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Asian American Writers’ Workshop ‘incidents’—interactive and humorous in- Exhibition Where is Chinatown? terventions—on a stroll between the New This exhibition memorializes the work of a Narrative Remappings Museum and the Center for Architecture. proto-feminist, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, May 7, 11:00am-5:00pm and honors the contribution of her son, Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St [13] Robert Kushner, a founder of the pattern- Performance Romanian Cultural Institute in and-decoration movement. Through 5/25. AAWW and MoCA work with writers to I Am Not Legend—Romanian Comics map shifting boundaries by collecting Look Back at New York personal stories from the public, guest- May 7, 11:00am – 5:00pm The School of Art at The Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten (Downstairs Lounge), blogging, and presenting readings. 7 Rivington St, btwn & Chrystie St [15] Student Exhibitions Exhibition, Party May 7, 11:00am-7:00pm Projects Cooper Union Center for Architecture/ Embark on a journey through Romanian 1) Foundation Building, 7 E 7th St, btwn 3rd & 4th Aves [1] AIA New York Chapter cartoons, displaying New York influences 2) 41 , 3rd Ave, btwn 6th & 7th Sts [18] Saturday and Sunday, May 7–8 on Romanian creativity, and see how Exhibition jumpUP, jumpDOWN, jumpZONE! Noted student works reflecting Festival May 7 & 8, 11:00am-5:00pm these practices reflect back to New York. 536 LaGuardia Pl, btwn Bleecker & W 3rd Sts [14] themes are exhibited in the Foundation Building and , the new 100+ independent projects, events, performances, and Exhibition, Lecture/Discussion, Tour Storefront for Art and Architecture Come to the Center for jumpUP: ExpoTEN- Platinum LEED academic facility. Painting Urbanism: Learning from Rio walking tours that expand on the Festival’s themes, tial’s Par Corps lab, an exhibition about May 7 & 8, 11:00am to 6:00pm the active built environment in New York; 97 Kenmare St, btwn Mulberry & Lafayette Sts [16] New Museum open at multiple venues Downtown, activating a broad Exhibition jumpDOWN: a tour of the Center’s geo- Maya Lin: Pin River-Hudson geographic area. Projects are listed in chronological thermal system; and jumpZONE: an active A parallel exhibition to the urban interven- May 7, 11:00am-10:00pm, May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm outdoor installation. tion includes documentation of past, pres- Museum admission $12 ent, and future projects in NY and beyond New Museum, 235 Bowery btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [2] order and most events are free. Exhibition by artist duo Haas & Hahn. Through 6/1. futureflair Pin River-Hudson (2009), comprising tens Program subject to change. Please visit festivalofideasnyc.com for updates. of thousands of straight pins set into Visit NYC-ARTS.org for your Festival iPhone app and details about events and activities. ExpoTENtial lab: Urban Alchemy May 7 & 8, 11:00am-5:00pm Susan Teller Gallery , creates the illusion of a shadow Itinerary TBD btwn LaGuardia Pl & the Bowery [2] [14] Reconfigured City/Reconfigured Family image of the Hudson River system. Tour May 7 & 8, 11:00am-6:00pm Rediscover your city and enjoy small 568 Broadway, Room 502A btwn Houston & Prince Sts [17] Performa The Collaborative City May 7, 11:00am-10:00pm, May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm Saturday, May 7 Salon 94 Business Various locations [2] Jon Kessler: Theater of Situations Improvement District Exhibition, performance Listed in chronological order by project start time. May 7-8, 24 hours, on outside video wall Lower Feast Side Performa will involve its consortium of [X] Refers to location on map SEE PAGE 10-11 243 Bowery, btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [6] May 7, 10:00am-4:00pm more than 80 venues and cultural institu-

Exhibition, Screening Hester Street Fair [9] tions, as well as its wide network of artists, INABA with Machineous Family Activity, Vendor Kessler’s 30 sec. video clips (“advertise- curators, architects, musicians, choreog- Information Kiosks Hester Street Fair’s new food festival reflects ments” for his work posted on social raphers, academics, and students, May 4-8, 12:00-6:00pm the heterogeneity of the LES restaurants and The Cooper Union Foundation Building, media) explore the intervention of infor- in a specially commissioned online food stores: American, French, Italian, 7 E 7th St [1], and New Museum, 235 Bowery [2] mation technology and artistic content Performa program that will exemplify Exhibition Mexican, South African, Thai, and Turkish. onto public space. Performa’s vision of the Collaborative City. Two interactive kiosks provide information on Festival events and participants. Sperone Westwater SmartSpaces Invisible-Exports TBD Richard Long: Flow and Ebb The Architectural League May 7, 10:00am-6:00pm; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm Robert Melee: This is For You May 7–8, 24 hours 257 Bowery, btwn E Houston & Stanton Sts [10] May 7, 11:00am-12:00am; May 8, 11:00am-6:30pm Urban Omnibus Lower Storefronts 14a Orchard St, btwn Hester & Canal Sts [19] May 7-8, 24 hours [3] Exhibition Exhibition Screening Exhibition Artist Richard Long creates an homage SmartSpaces presents contemporary A looped video screening of Melee’s Designed by Civic Center, a series of to nature in urban installations. Drawing art installations in multiple storefronts, 2003 performance from the Movement posters presenting good ideas for the fu- made with river mud and sculpture of augmented by signage, cell phone Research’s season at Judson Church is an ture of cities is pasted on walls and fences native stone create a reconfigured nature. audio guides, and text messaging. homage to New York’s dance community. throughout the 5 boroughs. 