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“From the Edge,” USITT / USA’s national pavilion at Prague Quadrennial, displays American performing garage in the age of Obama (6/18/2011) Artistic director Susan Tsu was interested in uncovering the socio- political themes facing performance makers in the USA over the… … “Holy Daughters” exposes inferior position of many women in India (1/10/2013) For Nourry, the rape incident in New Delhi in December 2012 "marks a new sad climax concerning this highly sensitive… … 
A festival of her own: Cambridge celebrates Virginia Woolf novel “To the Lighthouse” with myriad events (9/20/2011) CAMBRIDGE, U.K.: To the Lighthouse has just come out of copyright. Fans of this enduringly popular novel by Virginia Woolf… … 
A one-of-a-kind international festival of musical performing arts in Romania celebrates Stephen Sondheim (11/8/2011) A special concert performance of Sondheim musicals and a conference, entitled "Sondheim And After: A Listening Party" pays tribute to… … 
A secret history of Post-Expressionism | Alfonso Ossorio at 100 (10/25/2013) Alfonso Ossorio is a central figure of postwar American art, but he has been virtually absent from standard art history… … 
American theater under the sign of Obama: “From the Edge,” USA pavilion at Prague Quadrennial, makes American debut (3/25/2012) The USA-USITT Design Exhibit team recommends people experience the exhibit more than once while at the Long Beach Conference &… … 
ART & POLITICS | Hope lingers in Sarajevo’s Festival MESS, one of the Balkan region’s most important festivals (10/2/2013) Dino Mustafic, director of Festival MESS, describes this year's Festival as conquest for happiness and hope. Mustafic, one of the… … 
ART OPENING | Iranian painter portrays faceless people in Dubai art gallery (3/17/2013) These paintings are based on studies of the gestures of resistance and defiance. They are permanent records of the ‘faceless’… …
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Help us bring American artists to Prague Quadrennial, the Olympics of Design (4/1/2011) Pat Oleszko and Paul Zaloom are American performance activists. These… … 
Randy Gener appointed Editor-in-Chief of Prague Quadrennial Newspaper (5/29/2011) Gener will also host daily gallery talks at USA National… … “From the Edge,” USITT / USA’s national pavilion at Prague Quadrennial, displays American performing garage in the age of Obama (6/18/2011) Artistic director Susan Tsu was interested in uncovering the socio-… … 
When Spectacle kisses the lips of Intimacy — Intersection hits the European road after Prague (7/7/2011) PRAGUE: In Intersection, pairs of distant lovers could be spotted… … 
Movie Review: Theatre Svoboda, a documentary film by Jakub Hejna (7/7/2011) THEATRE SVOBODA (DIVADLO SVOBODA) Czech Republic, 2011 98 Min, Color DIRECTOR: Jakub… … 
Theater Review: Peter Brook’s Slimmed-Down “Magic Flute” (7/15/2011) NEW YORK CITY: At a July morning news conference in… … 
Theater Review: “Unnatural Acts” by the Plastic Theater at Classic Stage Company in NYC (7/30/2011) NEW YORK CITY: On Sunday, July 31, Unnatural Acts will complete an… … 
In Adelaide, William Yang pays photographic tribute to the one and only Pina Bausch (8/16/2011) "She was camera shy, wouldn't look at the camera, so… … 
Theater Review: In “Ghost Light,” a son confronts historical ghosts, family myths and dark dreams (9/17/2011) In Ghost Light, San Francisco history itself is a ghost… … 
White House appoints visual artist Teresita Fernández to U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (9/19/2011) Members of the arts panel play a key role in… … A festival of her own: Cambridge celebrates Virginia Woolf novel “To the Lighthouse” with myriad events (9/20/2011) CAMBRIDGE, U.K.: To the Lighthouse has just come out of… … 
Mexico’s Pablo Helguera reinterprets Bach’s fugue into “Well-Tempered Exposition” (9/21/2011) NEW YORK CITY: On September 21, the New York-based, Mexico-born… … 
Colloque international sur l’enseignement de la scénographie: “Qu’est ce que la scénographie ?” 21 et 22 octobre 2011 (9/26/2011) An international symposium on the teaching of design, entitled "What… … 
Randy Gener serves as American juror for Sarajevo International Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina (9/29/2011) SARAJEVO — Randy Gener — the Nathan Award–winning editor, writer and… … 
