White wine and Sisyphus upon a balmy Saturday

At the always interesting White Box, OFF THE MAP: Rutgers in New York - MFA Graduates 2010 opened on Saturday without disappointing. Dale Klein didn't start painting until her 40s and when fellow students peeked into her studio, she said, they despaired at her 'realist' approach. Having moved on, her Untitled oil is a very promising start to a late career - with lines of force and gravity conflicting for attention on the canvas. Allan. Brian Bulfer, Misti Asberry, and Jessica Bottalico also catch one's attention.

Throughout the evening New Jersey based performance and installation artist Avi Lazare presented Tow: "Two people. Two sides. One wall." Although focusing on the Palestinian/Israeli power struggle, it was even more powerful if one hadn't read the blurb before. In the dark basement were two warriors, two Sisyphuses - their rock threaded through with a chain around each of them.

At the same venue on Tuesday, April 13 at 8pm is Defragmented: a concert of emergent systems, featuring Finnish-based composer/sound artist Marko Timlin alongside thenumber46, the collaborative effort of electro-acoustic flutist Suzanne Thorpe and electronic musician Philip White.
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