2019

Elga Wimmer Gallery
526 West 26th Street, NYC
A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS, curated by Elga Wimmer
Artists included: Lydia Donna, Heide Hatry, Richard Human, Carolee Schneemann, Jonathan Singer, and Soon-yeal Young.
Exhibition: December 7-21
Opening Reception: Dec 7
Holiday Cheers & Closing Party: Dec 19

UBU Gallery
416 E 59th St., NYC
BUGGED OUT:
Representations of Arthropods in Modern and Contemporary Art, curated by Adam Boxer.
Artists included: Hans Bellmer, Robert Disraeli, Rick Hards, Heide Hatry, Georges Hugnet, Nils Karsten, Edmund Kesting, Myron Kozman, Yoko Ono, Gaston Paris, Franz Roh, Jindřich Štyrský, František Zelenka, Unica Zürn.
Exhibition: May 1 - December 20, 2019
Closing Reception: Dec 20 from 6 to 8 pm

Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
Greenwich Village, NYC
Maintenant 13: A.I. Artificial Ignoranc
NYC DADA Poetry readings and performances
June 3, 7-10pm

National Museum for Funeral History
415 Barren Springs Drive, Houston, TX
Icons in Ash, curated by Genevieve Keeney
VIP Opening Reception: May 19
Press Conference, Cocktail Party, Talk, Panel, Tours, etc...
Public Opening: July 15
Exhibition: until May 2020

Headbones Gallery
6700 Old Kamloops Road
Vernon, BC V1H 1P8, Canada
NYC Women Willing the Distance, curated by Julie Oakes:
April 12 to June 8
Catalogue available

BLOC Art
Malecón de la Marina 530, # 9
Lima, Peru
Espacios Experimentales, curated by Elisa Massardo.
VIP Opening reception: Wednesday, April
April 3 to 7

   2018

SVA (School of Visual Arts)
335 W 16th St, NYC
The Hothouse Archives: Plants, Pods and Panama Red.
Symposium: Friday, November 16 - Sunday, November 18
Nov 18 1.30pm: Panel V: Flora: Suzanne Anker, Mathias Kessler, Anne Percoco, Carolyn Angleton, Heide Hatry. Moderator: Sabine Flach.

TBG Gallery 
616 E 9th St., NYC
THE SNAKE power without control. TACTICAL STREAM #4, group show curated by Theresa Byrnes
Opening Reception: Dec 1, 5-9pm
Exhibition: Dec 1-Dec 17

THE MERCHANT'S HOUSE MUSEUM
29 E 4th St, NYC
Icons in Ash: Contemporary and Historic Mourning Practices
Presentation by Heide Hatry and Zoë Crossland
In the 19th century, mourning practices and remembrances, such as postmortem photography and hair jewelry, were closely linked to the physical remains of the dead. By the 20th century, as death became more medicalized and no longer took place in the home, mourning became less focused on physical connections with the dead body and more on memories. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the material traces of the dead, particularly in relation to cremated remains.

In this presentation, artist Heide Hatry and Professor Zoë Crossland reflect on contemporary mourning practices, what they share with older and abandoned traditions, and where they differ. What might this tell us about changing attitudes to death and mourning in the modern world? 

Zoë Crossland is Director of the Center for Archaeology and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. Her research and published work explore the problems of archaeological and forensic evidence and archaeology’s relationship to the dead body. Her current project, The Speaking Corpse, explores the evidence of the forensic corpse, the ways in which it is explained for popular consumption, and the history that lies behind the treatment of the dead as evidence.
Admission: Free. Reservations required; click here to reserve.
Conversation: Friday, November 2, 6.30pm

RESIDENCY UNLIMITED (RU)
360 Court Street #4 Brooklyn, NY 
The Good Death Roundtable is a forum that seeks to foster a better relationship with our mortality through open discussion that brings death out of the taboo as well as asks us to imagine our own deaths in an effort of preparedness and understanding. Bethany Tabor will lead an open-format conversation beginning with a presentation by artist Heide Hatry whose project Icons in Ash investigates memorialization and image-making as well as explores alternative, artistic uses of cremated remains. How does this mode of memorialization push forward how we live with the remains of our loved ones? What does having cremated remains dwelling in an art object mean for our relationship with death?
Meet Over Lunch Conversation: November 1, 1pm 

THE RED ROOM @KGBBAR
85 E 4th St.  NYC, 3rd floor
Icons in Ash, Reimagine Death an evening with art, songs, and spoken word about dying, death, grieving, consoling and remembering. Inspired by Heide Hatry's Icons in Ash memorial portraits made of cremated remains.
Hatry wants to reintegrate life and death: to touch death, work with death, to let it speak in its mundanity, its grandeur, its familiarity and its mystery, its uniqueness and its universality, to redeem it from oblivion, to give it its own life again.
Artists, musicians, and spoken word performers include: Vanisha Gould, John Hudak, John S. Hall, Samuel Wronoski, the Indiggo Twins, l'Artiste ordinaire, Queen Esther, Adrienne Herr, Sophie Malleret, Taylor Lee Price, Hot Glue & The Gun (Carrie Klein and Joel McGlynn), Joel Simpson, Anthony Haden-Guest, Christine Isherwood, and Jane LeCroy
In the beautiful RED ROOM, a small exhibition of art works relating to death, will also be on display
Tuesday October 30, 9pm

