All the goods you need to tuck into this weekend: macadamia nut brittle, apple pie, and John Cage.

FRIDAY

Abrons Arts Center presents Macadamia Nut Brittle, a play by Stefano Ricci and Gianni Forte that is based on text by Dennis Cooper. Macadamia Nut Brittle is part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival (June 7-15), aimed at opening dialogue around the meaning of “queer” in the arts world.

. . . As Apple Pie, a new exhibition opens at the Whitney, presenting various works that explore notions of national identity, showcasing a rotating cast of artists, including William N. Copley, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton, Willard Midgette, LeRoy Neiman, Joseph Pennell, Charles Ray, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Stow Wengenroth.

SATURDAY

In continuation of Darmstadt, Issue Project Room presents an evening of the music of John Cage, performed by The String Orchestra of Brooklyn in celebration of Cage’s centenary year.

SUNDAY

The Brooklyn Museum hosts Panel Discussion: Keith Haring’s Artistic Language, featuring panelists Dr. Robert Farris Thompson, John Ahearn, Eric Haze, and Dr. Marin Irvine, who will explore the work of Haring as it has evolved over time.

LITTER: A Queer Reading Series presents a reading with author Michael Cunningham and poet CA Conrad. Cunningham is slated to read from a work-in-progress, while Conrad will read from his new book of poetry, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon.

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Teetering on the edge? We are here to save you!

MONDAY

Alexander Melamid, in conjunction with (Art) Amalgamated, has opened a new branch of the Art Healing Ministry in Chelsea, the idea being that art can heal the many psychological, emotional, and even physiological ailments that plague our society today. As it says on the website, “In Art We Trust!”

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe is hosting a party this evening for Book Expo America, featuring many authors including, but not limited to, Emma Straub, Kate Christensen, Jennifer Egan, and Justin Taylor. Don’t miss this “Bookrageous Bash”!

TUESDAY

Bill Bollinger’s installation at Algus Greenspon is on view for just a few more days! (Exhibition ends June 9.) Don’t miss the chance to see works by this artist who is often associated with the likes of Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman.

WEDNESDAY

The Center for Fiction is hosting a special pairing of authors Joyce Carol Oates and Richard Ford for an evening of discussion focusing on their respective new books and what it means to be a writer. Get your literary fix here.

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Your bi-weekly forecast of events, openings, happenings, shakedowns, showdowns, and hoedowns around town.

FRIDAY

Take to the streets with Bushwick Open Studios, a neighborhood event that brings artists and performers together and invites viewers into the inner sanctums (sancti? sancta?) of the studios where all the brilliance is created. Equal parts art fair, festival, and block party, BOS promises good amounts of community celebration and inspiration. BOS starts today and goes through Sunday!

While you’re exploring all BOS has to offer, be sure to check out Parallel Art Space, where Amanda Valdez and her collective will be featured with their inaugural show, Same Same but Different.

Another highlight of the weekend, in conjunction with BOS, is Bushwick Basel, a smaller scale fair in its own right, which will be held at Jules de Balincourt’s studio, Starr Space.

SATURDAY

Creative Destruction continues at The Kitchen, with a panel discussion at the Whitney on the reformulating of public space in relation to recent global protest movements.

The Robert Miller Gallery is featuring a stunning triad of artists in the current exhibition: Diane Arbus, Bill Henson, and Robert Mapplethorpe. In addition, Yayoi Kusama is in the Project Room of the gallery.

SUNDAY

Wind down easy on a Sunday afternoon by heading over to the Miguel Abreu Gallery to check out the current exhibition, which brings together six artists working in a wide range of media and drawn together by the common theme of Surface Affect. The show will be up until June 24.

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There’s no time to waste!

MONDAY

Check out the latest Tom Sachs installation, Space Program: Mars, in which the artist and his team enact a Mission to Mars! Interactivity, DIY, multimedia, and the extraterrestrial. A great combo if you ask me.

TUESDAY

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe is hosting a reading for the recent publication of the Lowbrow Reader Reader, an anthology of New York’s very own comedy journal, the Lowbrow Reader. Laugh a little with comedians Wyatt Cenac, Adam Green, and Supercute.

