Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'chanmarshall'
February 11, 2008
Brendan Canty is the drummer for Fugazi, the rightly revered D.C. post-punk band whose page on the Dischord Records website still states "1987 - present." The group hasn’t played together or released an album since their phenomenal seventh LP, The Argument; in 2002 they embarked on what is looking increasingly like a permanent hiatus. Like his bandmates, Canty has been consumed by various other creative projects: he’s produced albums for Ted Leo and The Thermals,......
Continue Reading "Brendan Canty, Musician"November 8, 2007
Last night we sent photographer Raymond Haddad to the I'm Not There concert at Beacon Theater. Calexico, The Roots, My Morning Jacket, J Mascis, Yo La Tengo, Mason Jennings, Joe Henry, Mark Lanegan, Lee Ranaldo & the Million Dollar Bashers and many more were on hand to celebrate the soundtrack, the film and of course Bob Dylan himself (who, in fact, was not there). The soundtrack is a double-discer that's been getting praise from......
Continue Reading "I'm Not There on Stage and Screen"January 18, 2007
As we mentioned, Doug Aitken's Sleepwalkers opened earlier this week at the MoMA. Now P.S.1's PopRally series and MoMA are bringing the non-celluloid Chan Marshall to the museum. This event, hosted by Doug Aitken, will include musical performances by Cat Power, Ryan Donowho, and Hishan Bharoocha and storytelling by Melissa Plaut, and others. Guests will also get a unique commissioned poster, created for the event by the Chicago artist Mat Daly in collaboration with......
Continue Reading "This Just In: Cat Power at MoMA"January 17, 2007
Yesterday afternoon, the midtown walls outside the Museum of Modern Art and surrounding buildings were bathed in a beautiful, expansive new video installation from artist Doug Aitken. The work, Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers, was commissioned by both the MoMA and Creative Time, and it turns the museum into public art space. A total of eight screens (outside the MoMA on West 53rd Street, in an empty lot onto Museum of Folk Art's exterior wall, and......
Continue Reading "Doug Aitken's sleepwalkers at the MoMA"January 16, 2007
ART: Projecting on the outdoor walls of MoMA through February 12th will be Doug Aitken's first large-scale outdoor installation in the US. The installation consists of eight large moving projections in which five characters' lives are played out during one night in New York. Actors include: Tilda Swinton, Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Seu Jorge, Ryan Donowho, and Donald Sutherland. We hear Cat Power will be playing a show at MoMA in February - stay tuned!......
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