4/16-5/8. 5/1 – 6/1, 24 hours. Community Board 3 & No Longer Empty The Educational Alliance Crystal Field, Executive Director, Nuit Blanche New York Presents: Urban Tapestry, curated by Art in Empty Storefronts Reimagining the Lower East Side Flash:Light May 7-8, 24 hours, Several locations TBA [5 FAB] Carolyn Ratcliffe, works of Art Loisaida for Everyone May 7, 8:00pm-12:00am or later depending Exhibition, Party, Tour Foundation Artists on the location May 7 & 8, 8:00am-11:00pm; May 7, 1:00-3:00pm New Museum [2] and Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old CB3’s Arts & Cultural Affairs Task Force Free sketching workshop in May 7 & 8, 10:00am-11:00pm 155 First Ave, btwn E 9th & E 10th Sts [11] Cathedral [68], Mulberry St btwn Houston & Prince Sts joins forces with No Longer Empty to bring 197 E Broadway, btwn Jefferson & Clinton Sts [8] Exhibition, Performance Exhibition, Performance, Screening artists and cultural groups together with Exhibition, Workshop, Family Activity Urban Tapestry engages the public by weav- Artists transform the nighttime pedestrian building owners to revitalize vacant spac- Artists Barbara Lubliner and Bernard ing visual and performing arts into a 2-day experience into one of contemplation es. With Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Klevickas lead workshops on making art from plastic waste. Young artists show event focusing on preservation and innovation. and wonder with site-specific light, sound Educational Center, Artistas de Loisaida, and projection art. Artists (list in forma- Fourth Arts Block, Artists Alliance, Inc., P.S. 122 work at the Clinton St. electronics store Cultural Mix, and “Celebrating Older The and The Fales tion): Rita Ackermann, Hisham Bharoocha, Americans” features work by members Library at Marco Brambilla, Antoine Catala, Mitch- James Fuentes LLC ell Joachim, Chris Jordan, Andreas Laszlo of The Educational Alliance’s Whittaker Remembering Downtown Past Fits and Future Pulls Center, Sirovich Center, and the NORC May 7, 10:00am - May 8, 10:00am Konrath, Jason Krugman, Jules Marquis, May 7-8, 24 hours centers. 100 Washington Sq East, Ohad Meromi, Cary Ng, Miho Ogai, Aïda Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center, btwn Washington Pl & Waverly Pl [12] 107 Suffolk St, btwn Rivington & Delancey Sts [4] Ruilova, Ursula Scherrer, Claire Scoville, Screening Kant Smith, Softlab, Ryan Uzilevsky/Farkas Performance, Exhibition Film excerpts from ’s Down- Daniel Subkoff and Will Chancellor offer for Fülöp (Light Harvest), Adriana Varella, town Collection screened in Grey Art Gal- Guido van der Werve. disassembly a large clay sculpture embed- lery’s windows document the Downtown ded with native seeds. Remains will be woven Image: Sculpture: “A Small Explosion” by Kant Smith. Photography: Garret New York art scene from the 1970s-1990s. Ziegler (top left), Sara Bogush (top right), Ted Jacobs (bottom) into the Bowery environs the following day. 16 Projects Advertisement www.festivalofideasnyc.com TOPICs Architecture & Urban Planning Art & Design Economics Food Storytelling & Local History Sustainability 17

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and how we perceive it. Outside, Jennifer frosch&portmann Y Gallery To Be Archived Catron and Paul Outlaw operate their out Loophole HOMENESS May 7, 12:00pm-12:00am, May 8, 12:00-6:00pm of the box, LES food truck. May 7, 12:00pm-12:00am; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm May 7, 11:00am-12:00am; May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm 53 Stanton St, btwn Forsyth & Eldridge Sts [34] 54 Ludlow St, btwn Grand & Hester Sts [20] Exhibition 335A Bowery (basement), btwn E 2nd & E 3rd Sts [39] Exhibition Exhibition, Performance The Bowery Mission Swiss artist Raffaella Chiara responds Participants tag objects along the to her NY experience with an illuminated Three artists examine concepts of home Bowery—a sunset, mailbox, or café—with Rooftop Urban Farming Project based on NYC’s multiculturalism and May 7 & 8, 12:00-10:00pm mountain sculpture featuring a digital photographs and upload them to Rooftop of 227 Bowery, btwn Prince & sound-filled cave while drawings and a constantly shifting population. Per- an archive. With artists Alex Dodge, Eszter Rivington Sts [32] photographs become a map of the city. formances by Ryan Brown and Jano Ozsvald and Yonatan Ben-Simhon. Tour Cortijo, video inteviews by Cecilia A rooftop vegetable garden provides Jurado, installations by Tom Fruin and fresh food for meals prepared by the Michael Mut Gallery Our Other Location Antonio la Rosa. Discussion with leaders Bowery Mission’s kitchen and a peace- Love Yourself Project presents New City Cellar of local shelters. ful space for residents. With Whole Foods 1000 Hearts by Kristen Zwicker May 7, 11:00am-May 8, 4:00am May 7, 12:00pm-12:00am; May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm Cafeteria at Old School, 233 Mott St, Market Tribeca. 