power House Arena - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for power House Arena. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Greg Constantine “Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya
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[0]- Media: Photography
- 2015-05-12 - 2015-05-28
United Photo Industries is proud to present Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya, a photography exhibition aimed at highlighting the plight of the Rohingya and the issue of statelessness by acclaimed documentary...More »
“Resolution 2014” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-03-28 - 2014-04-28
“Global Awareness” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-02-27 - 2014-03-20
PowerHouse Arena and SocialDocumentary.net present the five winners of the Call for Entries on Global Awareness. Gwenn Dubourthoumieu from France and Mark Tuschman from the United States are winners of...More »
DUMBO Arts Festival
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Digital - Performance Art
- 2013-09-27 - 2013-09-29
The DUMBO Arts Festival is a FREE public event. Each year it seeks to highlight Brooklyn’s commitment to and presence in the arts community by presenting the best in local, national, and international...More »
“What Is / What Matters” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2013-04-10 - 2013-04-25
Pratt Institute’s Photography Department will present an exhibition of thesis work by senior photography students titled “What Is / What Matters.” The show will feature 60 outstanding works by 30 photography...More »
Adrian Tomine "New York Drawings"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2012-09-06 - 2012-09-23
NEW YORK DRAWINGS is a loving homage to the city that Tomine, a West Coast transplant, has called home for the past seven years. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and...More »
"Slightly Strange" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Prints
- 2012-08-02 - 2012-09-03
Michael Slack Michael Slack's artwork for kids can be seen in books, magazines, on games, toys, and many different sized screens. Michael's most recent picture book titles include, Edgar Allen Poe's...More »
Joe Klamar "Olympic Portraits"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2012-07-27 - 2012-09-04
The POWERHOUSE Arena presents Olympic Portraits by award-winning Agence France-Presse photographer, Joe Klamar. The exhibition consists of color portraits shot by Klamar at a Dallas, Texas hotel during...More »
"The New York Photo Festival 2012"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-05-16 - 2012-05-20
NYPH’12 will explore the matrix of art photography and social documentary through four curators creating sites and live events exploring the origins and meeting points of art photography and documentary...More »
"Feast your Eyes" exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2012-01-06 - 2012-01-27
Our fascination with food embraces everything from celebrity chefs to 24-hour cooking channels, and reality competitions. This juried invitational features photos of food from raw to cooked, from preparation...More »
"Glazed!" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Product - Crafts
- 2011-11-09 - 2011-11-20
An unusual exhibit of outstanding Italian artwork and culinary products is soon to arrive in New York. "Glazed!" is a celebration of the art of glass and the art of food, and the surprising connections...More »
Anthony Pappalardo and Max G. Morton "Live...Suburbia!"
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Prints - Installation
- 2011-09-23 - 2011-10-03
Live...Suburbia! is a collection of stories and images of the post-1960s subcultures that define America. It's kids taking their urethane wheels to empty pools; picking British Punk in broad downstrokes...More »
"Contemporary Abstractions" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-09-23 - 2011-10-05
Colors, dimension, flow and definition are all words that can describe our latest show at Mighty Tanaka entitled Contemporary Abstractions, featuring the artwork of: Adam Void, Drew Tyndell, Greg Henderson,...More »
"Ten Years After Nine/Eleven: Searching for a 21st Century Landscape" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-08-20 - 2011-09-16
Photographers Garth Lenz, Michael Robinson Chavez, Florian Büttner, and Michael Busse document the changes felt around the world from the 9/11 attacks.More »
Jamel Shabazz "Under the Influence"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-07-13 - 2011-08-07
In conjunction with the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Brooklyn Bodega, The powerHouse Arena, and powerHouse Books will celebrate the release of Back in the Days: Remix, 10th Anniversary Edition with an exhibition...More »
Jacqueline Schmidt "Just Animals"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2011-06-03 - 2011-09-25
Brooklyn-based artist and designer Jacqueline Schmidt, founder of Screech Owl Design, presents a selection of original watercolor and graphite pieces and limited edition prints. About the Artist: Artist...More »
“Artist Driven” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-05-24 - 2011-06-06
The exhibition will consist of artwork done for the first five issues of Carrier Pigeon. We are excited and grateful that this publication has provided us the means to curate opportunities for our contributing...More »
"NY Photo Festival 2011"
[0] [2]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-11 - 2011-05-15
This year’s main exhibitions, curated by Enrico Bossan and Elisabeth Biondi (on show at the 81 Front Street Storefront) are presented under the shared rubric PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: engaged, personal, and vital....More »
