An exclusive look at the new companion book, including interviews and texts from the film’s research as well as full color images of Silver’s artwork.

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Everybody Knows… Elizabeth Murray is a new documentary film about the life, groundbreaking work, and legacy of the renowned artist. Notable for her shaped canvases and bold colors, Murray’s dynamic career was cut short by cancer in 2007, just a few years after her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (an opportunity seldom afforded to women at the time). Director Kristi Zea—the Oscar-nominated production designer for films by Jonathan Demme, James L. Brooks, and Martin Scorsese—debuts with this intimate portrait of her friend, making use of candid footage, home video, and personal journals. Producer Jacki Ochs, also an experimental and documentary filmmaker (Letters Not About Love and Vietnam: The Secret Agent), joins in for this conversation.

BOMB Magazine Interview

See Randy Kennedy’s NY Times Article about the Colab book, printed by Printed Matter and edited by Max Schumann.

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects presents Paradise: underground culture in NYC 1978-84, a group exhibition about a pivotal moment in New York cultural history. The exhibition includes original photo-copied posters for bands, films and theater, paintings, drawings, photography and a group of films by independent filmmakers and documentaries about the Lower East Side from 1978-1984.

X Magazine Benefit Screening

The opening is on Wednesday, October 12th, from 7-9pm. The exhibition continues through November 14th. There will be a conversation between Steven Harvey and Tim Lawrence, the author of LIFE AND DEATH ON THE NEW YORK DANCE FLOOR, 1980-83, just published by Duke University Press, on Sunday October 16th, at 3PM, at the gallery.

Still from LES by Coleen Fitzgibbon

Still from LES by Coleen Fitzgibbon

Still from LES by Coleen Fitzgibbon

Coleen Fitzgibbon’s film LES, an ingenious conceit depicting Lower East Side residents as members of the John Dough Cargo Cult, evokes the cargo cultist in all of us: gamely attempting to influence events beyond our control and hoping for the best. A must-see, this Saturday at 3 pm at (where else?) Howl Happening, 6 East 1st Street, followed by three more essential new wave/no wave classics.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1219373618092894/

Friday, September 16 – Sunday, October 9, 2016

L.E.S. by C. Fitzgibbon screening at 3pm September 24th

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to shine a light on another important source of East Village social and cultural history: The East Village Eye. A monthly magazine published from 1979 through 1987, The East Village Eyefocused on popular and avant-garde culture, politics and other issues relevant to the East Village and environs. Self-styled as “a community in print,” the magazine is noted for its groundbreaking coverage of the emerging punk, new wave and hip hop music scenes of the time, as well as the influential art, literature, film and performance worlds of the era.

The East Village Eye Show will feature covers, centerfolds, interior pages, ephemera and photographic prints, as well as key artwork from the era. The show draws from the nearly 4,000 pages, 3,000 photographs, sets of original copies and attendant materials that constitute The East Village Eye Archive, dubbed “the King Tut’s tomb of downtown New York.”

Special Events are also planned. Check the Howl! Happening website for updates.
September 18: Panel Discussion
September 24: New/No Wave Films
September 25: Cinema of Transgression
October 6: Channeling the Dead: Readings of stories by deceased writers Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, Rene Ricard, David Wojnarowicz and (too many) others.

This benefit art auction supports the New American Cinema Group/The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, the oldest, largest non-profit distributor of avant-garde cinema. Since its founding in 1961, the Coop has grown to distribute over 5,000 titles by its 1,000 members. The Coop is currently embarking on a project to digitize its expansive celluloid and paper collection in an effort to make avant-garde cinema available to new audiences.

The auction is LIVE from August 23rd to September 6th:
http://paddle8.com/auction/filmmakerscoop

Featuring the following artists:

Charlie Ahearn • John Ahearn • Peggy Ahwesh • Ulvis Alberts • The Andy Warhol Museum • Katherine Bauer • Sarah Bedford • Andrea Callard • Calmx • Donna Cameron • Mirjana Ciric • Jody Culkin • Lisa Dilillo • James Dowell • Sara Driver • Bradley Eros • Peter Fend • Coleen Fitzgibbon • James Franco • Su Friedrich • Bobby G • llona Granet • Ethan Greenbaum • Hal Hartley • Sharon Haskell • Jasmine Hirst • Kate Huh • Takahiko Iimura • Ken Jacobs • Jim Jarmusch • Antonia Kuo • Juanita Lanzo • Katy Martin • Jen Mazza • Jonas Mekas • Jocelyn Miller • Joseph Nechvatal • Dan Ochiva • Alice O’Malley • Tom Otterness • Cara Perlman • Walter Robinson • Barbara Rosenthal • Christy Rupp • Lynne Sachs • Zoë Sheehan Saldaña • Marja Samson • Carolee Schneemann • Rosalind Schneider • MM Serra • Russell Sheaffer • Shell Sheddy • Terise Slotkin • Georgie Smith & Amy Lowles • Mark Street • Molly Surno • Richard Sylvarnes • Laurie Thomas • Leslie Thorton • J. Kathleen White • Robin Winters