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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
When Dean Rolston, co-owner of 56 Bleecker Gallery, died in 1994 from AIDS, he left behind a memoir—Remembering Dying—a memento mori of the last two years of his life. No hagiography: In this short, powerful, beautifully written, and honest work Dean looks at his life and imminent death through the prism of contemporary culture and…