"My Mom, Style Icon" Book Launch Party
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2011-05-05 - 2011-05-05
With Mother's Day just around the corner, Piper Weiss comes to the store with My Mom, Style Icon, a the book based on the popular blog that pays tribute to everyone's first fashion inspiration: our mothers....More »
"Object Resonance" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-05-03 - 2011-05-08
Marking the culmination of year-long thesis investigations, this show encapsulates a breadth of topics that reflect a dialogue about where the field of industrial design is going. In a rapidly changing...More »
Provocation Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-03-26 - 2011-04-17
Provocation, the third juried photo exhibition presented by the New York Photo Festival, is a showcase of photographic work exploring social issues and social change—whether political, personal, or inter-personal....More »
J Yatrofsky “I Heart Boy”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-02-10 - 2011-03-06
Come celebrate the launch of this compilation of Yatrofsky’s work, which will be displayed both on the walls of the Arena and in the newest release from powerHouse Books. Posing in the intimacy of their...More »
"HumanKind" Book Launch and Juried Invitational Photo Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Competition
- 2010-12-17 - 2011-02-20
Throughout history, every generation of theorists, scientists, and artists has grappled with the ultimate quest: to understand and define the human condition. Now our turn has come. We've selected images...More »
"Human Kind" A Juried Invitational Photo Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Photography
- 2010-12-17 - 2010-12-17
Throughout history, every generation of theorists, scientists and artists has grappled with the ultimate quest: to understand and define the human condition. Now our turn has come: We’ve selected images...More »
Vahé and Ara Oshagan "Father Land"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2010-11-04 - 2010-12-05
Father Land is a poetic and personal journey through the rugged, human-and-history-laden landscape of the mountainous Republic of Nagorno–Karabagh in the South Caucasus. Book Signing: Friday, December...More »
Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor "The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide"
[0] [0]- Media: Other - Art Talk
- 2010-10-20 - 2010-10-20
Everyone can name his or her favorite quotation from an author. But not everyone has the nerve to wear it forever on their skin. The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide introduces...More »
"The Exquisite Book" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Prints
- 2010-10-20 - 2010-10-31
100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game By Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe. Foreword by Dave Eggers The Exquisite Book reinvents the classic surrealist drawing game The Exquisite Corpse...More »
"Capture Brooklyn" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-09-24 - 2010-10-15
Capture Brooklyn—a contemporary photo exhibition organized by the New York Photo Festival, that seeks to capture the spirit and essence of Brooklyn, and to showcase the vitality of photography happening...More »
"The 2010 Canteen Awards in Photography" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2010-08-04 - 2010-08-29
In too many photo contests it feels like the fix is in: the outsiders' entry fees pay for the insiders' prizes. Canteen is confronting this feeling head on. We exhibit the winning images alongside the...More »
Kevin Landers "Jack Pot"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-06-01 - 2010-07-11
In a remarkable debut from a rapidly rising photographer, Kevin Landers intimately connects us with the quotidian objects and moments that make up the topography of New York City. Jackpot is a 17-year...More »
New York Photo Festival 2010
[0] [1]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2010-05-13 - 2010-05-16
Designed to be an American counterpart and thematic successor to the prestigious European photo festivals Les Rencontres d’Arles, PHotoEspaña, and Visa pour l’Image, the New York Photo Festival creates...More »
"Design Clot: Pratt Institute Industrial Design Show" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Installation - Product
- 2010-04-26 - 2010-05-09
Design Clot is an exhibition of bold new work from emerging designers. The show features the work of recent industrial design graduates, a conglomeration of varied ideas and inspirations that are united...More »
John Bartelstone "The Brooklyn Navy Yard"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-03-18 - 2010-04-25
powerHouse Books celebrates the publication of The Brooklyn Navy Yard, the first monograph by photographer John Bartelstone, with an accompanying exhibition of photographic prints at The powerHouse Arena....More »
"Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2010-02-16 - 2010-03-15
It with great honor that we present the winners of the SocialDocumentary.net Call for Entries Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession. Our goal with SDN is always to bridge the gap between...More »
Ron Galella "Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson and Viva l’Italia!"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-07 - 2010-02-14
Man in the Mirror is a tribute to the life and memory of Michael Jackson that features shots ranging from his early days in the Jackson 5 up to the weeks before his untimely death. In Viva l’Italia Galella...More »
Michael Loyd Young "Blues, Booze, & BBQ'
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Performance Art
- 2009-12-04 - 2010-01-03
