Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) draws artists from across the country and around the globe for a convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media, and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon. Entering its eighth year, the TBA Festival is
The NY TIMES has more info on the proposed Bill T. Jones/DTW merger: Ms. Sholler said that she and Ms. Davidson had several “organic” conversations about possible partnerships among arts groups. Then last year Mr. Jones’s company, through its participation in an EmcArts program that
OMG! Is it October already!?! I like Will Eno and Ken Schmoll’s a pal o’ mine, so this is exciting. But still, a press release in April for October!! Zoinks! Anyway, this just in: The Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.) will open its 2010-11
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
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.
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater announced today that it will cease operations at the theater space at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery at the end of the 2009-2010 season (June 30, 2010). Since taking up a permanent home at St. Mark’s Theater in 1992, the Ontological
He was known as the British Andy Warhol, the P.T. Barnum of punk and Dick Clark from hell. Malcolm McLaren died Thursday in a Swiss sanitarium after a long struggle with cancer. He was 64. Read the rest on NPR.
New Georges is happy to announce that the company has received a three-year, $90,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which supports the creation of an artistic director’s discretionary fund. This grant is intended to help New Georges maintain financial stability during these volatile
Another exciting news nugget about the Ford Foundation’s new initiative: In addition to helping arts groups build new spaces and renovate and expand old ones, the latest initiative aims to encourage the construction of affordable housing for artists in or around some of these spaces
The 25-year-old Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is in final negotiations to merge with Dance Theater Workshop. The two groups will combine their boards and staff into one entity with a new name and mission, though the final details are still being worked out.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced the recipients of its 2010 Grants to Artists program. Ten unrestricted grants of $25,000 each, a total of $250,000, are to be awarded to artists in the United States and abroad. Selected by the Directors of the Foundation and noted
Early Warning: The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) is opening the Jerome Robbins Theater with a gala event on February 16. A tribute to Jerome Robbins, the evening’s program will include performances by Mikhail Baryshnikov,Wendy Sutter, Eteri Andjaparidze, Garrison Keillor, Benjamin Millepied’s Danses Concertantes, and members of the New York