Last week, NME published its last print issue.
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Above: David Byrne in Paris, July 28, 1979.
Below: Paul Weller in Chicago, March 8, 1980.
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CLUB 57 AT MOMA — OPENING NIGHT
Eric Marciano—director of The Age of Insects and four other films in MoMA’s collection—reports from the opening night of the museum’s new exhibition CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983:“The reception at MoMA was stunning! I know that we will never again see that group of people together in one place at one time: Andre Degas, David Ilku, John Kelly, David Byrne, Bianca Bob, Chris Tanner, Alexa Hunter (Disturbed Furniture), Tessa Chua, Bob Carrithers, Marty Abrahams, Abel Ferrara, Michael Holman, Scott Covert, Henny Garfunkel, Scott Wittman, Art Labriola, M. Henry Jones, John Waters, Tish & Snooky (Manic Panic), Kenny Scharf, MoMA curators Ron Magliozzi and Sophie Cavoulacos, and guest curators Ann Magnuson and John “Lypsinka” Epperson were among the many in attendance. (Ignacio Valero—who was covering the bike path attack downtown—and Bill Brovold were unable to attend*)
“MoMA went all out. Truly a deep dive into one of the great scenes that was occurring in tandem with other great scenes. The show reveals an energy and crazy intensity in the art—people expressing themselves in an analog era when it took time to do art. Such an eclectic group came to admire and celebrate the work and reminisce about those vibrant (and dangerous) days. The Lingerie Family painting from The Age of Insects is one of the seminal works, with a video of Frank Holliday‘s eye taking the place of the lost original.”Two days before the opening, participating artist Richard Hambleton died at 65.
CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983, through April 1.MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.*Bill Brovold, Victoire Taittinger, and Barlo Perry starred in The Jimmy Donahue Story (1982), written and produced by Ignacio Valero and Eric Marciano, and directed by Marciano—a participating artist in the CLUB 57 show.
Ann Magnuson at Club 57, circa 1980. Photograph by Robert Carrithers.
FOR THE PUBLIC
Founded by the late, legendary Joe Papp, the Public Theater has been an essential space for game-changing, socially engaged theater for over fifty years. Led for the last ten years by artistic director Oskar Eustis (director of an explosive new Julius Caesar, updated to the Trump Age), the Public—with its downtown stages, Joe’s Pub venue, and the annual summer Shakespeare series in Central Park—continues to produce innovative, prize-winning work: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s Fun Home, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s Here Lies Love, etc.
On Monday, June 5, join Eustis and executive director Patrick Willingham as they celebrate the legacy of the late LuEsther T. Mertz—an unparalleled early champion of the Public Theater—with a one-night-only gala, HAIR TO HAMILTON: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF REVOLUTIONARY MUSICALS FROM THE PUBLIC THEATER.
This 90-minute concert is directed by Daniel Sullivan, and performers include: Sasha Allen, Brian d’Arcy James, Nikki M. James, John Lithgow, Kevin Moon Loh, Mary Kate Morrissey, Diane Phelan, Paris Remillard, Anika Noni Rose, Phillipa Soo, Eric Lajuan Summers, Will Swenson, Kirstin Villanueva, and Dan’yelle Williamson.
HAIR TO HAMILTON, Monday, June 5.
6:30 pm — Drinks and dinner. 8 pm — Concert. 9:30 — After-party
DELACORTE THEATER, CENTRAL PARK, West 81st Street and Central Park West entrance, New York City.
publictheater.org/Support/Events/Gala/
JULIUS CAESAR, nightly at 8 pm, June 6 through June 18. Dark Wednesday, June 14.
DELACORTE THEATER, CENTRAL PARK, West 81st Street and Central Park West entrance, New York City.
publictheater.org/Julius-Caesar/
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