KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE PresentsTHE INFLUENTIAL FEMALE Drawings Inspired by Women in History

February 3 - March 25, 2012

RECEPTION:
Friday, February 3, 6 - 8pm

CURATOR'S TALK:
Sunday, February 19, 4pm

The human figure has been a subject for visual artists throughout history. With such an expansive subject matter, this exhibition has chosen to focus on contemporary artists drawing inspiration from the female form. Refined even more, these artists draw their inspiration from historic or specific female subjects to create fresh and challenging gender related artwork. This new work is intriguing because it directly reflects on history while making history.
A brochure with an essay by Randall Harris accompanies the exhibition.

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Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance into Eternity (Record Release Party)

February 3, 8:00pm - at 110 Livingston 

Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity is an extraordinary new collaboration between Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem and American filmmaker & guitarist Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch’s previous collaborations with Van Wissem have not prepared the eager listener for the expressivity and emotional depth of his playing on these duets. Respectful of one another’s space the pair weave layers of melody and waves of feedback while acoustic guitar and lute wrap together with a subtle depth expemplifying an austere understanding and compatibility. Jarmusch’s guitar work is metaphysical, at times sounding like a hurdy gurdy and at other time sounding as if it is responding to the calls of the lute. The final piece, He Is Hanging By His Shiny Arms, His Heart An Open Wound With Love, finds Jarmusch accompanying a solo lute composition with a reading from St. John Of The Cross. With three titles named after Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s work, this record is extraordinary, new and arcane at the same time, modern but timeless.

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150th Anniversary Archive Exhibition

Part of BAM 150
Ongoing

Lobby, BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building

BAM presents a special archival exhibition delving into the rich history of an institution a century and a half in the making. Original documents, archival video, photographs, and more—many dating from the earliest days of BAM—illuminate the moments, memories, and cultural happenings that have transpired both on and off its stages. BAMart curator David Harper and archivist Sharon Lehner co-curate this free exhibition, open to the public in the lobby of the BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building during normal business hours.

Curated by David Harper and Sharon Lehner

'Salute to Broadway' Concert: A 2-hour Concert of Broadway and Popular selections featuring Regina Opera soloists

Sunday, 05 February, 2012
03:00 PM - 05:15 PM

Each year, the Regina Opera Company salutes Broadway with a performance of Broadway selections at Regina Hall, 65th St. and 12th Ave. Six Regina Opera soloists will be accompanied by pianist Victoria Ulanovskaya on Sunday at 4 p.m.

$12 - General Admission; $5 - teens; children - fr

Regina Hall
1210 65th St
Brooklyn, NY 11219

Brooklyn Museum presents Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913-1919 in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Ongoing exhibition

An exhibition of 45 objects including drawings, works on paper, documentary photographs, and stories in newsprint by the celebrated writer and early twentieth-century advocate for women's rights Djuna Barnes (American, 1892-1982), will be presented in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art from January 20 through October 28, 2012. Among the works on view will be eight illustrations Barnes composed to accompany her newspaper columns.

The Herstory Gallery is devoted to the remarkable contributions of the women represented in The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, on permanent view in the adjacent gallery. Barnes is one of 1,038 women honored in Chicago's iconic feminist work.

Brought up in an unconventional household, Barnes developed an outsider's perspective on "normal" life that served her well as a writer. Her liberal sexuality fit in perfectly with the bohemian lifestyle of Greenwich Village and, later, the lesbian expatriate community in Paris. From her first articles in 1913 until her departure for Europe in 1921, Barnes specialized in a type of journalism that was less about current events and more about her observations of the diverse personalities and happenings that gave readers an intimate portrait of her favorite character-New York City. Attempting to capture its transition from turn of the century city to modern metropolis, Barnes developed her unique style of "newspaper fictions," offering impressionistic observations and dramatizing whatever she felt to be the true significance or subtexts of a story.

Image:Djuna Barnes, Sketch of a woman with hat, looking right, for "The Terrorists," New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine, September 30, 1917. Ink on paper, 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (32.4 x 21.6 cm).

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A Man of No Importance at the Gallery Players

Book by Terrence McNally, Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens,
January 28-February 19, 2012

This musical by the Tony Award®-winning team behind Ragtime tells the story of Alfie Byrne, a bus conductor in 1964 Dublin who is struggling with a secret he can’t even admit to himself. When he’s not driving his route, Alfie pursues his artistic passion and directs theatrical productions for a local troupe in a church hall. He is soon forced to confront his fears, shame and the bigotry of others. Winner of the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, A Man of No Importance is a tender and beautifully woven tale of family, friendship and acceptance, teaching us that it really is a wonderful thing to “love who you love.”

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