The Art Monastery Project Fundraiser Galla

“The Art Monastery Project, an arts production house and artist's community in a monastery in Italy, is coming to the Big Apple! Come and meet the Alpha Team, see the art, hear the music, watch the dance. An evening jam-packed with entertainment, silent art auction, tasty Italian tidbits, and more!”

Saturday, April 12; 7:00pm

Shepard Hall at the City College of New York's Architectural Center
Convent Avenue near 138th Street, 3rd floor

Rsvp: ben@artmonastery.org

$20 student
$40 suggested
$60 deluxe (includes a drink ticket and an entry for the door prize) Paul Chan: The 7 Lights – Lecture at New School

“Paul Chan's series of seven digital projections recounts the story of Genesis in light and shadow. Silhouettes of familiar objects drift either skyward or down to earth, cast onto the New Museum's floors, corners, and walls. Occasionally, a human form plummets in the opposite direction, or a bird cuts a new trajectory. The creation story oddly incorporates apocalyptic images of war, 9/11, and the Rapture, with objects standing in for the saved and bodies falling faster than cars or AK-47s. The videos are complemented by new drawings, and a canvassing of Manhattan and Brooklyn with thousands of anonymous, visionary poems.”

– Joel Withrow

April 9 – June 29

Wednesdays (noon–6pm)
Thursdays–Fridays (noon–10pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)

New Museum of Contemporary Art (235 Bowery, 212.219.1222)

http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2008/4/9/paul-chan-the-7-lights

Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum

“The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist’s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space.”

Now through July 13th

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/arts/design/02mura.html?_r=1&8ur&emc=ur&oref=slogin