaging collage based art. Collages will be made using old magazines and can be decorated with an assortment of materials such as paint\, buttons\, paper and fabric. All materials will be provided and no previous experience in collage making is required. Proof of vaccination and masks are required to attend this workshop. This workshop is offered at no cost to participants. Seating is limited!  \nNo previous experience in drawing is required and all skill levels in art are welcome! The workshop is free and all materials are provided. Prior registration is required to attend. All participants must be vaccinated to attend the workshop\, and masks are required. Seating is limited and spots fill quickly! \nFeel free to contact Howl Education Director\, katherine@howlarts.org\, with any questions about the workshop. \nVisitation Guidelines URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/create-the-gift-worth-giving-holiday-collage-making-workshop/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Happening Soon,Vega Arts Workshops Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/amon-holiday-workshop-scaled.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211215T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211115T213659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211216T195423Z UID:10000596-1639594800-1639602000@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:David MramorGay Green DESCRIPTION:Enid Ellen Performance \nHowl! Happening and White Columns are pleased to co-host Gay Green\, a performance by David Mramor. The event is organized in conjunction with Mramor’s new illustrated memoir Rainbow Lilies Gangrene Blues and his solo exhibition curated by Jeanette Mundt\, on view at White Columns from October 30 through December 18\, 2021. \nGay Green is the latest performance featuring Enid Ellen\, artist David Mramor’s ongoing persona and musical project. Enid was born out of private performances from the artist’s childhood\, which first took place in their mother’s closet\, eventually with her as their audience. \nFollowing his mother’s death\, Mramor continued performing in drag\, often with the makeup and clothing she left behind—discovering a way to recreate the freeing\, compassionate space she provided in his youth. For Gay Green\, Mramor steps into Enid\, performing covers and original songs that bring together different time periods and people within queer history. With green makeup evocative of a wicked witch\, and references to Hibiscus—the legendary founder of early-70s San Francisco drag-queen troupe The Cockettes—the performance pays homage to cinema\, fashion\, nature\, and gay icons\, with nostalgic nods to Mramor’s personal history and the history of drag. \nCollaborating with Greg Potter on keyboards\, Mramor writes original songs under the Enid Ellen guise—a post-gender feminist singer-songwriter. With a background in theater\, the artist’s performances include singing\, movement\, improvisation\, and Kundalini yoga elements. \nSupport for this program is kindly provided by Sotheby’s. \n\nPhoto by Shann Treadwell\nAbout David Mramor\nDavid Mramor lives and works in New York City. He received a BFA from Ohio University in 2006 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2008\, and was a Studio Immersion Project Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in 2019. Mramor has exhibited and performed extensively throughout New York City\, including presentations at Fierman\, 47 Canal\, Canada gallery\, P·P·O·W\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, and The Kitchen. He has also performed at the Serpentine Gallery (London)\, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf)\, and Museum Ludwig (Cologne). The artist is a member of the two-person band Enid Ellen\, with singer-songwriter Greg Potter. Album releases include Cannibal Disease (2010) and Beyond Reality (FemmeKraft\, 2018). \nEvent Photo credit: David Mramor\, Gay Green (Sound Factory invitation\, 1994\, Gregory Homs). Inkjet\, oil\, and grommets on linen\, 2021. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/david-mramor-gay-green/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/David-Mramor_-Gay-Green_-Sound-Factory-invitation_1994_Gregory-Homs_Inkjet_oil_-and-grommets-on-linen_2021.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211129T171128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T205224Z UID:10000604-1638712800-1638723600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:NYisOK: Bullet Space 1985–2021 DESCRIPTION:Howl Happening is pleased to present NYisOK: Bullet Space 1985–2021\, a special event to mark the closing of the exhibition Andrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space. Join Andrew Castrucci and a group of artists\, musicians\, writers\, and performers for an afternoon of readings from books\, newspapers\, and actions commemorating Bullet Space.  \nParticipating guests include Lee Quiñones\, street-art originator\, downtown legend\, musician\, writer\, and star of Charlie Ahearn’s influential film Wild Style; Rivington School artist\, and writer; Rachelle Garniez\, singer\, songwriter\, and accordionist; and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Sarah Ferguson. Other guests include Renzo Castrucci\, Pito Concepción\, Carla Cubitt\, A.O. Dolabi\, Richard Dye\, John Fekner\, Frank Morales\, Cheryl Pyle\, Felice Rosser\, and Stephan Said. \n\nAndrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space is an exhibition that pays tribute to Bullet Space and Andrew Castrucci—framed around the artist’s 36-year tenure leading the unique community space\, and two mammoth artist books he produced with a myriad of collaborators: Your House is Mine (1988–1992) and Fracktured Lives (2010–2020). Threaded