Tuesday, March 20, 2012 (16)

Mar 20, 2012
February 1, 2012
Wednesday
  • Arne Quinze - "My Home, My House, My Stilthouse"

  • Feb 1, 2012 to Mar 31, 2012
  • Location: Chelsea
  • Description:

    The Vicky David Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of the Belgian artist Arne Quinze.

     

    The gallery will present pieces from the series "My Home, My House, My Stilthouse" which plays on the dichotomy between chaos and equilibrium. From the appearant fragility of his material emerges overflowing energy and pure beauty.  Arne Quinze dreams of an ideal society in which all individuals communicate and interact with each other. Eclectically he uses paintings, drawings, sculptures and monumental installations to develop his work in the urban movement, by focusing on the themes: Order, Disorder, Structure and Habitation.

     

    Beginning in the early 2000’s, Arne Quinze’s œuvre is the subject of many public and private installations around the world such as ("Uchronia", Nevada, USA; "Timegate", Miami, USA; "Rebirth", Paris, FRANCE; "Red Beacon", Shanghai, CHINA; "Camille", Rouen, FRANCE; "The Sequence", Brussels, BELGIUM; "The Traveller", Munich, GERMANY ; "The Visitor", Beirut, LEBANON).

    Arne Q

  • Created by: Vicky David
February 18, 2012
Saturday
  • Edith Piaf, alive and living in New York

  • Feb 18, 2012 at 4:30pm to Jun 21, 2012 at 6:00pm
  • Location: The Metropolitan Room
  • Description:

    Edith Piaf Alive and Living in New York

    Introducing Floanne

    Written by Floanne Ankah & Alice Jankell

    Directed by Alice Jankell

    Piano: Audrey Saint-Gil, Accordion: Kate Dunphy

    Guitar: Marcel Van Dam, Percussion: Alby Roblejo

    Saturday, Jan 21/Feb 18/Mar 17 at 9:30

    Thursday, April 19/May 17/Jun 21 at 9:30

    The Metropolitan Room

    34 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010 Tickets $20.00, 2 drinks minimum (212) 206-0440, www.metropolitanroom.com

    www.floanne.com


    French actress and singer Floanne Ankah recounts the Piaf story. This authentic ‘chanteuse’ and farm girl opens the door to her culture, by taking a closer look at the legendary ‘Little Sparrow’ —with that husky, mournful voice so popular in the 1940’ and 50’s. The performance is a culturally rich and moving presenta- tion that will make you smile, with tunes transporting you to other times and places.

    Yes, both Floanne and Edith Piaf will be attending the rendez-vous in a medley of vintage tunes from their native France... with a modern twist. She w

  • Created by: Flo Ankah
February 24, 2012
Friday
  • Jean-Philippe Delhomme: Dressed for Art

  • Feb 24, 2012 at 6:00am to Apr 14, 2012 at 2:00pm
  • Location: FIAF Gallery
  • Description:

     

    This February, Fashion at FIAF extends into the Gallery with a witty collection of colorful fashion drawings and paintings by Jean-Phillipe Delhomme, one of the most delightful satirists in fashion today.

    Delhomme is a painter, writer, cultural blogger, and fashion illustrator, whose illustrations have been featured in renowned magazines such as Vogue, W, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker. In this exhibition, he explores how fashion, contemporary art, and design interact with each other and influence today’s popular culture.

     

    Free and open
    to the public

    Gallery Hours
    Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm
    Sat: 11am–5pm

  • Created by: FIAF
March 2, 2012
Friday
  • Middle Eastern Music Lessons/Classes at Alwan for the Arts

  • Mar 2, 2012 to May 25, 2012
  • Location: Alwan for the Arts
  • Description:
    Alwan for the Arts is excited to announce weekly group and private Arab Music Instruction this spring. Opportunities are available for beginners and seasoned musicians of all ages to learn fundamentals of Arab music and/or study specialized topics, such as focusing on many iterations of a single Maqam throughout a few decades, learning to sing and perform many maqams and popular songs along with classical Arabic poetry, studying vocal repertoire in an all-woman setting, and learning to play and jam on Arabic percussion instruments. Private lessons are also available on traditional as well as Western instruments and voice.  

