August 2009
1 post
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 69)
BCU Happy Hour! Celebrate our recent win and lots of hard work with a well deserved happy hour this Thursday night! Location: TBA Art: Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile The museum showcases 70 tin-toy cars (called buriki) created by various Japanese designers in Japan after World War II. Japan Society through 8/16. Music: Central Park SummerStage 2009 ...
July 2009
15 posts
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 68)
Art: Intersections Intersected: Photography by David Goldblatt Fifty years of impeccable photographs by the South African artist who has framed, documented, and manipulated images of apartheid and its aftermath, often inserting himself into the perspective. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Through 10/11 Music: Central Park SummerStage 2009 Central Park SummerStage, includes music, dance,...
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 67)
Art: In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989 From its inception, Art & Project, an Amsterdam gallery active between 1968 and 1989, supported an international group of artists associated with Conceptual art, both through the organization of exhibitions and the mailing of an information bulletin. Through November. Music: Central Park SummerStage 2009 Central Park...
Wanted: Social Media Intern
Berlin Cameron is looking for a social media intern (we’re calling it a Twitern) for a three month position at our New York office. It’s your chance to put your twitter and blogging skills to good use, learn about the interactive creative world and launch your career in Social Networking. We’re looking for a student or recent graduate with exceptional writing and web skills to...
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 66)
Art: Sexy and the City A randy all-star photography show in which 60-plus years of New Yorkers can be seen kissing, canoodling, fondling, and exposing themselves. Through 8/28 at Yossi Milo Gallery Music: Siren Music Festival 2009 The Village Voice is downright ebullient to announce this year’s Siren Festival, which will take place on Saturday, July 18 at Coney Island rain or shine. Free!...
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 65)
Art: James Ensor This exhibition presents approximately 120 works, examining the Belgian master James Ensor’s contribution to modernity, his innovative and allegorical use of light, his prominent use of satire, his deep interest in carnival and performance, and his own self-fashioning and use of masking, travesty, and role-playing. Through 9/21 Music: Central Park SummerStage 2009 ...
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 64)
Art: This World & Nearer Ones Creative Time’s new exhibit transforms Governors Island into an art-tastic theme park of site-specific conceptual installations. Music: Central Park SummerStage 2009 Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the 2009 season schedule of the free performing arts festival, Central Park SummerStage, includes music, dance, word, film, and comedy. Internationally acclaimed...
June 2009
3 posts
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 62)
Art: Stephen Shore and the Factory The pioneer of color photography recalls his black-and-white years, hanging out with Andy Warhol and company. 303 Gallery, through July Music: Jonathan Kane, Jet Ear Party Veteran NYC drummer-turned-leader and composer Jonathan Kane’s second full-length effort, Jet Ear Party, finds him polishing extended-duration blues-based shuffles with a massed-guitar balm...
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 60)
Free Iced Coffee! Stop by Au Bon Pain anytime after 2:00PM and pick up a free iced coffee! Art: Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros “Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros” proves that Pablo Picasso was one of the best artists of the sixties and seventies. The nearly 100 works in this ravishing, museum-shaming gallery show are lusciously voluptuous, richly physical paintings — nudes, lovers kissing,...
May 2009
9 posts
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 59)
Art: Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective The first major exhibition in New York in twenty years devoted to one of the most compelling painters of the twentieth century, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective features some 130 works—sixty-five paintings and as many archival items from public and private collections from around the world—that span the entirety of the artist’s...
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 57)
Art: Billy Sullivan Billy Sullivan has always been a drawing whiz, but his new paintings—sexily poetic portraits of downtowners, artists, bohemians, and best friends—take center stage. They radiate luminous, sunlit color, a crackerjack hand, and a love of life. Sullivan has also curated a show of young photographers for Nicole Klagsbrun’s Chelsea gallery, thru 6/6. Music: Fischerspooner ...
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 56)
Art: The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic models of the twentieth century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. The exhibition, organized by historical period from 1947 to 1997, will feature haute...
April 2009
23 posts
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 54)
Today is Earth Day! Each year April 22nd marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest “to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda. Go green to support the green generation and Earth Day! Our...
Watchgregrutter:
This is a video of sneezes slowed down to 1000 fps. For 75% of the video it looks like everyone is having an orgasm. Until the last 30 seconds where the money-shot comes out of their noses. And then it immediately switches from hot to gross in one second.
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 53)
Art: The Generational: Younger Than Jesus God bless the New Museum’s tantalizing triennial. The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, is made up of 50 artists born after 1976 (and are therefore under 33, Christ’s age at his death) from twenty-five countries. Expect slacker themes, lots of blipping and bleeping and video-game references, but also a chunk of somber, enlightening meditations on our...
WatchFriend of BCP Todd Lamb is hilarious on Jimmy Fallon. Enjoy.
Get Up, Get Out! (Vol. 52)
Get into the spring holiday spirit and check out today’s issue for ways to get up and out this week! Art: Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West Into the Sunset examines how photography has pictured the idea of the American West from 1850 to the present. For over 150 years, the image of the West has been formed and changed through a variety of photographic traditions and...
Watchjonahray:
THE BRUNO TRAILER!!!!
Comedy Hangover here i come.