WEDNESDAY

“Get Strange” with a discussion at the Whitney Museum on the relationship between contemporary art and the debunking of social, political, and economic institutions through public performance and display. On the panel are artists Nora M. Alter, Hans Haacke, Liz Magic Laser, and Graham Parker.

The discussion is taking place in conjunction with the Creative Destruction exhibition at The Kitchen, which will feature events throughout June. Stay tuned to BOMB Alert for more info!

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Here’s the latest and the greatest for this weekend’s entertainment:

FRIDAY

Performance artists Andrew Dinwiddie and Michelle Ellsworth will perform together at Danspace Project, a collaboration that promises to be raucous, entertaining, zany, and maybe a little weird. But weird is good, right? Right.

Times Square Arts presents Chorus, a new public art installation by Kiki Smith. Rainbow-colored star clusters made of various types of cut glass, sparkling in the sunshine, dazzling you . . . sounds lovely.

SATURDAY

Something sweet? Kissing! In her presentation—ahem, The Kiss —at Location One, Maria José Arjona utilizes sound, video, and performance to explore in depth and dissect this ubiquitous act of connection.

The exhibit An Accumulation of Information Taken from Here to There is on at Sperone Westwater, highlighting several American and European artists who worked in the ‘60s and ‘70s, experimenting with then-new artistic forms and procedures.

SUNDAY

“Folds of skin, an opened armpit, a tuft of hair, the delicate veins in the hand—” This is just a taste of the new work on display in the Lobby Gallery of the New Museum by New York painter Ellen Alfest. Don’t pass up a chance to check out this thought-provoking presentation, entitled Head and Plant.

Peter Watkins’s film Punishment Park is on screen at the Spectacle, a documentary made in 1970, dealing with cultural dissent, corruption within the United States military system, and civil and constitutional rights supposedly every American should be able to take for granted. Head over to the theater for a late-night dose of heavy reality.

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It might be rainy today. It might be rainy tomorrow. But it might not be rainy tomorrow. Either way, go do something.

MONDAY

Brooklyn native and rapper El-P is holding a record release party for his next album CANCER4CURE at the Santos Party House. TONIGHT! QUICK!

TUESDAY

President of the National Book Critics Circle, Eric Banks, moderates a discussion about possible changes to the architectural plan of the New York Public Library.

WEDNESDAY

The opening of Common Ground, which brings together the work of an international group of contemporary artists, celebrates art in the public realm.

Mark Dery speaks about the publication of his new book “I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams,” and more specifically discusses the relevant concept of “invisible literatures.”

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Don’t have a cow, man—there’s so much to do!

FRIDAY

If you’re feeling the need to traipse about the city, but with a little guidance, check out the 4th annual Hell’s Kitchen Studio Tours, an open house of sorts, where you’ll get to meet artists and see their work and workspaces. This goes on all weekend!

Come participate in a collaborative photo exchange. The artist, Kambui Olujimi, encourages viewers to bring a photograph of their own to swap with one of his. Show up and engage in some of that good old questioning of authorship! This event extends into Saturday and children are invited to participate.

SATURDAY

Honor the Lords of Literature on this day with several spectacular readings and events.

First, pop over to the Bowery Poetry Club for an installment of the Segue Reading Series, featuring Jena Osman, and one of our very own here at BOMB, Monica de la Torre. This series occurs every Saturday from 4-6 PM.

Then, continue on to the BookCourt for an evening of poetry, wine, and conversation hosted by the Pen American Center. This reading is affiliated with the NYC Lit Crawl, which also offers a wealth of information about literary events going on in the city.

SUNDAY

Head over to the Whitney Museum for a performance by K8 Hardy entitled Untitled Runway Show. No doubt this will be an entertaining and thought provoking multimedia event. Be sure not to miss it! And be sure to check out our article on K8 Hardy from the Spring issue of BOMB.

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What to do when all seems lost.