    Group Classes include:  
    Maqam theory and practice (Maqam Rast in Early 20th c. Egypt)
    Arabic Percussion
    Women's Choir (Arabic repertoire, no knowledge of Arabic necessary!)
    Iraqi Maqam (repertoire and variation)

     

    Private lessons also available on violin'oudbuzuqqanunsanturtrumpetpercussionvoice (male and female).
    All other instrumentalists encouraged to stud
  • Created by: Lety ElNaggar
March 6, 2012
Tuesday
  • Act French: French language classes for theater lovers

  • Mar 6, 2012 at 1:00pm to Apr 17, 2012 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Pearl Studios
  • Description:

    Six-week interactive French language classes for theater lovers


    20% discount for NY in French members with code: NYinFrench

    Our fast-paced classes are designed to help you learn to speak French with confidence and make friends with a wonderful group of like-minded foreign language lovers. The class culminates in a big cultural party where you'll get to practice the language with native speakers, eat delicious food from the region and, if you choose, present the  theater scenes you work on during the semester in a relaxed, friendly environment (no one is forced to perform). There will be actors in this class but no acting experience is necessary. All you need to bring to this class is a passion for international culture and a spirit of adventure!


    *Act French for beginners: 
    Tuesdays (March 6-April 17)
    Time: 8:15-10pm


    OR 

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    *Act French for intermediates
    Tuesdays ( March 6 - April 17)
    Time: 6:15-8
    Last class party is 8-10pm


    Visit http://actfrench.com to register

  • Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
March 10, 2012
Saturday
  • 365 by DANIEL HOROWITZ

  • Mar 10, 2012 at 1:00pm to Apr 22, 2012 at 1:00pm
  • Location: THE INVISIBLE DOG
  • Description:

    Daniel Horowitz is an award-winning illustrator and art director. Working primarily as a digital artist over the last decade, one day Daniel Horowitz considered what might happen if he were to pull out a blank page and begin to draw. Not on commission and with no particular purpose in mind. The self imposed minimum, one drawing a day, was to serve as an exercise to pull himself away from the computer and to begin to explore analog creativity. Daniel was concerned that the quality of these artworks would be too different from, or inferior to, his better known commercial illustrations, so he had little intention of sharing this experiment. However, as days turned into weeks he began to realize that within the spontaneity of this process, something curious and new began to emerge.

    Horowitz formed a blog and began to post his daily explorations. The overwhelming response helped to see the project through to its end at 365 drawings.  Although the requirement was to post a sketch or line draw

  • Created by: lucien zayan / the invisible dog
 
  • DISTORTING [A MESSIAH PROJECT 13C]

  • Mar 10, 2012 at 1:00pm to May 5, 2012 at 1:00pm
  • Location: THE INVISIBLE DOG ART CENTER
  • Description:

    A sculptural installation overwhelming the ground floor of the Invisible Dog Art Center inspired by R. Justin Stewart’s research into the Jewish concept of the messiah and curated by Risa Shoup

    After two years of research, R. Justin Stewart, a professed agnostic, will install Distorting (a messiah project, 13C), an intricate environment constructed of fleece, rope and plastic that will serve as a 3-D representation of the concept of the messiah in the 13th Century. Distorting is a visual delight that will overwhelm the viewer with color and shape as it invades the Invisible Dog. Those viewers wanting to understand the connection between the sculptural elements and the information that inspired them will need only to scan QR codes, discreetly embedded throughout the sculpture, with their phone or other mobile devices to download the information they seek.

    In the coming years, Stewart will unveil additional installations under the umbrella of “a messiah project.” Just as Distorting only fo

  • Created by: lucien zayan / the invisible dog
March 13, 2012
Tuesday
  • DELICACY

  • Mar 13, 2012 to Apr 25, 2012
  • Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center & Sunshine Cinemas
  • Description:

    Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (comic star Francois Damiens, Heartbreaker).

    At first stunned by Nathalie’s unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else’s judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
 
March 18, 2012
Sunday
  • Musical Interactivity Festival Conference: Research and Composition

  • Mar 18, 2012 to Mar 22, 2012
  • Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall at Columbia University
  • Description:

    A conference organized by Jean-Baptiste Barrière

    Daily 10 am-7 pm

    Lectures by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi, Hans Tutschku, Orjan Sandred, Johannes Kretz, Julien Vincenot, Philippe Essling, Mika Kuuskankare, Killian Sprotte, Paolo Aralla, Christopher Trapani, Jaime Oliver, Steve Lehman, Fabien Lévy.

    Jean-Baptiste Barrière is a composer, multimedia artist and visiting professor at Columbia University.

  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
 
  • 15 for 15: Celebrating Rialto Pictures

  • Mar 18, 2012 to Mar 29, 2012
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Description:

    Founded in 1997 by legendary exhibitor and programmer Bruce Goldstein (joined one year later by partner Adrienne Halpern), Rialto Pictures quickly established itself as a new gold standard in the distribution of classic world cinema—from reissues of landmark works like The Third Man and Grand Illusion to the rediscovery of little-known masterpieces never before released in the U.S., including Alberto Lattuada’s Mafioso, Claude Sautet’s Classe Tous Risques and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows. On the occasion of Rialto’s 15th anniversary, we are pleased to present an exclusive weekday matinee series of 15 treasures from their remarkable library. Series programmed by Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern.


