“Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend?” at the Cornelia Street Cafe
We have our second-to-last scheduled Cornelia Street Observatory event coming up this Sunday with the erudite and intriguing Laura G. Duncan: “Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend?” An Exploration of Sexual Robotics, Teledildonics, and Carnal Technology at the Cornelia Street Cafe An illustrated lecture with sexual health researcher, educator, and writer Laura G. Duncan *IN MANHATTAN [...]
Morbid Anatomy Library Benefit – Saturday, June 30
Friends, fans of Observatory, nerd-party people: Lend me your ears. Our good friend Joanna Ebenstein, curator of the Morbid Anatomy Library, has suffered some losses to her wonderfully weird archive due to a fire and flood in our little gallery. To amend the sitch, she’s hosting a big gala benefit on June 30. Presently appear [...]
The Pop-Up Museum… Go see it!
THE POP-UP MUSEUM of the Gowanus Canal Curated by the Hollow Earth Society and Radio Transmission Ark March 3 – April 22, 2012 Progress Party showcasing the evolved work of the Pop-Up Museum: 8:00 PM, Friday April, 6th. See our inspirations on Tumblr >> Say hello on Twitter >> A museum’s mission involves the categorization, preservation, and contextualization [...]
The Pathological Sublime & Anatomical Unconscious With Mark Dery
Part 3 of Cornelia Street Observatory: BODY AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR Celebrating the publication of his essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams cultural critic and cult author Mark Dery will lecture—with unforgettable slides—on the hallucinatory Crypt of the Capuchin monks in Rome, the uncanny wax mannequins at La Specola in [...]
Observatory’s Lunar-Themed 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser Party
Come celebrate with us, and help support your favorite interdisciplinarian art, science, & occult event space. Saturday, February 18th • 8pm Admission: $20 Check out our art show, Lunation: Art on the Moon, and then trip out to a Moon Phantasmagoria show by VJ Fuzzy Bastard. We’ll also be screening episodes from the Midnight Archive, a show [...]
Our Next Observatory Show: LUNATION!
LUNATION: Art on the Moon Observatory’s first group-curated show • January 7 – February 26, 2012 Opening Party: Saturday, January 7th, 7–10 PM, FREE Artists and scientists have always been attracted to the moon… Our closest celestial neighbor, the earth’s little sister, the moon creates the tides and illuminates the woods at night. For centuries, [...]
