Month: November 2007

  • Home Birth/The Penitent Hours

    I don’t know much about either of these shows, but I’ve really liked everything I’ve seen by Nellie Tinder and I’ve heard good things about Jennie MaryTai Liu, so I think this’ll be cool… Jennie MaryTai Liu and Nellie Tinder present: Home Birth/The Penitent Hours December 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 & 15…

  • delusion of the fury

    i have TONS of events coming up that I need to post but here’s another quick one you DEFINITELY want to try and see… Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury at The Japan Society. From their website: The late iconoclastic American composer Harry Partch (1901-74) was an innovative theorist who designed and created dozens of…

  • blipfest

    THE BLIP FESTIVAL 2007 THURSDAY NOV 29TH – SUNDAY DEC 2ND. EYEBEAM – 540 WEST 21ST STREET (BTWN 10TH AND 11TH AVES) www.blipfestival.org The BLIP  FESTIVAL 2007 is a four-day music and multimedia event, focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology and featuring 40 musicians and visualists from…

  • buy america now

    so much to blog, so little time. i need to weed through all these accumulated emails!! patience, dear readers. last night we went to the launch party for Annie Dorsen’s Democracy in America project. Everyone was there! And I mean everyone! Where were you? Anyway – visit the site buydemocracy.com and buy a piece of…

  • happy thanksgiving

    hey everybody! we’re headed out of town for the holiday. be back soon. have a great turkey day, everyone! thanks gawker….

  • ode to the man who kneels

    it is much too late in the run of this show to write a review. but just a note to say we saw it and loved it. it is the most abstract and purely poetic of the Richard Maxwell shows we’ve seen. sort of a meditation on the Western, a paring down to the bare…

  • biggest waste of time of 2007

    So on friday night I went to SNÖFRID N°0 – World Premiere at the Fruit & Flower Deli. It sounded interesting so I thought i’d check it out. What a phenomenal waste of time. It is rare that I actually feel like this and even more rare that I write about it on culturebot. I…

  • spotlight japan, the final episode

    Akio Miyazawa and Jay Scheib (Japan, USA) Join us for the final presentation of the Segal Center’s Japanese Playwright Project. American Director Jay Scheib will present a reading with excerpts from Akio Miyazawa’s At the Entrance of New Town (Japanese premiere: October 2007). Translated by John K. Gillespie. At the Entrance of New Town deals…

  • hotartaction

    cool events listings site i just found, though its been around for a little while, is hot art action. i wish i could add that google calendar thingie to Culturebot! I guess this will be my annual appeal for support either financial, technical or editorial. If you would like to be involved in helping to…

  • A Benefit of the Doubt

    The Founders and Board of Chez Bushwick cordially invite you to attend”A Benefit Of The Doubt” Honoring Martha Wilson & Franklin Furnace Saturday, November 17th, 2007 6:30 pm Hosted By: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 31 Mercer Street New York, NY 10013

  • Changes at Joe’s Pub

    Bill Bragin, director of Joe’s Pub, is leaving the Public at the end of the year to become the Director of Public Programming at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Associate Director Shanta Thake will become the Acting Director. Culturebot sends his congratulations to both of them!! Very exciting! More info at Broadwayworld.com .

  • japanther at PS122

    Williamsburg’s favorite noise-rock band Japanther (Ian Vanek and Matt Reily) unveils a new comedic rock-opera of unpredictable scale, repercussions, and decibel levels. Using a high-energy multi-media format – their “tool kit” integrates live music, dance, an interactive set, video projections plus an animatronic robot dinosaur – the band and their collaborators create a full-immersion theatrical…