ART :: GEORGIA ELROD : HERE AND HERE :: Now at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY
The paintings and drawings of Georgia Elrod invite poetry -- or perhaps they are poetry? -- in so far as in transmuting experience into visual form, they perform the inverse maneuver: asking more questions even as they answer the ancient riddle,
ART :: NOTES FROM THE BUREAU OF SELF-RECOGNITION : CHLOË BASS
Exit Strata is pleased as punch to introduce you to interdisciplinary conceptual artist Chloë Bass, who will be sending us Field Notes from her upcoming journey across the pond as she continues her ongoing work with The Bureau of Self-Recognition.
ART :: Allison Malinsky and the Places of Memory :: RETORNO
Introduce yourself
on WORD :: REVIEW :: Peter Milne Greiner on Paige Lipari's 'Family of Many Enzos'
Peter Milne Greiner reviews Family of Many Enzos by Paige Lipari / Augury Books If the first planet from the sun is a hairy arm brandishing a serrated knife you have entered Paige Lipari’s known space. Family of Many Enzos, her first chapbook
Friday, July 13th at the Bell House, BKNY: DEBO BAND record release show!
How grateful we are for the overflowing cup of talent in our community! I've known the incredibly talented Marié Abe for 15 years -- she is a virtuoso: player of many instruments, and now professor of musicology at Boston University, who has been focused on making amazing music on the accordion for some time now ... and she just happens to be one of the musicians in the outstanding DEBO BAND, gracing the stage at Bell House for one night only! to celebrate the release of their new album.
Prepare to fall in love with this band, with its sound, with its explorations, and with its grinning, energetic, joyful musicians.
SOUND: Billy Libby "Pitter Patter" EP
For those of you missed our Exit Strata: Print! No. #1 launch party, you also missed out on a rare acoustic session by singer/songwriter Billy Libby (although thankfully you can check out a video clip of the performance here).
FILM: ornana
A month ago, I left New York—drove from Brooklyn sixteen hours straight to Peachtree City, Georgia. When I pulled up, a few of my favorite people were on the back porch of a normally quiet suburban house. We were gathered to film another ornana short.
FIELDNOTES: Jacob Perkins : From the Cannery, pt 1
Field Notes: From the Inlet 
June 5th, 11 pm
Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY
For starters:
Talk of caliopes. Caliopes. Stray cats mewling on stoopfronts and dumpsters, borne into alleys panting. The incoming exodus of pushcarts and their ices, spokes pumped with Mets cards, their winter quarters unknown. Hydrants relieved and their fittings revealed. New streams clearing out trashjams on the G line. Someone saying “someone painted something on some building and did you know?” Big talk about how soon and how bad and how long and how hot. Flat tops and tattoos and everything cut sharp for sweating. Piedmont creeping up from the south and backsweats drickling down.
If you haven’t heard enough of this garbage, just wait. All sorts of things are said about summer in the city and frankly, I will not have it. Whatever intrigue maintained the attention of your Alaskas, your Seattles, your Portlands and Minnesotas has surely dried up by the time you hit June, and if you’re one of them, and you’re lucky, it’s time to hit the road for a few months.
Myself, I am Alaskan born. Summer is the season of the sockeye. For others it is re-shingling, re-siding, decking, painting, some kind of hometown gig you begrudge seasonally, out of that season. For me it is sockeye, and a gillnet, and a boat.
ART CITY! : Bushwick Open Studios, June 1-3
Baby's all grown up! From its humble, DIY origins six years ago, Bushwick Open Studios [BOS] has blossomed into a behemoth of truly staggering proportions.
This year, the festival -- highlighting arts and culture born and bred in this vibrant, buzzing, quarter of the Brooklyn creative map -- hosts an almost unbelievable 545 Events.
It's a veritable smorgasbord, and like all festivals of this type is sure to include the good, bad, and the ugly. But the ugly could in fact be simply challenging, and you might just stumble onto the private studio of someone you'll later be able to say, "oh wow, I went to their show back in Bushwick in 2012!" -- but of course Bushwick itself has grown both as a real estate alternative and a refuge for artists fleeing rising rents in other parts of the city, and the weekend now hosts many artists already quite well known, represented, and collected internationally.
HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS: Steven Rose and Joanna Seitz
The AWESOME CREATORS at Heliopolis Project Proudly Present: STEVEN ROSE AND JOANNA SEITZ OPENING: June 1st, 2012, 7-10 pm VIDEO SCREENINGS: June 6, 13, 20 at 9pm Heliopolis 154 Huron St. Brooklyn, NY 11222 suncityprojectspace@gmail.com “Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let
