Events

Free and Open to the Public.

Clergue in America showcases French photographer Lucien Clergue’s powerful depictions of the United States in an exhibition that spans the White Sands desert in New Mexico, the highways of Santa Fe, the expansive deserts of California, and the streets of New York.

Through his use of light, textures, and form, Clergue captures both the impressive sights of the United States and the raw beauty of the human form, often juxtaposing natural and manmade wonders.

A catalogue of Lucien Clergue’s work will be available to visitors, and, for the first time, an edition of the catalogue will also be accessible as a free iPad app.

November 16–January 28, 2011
Exhibition Opening: November 15, 6 to 9PM

Ubu Gallery is pleased to announce Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers, an exhibition of hand-painted photographic postcards by the eminent Surrealist artist, poet, bookbinding designer and critic. These bizarre, lusciously painted images illustrate Hugnet’s work, The Love Life of the Spumifers where each accompanying text poetically and humorously catalogues the mating habits of a fantastical creature or Spumifer.


The Love Life of the Spumifers, or La Vie Amoureuse des Spumifères, combines Surrealist poetry’s fascination with l’amour and Dada’s tendency towards deliberate grammatical spontaneity and absurdity. Words like bowoodling, friskadoodling and alabamaraminating are concocted by Hugnet to describe the seductive strategies of his imaginary creatures. Each text is dedicated to a different creature, describing how it woos, teases, gropes and molests its intended love conquest. Each Spumifer is illust

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.
 
Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller.

Vicky David Gallery presents an installation of paintings by Ben  Vautier. Through his use of phrases, quotes and statements,  BEN juggles with words to deliver a  concise  and  polished message. Also bringing to light the falsely naive, impertinence and accuracy of the words used. BEN, who lives and works in Nice, France, is a self-taught French artist and performer of Swiss origin born in 1935.  He became well known in the 1960s, primarily for his "manuscript paintings."  At which time, he co-founded the Fluxus movement, inspired by Yves Klein and the New Realists.  Similar  to  the  neo Dadaist  movement, Ben questions the reality and declared  "All  is  art”  in  1962.    Heir  to  Duchamp,  his  work  leads  one  to  reflect  on  the notoriety of the artist and commercialization of the art world over all. Ben's oeuvre are on display throughout major private and public collections around the world.

See the new works realized by Laurene Neron-Bancel on view @ Ceres Gallery 547 West 27th Street suite 201

Group Show in the famous Ceres Gallery

SAme building as Aperture..

On Thursday, December 15 at 6:30pm, as part of our Global Citizenship series and in anticipation of the future Rio+20 conference, we will host a debate on “Sustainable Development: The Latest News”.   The panel will consist of former Minister of the Environment in France and UN Coordinator for Sustainable Development, Brice Lalonde; venture capitalist at Sagax, Adventurer, and member of the NGO Green Cross International, Luc Hardy; as well as , project manager at global design firm, Stantec Consulting, Michael Fishman who is personally involved in sustainable development through many of his projects. Journalist Emmanuel Saint Martin covering the UN for France 24 and Founder of French morning, will moderate the conversation. (English and French with English translation available). Make a reservation at 212 439 38 20. FREE

Top International Female Zouk Artist KENEDY will be flying in from Paris (France) and will be performing for the first time in the US and will be taking the stage at PRANNA Lounge (www.prannanyc.com) in Manhattan NYC Thursday December 15, 2011.

She will perform her hits "Reviens-moi", "Enmé Mwen An Kreyol", "Cours Toujours", "Entre Toi et moi", "Mon Oasis"

After Kénédy's Live Performance, Dj Spike TI will spin Zouk, Kizomba, Kompa and more and Zouk party will go on until 4am. Doors open at 11pm.