Monthly Archives: May 2009

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Paola's Gig on Wednesday, May 26

My homegirl Paola Prestini from VIA and the Yard has a gig with three other composers this Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM at The Greene Space 44 Charlton Street (corner of Varick) 1 train to Houston, C/E to Spring If you can’t get

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Five Questions for Emily Krell

Name: Emily Krell Title/Occupation: Producer, Whitney Live / Artist Manager / Freelance Producer / arts admin grunt Organization/Company: Whitney Museum / Self 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up on long island. I

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Cynthia Hopkins: Essential Viewing

AKA that spacesuit show Tarbot’s been working on You will dig this show I just saw if you, like me, have cremative diffuifulties, like with writing n’ schtuff… Or like you can’t like articulate yourself good enough to get a job… Or you can’t break

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The Vertigo Years

So in all my copious free time I have been completely engrossed by a new book by Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914. The premise is simple – that these years leading up to WWI were not mere prelude but years of disruption and

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Culturally Specific Contemporary Art

Claudia LaRocco gets a great quote Georgianna Pickett in her Times article “Autumnal Choreographers in Full Bloom at 651 Arts“: “One of the tenets that 651 is built on,” Ms. Pickett said, “is that black artists are important contributors to contemporary culture. It’s not like

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Jimmy at PS122

I got an FB message from a friend of mine, Paul Halferty: Andy, I caught your interview with the wonderful Marie Brassard! I am teaching Jimmy in a course on gender and performance at York University here in Toronto, and thought I would do a

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Help Culturebot Now!

They ask me how I do it. I say, “I don’t sleep.” See?:   BUT YOU CAN HELP!!! Make a donation to Culturebot so I can pay some writers + coders and get some sleep!! If you like what we do around here, help us

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Tainted Love at La Mama La Galleria

Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomon. Featuring: Luis Camnitzer, Jose Luis Cortes, fierce pussy, General Idea, Gran Fury, Matt Lipps, Catherine Lord, Charles Lum, Ivan Monforte, Wu Ingrid Tsang La MaMa La Galleria 6 East 1st Street, NYC Gallery Hours: Thursday –