MONDAY

Apparently this week is Internet week. Click here for the full schedule of events. Learn how to achieve your every dream without ever leaving the glow of your computer. Really though, click that link and LOOK AT THOSE ARMS! That is the future, people. That is the light.

TUESDAY

For the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, horrendously ignorant young people: Ernie Kovacs is (was, but eternally) awesome. There’s a retrospective of funny things he did on TV at The Museum of the Moving Image. There’s also somebody named Edie Adams featured so she’s probably great too, but BOMB’s events secretary cannot vouch for her.

WEDNESDAY

The Three Points Make a Triangle exhibit at the Queens Museum ends may 20th! It is therefore urgent that you go there and see the gnarly art on display.

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Eat your vegetables, people!

FRIDAY

The work of Anne Collier is at the Anton Kern Gallery, but only through Saturday, so hurry on over there.

Same goes with the Nigel Cooke exhibit at the Andrea Rosen Gallery. Go see art! Make great haste!

SATURDAY

Rashaun Mitchell’s work is at Danspace. See that.

The Budos Band play those horns so hard and so funkily. They’re playing at The Bell House this Saturday. It will be, by every indication, a joy.

SUNDAY

Go see Patience (After Sebald) at the Film Forum. Everyone that this Events Secretary knows has read his stuff; this Events Secretary even slept next to The Rings of Saturn for three months (without reading it, however) (#osmotic learning). You probably gotta know about W.G. Sebald so at least see the movie.

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Because living slowly is a bleak kind of immortality.

MONDAY

Jutta Koether, artist of merit who’s featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, has a series of paintings, “The Fifth Season” at the Bortolami Gallery in Chelsea. The paintings are beautiful and interesting and the floors of the Bortolami Gallery are covered with red gravel.

TUESDAY

So there’s an event called Poetry & Pie. BOMB and Ugly Duckling Presse and others are hosting it. It happens on third avenue by seventh street. Deliciousness in mind and body awaits. Poetry & Pie! Matvei Yankelevich will be there and Matthea Harvey and a slew of other notables and worthies and even noteworthies.

Also! Ban college football? Definitely. But Intelligence Squared is hosting an Oxford style debate tomorrow on the subject. Motions will be filed, proper etiquette will be obligatory. It sounds like a doozy. Malcolm Gladwell and Buzz Bissinger will be arguing for the motion and some guy from Fox Sports and a former football player against.

WEDNESDAY

Maria Bamford is extraordinarily funny. I mean, watch this, and maybe you won’t think it’s funny, but that would be perplexing and troubling. She’s gonna be at the New School talking about cracking up and cracking up, two things central to the lives of most comedians. This should be TERRIFIC.

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Your idle hands are the BOMBlog’s playground.

WEDNESDAY

As part of Arika’s programming at the Whitney Biennial, Conceptual poetry assassins Vanessa Place and Craig Dworkin will read from their work, 4:45 to 5:45 PM. The Whitney website for the event warns that Place’s appropriations of rape trial transcripts are not recommended for visitors under the age of 18. Fox in Socks this is not. Leave the kids at home and go watch expressionism get put to bed.

If you’re the kind of person who prefers art in a poetry context to poetry in an art context, head instead to the Bowery Poetry Club at 5:30 PM. Here artist EJ Hauser and poet and BOMB Senior Editor Mónica de la Torre have collaborated on a work called BLIND SPOT for the Elizabeth Murray Art Wall project. An evening of text, image, and music in one of the city’s most venerable venues, plus the chance to pinpoint your macular hole? Priceless and potentially life-saving.

THURSDAY

Sous les pavés, subMercer. Get a little art-world starfuckery two floors underground at the first of Artists Space’s four consecutive club nights, NEIN POP, with DJ Princess Julia and a guest set by Matthew Higgs.

FRIDAY

The Poetry Project’s annual Spring benefit features poetry from erica kaufman, Dana Ward, and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and music from John Zorn and Thurston Moore. Proceeds from the benefit help fund the Project’s 80+ events each season, and sonically hopeful youths can try to stuff their demo tapes into Moore’s back pocket at the after-party in the Parish Hall.