Randy Gener and Flemish director Ivo van Hove talk “Movies and Theater” at BAM Next Wave Festival (10/13/2011) BROOKLYN: Randy Gener joins the internationally acclaimed Flemish director Ivo van… … A one-of-a-kind international festival of musical performing arts in Romania celebrates Stephen Sondheim (11/8/2011) A special concert performance of Sondheim musicals and a conference,… … Broadway’s Jose Llana, Orville Mendoza, Angel Desai, Joan Almedilla, Ali Ewoldt serenade Europe’s international music festival (11/10/2011) The National Operetta Theatre “Ion Dacian” Presents “A Medley of… … 
Randy Gener presents “Sondheim and After: A Listening Party,” a conference and lecture for Europe’s National Operetta Theatre “Ion Dacian” (11/13/2011) Gener states in his lecture: “Sondheim has fashioned modernist scores… … 
Rachel in Wonderland: Interview with playwright Craig Lucas on “Reckless” as a hallucinatory Christmas fable (11/23/2011) In an interview he granted exclusively for Applause magazine, Craig… … 
Report from Sarajevo: An inspiring international festival rises above a “catastrophic state of culture” in Bosnia and Herzegovina (12/2/2011) As confusion over arts funding drags on in Bosnia and… … 
“Macbeth After Shakespeare” (Slovenia/Croatia) muscles its way into brilliance (12/11/2011) A collaboration between Mini Teater Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Novokazalište Zagreb… … 
My picks for the world’s best theater of 2011 (12/18/2011) My picks for the world's top-10 best theater reflects my… … 
Curators speak out about the thrills, challenges of staging national exhibitions of design in Prague (12/23/2011) In a wide-ranging conversation with a number of national curators… … 
Culturebot’s panel discussion on citizen criticism and the arts live-streams, takes place Jan. 15 (1/12/2012) Culturebot.org, a multidisciplinary arts and culture blog, and the Public… … 
Review: Strange forms and cautionary parable flicker in Nic Ularu’s “Hieronymus Bosch” (1/28/2012) "Hieronymus" pulses in that liminal space in between dramatic representation… … 
Designing carnivals: Trinidad’s foremost Caribbean carnival artist lectures at Yale Rep, March 23 (3/19/2012) NEW HAVEN, CONN.: The Caribbean's leading Carnival artist will lecture… … 
Transvestite cabaret blossoms in “Gardenia,” a dance-theater work from Belgium (3/23/2012) MONCLAIR, N.J.: Think of it as a Follies for the third… … American theater under the sign of Obama: “From the Edge,” USA pavilion at Prague Quadrennial, makes American debut (3/25/2012) The USA-USITT Design Exhibit team recommends people experience the exhibit… … 
Curatorial essay: Exhibiting a country on the edge, a U.S. approach to performance design (3/27/2012) Vibrating within a new discipline that is up for grabs,… … 
Prague diaries: Philadelphia designers and practitioners talk about how performance design affected their works and processes (3/28/2012) PHILADELPHIA: The travel narratives below track impact and chronicle artistic… … 
Postcards from the Inge interview, Part 3 | A Ripple Effect (3/29/2012) "The future is increasingly becoming hyper-local and immersive. The designers… … 
Postcards from the Inge interview, Part 2 | Active Searching & The Value of the Prague Quadrennial (3/29/2012) The following interview originally appeared in Postcards from the Inge,… … 
Postcards from the Inge interview, Part 1 | From The Edge (3/30/2012) IT’S PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL WEEK on Postcards from the Inge! Randy… … 
Performance review: Watch a storefront story from a New York sidewalk in this Romanian-American collaboration (4/5/2012) "The Window" succeeds in its creative transformation of an otherwise… … 
V-Day founder Eve Ensler launches virtual identity at http://www.eveensler.org (4/13/2012) Eve Ensler's new site, http://www.eveensler.org, will be a comprehensive archive… … 
Because it Cannes: Agence France Presse wraps French city with glamorous photos of movie stars (5/16/2012) The selected photos in Cannes have a lot of pointing… … 
Plight of the Roma surfaces in leading Kosovar playwright’s latest political drama (5/20/2012) Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj describis his play: "This is a… … 
Soho gallery presents performance art by Maria Jose Arjona, a Colombian (5/22/2012) "Sound as fluid, sound as connector, sound as image, sound… … 
Iranian painter fuses kabuki, Bosch, Persian folklore in Dubai solo show (5/23/2012) Judging from Zad's paintings in the catalogue, I would add… … 
