Category: News

  • Queer Conscience Festival at CPR

    After serving as the Festival Director for the 2009 HOT! Festival, a six week, multi-site festival of queer performance and culture, Earl Dax presents Queer Conscience. Part of the “New Voices in Performance” series at the Center for Performance Research (CPR) in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Queer Conscience includes performance, discussions, screenings and other special events that feature artists,…

  • PICA announces line-up for TBA 2010

    Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) draws artists from across the country and around the globe for a convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media, and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon. Entering its eighth year, the TBA Festival is presented September 9-19, 2010, with visual art installations running through…

  • More news on Bill T. Jones and DTW

    The NY TIMES has more info on the proposed Bill T. Jones/DTW merger: Ms. Sholler said that she and Ms. Davidson had several “organic” conversations about possible partnerships among arts groups. Then last year Mr. Jones’s company, through its participation in an EmcArts program that helps arts groups find new ways of working, was formally…

  • Earliest. Press Release. Ever.

    OMG! Is it October already!?! I like Will Eno and Ken Schmoll’s a pal o’ mine, so this is exciting. But still, a press release in April for October!! Zoinks! Anyway, this just in: The Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.) will open its 2010-11 season with the world premiere of MIDDLETOWN, a play written…

  • PICA RECEIVES $105,000 FROM NEA FOR TBA:10

    Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is the proud recipient of three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in support of the 2010 Time-Based Art Festival. These awards recognize the artistic excellence and community impact of PICA’s Festival programming. The NEA granted funding to PICA in the following fields: CATEGORY: Access to…

  • 2010 Guggenheim Fellows Announced

    Here’s some of them. Recognize any of these names? John Collins Cynthia Hopkins Holly Hughes Richard Maxwell Jane Comfort Miguel Gutierrez Lorenzo Harris Morgan Thorson Pavel Zuštiak Congrats to all! Full list, by field, can be found here.

  • Ontological to leave St. Mark's, Incubator Programming to take over

    The Ontological-Hysteric Theater announced today that it will cease operations at the theater space at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery at the end of the 2009-2010 season (June 30, 2010). Since taking up a permanent home at St. Mark’s Theater in 1992, the Ontological has presented annual theater works by Richard Foreman, whose trademark…

  • Malcolm McLaren Dead At 64

    He was known as the British Andy Warhol, the P.T. Barnum of punk and Dick Clark from hell. Malcolm McLaren died Thursday in a Swiss sanitarium after a long struggle with cancer. He was 64. Read the rest on NPR.

  • New Georges Gets Big Grant from Mellon

    New Georges is happy to announce that the company has received a three-year, $90,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which supports the creation of an artistic director’s discretionary fund. This grant is intended to help New Georges maintain financial stability during these volatile economic times, and thereby continue to do excellent artistic work,…

  • Ford Foundation's Supporting Diverse Art Spaces Initiative

    Another exciting news nugget about the Ford Foundation’s new initiative: In addition to helping arts groups build new spaces and renovate and expand old ones, the latest initiative aims to encourage the construction of affordable housing for artists in or around some of these spaces and to spur economic development in their surrounding areas. Read…

  • Bill T. Jones, Dance Theater Workshop to merge

    The 25-year-old Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is in final negotiations to merge with Dance Theater Workshop. The two groups will combine their boards and staff into one entity with a new name and mission, though the final details are still being worked out. Read more in Crain’s. And here’s the article in the…

  • FCA announces 2010 Grantees

    The Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced the recipients of its 2010 Grants to Artists program.  Ten unrestricted grants of $25,000 each, a total of $250,000, are to be awarded to artists in the United States and abroad. Selected by the Directors of the Foundation and noted members of the arts community from confidential nominations submitted by…