Bios of participants:
Vanisha Gould, is a Jazz vocalist and a composer. She has burst onto the New York Jazz scene and, with a voice reminiscent of Billie Holiday, has carved out a fierce reputation for thrilling audiences. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and finished her Professional Music Degree at Berklee College of Music. She moved to New York in 2015.  Listen in athttps://soundcloud.com/vanishagould
John Hudak has been interested in sound and music from the age of four when he began to play piano. In recent years, he has focused on digital collage and short video pieces (Instagram: possibility_pictures), but has not ceased creating minimalistic sound pieces based on nature (as soundtracks for his videos).
John S. Hall is an American poet, author, and singer-songwriter perhaps best known for his work with King Missile, an avant-garde band, that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various incarnations. Hall has published two books with Soft Skull Press: Jesus Was Way Cool, a  poetry collection, and Daily Negotiations, a dark-humored satire of self-help books. He has appeared on HBO, PBS and MTV and toured the US and Europe extensively.
Samuel Wronoski is roughly human shaped to within a few standard deviations of the mean and writes poems. His work is forthcoming in Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics (volume 8), and The New England Review of Books.
Indiggo Twins (Gabriela and Mihaela Modorcea), are Romanian-American actresses, dancers, singers, writers and the creators and performers of Wicked Clone, a Off Broadway Show, and Cinema Musical.
l'Artiste ordinaireis a collaborative partnership between Melissa Grey & David Morneau, that creates and shares performances that are rooted in sound and stretch out to include performance, art, design, architecture, and potential literature.
Queen Esther, the Grand Prize winner of the 2008 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition, performs internationally and forges her own sonic path with her jazz collective and her Black Americana outfit The Blue Crowns. Released in 2015, her critically acclaimed album The Other Side  “…the most exciting Afro-Americana album of the year” is garnering airplay worldwide “…a brutal, original, explosive singer.” (Vanity Fair) 
Adrienne Herr is a poet, whose work was published and/or is forthcoming in TAGVVERK, Arachne, and okcook.co. She is a curator of Alignment, an annual performance series held at American Medium dedicated to paid poetic labor. Recent topics of interest include perimeters, paths, language associated with the spiritual, labor, blackholes, and the end of dreams. 
Taylor Lee Price is a writer who currently focuses on poetry as a means of expressing trauma. She studies literature, publishing, and writing at The Evergreen State College and is currently a full time assistant for Heide Hatry.
Joel Simpson, armed with a PhD in comparative literature has taught English, French, Italian and jazz history at New Orleans, New Jersey and metro New York area universities. He also pursued a career in jazz piano for 22 years and his photographic work has shown in the US as well as Europe, and been in numerous publications. He also writes art/photography reviews for a number of publications.
Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, reporter and cartoonist. 
He was born in Paris and lives in New York and London. He has published in leading magazines in Britain and America. His books include True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World, The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night, and his most recent: In The Mean Time, a book of cartoons and rhymes.
Hot Glue & The Gun (Carrie Klein & Joel McGlynn), a indie duo, work and play with transformation and collaboration in their song, performance and visual art. Since they began writing and performing together in 2014, they have continually sought to sink into the mysteries of human experience: birth, life, death, love, fear, poetry, harmony...
Robert Brashear is a singer/songwriter and consultant in urban ministry. He has served 22 years as pastor of West Park Church and founded the arts and culture Center at West Park. He performs both solo and with his Home (Away) band. He curates a monthly night of eclectic musical performance, "First Sundays",  at the Sidewalk Cafe and has recently released his  first CD, "Robert Brashear, Songs Vol.1" 
Christine Isherwood is a Voice Movement Therapist, who teaches “Singing The Psyche,” the Voice Movement Therapy Training, and workshops internationally. She has written and performed in political musicals, toured the UK and Europe with theatre groups and bands. Largely silent these past few years, she has been tending to dying family members.
Jane LeCroy is a NYC based poet, singer and performance artist who fronts the avant-pop band, The Icebergs, and the psychedelic experimental music project, Ω▽Ohmslice. She teaches writing, and her book, Signature Play, a multimedia book of lyrical poems, published by Three Rooms Press was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has also released two music albums and is performing at many venues in NY.
Heide Hatry is an NYC based German artist, mainly known for her conceptual work using unconventional materials. Her most recent body of work, Icons in Ash, consists of portraits made from the cremated remains of their subjects, a social art project that has made a significant impact on the lives of their survivors and contributed to a re-imagining of our relationship to the dead.
Books and CDs of all performers will be available.
Legendary East Village KGB Bar has a newly created gorgeous and intimate space. The Red Room is a speak easy style club on the 3rd floor at 85 E. 4th Street. The limited occupancy Red Room features gangster inspired libations with names like Wiseguy and Cocksman and antiques from the period, including a copper bath tub as well as proprietor Denis Woychuk’s art and object collections and promotes the feel of days gone by when infamous gangster Lucky Luciano’s Palm Casino inhabited the building. Lori Schwarz is soul of Red Room and is also the contact person for bookings, and press inquiries.

