We're not sure what's going on here but after two computer crashes that took our most recent post with them, EMERGE is going to keep it short and sweet this time around:

Jim Drain: I Would Gnaw On My Hand at Green Naftali Gallery


This is the second-ever NYC solo show for this celebrated artist whose best known works involve the decidedly low-tech mediums of knitting(!?) and cut-n-paste collage. Low-tech or not, Drain certainly coaxes the maximum impact from whatever he does, really turning out some mind-meltingly psychedelic assemblages in his latest show, which the gallery website says:

Drain considers Iggy Pop; his animalistic energy and pop cliches serving as the formal and conceptual basis for four large-scale sculptures, collages, photographs of Iggy?s old clothes and specific formal interventions to the gallery space?a net that cages half of the gallery, toilet seat furniture and a wallpaper installation.

EMERGE has no clue what that really means. But we do know that we really like the way this stuff looks. Oh, and we're also pretty fired up for the dance performance scheduled for tomorrow evening at 7pm when Drain and Brooke O'Harra of the La MaMa Experimental Theater present "Gonna Dress You Up," a dance performance based on the punk kabuki performance Drums of the Waves of Horikawa by the Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf.


















































Posted by James Friedman

So this morning EMERGE was poking around Billboard Magazine's website and we stumbled across a slideshow of the 25 Best Rock Posters which we thought could have been a whole lot cooler.






































Since when is Thelonius Monk considered rock n roll anyhow??? Where are the punk rock posters made with xerox machines? No Kozik?

So we figured we'd open this one up and see if any EMERGE readers cared to submit some links to great rock show posters or flyers to give a better picture of the variety of graphic styles taken to promote concerts and performances.

We look forward to seeing some interesting comments on this one!




Posted by James Friedman