Performance review | Seeing the Romanian Cultural Institute’s “Window” through Alice’s looking glass (5/30/2012) The Window is a unique theatrical experience, because enigma is… … 
Queer New York International Arts Festival proposes “new concept of queer” (6/7/2012) In discussing the festival, the curators of Queer New York… … 
Performance review (NSFW) | Italy’s Ricci/Forte serves up queer fantasia in “Macadamia Nut Brittle” (6/8/2012) Macadamia Nut Brittle is excoriating, sexy, hallucinatory, viciously funny. The… … 
Not a performance review | French choreographer David Wampach spoofs John Waters film, dances with shaving foam (6/10/2012) "Auto + Batterie" matches up two enticing signature works, in… … 
Slideshow | How to walk over a Balkan performance artist (6/13/2012) Want to see how they built Igor Josifov's "2-Dimensional"? Click… … 
Edible diplomacy | U.S. and Croatia political relations served in food installation (6/13/2012) A food installation from Croatia, cumbersomely entitled "KroaTisch–Amerikanische Freundschaft," directly… … 
Performance review | Is “Pâquerette” penetrating, or merely a dance with penetrating elements? (6/15/2012) Pâquerette is a duet between a man and a woman… … 
Performance artist Marisa Prefer sets aside “Breathing Room” in Bushwick (7/20/2012) Signal is pleased to present Breathing Room, a temporary environment… … 
PUMA.Peace offers free short films to organize your own films4peace screenings (7/21/2012) PUMA.Peace would love for you to screen this year’s films4peace… … 
Currently in production | Play excerpt, models, design sketches for Pacific Beat Collective’s “Tala” at HERE Arts Center, July 28 to 31 (7/23/2012) "Tala" will perform in a workshop production July 28th to… … 
In Colorado Springs, European puppet-style Dickens Festival showcases “Great Expectations” and “Oliver Twist” in repertoire (7/26/2012) impich Showcase of Colorado Springs is joining in the international… … 
BUT IS IT PERFORMANCE DESIGN? | Lesbian herstory emerges at Brooklyn Museum (8/8/2012) Ulrike Müller's conceptual project, "Herstory Inventory" is a theatrical installation.… … 
Filipino photographer transforms pain, sorrow and erotic sensuality of Christian icons to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS (8/28/2012) The 20 photographs that comprise Niccolo Cosme's exhibit, on view… … 
North Korea, Greece, Afghanistan loom at France’s photojournalism show (8/29/2012) This festival is a unique event for those who share… … 
Iranian photographer zooms toward staged narrative in Dubai gallery (9/1/2012) In a new exhibition in a Dubai gallery, entitled "Collage… … 
Queens arts gallery remembers Philippine martial law (9/3/2012) The event, which will take place in Queens, consists of… … 
Rivka Katvan’s candid portraiture captures Broadway luminaries backstage (on view Sept. 6 to 29 in Soho gallery) (9/6/2012) Katvan’s photography fulfills a documentary function while veering and edging… … 
Congolese choreographer/director Faustin Linyekula dances solo after profound dialogue with director Peter Sellars (9/18/2012) Tonight, September 18, Linyekula returns to Florence Gould Hall to… … 
Press release | Piña couture fashion collection unveils fusion eco-artwear at New York’s Philippine Center (9/28/2012) PCNY features opulent and intricate Filipino fabrics that are tailored… … 
Watch MOMA.org/Live stream of “Some sweet day” dance pieces (10/22/2012) The Museum of Modern Art will be streaming live video… … 
Post-Hurricane Sandy Updates | Bayanihan Dance, Broadway, Universal Self, 54 Below will go on (10/31/2012) However, due to extensive power outages in downtown Manhattan as… … 
VENICE BIENNIAL | United Arab Emirates selects Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem for 2013 national pavilion (11/6/2012) Our founder, Sheikha Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, is a… … 
Painter Manuel Ocampo returns with solo exhibit and curated group show (11/8/2012) Concurrently with his own gallery show, Ocampo is curating a… … 
VENICE BIENNIAL | United Arab Emirates seeks applicants for Venice internship for 2013 (12/3/2012) “Hands-on experience is an ideal way to learn about best… … 
MUSEUM NEWS | Keith Haring Foundation gives $1-million grant to Whitney Museum (12/3/2012) The grant will be used to support exhibitions at the… … 
IN EXHIBITION | Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi wittily critiques U.S. presidential elections in “Exit Strategy” (12/3/2012) Since 1991, Perjovschi has worked as an illustrator and art… … 
