L I T E R A T U R E

Literary Death Match
An Evening With Opium magazine

Tuesday, October 23 7pm
Tickets: $7

In conjunction with the release of its fifth issue, Opium magazine hosts one of its “literary death matches,”bringing together recent and past contributors for a humorously competitive event featuring a series of short readings. Guest star judges Ben Greenman, Amanda Stern, and Joshua Furst discuss their favorites in terms of literary merit, performance, and everything in between. Founded by Todd Zuniga and Elizabeth Koch, Opium is a literary humor publication that features fiction, poetry, cartoons, odd games, and quirky art. Started online in 2001, the print magazine has been published semi-annually since August 2005. For more information, visit www.opiummagazine.com.

Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

     

L I T E R A T U R E

An evening with Esopus

Tuesday, November 13 7pm
Tickets: $7

In conjunction with the release of its ninth issue, the semi-annual cultural journal Esopus hosts an evening of reading, screenings, and live music by recent contributing artists. Actor and director Tom Gilroy will read a screenplay by the late actor and film editor Jim Lyons titled A Short Film about Andy Warhol; the Brooklyn-based musical duo High Places (Mary Pearson and Robert Barber) will perform a short set of music including original material inspired by the dreams of an Esopus subscriber; and, in addition, the rare 1991 video Sisyphus by conceptual artist Kay Rosen and the short film The Skywalk is Gone by Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-Liang will be screened. For more information about the magazine, please visit www.esopusmag.com.

Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

           

P A N E L

Photo: Richard Prince, Untitled (couple), 1977, Ektacolor photograph (detail). Courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Re-Take:
A Panel on Art and Appropriation
featuring Michael Newman, Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others

Organized by Afterall

Tuesday, November 27 7pm
Tickets: $7

This panel discussion examines the use of appropriation in contemporary art, considering the various approaches to appropriation adopted by three different generations of artists spanning the 1970s to today. The panel will be moderated by art historian and writer Michael Newman, the author of Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) recently published by Afterall Books, and he will be accompanied by artists Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others.

Afterall is a non-profit research and publishing organization, supported by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, that publishes a contemporary art journal and a series of books. For more information, please visit www.afterall.org

Literature programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.