BRIAN TAYLOR: A CELEBRATION OF HIS LIFE AND ART

August 18, 2012 marked the 20th anniversary of dancer Brian Taylor’s death of AIDS-related illnesses. To commemorate the occasion, LPV presented an evening of film screenings, showing Carl George’s “6 Feet, Dancers That I Know and Love” and “The Blue Dresses,” a video featuring dance choreographed by Brian Taylor and performed by Peter Cramer, Jack […]

OBTUSUS CUM ACUMINE: PRAYER FLAGS FOR THE GARDEN

  Artist Lucia Maria Minervini crafted ancient prayer flag designs made of wax/paper/text/image/fastening components of an artist made “book.” The flags were intended to remain at the Garden until they decay and disintegrate (Hurricane Sandy may have caused havoc all over the East Coast, but these prayer flags are still hanging in there, looking new!). […]

FAERIE TIMES AT LPV!

Beltaine at LPV Ritual celebration of May Day at LPV: Gathering starts at noon, Tue, May 1, 2012 The New York Radical Faeries celebrated Beltaine at the Garden with our very own May Pole (and accompanying May Pole dance!) Continuing the success and fun that we all had from last year’s Beltaine celebration, we got […]

SURRENDER DOROTHY: THE RETURN OF THE WITCHES

          Phillippe Comtesse and Evor, artists from France, opened “the exhibition season” of LPV with “Surrender Dorothy: Return of the Witches,” an art installation and performance that enjoined the public to model and act in full witchy-tude, only in a black and white dress code. A sandwich board stood outside the […]

DIRTY LOOKS: ON LOCATION, A MONTH OF QUEER INTERVENTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY SPACES

        One of New York’s hottest queer film/video series used LPV as one of its locations for their month-long series of queer interventions, Dirty Looks: On Location. We screened “Hail the New Puritan,” a seminal queer work directed by Charles Atlas. A hybrid of performance and film, documentary and fiction, portrait and […]

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