Here’s some cute video reportage from the Bicycle Film Festival, at the site of New York’s first ever “Tweed Run” wherein ’30s and ’40s aficionados strut their ‘staches and threads in an olde fashion-y flash mob/bike parade through the city. Read more »
The Bicycle Film Festival screenings kick off Friday, but the Joyride Art Show opens tonight at Spencer Brownstone on Wooster. Last year, they had bike-towed pole dancers. Just sayin’.
Submit your animated, experimental, narrative, doc flick or music video to the Bicycle Film Festival 2011 by April 1st and it might screen in 25 international cities and a nifty compilation video.
The Bicycle Film Festival kicks off tonight at the Anthology Film Archives. If you made it out to the Joy Ride Art Show at Dash Gallery last night, you’ve seen the portable bike-towed pole dancers. Stop by this weekend to check out the group art show, curated by BFF’s founder and director Brendt Barbur. Highlights: Brian Barnhart‘s photography, Tom Sachs ‘s booze-powered sculptural bike wonder and Ryan Homphrey’s Duchamp revamp. See our photos (and pole dancing ladies) below. Read more »
The Bicycle Film Festival hits it off tonight with a Bikes Rock concert/party at Santos Party House. Come hear NINJASONIK (free with password: “bikes rock”) and grab a free beer from Brooklyn Brewery between 8pm and 9pm. Check out this year’s pyrotastic festival trailer. Read more »
After last week’s sneak peek at the Joyride, the Bicycle Film Festival’s two-wheeling art show, here’s another look at the rainbow handiwork of Benedict Radcliffe’s paint spraying folding bike.
Photo: Maos
Tomorrow, artist Ben Frost opens “Plague Landscapes,” a show of his twisted pop culture-packed paintings at Brooklynite Gallery. On Sunday, “Sacrosanct” shuts its doors at 1610 Lexington Avenue and 102nd Street with a closing reception in Spanish Harlem. And the Bicycle Film Festival continues through the weekend with the Joyride art show, film screenings, block parties and other festivities.
Two-wheeling sculptors, photo-shooting messengers, and velocentric painters are among the many bicycle inspired artists converging in downtown Manhattan for the Joyride art show tonight. The exhibition, part of the Bicycle Film Festival, takes place across multiple venues between Houston and Broome Street, a move that festival founder Brendt Barbur hopes will lead people to literally joyride among the various installations, performances, and parties in the neighborhood. ANIMAL got a sneak peek of the show while it was still under construction, so preview the work after the jump before you go see it tonight. Read more »
The 2009 Bicycle Film Festival is nearly upon us, kicking off its ninth year in New York tomorrow night. The celluloid celebration of bicycling begins with Bikes Rock at South Street Seaport, a free performance features The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and The Teenagers, who will also be picking music for the after party at Studio B. Read more »
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