{"id":165190,"date":"2023-08-17T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=165190"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:25:14","slug":"what-the-reviews-staff-is-doing-this-week-august-21-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/what-the-reviews-staff-is-doing-this-week-august-21-27\/","title":{"rendered":"What the <em>Review<\/em>\u2019s Staff Is Doing This Week: August 21\u201327"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_165201\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165201\" class=\"wp-image-165201 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/flushing-meadows.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/flushing-meadows.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/flushing-meadows-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/flushing-meadows-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flushing Meadows Fairgrounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flushing_Meadows_Fair_Grounds_td_(2018-05-26)_003_-_USTA_Grandstand.jpg\">Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons,<\/a> Licensed under CC0 4.0.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awgame.org\/\"><b>Artists &amp; Writers Annual Charity<\/b><b> Softball Game<\/b><\/a><b> in East Hampton, August 19:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Should you be lucky enough to find yourself in East Hampton at a loose end this coming Sunday, it is the annual artists vs. writers softball game. In fact, it is the seventy-fifth anniversary of said game, which began as a picnic in 1948 and has seen the likes of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Joan Mitchell at bat. Anyone can spectate. (The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s softball team, meanwhile, is coming off three straight rainouts.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/about\/eventschedule.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>U.S. Open qualifiers<\/b><\/a><b> at Flushing Meadows, August 22\u201325:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Next week, 128 men\u2019s players and 128 women\u2019s players will be vying for the final 32 spots in the tournament. The beauty of this particular week is that it\u2019s 100 percent free and open to the public. Our intern Izzy Ampil plans to be in attendance, and friend of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/clubleftisttennis.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Club Leftist Tennis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cohead Charlie Dulik says it\u2019s a \u201cgreat way to scout up-and-coming guys in the tennis world.\u201d<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/folkartmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/whatthatquiltknowsaboutme\/#:~:text=What%20That%20Quilt%20Knows%20About%20Me%20explores%20the%20deeply%20personal,information%20about%20the%20human%20experience.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>What That Quilt Knows About Me<\/i><\/b><\/a> <b>at the American Folk Art Museum, through October 29: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This exhibition, recommended by our intern Anna Rahkonen, showcases forty quilts<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, some dating back to the nineteenth century. The quilts were made by a wide-ranging group of artists and craftspeople, among them a pair of enslaved sisters from antebellum Kentucky and an unnamed British soldier during the Crimean War.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anthologyfilmarchives.org\/film_screenings\/series\/56347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Kazuo Hara retrospective<\/b><\/a><b> at <\/b><b>Anthology Film Archives, August 16\u201331: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Anthology, a run of the intimate, activist documentaries of the Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara\u2014including portraits of life with cerebral palsy (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goodbye CP<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1972); victims of asbestos exposure (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sennan Asbestos Disaster<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2016) and mercury poisoning (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minamata Mandala<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2020); and an increasingly unhinged Pacific War veteran seeking answers about the mysterious deaths in his regiment (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Emperor\u2019s Naked Army Marches On<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1987). Most exciting to our associate editor Amanda Gersten: the by all accounts brutally voyeuristic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1974). After Hara\u2019s ex-wife leaves him for a relationship with a woman, he follows her to Okinawa for a year, where she opens a nursery for the children of sex workers, joins a women\u2019s commune, begins seeing an American GI, gives birth to her second child on camera, and enumerates Hara\u2019s many flaws for his then girlfriend (who is also the film\u2019s producer).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/afuegoparty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>AFUEGO! Party<\/b><\/a><b> at Deluxx Fluxx, August 26: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The East Village nightclub <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deluxx Fluxx hosts a monthly party that our former intern Alejandra Quintana Arocho never misses. \u201cThey have an incredible sound system, arguably the best in the city,\u201d Alejandra says. \u201cYou can sway to the rhythms of reggaeton, R&amp;B, dancehall, Afrobeats, and the occasional bachata.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CqTL6JgucRY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Ecuagenera NYC Pop-up<\/b><\/a><b> at Brooklyn Horticulture<\/b><b>, August 26\u201327:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> RARE PLANTS! There will be a tropical plant extravaganza at this Gowanus plant shop next Saturday and Sunday, hosted in conjunction with the plant conservator and producer Ecuagenera, which focuses on orchid species and hybrids. Our web editor, Sophie Haigney, is going, in an attempt to finally finish decorating her apartment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Roundup: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/pixies-and-modest-mouse-with-special-new-york-new-york-08-21-2023\/event\/1D005E768F240EFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixies and Modest Mouse with Cat Power<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the roof at Pier 17, August 21 (Amanda Gersten); <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/afropunk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afropunk Festival<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Greenpoint Terminal Market, August 26-27 (Cami Jacobson, engagement editor); <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/metrograph.com\/film\/?vista_film_id=9999003366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Italian Job<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Metrograph, August 24 (Sophie Haigney); <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/anthologyfilmarchives.org\/film_screenings\/series\/56459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">series curated by the filmmaker John Wilson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Anthology Film Archives, August 19\u201329 (Amanda Gersten).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRARE PLANTS!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68701],"tags":[67827,10660,14684,68707,288],"class_list":["post-165190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings","tag-featured","tag-listings","tag-plants","tag-quilts","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - 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