THE MERCHANT'S HOUSE MUSEUM
29 E 4th St, NYC
Icons in Ash, Cremation Portraits, A New Way of Memorializing the Death is part of an exhibition of poignant recreated scenes of death and grief in the Merchant’s House Museum exploring 19th century customs of dying, bereavement, and remembrance. Curated by Margaret Halsey Gardiner (Pi) and Emily Hall-Wright, also including 19th century postmortem portraiture from The Burns Archive.
Admission: $15  
Exhibition: October 4 - November 7

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FUNERARY HISTORY
415 Barren Springs Drive, Houston, TX 
History of Cremation curated by Genevieve Keeney
VIP Opening reception: September 16 5-7pm
Permanent Museum Exhibition
https://nmfh.org/

LA PLAZA COMMUNITY CULTURAL GARDEN / AMPHITHEATER
35 E 9th St. NYC
Water World Performance, Tactical Stream artists in action
Saturday, September 22, 2pm

TBG Gallery 
616 E 9th St., NYC
Restist Fascism, group show curated by Theresa Byrnes
Opening Reception: July 13, 6-9pm
Exhibition: July 13-August 5
Performances: July 20 6-9pm
Tactical Stream meeting: July 22 2.30-5pm
Tactical Stream meeting: July 29 2.30-5pm

TOPOS BOOKS
788 Woodward Ave, Brooklyn, NY 
Poetry Reading by Adrienne Herr, Cristine Brache, Lora Nouk and Heide Hatry.
June 28th, 7pm

BROOKLYN ART LIBRARY / Event organizer: Raincoat Society
28 Frost St, Brooklyn, NY 
Multilingual Poetry Reading and Performances by Eugene Neduv, Heide Hatry, Mark M. Gondelman, Andrew Kuznetsov,
Gabriel Don, Sean Ali, l'Artiste ordinaire, Juecheng Chen, curated by Tansy Xiao.
June 29th, 7pm

WATERMILL PERFORMANCE NIGHT
39 Watermill Towd Road, Watermill, NY
Time Bomb, the 25th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction
An enchanted forest and performance art extravaganza, unites the worlds of art, performance, music, theatre, design, architecture and fashion.
July 28, 6pm - midnight

RED ROOM@ KGBBar (3rd floor)
85 E 4th Street, NYC 
Afterparty for Lydia Millet's Book Launch
Lydia will read from her new book: FIGHT NO MORE at McNally Jackson Books at 7pm and we will continue celebrating with art and music inspired by her work and created for this event with Mihaela and Gabriela Modorcea (Indiggo Twins), Jane LeCroy and Peter Spagnuolo, Christine Isherwood, Joel Simpson, Robert Brashear, Dusty Wright, and Heide Hatry.
Wednesday, June, 20, 9.30pm

SPOONBILL & SUGARTOWN
99 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY 
Heide Hatry, Material Reality III curated by JC Hopkins and Jonas Kyle.
Artist's Talk June 8th, 7pm: On Hatry's unique relationship both to physical material and to the book as primary vehicle for a collaborative conceptual artpractice, collaborating performers include: Jane LeCroy, Christine Isherwood, John S. Hall, Naief Yehya, Iris Smyles, and Addison Parks (in memoriam)
Exhibition: June 5 -15, 2018

LE POISSON ROUGE
158 Bleecker St. @ Thompson St., NYC 
Maintenant 12, curated by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges
Readings and spoken word performances: June 6, 7pm

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ
29 Cornelia Street, NYC
Maintenant 12, curated by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges
Readings and spoken word performances: June 1, 6-8pm
Tickets: $10 at door (price includes one drink)

ELGA WIMMER PCC
526 West 26th St, #310
BLOOM / WILT / BLOOM, group show curated by Michele Mack and Elga Wimmer
Sculptures, Paintings, Photographs, Works on Paper, Prints, Objects
Opening Reception: April 12th, 6-9 pm
Exhibition: April 12th - May 5, 2018
Closing Reception: May 5th, 3-5 pm

SPRING BREAK ART FAIR
Times Square , 22nd and 23rd floor.
475 Kent Tenants Association Auction organized by Kirk Edwards or Simon Lee
Preview Day: March 6th
Collectors Preview 11am - 5pm
Press Preview 3pm - 5pm
Opening Night 5pm - 9pm
Regular Show Days: March 7 - 12
Daily Hours: 11am - 6pm
More info here https://www.475kent.org/about/

LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 
Dark and Stormy Night: The Gothic in Contemporary Art curated by Bartholomew F. Bland.
Curator's Tour: Friday, Feb 9, 3pm
Exhibition: through February 10, 2018

EVERGREEN COLLEGE
2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA 
Heide Hatry, Material Reality lecture and workshops.
Lecture: Friday, Jan 31, 1pm
Workshops: not public

Gallery 524
524 W 246h St., NYC
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, a Benefit for Visual Aids 
Preview Party: January 19, 6-8pm
Benefit Sale: January 20, 10am - 6pm
Sunday Special: January 21, 10am - 4pm (Buy 2 artworks, get 1 free)

