Anna Clark's friend
Subject: Anna Clark's friend
From: Brent Birnbaum <pearbomb@gmail.com>
Date: 1/13/10, 01:15
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Hey Barrett,

I just wanted to invite you to the show Anna was talking about.
I'll be the one who looks like Vanilla Ice.

Cheers,
Brent


invite:

Happy New Year!


2010 is the twenty-year anniversary of the album, To the Extreme. Vanilla Ice's album contained the single “Ice Ice Baby.” It was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts and spent 67 weeks at the #1 spot. Commemorating this anniversary, Never Records will be hosting an in store appearance by Ice Ice Maybe, the artist formerly known as Brent Birnbaum.

If it looks like the old Tower Records on Broadway and West 4th is back in business today, you're partly correct. Artist and musician Ted Riederer is opening a new shop called Never Records—though you won't actually find records to buy. This is a multi-artist installation designed to look like a functioning record store, complete with record bins, cash registers, poster racks, large reproductions of fake album covers, and a statue of a record-store employee. Artists participating in the show include X frontlady and collage artist Exene Cervenka, Dee Dee Ramone, Olaf Bruening, and Marilyn Minter. For the opening party, artist Brent Birnbaum will give an in-store performance as Vanilla Ice and sign reproductions of Tom Sanford's painting "Ice Ice Maybe."

Spotlighting more than twenty artists that work with sound, light, and image, Never Can Say Goodbye is
Curated by Manon Slome, NLE; Steven Evans, Dia Art Foundation; Asher Remy-Toledo, NLE


Never Can Say Goodbye
at the former Tower Records Store

4th street and Broadway

January 16- February 13, 2010
Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm to 7pm

VIP Preview
January 15, 5pm- 7pm

General Opening
January 15, 7pm – 10pm

more info:
http://nolongerempty.org/exhibitions/L2%206%20Ncsg.html


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