Arts In The City

SIX ACTIONS foreheads. It’s an WEEKLY PICKS

FOR NYC extension of the
Things might start reaction-inducing Bring two canned
to look strange style she intro- food items for reduced
around the city this duced in New York admission to Danspace
month. Imagine decades ago, when Project’s “Food for
500 toy robots the young artist Thought,” three
parading through would board the evenings of new work
lower Manhat- subway wearing from young, local
tan, or people egg-soaked clothes performers at St. Mark’s
Church. May 8-10.

dance
with enigmatic or crying. The Aus-
danspaceproject.org
phrases written trian artists’ col-

Time
backwards on lective Gelitin will The Met’s Costume
Institute explores Paul

Courtesy of Creative
their foreheads. also work with the
It’s all planned body, testing their Poiret, the innovative fin
as part of “Six physical limits by de siecle designer. Though
he couldn’t sew, Poiret
Actions for New digging and re-filling
called himself the “King
York City,” a series of holes on the Coney
As part of Creative Time’s “Six Actions for New York,” of Fashion,” and with his
art events celebrating Island beach all this bright modern designs, it’s
Austrian artists’ collective Gelitin will perform daily on the

fashion
the 33rd birthday of week. But while some hard to disagree. Through
beach of Coney Island from May 7-14.
Creative Time, the of the artists involved August 5. metmuseum.org
pioneering public arts “The initial feeling from art in the are dealing with the
organization. “Creative Time is ‘70s, in performance art, was to physical form, all six actions relate The Metropolitan
there to facilitate and be co-col- take it away from the commodi- directly to the city – whether that Opera presents the
first new production of
laborators for new relationships in fied object,” said Beasley. And means turning away from it or
Christoph Wilibald
the city” said Mark Beasley, one as in the ‘70s happenings, there asking people to come together. von Gluck’s “Orpheo
of the curators of “Six Actions,” are no objects for sale here, and “It’s the kind of possibility of al- ed Euridice,” in 35 years,
a month-long exhibition in which often, the body is used as a way lowing new desires to occur within this time with costumes
five artists and one collective will of engaging with the audience, the city, or new relationships to from designer Isaac
create new works relating to New said Beasley. Last week, first-gen- happen,” said Beasley. “In this Mizrahi. Through May

opera
York. In recognition of the ex- eration conceptual artist Adrian space called art, there is this mo- 20. metoperafamily.org
perimental, in-your-face style of Piper kicked off the actions, with ment where people can reevaluate
Artistic pioneers
the decade when Creative Time “Everything #10,” in which doz- ways of looking at the city; suggest
Gilbert & George
was born, co-curators Beasley ens of volunteers had the words other ways of being and living in
celebrate 40 years of
and David Platzker selected “Everything Will be Taken Away,” the city.” collaboration with a
artists working in a similar vein. temporarily tattooed onto their —Heather Corcoran new book “Gilbert &
George: The Complete
Pictures, 1971-2005.”
SPOTLIGHT Meet the artists before
This week, New York welcomes the newest arts a major retrospective
extravaganza on the block — the High Line Festi- goes on tour, stopping in
val. Curated by a different artist each year, for its New York in late 2008.
Aperture Gallery. May
signing

inaugural incarnation, the festival features musi-

12. aperture.org
cians, artists and films selected by guest curator
David Bowie. Highlights include performance
August Wilson’s most
art from local legend Laurie Anderson and mu- contemporary play, “Radio
sic from French duo Air, comedy from “Office” Golf,” opens on Broadway.
creator Ricky Gervais and photos by Claude Revisit the ‘90s with the
Cahun. And if that weren’t enough reason to acclaimed final chapter of
attend, five percent of every ticket’s price goes to Wilson’s decade-by-decade
the Friends of the High Line, a non-profit that examination of black life
supports development of the land into an elevated David Bowie, curator of the inaugural in 20th-century America.
theater

greenway. highlinefestival.com —H.C. High Line Festival. May 8 at the Cort Theater.
radiogolfonbroadway.com

10 • Resident The Week Of May 7, 2007