Our Guide - Your Interdisciplinary Weekend
This weekend we are excited to kick into high gear for CRETUS No. 2: The Performance Issue, with interviews and shoots scheduled with singer Emily Danger and dancer-choreographer duo Kota Yamazaki and Mina Nishimura. But we haven’t forgotten about you… go forth and be arty with the four event picks below as your guide!
MoMA PS1 Fall Open House: This Sunday, get your fill of all the fall programming at PS1, which includes Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective (covered here on 10/10), Bob and Roberta Smith’s (ironic? outlandish? amusing?) Art Amnesty, and Zero Tolerance, an assembly of contemporary works exploring freedom of expression under oppressive regimes around the world. Stay for afternoon talks with Bob & Roberta Smith (by the way, that’s one person) and Laurent Goldring and Xavier Le Roy-- and pick up a copy of CRETUS: The Design Issue at ARTBOOK if you haven't yet!
Pumpkin Carving at Paulaner: The big Crest Hardware pumpkin carving contest was last weekend, but this one may be even more fun because it takes place at a brewery—call it a very American Oktoberfest. Entry this Sunday gets you a pumpkin, carving kit, and candle. The crafty among you can enter your jack-o-lantern into Paulaner’s contest; others can nurse their artistic failure with more beer and delicious soft pretzels.
Madison Avenue Fashion Heritage Week: As a New Yorker, it’s always a treat to play tourist in your own city, and one of my favorite ways to do so is strolling past the impossibly chic window displays on Madison Ave. Through Sunday, you can get a fashion history lesson while you’re at it: store windows at Carolina Herrera, J. Mendel, Missoni, and others have been specially designed to tell each brand’s story, and an app features commentary by FIT Museum Director & Chief Curator Dr. Valerie Steele.
Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof: There is no choreographer who captured the raw emotion and unmistakable humor of being human quite like Pina Bausch, and what better setting for such work than a social dance hall? Kontakthof is set to popular music from the 1930s and 24 male and female dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch play out the full range of gender tensions and pleasures across the stage. Performances run through November 2nd at BAM.
