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FRIGID New York 2010 (Various Locations) This open and uncensored theater festival will consist of thirty one-hour shows presented in three Horse Trade spaces; including 29 theatre companies featuring almost 250 theater artists from all over the world. Event Website Note: this event runs February 24 - March 7
(Pier 94, 711 12th Ave, New York, NY 10019) (Th.-Sa. noon-8PM, Su. noon-7PM) World's leading art fair devoted to contemporary art. 150 international galleries, including many of the most important dealers, will be showcasing art from around the world. ($30) Event Website Note: this event runs March 4 - 7
(Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place, (between 1st Avenue and Avenue A), New York, NY 10009) (Feb 24th @6pm; Feb 27th @7pm; Mar 1 @9pm; Mar 5th) With delightful and poignant tales of a Southern Songstress and her gay family, Alex Bond and David Carson read selections from Ms. Bond’s novel and transport you to Dallas 1977, a magical time before HIV/AIDS, but not before ignorance and prejudice. A favorite at the 2008 San Francisco Fringe and the 2009 Fresh Fruit Festival. A reclusive former Southern debutante/cabaret performer in her sixties, Anna Zander hires Craig Bauer to help her write about the best years of her life. She recounts the tales of singing in the gay leather bars of Dallas. ($15 ($11 Seniors/Students/Veterans)) Event Website Note: this event runs February 24 - March 7
(Pier 40, West Houston St & West Side Hwy, New York, NY 10001) (12-8PM) Now in its fifth year, PULSE New York is the city's largest and most highly regarded fair dedicated exclusively to contemporary art. This edition will be its most diverse ever, with 101 exhibitors representing 26 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Its program of large scale sculptures and installations has expanded, and will include the PULSE Pause reading room, the PULSE PERFORMANCE series and the PULSE PLAY> video lounge. ($20) Event Website Note: this event runs March 5 - 7
(Pier 66, 26th St in Hudson River Park, New York, NY 10011) Fountain is a guerrilla-style art event, dubbed by many as the “Anti Art Fair” for its brash, off-the-wall offerings of non-traditional art exhibitions in the art fair environment. ($5 donation) Event Website Note: this event runs March 4 - 7
(Madame X, 94 W. Houston St., New York, NY 10012) (8PM) We have seen the future. The future is naked. The future is now. The hit nude literary salon will explore strange new worlds of literature, as the people who bring you Pinchbottom Burlesque present NAKED GIRLS READING Science Fiction. Nasty Canasta leads an all-star cast of burlesque performers - plus one professional librarian - beyond the stars, reading selections from sci-fi classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, Douglas Adams and more. "Watching these women read naked is like a utopian vision of a perfect future," promises Nasty. "In fact, a few of them are so perfect they may not be quite ... human." ($20 - $25) (866-811-4111) [email protected] Event Website
(HERE Arts Center, 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013) (7:00 pm) New York Neo-Futurists Desiree Burch, Cara Francis & Erica Livingston serve up a cure for what ails you in this Neo-Medicine show, performing in and around a giant pot of self-made soup. Bottling this soup, as well as a series of elixirs, potions, tonics and products, they heal and reveal the female experience live, honest and in the flesh. (18.00) (212-352-3101) Event Website Note: this event runs March 4 - 7, 11 - 14, 18 - 21, and 25 - 27
(Abingdon Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, (betwn 8th & 9th Ave), New York, NY 10018) (Tu.- Sa. : 8PM, Sa. & Su. 3PM) Set in a run-down chateau of an alcazar on Sunset Boulevard, Norma Doesmen follows the story of an unemployed script-writer “Joe Dillis” who finds himself on the run from the re-po men and dives into the lap of a reclusive, silent-screen movie star “Norma Doesmen.” Waiting for her return to filmdom, Norma finds her prey in Dillis, who is manipulated and seduced by this insane, over sexed, psychotically disordered fallen legend. Along with her totally schizophrenic servant “Max” and Joe's devoted narcoleptic girlfriend, “Betty ShaveHer,” the comedy ensues as Joe accidentally crosses her path and she sees in him an opportunity to make her comeback to the big screen. ($45) ((212) 868-4444) Note: this event runs March 4 - 7, 11 - 14, 18 - 21, and 25 - 28
(See website for times and location) A celebration of the city’s unparalleled artistic communities. it is The Armory Show’s goal to highlight a neighborhood or borough’s arts scene each night of AAW with events for all levels of visitors. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week (AAW). (FREE) Event Website Note: this event runs March 4 - 7 Starting Today
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (11am-6pm) An extraordinary 24 ft. long “Silent Flower” painting was transported from Tokyo to blanket the walls of the Chelsea Art Museum. Kotaro Fukui is a Japanese artist who created this masterwork by applying gold foil to washi, a handmade Japanese paper, employing brush ink to create stems and leaves, and then superimposing blue lapis lazuli pigment on the result. The precious blue stone powder is simultaneously subtle in application but powerful in affect. (free with admission) This event runs through April 17
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