   2017

CATINCA TABACURA GALLERY
250 Broome St, NYC
TRANS-VILLE, performance series curated by Coco Dolle
Saturday, Dec 13, 7-9pm

CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow St., NYC 
HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA
Opening Reception:  December 7, 5-8pm
Exhibition: December 7 - 17

NEW MUSEUM
235 Bowery, NYC
40 YearsAanniversary Celebration: Converstaion with Judith Bernstein and Linda Montano
Saturday, Dec 2, 10am
Performance conceived by Linda Montano

ATOA Panel, National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park, NYC
MATERIAL REALITY, organized by Lynne Mayolcole
Panel:  November 28, 6.30pm
Panelists: Laila Pedro, JW McCormack, Marc Pachter, John Wronoski, and Heide Hatry.

SALON STUX WEST
(UWS) New York, NY 
HEIDE HATRY, MATERIAL REALITY, solo show curated by Stefan Stux and Andrea Schnabl.
Performances: November 29, 7pm
Exhibition: November 28 - December 3

SENSEI GALLERY
135 Eldridge St., New York, NY 
HEIDE HATRY, MATERIAL REALITY, curated by Tanshi Xiao
ARTIST TALK:  November 16, 7pm
Exhibition: November 8 - December 3

LET THEM TALK @ MN TV (MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD TV)
HEIDE HATRY, MATERIAL REALITY, conversation with Paul de Rienzo
Conversation:  November 14, 8pm

LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 
DARK AND STORMY NIGHT: THE GOTHIC IN CONTEMPORARY ART curated by Bartholomew F. Bland.
Opening Reception:  November 1 (Day of the Dead), 5-8pm
Exhibition: October 28, 2017 - February 10, 2018

LIMNER GALLERY
123 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534
A SHOW OF HEADS, group show curated by Tim Slowinski.
Opening Reception: October 21 5-7pm
Exhibition: October 18 - November 11

KARACHI BIENNIAL
Karachi, Pakistan 
WITNESS, curated by Amin Gulgee
Exhibition: October 22 - November 5

ESPACIO FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA GALLERY
Av. Providencia 127, Providencia, Santiago de Chile 
COLECCIÓN AL LÍMITE SIN LÍMITE, group show curated by Marisa Caichiolo
Press Conference (Maison Italia SRC, Avenida Italia 1029): September 12, 9.30am
Opening Reception: September 12, 7.30pm
Exhibition: September 7 - November 5
Opening Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 8pm, Sat and Sun 11am - 8pm

NFDA Convention
415 Summer Street, Boston
ICONS IN ASH, and ANIMA IN ASH
Exhibition: October 29 - November 1

THE PARK CHURCH CO-OP
129 Russell St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 11222
SANCTUARY: PROTEST PARTY AND ART BENEFIT, curated by Amy Finkbeiner and Anne Spurgeon. Every news cycle seems to usher in yet another outrage on human dignity perpetrated by our government. We can all feel the rage, pain, and fear in the streets. Organizations who are trying to serve the most threatened and vulnerable members of our society are losing funding and, moreover, are under direct threat and even in danger themselves. This is a weekend of performance, installation, and togetherness, and an art benefit sale. 100% of proceeds will go to Make the Road NY, a network of courageous folks who stand up for immigrant and working class communities, communities of color, and LGBTQIA people. Pre Preview of artwork in Benefit Sale: Saturday, October 21 5pm
Benefit sale and Protest Partying Commence: 6pm
Performances in Church Sanctuary: 8-10pm
Afterglow Party at a local watering hole: 11pm
Panel Discussion in Church Sanctuary: Sunday, October 22, 1-4pm

SCHAUMBAD, ATELIERHAUS
Puchstrasse 41 Graz, Austria
FACES, WOMEN IN MEDIA. 20 YEARS OF INTERACTIONS CONNECTIONS AND COLLABORATIONS online community of women, working in art, gender and technology, group show curated by Kathy Rae Huffman and Eva Ursprung.
Opening Reception: October 13 7.30pm
Exhibition: October 13 - November 5. Tuesday to Sunday 3pm to 7pm
Symposium: October 13 -15: Symposium, videoscreenings, performances.

Friday, Oct 13 at 7:30 PM opening:
Welcome and Introductions: Kathy Rae Huffman and Eva Ursprung, exhibition co-curators.
Remarks: Christine Braunersreuther, Culture Spokesperson for women and culture, Graz 
Performances:
Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ/DE)/Annie Abrahams (NL/FR) - "Unaussprechbarlich"
Boryana Rossa (USA/BG), together with If Nickl and Sylvie Leiner (AT) - "Golden Carelessness"

Participating artists and theoreticians: 42, Annie Abrahams/Helen Varley Jamieson, Nora Al Badri/Jan Nikolai, Perry Bard, Anne Bray, Nancy Buchanan, Filipa César/Grada Kilomba/Diana McCarty, Lena Chen, Katy Deepwell, DIVANOVA daniela jauk/anita peter mörth/ sol haring, Valie Djordjevic, Charlotte Eifler, Mechthild Feist-Schmid, Marina Grzinic/Aina Smid, Heide Hatry, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ida Hirsenfelder, Elaine Wing-Ah Ho//Ming Lin, Nina Hoechtl feat. INVASORIX, Reni Hofmüller, Margarete Jahrmann, lizvlx, Manu Luksch, Jenny Marketou, Varsha Nair, Arghyro Paouri, Boryana Rossa, Nina Sobell, Evelin Stermitz, Hito Steyerl, Myriam Thyes, Tanja Vujinovic, Anja Westerfrölke, Faith Wilding/SubRosa, Eva Wohlgemuth.

