Month: September 2009

  • What Is Your Favorite Culturebot Feature?

    As I get busier and busier I’m trying to figure out how to best use my Culturebot time to deliver the best experience for my readers. You can help by letting me know what you like best – what direction should I be taking the site? More op/ed type stuff? More reviews? More previews? interviews?…

  • Five Questions with Derek Ahonen

    Name:  Derek Ahonen Title/Occupation:  Playwright Organization/Company:  The Amoralists 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up just outside of Chicago and I moved here to become someone important at 18. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or other work of art had the…

  • Obama School Speech

    In Baltimore for the weekend and I read about some of the more rural areas of Maryland that were going to ban the President’s “Stay In School” speech because, well, I’m not sure. But apparently its not just rural Maryland abut all over the country. The NY TIMES has an article which reports: Some parents…

  • Labor Day

    Lest we forget the origins of Labor Day: The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City.[1] In the aftermath of the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the US military and US Marshals during the 1894 Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with Labor as a…

  • Plan B at NURTUREart

    In addition to the Field’s ERPA project – here’s another example of artists responding ot the new economy: NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. presents PLAN B September 11 – October 24, 2009 OPENING Reception: Friday, September 11, 7-9 PM NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. is pleased to presentPLAN B, a group exhibition curated by Krista Saunders, opening on September…

  • Blarvuster and Electric Kulintang

    From our friend Nick Hallett: On Thursday and Friday, September 17 and 18, The Kitchen opens its fall performance season with a concert of live music featuring Matthew Welch’s Blarvuster and Electric Kulintang with Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez. This double-bill of composer-driven “band-sembles” reveals two approaches to the fusion of experimental and folk formulas,…

  • Levels of Nothingness

    Levels of Nothingness a performance-installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, featuring Isabella Rossellini, in conjunction with Kandinsky and the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum. Peter B. Lewis Theater Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128 http://worksandprocess.org Public performances: September 17 and 19-21, 7:30 PM and Guggenheim International Gala: September 16, 8 and 10…

  • Public Display of Invention

    Monday, September 21, 7:30pm WNYC’s The Greene Space 44 CHARLTON STREET NEW YORK, NY 10014 This fall, after nine months of entrepreneurial investigations, seven artists present their models for economic and financial sustainability. Join us to witness the fruits of their labor and hear how individual artists and arts organizations plan to revitalize their own…

  • Five Questions For Michael Krumenacker

    Name: Michael Krumenacker Title/Occupation: Artist Organization/Company: Self URL: Chinati 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in very rural New Hampshire, completely ignorant of anything considered “high” art, although also far away from any suburban sprawl, cable, fast-food restaurants or malls too, so…

  • Kill Me Loudly at Triskelion

    We’ve been hearing lots of good things about this show. we have long loved The Red Bastard and his evil clowniness, so we anticipate a wicked good time. fools on fire presents Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir Sept 16-20, 23-25 at 8pm Triskelion Arts, Williamsburg 118 N. 11th between Berry and Wythe, 3rd Floor…