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A Gathering of the Tribes Presents WHERE AM I? To inquire about the sculpture work visit us Friday- Sunday from 1-5, or make an appointment Monday-Thursday with the curator at 9086037517. The tactile experience of sculpture works by -LYNNE MAYOCOLE – BOB CLYATT – HEATHER WESTON – ILENE GODOFSKY – JOAN FINE- Opening Reception: FULL … Read more

Sunday December 11-  7PM -A Great Party! Tsaurah Litzky will read from her second major poetry collection, Cleaning The Duck just out from Bowery Books! Marjorie Tesser will read from her chapbook (it’s marvelous) The Magic Feather, recently published by Finishing Line Press. Musical entertainment will be provided by the great Joe Maynard, of the famous Maynard and … Read more

by Chris Heffernan Originally published in 1998 in Spain, Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez, now put out in paperback by Ecco, is a force of filth, and sensuality, of crime and poverty and the day by day fight not to overcome it but to simply survive it and move through its maze to … Read more

Wed@ 8:30 PoetryThinAir … George Spencer talking with Anyssa Kim Direction and Video by Mitch Corber. …………………………………………………………… We are uploading other shows to YouTube so you can watch them at your convenience at  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=poetry+thin+air+spencer&aq=f …………………………………………………………… The show airs every Wednesday night at 8:30 pm on Channel 67 (MNN/Manhattan Neighborhood Network) Note: if you live outside … Read more

You Can Never Go Home Anymore: The Conundrum of Pre-Apocalyptic Art

by R.H. Lossin The rain is coming down in sheets as a small group of sweaty people emerge from the windowless back room of a bar on East Houston. It is the after party for You Can Never Go Home Anymore, the inaugural exhibition of Louis B. James gallery and as we stand under an … Read more

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>>GL!TC<H**……..”””””’ after MoMA’s: “Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects” The MoMA / our MoMA. It’s almost irrelevant to make a visit. What once was a haven for the experimental & revolutionary has duly succumbed to the fate of every institution that makes profiteering it’s primary end. It has become large, … Read more

What Proust and the Priests Have To Do with the Poem Saint Genet by George Spencer   by Robert Mueller   This is a response.  Do not turn off your accelerators. The constitution of the self is a problem that will never go away, and it will never lack in aspects to explore for those … Read more

Book Launch for George Spencer’s Unpious Pilgrim …and Open Mic     Sunday November 13th 5-7pm at A Gathering of the Tribes 285 East Third St between Ave C&D       Come and hear George Spencer read from his new book of poetry,                                              Unpious Pilgrim       And Karin Randolph, painter turned poet, … Read more

Frieze Art Fair Report

by Janet Bruesselbach Frieze is the fourth art fair I’ve tasked myself with reporting. I’m not sure how extensively I should discuss the parts of it that are the same as all other art fairs. There is some absurdity to traveling to London for it, considering that the majority of the galleries exhibiting there are … Read more

“The Great Amorphous Spill” by Jessie Mac

The Great Amorphous Spill           Jessie Mac Review of DJED; Matthew Barney Gladstone Gallery Step into the Gladstone Gallery and over what seems to be a massive oil spill that has condensed into an amorphous mass of solidified wreckage. These forms come in at a weight of up to 47,000 pounds, … Read more