3 posts tagged "Girls"
School’s In Session at Spring/Break
Given its name, there was something a little funny about the fact that last night’s opening of the Spring/Break art fair was held in an abandoned Catholic school on Mott Street. “We actually used to be in an abandoned gymnasium on Mulberry street,” explained Andrew Gori, who co-founded the fair along with Ambre Kelly last year. “The cathedral that owns this building was interested in bringing a cultural presence back to the empty school,” he explained. Spring/Break is a curator-driven fair, and this year, the focus (and the title) was New Mysticism. Each classroom was dedicated to individual mini exhibitions that explored how ‘the future’ informs the human experience. Highlights include a room completely lined in mylar, a flailing robot which moves but doesn’t actually go anywhere, and digital vision-scapes superimposed by alphabetized keywords from the Catechism.
Proceeds from the show, which brought together over twenty curators and seventy artists, will benefit Arts In The Armed Forces, a non-profit organization founded by Adam Driver from Girls, who’s a longtime friend of Spring/Break‘s founders. Little known fact: Driver was actually in the Marine Corps, and now travels to bases globally to perform for the troops. He credits his rigorous military experience for his acting skills, and says that using his craft to give back is pretty fulfilling. “You can’t ask for better training than being locked up with twenty other guys your age who are experiencing this heightened day-to-day life,” Driver said of his time in the Marine Corps. “It’s such interesting fuel, that life of discipline and structure. [It's] filled with discipline and drills and pains, but there’s also a human experience, which overrides everything.”
The Spring/Break fair’s New Mysticism show runs March 7-10 from noon to 9 P.M. at 233 Mott Street.
Girls Allowed: The 2012 Emmy Nominations
It’s hard not to wonder about the overlap between Emmy voters and Twitter obsessives this year. The nominations for the annual primetime TV awards skews to the young, the cool, and the zeitgeist-y. Proof? Look no further than the presence of just about every show that’s been a hipster (and, to large part, critics) favorite: Girls (overcoming some bad press to get a Best Comedy Series nod), New Girl, Louie, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey—all got their due. So did Kristen Wiig (Best Actress in a Comedy series, for her tearful final season of SNL), the cult-worshipped English actor Benedict Cumberbatch of Sherlock, and pop culture’s favorite curmudgeons, Louis C.K. and Larry David. (This year also marks what must be the historic first time that a nominee for Best Actress—Lena Dunham (pictured), Girls—dressed up as a nominee for Best Actor—Louis C.K., Louie—for Halloween. It’s also likely the first time that an actress has been nominated, as Margaret Cho was, for playing Kim Jong-il—in a comedy.) Leading the pack are Mad Men (with 17 nominations) and Homeland (with nine nominations). The awards will be broadcast on September 23.
Best Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Girls
Modern Family
30 Rock
Veep
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Melissa McCarthy, Mike and Molly
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Louis C.K., Louie
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Best Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
Homeland
Mad Men
Best Actress in a Drama Series
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law
Glenn Close, Damages
Claire Danes, Homeland
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Best Actor in a Drama Series
Hugh Bonneville, Downton Abbey
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Damian Lewis, Homeland
Best Miniseries or Movie
American Horror Story
Game Change
Hatfields and McCoys
Hemingway and Gellhorn
Luther
Sherlock
Best Actress Miniseries or Movie
Connie Britton, American Horror Story
Ashey Judd, Missing
Nicole Kidman, Hemingway and Gellhorn
Julianne Moore, Game Change
Emma Thompson, The Song of Lunch
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Kevin Costner, Hatfields and McCoys
Beneditch Cumberbach, Sherlock
Idris Elba, Luther
Woody Harrelson, Game Change
Clive Owen, Hemingway and Gellhorn
Bill Paxton, Hatfields and McCoys
Outstanding Host: Reality-Competition Program
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
Betty White, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers
Reality-Competition Program
The Amazing Race
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Voice
Variety Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
Opening Ceremony’s Sounds Of Love
Valentine’s Day approaches. Are you ready?
We’ve been pulling together a whole host of ways to make it special, from red-hot lingerie sets to sweet caramels. Now, for the soundtrack, you can turn to Opening Ceremony, which debuts the first in its series of music-player “Playbuttons” this Monday with Love Songs <3 OC, a curated mix of love songs selected by the store. The rechargeable, pin-backed button (pictured above)—an homage to the band buttons showgoing kids sport—comes preloaded with love songs from the likes of the Magnetic Fields, Björk, Owen Pallett, Girls, and Coconut Records (the band of store pal Jason Schwartzman). It's rounded out with two previously unreleased tracks: a remix of Vampire Weekend's "White Sky" by New Look, previewed exclusively here, and "Body" by Karen O's low-fi side project, Native Korean Rock. Proceeds from the affordable player ($25) go to Musicians on Call, a nonprofit that brings music to bed-bound hospital patients. If you're in the mood for love, don't wait—the run is limited to 500.