Curated by Kathy Rae Huffman and Eva Ursprung (in collaboration with Valie Djordjevic, Diana McCarty, Ushi Reiter).

SALON STUX WEST
(UWS) New York, NY 
INAUGURATION of the new gallery space 
with work by Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, a group show curated by Stefan Stux and Andrea Schnabl.
DADA Salon: organized by Heide Hatry: September 26, 6-8.30pm 
Performances: September 26, 7.15pm. With Lydia Venieri, Jane Lecroy (The Icebergs), John S. Hall (King Missile), Jennifer Elster (Channel Elster) and Heide Hatry

ISLIP MUSEUM
50 Isish Lane, Brookwood Hall, East Islip, NYC
DUALITY: Glimpses of the Other Side, curated by Scott Bluedorn
Artist’s Reception: June 24, 7 – 10pm
Exhibition: June 24 – October 15
Opening Hours: Thursday and Friday 10 – 4pm / Saturday and Sunday 12 – 4pm

GALERÍA POSADA DEL CORREGIDOR
Calle Esmeralda 749, Santiago de Chile 
LO QUE ESCONDE LA BELLEZA, HEIDE HATRY and SOL MATEO curated by Ana María Matthei
Opening Reception and Artist's Presentation: September 9, 12pm
Exhibition: September 9 - September 30
Opening Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5.30pm

GALLERY TEMENOS
Online Gallery: http://gallerytemenos.com/
HEIDE HATRY, ICONS IN ASH curated by Adriane Little
Exhibition: August 14 – 31

TBG Gallery 
616 E 9th St., NYC
FREAK SHOW, group show curated by Theresa Byrnes
Opening Reception: August 4, 6-9pm
Exhibition: August 4 -18

RED ROOM@ KGBBar (3rd floor)
85 E 4th Street, NYC 
CACAO DREAMS an evening of tasting, learning & exploring, the world of chocolate, presented by C-Spot and Dusty Wright
Tuesday, May 23, 7-9pm
Words, Art & Music: 
Marc Christian, Heide Hatry, Queen Esther, Dusty Wright, Matthew Shipp and Steve Dalachinsky.

NEW MUSEUM
235 Bowery, NYC (Sky Room)
ICONS IN ASH, THE ULTIMATE BOOK PARTY presented by THE NEW MUSEUM BOOKSTORE
Friday, May 12, 7-10pm
Death related art, music, and spoken word performances by
Jonas Mekas, Jennifer Elster, Queen Esther, Deborah Lutz, Danielle Blau, Nora Fox, Ulrich Baer, Christine Isherwood, Hot Glue & The Gun, Lutz Rath, Christopher Willauer, Jane LeCroy, Anthony Haden-Guest, and Ursula Scherrer.

Biographies of the performers:

Ulrich Baer was born in Germany, lived in California, Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was a Varsity oarsman at Harvard and earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale and is the editor of Rilke's Letters on Life, a literary theorist who has written on the representation of trauma in poetry and photography, and a fiction writer who has published a collection of short stories set in contemporary China. He teaches at New York University where he is also Vice Provost. He will read from Rainer Maria Rilke’s condolence letters.

Danielle Blau’s Rhyme and Reason: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Art of Living the Big Questions is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Her collection mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award, and she curates/ hosts the monthly Gavagai Music + Reading Series.Danielle will perform Nth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Native New Yorker Jennifer Elster is an experimentalist, thinker, artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer, and performer. She is obsessed with the truth, explores boundaries in all mediums, and has collaborated with such artists as David Bowie and Yoko Ono.  Elster explores ways to deal with the severity of reality. Her most recent work WARFARE spoke directly and foresaw the current climate in America and currently she has been performing and hosting multimedia art happenings in the underground studio, The Development, in NYC to bring deeper awareness to the human condition and our current world crisis. Jennifer will perform Cemetery: Is Death?

Described as a "...brutal, original, explosive singer..." by Vanity Fair, Queen Esther is a solo performer, playwright/librettist, musician and vocalist. Released in 2015, Paste called her critically acclaimed album The Other Side “…the most exciting Afro-Americana album of the year.” She continues to perform internationally with her Black Americana collective as well as with harmelodic guitarist James Blood Ulmer and sings all over New York City. She will perform Gloomy Sunday - also known as The Hungarian Suicide Song.

Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, reporter, cartoonist, and sporadic performer. He was born in Paris, grew up in London, has lived in Rome, San Francisco, and Los Angeles but is long settled in New York.  He has published in leading magazines in Britain and America, most recently in Esquire and Britain’s Observer Magazine. His books include Bad Dreams,True Colours: The Real Life of the Art World, and The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night. His more ambitious current projects include an animated movie, a follow-up book on the art world, and a much illustrated memoir. He will talk about Art and Death.

