Month: April 2009

  • Wooster Group Benefit

    The Wooster Group Benefit last Friday was a great time. Fab people, fun drinks, great DJ and more!! Thanks to my friend Alexis we’ve got some great photos of the party – with more to come! Here’s a few to start – and check her photo set on flickr.  

  • Tribute. Pause. Hm. Pause.

    PEN World Voices Festival – A Tribute to Harold Pinter For complete, updated schedule and details, click here. Join us for a day-long tribute to Harold Pinter. The event, curated by British actor-director Harry Burton, a close friend and longtime collaborator of Pinter’s, will feature film screenings; panel discussions; rare audio and video recordings of Pinter in his own…

  • The Brick’s Shantytown Ball

    Dance around in your barrel at THE BRICK’S SHANTYTOWN BALL! May 2, 8pm to Midnight A Costume Party where the Hoity-Toity meets the Down ‘n’ Doity! At Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. A Fundraiser for The Brick! Limited time ticket discounts below! FREE BEER! from Global Brewer’s Guild and 2-For-1 Drink Specials from 8-10p.m.!! Great…

  • Gabbing about Arts Funding

    Hey y’all, Come on down tonight and listen to me gab about alternative arts funding – specifically, about the project I work on called FEAST  – www.feastinbklyn.org Can’t make it tonight?  There’s more on May 13th at Galapagos in Brooklyn, presented by The Field.  Check it out here. Please join us for a conversation between…

  • To is a preposition, come is a verb

    DON’T MISS Steve Cuiffo performing an hour of Lenny Bruce material at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (36 Battery Place, NYC) on Wednesday May 6 at 7pm (tix are fifteen bucks). It’s going to be followed by a Post-performance Q&A with Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Ecology, NYU. Steve is the closest you will ever get to…

  • AUNTS is back with alterna-capitalist art for everybody

      MARKET co-produced by ROLL CALL The Movement Research Spring Festival 09 Friday May 1, 6pm – 12am At MARKET, FACTORY issued goods, live performances, dvds, projections, drawings are sold using a Barter System with new paradigm (handmade) currency based on the cocktail standard!  Grace Exhibition Space  at 840 Broadway, 2nd Fl. Bushwick, Brooklyn JMZ to Flushing  Admission: cocktails for the free…

  • Superhero Clubhouse presents MERCURY at The Tank

    Hello, my lovely ‘bots – I’ve been tucked away in these woods directing theater students and fighting off a fever for a few weeks now. Many thoughts to share in this space on my experiences here, but first, a heads up about a new play by the collective Superhero Clubhouse: Superhero Clubhouse presents MERCURY, a…

  • Five Questions for Megan V Sprenger

    Name: Megan V Sprenger Title/Occupation: Director of Marketing / Artistic Director Organization/Company: Dance Theater Workshop / mvworks URL: dancetheaterworkshop.org / mvworks.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I moved to NYC after college to pursue a dancing and/or dance community involved lifestyle. I started working…

  • Take Pictures. Make Money.

    Rory over at Vice Magazine sent the following: Hey Art-Nets So I thought I would pass this over to you, I mean who doesn’t have a cool photo who could use $1,000 smackeroos? Sure some of your readers have cool party/model/pretty sunset photos somewhere on their hard drive. Text below about contest, hit me with…

  • Rosewood Thieves

    Being inspired by the Beatles is always a tricky proposition. For every ballsy bravado psychedelic copycat like Oasis (and I say that with a measure of trepidation) there’s a one-hit (or two-hit) uninspired might-as-well-be-a-tribute-band like The Knack. (though “good girls don’t” remains a favorite of mine). So what do you do when a band like…

  • Sala Rekalde

    This just landed in my email inbox. Sounds troubling, not sure what to make of it….. will sign the petition though. Interesting in light of the upcoming Catalan Days festival in NYC.: After a very inspiring collaboration, the news (see underneath) arrived to us that Sala Rekalde in Bilbao is under huge pressure. Please read the petition…

  • TBA:09 announces its line-up

    The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) announces the lineup for the seventh annual 2009 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA:09) September 3-13, 2009 FESTIVAL INFORMATION 2009 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA:09) September 3 – 13, 2009, visual exhibitions and installations through October, 2009 Portland, Oregon USA Festival Passes on sale NOW | Individual Tickets on sale Summer…