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NY Post A tower-ing work of art By Larry Getlen |
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Next Up For the Vacated Tower Records Store on East 4th Street?...(Village Voice) Never Can Say Goodbye (Twi-NY) NLE Brings Music Back to Former Tower Records...(PSFK)Never Can Say...(Brooklyn Art Project) NLE at the old Tower Records...(Beez and Honey) Never Can Say Goodbye in NYC...(Citizen Of The World)Tower Records Returns (Sort Of)...(Urbandaddy) Broadway's Empty Tower Records Is About to Become an Art Gallery...(NY Racked) Tower Records Re-Opening...(Scenebseen)
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If you’re one of the many New Yorkers with love in your heart for the old Tower Records store on Broadway and West Fourth Street, walk by this weekend for the thrill of seeing a record store at that very same site. It’s called Never Records. It’s got album covers, cassettes, posters, T-shirts and music playing in the background. It’s also completely fake. But that shouldn’t detract from your enjoyment one bit. That’s because Never Records is a featured installation in “Never Can Say Goodbye,” an art exhibit running at the old Tower site every Wednesday through Sunday until Feb. 13. “Never Can Say Goodbye” was created by No Longer Empty (nolongerempty.org), an arts organization dedicated to creating exhibits in vacant storefronts that emphasize the heritage of those sites. (more) |
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Wall Street Journal Running on Empty By CANDACE JACKSON Published January 15, 2010 |
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PapermagShop of the Week, Artsy Edition: Never Can Say GoodbyeBy Rebecca Prusinowski |
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In its heyday, Tower Records in Manhattan's East Village teemed with music-loving shoppers. But in 2006, with buyers rushing to online music stores and big box retailers, the store closed. Starting this weekend, the place will fill up again—this time with performances, panel discussions and conceptual art installations, some lamenting the demise of music stores. The project, called "Never Can Say Goodbye," is from No Longer Empty, a New York nonprofit that places public art projects in vacant retail spaces. (The group's first such exhibit was at an empty fishing-tackle store.) (more) |
This weekend the doors of the legendary Tower Records on Broadway and 4th Street will reopen with a multi-media art exhibition. No Longer Empty (NLE), the non-profit org that transforms vacant NYC spaces into gallery pop-ups, presents Never Can Say Goodbye, an homage to the defunct Tower and the days of old-school record stores. We stopped by yesterday to check in on the space, and a wave of nostalgia washed over us -- late nights flipping through bins, David Bowie sightings -- oh, the memories! NLE curators Manon Sloane and Asher Remy-Toledo took us around as construction workers and many of the artists prepared for the opening. Never Can Say Goodbye features the work of over twenty artists in various mediums. (more) |
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| Non-profit arts organisations and curators are following their commercial equivalents in New York, with a wave of “pop-up” galleries taking advantage of the recessionary real-estate market to strike up partnerships with realtors to stage free exhibitions. Recent non-profits using empty spaces include: No Longer Empty, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Drop: Urban Infill Project, X Initiative, the Downtown Brooklyn Alliance, and veteran non-profits Creative Time, the Art Production Fund and Chashama, which have long worked with underused sites. One new outfit, Smartspaces, has carved out a special niche—showing art exclusively in the windows of developing properties, thereby promoting both artists and real estate with minimum liability (more) | A street artist known to admirers as the Israeli Banksy has left a mural at a Surrey university campus after a visit to students. He held a three-day workshop for students as part of a project involving a visit to Tel Aviv by five students. |
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Time Out New York Own This City: Relax Here Charon's Bark ALEX SCHECHTER |
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Art Agenda Published: November 6, 2009 |
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No Longer Empty, a nonprofit artist collective that temporarily takes over abandoned NYC buildings, is founded on the concept of art in strange places. But when you show up at its current exhibition tonight (51 Bergen St between Court and Smith Sts, Brooklyn; nolongerempty.com), don’t be surprised if there’s more action going on in the elevator than in the rest of the building. Starting at around 3pm, Giuseppe Stampone, who has scribbled verses from Dante’s Divine Comedy over the elevator shaft walls, will film an hour-long video of Julia Kent playing her cello while in the elevator. Though audience members cannot cram inside during filming (for obvious reasons), Kent will give a more traditional performance at 7pm on the main floor (more)
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Italian artist, Giuseppe Stampone transformed the former freight elevator into a major installation which evokes Charon's boat. The boat of Homeric legend carried the souls of the dead across the river Styx which divided the world of the living from those of the dead. Stampone's version carries the visitor through Dante's Divine Comedy:–from the hell of the first floor the elevator follows Dante's writing through purgatory up to the paradise on the third floor with Dante's verses transcribed on the whole expanse of the shaft's walls, replete with illuminated letters. The soulful sounds of Julia Kent's cello accompany the visitor throughout this epic journey. Julia Kent is a Canadian cellist, best known as an original member of all-cello group Rasputina. She left Rasputina in 1999 and has played cello with a variety of artists and ensembles since then, most notably Antony and the Jonsons. She released her first solo album, Delay, in 2007 (more) |
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More Filling News Curbsandstoops Gaia : No Longer Empty. A couple of weeks ago street artist, Gaia hooked up with Keith Schweitzer from No Longer Empty... Exibart.com L'arte ai tempi della crisi. “Change” sembra il motto di questa mostra newyorchese, il cui nodo è il tema della trasformazione... FlashArtonline.com “Make a virtue of necessity” — that’s the way it goes during these times... Pics Roll: Invisible Dogs Mission An interesting mission named “No Longer Empty” was organized on September, 27 in Brooklyn... Slamxhype The 3rd of October see a new group exhibition on at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn... ChelseaNow The challenges of responding to non-traditional art venues is somewhat addictive... Moda Vivendi ‘No Longer Empty’ - Making Creative Use of Space... Whatcha Gonna Do? What's Brewing in the Real-Estate Market...
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