97 Ave C, btwn E 6th St & E 7th St [35] btwn Prince & Spring Sts [21] La MaMa Galleria Exhibition Vendor, Party Tracing the Unseen Border Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum A surprise hub for hungry Festivalgoers, Multimedia participatory installations May 7 & 8, 1:00-6:00pm; discussion May 8 at 4:00pm this former school cafeteria is the eatery LES Exposed document artists distributing stickers say- 6 E 1st Street, btwn Bowery & 2nd Ave [40] May 7 & 8, 12:00pm-12:00am Exhibition, Lecture/Discussion of a New City, as envisioned by local ing “Love Yourself,” and origami hearts 161 Essex St, btwn E Houston & Stanton Sts [33] with messages of what people love about A show and discussion with curators Ian designers and guest chefs. exhibition, Lecture/Discussion, Screening themselves. Through 5/28. Cofre and Omar Lopez-Chahoud explore An exhibition of long-time Bowery artists: issues and ambiguities surrounding the White Box Lincoln Anderson, Anne Apparu, Nico US-Mexico border that influence the art of No Longer Empty Betaville on the Bowery: A Massively Dios, Cheryl Dunn, Charles Gatewood, NYC-based artists. Through 5/22. Multiplayer Urban Science Fiction Kevin Harris, Troy Harris, Steven Hirsch, About Face May 7, 11:00am-May 8, 6:00pm Curt Hoppe, LA II, Leslie Lowe, Pete May 7 & 8, 12:00pm-12:00am 155 E. Houston [36], 58 Lispenard [37] and billboards Art Since the Summer of ‘69 329 Broome St btwn Chrystie St & Bowery [22] Missing, Angel Orensanz, Jerry Pagane, Exhibition, Performance, Screening Demonstration, Performance Clayton Patterson, Elsa Rensaa, Q. Saka- Spring Cleaning White Box becomes a Betaville workshop About Face elucidates various compo- May 7, 1:00-9:00pm; May 8, 1:00-6:00pm maki, Shell Sheddy, Suzannah B. Troy. kiosk: guests participate and view a nents of traditional exhibition formats so 195 Chrystie St, 3rd Fl, btwn Rivington & Stanton Sts [41] Screenings: Captured; Dirty Old Town. demonstration of the online platform for alternatives can be imagined. Multi-me- Exhibition collaborative public art and urban de- dia works and participatory projects by Celebrate spring with Adam Shopkorn’s sign. Curated by Carl Skelton and Juan Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and various artists will engage the public. The plexi cube tables filled with shredded Puntes, facade by Jee Won Kim Architects. New Museum Educational Center film screening of “Variations” will pre- paper material in different . Bring Cronocaos, an exhibition by Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture Renaissance! The Rebirth of the Center miere on May 6 at 7pm at the Millennium your magazines to recycle! May 7, 11:00am-10:00pm, May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm. Museum admission $12. 231 Bowery, btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [2] May 7, 12:00pm-12:00am, May 8, 12:00-10:00pm Theater (66 East 4th St). Through 6/12. Krause Gallery Exhibition 107 Suffolk St, btwn Rivington & Delancey Sts [4] Exhibition, Family Activity, Tour Lesley Heller Workspace Michael Marshall: Science and Nature Cronocaos explores the critical position of preservation in architecture and May 7 & 8, 11:30am-6:30pm This Puerto Rican/Latino/multicultural Number 35 Gallery Elisabeth Condon: Climb the urbanism. The exhibition takes place at New Museum’s partially renovated ground 149 Orchard St, btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [23] multiarts center, a 98,000 square feet CBJ Floating Constructs Black Mountain floor space at 231 Bowery. Lead Sponsor: American Express. Through 6/7. Exhibition Snyder-designed former PS160, shares its May 7, 12:00pm-12:00am; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm; May 7, Discussion 2:00-3:00pm, gallery hours 11:00am- Marshall’s works, constructed in layers of Image: Cronocaos at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia. Credit: OMA / Marco Beck Peccoz projection on view May 8, 24 hours 9:00pm; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm renovation progress, with tours, open stu- 54 Orchard St, btwn Grand & Hester Sts [42] translucent images on Japanese paper and 141 Attorney St btwn Stanton and Rivington Sts [38] dios, and presentations by resident arts Exhibition, Screening Exhibition, Lecture/Discussion encaustic wax, explore the blurred edges organizations. Support by NYC Dept. of Alexa Kreissl creates a deconstructed ver- Condon reconfigures shapes and colors between city life and the natural world. visualization of the volume of text mes- and escorted to an unknown location. Cultural Affairs, NEA, NY State Council on sion of the New Museum’s architecture as from Brooklyn in paintings, reflecting that sages transmitted during one night across Remove the blindfold, explore the sur- the Arts, NYC & Co. Foundation, NY State an installation —a video of the process on the world is not only real but also a pro- Amsterdam, revealing the city’s social roundings, and make it back to home base. Lower East Side History Project Dept. of Education. view in the gallery’s window. Through 6/12. jection of the mind. Through 5/15. The Bowery: How It Got There and and economic structures. Where It’s Going Common Ground HOWL! Arts Inc. May 7, 12:00pm & May 8, 11:00am Storefront for Art and Architecture Swiss Institute at Affordable Future/Living in the City Human