    French movies:

    - Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville
    - Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard
    - Diary of a Chambermaid by Luis Buñuel
    - Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix
    - Léon Morin, Priest by Jean-Pierre Melville
    - Riffifi by Jules Dassin
    - The Two of Us by Claude Berri
    - Touchez

  • Created by: Nathalie Charles
March 20, 2012
Tuesday
  • Le WebTV-Festival International Francophone de La Rochelle

  • Mar 20, 2012 to Mar 23, 2012
  • Location: Musée Maritime de La Rochelle
  • Description:

    1er Festival International Francophone de programmes créés et produits exclusivement pour le Net.

    La troisième édition se déroulera du 21 au 23 mars 2012 au Musée Maritime de La Rochelle en France.

    Cette compétition ouverte au grand public existe avant tout pour promouvoir la créativité des auteurs, réalisateurs, producteurs et nouveaux diffuseurs d’internet francophones. Le but est de présenter le meilleur de la production des web-programmes diffusés pendant l'année écoulée et répartis sur 10 catégories différentes.

    Un comité de sélection constitué de professionnels issus de l'audiovisuel et du web, choisira 100 oeuvres pour les prix du Jury professionnel mais le grand public sera amené à voter sur l'ensemble des programmes reçus sans aucune sélection.

    Le WebTV-Festival c’est aussi un lieu convivial de rencontres, d'échanges et d’expositions, autour du 1er marché réunissant l'ensemble des professionnels de la filiére audiovisuelle pour le web, de la télévision connectée et du cross-média

  • Created by: Aude
 
  • ANTOINE DE BAECQUE "Cinéma et Histoire"

  • Mar 20, 2012 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description:

    ANTOINE DE BAECQUE
    Professor of History and Cinema Studies (Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense) and film critic (Libération, Rue89). He is the author of several books, including Cahiers du cinema, histoire d’une revue (1991), François Truffault, biographie (1996), La nouvelle vague, portrait d’une jeunesse (1998) and L’histoire-caméra (2008) recently published in English by Columbia U.P. Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema (2012).


    Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-scène to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the “cinematographic form of history,” disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress. De Baecque defines, locates, and interprets cinematographic forms in seven distinct bodies of

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
 
  • Claude Lanzmann, in an interview for the Charlie Rose Show

  • Mar 20, 2012 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Presidential Ballroom, 3rd Floor Faculty House
  • Description:

    Space limited, RSVP required at rsvp@maisonfrancaise.org.

    Claude Lanzmann will be interviewed by Charlie Rose for the Charlie Rose Show on PBS.

    In his remarkable memoir, The Patagonian Hare, newly translated into English, Claude Lanzmann offers a visionary testimonial of his own life and of eighty years of contemporary history. Born to a Jewish family in Paris in 1925, Lanzmann hid with his family in wartime France and joined the communist Resistance as a teenager. After the Liberation, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and met Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Lanzmann recalls his seven-year love affair with the older de Beauvoir and his role as the editor of Les Temps Modernes. His memoir also recounts his discovery of Israel shortly after the war and the making of his masterpiece, Shoah, including harrowing interviews with former Nazis filmed with artfully hidden cameras. The Patagonian Hare, a critically acclaimed bestseller in France in 2009, is published this month in th

  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
 
  • UG! COMEDY SHOW!! 3.0 (Tuesday March. 20th)

  • Mar 20, 2012 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: MUG Lounge: 448 East 13th st. (bet. 1st ave and ave A)
  • Description:

    UG! COMEDY SHOW!! Tuesday March 20th, 2012 ed.


    Todd Montesi and Pat Rigby present awesome comics in front of a cool supportive crowd in the epicenter of hip NYC the East Village. Featuring both established comic veterans you've seen on TV to the up and comers, UG guarantees a swell time all for FREE! We've also got tons of drink specials ($3 drafts $4 wells)! So what are you waiting for? Come down and UG! it with us!!!


    UG! COMEDY SHOW!! (Now @ MUG)


    Presented by Todd Montesi and Pat Rigby
    :

    TUESDAYS @ MUG Lounge
    448 East 13th st. (bet. 1st and ave. A)
    showtime: 8:00PM No Cover, One Drink Min.
    ($3 drafts, $4 wells)
    For info/reservations: (646) 746-1357
    Via subway: L train to 1st ave.; or F train to 2nd ave.


    This week’s guests (Tuesday March 20th):

    Backwards Hat Wearin’ Rob Lowman!

    Jay ‘Da Bro’ Nog!
    Old Man (George) Cutler!
    Not From The Bronx, Ms. Corinne Fisher!
    Koretta ‘Scott’(cause she’s black, get it?) Gray (you still didn’t get it, did you?)!
    A Rose Named Rebel!
    The Wildcat

  • Created by: Todd M.