Millennium Film Workshop In Trouble: Meeting 18 Sept. 2011

story © Michael Betancourt | published September 17, 2011 | permalink |  |  

Public Meeting to Save the Millennium
Sunday, September 18, 7:30pm
Millennium Film Workshop
66 E 4th btw 2nd and Bowery

Tell everyone you know and have them tell everybody they know. This is the time to come together to save this important institution.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published April 17, 2011 | permalink |  |  

The text to the chapter I wrote for Jose Parla: Walls, Diaries, Paintings is posted on my website.

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 9, 2011 | permalink |  |  

Ben Rubin's video sculpture Anecdotal History (2011) types out excerpts from Wikileaks. This was my favorite piece at this year's Armory Fair in NYC, shown by the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published February 12, 2011 | permalink |  |  

an exhibition of paintings by JOSÉ PARLÁ
MARCH 3 - APRIL 16, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 6 - 9 PM

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery will be shoing a solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá. Walls, Diaries, and Paintings features fifteen new paintings, that chronicle Parlá’s exploration of the diverse places and cultures he has traversed. From Istanbul to Havana, from Tokyo to New York, the colors and textures of the neighborhoods and alleyways have found a forceful and moving resolution in Parlá’s works that are both inspirational and revealing.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published January 22, 2011 | permalink |  |  

I wrote a chapter in this book: José Parlá: Walls, Diaries, and Paintings. It's available for pre-order on the publisher's website, and is slated to ship in February 2011.