Services Every NYC Artist Starts at Astor Pl Cube (Astor Pl & Lafayette St) Salon 94 Freemans Tickets: $20 for the public, $10 with Festival of Ideas Painting Urbanism: NYC May 7 & 8, gallery hours 12:00-8:00pm; Should Know About visible/audible 24 hours a day from street guide [24] May 7 & 8, 12:00-6:00pm Freitag May 7, 2:00-3:30pm Check Festival website for updates [26] The Andrews, 197 Bowery, btwn Rivington & Tour Delancey Sts [29] Compost-Canteen Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Pl btwn 1st and 2nd Aves [25] Performance, EXHIBITION A walking tour explores how politics, eco- Exhibition May 7 & 8, 12:00-6:00pm Lecture/Discussion nomics, social trends, and public policy Artist duo Haas & Hahn develops large- 1 Freeman Alley, at Bowery & Architects address homelessness through Rivington Sts [44] Need affordable housing and health scale paintings created with community created the Bowery streetscape and con- modular apartment designs. In an audio Workshop, Party, care? Who’s doing what to help artists siders how it affects community and context. members on several buildings in the LES. component, low income housing residents Family Activity live, work and create in NYC. Moderator: and formerly homeless speak about their Waste Equals Food: Joe Benincasa, President, The Actors Fund, HOWL! Arts Inc. Audi Urban Future Initiative experience and the future. Brothers and creators of and leaders from human service organi- Will the Doctor See You Now? Perspectives Audi Urban Future Manhattan by Architizer Freitag messenger bags zations focused on helping artists. on Health Care in the 21st Century May 7, 12:00-7:00pm, May 8-9, 11:00am-7:00pm Hendershot Gallery host a Canteen to produce May 7, 12:00-1:30pm Openhouse Gallery, 201 Mulberry St, compost on site. Come btwn Spring & Kenmare Sts [27] Courtyard Painting by Molly Dilworth Charles Bank Gallery Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Pl btwn 1st and 2nd Aves [25] eat with us, grab a limited LECTURE/DISCUSSION Exhibition May 7 & 8, 12:00-8:00pm Bring Your Own Body compost handbag, and Examine the work of prominent architects Old School Courtyard, 233 Mott St, btwn Prince & May 7 & 8, 2:00-8:00pm Join us for a discussion on the future of Spring Sts [30] bring your compost for a 196 Bowery, btwn Prince & Spring Sts [43] health care in NYC—what lies ahead in a as they grapple with questions of mobility Exhibition special project. Performance rapidly transforming landscape. Modera- and urbanism in a large-scale, 3-D model Dilworth generates a site-specific Image: Freitag Compost-Canteen The gallery hosts a series of performances, tor: Stan Brezenoff, CEO, Beth Medi- of Manhattan along with 5 neighborhood courtyard painting linked to the historic many relying on participatory involvement cal Center and Continuum Health Partners. design interventions. African-American Cemetery on the LES. from the audiences. With artists Barnaby Hosking, Eske Kath, Kasper Sonne and Rhizome Christina Ray Gallery Allegra LaViola Gallery Mai Ueda. Aaron Koblin: SMS Amsterdam Urban Disorientation Game, The Self Illuminating City May 7 & 8, 12:00-5:00pm presented by Conflux May 7 & 8, 12:00-9:00pm Screenings TBA at New Museum Theater May 7, 12:00-7:00pm 179 E Broadway, between Jefferson & Rutgers Sts [31] Museum admission $12 Participants are asked to commit for the entire time. Exhibition, Performance 235 Bowery btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [2] Start at NE corner of Bowery & Rivington St at noon [28] Screening Tour, Performance, Party Inside, Timothy Hutchings creates an SMS Amsterdam (2007) is a dynamic Rediscover your city as you are blindfolded installation of light; exploring the space 18 Projects Advertisement www.festivalofideasnyc.com TOPICs Architecture & Urban Planning Art & Design Economics Food Storytelling & Local History Sustainability 19

culturehub Heather Kravas & Reggie Watts, innova- (141 Wooster St, btwn W Houston & Prince Sts) The Underground Library Scaramouche The Hole Tickets: Space limited to first 20 respondents. Electronic Highways tors in dance and technologically-en- Reservations required [email protected] / 212.293.5518. Shhhhhhhhhhhh Marc Breslin: Refuse Zine Night May 7, 2:00pm-12:00am abled comedic performance, respective- Tour, Exhibition May 7, 6:00pm-2:00am; May 8, 10:00am-6:00pm May 7, Marc Breslin debuts video 7:00pm; May 7, 7:00pm-12:00am 47 Great Jones St, 3rd Flr, ly, discuss new models of practice. Experience De Maria’s sculptures through Old School, 233 Mott St btwn Prince and Spring Sts [21] Hours 7:00pm-12:00am LOCATION TBA [66] btwn Lafayette St & Bowery [45] Exhibition, Performance 52 Orchard St, btwn Grand & Hester Sts [63] Workshop, Demonstration, Party a tour led by Dia Director Philippe Vergne. Exhibition, Performance, Party Alternative to the “get anything, anytime” Exhibition, Performance, Screening Drinks, food, and music accompany the Cuchifritos Project Space He shares the evolution and history An exhibition of telematic works is punc- ethos of Internet spectacle, this series Refuse examines the daily movements of the live, collaborative manufacturing of behind (1979) and tuated by a trilogy of live telepresence Dust To Settle allows Festival-goers to check out multi- Sanitation Dept. in Brooklyn—accompanied zines exploring the Festival themes— performances inspired by Nam June Paik, Opening Reception May 7, 4:00-6:30pm; The (1977). by a sound piece excavating William S. May 8, 12:00-6:00pm at Essex St Market media books published as takeaway especially as they exist in The Hole’s connecting artists in 4 cities. Support by La Burroughs’s Dead City Radio. Through 6/5. 