IZHAR PATKIN: The Making of The Black Paintings
Some Serious Business and Howl! Happening are pleased to present “Izhar Patkin: The Making of The Black Paintings.”
SSB PRESENTS
Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction*
As Creative Consultants for Howl! Happening, SSB works with a talented group of people who are artists and innovators in their own right. We’re happy to showcase two members of that multi-dimensional team.
Edificio Mercurio – A New Poem by Ariana Reines
Vomit-colored curtain | A little ripped | No air | Cameras | Screen behind the judges | The killers’ combed white heads
SSB Presents FeMaLe GEniUs in Albuquerque and Santa Fe
FeMaLe GEniUs will appear in Albuquerque on August 1 and in Santa Fe on August 3.
SSB PRESENTS OUR 2019 TUSCANY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: MICHIE GLEASON
Filmmaker Michie Gleason has been awarded SSB AWAY’s 2019 residency with a proposal to research a screenplay on the life of Balthus, the controversial artist, in Tuscany, where he experienced his deepest inspiration through the works of Piero della Francesca.
Happy Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti
On March 24 Howl! Happenings will celebrate the hundredth birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an American poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
A Shift in Perspective: Allison Evans on Her Residency in Tuscany
On a visit to MoMA last March, I paused inside a small room of De Chirico paintings. Surrounded by a suite of his mysterious compositions, I was struck by the specificity of the light—it was unmistakably Italian. The room itself felt like a much-needed escape from New York and triggered memories of my first experience…
HEATHER ACS MULTI-TASKS: STARRING IN OUR FUTURE ENDS AND DIRECTING FLU$H
The multitalented Heather Ács—who stars with Siobhan Aluvalot and Brontez Purnell in SSB’s co-production of the 2018 Outfest Platinum Centerpiece Our Future Ends by artist and filmmaker Clement Hil Goldberg—is also the director of Flu$h, a short film selected to be screened at this year’s Outfest. In Flu$h, Roxy, a high-femme punk, multitasks between a…
LET’S GO EXTINCT: BETT WILLIAMS ON CLEMENT HIL GOLDBERG
Clement Hil Goldberg has returned to my house in the Southwestern desert yearly to develop the hybrid art event Our Future Ends. I recall quite clearly when they sat lemur-like on my couch and explained how “lemur” is a word that means ghost. They were sitting with their knees to their chest, arms gesticulating wildly,…
Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat Curated by Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, Mary-Ann Monforton and Howl! Happening Exhibition: May 13 – June 10, 2018
Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to announce Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, a group exhibition focusing on the artists and scene around Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teen-aged, pre-fame years. Curated by Howl! Happening, Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, and Mary-Ann Monforton, Zeitgeist complements and amplifies the theatrical release of Sara Driver’s film BOOM…