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The Dumbo Arts Festival is this weekend!

dumboartsfestival.com | 2011.

Scaramouche Gallery.

Seher Shah: “Object Anxiety”

September 7 — October 30

Opening: September 7th, 6-8pm

New York Philharmonic: Koyaanisqatsi live.

Lose yourself in Philip Glass’s powerful music for the 1982 Godfrey Reggio film Koyaanisqatsi: A Life Out Of Balance, performed live by the Philharmonic and the Philip Glass Ensemble, as the landmark film is projected on a huge screen above the Avery Fisher Hall stage.

“New York Writes Itself” is an ongoing series of creative productions fueled by the real people of New York — what people see and hear in the city is recorded as a ‘script’, which forms the inspiration for music, creative writing, art exhibitions and more.

New York Writes Itself

Lehmann Maupin — Exhibition — Do Ho Suh.

Doh Ho Suh @ Lehmann Maupin

Home within home

Opens September 8

U B U W E B — Film & Video — Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century (1994).

Great documentary on the Bauhaus. Also, check out the Ubuweb site. Lots of interesting work on it.

The Bauhaus school of design, craftsmanship and architecture, founded by Walter Gropius at Weimar in 1919, was largely responsible for revolutionizing the structure of art school tuition, and its basic tenets of design are now a modern commonplace. This documentary covers the full range of the work of the Bauhaus, which encompassed architecture, design and disciplines as varied as pottery, weaving, theatre and ballet. It also appraises the effect that the Bauhaus’s revolutionary method of workshop instruction had on the creativity of the students. The film brings together thought-provoking comment from architects, teachers, ex-students and current experts on the Bauhaus, and includes amusing anecdotes and vintage footage of the work of its founding members.

Philip Johnson … Himself
Walter Gropius … Himself (archive footage)
Wassily Kandinsky … Himself (archive footage) (as Vasily Kandisky)
Gerhardt Marx … Himself (archive footage)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe … Himself — architect (archive footage)
Michael Siebenbrodt … Himself — Weiman Bauhaus
Kurt Kranz … Himself — former Bauhaus student
Peter Hahn … Himself — Bauhaus Archives
George Adams … Himself — Bauhaus student
Frank Whitford … Narrator (voice)
Charles Jencks … Himself — art historian
Christopher Frayling … Himself — Royal College of Art
Alec Armstrong … Himself — former Bauhaus student
Gillian Naylor … Herself — Royal College of Art
Frank Whitford … writer

Chun Kwang Young creates incredibly complex sculptures from foam and paper. Mesmerizing.

Otherworldly Paper Sculptures by Chun Kwang Young | Colossal.

Amazing installation by Ryoji Ikeda at the Park Avenue Armory.

Installation at the Park Avenue Armory

Here’s a video:

http://vimeo.com/24029094

http://www.armoryonpark.org/index.php/programs_events/detail/ryoji_ikeda/

I have not seen anything this amazing since Hiro Yamagata’s installation at ACE Gallery in 2001.

Here’s a link to an article on that show:

http://thred.org/2010/01/hiro-yamagata/

The British theater group Punchdrunk is currently performing Sleep No More in a former nightclub in Chelsea. I can’t recommend it enough. In fact, I just bought tickets to attend again. Do yourself a favor and don’t read any reviews before you go. Also, wear shoes you can run in.

Coachella teamed up with the Creators Project to completely reconceptualize the festival this year.

The Creators Project | Technology and the Brightest Young Minds in Music, Art, Film, and Design.