On Sunday, October 2nd, The Luminary welcomes Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin) to the Elevator Music Series. OPN is the experimental electronic project of Daniel Lopatin, who is also known for his work with 80′s synth revivalists GAMES. Raglani and Kevin Harris will open the show. Tickets are $10adv/$12dos and are available online here. [...]
FORMAT September 9th-October 21st Opening Reception from 6-9pm on Friday, September 9th with an artist talk by Paul B. Davis On September 9th, The Luminary opens its fall season with an exhibition exploring the malleability of material and experience emerging from online culture. FORMAT features some of the most prominent and engaging artists [...]
Now in its second year, The Luminary’s annual fundraiser, FORM Contemporary Design Show, will take place on August 12-13, 2011 at The Temtor Building in South St. Louis. FORM is presented by The Luminary as a forum for exceptional designers to showcase their work, connect with a community of other designers and sell directly to supporters. FORM [...]
On Friday, October 28th, The Luminary welcomes Eleanor Friedberger (of The Fiery Furnaces) to the Elevator Music Series. As half of The Fiery Furnaces, Friedberger has become one of the most acclaimed and engaging voices in contemporary music. In her first solo effort, she has created an album as accessible and immediate as any [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS POST PERFORMANCE 3: High Places August 20th, 2011 from 6-10pm at the Old Post Office Plaza For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held once a [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS POST PERFORMANCE 4: My Brightest Diamond September 11, 2011 from 7-10pm at the Old Post Office Plaza For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held once [...]
We have begun hosting intimate, experimental shows upstairs in the Studio and Installation Space. The space has vaulted 20′ ceilings, gorgeous natural reverb and is ideal for small, direct experiences with musicians and performers. Combining the attributes of a studio–experimentation, process, communication–with the comfortable environment of a kitchen, library and meeting space, these shows are [...]
On Saturday, July 30th, from 10am-4pm Gabriel Dawe will open Plexus no. 8 in the Installation Space. The new site-specific installation continues the artist’s exploration of thread and fibers as loaded materials implicating the complicated construction of gender and identity in his native Mexico. The Plexus series utilizes everyday sewing thread expanded from human to architectural [...]
On September 26th, The Luminary welcomes Deerhoof and Sleepy Kitty to the Elevator Music Series. Deerhoof has become one of the most influential and exciting indie bands over their 20 year history and are known for their unpredictable and ecstatic live shows. They will be joined by local standouts Sleepy Kitty, whose own pop collages [...]
For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held once a month in the summer of 2011 at the Old Post Office Plaza. The Post Performances will pair innovative visual artists and musicians to [...]
On July 1st at 8pm, The Luminary will host a special performance upstairs by NewVillager and US English as a part of the US English-curated GOLDEN C/AGE CONCERTS in which they pair installations and innovative sounds together each show. NewVillager is a band/art collective from San Francisco and NYC that will be returning from a [...]
Installation Space John Early: Terra Firma June 10th-July 22nd Opening Reception from 6-9pm on June 10th John Early’s new site-specific installation, Terra Firma, stems from a recent documentary chronicling the career of BMX rider Mat Hoffman, who has devoted much of the past twenty-five years to launching himself and his bike to unbelievable and unprecedented [...]
Analogue June 10th-July 22nd Opening Reception from 6-9pm on June 10th Analogue brings to the forefront the concept that contemporary culture is perceived through a discontinuous series of analogies rather than a linear narrative. Finding in the commercial landscape a language of representation and reference, the five artists in Analogue make use of common cultural [...]
On July 4th, The Luminary presents a special show with of Montreal as a part of the monthly Elevator Music Series. Of Montreal will perform in the intimate gallery space at The Luminary in this unique opportunity to see the band in the kind of creative setting the band is most at home in. It [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS POST PERFORMANCE 1: Oberhofer + Ryan Thayer June 4th, 2011 from 7-10pm at the Old Post Office Plaza For the second year in a row The Luminary Center for the Arts and the Partnership for Downtown presents the Post Performances, a free monthly performance series to be held [...]
