August 28 – September 21, 2008
Continue reading “Nomenus Quarterly, exhibition curated by Erik Madigan Heck”
Metal Magazine, Launch Party
August 5th 2008
Mike O’Meally, Far From Home
Far From Home, photo exhibit
Opening: June 27, 2008
Press
Transworld Skateboarding
Cliche Skateboards
(includes exhibition installation photos) Continue reading “Mike O’Meally, Far From Home”
Marie Ponsot with Kevin O’Sullivan, poetry salon
POETRY SALON
Marie Ponsot, Award-winning Poet and Mentor to Generations
with Kevin O’Sullivan Dactyl Foundation’s Emerging Poet of the Year Continue reading “Marie Ponsot with Kevin O’Sullivan, poetry salon”
S Magazine, Ajar
Spring/Summer 2008
Exhibition of S Magazine Issue 7 entitled ‘Ajar’
Contributors:
Bela Borsodi
Christian Friis
Ernesto Gonzalez
Christophe Kutner
Dan Martensen Continue reading “S Magazine, Ajar”
Yelena Yemchuk, Notes on Fantômas, opening reception
May 3, 2008 7:00-9:00 PM
works on paper by Yelena Yemchuk Continue reading “Yelena Yemchuk, Notes on Fantômas, opening reception”
Yelena Yemchuk, Notes on Fantômas, Preview
April 30, 2008
Notes on Fantômas, works on paper by Yelena Yemchuk
Pictures
http://web.mac.com/dactylmedia/iWeb/dactyl.org/Yelena.Yemchuk.2008.preview.html
Yelena Yemchuk, Notes on Fantômas, exhibition
May 3 – June 1, 2008
Works on paper by Yelena Yemchuck
Curated by Neil Grayson.
Made possible by the generosity of Anurag Bhargava & Vassilis Kertsikoff. Continue reading “Yelena Yemchuk, Notes on Fantômas, exhibition”
Maggie Jackson, discussion
wine & conversation with Maggie Jackson: Discussion Forum
Cohost: Center for Inquiry
CFI’s next Truth Uncorked wine and conversation event will take place on Thursday, January 15 with Maggie Jackson. Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her penetrating coverage of U.S. social issues. She writes the popular “Balancing Acts” column in the Sunday Boston Globe, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Gastronomica and onNational Public Radio. Her latest book, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (Prometheus Books, 2008) Continue reading “Maggie Jackson, discussion”
Neck Face, GQ
S Magazine, photography
Fall/Winter 2007
Exhibition of Issue 6 of S Magazine, ‘Verge’
Contributors:
Asger Carlsen
Boris Hoppek
Chloe Sells
Christian Friis
Enrique Badulescu
Ernesto Gonzalez
Felix Lahrer
Jens Stoltze
John Minh
Nguyen Mads
Teglers Manolo
Campion Massimo
Leardini Michael
Schmelling Nick
Dewar Parra
Ryan Michael Kelly
Ulla Puggaard
Vanina Zouravlion
Vincent Dilio
Warwick Sain
Dorion Sagan, reading and magic
Friday Oct 12, 2007 7:00-9:00 PM
Notes from the Holocene: A Brief History of the Future
In a thought-provoking, humorous, and engaging style, Dorion Sagan, the eldest son of Carl Sagan and evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, combines philosophy, science, magic, an understanding of illusion, and the fantastical writings of Philip K. Dick to probe the deep questions of existence. Operating on the precept that the universe if far Continue reading “Dorion Sagan, reading and magic”
Neck Face, Closed Casket
Art Exhibition
October 31 – November 24, 2007
Curated by Neil Grayson in collaboration with Jason Dill
Neck Face reads through the piles of Mexican snuff tabloids that his grandmother collected when he was a child in Mexico. He points to how we grimly reduce death to obscene entertainment in the check out line.
Marilena Borgna, Rock & Roll Diaries
September 4-15, 2007 curated by Neil Grayson in collaboration with Scott Lipps
the night before the opening: pics
Jim Gilroy, Heart Like a Hotel
Septmember 20 – October 20, 2007
Paintings by Jim Gilroy
curated by Neil Grayson
2007 opening reception
Yelena Yemchuk, Studio Visit 2007
Preparing for Notes on Fantomas
Dan Martensen, photography
A Bird Like Me
Photography by Dan Martensen
Creative Direction by Evan Yurman Continue reading “Dan Martensen, photography”
Open Mic/Emerging Poets Series.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
6-8 p.m
Readers: Lucia Cammarata, Judie David, Ice, Andrew Aaron, Robert Siek, Kevin O’Sullivan, Kevin Estrada, Gus Iversen, Phil Radiotes and Andy Tran
Open Mic
May 6, 2007
Readers: Tom Oleszczuk, Karl Lorenzen, Richard Fein, Van Hartmann, Alkamal, Lucia Cammarata, Laurel Peterson, Debra R. Andrews.
