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 […]

GARRIN BENFIELD: LPV CONCERT

Garrin Benfield returned to Le Petit Versailles for a repeat engagement after his very successful LPV debut in the Summer of 2011. His music is a blend of moody, guitar-driven rock and polyrhythmic groove all run through the filter of a very serious Singer/Songwriter—Benfield himself.

WINTER PLEASURE DOME

The 2012 Le Petit Versailles season started uncharacteristically (or is it?) early this year (in 2011, in fact!), beginning with the construction of the Winter Pleasure Dome by artist John Pavlou. A canvas-wrapped wooden structure in the middle of the Garden, the Pleasure Dome provided both a space for events such as the artist’s Reading […]

WORLD WAR III ZINE LAUNCH

The rain threatened to put a damper on the annual launch of the long-standing, hard-hitting illustrated magazine World War 3 Illustrated, an essential publication run by a collective of artists working with the unified goal of creating a home for political comics, graphics and stories. Thankfully, the rain dissipated and a sizable crowd showed up […]

WILD VINES – C. RYDER COOLEY, JASMINE DREAME WAGNER, AND FRIENDS

Two evenings of dark fairytales unfolding along with music, projection, words, and a strange concoction of taxidermy, haunts, and dreams by interdisciplinary artists, C. Ryder Cooley and Jasmine Dreame Wagner. The Garden was filled with sounds intermixing and intermingling: a musical saw, people’s throats and diaphragms, strings, keys, and reeds. Videos by Samuael Topiary, EE […]

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