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.
SSB PRESENTS
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…
Northern Youth Project Plant Sale & Seed Exchange
NYP PLANT SALE & SEED EXCHANGE Saturday, May 12, 2018 / 10 AM – 2 PM at the Northern Youth Project Garden, off of Highway 84 in Abiquiu, across from Bodes and behind the Rising Moon. Celebrate Spring with teens, families, and friends! Bring your seeds to exchange and share, and get a jump on…
Epilogue for Our Future Ends: Justin Ebrahemi Interviews Clement Hil Goldberg
Clement Hil Goldberg’s, Our Future Ends is a multidisciplinary satire about near-extinct lemurs and the long-lost continent of Lemuria. Our Future Ends connects the threat of wildlife extinction to the “wild life.” Visually stunning—with animation, music, and electrifying performances—this imagined queer prehistory links species loss with contemporary cultural shifts in a metaphoric and poetic live…
SOME PEOPLE EVEN SAID “PAINTING WAS DEAD”: A Bob & Bob Testimonial
All I remember is Elizabeth repeating over and over again: “they’re so funny, they’re so funny.” Not all of us were into “funny.” But, as the name implies SSB was always at little irreverent, so respecting each other and trusting the artist, if one of us—SSB founders, Nancy Drew, Elizabeth Freeman or me—was excited, then…
DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON’S LIFE’S PRISONERS
Artists are always in the forefront of social and political innovation. In a world gone mad with commodification and greed, they are generous and unafraid—inspiring and goading us to have agency in the world. One such artist is Darryl Lorenzo Wellington. SSB is proud to highlight a poem from Darryl’s new book of poetry, Life’s Prisoners.