Sage Vaughn, FTW paintings
May 12 – June 10, 2007
“FTW,” paintings
Curated by Neil Grayson
Opening: Saturday, May 12, 7 – 9PM
“FTW” For the Wild, wildlife and wildlives
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities is located at 64 Grand Street (between Wooster and West Broadway) in SoHo, NYC. Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00 PM; Saturday 1:00 – 6:00 PM. Office: 212 696-7800 / Gallery: 646 329-5398 (during exhibitions times only). Subway: A, C, E, at Canal Street, or 1 at Canal Street. Open to the public. Admission free.
Reviews: “The Art of Sage Vaughn: An Overreaction to Beauty,” Malibu Magazine May 2007
Continue reading “Sage Vaughn, FTW paintings”
Notes on Fantômas, Studio Visit
Deborah Sessel, paintings and drawings
April 19 – May 6, 2007
paintings & drawings
Curated by Victoria N. Alexander
Opening: Thursday, April 19, 7 – 9PM
Deborah N. Sessel is a representational painter, depicting, in painstaking detail, humble personal items left behind by Jews who suffered the Holocaust. Working in oil, she renders with care the silken folds of a delicate scarf, a silver Star of David on a chain, and Continue reading “Deborah Sessel, paintings and drawings”
Alec Coiro, play
March 8-17 2007
‘Squirrel and Porcupine’ a play by Alec Coiro. Produced by Ben Jorgensen.
Society for Literature Science and the Arts, conference
November 9-12, 2006
EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND COSMIC
New York Art Science Festival
20th Annual Conference for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
Plenary Speaker: Lynn Margulis
Keynote Panel: Dorion Sagan and Eric Schneider
Special Presentation: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Site Chair: Victoria N. Alexander, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities
Program Chair: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University Continue reading “Society for Literature Science and the Arts, conference”
Open Mic
July 29 2006
Two Year Anniversary Party & Reading featuring Jason Schneiderman
Jason Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books (2004). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including Teachers & Writers, Tin House, Grand Street, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, and The Poetry Book of the Sonnet. He has received fellowships from The Corporation of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and The Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. A Chancellor’s Fellow at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, he teaches creative writing for the Gotham Writers Workshop and literature at Hunter College.
Open Mic
June 9 2007
Readers: Lucia Cammarata, Judie David, Ice, Andrew Aaron, Robert Siek, Kevin O’Sullivan, Kevin Estrada, Gus Iversen, Phil Radiotes and Andy Tran
Open Mic, Featuring Timothy Liu
May 21 2006
Readers: Gail Stoughton, Lucia Cammarata, Loren Kidd, Jonathan Coppola, Woody Loverude, John Findura, Tom Oleszczuk, Heller Levinson, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Karl Lorenzen, Frederick Speers, Linda Tieber, ice, Milan, Jason Fleeting, Viviana Gorell and Nelson Chimilio.
Timothy Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Thus Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). His poems have been translated into seven languages and his journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library . He is an associate professor of English at William Paterson University and a member of the core faculty in Bennington College’s Graduate Writing seminars.
Open Mic
February 25 2006
Readers: Timothy Liu, Patricia Carragon, Emily Candace Shaw, Debra R. Andrews, Todd Cincala, Jessie Male and Nicole Spector.
Open Mic
January 21 2006
Readers: Tom Oleszczuk, Patricia Carragon, Christian Georgesco, Bob Rainey, Debra R. Andrews, Todd Cincala, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Nelson Chimilio, Aglaia Davis, Iris Berman, Miriam Hartstein, Carrie Tocci and Nicole Salis.
Fredo Viola, debut Live Performance
Thursday, January 19, 2006, 8PM
with laptop and acoustic accompaniment,
Brent Follis: drums/percussion
Ike Sturm: upright bass
Jesse Stacken: keyboard
Fredo Viola: vocals Continue reading “Fredo Viola, debut Live Performance”