Puccini's most beloved opera features the return of "America's Tenor", Daniel Rodriguez as Lt. Pinkerton and Christina Rohm as Cio-Cio San.  Join the Chelsea Opera Chamber Orchestra for two performances only of this tragic story of a naive geisha who falls in love and is betrayed, a story that has caputure hearts and minds of listeners for over a century.

St. Peter's Church in Chelsea - 346 West 20th Street, NYC

Advance tickets:  use the promotional code "FOCO" for discounted general admission

$35 preferred, $30 GA, $20 srs/stdts

($45/$40/$25 at the door)

866-811-4111

www.ChelseaOpera.org

Pre-Show Talk May 16 at 6:30pm with Brian Rogers
Post-Show Talk May 18 with Cathy Edwards

For more information, please visit: http://newyorklivearts.org/event/Comme-Toujours-Here-I-Stand

For tickets: newyorklivearts.org/tickets or 212.924.0077

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/306/0/1/

Two Alike, a collaboration between Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson, is a meditative and visceral performance exploring the shattering effects of abused queer youth. Existing in an alter-space housing childhood fantasies and turbid adult obsessions, Ferver acts as the emotive flesh and voice inside of Swanson’s eerie mirrored set/sculpture. The performance twists and turns between past and present, with text ranging from pastoral prose to the jarringly confessional, and haunting choreography built from interviews between the two artists, improvisation, and states of trance.

Puccini's most beloved opera features the return of "America's Tenor", Daniel Rodriguez as Lt. Pinkerton and Christina Rohm as Cio-Cio San.  Join the Chelsea Opera Chamber Orchestra for two performances only of this tragic story of a naive geisha who falls in love and is betrayed, a story that has caputure hearts and minds of listeners for over a century.

St. Peter's Church in Chelsea - 346 West 20th Street, NYC

Advance tickets:  use the promotional code "FOCO" for discounted general admission

$35 preferred, $30 GA, $20 srs/stdts

($45/$40/$25 at the door)

866-811-4111

www.ChelseaOpera.org

Pre-Show Talk May 16 at 6:30pm with Brian Rogers
Post-Show Talk May 18 with Cathy Edwards

For more information, please visit: http://newyorklivearts.org/event/Comme-Toujours-Here-I-Stand

For tickets: newyorklivearts.org/tickets or 212.924.0077

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/306/0/1/

Two Alike, a collaboration between Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson, is a meditative and visceral performance exploring the shattering effects of abused queer youth. Existing in an alter-space housing childhood fantasies and turbid adult obsessions, Ferver acts as the emotive flesh and voice inside of Swanson’s eerie mirrored set/sculpture. The performance twists and turns between past and present, with text ranging from pastoral prose to the jarringly confessional, and haunting choreography built from interviews between the two artists, improvisation, and states of trance.

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/316/0/1/

Curated by denisse andrade, Liz Park, Tim Saltarelli, and Kristina Scepanski

Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program

“Creative destruction” initially described the periodic crises that cleared the ground for the creation of new wealth. More recently, the term has been interpreted by finance capital as the ability to profit at the expense of the majority and their livelihoods. The exhibition reclaims the phrase in order to emphasize the potential to reconfigure and rebuild from pre-existing language for different political purposes. The artworks take aim at how these signs perpetuate a constructed yet naturalized state of inequality. Similar to many of the recent global protest movements, they collectively engage in a critical analysis of the existing socio-economic and ideological order. 

With works by Melanie Gilligan, Hans Haacke, Alfredo Jaar, Liz Magic Laser, Raqs Media Collective, Kerri Reid, SUPERFLEX, and Fred Wilson, among others.

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

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/317/0/1/

Thu-Sat, May 31- June 2
Wed-Fri, June 6-8
Thu-Sat, June 14-16

The NTUSA’s The Golden Veil is a gothic parlor spectacle that tells, in multiple iterations, the familiar tale of a poor shepherdess seduced and abandoned by a would-be inventor. Part pastoral ballet and part backwoods jamboree, part Punch-and-Judy show and part forlorn testimony, part bleak exposé of the lives of the rural poor and part celebration of their lovely handicrafts, The Golden Veil conjures the intimacy of a séance and the abandon of a hootenanny. In the NTUSA’s inimitable style, The Golden Veil explores the ways that we use narrative to render the painful picturesque as it prods at the perverse underbelly of our nostalgia for “simpler times.”

Curated by Lumi Tan

Time and space in the urban setting are often highly regimented, with different moments and places typically allocated for specific behaviors, both public and private. Yet often overlooked in any such structure is the personal history carried within each individual, which inevitably informs her or his experience at the same time that it offers the possibility of reshaping the use of any site. Taking its title from anthropologist Mary Douglas’s analyses of how disturbances arise in the city’s physical contours and social order, Matter Out of Place presents new work by New York–based artists who observe, represent, and activate public sites, generating alternative relationships to such strictly defined spaces as the housing project, park, and museum lobby. Artists include Paul Branca, Frank Heath, David Horvitz, Fawn Krieger, Sara Jordenö (in collaboration with Amber Horning), and Anna Lundh.