WHO TOWN UNLEASHED! LAST NIGHT AT BOWERY POETRY
Last night at Bowery Poetry Club, a select few got to hear what all the fuss is about…. Who Town, a MUST READ, the NON Disney version of New York life, now available on AMAZON (link below) Photo by Billy Farrell/BFA NYC
Check out story below from the New York Times online/East Village beat by Ray Lemoine
Singing and Dancing With Friends…..Underground
Susan, dancing at private party at 141 Chrystie/photo by Phyllis Leibowitz
You know, when surrounding New York life starts to look too much like a Bravo reality show, it’s time to go UNDER with a select few. xx! Susan
Who Town! NOW ON Amazon…….
**Official debut: WHO TOWN will be available on Wednesday, May 9th, on Amazon
Synopsis
Writing for the Tribune, Sarah Rosen launches celebrities like rote zombies. She describes them as her editor dictates, to anoint the next wave of “it” and “who.”
One afternoon Sarah covers the dinner party of Roxy — a sculptor who carves figurine replicas of herself — and something, literally, snaps. Roxy’s sculpture is decapitated by a rolling rack of designer clothes. Lola, Roxy’s haphazard lover — an erotic actress — smokes weed with her bar back boyfriend. And Rick, son of an iconic metal guitarist reluctantly participates in Sarah’s staged news story.
Questioning her journalistic role as the ultimate fabricator, Sarah crosses personal and professional boundaries when she meets Roxy for a drink. Through the revolving perspectives of Sarah, Roxy, Rick, and Lola, the reader travels the tenuous thread that links them. Sarah comes from a Jewish family on the poor side of the tracks and dry cleans thrift store designer cast offs so she won’t be found out. Roxy transforms herself from Waspy Connecticut prep into a goth narcissistic monster who lives rent free in her father’s Tribeca building. Rick hides his original collection of Shakespeare plays and his substandard penis. And Lola experiments with sex and drugs in order to forget a pup tent in Texas and a mother’s curse that ultimately drove her to New York City, the land of opportunity.
WHO TOWN, a novel by Susan Kirschbaum, is a world that blurs sexual identity with ego gratification, artistry and pornography, religious taboos and addiction, and an increasingly falsified media that perpetuates a soul killing cult of insta-celebrity.
BUY THE BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/Who-Town-Susan-Kirschbaum/dp/1470167751
Performance by artist Dustin Yellin
Andy Warhol wore white wigs and played an exaggerated non verbal voyeur in public. Before him, artist Salvador Dali, rolled melons down a red carpet before he arrived at a film premiere, carried around his own rhinoceros chair, and referred to himself in the third person. And now, in 2012, painter/sculptor/collagist Dustin Yellin assumes a frantic persona for me in this out take from my artists’ video series called NAKED AM/PM for Standard Culture (the arts/trend section for the website of the Standard Hotels.)
Such eccentricities can become part of the artist’s persona.
Yet, despite the alter ego seen here, Dustin –who opens new work Tuesday night at the Half Gallery — has proven consistently that studied thought goes into his creations. I’ve seen light sculptures that illuminate different sized guns, as well as coral hued organs and skeletons.
However, given his penchant for scurried movement before a camera, from a dance perspective, I’d categorize him as spontaneous post modern.
Investigations of a Dog by Dustin Yellin opens tonight 6-8 pm, at Half Gallery 208 Forsyth Street, running until April 22nd.
“FIRST COMES THE SWEAT, THEN COMES THE BEAUTY… IF YOU ARE LUCKY AND HAVE SAID YOUR PRAYERS.” GEORGE BALANCHINE
Baryshnikov and ballerina Natalia Makarova/shot by Max Waldman
**See caption above for background history of image at hand