The indie duo Hot Glue & The Gun heat up the room with Song & Story as they shake the Spirit loose. Believing that art is not a spectator sport, Carrie Klein & Joel McGlynn work and play with transformation and collaboration in their song, performance and visual art. Since they began writing and performing together in 2014, they have continually sought to sink into the mysteries of human experience: birth, life, death, love, fear, masculine, feminine, poetry, harmony. They will perform the Paper Love Song.

Christine Isherwood is a singer, writer, and Voice Movement Therapist who lives on Martha's Vineyard. The last few years have been spent tending to dying, and now she sings only lullabies and laments. She teaches the Voice Movement Therapy Training Singing The Psyche and is currently recording an album of death songs. She will sing a Death Song from her new album.

Jane LeCroy is a NYC based poet, singer and performance artist who fronts the avant-pop band, The Icebergs, and the psychedelic experimental music project, Ohmslice. She has toured with the SF based all women's poetry troupe, Sister Spit. Jane is a poet-in-the-schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Her chapbook, Names, published by the art-book house Brooklyn, was purchased by the Library of Congress along with her braid! Three Rooms Press published, Signature Play, a multimedia book of lyrical poems, nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Icebergs just released their debut album, Eldorado. She will sing the Iceberg Death Song.

Jonas Mekas. Lithuanian born poet and film-maker, since 1949 residing in New York.  Is known for developing the diaristic form of cinema with films such as WALDEN and AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY.  He is equally known for the creation of a series of organizations for the promotion of the avant-garde cinema, such as Film-Makers Cooperative, Film-Makers Cinematheque and Anthology Film Archives. He was editor of Film Culture magazine and during l958-1978 movie critic for the Village Voice. Allen Ginsberg is a reading of a diary entry about Allen Ginsberg's Tibetan monks "wake" ceremony with a video of Allen's body and a presentation of Allan Ginsberg’s beard.

Nora Fox is a performing artist, writer and multi-instrumentalist. She recently performed in the International Festival of Dance in Belarus, sang in Macedonia, collaborated with David Dorfman Dance, and taught at Brown University. Fox has performed on Broadway, choreographed/danced for film, holds a degree in Literary Arts from Brown, and is currently working on her debut EP. She will sing Hostage.

German born Lutz Rath is an interdisciplinary performer, cellist, conductor, narrator, DADA reciter. Rath is artistic director of Washington Square Music Festival and produced concerts, events, and recordings with the subject of “Forbidden Music” — music which was performed or composed in concentration camps. He will play an improvisation of Bach’s Oh Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.

Ursula Scherrer is a Swiss artist living in New York. Her aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography, video, text, mixed media and performance art.  I will die - you will die. We will all die, a knowledge that is often lying quietly within ourselves, buried underneath not to be touched. What will happen if this simple knowledge is spoken out again and again and again?

Christopher Willauer is a queer interdisciplinary artist and recovering catholic from Dubuque, Iowa. He works primarily through performance, sculpture, and video to engage with the body and the Earth in a ritualistic and reverent manner. He now lives and works in New York.  Watered with Kisses is an interactive performance based sculpture that puts the materiality of our body and it’s relationship to the natural world into question. The plants are watered solely with kisses. It is with optimism that I hope love will be enough to sustain their life. It is within reality that I know I can love but not provide the light necessary for them to live.

LE POISSON ROUGE
158 Bleecker St. @ Thompson St., NYC 
MAINTENANT 11, curated by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges
Readings and spoken word performances: June 5, 7pm

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ
29 Cornelia Street, NYC
MAINTENANT 11, curated by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges
Readings and spoken word performances: June 2, 6-8pm
Tickets: $10 at door (price includes one drink)

Frieze Art Fair NY,
Randall's Island, NYC (Temporary Outdoor Office)
HEIDE HATRY, ICONS IN ASH 
Fair: May 5-7, 2017
Icons in Ash Office Hours on VIP Opening Day: May 4th, 2-5pm

TBG Gallery 
616 E 9th St., NYC
TACTICAL STREAM 2, My Body, My Country, My Earth curated by Theresa Byrnes
Opening reception: March 31 6-9pm
Exhibition: April 1- April 22
Artists included: Roberta Bennett, Theresa Byrnes, Nick Broujos, Tim Cramer, Angel Eyedealism, Ann Hanavan, Heide Hatry, Gwenn Isaacs, Maria da LosAngeles, Jamie Mcgann, Quinza Najm Bina Sharif, Marta Vi, and others
Performances: Felice Rossner from Faith, April 15. 6.30
Panel: Sara Ferguson, Caroline Sacerdote, Melissa Banigan, Rossi, and Fran Luck, about ongoing assault on women's rights, bodies, and psyches. Sunday April 19
Performances and Closing Party: Sabrina Jones (slideshow) Paula Moist (multiple orgasm orchestra) April 21, 7-9pm

