Gallerist’s Week in Pictures: Cupcakes and Julian Schnabel Edition

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This week, Gallerist traveled far and wide around the boroughs, from Bushwick at the Bogart Salon where Francis Greenburger and Ann Fensterstock were among the panelists convened to discuss “Capital and Its Discontents,” over to the Hole on the Bowery for a phallic reading with champagne and cupcakes, up to Chelsea where we stopped in for the all-day video tribute to Mike Kelley, then dropped in on the Homeless Museum, then further up to the Bronx where No Longer Empty staged their latest exhibition, “This Side of Paradise,” at the abandoned Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse. Here’s a sample of photos from the week.
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Video Tribute to Mike Kelley by EAI and Dia Art Foundation

The stalwark nonprofits united for a 12-hour screening in Dia's new space on West 22nd Street, a former marble factory it purchased last year.
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Video Tribute to Mike Kelley by EAI and Dia Art Foundation
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Video Tribute to Mike Kelley by EAI and Dia Art Foundation

In the early afternoon, Mike Kelley's 2011 collaboration with Michael Smith, A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, played.
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Filip Noterdaeme, 'director' of The Homeless Art Museum in Chelsea, speaks to 'visitors'

The Homeless Museum of Art is an initiative run by Filip Noterdaeme aimed at subverting the "market-driven art world" by employing creative tactics to criticize the establishment, like erecting a handmade museum booth at an art fair, staging pranks and presenting artwork in shows like the "$0 Collection" which features postcards of famous works and found objects. In 2004, Mr. Noterdaeme crashed a VIP opening party at MoMA and in protest of the museum's $20 admission fee, he handed out fliers that ridiculed MoMA's new slogan "Manhattan is Modern Again" by changing it to "Manhattan is Robbed Again."
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Panelists Francis Greenburger, Ann Fensterstock and Natalia Sacasa at "Capital & Its Discontents," at The Bogart Salon
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Playlet about OWS during "War Room" at the Bogart Salon

This playlet, which featured a fictional branch of the Occupy movement headed to sunny Mexico, illuminated some of the contradictions within the Occupy movement.
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Revelers at poetry reading "Priapus & Thanatos," at The Hole

Friday night, Julian Schnabel got up on a little blue bridge and opened the poetry reading "Priapus & Thanatos" within the "Giverny" exhibition at the Hole by telling everyone to shut up, essentially. Then a series of readers got up and read very explicit poems they had written.
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Cupcakes and champagne at "Priapus & Thanatos," at the Hole
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Bob Holman at the poetry reading "Priapus & Thanatos," at the Hole

Bob Holman, the founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, which is next door to the Hole, read in a sing-songy voice his explicit poetry. In his jacket, covered with mulit-colored question marks, he looked like The Riddler from Batman.
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Salem's John Holland reading at "Priapus & Thanatos," at the Hole

We liked John's red shorts.
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Kembra Pfahler reading at poetry reading "Priapus & Thanatos" at The Hole

Ms. Pfahler, who is one of the artists (the other is E.V. Day) responsible for the current exhibition at the Hole, in which the gallery has been transformed into Monet's gardens read from her poem "Fuck Island" in which she basically read that phrase out rhythmically many times and ended by saying she wanted to go to Fuck Island but not with you. It was a charismatic reading.
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"Failure Currency" for the end of the world by Peter Santino

This currency, which feels very much like it's printed on currency paper, is the work of artist Peter Santino. He created this "Failure Currency" to be used after the world ends, according to the Mayan calendar.
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0-Day speaking about digital art theft at Eyebeam
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No Longer Empty's "This Side of Paradise" at Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx

The nonprofit group No Longer Empty, which organizes shows in abandoned properties, has staged a large exhibition at the Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, once home to wealthy people who lost their fortunes.
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No Longer Empty's "This Side of Paradise" at Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx

The show—and the house's spacious grounds—are open to the public 1–7 p.m. for free. (A donation is suggested.)
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No Longer Empty's "This Side of Paradise" at Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx

A still from Mel Chin's S.O.S. RELOADED : Bronx 2012, for which the artist interviewed people on the street's of the Bronx, asking them to write a brief message to President Obama.
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No Longer Empty's "This Side of Paradise" at Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx

On the second floor, many artists have been given a complete room to transform. Here is Justen Ladda's intervention, succinctly titled like money like water, 2012.
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No Longer Empty's "This Side of Paradise" at Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx

Cheryl Pope has covered the ceiling of two rooms with faux gold leaf. Yves Klein or James Lee Byars would not doubt approve. The piece is called THEN AND THERE (2012).