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HILTON ALS AT LAXART

“Hilton Als will present a new, unpublished text that is part of his ongoing body of work investigating various narratives of race and gender. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Als and poet Robin Coste Lewis,” an essayist and the Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles.*

(A conversation with Als will be published later this year in the forthcoming print issue of PARIS LA.)

HILTON ALS, Friday, June 29, at 7:30 pm.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.

* laxart.org/events/hilton-als

See Hilton Als recent interview with Lisa Cohen in The Paris Review:

theparisreview.org/hilton-als-the-art-of-the-essay

Above: Hilton Als at The Artists Institute in 2016.

Below: Als. Image coutesy of the Steven Barclay Agency.

GOLDIN’S BALLAD AT MOCA

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A digital presentation of Nan Goldin’s original 35mm slide installation THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY is on view at MOCA as part of the exhibition REAL WORLDS—BRASSAÏ, ARBUS, GOLDIN.

“Nan’s Bowery loft had no windows or else they were covered and this made her parties long, hilarious, dangerous events. You had no idea what time it was or how light the sky was getting out there. Her guests departed when they could ingest no more and some didn’t leave even then…

“I remember the first telephone conversation I ever had with Nan. ‘I’m among the missing today,’ she said, and hung up.” — Darryl Pinckney, from his essay in Goldin’s exhibition catalogue I’ll Be Your Mirror*

NAN GOLDIN—THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY

REAL WORLDS—BRASSAÏ, ARBUS, GOLDIN, through September 3.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

moca.org/real-worlds-brassai-arbus-goldin

*See Hilton Als’ 2016 piece: newyorker.com/the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency

Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, from top:

John Waters and Cookie Mueller in Provincetown; Edwige Belmore in Edwige Behind the Bar at Evelyn’s New York City, 1985; Bruce Balboni and Philippe Marcade on the beach, Truro, MA, 1975.

Image credit: Nan Goldin and Matthew Marks Gallery.

ANDRÉ LEON TALLEY AT LACMA

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“The late seventies, when André Leon Talley came into his own, is the period when designers like Yves Saint Laurent and Halston produced the clothes that Talley covered at the beginning of his career at WWD, clothes often described as glamorous. It is the period referred to in the clothes being produced now by designers like Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui. ‘It was a time when I could take Diana Vreeland and Lee Radziwill to a LaBelle concert at the Beacon and it wouldn’t look like I was about to mug them,” Talley says.

“Daniela Morera, a correspondent for Italian Vogue, has a different recollection. ‘André was privileged because he was a close friend of Mrs. Vreeland’s,’ she says. ‘Black people were as segregated in the industry as they are now… André enjoyed a lot of attention from whites because he was ambitious and amusing. He says it wasn’t bad because he didn’t know how bad it was for other blacks in the business. He was successful because he wasn’t a threat. He’ll never be an editor-in-chief… No matter that André’s been the greatest crossover act in the industry for quite some time. Like forever.’ ” — Hilton Als, 1994*

Talley—Anna Wintour’s legendary right hand man—has been captured on film in Kate Novack’s new documentary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRÉ, presented this week by Film Independent at LACMA. The director and her subject will be on hand for a conversation after the screening.

ANDRÉ LEON TALLEY and KATE NOVACK—

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRÉ

Thursday, May 10, at 7:30.

LACMA, Bing Theater

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

* Hilton Als, “The Only One,” The New Yorker, November 7, 1994, 110. (Reprinted in Als’ White Girls, 2013.)

Top: André Leon Talley and Yves Saint Laurent. Image credit: Getty.

Middle: Talley and Diana Ross dancing at Studio 54, circa 1979. Photograph by Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images.

Below: Diana Vreeland and André Leon Talley working at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The model is Marlene Dietrich in the show Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design, 1974. Photograph by Bill Cunningham.

BOOK OF JOY

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Pilot Press founding editor Richard Dodwell, DJ Honey Dijon, and Charlie Porter will launch OVER THERE: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF JOY this week at Printed Matter.

Eileen Myles, Hilton Als, Wayne Koestenbaum, AA Bronson, Olivia Laing, Mary Manning, and Alex Foxton are among the volume’s forty-eight contributing writers, artists, and performers.

OVER THERE launch, Thursday, May 3, from 6 pm to 8 pm.

PRINTED MATTER, 231 Eleventh Avenue, at 26th Street, New York City.

printedmatter.org/events

Image credit: Pilot Press.

RADICAL FICTIONS

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At this week’s INSTITUTE FOR THEATRE AND SOCIAL CHANGE CONFERENCE, Bryonn Bain will give the keynote address A DIALOGUE ON RADICAL FICTIONS and join an opening night panel including authors Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, Jody Armour, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, and Brent Blair.

The conference will feature a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “brilliantly crafted” play AN OCTOROON.

“From Dion Boucicault’s 1859 play The Octoroon, about a white Southerner who falls in love with a mixed-race woman, Jacobs-Jenkins fashioned a kind of theatre-essay, whose parentheses are filled with dialogue about performing blackness, the theatre as a live art, and the basic concerns that haunt the thinking mind trapped in a body that’s defined by skin color, gender, or speech: life makes each of us a target for someone else. AN OCTOROON isn’t just an alternative to the irony-free ‘black American theatre’ of Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson; it’s part of it—and part of many other things, too, because Jacobs-Jenkins’s surrealism grows out of naturalism, the strange circumstances that make us open our mouths, hoping to be heard, even as we forget to listen.” — Hilton Als*

INSTITUTE FOR THEATER AND SOCIAL CHANGE CONFERENCE

Thursday through Saturday, April 12, 13, and 14.

CAAM, USC, and the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center

A DIALOGUE ON RADICAL FICTIONS

Thursday, April 12, at 7 pm.

CAAM, 600 State Drive, Expo Park, Los Angeles.

AN OCTOROON

Friday, April 13, at 7 pm.

CAAM, 600 State Drive, Expo Park, Los Angeles.

BRYONN BAIN—LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN

Saturday, April 14, at 8 pm.

Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4708 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles.

*Hilton Als, “God Only Knows,” The New Yorker, March 6, 2017.

Above: Bryonn Bain in Lyrics from Lockdown. Photograph by Tom Sullivan.

Below: Lance Gardner in the West Coast premiere of An Octoroon, in 2017 at Berkeley Rep. Photograph by Kevin Berne.

Image credit below: Berkeleyside.