powerHouse Arena

37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States

1-866-99-ARENA; cmathispowerHouseBooks.com

Web site: http://www.powerhousebooks.com

Events: http://www.powerhousebooks.com/c… (updated February 14)

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Dennis Balk (March 28 at 2:00pm)

Dennis Balk signs Colin De Land - American Fine Arts.

Dennis Balk is an artist who worked with American Fine Arts and Colin de Land for over a decade. Asked by de Land to care for the archive, Balk now presents this book as the first effort to bring the photographs into the public sphere. Balk exhibits work internationally and is the author of Particles ... (more)+ Waves with Plausibility (powerHouse Books, 2005). He has two other titles forthcoming: a sci-fi paperback, coauthored with Gean Moreno, and an artist book composed primarily of work generated in the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf. Balk lives and works in Bahrain.

Event location: ArtForum Pub. Lounge/Armory Show/Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue, New York, NY

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Dennis Balk (March 29 at 5:00pm)

Dennis Balk signs Colin De Land - American Fine Arts.

Event location: ArtForum Pub. Lounge/Armory Show/Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue, New York, NY

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Flight Attendants Book Party (April 10 at 8:00pm)

Flying the friendly skies, Brian Finke began photographing flight attendants as he crisscrossed the country on Delta, JetBlue, Hawaiian, Hooters Air, Southwest, and Song airlines, before going abroad on Air France, Qantas, and British Airways. In London, he visited a flight attendant school, complete ... (more)with emergency rafts and billowing smoke. Continuing east, Finke traveled Air Asia, Thai, Tiger, ANA, Japan, and Cathay Pacific. For the grand finale of his two-year trip, Finke traveled the illustrious Icelandair.

The result is Flight Attendants, a vibrant document of those adventurous souls who choose to work at 40,000 feet. Shot before, during, and after trips, at school and at home, Finke’s photographs capture the allure of this high-flying profession alongside the more quiet moments of the attendants’ daily lives. Like his previous collection of cheerleaders and football players, 2-4-6-8, Finke is drawn to the distinctive dynamics of team formation, focusing on uniformed individuals executing practiced actions—whether on the playing field or in the air. With an eye for the iconic as well as the absurd, Finke seamlessly blends the glamorous with the casual, offering a memorable look at the men and women of air travel.

Event location: Mansion, 530 W. 28th Street, New York, NY

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Vandal Squad: Inside the New York City Transit Police Department, 1984–2004 (March 19 at 7:00pm)

The recent book release Vandal Squad: Inside the New York City Transit Police Department, 1984–2004 has caused consternation throughout the global graffiti community with charges that author Joseph Rivera is profiting off the very criminals he spent his career incarcerating. In response, the powerHouse ... (more)Arena will host a conversation between former members of the Vandal Squad and the graffiti writers, the first such event of its kind. With the intent of providing an open forum for public discussion to discuss the issues regarding the methods that the Vandal Squad employs and their impact on the lives of the writers themselves. Panelists include Vandal Squad author Joseph Rivera, former Commanding Officer Lieutenant Steven Mona, original Vandal Squad Lieutenant Ken Chiulli, graffiti legend COPE2, graffiti activist Ket, and street artist Ellis G. The event will be moderated by Stern Rockwell, Streets Are Saying Things. Founded in 1980, the Vandal Squad’s mission was to protect the subway system from hardcore criminal acts of destruction like kicking out windows and throwing seats out of train cars. It was only with the Clean Car Program of 1984 that graffiti became the primary focus of this specialized Unit. On a mission to catch those who gained fame under tag names, the Vandal Squad had to identify and locate these individuals cloaked in anonymity (and often so transient they were referred as “ghosts”) using every means available, including the NYPD computer database, Search Warrants, subpoenas, and even vandals themselves. These strategies, and their impact on the lives of the vandals, as well as concerns about the publication of the book, will be the focus of the conversation.

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