Will Rawls—in conjunction with his Hammer residency—presents a dance/stop-motion animation work-in-progress this week at the museum.
Tuesday, July 16, at 7:30 pm.
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
From top: Will Rawls, photograph by Luis Rodriguez; Rawls performing in his The Planet Eaters at the 2016 River to River Festival, New York, photographs by Darial Sneed (2); Rawls by Luis Rodriguez, 2015. Images courtesy and © the artists, photographers, and the Hammer Museum.
Yoko Ono’s River to River Festival installations—THE REFLECTION PROJECT and ADD COLOR (REFUGEE BOAT) (1960/2019)—comprise the largest public exhibition of the artist’s work in Lower Manhattan to date.
“THE REFLECTION PROJECT is a visual and mnemonic counterpoint to the relentless pace of the everyday, an invitation to connect passersby to moments of personal, meditative pause through the placement of art in non-traditional spaces. Featuring Yoko Ono as the inaugural artist, THE REFLECTION PROJECT seeks to perform urban acupuncture with large-scale art, stimulating the city’s vast nerve network… Each piece is a prompt wherein Ono speaks directly to New Yorkers, rallying the collective consciousness towards heightened awareness, hope and action.”*
THE REFLECTION PROJECT—YOKO ONO*
Through June 29.
28 Liberty
Fulton Transit Center
Oculus at the WTC Transportation Hub
Seaport District, and other locations in Lower Manhattan.
YOKO ONO—ADD COLOR (REFUGEE BOAT)
Through June 29.
Seaport District
203 Front Street, New York City.
Yoko Ono, from top: The Reflection Project; Add Color (Refugee Boat), photograph by Ian Douglas; Add Color (Refugee Boat), photograph by Brian J. Green; The Reflection Project. Images courtesy and © Yoko Ono, the photographers, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
“[Jane Jacobs’] name still summons an entire city vision—the much watched corner, the mixed-use neighborhood—and her holy tale is all the stronger for including a nemesis of equal stature: Robert Moses, the Sauron of the street corner. The New York planning dictator wanted to drive an expressway through lower Manhattan, and was defeated, the legend runs, by this ordinary mom.” — Adam Gopnik*
Robert Moses—the “master builder” of New York’s expressways who dreamed of leveling Soho—met his match in Jane Jacobs, author of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES.** This 20th century battle—the forces of suburbanization vs. middle-class New Yorkers who did not want to destroy their city to save it—is the focus of CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY, the new documentary by Matt Tyrnauer screening this week at USC.
CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY, Monday, April 24 at 7 pm. Free with reservation:
cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=16830
BROCCOLI THEATRE, USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS, Los Angeles.
CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY opens at the Nuart on Friday, April 28.
NUART THEATRE, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles.
landmarktheatres.com/FilmCalendar/Nuart_calendar_2017_0310_0511.pdf
This summer, the RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL in Lower Manhattan will feature excerpts from A MARVELOUS ORDER, a new opera about Jacobs and Moses. Written, composed, and designed by Joshua Frankel, Judd Greenstein, Will Rawls, and Tracy K. Smith, the work will be performed in the transit/shopping hub Fulton Center.
A MARVELOUS ORDER, June 15–18.
RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL, FULTON CENTER, 200 Broadway, Manhattan.
*Adam Gopnik, “Jane Jacobs’ Street Smarts,” The New Yorker, September 26, 2016.
newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/jane-jacobs-street-smarts
**See: theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/14/jane-jacobs-death-and-life-rereading
Jane Jacobs, 1961.
Image credit: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection