Events on Thursday, May 7

Conferences

Brooklyn Blogfest

Thursday 5/ 7 @ powerHouse Arena

The print industry might be dying, but Brooklyn is host to a burgeoning blogger community. If you're a part of it... 

Glenn Branca w/ Neg-Fi and Paranoid Critical Revolution

Music: Experimental

Glenn Branca

Thursday 5/ 7 @ Issue Project Room

If you thought punk rock's anti-authoritarian ethos meant that it couldn't be marketed to two-year-olds or played in grand concert halls,... 

Ongoing Events

The Late Film

Film

The Late Film

Thursday 5/ 7 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

If an auteur's debut is their "Dear reader," then their last few films come into sight as postscripts: variations on a... 

Ward Shelley: <em>Who Invented the Avant Garde</em>

Art

Ward Shelley

Thursday 5/ 7 @ Pierogi

The Byzantine details of Ward Shelley's "timeline drawing" mind-maps bear a fuzzy likeness to American Splendor. Applying ultimate to-do list techniques... 

<em>Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea</em>

Art

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Thursday 5/ 7 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous... 

<em>C.H.U.D.Z.</em>

Art

C.H.U.D.Z.

Thursday 5/ 7 @ Cinders Gallery

"Chudz," according to Urban Dictionary, is a term that can mean either sex or a "complete and utter" pimp (although said... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Thursday 5/ 7 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest home-grown art star, known for darkly poetic, romanticized works that read as chapters in an epic,... 

Theatre

The Merchant of Venice

Thursday 5/ 7 @ BAM Harvey Theater

All-male British troupe Propeller stages Shakespeare with an eye towards how the work was done during playwright's day: their version of...