throughout are other artifacts including his paintings on steel as well as silk screens from the two books; newspapers; and ephemera produced between 1985 to the present. The exhibition is curated by Carlo McCormick and Alexandra Rojas and accompanied by a catalog with essays by McCormick and Tom McGlynn. \nAbout Bullet Space \nLocated at East Third Street in Loisaida\, Bullet Space is an act of resistance\, a community-access center for images\, words\, and sounds of the neighborhood. Founded in the winter of 1985\, it was part of the squatter movement and reconstructed with or without the formal sanction of the city—invisible officialdom. The ground floor of the building is open—like a bulletin. “Bullet” first originated from the name-brand of heroin sold on the block—which was known as the “bullet block”—encompassing the accepted American ethic of violence. “Bullet Americana” is art form as weaponry. . \nAbout Andrew Castrucci  \nAndrew Castrucci was born in 1961 and raised in the proximity of West Hoboken and Cliffside Park\, spanning New Jersey’s industrial expanses of the lower Hudson River. From 1984–86\, he ran the A&P Gallery with his brother Paul. In 1986\, Castrucci co-founded Bullet Space\, an urban artist collaborative. Creating a print shop there\, he was instrumental in producing over 10\,000 silk screen posters by a wide range of artists\, writers\, and thinkers. Castrucci curates shows and publishes artist books—most recently the Bulletin newspaper edition #10\, and the exhibition Shoot the Pump\, co-curated with Lee Quiñones and Alexandra Rojas. \nImage: NYisOK Castrucci/Fekner collab. 2021\, enamel and spray paint on metal\, 22″ x 17” \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/nyisok-bullet-space-1985-2021/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NYisOK_edit-scaled.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211111T212752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211206T191957Z UID:10000595-1638558000-1638565200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Collective Space/Embodied Resistance: 40 Years and Beyond of AIDS\, Art and Activism DESCRIPTION:WORLD AIDS DAY COMMEMORATION \n“We have lost heroes in this multi-passing-the passage of brilliant minds who we have lost. We cannot access them through anything except digging far in and finding them living loud through our heart and psyche. I needed them then and need them now.” – Julie Tolentino from Debra Levine’s Essay – Another Kind of Love: A Performance of Prosthetic Politics \nIn her book The Gentrification of the Mind\, Sarah Schulman struggles to understand and express the loss to AIDS and how “a certain urban ecology of queer subculture existence has been wiped out\, through both AIDS and gentrification” and that this “ecoside” has resulted in less diversity. Almost without realizing it—one person at a time—we lost pioneering artists who challenged the status quo in performance\, installation\, improvisational live music\, dance\, drag\, and the intersection of new technologies. Schulman says\, “When they died\, their practice of creating new paradigms outside of institutional structures was removed from sight.” \nHowl is pleased to present Collective Space/Embodied Resistance: 40 Years and Beyond of AIDS\, Art and Activism\, a panel discussion in honor of WORLD AIDS DAY featuring; photographer Lola Flash\, performer Rafael Sanchez\, writer Pamela Sneed\, performance artist John Kelly and historian\, Aldo Hernandez. Each panelist will present and contextualize specific bodies of work made during and speaking to the height of the AIDS epidemic followed by a moderated discussion with the audience.  \nIt is particularly fitting that Howl focuses on the continuum of AIDS history in our community as we struggle to counter the gentrified mindset that pretends that AIDS never happened or is not happening right now. The artists on the panel have firsthand\, lived experience of those early days and all have made work dealing with its impact on their lives personally and the fabric of our city.  \nThe artists on this panel defy the gentrified mindset discussed in Schulman’s book by reminding us that art as resistance can channel our collective rage into moments of remembrance for what we’ve lost and celebrate our survival.  We honor our friends\, family members and loved ones whom we’ve lost to HIV & AIDS while we grapple with the immense losses from COVID-19. As painful as it can be to unlock memories from our not too distant past\, healing and wisdom can be derived from this looking back. Flash\, Sanchez\, Sneed\, Kelly and Hernandez share with us their own ways of looking in hopes that we might see ourselves not separate but as a continuum of the ongoing history of HIV & AIDS irrespective of the identities we individually hold.  \n\nPanelists: \nPhoto by: Ajamu X\nLola Flash uses photography to challenge stereotypes and offer new ways of seeing that transcend and interrogate gender\, sexual\, and racial norms. She received her bachelor’s degree from Maryland Institute and her Masters from London College of Printing\, in the UK. Flash works primarily in portraiture with a 4×5 film camera\, engaging those who are often deemed invisible. In 2008\, she was a resident at Lightwork and in 2015\, she participated at Alice Yard\, in Trinidad. Flash was awarded an Art Matters grant\, which allowed her to further two projects\, in Brazil and London. Flash has work included in important public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.  