The Weekender & We're Baaaaa-aack!

Hiya Folks!

Sorry about the hiatus; some posting issues resulting in utter frustration has kept me from my duties of being, as my friends call me "The Goddess of All Things Astoria." Well I am back and ready to enlighten you on what's happening around town.

For those of you with the 3 day weekend LUCKY! We'll be at work, bummer. Make use of the day, enjoy it as fully as possible.

For those schmucks like me, let's make the next 2 days worth it.

I've got artsy things on the brain, so let's start there.

But first, in case you haven't heard we're losing one of our great hidden art spaces, the Flux Factory. Friggin eminent domain.

The Museum of the Moving Image continues it's offering of Ford at Fox, a retrospective of director John Ford's movies for Fox Studios (where he made over 50 movies!). If you're yearing for some classic movies this weekend, they'll be screening: Pilgrimage, Born Reckless, Air Mail and Steamboat 'Round the Bend.

PS1, offers a great assortment of artists exhibits.

LIC's Art-O-Mat offers a great exhibit, Lost Landscapes: Paintings by Diana Freedman-Shea.

The artist is is a realist painter concerned with mood and the effects of light and shadow.

Here's a sample of the work taken from the website:

Can't wait to see the rest!

The Noguchi Museum, up on Vernon, in what I call the triangle of wierd (Socrates Sculpture Park, The Noguchi Museum and Costco of all things?) has a really nifty exhibit. It's a collaboration of the works of Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi.

From the website:

One of Kenmochi’s and Noguchi’s many collaborations resulted in a strikingly original woven bamboo chair made in 1950. This actual chair is no longer extant but will be recreated for the purpose of this exhibition. It is a classical sculptural form of texture and beauty as well as representing a technical accomplishment, distilling the natural elasticity and strength of bamboo with the durability and efficiency of iron. Together these two artists and designers made a chair that created a sense of lightness in modern design with a charm of warm, seemingly traditional tactility.

And, just to give you an idea:

And, as always there's the annual Emerging Artists Fellowship exhibit at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Saturday at 1, as part of their Afternoon at the Movies series, the Greater Astoria Historical Society presents: The Great American Songbook.

From the website:

The people and events that put music in our lives are celebrated in this anthology that traces popular music from its roots in minstrel shows through the jazz age and Gershwin to more recent tunesmiths.

Tunesmiths, I like that word.

I know I was kind of art heavy this weekend, but there's not a whole lot going on this weekend.

In other news, have you seen the work that has been happening at our beloved Beer Garden? They have a link to a photo slide show (granted, with only a few photos) on their home page of the work going on. Hopefully that new Beer Garden in Brooklyn means we can actually get into this one when the warmer months get here.

(Sorry for the formatting inconsistencies...one of the many problems I have been having tied into my hiatus...it's just so frustrating when you take the time to write something out and then it either looks wonky or disapppears. The latter being the major reason for the hiatus.)