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What: Come dance, look, listen and experience with The NYU Open Studio Event. The program includes:

Opening Reception & Studio Tours, 6pm.

“Vampires of Berlin” Screening at 7pm

Solo Set by Caroline Polachek of “Chairlift” at 8pm

New Wave Dance Party at 9pm

“Pimp My Whale” installation organized by Sue de Beer & Dave Hardy

“Fantasy Island” exhibition organized by Kathe Burkhart

When: Sat, March 7th  6-10pm

Where: Department of Art and Art Professions NYU Steinhardt

34 Stuyvesant Street, Barney Building New York, NY

“This is life’s ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.”

For those of us looking to quell our fashion thirst without sucking the marrow from our Prada Vitello Diano’s, (um, ’twas a Christmas present, lay off!) look no further than the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Through February 21st, you can bear witness to the first-ever, or so they say, exhibition dedicated to gothic laden fashion trends. Gothic: Dark Glamour, set in an oh-so-Allen Poe haunted castle, labyrinth and apothecary, is much more than a satirical nod to fashionistas in mourning. It’s art.

Popularly associated with body piercings and black-clad teens raiding Hot Topic in the suburban malls of America, gothic trends represented here hail from detailed masterminds like John Galliano of Dior, Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Yoji Yamamoto and more. My favorite are the Japanese Elegant Gothic Lolita dresses, which in addition to creating a global subculture, partially inspired Anna Sui’s Spring 2009 collection (center black & white dress). The many gowns on display are in more ways than one to die for, and the red satin Manolos will leave you bleeding in love.

The Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology – 7th Ave at 27th St; Tue-Fri, noon-8pm; Sat, 10am-5pm  FREE

-Emma

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WHAT: Love to write? Get free tips from the Gotham Writers’ Workshop? The idea is to give you a chance to see what the classes at the GWW can offer future penners and poets, possibly inspiring you to become a regular at the school…or even a cyber-student through online studies. Courses are offered at 101 W. 91st St., 273 Bowery, 555 8th Ave. and 111 Washington Place. Specific classes and locations are available here (where you can also find a list of several events that compliment the workshops, taking place at various booksellers around the city.)
You should arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled start time and check in with staffers. Make sure to bring paper and a pen, as they will not be provided.

WHEN: January 13 January 14
For more dates check http://www.writingclasses.com/
212-974-8377

WHERE: Midtown West
Gotham Writers’ Workshop,
Suite 1402
555 Eighth Ave
New York , NY 10018

COST: Free, but pre-registration is required

WHAT: 2008. France/Germany/Kazakhstan/Russia. Written and directed by Marat Sarulu. With Vladimir Yovorsky, Dzaidarbek Kunguzhinov, Irina Agejkina.

Two couples, one Russian and one Kazakhstani, are neighbors in a beautiful, semi-desolate region adjoining the arid grasslands of the Great Steppe. The couples live in intimate proximity, sharing one another’s joys and woes, but when the fair-skinned Russians give birth to a boy with a decidedly darker complexion, the couples enter into a fifteen-year period of suspicion and acrimony.

Sarulu’s gorgeous, wonderfully acted film, which mingles everyday brutality with the most sublime expressions of feeling, examines the meaning of family at the crossroads of different cultures and histories.

In Russian; English subtitles. 80 min. U.S. premiere.

WHEN:January 16th
8:00 PM

WHERE: Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street – 1-212-798-9400