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NO SESSO AND KELSEY LU AT THE GETTY

“Designing is my art and my therapy. It brings me joy to make stuff… I design based off of emotion and how I feel, and what’s going on in my community around me.” — Pierre Davis, No Sesso*

That community will meet at the Getty Center on Friday night when No Sesso debuts a site-specific presentation in the courtyard, joined by cellist and vocalist Kelsey Lu.

NO SESSO and KELSEY LU

Friday, August 17.

FRIDAY FLIGHTS, 6 pm to 9 pm.

Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.

*”Warm Bodies, No Sesso—The Art of Pierre Davis,” text by Barlo Perry, interview with No Sesso by Dorothée Perret and Todd Cole, PARIS LA 16 (2018): 136–143.

Above: PARIS LA 16 (2018), No Sesso Fall 2017 collection. Photograph by Todd Cole.

Below: PARIS LA 16 (2018), No Sesso 2018-1 campaign. Photograph by Dicko Chan.

TAYLOR MAC IN LOS ANGELES

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Near the end of his recent T magazine essay on queer theater and the landmark plays of Mart Crowley (The Boys in the Band), Tony Kushner (Angels in America), Larry Kramer (The Normal Heart), Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy), and Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey), Jesse Green wrote:

“Among the new works I’ve actually seen, the only… piece that rises to the level of those I’ve beatified is Taylor Mac’s A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC… Miraculously, it combines Kushner’s vision, Kramer’s anger, Crowley’s cattiness, Fierstein’s warmth and Rudnick’s wit (plus a whole lot else) into one subversive astonishment…”*

Prepare to be astonished as Taylor brings his complete magnum opus to Los Angeles, starting this week. Each chapter in this CAP UCLA presentation in downtown L.A. comprises a 6-hour performance.

TAYLOR MAC—A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC

CHAPTER 1 (1776-1836), Thursday, March 15, at 6 pm.

CHAPTER II (1836-1896), Saturday, March 17, at 6 pm.

CHAPTER III (1896-1956), Thursday, March 22, at 6 pm.

CHAPTER IV (1956-2016), Saturday, March 24, at 6 pm.

THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, 929 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

cap.ucla.edu/taylor_mac

* Jesse Green, “A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts,” T, New York Times, March 4, 2018, 79:

nytimes.com/gay-theater-history

See: “A Time to Be Born: Taylor Mac in Conversation with Barlo Perry,” PARIS LA 15:

cap.ucla.edu/PARIS_LA_15_Taylor_Mac

Taylor Mac in Brooklyn, autumn 2016. Photographs by Teddy Wolff.

THE JIMMY DONAHUE STORY

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This week—in the CLUB 57 program ERIC MARCIANO FROM FILM TO VIDEO—the Museum of Modern Art will screen Marciano’s jazz-infused take on alcoholic walker Jimmy Donahue, as well as the filmmaker’s mid-nineties 35mm work NARROWCAST.

THE JIMMY DONAHUE STORY and NARROWCAST

Monday, January 29, through Sunday, February 4, continuous gallery screenings.

CLUB 57—FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983

Through April 1.

Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

Eric Marciano, The Jimmy Donahue Story (1981), written and produced by Marciano and Ignacio Valero.

From top:

Bill Brovold.

Barlo Perry, underground at Times Square subway station record shop.

Brovold and Perry drinking.

Perry and Frank Sinatra album in Ross Rare Records window on University Place.

Brovold and Perry.

Apartment scene with Victoire Taittinger, Brovold, and Perry (4).

TAYLOR MAC AT TOWN HALL

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In his first New York stage performance since his 24-hour show at St. Ann’s Warehouse a year ago, Taylor Mac brings HOLIDAY SAUCE to Town Hall.

“Christmas as calamity. Celebrating the holiday season in all of its dysfunction, Taylor Mac is joined by longtime collaborators designer Machine Dazzle, music director Matt Ray, and a band of eight to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate.”*

TAYLOR MAC—HOLIDAY SAUCE, Tuesday, December 12. Doors at 7:30.

TOWN HALL, 123 West 43rd Street, New York City.

* thetownhall.org/event/taylor-mac

See “A Time to be Born—Taylor Mac in Conversation with Barlo Perry,” PARIS LA 15:

cap.ucla.edu/data/files/general/PARIS_LA_15_Taylor_Mac

Taylor Mac in California, 2017. Photograph by Little Fang.

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CLUB 57 AT MOMA — OPENING NIGHT

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Eric Marciano—director of The Age of Insects and four other films in MoMA’s collection—reports from the opening night of the museum’s new exhibition CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983:

“The reception at MoMA was stunning! I know that we will never again see that group of people together in one place at one time: Andre Degas, David Ilku, John Kelly, David Byrne, Bianca Bob, Chris Tanner, Alexa Hunter (Disturbed Furniture), Tessa Chua, Bob Carrithers, Marty Abrahams, Abel Ferrara, Michael Holman, Scott Covert, Henny Garfunkel, Scott Wittman, Art Labriola, M. Henry Jones, John Waters, Tish & Snooky (Manic Panic), Kenny Scharf, MoMA curators Ron Magliozzi and Sophie Cavoulacos, and guest curators Ann Magnuson and John “Lypsinka” Epperson were among the many in attendance. (Ignacio Valero—who was covering the bike path attack downtown—and Bill Brovold were unable to attend*)

“MoMA went all out. Truly a deep dive into one of the great scenes that was occurring in tandem with other great scenes. The show reveals an energy and crazy intensity in the art—people expressing themselves in an analog era when it took time to do art. Such an eclectic group came to admire and celebrate the work and reminisce about those vibrant (and dangerous) days. The Lingerie Family painting from The Age of Insects is one of the seminal works, with a video of Frank Holliday‘s eye taking the place of the lost original.”

Two days before the opening, participating artist Richard Hambleton died at 65.

CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983, through April 1.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

moma.org/calendar/exhibitions

See: vintag.es/2017/06/the-club-57-portrait-series

See: nytimes.com/2017/10/26/arts/design/club-57

See: nytimes.com/2017/11/03/obituaries/richard-hambleton-dead-shadowman-of-the-80s-art-scene

*Bill Brovold, Victoire Taittinger, and Barlo Perry starred in The Jimmy Donahue Story (1982), written and produced by Ignacio Valero and Eric Marciano, and directed by Marciano—a participating artist in the CLUB 57 show.

Ann Magnuson at Club 57, circa 1980. Photograph by Robert Carrithers.