120 Essex St, btwn Rivington & Delancey Sts [49] heirlooms. downtown community. MaMa and Seoul Institute of the Arts. Exhibition Dodge Gallery Sheila Gallagher: That Which Remains Curated by Diana Shpungin, 8 artists Visual AIDS and Participant Inc. present works responding to the Essex May 7, Talk 6:00pm, hours 12:00-8:00pm; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm 15 Rivington St, btwn Bowery and Chrystie St [55] Survival AIDS/Hunter Reynolds: Street Market as an ambiguous time cap- Exhibition, Lecture/Discussion Performance & Panel sule. Supported by NY State Council on The history of trash and how it relates to May 7, 7:00pm-12:00am 253 E Houston St, btwn Norfolk & Suffolk Sts [67] the Arts, Greenwall Foundation, and NYC Gallagher’s Sappho-inspired exhibition Lecture/Discussion, Performance Department of Cultural Affairs. is the subject for a talk with the artist and At a Visual AIDS symposium, Julia Bryan Robin Nagle, of NYC Dept. of Sanitation. Wilson, David Deitcher, Nathan Lee, and Dixon Place Anthony Viti offer perspectives on HIV/ The Vanishing City Sloan Fine Art AIDS’s role in shaping NYC’s queer com- May 7, 5:00pm Group Show: Kin and 161A Chrystie St, btwn Rivington & Delancey Sts [50] munity. Artist and AIDS activist Hunter Tickets: $10 suggested donation Daimon Marchand: Kammeropolis Reynolds enacts mummification. RSVP: [email protected] or just show up! May 7, reception 6:00-8:00pm, hours 12:00pm-12:00am; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm Lecture/Discussion 128 Rivington St, at Norfolk St [56] Theater for the New City A panel of artists, historians, and residents Exhibition discuss how gentrification of the LES has Catch Her In The Lie Kin features NY painters who have come May 7, 8:00pm; May 8, 3:00pm Audi Urban Future Initiative evolved, changed their work, and af- of age in a heterogeneous time. Marchand 155 1st Ave, btwn E 9th St & E 10th St [11] fected the neighborhood. Dixon Place Audi Urban Future Award Building invites viewers into Kammeroplis, an instal- Performance, FAMILY ACTIVITY a Vision for 2030 curated by Lounge opens from 3:00pm-1:00am with lation comprised of technological and Legendary LES theater presents new work Stylepark New Idea Cocktail Specials. organic elements. Through 5/28. for the children of the New City in Philip May 7, 11:00am-7:00 pm, May 8–9, 11:00am- Suraci’s play, co-written by the teen actors 7:00pm at Openhouse Gallery. 201 Mulberry Street, btwn Spring & Kenmare Sts [27] Eleven Rivington Sue Scott Gallery in the play. Exhibition Tasty Locavore Bites David Shapiro: Money Is No Object This exhibition showcases the syn- May 7, 5:00-7:00pm May 7, opening 6:00-8:00pm, Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral ergy of mobility, architecture and 11 Rivington St, btwn Bowery & Chrystie St [51] gallery hours 11:00am-6:00pm; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm Party 1 Rivington St, btwn Bowery & Chrystie St [57] New Jerusalem urban development with contribu- May 7, 8:00pm-May 8, 6:00am Festive reception with tasty bites using Exhibition tions by Alison Brooks Architects, Art Production Fund & The New Museum Façade of Cathedral (Mott St) [68] organic ingredients sourced from the Embarrassingly personal and strangely BIG—Bjarke Ingels Group, Cloud 9, After Hours: Murals on the Bowery Exhibition CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) generic, Shapiro redrew and repainted all Standardarchitecture and J. Mayer Launch May 7, 8:00pm A 200-year-old center for worship, affiliated with the M’Finda Kalunga his personal bills and receipts for one year, H. Architects. Bowery btwn Houston and Canal Sts, artproductionfund.org for locations [60] education, and culture welcomes artistic Garden in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, revealing the common denominator of Exhibition, audio tour by cell phone: 646.213.7207 Image: Elastic and responsive space as mediator. illuminations on its façade in conjunction Courtesy of J. Mayer H. highlighting community gardening. consumption as both distinctive and banal. Along the Bowery, international artists create site-specific mural paintings on the with Flash:Light, and an all night music last remaining roller shutters of the LES. Artists (list in formation): Judith Bernstein, program in its interior. Artists Alliance, Inc. (AAI) Bowery Arts & Science Matthew Brannon, Ingrid Calame, Chris Dorland, Elmgreen & Dragset, Amy Granat, Mary Heilmann, Jacqueline Humphries, Deborah Kass and pulp, ink., Glenn Ligon, The Performance Project @ AAI’s Building Wide Open Studios Comprehensive Employment and Adam McEwen, Barry McGee, Gary Simmons, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner. University Settlement May 7, 5:00-9:00pm; May 8, 12:00-6:00pm Training Act (CETA) 107 Suffolk St at Rivington, at Clemente Soto Vélez May 7, 6:00-10:00pm Artworks up 2 months. Made possible with the generous support of Sotheby’s. They Might Be Napping Education and Cultural Center [4] Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker & Rendering: Mary Heilmann, Ecstacy, 2010. Original: Oil on Canvas, 14 x 24”. Courtesy of the artist / 303 Gallery, New York / Hauser & Wirth May 7, 3:00pm & 7:30pm Exhibition Houston Sts [58] 184 Eldridge St, at Rivington St [46] The 15th year of celebrating artists living Tickets: Panel: $8 for general public. Performance Party: $20 for CETA artists (free if you bring a young artist) and working on the LES. Visit 30 studios Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater Nicoll+Oreck Dance Theater examines Lecture/Discussion, Screening, Party NY Studio Gallery of artists from emerging to mid-career. “consensus trance”: a phenomenon in Panels, films, and performances consider DOWNTOWN. Birds and Bees: Flight of Fantasy AAI’s Art(Inter)Actions event is supported May 7, 7:00pm which a society sleeps through pressing artist employment concepts for the Obama May 7, 7:00-7:30pm performance; gallery hrs by NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs and City era in a reunion of the CETA Artists Project, 425 Lafayette St, at [61] 12:00pm-6:00pm issues of its time and fails to take Tickets: $20 154 Stanton St, btwn Suffolk and Clinton Sts [64] Council. collective action. which employed 350+ artists in NYC from Lecture/Discussion Exhibition, Performance 1977-83. Followed by a party. Organized The history of a Bohemian enclave and the During her exhibition, Yuliya Lanina col- Aicon Gallery by Bob Holman, former CETA artist; with battle to preserve its soul —is it worth it or Downtown Art laborates with C. Eule Dance Company to The Sustainable Gallery Rochelle Slovin, Sara Garretson, Mary do we all move to Brooklyn? Moderated by create “Flight of Fantasy,” a performance The Bowery Wars, Part I May 7, Talk 6:00pm by Projjal Dutta, Partner, Aicon Schmidt Campbell, Theodore Berger. architectural historian James Sanders and envisioning a balance between urban de- May 7 & 8, 3:30pm Gallery, gallery hours 6:00-10:30pm presented by Serge Becker. velopment and colonies of butterflies. Pecha Kucha Begins at Lafayette & Jersey Sts (behind Puck 35 Great Jones St, btwn Lafayette St & Bowery [52] Building), ends at 19 E 3rd St [47] New York #12: Lecture/Discussion, Exhibition Lu Magnus Tickets: www.downtownart.org / 212.479.0885 The Dimensions of a New City A Room of Her Own New American Cinema Group, Inc. & Performance A gallery designed to have the lightest GigMaven May 7, 8:00pm-May 8, 3:00am Opening Reception May 7, 6:00pm-12:00am; The Film-Makers’ Cooperative 1903. The Bowery. Gangsters, politicians, environmental footprint recycles, brings Old School Gym, 268 Mulberry St, btwn Panel discussion May 8, 2:00pm The Urban Landscape in Cinematic Old-Timey at Bowery Electric Houston & Prince Sts [69] daylight in, and heats and cools in sync 55 Hester St, btwn Ludlow & Essex Sts [59] May 7, 7:00-11:00pm theater. Audiences witness live action on Transformation Performance, Party, with nature. “Palimpsest” features work Exhibition, Lecture/Discussion Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery at 2nd St [65] the streets while hearing the score on mp3 May 7, 7:00pm & 9:00pm; May 8, 2:00pm & 5:00pm Tickets: www.gigmaven.com Screening by Talha Rathore, layering New York Women artists—Natalie Frank, Hilary players. Composer Michael Hickey, writer Millennium Film Workshop Party, Performance Investigating the many seen and experiences upon subway maps. Harkness, Paula Rego, Emily Noelle 66 E 4th St, btwn Bowery & 2nd Ave [62] Ryan Gilliam, 20 teen actors. Tickets: $8 GigMaven showcases music that lives up unseen ways NYC exists outside the Lambert—consider the theme of the Screening to the Bowery’s musical reputation, and walls of its buildings, speakers— reconfigured city through the creation Performance Space 122 An avant-garde film series interweaves shows NY as a music city unmatched in vi- in presentations of 7 min.—consider of their own environments. Through 6/19. brant creativity and interconnectedness. Rhythm and Repetition: Reconfiguring Tour of ’s Iconic Works three threads pertinent to the East Village, the presence and evolution of Performance Practice Across Genres with Dia’s Director Chinatown, and LES: the urban landscape, public access. May 7, 6:00pm May 7, 4:00pm subcultures that inhabit it, and changes Image: Pecha Kucha NY 150 1st Ave at E 9th St [48] Tour begins at The Broken Kilometer (393 W Broadway [53] btwn Spring & Broome Sts) and over time. Lecture/Discussion culminates at The New York Earth Room [54] 20 Projects Advertisement www.festivalofideasnyc.com TOPICs Architecture & Urban Planning Art & Design Economics Food Storytelling & Local History Sustainability 21