Her work is also featured in the publication Posing Beauty\, edited by Deb Willis\, currently on exhibit across the US. Most recently\, she co-led a talk at the Bronx Museum with Sur Rodney Sur. They spoke to the glaring lack of women artists and POC\, with respect to the Art AIDS America exhibition. Flash’s work welcomes audiences who are willing to not only look but see. \n  \nAldo Hernandez; librarian\, archivist\, curator\, music mixer and photographer was born in Cuba\, raised in California and has lived in NYC since 1985. As a member the ART+POSITIVE collective within ACT UP\, he curated the “Army of Lovers” exhibition at the PS 122 Art Gallery in November 1990 which included many artists that have since gained widespread recognition (among them Lola Flash\, Nan Goldin\, Hunter Reynolds\, James Siena\, Fred Tomaselli\, David Wojnarowicz).  After moving to NYC Aldo worked in Development at MoMA\, and in 1987 became the Development Officer and a music/poetry curator at Creative Time. During this time Aldo began working with performer Julie Tolentino and Diamanda Galás – an urgent vital time in their lives as they and their friends became committed to AIDS activism through ACT UP. Recently\, Aldo returned to archival projects\, and is currently organizing the Brian Butterick collection at Howl. Aldo is also Howl’s first librarian and steward of the unique collection\, which emphasizes New York City’s East Village neighborhood.  \n  \nPhoto by: Steven Menendez\nJohn Kelly is a performance and visual artist. His performance works dramatize the lives of characters – whether actual or fictional – revealing their challenges\, foibles\, and humanity. Some of these works are directly autobiographical – others are inspired by the realities and hurdles of cultural outsiders\, and political realities they navigate.  His visual art is based in self-portraiture\, and frequently relates to the subjects of his performance works\, including drawing\, painting\, photography\, and video.  He recently completed his first graphic narrative ‘A Friend Gave Me A Book’\, based his weathering a catastrophic trapeze accident. Kelly’s latest dance theatre work ‘Underneath The Skin’ (based on the life of the 20th century gay novelist and tattoo artist Samuel Steward) will have a multi-week run at New York’s La MaMa\, in 2022. \n  \nPolaroid by: Mark Morrisroe\, 1988 c. Estate of Mark Morrisroe\, Collection Ringier; Fotomuseum Winterthur\, CH\nRafael Sánchez is a Cuban-born visual artist and performer based in New York City. Sánchez’ work combines traditional fine-art practice with personal methods and associate ‘conductive’ materials which include makeup\, barn paint\, asphalt sealer\, honey\, dust\, and sugar. His drawings\, installations\, and performances embrace site and context\, often utilizing elements from a mixture of intuitive and universal cosmologies with themes of transformation and transcendence. He was a companion and caregiver to friends in New York and Paris during the AIDS crisis of the ’80s and ’90s. Sánchez became HIV+ in the fall of 2002. In the artist’s words\, “seroconversion was devastating\, but in time that journey strengthened my belief in the interconnectedness of all things and the transformative power of art.” \nRecent solo and group presentations include A Gathering (HOUSING\, New York\, 2021)\, Life of a Flower / Rafael Sánchez with Ellen Cantor\, Jim Fletcher\, Mark Morrisroe\, and Gail Thacker (Galerie Max Mayer\, Düsseldorf\, 2019)\, and Tree of Heaven (Viewing Room—Marlborough Contemporary\, New York\, 2018). Two exhibitions pairing the work of Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White are forthcoming; at Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art in Massachusetts from November through April of 2022\, and Rafael Sánchez\, Kathleen White: Earth Works will open at Martos Gallery in New York on January 13\, 2022. \n  \nPhoto by: Rafael German\nPamela Sneed is a New York-based poet\, writer\, performer and visual artist\, author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery\, KONG and Other Works\, Sweet Dreams and two chaplets\, Gift by Belladonna and Black Panther. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, Hyperallergic and on the cover of New York Magazine. Sneed also teaches new genres in Columbia Universities’ School of the Arts. She has performed at the Whitney Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Poetry Project\, MCA\, The High Line\, New Museum\, MOMA\, Broad Museum and the Toronto Biennale. Pamela appears in Nikki Giovanni’s “The 100 Best African American Poems.” In 2018\, she was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes in poetry and is widely published in journals including\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Art Forum Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Frieze Magazine. She recently published an article for Harpers Bazaar U.S. and has upcoming work in The New York Times. She is the author of a poetry and prose manuscript Funeral Diva published by City Lights in Oct 2020 featured in the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Funeral Diva won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award. In 2021\, Sneed was a panelist for The David Zwirner Gallery’s More Life exhibit\, and has spoken at Bard Center for Humanities\, The Ford Foundation\, The Gordon Parks Foundation\, Columbia University\, The New School and NYU’s Center For Humanities. She currently has work on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. \n  \nEvent Image: Rafael Sánchez\, 1993-94\, “Bedtime Story”; Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery\, New York. Performance still photograph by Rainer Behrens. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/collective-space-embodied-resistance-40-years-and-beyond-of-aids-art-and-activism/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/highres-scaled.