SATURDAY

The Calder Foundation’s 12 hour marathon of visual and performance art, music, film and video, Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, kicks off at 2 PM. The programming takes as its inspiration a 1933 sound-making mobile that “conjures into space not a tangible representation of an object, but the disquieting experience of sound and anticipation.” If you’re already anticipating this, the space won’t be revealed until tomorrow, on the Calder Foundation’s website. You can however check out the impressive list of participating artists.

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Telling you what to do, days in advance, again.

FRIDAY

Artists Space is hosting Lucy Raven as part of the Whitney Biennial. Her talk’s called Standard Evaluation Materials; it’s about the techy and monetary underpinnings of movie making and the huge implications for touchy-feely-watchy people the world over. They, indeed, “embody a relationship between sensory affect, and its location within globalized systems of regulation and circulation.” Hey you unthinking apes! This is important!

And then to the Guggenheim! There’s more musical accompaniment to the John Chamberlain exhibit, and if this isn’t the twelfth time you’ve been over there, it isn’t clear why you read this events thing. Cold Cave will be playing.

SATURDAY

A mess of musicians and live painting and “rocknrollshrink sessions” is happening all Saturday afternoon at Grey Area. They’re calling it Sound Quality. Jennifer Coates will be there! and Jon Kessler! John Miller! David Humphrey! Aura Rosenberg! There are more, but that’s enough.

Lauren Bakst will be performing OR SOMETHING on Saturday as part of Danspace Project’s Draftwork. Click here for all the details.

SUNDAY

Head back to Artists Space because Jeff Nagy and Michael Sanchez will be talking about Jutta Koether’s The Seasons in relation to the diabolical doings of global finance. This too is probably really important! Also pertinent here is that Mr. Nagy is really nice to sit next to at work.

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This week is all about blind faith. Take the party plunge.

MONDAY

B.C. Edwards everybody! He’s reading at The Poetry Project tonight at 8PM. There is no description apart from that there’ll be no piano, which is delightful.

TUESDAY

Nite Jewel is playing at the Bowery Ballroom. This is an incredibly groovy track, shades of “More Than This” but maybe I’m hearing things. Really good things, at any rate.

WEDNESDAY

Slavoj, show us the way! The New York Public Library hosting the slobbering prophet will be talking about the protest movements of 2011, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (terrific title!).

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Just follow this one strange rule a Hungarian house-husband discovered and get the tummy you’ve always wanted!

FRIDAY

The Day He Arrives is opening at Lincoln Plaza. It looks like a movie about the profound weirdness of humble, awkward people doing humble things.

There’s a party tonight at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at Museum of Natural History. Simon Green, who performs as Bonobo, will be there and that is brilliantly appropriate. It’s $25, but this sounds like the best thing in the world.

SATURDAY

Go check out the Mira Schor exhibit at the Marvelli Gallery. She’s a feminist and a painter and other things too—a chimera of marvelousness.

SUNDAY

Hurry (but not before RSVPing at info at churnerandchurner dot com, you twits) to the open house of Stephen Posen work at the Gramercy Park Hotel. It’ll be airy and summery and swank in the very finest way. Summing up: RSVP and then go to 50 Gramercy Park North from 12 to 2 PM on Sunday, April 22nd.

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Because boredom isn’t cool if you are more than 8 years old.

MONDAY

Hong Sang-soo’s Oki’s Movie has its US debut at Maysles Cinema. It’s probably as funny, awkward and puzzling as human beings are. Or Hong himself.

Or else, because life is a series of bitter choices, go see Francisco Goldman at the 92nd street Y. Colm Tóibín will be making introductions. The 92Y is pretty great because they have cheap tickets not for students, not for 16 year olds, but people under 35! BOMBlog appreciates this policy because it makes one feel young.

TUESDAY

Prospective masters of the universe should attend New York Ideas, this Wednesday at the New York Historical Society. It’s hosted by an organization called The Aspen Institute, which sounds like a conspiracy of rich people. Everyone from Randi Weingarten to Grover Norquist’ll be there.

