visual art

Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 4 of 4)

Almost to the end.

I’m allowing myself a closing argument.

Flint has been in decline since before I was born, and very soon almost the entirety of its residents will only remember the city’s downfall. In the last fifty years, the population has halved, and Flint has gone from an expansionist vision of a future that saw it eclipsing competing cities to the possibility of demolishing whole neighborhoods that have emptied out.

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Concept: Gothic Funk Party #19: No Luck in Love, AND Paramanu Pentaquark Launch Event

Gothic Funk Nation
Party XIX: NO LUCK IN LOVE
In collaboration with Black Automatic and Front 312.

Launch of the
Paramanu Pentaquark:
A GOTHIC FUNK Journal

Afterparty of:
AWP Writer’s Conference

Artists:
Reinhardt Suarez
Elisabeth Blair
Jacob Saenz
Pierre Abelard

$5 Donation from 8 – 10:30
Includes a Copy of the Journal

$5 LeTourment Absinthe
$3 Domestics
$3 Well Drinks
$2.50 PBR

Friday, February 13
8 PM, 2nd Story Loft, 1931 N Milwaukee
Above Lucky Number Grill

The Gothic Funk Nation: http://www.GOTHICFUNK.org

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Concept: The Visual Arts: A History, by Hugh Honour and John Fleming.

As part of my development of Urbantasm, I’ve been attempting a complete-as-possible review of the history of the West… generally speaking I’m up through the end of the Roman Republic, but since New York has such an unparalleled array of Art museums, I’ve actually gone ahead in the history of visual art, and I’m almost done with The Visual Arts: A History, by Hugh Honour and John Fleming.

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