You trust your taste and you want others to get to hear it over serious speakers and subs. Here’s your chance. We’re looking for other people to make a soundtrack for our concerts that create context for the performers and presents new music to the audience. For each show in the 2011 Elevator Music Series, [...]
INSTALLATION SPACE: CHARLES GICK April 8th-May 20th Charles Gick will present a new site-specific installation entitled, Three Clouds in Waiting in The Luminary Installation Space. Three Clouds places Gick’s paintings within a barren landscape created by a thick slab of dried mud, offering new resonances between painting, sculpture and the natural environment. Presented in the [...]
HOW TO DISAPPEAR April 8th-May 20th Opening Reception from 6-9pm on April 8th You want to go beyond making yourself disappear: You want to make it seem as if you never existed. -Seth Price, How to Disappear in America The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present the international group exhibition How to [...]
On March 22nd, The Luminary welcomes Small Black to the Elevator Music Series. The band’s pulsing patchwork synths and pop hooks lock in for a mesmerizing and dynamic live show. Building off of 2010′s swelling “New Chain” full-length, Small Black has become one of the most highly-anticipated new bands over the past year. Rising stars [...]
On Friday, April 22nd, The Luminary welcomes The Joy Formidable to the Elevator Music Series. The Joy Formidable’s panoramic and anthemic rock has found them superstardom in their native UK and growing acclaim in the US after earning raves from Rolling Stone, NME, The New York Times and Pitchfork and sharing the stage with Passion [...]
On Sunday, March 27th, The Luminary presents post-dubstep pioneers Mount Kimbie to the Elevator Music Series. Mount Kimbie has released some of the most organic and exciting electronic music coming out of the dubstep era in London over the past several years. The two-piece merges found-sound samples and rolling percussion to pioneer a new direction [...]
On Saturday, April 23rd, The Luminary welcomes Lightning Bolt to the monthly Elevator Music Series. Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island, composed of Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals and Brian Gibson on bass guitar. Lightning Bolt are known for their guerrilla-style live performances, where they typically play on the [...]
**Note: This date has changed to May 19th** On May 19th, The Luminary presents Cold Cave as a part of the monthly Elevator Music Series. Cold Cave are an experimental electronic pop group from Philadelphia and New York City who make melodic synthscapes with jackhammer beats. They acknowledge the dark roots of synthesizer music as [...]
On Friday, February 4th from 6-9pm, Lauren Frances Adams will open The Nymph’s Reply, a painting-based installation that combines Elizabethan decorative tropes and John White’s watercolors of native Algonquin Indians as a vehicle for exploring American post-colonialism. Finding inspiration in Sir Walter Raleigh’s pastoral poem of the same title, the installation is simultaneously visually seductive and chaotic, [...]
The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to announce our first Resident Artist retrospective exhibition, Something Happened, which opens on Friday, February 4th from 6-9pm and remains on view through March 18th. Something Happened will feature work created by artists in our artists-in-residence program throughout 2010 as a way to create a dialogue between [...]
On Monday, March 28th, The Luminary will present Destroyer with The War on Drugs as a part of the monthly Elevator Music Series. A mainstay on record players of literate listeners, Destroyer makes the kind of music you want to study up on just to appreciate. As a member of The New Pornographers and Swan [...]
Opening on Friday, November 12th from 6-9pm, Forecast brings together five artists focused around the themes of prediction, anxiety about the future and the ways we use science and technology to manage and approximate these perceived futures. Forecast is the final exhibition in our 2010 Answer Factory series focusing on how information is shaping our [...]
On Friday, October 15th, new art + music label Post Literate launches with a special collaborative release by US English and Glitch, with guests Phaseone and 18 & Counting. US English will be releasing their debut EP, What Frontier, the first of three serial EP’s being released to build into a full-length. Glitch, curated and [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS (dis)Mantle, an Installation by Jill Downen September 25, 2010 – October 30, 2010 Read the Art in America review here. The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present a temporary site-specific installation by Jill Downen. (dis)Mantle responds to The Luminary’s Installation Space, a former chapel with [...]
THE LUMINARY CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS THE POST PERFORMANCES: Jon Hardy and the Public + Dave Lang and Andy van der Truin August 21st, 2010 from 7-9pm at the Old Post Office Plaza The Luminary | Center for the Arts, in conjunction with the Partnership for Downtown, is pleased to present a free monthly [...]
