Events

Thursday, October 7, 2010 (5)

Oct 7, 2010
August 10, 2010
Tuesday

  • Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917

  • Aug 10, 2010 at 5:00am to Oct 11, 2010 at 3:00pm
  • Location: MoMA
  • Description: In the time between Henri Matisse's (1869–1954) return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career—paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by shades of black and gray. Works from this period have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as an aberration within the artist's development, or as a response to Cubism or World War I. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical production and the essential context of Matisse's studio practice. Through this shift of focus, the exhibition reveals deep connections among these works and demonstrates their critical role in the artist's development at this time. Matisse himself acknowledged near the end of his life the significance of this period when he identified two works—Bathers by a
  • Created by: Quentin Jouberton
September 25, 2010
Saturday
September 30, 2010
Thursday

  • A season in the Congo, by Aimé Césaire

  • Sep 30, 2010 at 4:00pm to Oct 17, 2010 at 6:30pm
  • Location: Theatre Row, The Lion Theatre
  • Description: In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rico Workshop Productions and producers Jackie Jeffries and Rico Speight will present Aimé Césaire's '' A season in the Congo' at the Lion Theatre at New York's Theatre Row this fall. A Season in the Congo is the turbulent history of the Congo’s first year of independence and the rise and fall of the legendary leader Patrice Lumumba.
  • Created by: New York in French
October 6, 2010
Wednesday

  • Shifting Gaze Video-Art-Music Installation

  • Oct 6, 2010 at 7:00am to Oct 7, 2010 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Times Square, Manhattan
  • Description: “Shifting Gaze” is a film and video-art-music installation about CHOICE, DESIRE and MEMORY.Conceived and directed by Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video-artist) and created in collaboration with Erica Glyn (Music production, composer and singer) and Isabelle Duverger (Photography and Graphic Animations).The project nature is based in creative collaboration between different disciplines. Shifting Gaze looks at our feeling of place and time in its most stripped down state: simply ‘being’. Hovering on the borders of consciousness, the film is an exploration of both event and human presence. The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. Drawing on the fragments-presence of the body, urban construction, textures and remains of activity, this triptych pays homage to the submerged, the transformed, the no longer visible.Shifting Gaze is born out of the impulse to get close to the human behind the persona. The piece challenges self-expression and invents new forms of desire, breathing
  • Created by: Isabelle Duverger
October 7, 2010
Thursday

  • Abdellatif Kechiche, Black Venus (La Venus noire)

  • Oct 7, 2010 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Description: The film opens in early-nineteenth-century Paris, where a scientist at the city’s Natural History Museum is presenting a lecture on their new exhibit: the Hottentot, a bulkily-framed female found in southwest Africa and characterised by her over-sized posterior and the famous ‘Hottentot Curtain’, referring to her distended labia. .
  • Created by: New York in French