Monthly Archives: July 2009

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cuil

Unrelated to anything, there’s a new player in the search game – cuil. Cuil is an old Irish word for “Knowledge” and according to their website: The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil

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EYEBEAM announces its SUMMER/FALL 2009 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Exploring the areas of performance, new media sculpture, wearable technologies, open culture and sustainability, the EYEBEAM’s five residents are Diana Eng, Scott Kildall, Ligorano/Reese, Rashaad Newsome and Marina Zurkow. Eyebeam’s residents are selected from two yearly open calls of emerging artists, technologists and engineers for

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Murder is Musical Fun!

Sometimes it helps to have a sense of humor….and this looks like it’ll be a hoot: Piper McKenzie presents the world premiere of Trav S.D.’s WILLY NILLY: A Musical Exploitation of the Most Far Out Cult Murders of the Psychedelic Era in the 2009 New

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PS122 announces fall season.

PS122 released its fall line-up today! It includes work from Maria Hassabi, 31 Down, Temporary Distortion, Marisa Olson, LeeSaar and much, much more. It looks great. check out the whole line-up here. I gotta say the whole thing looks great but I’m particularly excited for

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In The Flesh Tonight at Happy Ending

IN THE FLESH EROTIC READING SERIES TRUE SEX CONFESSIONS NIGHT July 16th at 8 PM (doors at 7; we recommend arriving by 7:30 for a seat) AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC (B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey or F/V

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Meet the Curator – Chuck Helm

Name: Chuck Helm Title: Director of Performing Arts Affiliation:  Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa but we left when I was

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BAC announces its fall dance season

Baryshnikov Arts Center announced its fall dance season today and it looks great! PIERRE RIGAL Press September 10-12, 2009 Thu and Fri at 8 PM, Sat at 2 PM & 8 PM Tickets: $20 Howard Gilman Performance Space French choreographer and performer Pierre Rigal returns

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Philly Live Arts Announces

2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, which will run from September 4 – 19 in venues throughout the city announced its line-up today. This year, the curated Live Arts Festival features fifteen cutting-edge works of dance, theater, and music from Philadelphia and New York

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Goings on in Los Angeles

First you might wanna check out REDCAT’s NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2009 REDCAT’s sixth annual NOW Festival launches eight new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists who are bending traditions and investigating new visions of work for the stage. “REDCAT’s New Original

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Sellars' Othello

Peter Sellars’ OTHELLO, starring John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman, recently premiered at the Viennese Festwochen and it sounds pretty good. Read the review on Sign and Sight.

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A Brief History of Curating

“It is rare that we have the opportunity to celebrate our own eco-system.” = Richard Armstrong, Museum Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Join the discussion between Richard Armstrong and Serpentine Gallery Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Guggenheim Museum about Walter Hopps and