Spend an evening at the Girls Club Art- Michael Mut Gallery Cuchifritos Project Space Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and NY artists repurpose materials into some- Community Gallery and experience their Love Yourself Project presents Dust To Settle Educational Center thing new to create costumes, sets, pup- new immersive Dome Theater, create 1000 Hearts by Kristen Zwicker May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [49] See page 18 Renaissance! The Rebirth of the Center pets, and music through imagination. multi-media planetarium shows, and learn May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm [35] See page 17 May 8, 12:00-10:00pm [4] See page 17 Dixon Place Lounge opens from 2:00pm- Dodge Gallery about environmental science education. 1:00am with New Idea Cocktails. New Museum Sheila Gallagher: That Which Remains Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Art Museum Cronocaos May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [55] See page 18 LES Exposed Theater for the New City May 8: 11:00am-6:00pm May 8, 12:00pm-12:00am [33] See page 17 Sunday, May 8 231 Bowery, btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [2] frosch&portmann Catch Her In The Lie See page 16 No Longer Empty May 8, 3:00pm [11] See page 19 Listed in chronological order by project start time. Loophole May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [34] See page 17 [X] Refers to location on map SEE PAGE 10-11 About Face New Museum Downtown Art May 8, 12:00pm-12:00am [36] [37] See page 17 The Architectural League Maya Lin: Pin River-Hudson INABA with Machineous The Bowery Wars, Part I Bowery Alliance of Neighbors May 8, 3:30pm [47] See page 18 Urban Omnibus May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm [2] See page 15 Information Kiosks May 8, 24 hours [3] See page 14 May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [1] [2] See page 14 The History & Future of the Bowery Performa May 8, 1:00pm La MaMa Galleria Lesley Heller Workspace Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, Community Board 3 & No Longer Empty The Collaborative City Tracing the Unseen Border May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm [2] See page 15 Elisabeth Condon btwn Bleecker & Houston Sts [58] May 8, discussion at 4:00pm, hours 1:00-6:00pm; [40] Performance, Screening Art in Empty Storefronts May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [42] See page 17 See page 17 May 8, 24 hours [5 FAB] See page 14 Storefront for Art and Architecture Tickets: $8 (bowerypoetry.com) Join us for a lively program of film, song, Solar One Painting Urbanism, Learning from Rio Number 35 Gallery James Fuentes LLC history, and talk about the Bowery’s past, May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm [16] See page 15 Floating Constructs NYC The Future Metropolis Volume 3: Bowery Arts & Science and City Lore Past Fits and Future Pulls May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [38] See page 17 present, and future. With Kent Barwick Water in New York A White Wing Brushing the Building May 8, 24 hours [4] See page 14 (President Emeritus, Municipal Arts Society), May 8, 4:00-6:00pm Susan Teller Gallery Speyer Hall, University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St [46] May 7, 10:00pm-Late Sloan Fine Art Victor Papa (Two Bridges Neighborhood 308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker & Houston Sts [58] Salon 94 Reconfigured City/Reconfigured Family Lecture/Discussion Group Show: Kin and Daimon Marchand: Council), Simeon Bankoff (Historic Districts Exhibition, Performance, Screening Jon Kessler: Theater of Situations May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm [17] See page 15 Presentations consider water in relation Kammeropolis Council), Kerri Culhane (architectural Poems engaging local communi- May 8, 24 hours, on outside video wall [6] See page 14 to NYC: how it’s used and its cultural signif- Invisible-Exports May 8 12:00-6:00pm [56] See page 18 historian), Eric Ferrara (LES History Project), ties in their native languages—Yid- icance. Part of a series of events focused SmartSpaces Poor Baby Bree (chanteuse), and Bob dish, Nuyoriqueno, Ukrainian and Robert Melee: This is For You Sperone Westwater on making the city a more sustainable May 8, 11:00am-6:30pm Holman (Bowery Poetry Club). Chinese—are projected from a TBD Richard Long: Flow and Ebb place to live, work, and do business. May 8, 24 hours [7] See page 14 14A Orchard St, btwn Hester and Canal Sts [19] POEMobile onto buildings, includ- See page 15 May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [10] See page 14 ing the New Museum and the Coo- Art Since the Summer of ‘69 The Educational Alliance Storefront for Art and Architecture Performance Space 122 per Union. With live performances. Audi Urban Future Initiative Spring Cleaning Reimagining the Lower East Side for Networked Publishing for Live Art: Live Art Audi Urban Future Award Painting Urbanism: NYC May 8, 1:00-6:00pm [41] See page 17 In collaboration with Flash:Light. Everyone Almanac Vol. 2 NYC Launch Event May 8 & 9, 11:00am-7:00pm [27] See page 18 May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [26] See page 16 Supported by Rockefeller Foundation. May 8, 8:00am-11:00pm [8] See page 14 Lu Magnus May 8, 5:00pm Image: POEMobile by Bowery Poetry Club Sue Scott Gallery A Room of Her Own 150 1st Ave at E 9th St [48] Audi Urban Future Initiative Lecture/Discussion Project For Empty Space David Shapiro: Money Is No Object May 8, panel discussion 2:00pm [59] See page 18 Audi Urban Future Manhattan by A transcontinental conversation with Jawaz Al-Saqr (Falcon Passport) Architizer May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [57] See page 18 May 8, 9:00am-12:00pm [71] See page 20 New American Cinema Group, Inc. scholars, professionals, and performance Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater May 8 & 9, 11:00am-7:00pm [27] See page 16 Swiss Institute at Salon 94 Freemans & The Film-Makers’ Cooperative artists—live and via Skype—explores Unitard Two Bridges Neighborhood Council The Urban Landscape in publishing as a strategy for dialogue. May 