Current Exhibition:
Painting by Matthew Buck
A Love Craft
Opening Party: Friday, June 11, 7-11
June 11 - July 23 Extended through July 25
SUMMER HOURS:
By Appointment Only. Please Call 347-677-4245 to view
The “cosmic horror” of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, all written between 1917 and 1935, has become more popular and seemingly more contemporary with each year. OBSERVATORY and Dylan Thuras are excited to announce “A LOVE CRAFT: ” a group show of art inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and the themes of monsters, madness and mythos.
Upcoming Events:
JULY
July 1: A Screening of the Animated Feature “Sita Sings the Blues” Hosted by Animator/Director Nina Paley: Featuring music by Todd Michaelsen and Reena Shah of My Pet Dragon
July 9: Lecture and Screening by Bob Camp, Co-creator of Ren and Stimpy
July 13: Radical Detectives: Forensic Photography and the Aesthetics of Aftermath in Contemporary Art: An illustrated lecture by artist and former forensic photographer Luke Turner
July 15: Life, Secrets, Sex of an Animator: A Lecture and Screening by Animator Signe Baumane
July 16: Suspicious Anatomy: Lecture, Live Human Dissection, and Book Launch Presented by the Hollow Earth Society
July 20: Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo: An Illustrated lecture with Dr. John Troyer, Deputy Director, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
July 24: Echoes of Mutilation: The Saints and their Afterlives: An illustrated lecture by Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
July 29: Screening and Chat with Animator Debra Solomon, Co-Creator of Lizzie McGuire
July 30: Diableries, Medical Oddities and Ghosts in Amazing Victorian 3D!: An illustrated lecture and artifact display by filmmaker and collector Ronni Thomas
AUGUST
August 5: Nature as Miniaturist: An Illustrated Survey of the Bogs of Southern New Jersey: An Illustrated lecture and specimen demonstration with author, artist, and Gentleman Naturalist Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy
August 6: The Pornographic Arcades Project: Adaptation, Automation, and the Evolution of Times Square (1965-1975): An Illustrated lecture with Amy Herzog, professor of media studies and film studies program coordinator at Queens College, CUNY
August 13: Surrealism and Women Artists with Prof. Susan Aberth
August 20: Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement: An illustrated lecture by Salvador Olguin
August 24: Hermaphrodites: Sex Undetermined: An illustrated lecture by Artist and Animator Halli Gomberg
August 27: It’s Scotland Jim, But Not As We Know it: The W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum - A Brief History: An illustrated lecture and virtual tour by Chris Smith, Curator of the W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
SEPTEMBER
September 12: Occult New York: A Manhattan walking tour with Mitch Horowitz - SOLD OUT - please email phantasmaphile [at] gmail.com if you’d like to be added to the waitlist
September 25: Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica with Erik Davis