Yesterday I was invited to The Ungovernables Triennial leap year cocktail by-invitation-only party at the New Museum.
After a long line on the street, under the rain and cold wind (no wonder I have a cold now), the party started at 7:30pm in the main lobby: DJ, cocktails, and fluorescent rubber bands for a crowd eager to see and be seen.
Not one to particularly enjoy mingling and parties, I went upstairs to see the exhibition.
Today I was invited to the MoMA PS1 for K-HOLE#2 Release. Young people, “Brooklyn artsy”, holding beers and beards, with the careless attitude that the PS1 requires: either I dont get it or I do, but in any case, it wont show.
There were many works on display, too many (and too complex or infuriatingly simple) to comment here. What was definitely not worth mentioning, from my ignorant point of view, was the Alterazioni Video “The New Cinema Event”.
New York is full of Japanese art, and I am not only referring to the Asia Week NY or the architecture (New Museums SANAA, MoMAs Yoshio Taniguchi, Japan Societys Junzo Yoshimura…), interior design (Megus Yasumichi Morita, Morimotos Tadao Ando, Louis Vuittons Jyun Aoki…), sculpture (Red Cube`s Isamu Noguchi…), art collections (MET, MoMA, Japan Society, Morgan, Rubin…), food (Yasuda, Kajitsu, Minamoto Kichoan…), or shops (Makari, Toy Tokyo, JCC…).
Yesterday I had a chance to see two rare forms of Japanese art in NY.
This is the story of an L1 Visa. I will try to make it short, although some details have to be explained to be believed…
In August of 2011 I thought of starting a US subsidiary of my software company in the USA, so I decided to move to New York to start it up and manage it. Since I needed a visa (form I-129) to live and work in the USA, I contacted an immigration lawyer (form G-28 and thousands of dollars) through a friend, and we started the whole process.
Some hypocritical and absurd questions found in the DS-160 form, needed to get a US Visa:
Do you have a mental or physical disorder that poses or is likely to pose a threat to the safety or welfare of yourself or others? Are you or have you ever been a drug abuser or addict? Have you ever violated, or engaged in a conspiracy to violate, any law relating to controlled substances?
This morning I walked by the smallest art gallery in NY, 125windowgallery, on 47th between 3rd and Lexington Avenue:
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The best thing about that gallery is that you do not need to “go in” 😉
Yesterday I went to the New York Public Library to see Pedro Almodovars "Talk to her", as part of a <a title="https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/12/06/films-pedro-almodovar" href="https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/12/06/films-pedro-almodovar" target="_blank">series</a> of Almodovars films screenings in the NYPL. But, to my surprise, the screening (and remainder ones) had been cancelled.
I talked to the person in the information desk, and she told me that the collecting society (that would be the despicable SGAE, which does not even deserve a link in my blog) and Almodovar`s Production company (El Deseo Producciones) had raised what they had previously been asking for as royalties or compensation for the (free) screening of the (not in movie theater) films, and the amount they were now asking was so high, the NYPL could not afford it, so they had to cancel the screenings.