WEDNESDAY

McNally Jackon hosting John D’Agata in conversation with Heidi Julavits. D’Agata wrote The Lifespan of a Fact, a book about truthiness and non fiction. It looks like a really good book.

Also! Go celebrate the publication of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. The Poetry Project is hosting a super fantastic party starting at 8. RSVP and mention BOMB and you’re in for free!

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Have you ever eaten that white asparagus that looks like it’ll grow in the dark? It’s terrible and it isn’t even nutritious and when you eat it off a white plate you feel like you’re in a hospital.

FRIDAY

Pinocchio’s Ashes is opening at the Theater for New York City in the East Village! It’s about a no-good, book-burning future (present?).

If you happen to be in Amherst, Massachusetts, there’s the mighty fine Juniper Literary Festival, a new writing/ new writers extravaganza starting Friday at the UMass campus there. Amelia Gray, Anna Moschovakis, Paul Legault and Blake Butler will all be there. It’s kind of a deluge, a good deluge.

Also! Braden King’s movie HERE comes out today. It’s called here but in all capital letters; that isn’t just an incitement to click. There’s a terrific metaphor of cartographer as techy colonialist, and also really sexy things.

SATURDAY

There’s a rich tradition of any good party pretty much killing you. (By the way, BOMBlog just looked up bender: a wild drinking spree. Isn’t that terrific? A spree!) In that vein, Cheryl pledges to ruin your life; their website’s called cherylwillruinyourlife.info. They’re having a party on Saturday. They subsist on a spartan diet of fake blood and glitter. Read more about them HERE.

SUNDAY

Yo on Sunday go check out some garbage. A new exhibit called Trash Talk just opened at Spattered Columns consisting entirely of stuff that reasonable, uncritical people dump in garbage cans so that it’ll go away. Some of the stuff in this gallery is said to be bonafide gross! Besides working to stem the economy of superfluous crap, recycling is kind of the most important thing in the world. This is interesting and important.

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When the saints come marching in it will be dreary.

MONDAY

Riot grrrl and writer Laurie Weeks and poet-musician Elizabeth Reddin will be reading out loud at The Poetry Project.

TUESDAY

So this Molly Crabapple person locked herself in a hotel room for five days starting on her 28th birthday. She drew a lot and, more importantly, freaked out. She wrote a book about it and she’ll talk about it at McNally Jackson with Sarah Jaffe.

WEDNESDAY

Get scalped if you’re lucky at MoMa: Kraftwerk will be playing their album Radio Activity.

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It’s a BOMB ALERT!

FRIDAY

Hey BOMB readers: you’d probably like to watch Gerhard Richter paint. Yeah, you would.

On another, tremendously ambivalent note, there’s a new exhibit of art celebrating 50 years of the Rolling Stones. It’s really something (ugly) (sexy).

SATURDAY

Darren Bader will make you happy. All these people who review modern art keep writing about wanting to sing for joy when they see Bader’s exhibit at PS1. People who review modern art usually don’t do that. See this show.

Yo, also, click here. It’s beautiful and you don’t have to do anything but click.

SUNDAY

The reason people love the Brooklyn Bridge so much is the steel cables; walking over a gigantic structure hundreds of feet over a river wouldn’t be nearly as full of tourists if it weren’t for the lines it puts in the sky. Fred Sandback’s work captures the elegant essence of walking on the Brooklyn Bridge; he stretches strands of yarn taut across white rooms. It’s a refined kind of awesome. There’s an exhibit of his work at David Zwirner.

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There are so many good things. There are too many good things, really. It all leaves one feeling rather bad.

MONDAY

Class is back in session at The Brooklyn Institute, but the voluntary, life-enriching, only-have-sex-with-people-who-read-books type of class. You’ve got a week left to register for “Telegraphs, Pneumatic Tubes and Teleportation; Or, the Way We Communicate Now” starts!

TUESDAY

And Tuesday marks a week till the “Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project” class starts at The Brooklyn Institute — don’t let BOMBlog be misunderestimated about how gnarly, vivifying and broken-system-fixing their little institute is, and how aroused BOMBlog is by Benjamin-quoting.

