All Tomorrow's Parties: June 4 - 10, 2007

Monday, June 4, 6:15 p.m.
Andy Warhol's rarely screened film Chelsea Girls is getting a workout this week.  It's being shown all week long at MoMA. (195 minutes)
The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues NY, NY

Tuesday, June 5, 8:00 pm
FIAF (French Institute Alliance Française) will present Satie and the Cinema, a special evening of 
music, film, art and poetry featuring renowned pianist Bruce Levingston performing and discussing the works of Erik Satie. 

The program will focus on the remarkable collaboration between the  brilliant and eccentric composer Satie and the great director René Clair with a screening of their 1924 silent surreal masterpiece Entr'acte. "The magical, innovative images and special effects of this ground-breaking film, combined with Satie's luminous score, make  Entr'acte one of the extraordinary artistic achievements of its time,"  says Levingston, who will give a rare live performance of the sparkling music Satie wrote to accompany the film. It is the first score ever  synchronized frame by frame for a film and the last piece of music that  Satie ever wrote.

Mr. Levingston will also perform some of Satie's earlier works including selections from the Gnossiennes, Gymnopédies, and Sarabandes as well as a complete performance of Sports et Divertissements, a unique collection of twenty pieces of music and poetry written by Satie to accompany twenty brilliantly colorful pochoir prints by Charles Martin published in 1925--a time when this print-making technique, also 
used by Matisse, Miro and Picasso, among others, was reaching its greatest height. A set of Martin's original prints for the work, once  belonging to composer Virgil Thomson , will be projected on a screen 
during the performance.
Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street NY NY,  Members $25, Non-Members $30, Students (w/ID) $25

Wednesday, June 6, 10:00 - 6:45
For our readers in Ohio, a retrospective of  the work of designer Charles James recently opened at the Kent State University Museum.   Eleven garments will be on display in the Museum's Alumni Gallery. These will include early pieces, such as a black satin coat created in 1943-1945 for the Elizabeth Arden Salon on New York's Fifth Avenue, to some quintessential 1950s day, cocktail and evening attire. Among the jewels of the Museum's collection will be the magnificent "Butterfly" and "Concert" evening gowns. The exhibit runs through February 2008.
Alumni Gallery in Rockwell Hall on the corner of East Main and South Lincoln streets on the Kent Campus, Kent, Ohio.


Thursday, June 7, 10:30 p.m.
Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny invite one and all to Kino 41. Kino 41 starlets: Amanda Leopore, Lady Fag, Moondust, Furey and Andre J. Cine Sounds & Show:  TBD.  Life is Like a Movie. Stop by every Thursday for your close up.
135 West 41st, NY NY

Saturday & Sunday, June 9 - 10, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.
The Big Apple BBQ Block Party. The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party brings people from all walks of life together to celebrate America’s culinary and musical traditions, real pit barbecue and live jazz, blues, bluegrass and rhythm & blues.
Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue between 23rd & 26th Streets, NY NY

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