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211103T174947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T224138Z UID:10000608-1637262000-1637269200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Short Films Curated by Andrew Castrucci DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening is pleased to present an evening of films in conjunction with the exhibition Andrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space. The event will present a selection of films created over the last 20 years by Castrucci\, his collaborators Dave Fasano and Kevin R. Frech\, and Italo Zamboni—an alias of Castrucci’s.  \nThe evening’s program will include 82nd Street Steps Manifesto by Italo Zamboni (2000)\, Cliffs / Rivers / Skyscrapers by Castrucci and Frech (2002)\, $4 a Pound (2003) and America Berserk (2008) by Castrucci\, and Ninety Degrees North (2018) and Gone (2021) by Castrucci and Fasano. \nAbout Andrew Castrucci \nThe artist was born in 1961 and raised in the proximity of West Hoboken and Cliffside Park\, spanning New Jersey’s industrial expanses of the lower Hudson River. From 1984–86\, he ran the A&P Gallery with his brother Paul. In 1986\, Castrucci co-founded Bullet Space\, an urban artist collaborative. Creating a print shop there\, he was instrumental in producing over 10\,000 silk-screen posters by a wide range of artists\, writers\, and thinkers.  \nCastrucci curates shows and publishes artist books—most recently the Bulletin newspaper edition #10\, and Shoot the Pump\, co-curated with Lee Quiñones and Alexandra Rojas. \nHe has been working on a film\, The River Speaks: Urban Angling in the East River\, where life becomes art. His other films include Struck by the Hand (2000) and The Resistance of Memory (2005). URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/short-films-curated-by-andrew-castrucci/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon,Off-site ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screening-Image-_CROP_WEB.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211114T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211114T160000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211111T190211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T210809Z UID:10000597-1636898400-1636905600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Local Knowledge Reading Series DESCRIPTION:With Ron Kolm and Annabel Lee \nHowl! Happening is pleased to announce a monthly Local Knowledge reading series—live and In person at Howl. Each monthly event features the work of poets\, prose writers (fiction and non-fiction) and visual artists. The series is curated by Local Knowledge Magazine\, a literary and art journal published by Sanjay Agnihotri and will be hosted by Agnihotri and Jeff Wright\, publisher of LiveMag! This week features writer\, editor\, and artist Ron Kolm and publisher\, editor\, writer\, educator\, and musician Annabel Lee. \nRon Kolm is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine. Ron is the author of Divine Comedy\, Duke & Jill\, Suburban Ambush\, Night Shift\, A Change in the Weather\, Welcome to the Barbecue and Swimming in the Shallow End. He’s had work in Abwarts\, And Then\, Feuerstuhl\, Great Weather for Media\, the Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance anthology\, Maintenant\, Live Mag!\, Local Knowledge\,  NYSAI\, The Opiate\, the Poets of Queens anthology\, the Riverside Poets Anthology\, Stadtgelichter\, Var Ucca Muhely #63\, the Brownstone Poets anthologies and The Red Wheelbarrow. \nAnnabel Lee is the author of Basket\, At the Heart of the World (translations of Blaise Cendrars\, portions of which have been set to music by composer Garrett List) and Continental 34s. Her poetry\, prose and essays have appeared in Dodgems\, Saturday Morning\, Little Caesar\, Exquisite Corpse\, DianeRavitch.net and in other journals and anthologies\, including Corona Transmissions: Alternatives for Engaging with COVID-19—from the Physical to the Metaphysical edited by Sherri Mitchell\, Richard Grossinger and Kathy Glass (2020). \n  \nAbout Ron Kolm \nAbout Annabel Lee \nAbout Jeffrey Cyphers Wright \nAbout Local Knowledge \n  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/local-knowledge-reading-series/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LK-Reading-Series-Nov-2021_IG-1.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;TZID=America/New_York:20211113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211113T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211022T151523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T190023Z UID:10000612-1636830000-1636837200@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:FeMaLe GEniUs Performance and Record Release Party DESCRIPTION:Howl Arts is pleased to announce the release of a limited-edition vinyl LP by FeMaLe GEniUs. The self-titled album captures the raw intensity of this Brooklyn estrogen band\, the trio of multi-instrumentalists Julie Hair\, Marnie Jaffe\, and Nikki D’Agostino. With their unique arrangements; minimal\, vocal-driven music; and bass loops layered with harmonies\, keyboards\, percussion and sax; they seem to have found the sonic equivalent of “outsider art.” \nCLICK HERE TO PURCHASE \nThe lyrics speak to personal politics and authentic experiences. Musical virtuosity is not the endgame. If one were to try to assign FeMaLe GEniUs a genre\, music-writer Kyle Gann’s view of what he describes as “post-minimalism (a pulsing\, droning\, hypnotic non-traditional tonality)” might be most analogous. \n\n  \n \nThe cover art\, red vinyl\, minimal label\, and graphic score included in the package indicate that this album is both a recording project and an art object. The hand-numbered limited-edition of 300 begins on the front cover with a collage of a fractured face by New York artist Douglas Landau. The back cover and record labels are photographs by artist and band-member Julie Hair. The back cover imagery\, a collection of objects ranging from a vintage ceramic dog and religious icon from Hair’s childhood to a sculpture by Philadelphia artist Paul Bearer\, represents the three band members. \nThe 11 x 22” graphic score by band member Nikki D’Agostino uses visual symbols outside of the realm of traditional notation to represent music. Modern graphic notation relies heavily on the imagination of each performer. “Removing traditional performance practice leaves the performer with a kind of exclusive power to act as an improvising interpreter as well as an inspired spontaneous composer\,” says D’Agostino. “These concepts are inherent in FeMaLe GEniUs\, as elements of the work are indeterminate in nature—leading to performances which are highly nuanced.” \nFeMaLe GEniUs is the groovin’est band without a drummer you’ve ever seen. Based on genius bass lines\, the trio plays a tangent to different styles that arose from the early NYC punk/experimental scene. Their songs will stick with you stealthily. The vocals are honest with in(genius) harmonies that are spot-on primal\, yet fresh. Top that with a techno-genius sax player and psychedelic moods\, and you’ve got FeMaLe GEniUs.\n—Michael Jung (Alice Donut\, Um) \nJulie Hair and Marnie Jaffe blasted out of the Lower East Side underground rock scene of the 1980s and are still creating. Julie’s experience in the legendary art-rock band 3 Teens Kill 4 and Marnie’s Live Skull footprint inform their musicality. (The video for “Madeline” features deep-fake versions of the two when they were in their twenties lip-synching to the song.) Nikki D’Agostino\, an avant-garde composer who teaches music technology at CUNY City Tech\, moved from being a fan to an integral member of the group. Her free improv\, skronk\, and lyrical sax lines add gravitas to the electric and effected instrumentation. Experienced performers\, they are at home playing in an art gallery\, nightclub\, or someone’s home. FeMaLe GEniUs was included in the December 2020 edition of Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice. \nThe record is produced in association with Some Serious Business\, who hosted the group for an SSB Away artist residency in 2019 and presented performances by the trio in Albuquerque\, Santa Fe\, and Abiquiu. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/female-genius-performance-and-record-release-party/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FG_Front-Cover_crop-scaled.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211102T164338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T193024Z UID:10000607-1636657200-1636664400@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Aesthetic Archaeology: Urban Arts Drawing Workshop with Andrew Castrucci DESCRIPTION:Aesthetic Archaeology: Urban Arts Drawing Workshop with Andrew Castrucci marks the return of the beloved Vega Arts Workshop Series. We are back to our in-person workshops and grateful that we can have Andrew Castrucci lead this hands-on experience. Castrucci utilizes artistic mediums including automatic drawing and writing\, graffiti\, infographics\, silhouettes\, and figure drawing to build his unique pieces. In this workshop\, Castrucci will facilitate an interactive workshop where participants complete a drawing using paper\, charcoal\, pencil\, and pen to produce an original work incorporating these techniques. Castrucci will also share his extensive knowledge about urban-arts practices and highlight some pieces from the show currently on exhibition at Howl that reflect the artistic mediums explored during the workshop. \nNo previous experience in drawing is required and all skill levels in art are welcome! The workshop is free and all materials are provided. Prior registration is required to attend. All participants must be vaccinated to attend the workshop\, and masks are required. Seating is limited and spots fill quickly! \nAesthetic Archaeology workshop registration is no longer available \nFeel free to contact Howl Education Director\, katherine@howlarts.org\, with any questions about the workshop. \nAndrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space is currently on view at Howl! Happening gallery on 6 East First Street\, New York\, NY\, from October 23–December 4\, 2021. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/aesthetic-archaeology-urban-arts-drawing-workshop-with-andrew-castrucci/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Education,Happening Soon,Vega Arts Workshops Series,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Castrucci-Workshop-Image_crop_WEB.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T210000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211102T162651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T163214Z UID:10000606-1636052400-1636059600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Readings from Fracktured Lives and Your House is Mine DESCRIPTION:Howl! Happening is pleased to present an evening of readings and performances in conjunction with the exhibition Andrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space. A diverse group of creative personalities will draw from two of Castrucci’s artist books\, Your House is Mine and Fracktured Lives. Participating artists include Lee Quiñones\, Pito Concepción\, Carl Watson\, Carla Cubit\, Richard Dye\, Katharine Dawson\, Michael Carter\, Frank Morales\, Cheryl Pyle\, Rachelle Garniez\, Sarah Ferguson\, John Fekner with Free Humanity\, Nadia Coen\, and Andrew Castrucci.  \nYour House is Mine\, edited by Castrucci and Nadia Coen\, is an oversized artist book with 33 signed silk-screen prints. A collection of images and texts defining and expressing the broad and essential issue of housing on the Lower East Side\, the work as a whole creates a statement about the force of “art as a means of resistance.” The book is critical of the status quo. Provoking or inciting the public\, it offers objective statements or alternative solutions to authoritative city planning. \nAn amazing array of groundbreaking artists worked with Castrucci to make silk screens for the book\, including David Wojnarowicz\, Martin Wong\, Lady Pink\, and Lee Quiñones. From each silk screen\, 150 prints were made to be wheat-pasted on city walls\, and 150 were printed on 50-pound Mohawk vellum for Your House is Mine\, which was designed by Castrucci\, his brother Paul\, and Coen. The book also presents contributions from figures like Miguel Algarín\, Chris Burden\, Martha Cooper\, Daze\, John Farris\, Allen Ginsberg\, David Hammons\, Hettie Jones\, Cookie Mueller\, Public Enemy\, Adam Purple\, Bimbo Rivas\, and Andrés Serrano.  \nFracktured Lives is a massive 25-pound book\, bound in sheet metal\, which comprehensively takes on the subject of fracking. The project was created to protest and ultimately ban this polluting practice that forcibly extracts natural gas.  \nThe book features 50 screen prints by a diverse and intergenerational selection of artists—a veritable exhibition in codex form. Produced between 2010–2020\, 177 artists\, writers\, and “fracktivists” contributed\, notably including Joseph Beuys\, Andrew Castrucci\, Sue Coe\, John Fekner\, Yoko Ono\, Alexandra Rojas\, David Sandlin\, and Walter Sipser. \nDeploying a range of aesthetics between high and lowbrow art forms\, the posters and the ideas behind them were collectively brainstormed and came to fruition at the School of Visual Arts in New York City\, where Castrucci and his students started the Dirty Graphics collective.  URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/readings-from-fracktured-lives-and-your-house-is-mine/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/books_web.jpg 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;TZID=America/New_York:20211024T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211024T150000 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20210920T164310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211024T180157Z UID:10000594-1635087600-1635087600@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Littérature: Readings by Mike DeCapite\, Luc Sante\, and Adele Bertei DESCRIPTION:Howl Arts is pleased to present an afternoon of interlocking and deeply personal readings that pay homage to people\, places\, and times that remain touchstones of genius and inspiration. All three authors transmit the experience and feelings of “being there now” with rare urgency and intimacy. Memoir\, autobiography\, and novel\, Bertei\, Sante\, and DeCapite tell stories of becoming\, creating\, and loving—bolstered by the wisdom of lived experience. Howl! Happening\, 6 East First Street\, New York.  \n \nAdele Bertei  \nPeter and the Wolves  \nIn her vibrant and brave memoir\, Bertei recounts her friendship and musical collaboration with Peter Laughner (Pere Ubu)\, Cleveland’s answer to all things underground and punk in the 1970s. The pair’s musical collaborative work appears in the Peter Laughner 5-LP box set (also out now on Smog Veil Records). For the Los Angeles Review of Books\, music journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus posits\, “For the first time Bertei felt unformed\, innocent\, clear-seeing\, and unjudged: as if she had a life to make.”  \nAppearing tonight with Bertei\, author and friend Luc Sante says\, “Peter Laughner was a secret inventor of punk rock\, a dazzling songwriter and guitarist who should by all rights have become a star. But he died suddenly\, in the crucial year 1977\, and instead became a ghost\, haunting the corridors of rock and roll. Adele Bertei’s tender evocation restores him to flickering life\, and her account of the complex education he gave her is inspiring and sobering at once.” \nThurston Moore and Byron Coley of Bull Tongue describe the book in visceral terms\, calling it “…a long gestating\, touching and tear-swallowing memoir of [Bertei’s] time as Peter’s roommate\, speed-snorting buddy and young kid dyke discovering EVERYTHING…” \n \nLuc Sante  \nMaybe the People Would Be the Times  \nA tour-de-force essay collection of fifty-one brief essays written over nearly three decades…capturing scenes and sentiments from 1970s and 1980s New York City: record shops\, concerts\, subway snoozes\, dance clubs\, block parties\, tabloids\, most-wanted lists\, drug trips\, underground economies\, drink tickets\, apartment dramas\, visual cultures\, unsent letters…Sante meditates on what it’s been like to see and feel the world change—to come of age through music\, photography\, literature\, and film\, and to be growing older and wiser still. —Jonathan Leal\, The Rumpus \nIn his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005)\, Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith\, Rene Ricard\, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; and sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City. \nThe glue holding the collection together is autobiography. Every item carries deep personal significance\, and most of the essays are rooted in lived experience\, in particular Sante’s youth on the Lower East Side of New York in the fertile 1970s and 1980s. He traces his deep engagement with music\, his experience of the city\, his progression as an artist and observer\, and his love life and ambitions. Maybe the People Would Be the Times is organized as a series of sequences in which one piece leads into the next. Memoir flows into essay\, fiction into critical writing\, humor into poetry—the pieces answering and echoing one another\, examining subjects from multiple vantages. The collection shows Sante at his most lyrical\, impassioned\, and imaginative\, a writer for whom every assignment brings the challenge of inventing a new form. The book has been nominated for the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.  \nLuc Sante’s most recent collection is Maybe the People Would Be the Times. His other books include Low Life\, The Factory of Facts\, Kill All Your Darlings\, and The Other Paris. He has lectured on four continents and contributed to many publications\, from ephemeral zines to ornamental coffee-table anvils. (@luxante on Instagram) \n \nMike DeCapite  \nJacket Weather  \nJacket Weather is a tender love story that blossoms like a rose in the concrete of a city always on the verge. DeCapite’s effortless prose stirs echoes of certain New York School poets\, of ‘cold rosy dawn\,’ night streets illuminated by great bars and the music streaming out of them—the endless possibilities of a place where\, despite persistent evidence to the contrary\, ‘love is the heart of everything.’ —Max Blagg\, author of Slow Dazzle and Loud Money\n \nDeCapite reads from his highly praised first novel\, Jacket Weather\, published by Soft Skull Press. \nNick Hornby meets Patti Smith\, Mean Streets meets A Visit from the Goon Squad in this quintessential New York City story about two people who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the 1980s\, meet again in the present day\, and fall in love. \nJacket Weather is about awakening to love—dizzying\, all-consuming\, worldview-shaking love—when it’s least expected. It’s also about remaining alert to today’s pleasures—exploring the city\, observing the seasons\, listening to the guys at the gym—while time is slipping away. Told in fragments of narrative\, reveries\, recipes\, bits of conversation\, and snatches of weather\, the book collapses a decade in Mike and June’s life and shifts the reader to a glowing nostalgia for the present. \nPoetic and compulsively readable\, Jacket Weather invents a new genre—call it lyrical realism. Mike DeCapite casts a cool but affectionate eye on New York in the 2010s\, as it lives on despite having become a replica of itself. Like Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex\, Jacket Weather traces the lives of those who’ve stayed on after the party. It’s a love story improbably set at the beginning of late middle age\, and it’s also a story of cities\, survival\, adaptation\, desire\, and a celebration of the small pleasures we invent and discover to offset unavoidable loss.  \n—Chris Kraus\, author of After Kathy Acker and Summer of Hate URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/adele-bertei-mike-decapite-luc-sante-litterature-readings-and-celebration/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Happening Soon ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/vertical-Howl.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:20211023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211206 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20210920T160144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211122T204223Z UID:10000610-1634947200-1638748799@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:Andrew Castrucci: 36 Years at Bullet Space DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: October 23\, 6 — 9 PM \nAndrew Castrucci is an artist who has contended with this magical\, mysterious and often menacing space called Manhattan for over four decades… Castrucci is a portrait painter of the city we all love\, who captures its primal essence not as a matter of realistic representation\, but as a psychological study of the great ambivalence at the heart of this experience of living here. —Carlo McCormick \nHowl! Happening is pleased to announce an exhibition that pays tribute to Bullet Space and Andrew Castrucci—framed around the artist’s 36-year tenure leading the unique community space\, and two mammoth artists’ books he produced with a myriad of collaborators: Your House is Mine (1988–1992) and Fracktured Lives (2010–2020). Threaded throughout are other artifacts including his paintings on steel as well as silk screens from the two books; newspapers; and ephemera produced between 1985 to the present. The exhibition is curated by Carlo McCormick and Alexandra Rojas and will be accompanied by a catalog with essays by McCormick and Tom McGlynn. \n \n“When painting on scraps of metal\, Castrucci evokes a temporal uncertainty that debilitates the monumentality at hand\,” says McCormick. “It is heavy metal played with the volume off\, hardcore slowed down to a waltz.” \nOn view will be the full range of Castrucci’s work—his signature paintings on metal\, like the rude algae of time; paintings that channel his lifelong love for fishing; and other works that emphasize art-making beyond decoration. Rooted in community\, the show also presents Castrucci’s collaborations with John Fekner—including the large stenciled works We the People and NY is OK—and pieces created with NOC 167\, Tracy 168\, Nadia Coen\, Lee Quiñones\, Alexandra Rojas\, and Renzo Castrucci. “Art sometimes becomes a necessity\,” says Castrucci\, “and art as life is a necessary form of resistance.”   \nYour House is Mine by Castrucci and Nadia Coen is an oversized artists’ book with 33 signed silk-screen prints. A collection of images and texts defining and expressing the broad and essential issue of housing on the Lower East Side\, the work as a whole creates a statement about the force of “art as a means of resistance.” The book is critical of the status quo. Provoking or inciting the public\, it offers objective statements or alternative solutions to authoritative city planning. \nAn amazing array of groundbreaking artists worked with Castrucci to make silk screens for the book\, including David Wojnarowicz\, Martin Wong\, Lady Pink\, and Lee Quiñones. From each silk screen\, 150 prints were made to be wheat-pasted on city walls\, and 150 were printed on 50-pound Mohawk vellum for Your House is Mine\, which was designed by Castrucci\, his brother Paul\, and Coen. The book also presents contributions from figures like Miguel Algarín\, Chris Burden\, Martha Cooper\, Daze\, John Farris\, Allen Ginsberg\, David Hammons\, Hettie Jones\, Cookie Mueller\, Public Enemy\, Adam Purple\, Bimbo Rivas\, and Andrés Serrano.  \nFracktured Lives is a massive 25-pound book\, bound in sheet metal\, which comprehensively takes on the subject of fracking. The project was created to protest and ultimately ban this polluting practice that forcibly extracts natural gas.  \nThe book features 50 screen-prints by a diverse and intergenerational selection of artists—a veritable exhibition in codex form. Produced between 2010–2020\, 177 artists\, writers\, and “fracktivists” contributed\, notably including Joseph Beuys\, Andrew Castrucci\, Sue Coe\, John Fekner\, Yoko Ono\, Alexandra Rojas\, David Sandlin\, and Walter Sipser. \nDeploying a range of aesthetics between high and lowbrow art forms\, the posters and the ideas behind them were collectively brainstormed and came to fruition at the School of Visual Arts in New York City\, where Castrucci and his students started the Dirty Graphics collective.  \n\nAbout Bullet Space \nLocated at East Third Street in Loisaida\, Bullet Space is an act of resistance\, a community-access center for images\, words\, and sounds of the neighborhood. Founded in the winter of 1985\, it was part of the squatter movement and reconstructed with or without the formal sanction of the city—invisible officialdom. The ground floor of the building is open—like a bulletin. “Bullet” first originated from the name-brand of heroin sold on the block—which was known as the “bullet block”—encompassing the accepted American ethic of violence. “Bullet Americana” is art form as weaponry. \nAbout Andrew Castrucci  \nAndrew Castrucci was born in 1961 and raised in the proximity of West Hoboken and Cliffside Park\, spanning New Jersey’s industrial expanses of the lower Hudson River.  \nFrom 1984–86\, he ran the A&P Gallery with his brother Paul. In 1986\, Castrucci co-founded Bullet Space\, an urban artist collaborative. Creating a print shop there\, he was instrumental in producing over 10\,000 silk screen posters by a wide range of artists\, writers\, and thinkers. Castrucci curates shows and publishes artist’s books\, most recently the Bulletin newspaper edition #10\, and Shoot the Pump\, co-curated with Lee Quiñones and Alexandra Rojas. \nCastrucci co-published the Your House is Mine 1988–92 book and poster project\, which has been hailed as one of the most important artist’s book editions of the 20th century by Marvin Taylor\, head of the Fales Library collection of New York University. He also published Fracktured Lives\, a 10-year project dealing with hydro fracking in upstate New York and its global impact. \nFor 20 years (1986–2006)\, he ran artist workshops through Healing Arts Initiative (HAI) at Wards Island\, the Fort Washington Men’s Shelter\, a Rockland County juvenile detention center\, and a correctional facility in the Bronx where he discovered the now well-known artist Melvin Way. \nCastrucci has been working on a film\, The River Speaks: Urban Angling in the East River\, where life becomes art. His other films include Struck by the Hand (2000)\, The Resistance of Memory (2005)\, America Berserk (2008)\, and Ninety Degrees North (2018). \nIn 1997\, in collaboration with his students at the School of Visual Arts Printshop\, he started the collective Dirty Graphics\, which continues to this day\, having printed thousands of silk screen posters. \nCastrucci’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, Whitney Museum\, and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; State Museum of Berlin; Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands; and the Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections Division in Washington\, D.C.; among others. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/andrew-castrucci-36-years-at-bullet-space/ 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/2021/09/3.jpg300dpi.color_.jpg 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:20211020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211021 DTSTAMP:20260603T210201 CREATED:20211014T191055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T191123Z UID:10000611-1634688000-1634774399@www.howlarts.org SUMMARY:The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: Beech Nuts DESCRIPTION:Visit Howlarts.org from Midnight to Midnight to watch the Full Moon Show! \nIt’s fall. All the fruits\, \n   all the berries are ripe. \nThe beech tree is masting \n   and dropping tonight. \nSeeds lying dormant\, \n   then reaching out\,       \nIn hopes that crisp winter \n   helps them all sprout. \nJoin John Pizza for Beech Nuts\, a preparatory puppet show about fall and its flashy display. It’s our last chance before winter to let the roots go down and the leaves go up…  \nJohn Pizza is a performer\, builder\, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative\, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises. URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/the-full-moon-show-with-john-pizza-beech-nuts/ LOCATION:Howl! Happening\, 6 East 1st Street\, New York City\, NY\, 10003\, United States CATEGORIES:Happening Soon,Howl TV,Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.howlarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/October-Full-Moon-e1634238449867.jpg 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 END:VCALENDAR