April 26, 2011
April 14, 2011
REFLECTING ABSTRACTION at VOGT
Seagull VIP client and curator extraordinaire (and possibly the only man ever to have had his hair set in a fingerwave at Seagull) Dean Daderko put together Reflecting Abstraction, a sure-to-be-amaze photography and painting exhibition opening tonight at Vogt Gallery in Chelsea. Sadie Benning, Abigail Deville, Nina Hoffmann, and Ulrike Müller comprise the piquant lineup. I love this moody poster for the show. The grand opening is tonight from 6-8 at 508 - 526 W. 26th St., #911.
From the curator's statement:
"Abstraction functions in an active space somewhere between object and mirror. It allows viewers a chance to see themselves, or a portion or aspect of themselves, as part of a bigger picture. Reflecting Abstraction investigates painting and photography’s abstract engagements with the figure and the shifting subjective positions that these relationships outline."
xo,
Molly,
April 08, 2011
April 01, 2011
Eileen Myles at PS1, Le Tigre at MoMA
So much SEAGULL VIP action percolating in MoMA's programming right now:
One of our favorites, poet/ writer/storyteller/cultural commenter and Seagull client Eileen Myles will read from the new "Failure" issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction at tomorrow's MoMA PS1 Saturday Session in a special lit-party edition hosted by Triple Canopy and Dalkey Archive.
Eileen Myles reads an excerpt from INFERNO (a poet's novel) from Rattapallax on Vimeo.
AND...the new Le Tigre documentary Who Took the Bomp? screens at MoMA this Monday April 4!
Le Tigre also represents in the Looking at Music 3.0 exhibition currently on view at MoMA. Their song "Bang! Bang!" is including in a listening station, and reading tables feature a grip of zines by Kathleen Hanna and Johanna. Get into Le Tigre at MoMA- the exhibition is up through June 6.
xo,
Molly,
March 11, 2011
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour DVD
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour debuts next week at SXSW! Part cinema verité tour diary, part concert film, part interview archive, and 100% epic time capsule, it's a collection of live Le Tigre performances and behind-the-scenes hijinks from all over the world culled from Le Tigre's 2004-2005 This Island tour. The official release is June 7th, but you can pre-order a copy from Oscilloscope Laboratories now. Rolling Stone posted a clip from the movie of the band performing Deceptacon, check it out!
xo,
Molly,
March 03, 2011
Moments With Gloria
This magick came into the Seagull filter today via the far-reaching filaments of Laura's witch web: an extremely blown-up, radically beatific Steinem portrait.
Once ensconced in Seagull, Gloria spent the day under a stately bower of orchids, observing the goings-on at the salon and emanating a general radiance. Then, in a totally unexpected move, she merged identities with Shaun.
Poise and power,
x & o,
Molly,
January 07, 2011
October 27, 2010
THE FEMALE GHOST
This Saturday October 30th see poet, fiction writer and Seagull client Eileen Myles speak at the New Museum for The Female Ghost, a discussion with fellow writers Renee Gladman (publisher of Leon Works) and Laurie Weeks (screenwriter for Boys Don't Cry and author of the upcoming novel Zipper Mouth) about "the apparitional quality of the female figure in literary history and the flickering presence of the narrator in their own new and upcoming books of fiction."
Three formidable writing talents discussing the spectrality of women in literature at promises to be a divinely apt cultural event for an afternoon on the eve of Samhain.
The Female Ghost: Eileen Myles, Renee Gladman and Laurie Weeks
Sat, Oct 30, 2010
3:00 PM
New Museum Theater
xo,
Molly,
October 08, 2010
SEAGULL CLIENT OF THE WEEK: JOANNE SANDLER
WOW.
We are so honored/excited that feminist champion Joanne Sandler came to Seagull this week for a haircut. As Deputy Executive Director of UNIFEM (the United Nations sector dedicated to women's human rights worldwide), she is one of the foremost advocates in the struggle to enhance women’s economic security and rights, end violence against women, reduce the prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women and girls, and advance gender justice in both the developed and the developing world--a feminist fighter on the world stage seeking to enhance quality of life for women/girls and eradicate some of the world's most deeply rooted problems. She captivated Shaun throughout the course of her haircut as they traded anecdotes, asides and 2nd-wave/3rd-wave banter. Plus she totally knew about Bikini Kill.
xo,
Molly,
September 14, 2010
GIRLS TO THE FRONT
Johanna wrote a full-page review of Sara Marcus's new book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution for the latest issue of Bookforum. It's an insightful, contextual and lovely (p)review of what looks to be an epic account of the movement/era that so many are reexamining today. Check it out.
xo,
Molly,
