September 14, 2016

Contents for September 14, 2016

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Nora York, FF Alumn, In Memoriam

1. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Sept. 27
2. Julia Scher, FF Alumn, at SFMOMA, CA, Sept. 16
3. Judy Richardson, FF Member, at Lichtundfire, Manhattan, thru Oct. 23, and more
4. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, fall 2016 events
5. Donna Henes, FF Alumn, at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, Sept. 22
6. Roberta Allen, FF Alumn, at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, opening Sept. 23
7. Chun Hua Catherine Dong, FF Alumn, at Visualeyez, Edmonton, Canada, Sept. 23
8. Jayoung Yoon, FF Alumn, at Usage NY, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 15
9. Sherrie Levine, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, opening Sept. 18
10. Scott McCarney, FF Alumn, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 15-18
11. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, now online at womensvoicesforchange.org
12. Terry Berkowitz, Barbara Hammer, FF Alumns, at Kimmel Center, Manhattan, opening Sept. 14
13. John Ahearn, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Brendan Fernandes, Alicia Grullon, Yoko Inoue, Joan Jonas, Kimsooja, Clifford Owens, Emily Roysdon, FF Alumns, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, opening Sept. 21
14. Graciela Cassel, FF Member, now online at bydavidgibson.blogspot.com
15. John Ahearn, FF Alumn, in The New Yorker, Sept. 12, now online
16. Dara Birnbaum, FF Alumn, at Electronic Arts Intermix, Manhattan, Sept. 22
17. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at NYU, Manhattan, Sept. 27
18. Stephanie Skura, Deborah Wanner, FF Alumns, at 537 Broadway, Manhattan, October 30, and more
19. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at Trans Pecos, Ridgewood, Queens, Sept. 28
20. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Soho Theatre, London, UK, Sept. 19-24
21. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, at The Box, Los Angeles, CA, opening Sept. 17
22. Karen Finley, Sur Rodney Sur, FF Alumns, at The Bronx Museum, Sept. 16
23. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, Sept. 20, and more
24. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium, Sept. 18, 2016-Jan. 8, 2017
25. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain, Sept. 16, 2016-Jan. 15, 2017
26. Papo Colo, FF Alumn, at Bobst Library, NYU, Manhattan, Sept. 15
27. Gabriel Martinez, FF Alumn, named CINTAS Knight Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts finalist
28. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, at Flomenhaft Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 15

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Nora York, FF Alumn, In Memoriam

The New York Times
MUSIC
Nora York, Singer Who Fused Forms, Dies at 60
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
SEPT. 8, 2016

Nora York, a singer and performer who intrigued audiences with bold mashups of jazz, rock and other genres, died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 60.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, her friend Sarah Teale said.

Ms. York sang with a supple, polished voice that was by turns mournful, yearning and powerful. She covered or adapted the work of musicians like the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Joe Simon, Stravinsky, George Gershwin and Fats Waller.
“I take the form of a tune like ‘Moanin’ ‘ and sing ‘Satisfaction’ over those changes,” Ms. York told The Boston Globe in 2001. “It plays with memory and feeling in a different way.”

Reconciling these seemingly disparate styles of music came naturally to Ms. York, a polymath who delighted in synthesizing philosophy, poetry, politics and song in front of an audience.

Blond and six-feet-tall, she could command the stage in frequent performances at the Knitting Factory and Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in Manhattan, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She also sang around the world at concert venues, universities and events like the Newport Jazz Festival. She taught at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and was an active performance artist.

After she learned she had cancer last year, she collaborated with her husband, the painter Jerry Kearns, on a performance piece based onPuccini’s tragic opera “Tosca.” Titled “Diva’s Song,” the work featured Ms. York’s interpretation of the “Vissi d’arte” aria and Mr. Kearns’s paintings, their object to show how art can help people achieve transcendence, even over mortality.

Nora Ann Schwartz was born in Chicago on Aug. 13, 1956, and grew up there. She received a bachelor’s degree from what is now the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. She took up performance art and singing full time after moving to New York, where a friend began calling her “Nora York.” She later adopted the name legally.
Ms. York was awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation grant, received two composition commissions from the New York State Council on the Arts and performed one of her songs, “What I Want,” as a TED Talk.

She married Mr. Kearns, who survives her, in 1998. She is also survived by her mother, Betsy Schwartz; a brother, Andrew, and a sister, Sarah Schwartz.

Ms. York released four albums, none of which were picked up by a major record label in the United States. She told The New York Times in 2000that she thought the record companies were reluctant because much of her music was uncategorizable.
“Every time I talk to anyone at a major label, they tell me they have no idea what they would do with me,” she said.

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