Alexis Rockman’s Half-life at Nyehaus
Artist: Alexis Rockman
Dates: March 7- April 18, 2009
Venue: Nyehaus Gallery
As my aunt and I wandered the streets of New York yesterday, she told me some of the history of Gramercy Park. She talked about the locked park itself, with the keys allowed only to the very select occupants of the surrounding buildings, and how the whole area was imagined, built, and then even mythicized.
We decided to check out a free exhibition at a gallery in that neighborhood. The art of Alexis Rockman promised to be surreal and I’m always up for something that looks like it’s been hallucinated. We searched for the Nyehaus Gallery expecting something like a store front, or maybe a tiny museum. What we found at 15 Gramercy Park was the National Art Club. It was a beautiful building with a twisting metal balcony and seemed utterly forbidding. Read more »
Q&A with Brendon Small
Show date: April 3, 2009
Venue: B.B. King’s Blues Club and Grill, NY
Brendon Small intensely on stage
Brendon Small is a 34-year-old musician, composer, comedian, writer, and the lead vocals in the invented band Dethklok, from the animated masterpiece called “Metalocalypse”, which he created, co-wrote and co-produced. Small is the voice of Nathan Explosion as well as Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Pickles the Drummer.
Small was the opener to his own headlining act with the School of Rock All Stars. Sometime before our car was broken into that night (long story, cops are useless), he addressed, belittled and made fun of the early-comers at B.B. Kings. Here is the gist of what was said and a few bad pictures. Read more »
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