The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is pleased to announce:
The 8th Annual Music and Film Benefit
at Santos Party House
Includes amazing art works for auction.
For this year’s benefit, the Coop will feature a host of talented and renowned artists & musicians.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette St., below Canal St.
doors open 7 PM
Tickets $35
BUY TICKETS HERE:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/442412
OUT OF THE BOX
Olivier Babin & Harold Ancart, Peter Coffin, Amy Granat, Heather Guertin, Matt Keegan, George Maciunas, Alexandre Singh
Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis
Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
September 15–30 (for appointments, call 917.319.0614)
Opening: Wednesday, September 15, 6–8 pm
The point of departure for the exhibition is a box that George Maciunas left at his death to Jonas Mekas. Its uncatalogued contents include
numerous slides that document works by Maciunas, many of which have never been exhibited: his cross-dressing performances at private parties;
photographs of Ginger Island in the Caribbean, which the artist hoped to buy and develop into a Fluxus colony; and Twelve Big Names, 1973, a
sequence of just that (“YOKO ONO” and “ANDY WARHOL,” among them).
Harry Stendahl and Jonas Mekas in happier days
from the July 13, 2010 NY Post:
The owner of Chelsea's Stendhal Gallery swindled two famed artists to fund his extravagant lifestyle - including paying off a $90,000 bill at Cipriani Downtown, court papers claim.
The artists, "godfather of avant-garde cinema" Jonas Mekas and designer Paula Scher, charge that Harry Stendhal sold their pieces without giving them their cut and is holding millions of dollars more of their work hostage, according to lawsuits they filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The pair say that when they confronted Stendhal, he retaliated by barraging them with profanity-laced e-mails.
