At Pompei A.D. we have a lot of different people in the office with incredibly varied tastes. Each week we share our weekend plans with each other. Here are a few of our recommendations:

Generation 1.5

Generation 1.5 is a new exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art featuring the work of Pompei A.D. Studio Director Randir Singh’s wife Seher Shah. The exhibition examines whether artists of the 1.5 generation (people who come to America when they are in their adolescence) present a particular orientation in their work as they are confronted by issues of immigration, cultural dislocation, memory, hybridity, acceptance, and exile in their everyday lives.

Participating Artists: Ellen Harvey, Pablo Helguera, Emily Jacir, Lee Mingwei, Shirin Neshat, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Nari Ward and Seher Shah.

Reception: Sunday, June 10th, 3pm -6pm
Exhibition through June 14th, 2007

Queens Museum of Art
New York Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, New York

The Year of Magical Thinking on Broadway

“The Year of Magical Thinking,” a new play written by Joan Didion based on her celebrated memoir, is coming to Broadway in a strictly limited, twenty-four-week engagement, starring one of the world's greatest living actresses, the Academy Award and Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave.

Directed by Oscar nominee David Hare (The Hours), this heart-rending and ultimately inspiring new work is already the most anticipated of the spring season.

Redgrave re-lives that unimaginable night in Didion’s life when her husband of 40 years, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly of a massive coronary as they sat down to dinner in their New York apartment. With raw candor and a storyteller’s gift for the absurd, Redgrave tells Didion’s story of unfathomable grief as lived in a thousand details.

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage, told with raw candor and a brilliant storyteller's gift for the absurd.”

Now through June 30th, 2007
Wednesday through Sunday 8pm
Thursday and Sunday matinee 2pm

Limited availability of tickets $165-$210 Red Hook/Carroll Gardens Open Studio Tour

Pompei A.D.’s Scott Faucheux is participating in the BWAC sponsored self-guided tour through artists’ studios this weekend in Brooklyn, NY.

Saturday and Sunday, June 9th and 10th from 12-6pm

For directions check out the map:
http://www.bwac.org
Andy Goldsworthy: White Walls

In White Walls, Andy Goldsworthy will cover the entirety of the walls in the main space of Galerie Lelong with a smooth, white porcelain that will dry and crack over the course of the exhibition. Regeneration, presence and absence, and the passage of time—hallmarks of Goldsworthy’s work—are pervasive forces in what is his sixth exhibition at Galerie Lelong. The final touches will be made to the walls in the early hours of Tuesday, May 8, before the gallery opens to the public. A reception will be held on Saturday, May 12, from 6 to 8 pm, and the artist will be present.

May 9 - June 16, 2007

Galerie Lelong
528 West 26th St.
212 315 0470

Andy Goldsworthy Documentary: RIVERS & TIDES

"As part of THE GREEN, Sundance Channel presents a series of documentary films focusing on timely and pressing environmental issues of the day.

During the past quarter-century, Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy's mastery of a medium he largely pioneered has earned him world recognition. With objects found in nature - rocks, twigs, icicles, grass - Goldsworthy constructs imaginative outdoor sculptures ranging from massive stone towers to delicate chains of leaves floating on a stream. Thomas Riedelsheimer's enthralling documentary profile captures Goldsworthy's painstaking creative process and presents an invaluable visual record of his art, much of which is extremely short-lived."

Friday, June 8th 12:35am, 10:35am
Sundance Channel



Atlantic Avenue Artwalk

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk is a self-guided tour of open artists’ studios and area exhibitions, a range of public art projects, special events, and extensive local merchant participation. The tour provides a relaxed setting for dialogue, collecting, and for artists to discuss current bodies of work, while offering a glimpse into the creation process.

Saturday and Sunday, June 9-10th
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

http://www.atlanticavenueartwalk.com/psa/

Literary Magazine Fair

The 8th annual Lit Mag Fair! Choose from hundreds of magazines from all over the country on sale for only $2 each, and hobnob with many of the editors who’ll be there in person to meet and greet.

Whether you’re taking advantage of the sample-sale size discount or sneaking your poetry into editor’s pockets, don’t miss the biggest lit-mag event of the year! Take home armfuls of heavily discounted merchandise and tell your groaning bookshelves that all proceeds go to Housing Works, Inc. and to The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Sunday, June 10 at 12-5PM

Housing Works Used Books Cafe
126 Crosby Street, NYC 10012
(212-334-3324)

5th annual NYC Big Apple Barbecue Block Party

The Big Apple BBQ brings people from all walks of life together to celebrate America’s culinary and musical traditions, real pit barbecue and live jazz, blues, bluegrass and rhythm and blues.

June 9th and 10th, 12 noon-6pm
Madison Square Park

Sonic Pong Exhibition

Andrew Milmoe's Sonic Pong is an Interactive Audio Game Platform on view as part of the 2007 New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference

Saturday, June 9th - Noon - 3:00pm
At Eyebeam: 540 W. 21st Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.