Month: March 2009

  • This Week’s To-Do’s

    This is a week I wish I could be in 100 places at once.  Of course, SXSW has it’s bounty.  Apparently, iPhones aren’t working because there are too many of them in a condensed area.  Seriously.  Stop tweeting. Start living. Here’s some stuff I’d love to be around for: Thursday: —– opening night of Rambo…

  • town hall meeting this Thursday

    AFTER THE DELUGE? PERSPECTIVES ON CHALLENGING TIMES IN THE ART WORLD A TOWN HALL MEETING AND PANEL DISCUSSION MODERATED BY: LINDSAY POLLOCK Journalist and Writer, Bloomberg News Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:30pm – 8:00pm X 548 West 22nd Street with: JEFFREY DEITCH Deitch Projects, New York BRETT LITTMAN Executive Director, The Drawing Center MICHAEL RUSH…

  • noemie lafrance comes home

    HOME. The body as place A site-specific performance (using the body as the site) by Noémie Lafrance WHEN:        April 1-5, 8-12 at 7:30 & 9:30 PM (Wednesday – Sunday) WHERE:     For tickets & location – www.sensproduction.org TICKETS:   $45 Priority, $30 Regular, $15 Student CONTACT:  (718) 302-5024   info@sensproduction.org  Site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance, known for her large-scale site-specific work staging…

  • random stuff from the voice

    i actually got called in to audition for this movie… but i think they went with the real thing. or maybe a famous person. i don’t know. kind of a bummer, it would have been fun. oh and the voice is doing something different this year.  they’re returning to Webster Hall for the Obies (yay!)…

  • new Richard Maxwell show opens Thursday

    check it. this is gonna be a good one: The New York City Players presents PEOPLE WITHOUT HISTORY, a new play written by Richard Maxwell and directed by Brian Mendes at The Performing Garage 33 Wooster Street, NYC. March 19 – April 5. With Alex Delinois, Bob Feldman, Jim Fletcher, Tom King, Rafael Sánchez, Pete…

  • video of the day

    from Frantic Assembly in the UK – trailer for the 2006 premiere of Mark Ravenhill’s pool (no water) Music by Imogen Heap.

  • arts advocacy roundup

    (A new weekly post summarizing the state of arts advocacy) I’m going back a little more than a week because there are a few things worth highlighting: Amid much chatter over earmarks, Obama signed the Omnibus Appropriations Act on March 11, increasing the NEA’s funding by $10 million to a total of $155 million in…

  • Five Questions for: David Levine

    Name: David Levine Title/Occupation: Artist, Director Organization/Company: CiNE URL: 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Grew up in New York City. Directed new plays from 2000-2004, then headed for Berlin. Came back doing a totally different kind of work. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie,…

  • Abandoned Practices

    ABANDONED PRACTICES – something out of the ordinary a NEW PERFORMANCE SUMMER INSTITUTE www.abandonedpractices.org  Hosted by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Monday July 6th – Friday 24th 2009 Monday – Friday , 9.00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Instructors: Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson, and Mark Jeffery VISITING SCHOLARS: Dr. Jane Blocker, writer and Associate Professor, Director of…

  • Culture, Corporations, Politics and the Interconnectedness of All Things

    I have written another rather lengthy essay as a follow-up and response to the Chloe Veltman piece and the response at The Guardian. Would love to chat with Andrew Taylor who wrote  this great article on artful manager about new forms of organization somewhere between profit/non-profit. Since my essay is pretty long and involved, you can…

  • One Last Chautauqua Re-cap

    Just got back from the final performance of NTUSA’s Chautauqua. And I’m sure the world doesn’t need another reviewer talking about how wonderful it was. It is just a really extraordinary, smart, fun, entertaining and intelligent piece of theater. It should really tour to every town in America – its the embodiment of what live…

  • BIG ART GROUP brings SOS to the Kitchen

    Caden sent me this weeks ago and I totally spaced. Sorry! Put on your media confusion multi post trans everything performance spectacle drinking hat for the latest from NYC’s much-acclaimed genre-defying art criminals. “The theatre of images for the new century is born: rapid, without concessions, violent and consuming itself at 100 miles an hour.”…