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BSA Film Friday: 01.13.23

BSA Film Friday: 01.13.23

January 13, 2023 ,
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. Nick Cave: Forothemore via Guggenheim Museum
2. Reckoning with Grief at the Water Park / Black Slide / A short animated film by Uri Lotan
3. BEATLES, AUTOMATA by Daniel Bennan

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BSA Special Feature: Nick Cave: Forothemore via Guggenheim Museum

Home of HOUSE; young, queer, black folks made the nights come alive and stay pumping all night long in Chicago when Nick Cave was coming up. Style was everything, performance, and happenings with all the trappings – a place to let it all blast outward in search of form. Whatever is holding us down on this earth, Nick Cave provides a portal into how we may supercede it all.

Nick Cave: Forothemore via Guggenheim Museum

Reckoning with Grief at the Water Park / Black Slide / A short animated film by Uri Lotan via The New Yorker.

Grief hits you in the strangest places, including in water parks. When it does, you better just go with the flow, baby.

BEATLES, AUTOMATA by Daniel Bennan

Eventually everything becomes folk art, no matter how revolutionary you initially perceived it to be. Here artist Daniel Bennan carves these mop headed earthshakers into a Beatrola.

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A Grand Spring 2021 : NYC Beckons You to Public Space and Museums

A Grand Spring 2021 : NYC Beckons You to Public Space and Museums

March 24, 2021

A year ago NYC went into complete lockdown. Spring went on without us. Holed up in our homes we missed the burst of new life such as the myriad of flowering trees of New York, pear trees, peach trees, cherry trees, magnolia trees, the empress tree, dogwoods…

We missed the daffodils and the tulips on the sidewalks and the wisteria vines climbing on the front of brownstones. The burst of color and fragrances that permeate the city during the Spring is unmistakable. Nature comes alive and with it our desires to go out and celebrate the new beginnings.

Spring is also a cultural season. New exhibitions open and with that, the cultural life of the city begins in earnest. Indoor and outdoor cultural offerings abound with you presented with many choices to select from.

Now there’s an optimistic feeling of a renaissance after a year of sacrifices and suffering, loss and despair.

Most of the city’s museums, gardens, and parks are open to the general public in a limited capacity. Please always check with the institutions’ guidelines and policies before you go. Most if not all of them have requirements that must be observed prior to visiting. So please plan your visit and have fun.

Central Park NYC
Cherry Blossom Festival NYC 2021
New York Botanical Garden
The High Line
The Brooklyn Museum
The Metropolitan Museum
https://whitney.org/
The Whitney
The Bronx Museum
MOMA Museum
https://www.mcny.org/
Museum of the City of New York
The Guggenheim
https://www.elmuseo.org/
El Museo
Times Square Arts
Shakespeare in the Park
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BSA Film Friday: 03.22.19

BSA Film Friday: 03.22.19

March 22, 2019 ,

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :
1. PHLEGM – Mausoleum of Giants – A Behind the Scenes View
2. Hamburger Eyes; A documentary by Aaron Rose
3. Conor Harrington / American Flag
4. Fujito Nakaya. Fog Sculpture #08025 (F.O.G.) 1998. Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao.

BSA Special Feature: PHLEGM – Mausoleum of Giants – A Behind the Scenes View

Delicious Clam Records, Bal Fashions Speakeasy, Plot 22...

How long has this been going on?

According to Doug at Fifth Wall TV Sheffield has been in the thick of it as a cultural hotbed of music and art for quite some time – with artist collectives and installations like this new one in an old ironworks building by Street Artist Phlegm.

“All of that combined means there is a really vibrant underground scene and we have a lot of D.I.Y. stuff happening” says Steve of @CADS Sheff – the grassroots formed team that activates spaces like this.

Don’t be a mardy bum then, let’s go and take a look at Phlegm shall we?

Hamburger Eyes

Street photography, when done well, can summon euphoria and nausea. Rather like a chain restaurant hamburger. Perhaps that is the inspiration for the name “Hamburger Eyes” for this eclectic collection of photographers from the San Francisco Bay Area, who capture the American fun and folly that you may have missed.

Just screened this month in New York at Metrograph with a Q&A with Ray Potes and Clark Allen, its a documentary by Aaron Rose (Beautiful Losers) that helps remind us why some people are drawn to cities, while others avoid it like limburger. With interviews, stills, and video the film brings to action the magazine by the same name that has just celebrated its 18th birthday, yo. Watch out! Legal age!


You can also watch the full film HERE

Conor Harrington / American Flag

The Irish Street Artist and muralist and painter has a go at the nationalism that blinds and could lead you to walk into traffic or off a cliff. We think.

Fujito Nakaya. Fog Sculpture #08025 (F.O.G.) 1998. Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao.

A foggy memory from standing outside the Guggenheim in Bilbao a few weeks ago. This fog sculpture is activated periodically, and if visiting school students are nearby, the excitement is multiplied! Video by Jaime Rojo.

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