Sunday, May 20, 2018

Ali's Alliance: Top Hats and Tea Cups Fundraiser 2018

Top Hat in Show!
Ali's Alliance: Top Hats and Teacups 2018 May 20, 2018 Thank you all for attending!
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We believe better information leads to better outcomes and a better quality of life.


Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.





Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.







Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.





Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.









Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.





Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.








Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.









Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.






Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.






Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.






Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.









 Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.





Save the date!
Join us for the 2nd Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
June 9th, 2018, 7 p.m.



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"La Fruta" an experimental film by artist Rolando Chang Barrero re-emerges after 28 years.




"La Fruta" 
an experimental film   
by artist Rolando Chang Barrero 
re-emerges after 28 years.


The allegorical conceptual film "La Fruta" produced and directed by artist  Rolando Chang Barrero in 1990 has recently surfaced as an mp4 after 28 years. 
"To call Rolando Chang Barrero just “an artist” is an understatement. He is an outspoken activist for the South Florida arts scene, especially in Palm Beach County, where he has resided for the past several years." SFGN

"La Fruta", originally shot as an 8mm black and white 3 minute film (the mp4 is 15 min. includes credits and soundtrack), was an in camera edited film. "La Fruta" is metaphor of a very personal and intimate account of the coming of age as a gay man in the height of the AIDS pandemic.  Using "papaya" "plantano" and "huevo" interchangeably to represent vagina, ovulary/ testis and penis the artist uses symbols from his native language specifically to address the broader cross cultural reality during the AIDS pandemic that did not discriminated, nor targeted anyone in a time of mass confusion and mass death. Due to ignorance and bias of the gay community the AIDS pandemic is still erroneously associated with gay men, and in certain sectors as the "gay plague." 


Filmography:
CITWF: The Complete Index of World Films: La Fruta
By author Alan Goble 
Alan Goble is unique. It is not too much to say that in the whole history of the cinema he is unequalled for the extent of data he has gathered and recorded, single-handed. His vast filmographical volumes and CD-ROMs can only be compared with the Herculean enterprises of the great pioneer bibliographers, like Alexander Cruden who compiled the first concordance of the Bible in the eighteenth century.



New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, the longest-running queer film festival in 
New York City held annually at the 
Anthology Film Archives in New York City (1991 Catalogue).The Mix Collection contains the paper and media files for the Mix: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival. Started in 1987 by filmmaker Jim Hubbard and novelist Sarah Schulman, Mix is the longest-running experimental film festival and the largest queer film festival in the United States. The Festival has been instrumental in both launching the careers of filmmakers such as Todd Haynes and Sadie Benning and in providing an exhibition space for and preservation of the work of older filmmakers such as Barbara Hammer and James Broughton. Mix was also one of the first film festivals to embrace installations and online artwork to showcase the depth and breadth of queer digital media. The Festival has traditionally been held annually at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
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La Fruta, (VHS format) was preserved in the Fales Library and Special Collections, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University, New York

Fales Library & Special CollectionsWe collect, preserve, and provide access to a wide range of primary research materials in their original formats, including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, film & video, archives, artworks and other items to support teaching and research.

Collection processed by / collection processed by Joseph Gallucci, 2005-2006, Joe Ketner, 2005. Megan Wacha, 2006, Luke Martin, 2008, Brent Phillips, 2008, and Cristina Vignone, 2013.

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit on June 17, 2016 Description is in English. Edited by Molly Davy to reflect updated box numbers, March 2016

Credits:
Special Thanks to

PhD, Duke University, 2016. MFA, University of Iowa, 1992.
Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer, Curator, and Fulbright Scholar.


   

 

 

 














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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Punk Rock Royal, Vera Ramone Makes First Florida Public Appearance at The Box Gallery WPB

Punk Rock Royal, Vera Ramone Makes First Florida Public Appearance at
1st National
West Palm Beach Alternative Book Fair!