La MaMa
66 E 4th Street, NYC
WOMEN'S POETRY HAPPENING VOICES OF RESISTANCE curated by William Black
Monday, April 17, 8pm
Spoken Word Performances and Music by Phyllis Capello, Morgan Cunning, Jane LeCroy, Heide Hatry, Aimee Herman, Kate Hess, Melissa New, Ilka Scobie and others

Red Room @ KGBBar (3rd floor)
85 E 4th Street, NYC
ICONS IN ASH / MELANCHOLIC RELICS small exhibition, readings, music, and spoken word performances curated by Jane LeCroy and Heide Hatry
Tuesday, April 11, 7-9pm
Readings: 
Siri Hustvedt, Lydia Millet, Claudia Steinberg, and Adele Tutter
Spoken Word Performances and Music: 
Queen Esther, Jane LeCroy, Laura Lonski, Hot Glue & The Gun, and Dusty Wright.

MONA, Museum for Old and New Art in conjunction with Arts Forum, Tasmanian College of Arts
655 Main Road Berriedale, Hobart, Private Bag 57, Hobart, Tasmania,Australia
ON THE ORIGIN OF ART group show curated by Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd, and Mark Changizi. 
Artist Talk: April 7, 12.30pm
Exhibition: November 5, 2016 - April 17, 2017

Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College
135 E 22nd St, NYC (at Lexington Ave)
SMALL WORK group show curated by Rich Timperio and Elizabeth Avedon
Exhibition: March 3 - 28

West Park Presbyterian Church
165 W 86th St, NYC (at Amsterdam Ave)
ICONS IN ASH, FEMALE VOICE FESTIVAL, curated by Heide Hatry and Robert Brashear
Concert and Spoken Word Performances: March 7, 8pm with Danielle Blau, Jennifer Elster, Queen Esther, Nora Fox, Hot Glue and the Gun, Christine Isherwood, Jane LeCroy, Sophie Malleret, Milica Paranosic, Nicole Peyrafitte, Anastasia Petropoulos, Karoline Rose, Katelyn Richards, Tammy Faye Starlite, and others.

Brooklyn Public Library in association with artcritical.com
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn (Dweck Cultural Center)
THE REVIEW PANEL
Stephanie Buhmann, Eva Días, and Peter Plagens join moderator David Cohen to discuss:
Uta Bath (Tanya Boakdar Gallery)
Katharina Grosse (Gagosian)
Heide Hatry (Ubu Gallery)
Wendy Klemperer (Studio 10)
Magdalen Wong (Fresh Window)
March 6, 7-9pm

Volta Art Fair NY, Knight Webb Gallery
Pier 9, NYC
HEIDE HATRY, ICONS IN ASH 
Fair: March 2-5, 2017

CAPTIALE
130 Bowery, NYC
Anthology Film Archives BENEFIT & AUCTION with Performance by Patti Smith and others
Festivities kick off:  March 2, 6.30pm
Supper: March 2, 7.30pm
Auction: March 2, 6.30-11pm

CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow Street, NYC (Offline Space)
ICONS IN ASH / DEATH IN ART group show, curated by Maddy Rosenberg and Heide Hatry, including Roberta Allen, Dianne Bowen, Theresa Byrnes, Kathline Carr, Jennifer Elster, Maxwell Gimblett, Heide Hatry, Richard Humann, Julia Kissina, Gregg Lefevre, Kate Millett, Jim Peters, Herbert Pföstl, Michelle Ross, Sigrid Sarda, Carolee Schneemann, Aldo Tambellini, and Linda Weintraub
BOOK AND CLOSING PARTY with Conversations, Readings, Spoken Word Performances and Music:
Friday, February 24, 6-8pm
including Linda Weintraub, Sigrid Sarda, Jennifer Elster, Heide Hatry, Danielle Blau & David Cieri, Jane LeCroy & Peter Spagnuolo, Aimee Hermann & David Lawton, Dusty Wright, Robert Brashear, Jennifer Elster.
Exhibition: through Sunday, February 26

LaMaMa (downstairs)
66 East 4th Street, NYC
VOICES OF THE NEW RESISTANCE
Performances against the President on President's Day: February 20, 8pm
Poetry Electric Presents: Beats of THE BEATBOX HOUSE (Kaila Mullady & crew) along with all-star Poets & Performance Artists: Liza Jesse Peterson, John S. Hall, Puma Perl, Alex Tatarsky, Jane LeCroy, Jeff Wright, Heide Hatry, Maria Muentes, Peter Spagnuolo, Susan Yung, Norman Stock, Bruce Pandolfo, Hydrogen Junkbox (Aimee Herman, David Lawton, & Starchild), Jimi Pantalon & friends

Plato's Cave
14 Dunham Place, Brooklyn, NY
WRITERS RESIST group show, curated by Melissa P. Wolf and Paul Lamarre
Wine Reception: January 21, 6-8pm
Exhibition: January 15 - February 21 (by appointment)
Closing Party: February 20, 6-8

