Month: April 2009

  • Chris’ Nona’s DVD Realease Party! (Today/Sat/4/10/2008)

    Sorry for the brief absence but I have been on the run from the Credit Card Police.  Just got a reprieve in the form of a .99% APR balance transfer.  Woo-hooo!  I’m going to celebrate by attending the Depression Cooking DVD release party at the Brooklyn Kitchen.  If you don’t know about this Youtube phenomenon…

  • Guggenheim Fellows Announced!

    Another crop of Guggenheim fellows has just been announced, in an enormous range of areas. Ralph Lemon got one, and Suzanne Carbonneau. The list was in yesterday’s Times, and can be found HERE…..congratulate your colleagues.

  • Five Questions for Alec Duffy

    Name: Alec Duffy Title/Occupation: Artistic Director Organization/Company: Hoi Polloi URL: www.hoipolloiworld.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. My family moved out to Apple Valley, Minnesota for my high school years. Then I went to college…

  • double-dipping: a review

    here, for those of you who don’t regularly visit the orange boxes with the green stripes in which Metro appears five days a week, is today’s review: Passion behind the headlines Loving in the face of hate Elizabeth Zimmer Top-notch theatrical talents collaborate to make “The Good Negro” one of the year’s strongest shows. Fictional…

  • Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

    Distant early warning: Coming to the Public Theater, opening May 5, is A PUBLIC LAB Production Written and Directed by Alex Timbers Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman A Collaboration Between Center Theatre Group And The Public Theater in Association With Les Freres Corbusier –a concert version of a new musical by Alex Timbers and…

  • Komm’N’act presents Rencontres //02

    The new Komm’n’act Festival, Rencontres //02, initiated by Lou Colombani, starts next week in Marseille. It aims at providing a platform for young European artists in performing art. From their website : Is it possible to create something which is common without the other person becoming you? Fusion and contradiction of the social body This…

  • drowning in performance

    in the past two weeks I’ve seen about 15 performances, some of them 3.5 hours long. Keeping track of what’s coming up while Andy’s gone is going to be a bear, but I hope to catch up with this Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, I just came from HAIR, the American tribal love rock musical. In Central…

  • DATA AS A CREATIVE VISUAL MEDIUM

    DATA AS A CREATIVE VISUAL MEDIUM Jeff Thompson, Moderator Panelists: Louisa Armbrust, Tali Hinkis, Siebren Versteeg and Ben Rubin FRIDAY APRIL 17, 2009, 7PM, FREE HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER 596 Broadway #602 New York City (at Houston St) Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince Harvestworks is pleased to present a special panel discussion…

  • video of the day: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia

    A 2005 work commissioned by Valencia’s IVAM (Institut Valencia d’Art Modern), curated by David Rodriguez. From the artist’s website: Cai Guo-Qiang conceived Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia as part of a series of salutes that will take place in cities across the world (Black Rainbows are also scheduled for Edinburgh and Beijing). Other than…

  • Pâquerette – cult performance or mere anecdote ?

    When the audience gets in the bare bright-lit rehearsal room at Le Merlan, a very legit performance venue in Marseille, Cecilia Bengolea (Argentina) et François Chaignaud (France) are sitting on the floor, leaning on one hand towards one another, wrapped in gold-thread tunics. They whisper in each other’s ears, wink at friends in the audience,…

  • John Jesurun’s RED HOUSE at Experimental Theatre Wing

    Longtime downtown artist John Jesurun presents a re-staged production of RED HOUSE. First presented at La MaMa in 1984, it now features a cast all (gulp) born after 1984. NYU/TSOA/DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE WING PRESENTS RED HOUSE WRITTEN,DIRECTED, DESIGNED BY JOHN JESURUN APRIL-14-18 WITH: LEAH BARKER,RACHEL LINN, QUINN MEYERS, JOSÉ PÉRÉZ IV, QUENNA WILLIS,…

  • EU Editor

    Bonjour bonjour, chers lecteurs de culturebot. Claire Hallereau, here, live from Marseille, and delighted to be joining the culturebo(a)t crew. After 10 years in New York, 7 of which were spent working with Marianne Weems and the Builders, I have passed on the flambeau to mi querida amiga, Shoshana Polanco, and am now producing Hubert Colas’…