Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to celebrate Love Among the Ruins with a culminating performance by two masterful performers: John Kelly and Joseph Keckler. Kelly performs excerpts from Time No Line, a solo performance work presented as a live memoir. Keckler will perform three of his original arias and songs, invoking themes of…
Kenny Fries received the Creative Capital literature grant for his new book, In the Province of the Gods. He is the author of Body, Remember: A Memoir, and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
In SAFEWAY I heard a whining | Song. Dill fills the air with longing | What was the Twentieth Century | Appetite. I grew up wondering would I | Ever fuck like them, the dead. They left | Behind the lingering sense of an ethos:
I hate to begin with the big D—death—but there it is. My co-curator Bill Stelling’s brilliant title for the exhibition, taken from Robert Browning’s poem “Love Among the Ruins”, aptly describes the main themes—love and mortality—that were the impetus for this show. As I lost so many friends so suddenly and unexpectedly in…
SSB and Howl! Happening are delighted to present a snippet from Penny’s performance of Margo Howard-Howard below. The full performance, as well as a video of the infamous performance of Jackie Curtis’ Glamor, Glory, and Gold at 56 Bleecker Gallery will be featured in Love Among the Ruins. Performance artist Penny Arcade’s work has…