Holy Moly, Aaron Rose is at it again. And he’s got every single one of our friends involved.
Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present Projections, a festival of rare and hard to see films organized by Aaron Rose. Opening on Saturday, January 16th and running through February 20, 2010, Projections will feature short and feature length films by 31 of the most influential filmmakers of our time.
Opening night we will be screening selections from the PROJECTIONS program, as well as a very special outdoor projection of Jonas Mekas’ legendary 1968 16mm masterpiece, Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches. This film features appearances by Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Edie Sedgwick, Hans Richter, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Also for all of you who didn’t get a chance to see it We Were Once a Fairytale will be there too!
This should be a really amazing opportunity for those of you in the area to watch some truly rare gems. And the best part? It’s all free!
Significant Objects is a project that teams the art of antiquing with the creativity of some of the web’s best writing talents. Snatching an assortment of items found languishing in the dusty purgatory of America’s yard sale and thrift store netherworld, the project’s curators pair each object with a writer who is asked to write a fictional story shedding some light on the backgrounds of these doodads and trinkets. For instance, in the hands of stained glass artist Mimi Lipson, a strangely patriotic (bi-centennial?) mug advertising the Halston clothing line becomes a prop in an entry from the lost diaries of Andy Warhol. Given out as a party favor at the Dupont Brothers‘ birthday party, Warhol muses, “Maybe I should get some mugs made up for Interview. Are they camp?” Eventually, though, he decides that they’re tacky and then he ends up regifting it to Brigid Berlin. Sure, why not? It’s possible.
And the best part? You can bid for these “significant” objects on eBay and own your very own piece of fake history!
Hobnobbing with Warhol, Basquiat and Haring in the 80s, Kenny Scharf made a name for himself as a pop art painter and primo party planner, before leaving the downtown art scene to spend a couple decades working out west and raising his kids. Now he’s returned to the big apple with an installation has that transformed an ordinary Bushwick warehouse into an eye-watering masterpiece. He calls it a cosmic cavern, and it certainly is.
The other day someone sent us this video of Andy Warhol doing an electronic portrait of Debbie Harry on a Commodore Amiga. The subject line was “Why do I think this is so cool?.” Answer: because it is.
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