7, 9:30pm Krause Gallery Freitag Compost-Canteen Cinematic Transformation 425 Lafayette St, at Astor Place Visioning Gateways for Chinatown & Little Italy Michael Marshall: Science and Nature May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [44] See page 17 May 8, 10:00am-6:00pm May 8, 2:00pm & 5:00pm [62] See page 19 Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door [61] May 8, 11:30am-6:30pm [23] See page 16 & the Center Performance Old School, 233 Mott St, btwn Prince & Spring Sts [21] Y Gallery Exhibition, Screening, Lecture/Discussion Charles Bank Gallery for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) Take your mind off the tanking economy Swiss Institute HOMENESS Eight undergraduate students of urban Bring Your Own Body Downright Systems with an hour of irreverence and caustic Does Innovation Ask for Destruction? May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [39] See page 17 planning at Pace University present field May 8, 2:00-8:00pm [43] See page 17 May 8, 6:30pm comedy. UNITARD commands NYC with May 8, 12:00pm, Tour and Brunch 32 Second Ave at 2nd St [74] research on the permeable, subjective 495 Broadway, btwn Spring & Broome Sts [73] Common Ground their all-new show. Bowery Poetry Club Screening boundaries of Chinatown and Little Italy Tickets: $7; limited capacity, reservations required Affordable Future / Living in the City [email protected] Ever wonder where your garbage goes? (Little Chitaly?). May 8, 12:00-8:00pm; Bowery Arts & Science Presents The Exhibition, Lecture/Discussion visible/audible 24 hours a day from street [29] Bowery Beehive Why you shouldn’t go swimming after a A tour through the show Under Destruction See page 16 Late Night Flashlight Tour of Drawing May 8, 3:00pm; Ceremony followed by free tours heavy rainfall? Who owns the Internet? The Underground Library by curators Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp 308 Bowery, btwn Bleecker & Houston Sts [58] Three documentaries, produced by artists and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Hendershot Gallery Demonstration, Family Activity Nazionale per la Grafica Shhhhhhhhhhhh focuses on the relationship between and students, suggest answers. Courtyard Painting by Molly Dilworth Discover the hives that urban bee man May 7, 10:00-11:00pm May 8, 10:00am-6:00pm [21] See page 19 innovation and destruction. Exhibition at Old School 35 Wooster St btwn Grand & Broome Sts [70] features 20 international artists contem- Sam Comfort helped establish to polli- Theater for the New City May 8, 12:00-8:00pm [30] See page 16 The Living Room Exhibition, Tour plating destruction in today’s art. nate the City. Honey is for sale to benefit Director Brett Littman shines a (flash)light Crystal Field, Executive Director, Presents: Bowery Arts & Science, the nonprofit that Playing With Actors Urban Tapestry, curated by Carolyn Ratcliffe, Allegra LaViola Gallery programs the Bowery Poetry Club. May 8, 7:00-9:00pm on an exquisite selection of metal plates 154 Ludlow St, btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [75] works of Art Loisaida Foundation Artists Green Map System The Self Illuminating City engraved by Italian masters from the 16th Performance May 8, 10:00am-11:00pm [11] See page 14 May 8, 12:00-9:00pm [31] See page 16 to late 20th centuries. Through 6/24. It’s on the Green Map! New City Walking Tour May 8, 12:00-3:00pm Dixon Place A band performs songs, interrupted by semi- Lower East Side History Project Starts at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, The Bowery Mission Art Re-animated improvisational two-minute monologues btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts [2] Rooftop Urban Farming Project May 8, 3:00pm by NYC actors who alter the music with Project For Empty Space The Bowery: How it Got There 161A Chrystie St, btwn Rivington & Delancey Sts [50] Tour May 8, 12:00pm-10:00pm [32] See page 17 Jawaz Al-Saqr (Falcon Passport) and Where It’s Going Tickets: Free, RSVP: [email protected] soliloquys from Shepard to Shakespeare. May 7, 10:00pm-12:00am; May 8, 9:00am-12:00pm May 8, 11:00am [24] See page 16 Explore local sites with Wendy Brawer, or just show up! 181 Stanton St btwn Clinton & Attorney Sts [71] founder of the global sustainability map- Lecture/Discussion

Performance making movement. Meet neighborhood Center for Architecture / This project by performance artist AIA New York Chapter eco-leaders including Paul Castrucci, ar- CHOKRA takes place on a city-owned lot jumpUP, jumpDOWN, jumpZONE! chitect of ABC No Rio, designed to excep- festivalofideasnyc.com Festival of Ideas for the New City c/o as part of Project For Empty Space, co- May 8, 11:00am-5:00pm [14] See page 15 tionally energy efficient standards. founded by Meenakshi Thirukode and Twitter.com/IdeasNYC Jasmine Wahi. futureflair Rhizome Facebook.com/festivalofideasnyc ExpoTENtial lab: Urban Alchemy Aaron Koblin: SMS Amsterdam [email protected] The Lower Eastside Girls Club May 8, 11:00am-5:00pm [2] [14] See page 15 May 8, 12:00-5:00pm, screenings TBA [2] See page 16 Midnight Maya Skies Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

May 7, 10:00pm-2:00am Artists Alliance, Inc. (AAI) 56 E 1st St, btwn 1st Ave & 2nd Ave [72] To Be Archived Exhibition May 8, 11:00am-6:00pm [20] See page 16 AAI’s Building Wide Open Studios May 8, 12:00-6:00pm [4] See page 18 DESIGN BY NR2154