CAA (College Art Association) Conference
Hilton Midtown, 1335 Ave of the Americas, NYC
ICONS IN ASH, CREMATION PORTRAITS
Boofair: February 16-18 Thursday - Friday 9am - 6pm, Saturday 9am - 2.30p
Hilton Midtown, Rhinelander Gallery, Second Floor; and Americas Hall I (access from Third Floor West Promenade)
Exhibition, Art Exchange: February 17, 5.30 - 7.30pm
Hilton Midtown, East Ballroom Foyer 3rd floor
Panel: February 18, 10.30am - 12pm
Hilton Midtown, Concourse A, Concourse Level
Panelists:
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Mind and Body, Form and Essence, the Unbearable and the Inconceivable
Eleanor Heartney, Independent Critic
Corruptible Bodies: Catholic Morbidity
Anthony Haden-Guest, Independent Art Writer
Art and Death
Thyza Nichols Goodeve, Visual School of Arts
Art the Many Ways the "Disenchanted Body is Enchanted Again and Again"
George Quasha, Station Hill Press
Dead Talk
Kathy Brew
Personal Experience with Icons in Ash
Heide Hatry, Artist
Icons in Ash

CENTRAL BOOKING
21 Ludlow Street, NYC (Offline Space)
ICONS IN ASH / DEATH IN ART group show, curated by Maddy Rosenberg and Heide Hatry, including Roberta Allen, Dianne Bowen, Theresa Byrnes, Kathline Carr, Jennifer Elster, Maxwell Gimblett, Heide Hatry, Richard Humann, Julia Kissina, Gregg Lefevre, Kate Millett, Jim Peters, Herbert Pföstl, Michelle Ross, Sigrid Sarda, Carolee Schneemann, Aldo Tambellini, and Linda Weintraub
Opening reception: February 9, 6-8pm
Exhibition: February 9 - 26

Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, NYC
ICONS IN ASH curated by Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, and Heide Hatry
Readings and spoken word performances: February 3, 6-8pm
Readings by: Anthony Haden Guest, Eleanor Heartney, Claudia Steinberg, and Linda Weintraub. Spoken words by: Jane LeCroy, Thomas Fuocoro, Jennifer Elster,
Tickets: $10 at door (price includes one drink)
Afterparty: (Kettle of Fish, in the dining room, all the way in the back) 8.15- midnight

Knight Webb Gallery
@The London Art Fair. Business Design Centre, 52 Upper St, London N1, 0QH
WOMEN (group show curated by Rufus Knight Webb with Alison Jackson, Juliane Hundertwasser, Heide Hatry and Leslie Hilling)
VIP Preview: January 17 3-6pm
Evening Preview: January 17 3-6pm
Opening hours: Jan. 18&19: 11-9pm, Jan.20: 11-7pm,, Jan 21.: 11-7.30pm,, Jan 22.: 11-5pm
Exhibition: January 18 - 22, 2017

TBG Gallery
616 E 9th St., NYC
TACTICAL STREAM. Dump Trump & See What Grows
Performances: David Leslie, "Taking Liberty Too" Thursday, January 19: 8 - 8.05pm
Theresa Byrnes & special guest, "DECONSEGRATION" 8.15 - 8.30pm
Performances: Mal Stein (percussionist/composer), "where will this go?' Friday January 20: 6.30-7pm
ANGEL EYEDEALISM 7.30-8pm
Exhibition: January 6 - 28

Plato's Cave
14 Dunham Place, Brooklyn, NY
WRITERS RESIST group show, curated by Melissa P. Wolf and Paul Lamarre
Wine Reception: January 21, 6-8pm
Exhibition: January 15 - February 3 (by appointment)

Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave, NYC
NATION V. Rabbit Hole
Opening Reception: January 13, 6-9pm
Exhibition: January 13 - February 26

TBG Gallery
616 E 9th St., NYC
TACTICAL STREAM. Dump Trump & See What Grows
Panel: What do I make now? Art in Trump Time
Moderated by Alan Kaufmann (author of The Outlaw Bible of American Art) with Maria de Los Angeles, Rick Prol, Kanene Ayo Holder,...
January 13, 6.30 -7.30pm

Deutsches Haus (NYU)
42 Washington Mews, NYC
ART AND GRIEF: AN UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION
with Marc Pachter (Director Emeritus of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) and Heide Hatry
January 11, 6.30pm

TBG Gallery
616 E 9th St., NYC
TACTICAL STREAM. Dump Trump & See What Grows
Opening Reception: January 6, 6-8pm
Exhibition: January 6 - 28

SEFA Gallery (Susan Eley Fine Art)
46 W 90th St., NYC
DESPERATE TIMES, FIRST AMENDMENT (AKPR'S All-Media Cockteil Party/ Group Art Show with Wine, Champagne, Live Music,...)
Opening Reception: January 4 6.30-8.30pm
VIP Preview: January 4, 12-5pm
Artists Panel: January 5, (all artists invited) Discussion of artwork, First Amendment, Current Climate. 11-1pm
Exhibition: January 4 and 5

UBU Gallery
417 E 59th St., NYC
ICONS IN ASH
Exhibition: through May 16, 2017

MONA, Museum for Old and New Art
655 Main Road Berriedale, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
ON THE ORIGIN OF ART (group show curated by Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd, and Mark Changizi) 
Exhibition: through April 17, 2017