MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
11 W 53rd St
212.708.9400
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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Friday Oct 2, 2009 (7pm)
Saturday Oct 10, 2009 (1:30pm)
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Free with museum admission. Film-only tickets: adults $10; seniors $8; members and children under 16 are free; member friends $5. Please visit our website for more details.
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Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music: Side 2 gallery exhibition
A charismatic artist (Jean-Michel Basquiat) attempts to sell a painting amid the rappers, junkies, strippers, models, and art-world matriarchs of the Lower East Side. With music by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Tuxedomoon, The Plastics, DNA, The Lounge Lizards, and Basquiat’s own band, Gray.
Downtown 81 (New York Beat Movie). 1981/2000. USA. Directed by Edo Bertoglio. Screenplay by Glenn O’Brien. Produced by O’Brien, Maripol. 71 min.
About Looking At Music: Side 2 film exhibition:
In the early 1970s New York was a haven for young, renegade artists, many of whom doubled as musicians and poets. Art and music cross-fertilized with a vengeance, following a stripped-down, hard-edged, antiestablishment ethos. Some artists plastered city walls with self-designed posters or spray-painted monikers, while others commandeered abandoned buildings, turning vacant garages into makeshift theaters for Super-8 film screenings and raucous performances. Many found the experimental music scene more vital and conducive to their contrarian ideas than the handful of contemporary art galleries in the city. This screening series features films made by many of these artists, along with films that capture the spirit of New York City during that tumultuous era.
