DAVID CHOE/VICE/POWERHOUSE:PRISON

then there's also a DAVID CHOE show at powerhouse gallery, right near the 'by the people' opening. it's at 68 Charlton b/w Varick and Houston. 6-9pm rsvp to events@viceland.com here's what they write: Our friend, the artist David Choe, got arrested for punching out an undercover detective in Tokyo in December 2004. Then he spent four months in solitary confinement in a Japanese prison. Deprived of his usual drawing and painting tools, David improvised materials out of whatever he could scrape together in his tiny cell—including soy sauce and his own urine... more here FLIER AT TRUDY'S SITE