WEDNESDAY

The Magnetic Fields, widely known to be the best band in the entire world, is playing at the Beacon Theater. DeVotchKa will be there too. Tickets are pretty pricey, but this should be staggeringly great.

THURSDAY

The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at NYU will host a bunch of people reading their fiction, but really good people. Diane Williams will be there!

FRIDAY

Have you ever wanted to be in a musical about orphans? To enact having no parents, but being plucky, and muting the pain of abandonment with song and dance? BOMBlog hasn’t, but the world is big and weird. So if you want that Kara Hearn can help. It’s also an interesting project about the strangulations of copyright laws and figuring out why everybody’s so suspiciously stoked on orphans. Apply immediately for a casting call!

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Peep this week’s selection of gnarly happenings.

FRIDAY

The sublime torment of little boys dealing with the all-consuming fact that their penises exist is everywhere these days. Everybody, however, is still pretty much terrified of female sexuality. Turn Me On , Dammit, coming out today, is a young woman’s side of the story. See more here.

SATURDAY

Ralph Lemon, choreographer extraordinaire, is taking over St. Mark’s Church for ten hours this Saturday, where more than a dozen people who can actually touch their toes (!) and are insanely attuned to their bodies and the stupendous things of which they are capable, will perform, free of charge.

SUNDAY

Ghetto Blasters! The Box That Rocks! The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art an exhibit up dedicated to boomboxes (boombox is just the flat, technical term for these things and even that is ridiculously badass). And while Do The Right Thing is an extremely bad movie, Radio Rahim is relevant here.

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Because if you aren’t enjoying New York enormously then you are just flat broke.

MONDAY

Dickie Landry will be playing a piece he composed for the John Chamberlain exhibit at the Guggenheim. Attendees are encouraged to wander around while Landry’s playing because there will be too many good things happening at once to sit down.

TUESDAY

Steven Erickson will be at Bookcourt talking about his book Zeroville, which sounds extremely weird in the very best way.

At exactly the same time (never sit down anywhere) The Kitchen will be hosting The New Inquiry’s celebration of itself and its new issue. They’ll screen Wild in the Streets and then talk about it and other things too!

WEDNESDAY

Laraaji’s twinkling, ambient jams and Blues Control’s lo-fi, dreamy mumblings (is this sounding anything like Pitchfork? I’m trying over here) will be at Roulette this Wednesday. That was another way of saying that their stuff is super great. Listen here.

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FRIDAY

Luis Gispert, who does ridiculously cool stuff like this (disclosure: I was interrupted and so haven’t watched that video past 2:30 but would be extremely surprised if it got any less terrific) will sign his ghettopulent new book Decepción for you from 5 to 7 at Waverly Place

Then go see Sara Driver’s Sleepwalk at The Anthology Film Archive! (!!) It’s excellent and dreamy and happy-making.

SATURDAY

Lisa, one hermana of the two hermanas that make Las Hermanas Iglesias is going to be at an “open studios” event at PS 122 Gallery which is to say souls will be bared and all shall be revealed. The Iglesias’ website, replete with good things, is here.

In other, marvelous, news Rachel Reese, indomitable champion of the BOMBlog, also organizes Possible Projects, which is exhibiting Eric Veit’s work starting this very Saturday. The exhibit is called Ponytail.

SUNDAY

So there’s this guy who sticks his gum all over the place and decorates bathrooms and offends minorities, this guy who takes misbehavior pretty seriously. This guy’s an artist, though. His name’s Dan Colen and he wants to teach your children in an avant garde art class. Tuition goes to charity. Death to timeouts!

Also on Sunday: what do you do to bring back a gnarly, avant garde opera and make it gnarlier than ever? Do it in Spanish! Moreover, do it in Spanish in a city where a lot of the audience doesn’t speak Spanish! Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives is now Vidas Perfectas. Understanding nothing whatever of what people are saying is the new frontier. It’s kind of like if the experience of showing up someplace a totally ignorant tourist, of feeling that preposterous, profoundly inconsiderate gulf between you and the locals, was art. It probably is. I think this sounds pretty ill.

