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July's Destination Chelsea Culture Choice: The Joyce Theater

Each month, Destination Chelsea highlights one of our 23 Chelsea cultural ambassadors.  The monthly Culture Choice delivers world-class artistic programming in the heart of Chelsea, as well as discounts exclusive to DestinationChelsea.org visitors!

We're pleased to bring you our July Culture Choice, The Joyce Theater. The Joyce Theater has proudly served the dance community and its audiences since 1982. One of the only theaters built by dancers for dance, The Joyce Theater has provided an intimate and elegant New York home for more than 290 domestic and international companies. The Joyce has also commissioned more than 130 new dances since 1992. The Joyce Theater now features an annual season of approximately 48 weeks with over 340 performances for audiences in excess of 135,000.

Sign up for the Destination Chelsea newsletter to enjoy a free drink at The Joyce Theater's lobby bar with the purchase of each ticket to see Pilobolus starting July 12. Before or after you attend the show, indulge in sophisticated contemporary Japanese tapas at Chelsea favorite, Matsuri. Show your Pilobolus ticket stub to receive 20% off your meal! ACT NOW! This special offer is only available this month, while The Joyce Theater is our Culture Choice. Read more about the show below.

 

 


 

The Joyce Theater presents Pilobolus

July 12–August 7
Mon–Wed 7:30pm; Thu–Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm

Tickets start at $10!

Pilobolus brings a powerful line-up of new and classic works to its 23rd summer season at The Joyce. Much anticipated highlights — which include Hapless Hooligan in "Still Moving", a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman; Hitched, a fast duet about love, marriage, and nostalgia; Contradance, a collaboration with Grammy Award-winning family music man Dan Zanes; and return hits from last year's sold-out run, will launch the 40th Anniversary celebration of this American legend.

The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street)
New York, NY 10011
JoyceCharge: 212-212-0800

To purchase tickets and to see a full program schedule, please visit JOYCE.ORG

Photo: John Kane


 

 

Today's Events:

Bardo

Rubin Museum of Art:

The transitional states between death and either the attainment of spiritual enlightenment or the return to the cycle of rebirth are explored in Bardo: The Tibetan Art of the Afterlife. For centuries, Tantric Buddhism has used tools that aid in the preparation for hallucinatory visions that appear in the afterlife. Only by recognizing these visions as illusory can buddhahood be attained.

Remember That You Will Die

Rubin Museum of Art:

Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures explores the concepts of death and the afterlife in the European and Himalayan traditions from about the fourteenth century to the present. Societies rooted in these cultures have developed complex notions of death, often with startling visual counterparts.

The 5th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons

We are pleased to announce that once again, Pure Vision Arts will be collaborating with the Fountain Gallery and the Survivors Art Foundation in The 5th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons. The exhibition will be held at Galerie BelAge in Westhampton Beach, New York from June 1 - September 6, 2010. There will be opening parties June 19th and July 24th from 5-8 pm.

We invite you to visit www.galeriebelage.com to learn more about the show and Galerie BelAge.  For questions regarding Pure Vision Arts participation, please call 212-366-4263, Ext 4222.  Many thanks.

Joan Mitchell Foundation

Cue Art Foundation:

 

From June 10th through July 31st

The Joan Mitchell Foundation 2009 MFA Grant Recipients Show

Tradition Transformed

Rubin Museum of Art:

Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine Tibetan artists featured each explore contemporary issues--personal, political, and cultural--by integrating the centuries-old traditional imagery, techniques, and materials found in Tibetan Buddhist art with modern influences and media.

The Absolutely Other

Curated by Miriam Katz

This group exhibition features New York-based artists who make work with, for, and about strangers. For each video, photograph, installation, and performance, artists cast out lines to remote neighbors who (wittingly or not) become active partners in creating the work. The resulting projects realign and sometimes undermine extant social relations and artistic intentions, engaging and confounding issues of authorship, exchange, generosity, and chance. Interactions both off site and within the gallery will continuously shape the exhibition’s content over the course of the show.

The artists in the exhibition include: Einat Amir, Daniel Bozhkov, Xavier Cha, Eteam, Hope Hilton, Nancy Hwang, and Dave McKenzie.

June 25 – August 7

FREE

Opening Reception: Friday, June 25, 6-8pm

Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6 pm; Sat 11-6 pm

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Pilobolus

Pilobolus brings a powerful line-up of new and classic works to its 23rd summer season at The Joyce. Much anticipated highlights — which include Hapless Hooligan in "Still Moving", a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman; Hitched, a fast duet about love, marriage, and nostalgia; Contradance, a collaboration with Grammy Award-winning family music man Dan Zanes; and return hits from last year's sold-out run, will launch the 40th Anniversary celebration of this American legend.

Tickets Start at $10

M-W: 7:30pm

T-F: 8pm

Sat 2pm & 8pm

World of Jazz III

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World of Jazz III

A summer Jazz-brunch concert series at Chelsea Art Museum

July 17- July 31, 2010, every Saturday at 12 pm

 

 

The Chelsea Art Museum is proud to present for the third consecutive year World of Jazz, a concert series, developed in collaboration with jazz saxophonist Lars Haake. World of Jazz features talented emerging artists on the New York Jazz scene, who focus on the distinctly international character of contemporary jazz.

Concerts take place in the museum’s exhibition space, where the visual and performing arts come together to create a truly unique cultural experience for audiences. The concerts are followed by a light brunch and discussion with the artists, in a friendly intimate setting.

 

Featured artists include: Pauline Jean, Mimi Jones, Lars Haake, Shirazette Tinnin, George Burton, Daniel Ori, Logan Richardson, Fabian Almazan, Oz Noy, Ziv Ravitz, Elias Meister and Jeff Miles.

 

Ticket prices include museum admission

$20 general admission, $10 students / seniors, $5 CAM members

 

Please email programs@chelseaartmuseum.org with any other questions

 

http://chelseaartmuseum.org/

Open Portfolio New York Opening Reception

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Salon: July 22 - 24, 2010
Exhibition: July 27 - Sept 2, 2010

Opening Reception: July 22, 5 - 8pm

DJ Party at Hudson Hotel Rooftop:
July 22, 7 – 11pm $15

 

Elga Wimmer & Frère Independent are proud to present the second edition of Open Portfolio at the Chelsea Art Museum. A pool of thirty to forty selected emerging artists from around the globe will share directly with the public their most recent art works. All works will be unique, original, and challenging. Curator Elga Wimmer will lead a selection committee of contemporary art specialists. For three days artists will use a computer and their portfolio to present their work at the museum. At the end of the three days the artists will leave a selection of their works at the museum beginning a month long exhibition resulting from the three day salon and interaction with the public. Producers Elga Wimmer and Thierry Alet introduce here a new and dynamic way of promoting art. Open Portfolio is not just a show, an art fair or a biennial. It is a new format allowing for more proximity between the artists and the public at large.

 

Advance tickets are available - $8 general, $4 students/ seniors, FREE to CAM members.

 

For information please contact:

press@chelseaartmuseum.org

elga@elgawimmer.com -Curator Elga Wimmer

info@frereindependent.com -Frère Independent Tel. + 1 (212) 206-0006

Gateway to Himalayan Art

Rubin Museum of Art:

This new keystone exhibition equips visitors with a working knowledge of the principal concepts of Himalayan art, including important deities and symbols,  materials and techniques used in creating works of art, and the purposes and functions of these works in context. In October, a reproduction of a Tibetan shrine room will offer visitors a chance to experience Himalayan art in its cultural context.

 

 


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