Monthly Archives: April 2010

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The 9th Annual Look & Listen Festival

This’ll be way cool: Friday, May 7th at 8 p.m., Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 Paintings by: Jean Miotte (Insurrection, 1996, Acrylic on Canvas) WNYC’s John Schaefer hosts a night of premieres, as eighth blackbird performs the World Premiere

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PICA RECEIVES $105,000 FROM NEA FOR TBA:10

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is the proud recipient of three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in support of the 2010 Time-Based Art Festival. These awards recognize the artistic excellence and community impact of PICA’s Festival programming. The NEA granted

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Enjoy Extends at 59E59

Critically-acclaimed production ENJOY extends at 59E59! Culturebot readers can use promo code ENJOY2 to get $10 off ticket price on the first night of the extension – Tuesday, April 27. Culturebot really loved the show – Dan Rothenberg’s direction is pitch-perfect, Aya Ogawa’s translation is delightful and the

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Five Questions for Arthur Aulisi

Name: Arthur Aulisi Title/Occupation: Actor 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in the small town of Gloversville, New York and wanted to get far away. After a few years in the Chicago

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The Golden Sound Camp Meeting

Don’t miss this show on Sunday – a benefit for Andrew Dinwiddie’s Jimmy Swaggart show, Get Mad at Sin ! called The Golden Sound Camp Meeting. Featuring: The Defibulators The Glory Whole Revival Quartet (featuring Christopher Williams) Cynthia Hopkins Karinne Keithley Sibyl Kempson & Ken

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Great Essay on D.I.Y. Culture

Love this essay by Michael Kimmelman in the NY TIMES. This point in particular really struck  a chord: Generally speaking, culture operates within the mainstreams of power. The myth of an avant-garde serves the same market forces avant-gardism pretends to overthrow. Art may challenge authority;

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Whispering Pines at The Kitchen

Last night to us to The Kitchen to go see Shana Moulton’s Whispering Pines.  It was interesting to see this right after having seen Big Art Group’s work at Abrons, as it highlights, in some ways, the difference between “visual art performance” and theater. The

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2010 Guggenheim Fellows Announced

Here’s some of them. Recognize any of these names? John Collins Cynthia Hopkins Holly Hughes Richard Maxwell Jane Comfort Miguel Gutierrez Lorenzo Harris Morgan Thorson Pavel Zuštiak Congrats to all! Full list, by field, can be found here.

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Lecoq Training in NYC

Movement Theater Studio Directors Richard Crawford and Adrienne Kapstein (a husband and wife team based in Brooklyn and trained at Lecoq) have long wanted to create a home for the teaching of Lecoq in New York and personally have been responsible for introducing the technique