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No reprieve from the parade of excellent happenings.

MONDAY

That things happen elsewhere (places not New York) continually amazes BOMBlog. Tonight is one of those nights: go to Westchester! For it is there that Apichatpong Weerasethakul, far from home and evidently a little off kilter, is in residency. The Jacob Burns Film Center up there will be screening half a dozen of Weerasethakul’s movies through April 8th; tonight is Tropical Malady, which is reportedly top notch.

TUESDAY

Hari Kunzru, that special breed of badass that turns down illustrious literary awards because they’re backed by racists, will be at the McNally Jackson bookshop in conversation with The New Yorker’s economics guy James Surowiecki to talk about Kunzru’s Gods Without Men and other things.

And then there’s an exhibit opening at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery called Mystics: A Blessed Rage for Order. Its conceit is bringing together eight artists—Chris Fennell, Matthew Franklin Wilson, Meg Hitchcock, Bernard Maisner, Rob de Oude, Jesse Pasca, Jen Stark and Mario Trejo—who are persnickety to the point of revelation. Theirs is a secular mysticism borne of “meticulous work through obsessive practice.”

There’s a lotta great stuff at this show; there’ll even be a q&a session called Mystics: The Artists Speak! The show will be up through April 28th.

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This weekend: The Museum of the Moving Image is kind of the best place in the world; there are also things elsewhere.

FRIDAY

“Today” opens tonight at Lisa Cooley’s Lisa Cooley Fine Art. The exhibit got its name and inspiration from Frank O’Hara’s exuberantly everyday poem of the same name, which name drops jujubes, kangaroos, sequins, chocolate milkshakes and harmonicas too, in 8 neat lines. The show, one hopes, will be no less bursting with good things.

And then there’s Touch of Evil playing at The Museum of the Moving Image! A gnarly showcase of most every depravity I can think of, this Orson Welles movie makes one think the Mexicans probably want that border wall too.

SATURDAY

Keith Haring! Keith Haring! The Brooklyn Museum has a new, fat show of his work! After you get your fill of kangaroos and harmonicas and pearls go see the overflowing happiness that are Keith Haring’s (!) paintings.

And then go back to The Museum of the Moving Image because more delight awaits: Hong Sang-Soo won’t going to talk much about why his movies are great, but the movies can speak for themselves. The Museum’s screening Woman on the Beach Saturday night.

SUNDAY

There’s a Francesca Woodman retrospective at the Guggenheim. Woodman was dead very young but she was very busy when she still wasn’t. Go see the fruits of her blistering labors.

And then go back to The Museum of the Moving Image again! There’s more Hong Sang-Soo to be watched. For the full skedj of Sang-Soo delight click here.

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Our friends at 651 Arts are hosting LIVE & OUTSPOKEN music, theater, and dance series and BOMB is proud to be their official media sponsor.

Our friends at 651 ARTS—a performing arts organization dedicated to the multi-faceted work of contemporary performing artists of the African Diaspora—are hosting two of modern dance’s incomparable legends, choreographer Garth Fagan and dancer/choreographer Judith Jamison. They will sit down for an intimate conversation about their ideas, inspirations, and careers in dance. Members of Garth Fagan Dance will perform excerpts of his work.

JUDITH JAMISON and GARTH FAGAN
Tue, Mar 13 | 7pm
Tickets: $20, $15
The James and Martha Duffy Performance Space 
at the Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn
Tickets

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Here’s to a terrific weekend.

FRIDAY

Choreographer Dean Moss is presenting ‘elements’ of a new work he’s creating with Laylah Ali at Danspace! It’s inspired by John Brown, the radical abolitionist who armed slaves and led insurrections until he was eventually caught and hung, accelerating the onset of the American Civil War. There’s also a smashing interview with Moss, who is also a very good talker, coming up in THE VERY NEXT ISSUE OF BOMB MAGAZINE! Stay tuned.

And if that is not your bag, then The Museum of the Moving Image continues its See it Big! series with North by Northwest. Because no TV is big enough for Cary Grant’s fine, fine face.

