Live Art at Bill’s Schedule
LA@Bs (Live Art at Bills) has been a regular part of the gallery’s curatorial program since opening in 2020. Arning is a product of museum thinking and culture in which hosting other art forms creates otherwise unforeseeable new meanings and serves the exhibiting visual artists desire to reach outside of the indoctrinated contemporary audience.
June 22 Theater
Sunday, June 22nd at 5:00 PM - Theater
Austin Jennings A Gay Masseur’s Guide To Happy Endings
A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings is a biting, darkly funny, and unapologetically raw solo show from actor and comedian Austin Jennings Boykin (FX, HBO, CBS, Amazon). Based on his real-life experiences as a gay masseur, Austin invites audiences into a world that’s equal parts erotic, eccentric, and emotionally exposed.
A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings is a darkly funny, biting, deeply personal solo show from actor/comedian Austin Jennings Boykin, that explores the intimate (and often ridiculous) world of gay massage. Based on true events, the piece blends memoir, stand-up, and monologue-driven theater to unpack how we navigate desire, boundaries, capitalism, and connection.
July 6th Music
Sunday, July 6th at 5:00 PM - Music
THE SHAKER is the punk / folk /ambient noise project of Simi Stone, Philip Marshall & Nick Flynn— it shouldn’t work, but it does.
July 13 Performance
Sunday, July 6th at 5:00 PM - Performance with Music
David Mramor / Enid Ellen
escaping the quotidian-
Look at Miss Ohio
Listening to music on my headphones while riding the Citi Bike through the streets of NYC. No helmet I sing out loud. “Are you a dancer?” He asks me with a grin. I have them all fooled. Living out this fantasy with my rag top down. I wanna do right, but not right now.
escaping the quotidian- Look at Miss Ohio is the latest performance by artist David Mramor. Questioning ideas of private vs public, exploring the everyday through the fantasy of the imagination, voice and movement as well as aspects of drag vs the everyday drag will be incorporated evoking different time periods and people within queer history.
Mramor writes original songs under the Enid Ellen guise—a post-gender feminist singer-songwriter. With a background in theater, the artist’s performances include singing, movement, improvisation, and elements of dance, fitness and yoga.
David Mramor
Sunday July 27th Poetry
Sunday, July 6th at 5:00 PM - Poetry
Hymns & Incantations: a poetry reading by Mark Doty and Marie Howe
Marie Howe is the author New and Selected Poems, which has just won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
( W.W. Norton 2024.) which includes poems from her four previous books.
From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
“Marie Howe's poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.”
—Stanley Kunitz
Mark Doty’s ten books of poetry include Fire To Fire: New & Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award in 2008. He has also published five books of nonfiction prose, most recently What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life, which NPR called “a celebration of gay manhood, queerness, and the power and elasticity of poetry,"
Mark Doty
Marie Howe