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The Mark Lombardi Code Reexamined

September 9, 2010 By Sarah Schmerler Leave a Comment

Marieke Wegener (in her Williamsburg studio) began interviewing many area artists this summer for her documentary about the artist Mark Lombardi who allegedly died of suicide in 2000. Photography by Ben Lozovsky

Marieke Wegener (in her Williamsburg studio) began interviewing many area artists this summer for her documentary about the artist Mark Lombardi who allegedly died of suicide in 2000. Photography by Ben Lozovsky

Mareike Wegener is a 27-year-old German filmmaker with spot-on taste for the obscure, the quirky, the hard to pin down—particularly when it comes to visual artists. What’s more, she’s got a sweetly fierce determination to follow her instincts to their fascinating, if open-ended, conclusions. While in school in Cologne, Germany, Wegener managed, over the course of four years, to fund and produce a film on the late Al Hansen (wandering conceptual artist extraordinaire, member of the transgressive art movement Fluxus, and otherwise known as Beck’s grandfather). Now she’s hard at work on an even edgier project, but one much closer to home: a documentary on the late, great artist Mark Lombardi, who died at the young age of 49 (suicide) in his Williamsburg studio in 1999. Local gallery, Pierogi, handles his estate: epic drawings that are, at first glance, little more than diagrams in pencil on paper, but which ultimately claim to chart the scandal-riddled courses and interconnected destinies of political movements, presidents past and seated, political parties, world banks, and, most frightening of all, terrorism. Controversy has followed the work since Lombardi’s death, and the FBI is even rumored to have closely scanned one work in particular in the wake of the events of 9/11. Wegener, meantime, is spending the better part of this and last year sorting out the legacy and history of Lombardi, the man—a task that no filmmaker, until now, has dared to take on for its complexity. It’s a project that’s made her a de-facto W’burg resident.

Late mornings you can find her smoking hand-rolled cigarettes on Bedford Avenue, drinking lots and lots of coffee. Jittery, but better for it, we did the same. What ensued was a conversation that, much like a Lombardi drawing, was full of fragments of interconnected lives, open-ended answers, and some beautiful insights into what makes the creative mind tick.

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The City Reliquary Collects Pieces of New York

September 9, 2010 By Trent Morse Leave a Comment

City Reliquary - Display cake from La Villita Bakery.

WINDOW CAKE WITH DECORATIVE DOLL FROM LA VILLITA BAKERY.

Life in New York City can be so over-stimulating that it’s easy to overlook the civic details we encounter every day. Take, for instance, the MetroCard. You can immediately identify it in your wallet as the yellow rectangle of flimsy plastic with blue lettering. But you may not know (or remember) that the colors on the original MetroCard were reversed—yellow letters on a blue field. These are the kind of arcane factoids that titillate the folks at the City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization, who proudly display a blue MetroCard from 1994 next to myriad old subway tokens.

Located between a bar and a pizzeria at 370 Metropolitan Avenue, with a yellow awning overhead, the outside of the City Reliquary looks more like a neighborhood bodega than a museum of New York artifacts. Inside, however, past the ka-chunk-chunk of an antique turnstile, the space reveals itself to be a curiosity cabinet on a shop-size scale.

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New Kings Dems May Steal Crown From Lopez

September 9, 2010 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

While canvassing in the Southside of Williamsburg, Lincoln Restler (at left) stops to speak with a neighborhood resident and a campaign member, Marcos Masri. Photo by Benjamin Lozovsky

While canvassing in the Southside of Williamsburg, Lincoln Restler (at left) stops to speak with a neighborhood resident and a campaign member, Marcos Masri. Photo by Benjamin Lozovsky

Story by Benjamin Lozovsky

On a perfectly temperate August Friday evening, while most New Yorkers are outdoors at barbeques or gone on vacation, cherishing the last few glimpses of the summer sun, Lincoln Restler is indoors knocking on apartment doors.

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Hula Hooper: “Bex” Burton

June 20, 2010 By Genia Gould Leave a Comment

“The hula hoop community is a beautiful community, how could it not be? Hooping produces so much laughter and joy, I think the community just embodies those qualities.” —Bex Burton 

“The hula hoop community is a beautiful community, how could it not be? Hooping produces so much laughter and joy, I think the community just embodies those qualities.” —Bex Burton 

Hooping is a new way to engage the body in movement that’s fast, fat-burning and fun. It’s also an increasingly popular dance performance genre, a world that burlesque performer and pilates teacher Rebecca “Bex” Burton gives us insight into.

What drew you to the hula hoop? RB: I have a background in dance, and work as a movement teacher. I love working with the hoop because in some ways it becomes a dance partner, responding to whatever my body creates in its natural improvisational flow. Sometimes it’s really beautiful and surprising, and sometimes it doesn’t work and the hoop will fall. It is a humbling movement exploration and an always entertaining process.

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Wild Wild Williamsburg, New York’s most vibrant music scene.

June 19, 2010 By Benjamin Lozovsky Leave a Comment

Photo by Bao Nguyen

Photo by Bao Nguyen

Long ago the Wild West was a place of prosperity and prospectors, of unchecked growth and the resulting unscrupulous dis­placement of the indigenous peoples, a place filled with either hope and bravery or blind ambition, and foolish bravado (or perhaps a little of each).

It was a world where anyone could stake their claim and make a mark, where ingenuity flourished in the face of hardship, and where rules didn’t quite apply. Ultimately the Wild West typified an ideal of cooperation and coexistence within a disparate population.

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