SATURDAY

The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and the Illustration Program at Parsons are screening Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. But they’re not gonna just screen this movie; a gnarly team of people who know about movies (Geoff Dyer! Phllip Lopate! Dana Stevens! several others!) will interrupt it every half an hour to talk about how great it is. The melding of talking and movie should be mind melding.

SUNDAY

Go to BAM and see Andrzej Zulawski’s Posssession. It is a very intense and unhappy movie. BOMBlog recommends seeing it with your divorced spouse and ample booze. Keep your mind strenuously open; it is a difficult but top-notch movie.

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This week, do things that are fun.

From Thursday to Sunday BOMB’s going to be at The Armory Show! We’ll be repping at the BOMBooth so come check us, and it, out!

TUESDAY

The New York Public Library, the really swank one on 5th avenue with the lions, is hosting a discussion about black America. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, who wrote Harlem is Nowhere, and Simone Leigh, a video artist and sculptor and radical ruminator on feminism, colonialism, and other extremely important things, will be discussing the issues while BOMBlog contributor Claire Barliant moderates!

WEDNESDAY

MoMa is retrospecting Lucian Pintillie’s movies this week, and this Wednesday they’ll be screening his Niki and Flo. MoMa loves this guy and so does my dentist—I’ve got this molar coming in sideways that tickles my cheek—but his news about Pintillie was cheering.

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Here is roaring selection of toothsome events for those who want to hunt with the big cats.

Friday

Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen’s 1967: A People Kind of Place is featured at ICA Philadelphia. Her work is a convergence of sci-fi and identity exploration, and you should definitely take a minute to think through her use of a UFO-landing pad on the Canadian countryside.

Saturday

Itching for a second night of thrashing around to Rangda’s psychedelic jams? They’re giving back-to-back New York shows this weekend, and that second back is a performance at le poisson rouge. The decidedly more chill (chiller? chillier?) Loren Connors will open things up.

Sunday

As the buzz surrounding the opening of The Hunger Games film grows ever louder, Jewish writers Ben Marcus The Flame Alphabet and Joshua Cohen take a moment to address its apocalyptic topics. The two prominent authors will lead a discussion about how the the Holocaust informs their recent fiction.

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Nothing says “seize the day” quite like a leap year. That’s why we’ve taken extra care in choosing this week’s events—they’re so fulfilling they’ll tide you over until 2016.

MONDAY

Poets Gracie Leavitt and Jennifer Nelson have the antidote to your post-Oscar scurvy. They’re joining together to read at The Poetry Project, and they promise to rep Brooklyn, Queens, and zines from everywhere.

TUESDAY

Sophia Knapp releases The Waves, her first solo album after five years in the Lights/Cliffie Swan enclave, today. The album has been heralded as “a pop vocal record of our time—reminiscent of melodic psych pop of the ’60s, Tropicalia ballads, chilly ’80s New York dance records, and the seduction of Stevie Nicks.” So, uh, we’re excited. Check it out at Drag City.

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We’ve got the scoop on this weekend’s key competitors, and here’s what you need to do before stepping into the ring with any of them: Get subversive, get lowercase, and put your fists up.

FRIDAY Read Lori DeGolyner’s interview with transgenderqueer choreographer, dancer, and massage therapist devynn emory before heading out to see this horse is not a home, a new piece that features weight-bearing movement and an 18-foot-long hair extension. Get your tickets and information here.

SATURDAY

Get ready to, you know, RUMBLE. It’s your last chance to catch Rashid Johnson’s quixotic exhibit at Hauser & Wirth New York. “RUMBLE” takes inspiration from the African-American prizefight promoter Don King and the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle,” and its location carries some extra resonance . . .

SUNDAY

Ryan McNamara likes to subvert the power structures of museums, and he wants your help. Still, his new exhibit at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, is soliciting viewers like you; says McNamara, “My favorite audience member would come twice: once to participate, and once to see the exhibition. Or every day. Well, my favorite audience member would come at least five times, to see all the performances.”

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