Samuel Buggeln, a New York theatre director and designer, is presently in Buenos Aires, where he is researching the Argentine theatre world. This is part of a series of Samuel’s special reports from Buenos Aires. See more at his blog 25weeksbsas.blogspot.com.ar. Continue reading
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GPS | TACLOBAN | Filipino writes message on basketball court: “Help SOS!!! We Need Food”
How can you help this man asking the world for help? In this post, I outline the latest information I can gather, as of November 12, 2013, about relief assistance for the victims of super typhoon Yolanda (aka Haiyan in international circles).
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REPORT FROM THE FAR FAR SOUTH | Samuel Buggeln on La Zaranda’s not-so-poor-theater sojourn at Argentina’s Teatro Cervantes
Reporting from Buenos Aires, Samuel Buggeln, a New York theatre director and designer, is presently is researching the Argentinian theatre world. He has been blogging about his experiences there and posting them at 25weeksbsas.blogspot.com.ar. He took in a Spanish troupe performing in a lavish Argentinian theater. These are his impressions. Continue reading
REPRESENT ASIAN | Self-taught jazz pianist Vijay Iyer: a professorship, a MacArthur Fellow and an A4 honoree
Vijay Iyer is a 2013 recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. In January 2014, Iyer will join the Harvard University Department of Music as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts. Meanwhile Iyer will be honored at the Asian American Arts Alliance’s 31st Anniversary Gala Benefit, which will take place on Tuesday, October 15, 2022 from 6:30 to 9:30pm at TriBeCa Rooftop. Continue reading
IN EXHIBITION | Tyler Rollins Fine Art hosts Philippine artist Patricia Perez Eustaquio
The works in The Future That Was exhibitions in New York and Manila are reflections upon the structures and ideas that produce, frame and promote art and design. Philippine artist Patricia Perez Eustaquio weaves an open-ended narrative that examines notions of innovation and novelty, timeliness and timelessness, particularly as they relate to the language of design and fashion. She is interested in how material, fabrication, and intention combine to form an object that then takes on a life of its own. Continue reading
IN EXHIBITION | Women as biomorphic abstractions in Ashley Bickerton’s fourth Neo-Geo solo show
Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959, Barbados, West Indies) graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1982 and continued his education in the Independent Studies Program (ISP) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. A seminal figure in the East Village scene of the 1980s, Bickerton has been associated with the “Neo-Geo” approach to art making. Continue reading
GPS | NEW YORK: Rainbow colors flood Empire State Building on Gay Pride
It’s been an amazing week for gay rights. The U.S. Supreme Court dumped the federal Defense of Marriage Act and declined to reinstate a ban on same-sex marriage in California. On Sunday June 30, 2013, the Empire State Building has turned the colors of the rainbow in a show of support for Gay Pride Weekend. … Continue reading
PERFORMANCE ART | It looks like torture? Great! Take part in the agony at HERE
Co-curated by Nicholas Cohn Art Projects and Amy Kisch of AKArt, the exhibit brings together performance-art happenings, video, photography and site-specific installations by an internationally renowned selection of artists. There will be a reception from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. with the performance by Jaeeun Lee beginning at 8:30pm. Continue reading
NOPASSPORT PRESS | New Dramatists artistic director publishes writings from inside American theater
Do please hold proof. Meet him 6 p.m. Thursday February 28 at the Drama Book Shop in New York. He will read from his book, participate in a Q & A, and sign his book. Hear him speak Friday March 1 as the keynote speaker at “Dreaming the Americas: Staging New Theaters/Challenging Hierarchies,” a one-day NoPassport theatre alliance conference at New York University Gallatin. Continue reading
ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH | National Black Touring Circuit bucks trends, hosts Black History Month Play Festival
National Black Touring Circuit presents the Black History Month Play Festival 2013 from February 8 – 24. New York City play festival honors African American men who changed America: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois and Adam Clayton Powell
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REPRESENT-ASIAN | York Theatre, CSC, Primary Stages, Roundabout, MCC least diverse NYC theatres, according to AAPAC study
AAPAC’s press release, reproduced in its entirety below, is more than just an indictment of the so-called “nobleness” of the nonprofit resident theatrer New York City. As a professional journalist, this AAPAC press release indicates the nadir of the state of investigative or enterprise arts journalism in the U.S. Continue reading
IN EXHIBITION | French artist Prune Nourry’s “Holy Daughters” exposes inferior position of many women in India
For Nourry, the rape incident in New Delhi in December 2012 “marks a new sad climax concerning this highly sensitive topic.” Continue reading
DUBAI REPORT | For first time, Middle East region sees a black light show
Black light shows usually come from the Czech Republic. Dubai, however, will see a spectacular show from a renowned Hungarian black light company, called Attraction, which is performing it for the first time in the UAE and the Middle East region Continue reading
IN EXHIBITION | London’s Tate Modern scores major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi
Bringing together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in African and Arab Modernism, and reveal his place in the context of a broader, global art history. Continue reading
CAUSES | Pop/rock legend Cyndi Lauper concert to raise awareness about homelessness LGBT youth
& Friends: Home for the Holidays,” a concert to raise awareness about homelessness within the LGBT youth community and to support equality for all. Continue reading
Visual Art Opening | Johannes Vogt Gallery inaugurates new art space
Travis Boyer and A.K Burns / G.T. Pellizzi are the inaugural shows in this new 2,200 sq ft. exhibition space. Johannes Vogt Gallery is committed to bringing attention to the complex artistic and cultural ties that bind New York to both Europe and Latin America. Continue reading
Post-Hurricane Sandy Updates | Bayanihan Dance, Broadway, Universal Self, 54 Below will go on
However, due to extensive power outages in downtown Manhattan as a result of the hurricane, Vineyard Theatre is cancelling performances of its world-premiere production of CHECKERS until further notice. French Institute Alliance Française will also remain closed on Wednesday, October 31 Continue reading
Music Notes | Musician/composer David Yazbek debuts new monthly series at 92YTribeca
Yazbek promises musical stylings and new songs debuted at every show, and he will invites guests from the worlds of theater, music, comedy and beyond. Continue reading
Dance report | Paul Taylor, Alice Tierstein, Israel Galvan, Yvonne Meier bag Bessie Awards
“For nearly six decades Taylor has been inventing movement and creating dances which delight and challenge the audience. Starting in 1954, Taylor was one of the early radicals reimagining the ways that that one might use dance to communicate ideas. The Bessies salute him as a pioneer who helped reshape the landscape of American dance.” Continue reading
Iranian photographer zooms toward staged narrative in Dubai gallery
In a new exhibition in a Dubai gallery, entitled “Collage Tales,” Iranian photographer Arman Stephanian invokes the tradition of story telling by using photographic images to tell stories of past and present. Continue reading