Photo credit: Mudd Club Book Cover (Vera Ramone far right)

"The Box Gallery, already a gathering place for art, film and performance, now adds a literary angle to its creative community as it initiates the first national alternative book fair in West Palm Beach. From coast to coast artists, authors, photographers, and cultural icons of the punk and gay culture come to celebrate visions of the past and set their sights on the future. From uptown to downtown, high brow to low brow, there will be a series of talks lectures, and presentations that span almost a half of century of documentation of the avant-garde beginning from the early 70’s to present.”  -West Palm Beach Magazine


"As Dee Dee Ramone's wife, Vera Ramone King was half of punk-rock's royal couple––but at tremendous cost.”
-Jim Bessman (Billboard Magazine)

The only living soul on the cover the hottest underground book recently released, The Mudd Club Book, Vera Ramone has agreed to make her first public appearance to support fellow author and punk underground documentarian Richard Boch.
The two will join the cast of cultural provocateurs on day two of the weekend-long gathering at The Box Gallery for the 1st National WBP Alternative Book Fair Weekend. (March 9-11, 2018)

The Box Gallery
811 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405

“ Best Art Gallery in Palm Beach”-South Florida Gay News


Contact: Curator, Rolando Chang Barrero
Details and schedule: 1st National WPB ALT Book Fair

Event Dates: March 9-11, 2018, 

Highlights:
Inaugural Reception Friday Night at 7 p.m.
VIP Meet and Greet, Saturday at 5 p.m.
Howl:Alternative Voices Project, Sunday at 2 p.m.

West Palm Beach- In her first South Florida appearance, Vera Ramone King will sign copies of Poisoned Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone at the Alt Book Fair at The Box Gallery Saturday, March 10 at 6 p.m.

Also featured that night is the new Mudd Club Book by Richard Boch that features Vera on the cover with her then husband Dee Dee on a couch with David Bowie and Joey Ramone.

Vera grew up in Queens and on a trip to Florida in 1977 had dated Rod Stewart a few times. But this is a different love story as she returned to NY and met Dee Dee. Dee Dee was the adorable, songwriting, bass playing genius, who fell hard for Vera the first night they met at Max’s Kansas City nightclub and married her soon after. 
She wrote a must read book called “Poisoned Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone” about her wild ride love story and life with Dee Dee and the Ramones. Married to him in 1978, he wore an all white tuxedo suit and “My Mother made me wear that stupid veil” Vera says with a laugh. They stayed together against the odds from 1978 until 1995. She was in the trenches in the bands early years as they came up from the small clubs, toured non-stop, made records, videos, movies, and amassed fans that included David Bowie.
“It was a real exciting time,” she says “and I am amazed the band has continued to get bigger every year.”
Vera’s book tells of their attempt at a simple life in Queens, doing errands, shopping, watching TV shows like Dynasty and Dallas, and going to visit Dee Dee’s mother every Sunday. They tried to have a normal life in the whirlwind chaos of hardscrabble early touring in a van, through uneven success that found the band in demand as a live act but shut out of radio play.
“DJ’s would be fired if they played them,” Vera says. “So we had to tour all the time to make money and it was hard on Dee Dee with his addictive tendencies.”
In a review in Billboard Magazine, Jim Bessman wrote: "As Dee Dee Ramone's wife, Vera Ramone King was half of punk-rock's royal couple––but at tremendous cost. Her inspiring memoir 'Poisoned Heart,' while vividly portraying a marriage savaged by the late Ramone's mental illness, also shows King to be a true survivor, not only of an abusive relationship but one of the most exhilarating periods in rock 'n' roll history. 'I have chosen, rather than to cry over what I've lost, to smile about what I've had,' she concludes, her own heart anything but poisoned." 
Dee Dee lived to see the group inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame but died in 2002 of a drug overdose despite having been clean for years. 
“I just want people to know all the sides of him and that yes he could be crazy but he could also be very kind, generous and funny,” she says.
Vera will also be offering a limited t-shirt design and autographed photos.







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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Palm Beach Florida Weekly LUXE LIVING Features Rolando Chang Barrero's Pajaro Pillows





Sensual and sensuous

We’re thinking sensual this month, with objects that soothe the nose, 
the eye and the soul.
We’re also thinking bespoke and one of a kind.
After all, each of us is unique. Shouldn’t we surround ourselves with the rare and the wonderful?
Each of these should fit the bill. Enjoy!
— Scott Simmons, Editor


Pillowy
These pillows are for anything but the birds, if you ask me.
Artist Rolando Chang Barrero has turned his talent for cutting-edge art to decorative items, such as his Pajaro pillows.
These 20-inch by 20-inch Pop Art pillows would offer a bold, graphic punch of color to any décor. I love their mix of wit and whimsy.

They’re priced at $70 each at The Box Gallery, 811 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach. 786-521-1199 or www.theboxgallery. info.



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