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Week in Shows: ‘Nihilist Queer Revolt,’ Princess Nokia, and More

April 4, 2017 By Nicole Disser

(Via Ad Hoc / Brooklyn Bazaar)

Xiu Xiu, Dreamcrusher, Gold Dime
Thursday April 6, 8 pm at Brooklyn Bazaar: $13

If you’re wondering what Xiu Xiu is all about, take Morrissey’s whinny, combine with scratchy dance music and pop presence, and dump the resulting liquid on the ground, because Xiu Xiu is anything but rut-stuck. If there’s one habit that the depresso-electro outfit can’t quit, it’s danceability. Leading vocal dude Jamie Stewart might sound like he’s violently ripping his hair out at the moment, and so sad that he might tip over a newspaper stand if he comes across one, but he’ll never get in the way of you and your shimmy.

Tags: Art + Culture, brooklyn, brooklyn bazaar, Dreamcrusher, Greenpoint, live music, Luwayne Glass, music, Princess Nokia, Xiu Xiu

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Vaginal Davis Returns to New York, Taking on Sculpture and Mozart

November 23, 2015 By Nicole Disser

Vaginal Davis (Photo by Hector, courtesy of Invisible-Exports)

Vaginal Davis is undeniably one of the most prolific artists to come out of the ’70s punk scene. The black, inter-sex born, self-declared outsider artist is nothing short of a queer icon. And even though she’s from Los Angeles (South Central, to be precise), she has a special place in New York City, where she’s had a serious impact on contemporary underground culture– the Bushwick drag scene is particularly indebted to her, as Davis is one of the founding mothers of “terrorist drag.”

Tags: art, Art + Culture, Bring Your Own Body, exhibitions, galleries, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jamie Stewart, Jonathan Berger', Michel Auder, opera, performance, punk, queer culture, sculpture, Susanne Sachsse, The Magic Flute, vaginal davis, Xiu Xiu