music IS BETTER THAN NOISE?

"Music is a Better Noise brings together musicians who make art and artists who make music, or for whom music is an integral part of their creative process....

...The first part of the exhibition, organized by P.S.1 Curatorial Advisor Nick Stillman and featured in the Drawing Gallery, focuses on New York-based artists/musicians who emerged during New York’s remarkable mid-1970s to early 1980s period, and who continue to make music today. Artists included in this gallery are Barbara Ess, Rammellzee, and Alan Vega. Ess, a photographer who has made records with several bands, including Y Pants, the Static, Ultra Vulva, and Radio Guitar, will show a selection of her trademark photographs made with a pinhole camera, as well as...etc... Alan Vega, who formed the iconic electro-punk group Suicide with Martin Rev in the early 1970s, will unveil a suite of new sculptures from New York City’s detritus and discarded junk..."