Performance

NYC Summer Selects: Theater, Film, and Dance
Ella Mitchell |
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Don’t fill your summer culture calendar with art and music alone—there’s plenty of awesome performances to check out, too.

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Party Like You Have the Plague!
Zach Bell |
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CHERYL is a gender, it’s a color, it’s a number, it’s a lifestyle.

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Jon Kessler and Mika Rottenberg Want to Juice Your Chakra
Amanda Ryan |
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Jon Kessler and Mika Rottenberg “juice the chakras” of seven participants. What does “juicing a chakra” mean, you ask?

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An Artist Conjures Real-Life Clouds Inside the Gallery
Georgina Wells |
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Berndnaut Smilde’s cloud installations consist of precise mixtures of machine-generated light, humidity, temperature, and smoke.

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Aaron Young's Motorcycle Diaries
Manish Vora |
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Aaron Young almost got himself kicked out of art school for his motorcycle shenanigans. Now they’ve turned him into an art world rock star.

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(Mixed) Messages in a Bottle
Tiffany Jow |

Duchamp-esque trickster Christian Jankowski is at it again—this time, he’s investigating verbiage used in the art world.

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Artists Use a Mountain of Salt as Their Canvas
Amanda Ryan |

This year, The LUMEN International Video and Performance Festival received an enormous gift— 150,000 tons of salt.

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Photo of the Day: Accordion Wrestling
Tiffany Jow |

Finnish musician Kimmo Pohjonen provides background music for wrestlers, and a glorious spectacle for the rest of us.

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A Moveable Feast in Queens
Tiffany Jow |

This week, the train won’t be the only thing running along the 7 line. The fourth-annual Queens Art Express is a borough-wide art/music/food/performance/literature festival presented by the Queens Council on the Arts.

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Get a Seurat Facial at the Art Healing Ministry
Georgina Wells |
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Alexander Melamid’s “health clinic”-slash-performance art piece the Art Healing Ministry, where he prescribes art as medicine, reopens in Chelsea.

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Relational Aesthetics? More Like Gluttonous Aesthetics
Amanda Ryan |

For her new installation, Eat, Anne Koch will consume food on a continuous basis for five weeks at Allegra LaViola Gallery.

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An Enormous Inflatable Ketchup Bottle in City Hall Park
Tiffany Jow |
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If the thirty-foot-tall blow-up bottle of ketchup nestled inside City Hall Park interrupted your daily trek to work last week, don’t fret. The balloon is part of Common Ground, Public Art Fund’s annual summer art spectacular.

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