Monthly Archives: March 2006

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Art in My Refrigerator

“Next to my own little private micro-economy, I see some macro-development coming too. There seems to be slowly emerging the widespread belief that Art, Creativity and Culture can actually make us money, instead of only costing us. Even the Dutch conservative party, the VVD, says

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Eileen Myles’s Hell

EILEEN MYLES has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB’s in 1974. Bust Magazine calls her “the rock star of modern poetry” and The New York Times says she’s “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their

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THE MOTHER OF ALL ENEMIES

Puppeteer Extraordinaire Paul Zaloom returns to New York with his new work The Mother of All Enemies. A mutation of the traditional Middle Eastern Karagoz shadow puppet play, about the consequences of being on the fringes of society – EVERY society. It’s a comedy! Zaloom’s

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bring a weasel

The Committee of Lemurs* invites you to: THE STORYTELLER IN THEATER or BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD a festival of theatrical half-breeds written in response to classic stories and inspired by Walter Benjamin’s essay, “The Storyteller” new plays by Bianca

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lost chord radio

am out in los angeles for the weekend. i came out to see a cool show called Lost Chord Radio at REDCAT which is the Roy & Edna Disney/CalArts Theater. It is part of the huge Frank Gehry-designed Disney Hall which is amazingly beautiful. REDCAT

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walker arts blog

Well, the Walker Arts Center in MPLS has a blog if you want to be able to keep up with what’s going on out there. They do some great stuff. Actually they have a whole bunch of blogs that link to other blogs, like bill

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moving theater at DNA

Culturebot Contributor Ryan Tracy sent in the following: Moving Theater – Without Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly bring their first evening length production – Without –to the raw, open colonnade space at DNA (Dance New Amsterdam) for a three-night engagement.

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Philoktetes Redux B One

I over did it at yoga. Hips are supposed to be supple not crunchy. Or maybe it was the seven Coronas with Rocky at Edward’s on Artist Night (Tuesdays for you kids who know not of ye ol’ four buck burger). I really like Julie,

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artsbloggers wanted

When I started this site in December 2003 (!) I envisioned it as a group blog. I thought I would find some people, give them log-in info and that it would work. I found out that there weren’t so many people blogging in the arts

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beyond richard florida

Some of you may be familiar with Richard Florida’s writing about The Creative Class. Well Ann Daly has written an interesting piece in Dance Advance about re-evaluating that theory and how it applies to artists. (P.S.: Ms. Daly has a weekly e-newsletter that’s pretty interesting

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jump into the fire

Culturebot doesn’t want to add fuel to the fire of the whole My Name Is Rachel Corrie incident and certainly has no interest in getting involved in a debate about Middle East Politics. And plus the Times covered it. But in the course of our