About Blues, Booze, & BBQ: Blues, Booze, & BBQ, the first book by Michael Loyd Young, documents 150 miles of Highway 61, the famed blacktop road snaking from Memphis, Tennessee down to Greenville,...More »
Matthew Niederhauser "Sound Kapital: Beijing’s Music Underground"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-10-28 - 2009-11-29
powerHouse Books launches the publication of Sound Kapital: Beijing’s Music Underground, and The powerHouse Arena is opening an accompanying exhibition (10/28–11/29). On Thursday, November 5th, from 7-9pm,...More »
Michael Muhammad Knight & Kim Badawi "Taqwacore Night"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2009-10-03 - 2009-10-03
The powerHouse Arena and the Asian American Writers' Workshop are pleased to invite you to a celebration of the burgeoning subculture of American Muslim punk featuring Michael Muhammad Knight, author of...More »
Susan Anderson "High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants" Book Launch Party and Signing
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Party - Art Talk
- 2009-10-01 - 2009-10-01
Break out your glamour makeup, your up-do, and your flippers (false front teeth veneers, of course) and come celebrate powerHouse photographer Susan Anderson's up-close and intimate look at the extravagant...More »
David Small & Josh Neufeld Book Signing & Talk
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-09-28 - 2009-09-28
The authors discuss and sign their new works of graphic nonfiction. David Small's "Stitches" is memoir of childhood cancer— and his family's mad-scientist home-cures— has already been called an "emotionally...More »
Trevor Traynor "I Shoot People"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-09-17 - 2009-10-04
As described by flavorpill's Nora Oppenheim: "This cleverly titled one-man show turns mainstream media's perception of hip-hop on its head. Photographer Trevor Traynor notes the double entendre of "shoot"...More »
Kim Badawi "The Taqwacores"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-09-16 - 2009-10-25
Just a few years ago the notion of "taqwacore," a Muslim subgenre of punk rock, existed only as an inspired fiction. Writer Michael Muhammad Knight coined the term for his novel The Taqwacores, the story...More »
Ed Kashi "Three"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Party - Art Talk
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-07-16
About the photography book Three: In a world inundated by visual imagery, our ability to take in more than one image at a time has become innate. In fact, our attention span demands it. Three, a book...More »
"Journey to la Dolce Vita" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-06-27 - 2009-08-02
Journey to la Dolce Vita is a charity photo exhibit that celebrates the glamour of Italy in the 50's and 60's. The exhibit marks the U.S. debut of these original archive photographs, featuring Hollywood...More »
"Busted" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Photography
- 2009-05-26 - 2009-06-21
Remember when you got grounded in 10th grade for coming home drunk and vomiting on the dog? Or the time you got caught selling fake ecstasy and were escorted out of that after-hours dive? Or how about...More »
Patrick McMullan "D.U.M.B.O. Show"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-05-07 - 2009-05-25
D.U.M.B.O. Show is the opportunity to present the Patrick McMullan Company photographers as the collective that they are. The Patrick McMullan Company photographers are all committed to photography, not...More »
"I.E.D.: War in Afghanistan and Iraq" Conversation
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-04-09 - 2009-04-09
Dealing with war in any context is always a difficult and often problematic venture. To celebrate the release of I.E.D., acclaimed photographer David Levinthal will be in conversation with noted photography...More »
David Levinthal "I.E.D.: War in Afghanistan and Iraq Launches"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2009-04-09 - 2009-04-09
Dealing with war in any context is always a difficult and often problematic venture. In I.E.D., acclaimed photographer David Levinthal uses toy soldiers and plastic Humvees to attempt to explore and understand...More »
Kristen Ashburn "I Am Because We Are"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-03-27 - 2009-04-27
"I Am Because We Are" is the companion volume to the acclaimed forthcoming documentary film directed by Nathan Rissman and written and produced by Madonna. This exhibition of specially commissioned photographs...More »
"Vandal Squad" Panel Discussion
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-03-19
The recent release Vandal Squad: Inside the New York City Transit Police Department, 1984-2004 has caused consternation throughout the global graffiti community with charges that author Joseph Rivera is...More »
"Iraq Veterans Against The War" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2009-03-05 - 2009-03-22
The artists and performers in this exhibition show how deeply all of us have been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Consider the American war veteran who cuts up his uniform turning it into...More »
"Child Soldiers: Forced to be Cruel" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-02-12 - 2009-03-08
"Child Soldiers" focuses on individual stories about these children, captured by photographers and writers from across the globe. The book explores the children's time as combatants, as well as their demobilization...More »
"Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y., Art, Craft, and Design" Panel Discussion
[0] [0]- Media: Crafts - Art Talk
- 2009-02-11 - 2009-02-11
