Category: News

  • BAC to open Jerome Robbins Theater, Woosters are Resident Co.

    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 City Ballet. The new state-of-the-art Jerome Robbins Theater is an…

  • WEXNER CENTER ANNOUNCES RESIDENCY AWARDS FOR '09-10

    The Wexner Center announced its 2009–’10 Residency Award recipients: Mark Bradford in visual arts, Reid Farrington in performing arts, and Lewis Klahr in media arts. “Our Residency Award program underscores the very essence of the Wexner Center’s role as a creative laboratory and research center for all the arts,” says Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin. “It’s not only interdisciplinary…

  • Goodbye Ontological, Hello Incubator?

    In a recent letter Richard Foreman announced that as of July 1, 2010 the Ontological will cease operations at the Theater at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, which it has called home since 1991. Ontological-Hysteric Theater will remain intact as an organization, producing and presenting Foreman’s work, but just not at the current space. And how does…

  • art matters announces grantees

    Art Matters, the innovative nonprofit foundation, is pleased to announce 23 grants ranging in amounts of 3,000 USD to 10,000 USD to artists focusing on communication and collaboration across national borders: Mark Blankenship Support for the collaboration with artists from Iceland and Germany on new video works as part of the artist’s web project The Critical…

  • China, Culture and Frankfurt

    Culture can be tricky… As China extends its economic reach, it has also increased efforts to promote its culture, or “soft power,” to counter Western influence and improve its image in the wider world. Yet if Chinese goods are accepted everywhere, its arts and literature, embattled at home after decades of censorship and state control, are…

  • BRIC gets Innovation Award

    BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn has been awarded a grant of $200,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation’s New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, which recognizes and supports cultural and artistic innovation and opportunities in New York City. With this grant, BRIC is able to further its mission of nurturing the arts, artists and audiences in Brooklyn and across New…

  • Update from IPR – Suzanne Fiol passes

    This just in: Dear friends, It is with great heartbreak and remorse that ISSUE Project Room announces the passing of our founder, artistic director, and driving force, Suzanne Fiol. Born on May 9, 1960, Suzanne died at 1:05 pm on Monday, October 5, 2009, after fighting a courageous and inspiring battle against cancer. Suzanne passed…

  • R.I.P. Jim Carroll

    Jim Carroll, author of The Basketball Diaries, is dead at 60 of a heart attack. Years and years ago, when Culturebot first moved to NYC we met Jim Carroll. He saw us perform at a spoken word show and we got to talking. He was super nice and really mild mannered, considering the life he’d…

  • WNYC buys WQXR to save classical music radio

    From the WNYC Newsletter: Laura Walker, the President and CEO, and Herb Scannell, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of WNYC AM/FM, the nation’s largest public radio station, today announced the acquisition of WQXR and 105.9 FM from The New York Times, enabling New York City’s only dedicated classical music station to continue to serve…

  • Five Questions for Timothy Braun

    Name: Timothy Braun Title/Occupation: Writer/Professor. Organization/Company: A handful of websites, theaters, papers, and universities. URL: http://www.timothybraun.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born and raised in Indiana, but I’ve lived for stints in all kinds of places for months at a time doing…

  • PEW FELLOWSHIPS IN THE ARTS ANNOUNCES 2009 AWARD RECIPIENTS

    Pew Fellowships in the Arts announced the Philadelphia-area artists who have received $60,000 fellowship awards for 2009—the largest such grant in the country for which individual artists can apply. This year the awards went to artists working in fiction and creative nonfiction, media arts, and works on paper, and were selected from a pool of…

  • Pina Bausch Dies

    from the NY TIMES: Pina Bausch, the choreographer and exponent of the Neo-Expressionist form of German dance known as Tanztheater, died Tuesday in Wuppertal, Agence France-Presse reported. She was 68. In a review of Ms. Bausch’s “Bamboo Blues” that was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December, Alastair Macaulay wrote that her work could…