SUNDAY 27
Hustle: to force (someone) to move hurriedly or unceremoniously in a specified direction. This shorts program examines the formal properties of the hustle. From transgender icon Bambi Lake to famed Parisian cat burglar Irma Vep (by way of Zackary Drucker), sweaty boys in jockstraps and grungy hipsters playing phallic drinking games to good ol’ [...]
FRIDAY 25
When Brooklyn’s oldest black gay bar, the Starlite Lounge, is faced with eviction in We Came To Sweat: The Legend of Starlite , the community decides to fight back. Will they be able to save this pre-Stonewall safe haven? Or is gentrification unstoppable? Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel’s timely portrait of a community banding together to [...]
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult [...]
TUESDAYS
Hotel Chantelle, 92 Ludlow St at Delancey St, NYC, 212-254-9100, 10pm, free… DJs Twig the Wonderkid and DJ Bastard spin a sexy selection of electro, disco, new-wave, post-punk and indie. Hosted by The Ryhan Hamilton, Kris Khaos and Traci Danielle!
“Sometimes I see faces of blank fear when I walk by … if these fucking people want to give me some power — if they see me as some sea witch with penis tentacles that are always prodding and poking and seeking to convert the muggles — well, here she comes!”- Perfume Genius