The powerHouse Arena invites you to a panel discussion and Q&A with Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl, authors of Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design (Princeton Architectural Press),...More »
"Jamel Shabazz in Conversation with Thomas Allen Harris" Art Talk
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Film - Art Talk
- 2009-02-03 - 2009-02-03
The powerHouse Arena invites you to a discussion with Jamel Shabazz, author of Back in the Days, A Time Before Crack, Last Sunday in June, and Seconds of My Life, published by powerHouse Books, and Thomas...More »
Scout Tufankjian "Yes We Can"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-01-08 - 2009-02-08
Yes We Can is the story of Barack Obama's historic, world-changing journey from junior Senator from Illinois to President of the United States of America as documented by Scout Tufankjian, the only independent...More »
Ed Roth "Stencil 101"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Party
- 2008-12-06 - 2008-12-06
Celebrate the release of the book Stencil 101 (Chronicle) by Stencil1 founder and artist Ed Roth. Stencil alongside Ed and create your own gift cards and tote bags while enjoying stenciled chocolate from...More »
Annual Holiday Extravaganza
[0] [0]- Media: Art Party
- 2008-12-04 - 2008-12-04
On December 4, powerHouse Books and The powerHouse Arena will host the renowned annual gathering of our publishing family, featuring appearances by acclaimed fine art photographers, photojournalists, documentaians,...More »
"Sony World Photography Awards Global Tour: Discovering a World of Images" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-12-03 - 2008-12-20
As one of the largest photographic events existing today, The World Photography Awards (WPA), reach far beyond an awards programme for the still image. The WPA is a convergence of festival events, focused...More »
"50 Photographs, Photographs by Jessica Lange" Book Signing
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-11-22 - 2008-11-22
Actress Jessica Lange’s career spans more than 30 years and 30 films; the winner of two Academy awards, the one-time waitress is one of the most acclaimed performers of both the screen and the stage, as...More »
"Child Soldiers" Book Launch
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-21 - 2008-11-21
Editor Leora Kahn will present a slide show of images from the book Child Soldiers which focuses on individual stories about these children, captured by photographers and writers from across the globe.and...More »
Joshua Greene and Amy Greene "But That’s Another Story: A Photographic Retrospective of Milton H. Greene"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-11-20 - 2009-01-04
Renowned for his fashion photographs, Greene perfectly captured the fantasy, elegance, and beauty of his models, for which he secured assignments from major national publications and prestigious advertising...More »
Bruce Bellas "Bruce of Los Angeles"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-10-29 - 2008-11-16
An icon of gay art and one of the most famous names in physique photography, Bruce Bellas is remembered today as a pioneer of beefcake. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until his death in 1974, Bellas...More »
Slava Mogutin "Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go" Slide Show and Talk
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-16 - 2008-10-16
Slava Mogutin, the notorious Russian artist and writer, will discuss his work from his recent powerHouse titles, Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go. More »
Jérôme Lagarrigue Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-10-07 - 2008-10-28
In 2005, Jérôme Lagarrigue was selected by the French Academy in Rome to receive a one-year residency at the Villa Medici in Italy to support the development of a series of large-scale portraits. His residency...More »
Adam Raphael "Barely Working"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-10-01 - 2008-11-02
"Brooklyn Modern" Conversation
[0] [0]- Media: Architecture - Art Talk
- 2008-09-26 - 2008-09-26
A conversation between Diana Land, author of Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design and Jonathan Butler, founder of Brownstoner.com blog, on Brooklyn's renaissance and its emerging architecture...More »
Ed Kashi "Curse of the Black Gold:50 Years Of Oil In The Niger Delta"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-08-15 - 2008-09-28
To correspond with the recent release of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, The powerHouse Arena is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the photographer Ed Kashi. In the...More »
"Enanitos Toreros" Book Launch Party
[0] [0]- Media: Art Party
- 2008-07-18 - 2008-07-18
With Enanitos Toreros(power House Books, 2008) photographer Livia Corna Directs an all-encompassing look into the lives of the so-called "Dwarf Bullfighters" o f her native Mexicio. Over the course of...More »
"RFK, A Photographer’s Journal" Event
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-06-18 - 2008-06-18
A slide show and artist's talk for RFK, A Photographer’s Journal.More »
"The Hutsle" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2008-05-22 - 2008-07-13
2D
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- Drawing (4)
- Calligraphy (1)
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3D
- Architecture (4)
- Sculpture (15)
- Installation (9)
- Furniture (6)
- Fashion (1)
- Product (9)
- Crafts (5)
- Ceramics (5)
- Other (9)
Screen
- Film (2)
- Video installation (3)
- Digital (1)
- Other (1)
Misc.
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- Art Talk (2)
- Performance Art (0)
- Art Competition (0)
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