FESTIVAL WATCH | Iranian version of “Macbeth” wins top prize in Moscow (12/4/2012) The musical comedy blends the Zar ritual of Iran's southern… … 
INTERVIEW Part 3 | From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America (12/6/2012) "What does Kansas mean for PQ? If designers in Kansas,… … 
INTERVIEW Part 2 | From the Edge: Active Searching & The Value of the Prague Quadrennial (12/6/2012) "These events, on a practical level, raise the public’s level… … 
INTERVIEW Part 1 | From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America (12/6/2012) "From the Edge, to our knowledge, is the first USA… … 
IN EXHIBITION | From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America opens at La Galleria (12/8/2012) From the Edge spotlights how U.S. theatremakers wrestled with core… … 
CURATORIAL ESSAY | From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America (12/8/2012) I would go so far to say that, after post-structuralism,… … 
PHOTO GALLERY | Road to opening night of “From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America” (12/11/2012) This slideshow documents the second part of the process. We… … 
Moscow’s Garage Center needs 5,000+ light bulbs for secret art experiment (12/27/2012) In January 2013, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture’s legendary Art… … 
ON TELEVISION | Audra McDonald hosts “One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch” on New Year’s Eve (12/27/2012) In this new video, "Live From Lincoln Center"McDonald explains her… … 
IN EXHIBITION | View “LaMaMa Family Show” artworks in this exclusive slideshow (12/28/2012) Forty LaMaMa artists are featured in the "Family Show". Gallery… … 
Bacall, Dietrich, Bardot & vintage Hollywood portraits scintillate (1/4/2013) Glamour portrait photographer Cornel Lucas also made publicity photos for… … 
ARTS PRESENTERS REPORT | Judith Jameson leads slate of awardees for “service to the performing arts” in APAP conference (1/9/2013) A fourth award will be handed out: the Fan Taylor… … 
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT | Harry Belafonte pays tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Brooklyn (1/9/2013) Belafonte met a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on… … 
NATIVE AMERICAN REPORT | Spirits of buffalo, caribou, eagle dance and pow-wow for Thunderbird’s 50th anniversary (1/9/2013) Highlights will include Storytelling by Matoka Eagle (Santo Domingo, Tewa),… … 
ON SOUTH AFRICA | Small-scale political Zimbabwe dramas headline Durban’s Musho! International Theatre Festival (1/10/2013) Musho! (the name is Zulu for an enthusiastic praise response,… … 
DANCE THEATER | Lincoln Center hosts a landmark and lavish classical Chinese dance drama (2/26/2013) This ornate spectacular arrives in New York as part of… … 
PERFORMANCE ART | It looks like torture? Great! Take part in the agony at HERE (3/2/2013) Co-curated by Nicholas Cohn Art Projects and Amy Kisch of… … 
THEATER TALK | House of Sweden hosts Swedish and American dialogue in D.C. (3/6/2013) Artistic Director of Backa theatre Mattias Andersson who specializes in… … ART OPENING | Iranian painter portrays faceless people in Dubai art gallery (3/17/2013) These paintings are based on studies of the gestures of… … 
FESTIVAL WATCH | Documentary theater seeks social change via international “Theater of the Voiceless” (6/16/2013) To track this creative upswing, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Goethe-Institut… … 
FESTIVAL WATCH | Italy’s international fire-dancing festival flickers to life this summer (6/25/2013) It's open to everyone. People can take part in street… … 
JOURNALS | Feminist art journal tackles Pussy Riot case, Occupy LA, Venice Biennale, post-dictatorship Argentinian women artists (7/2/2013) n.paradoxa continues its mission to publish in-depth critical articles on… … 
RECOMMENDATION | See film screening of American version of German “Trust” at Goethe Institut-Washington (7/8/2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. | Tonight, July 8, a young D.C. troupe… … 
Women as biomorphic abstractions in Ashley Bickerton’s fourth Neo-Geo solo show (9/5/2013) Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959, Barbados, West Indies) graduated from the… … 
IN EXHIBITION | Tyler Rollins Fine Art hosts Philippine artist Patricia Perez Eustaquio (9/11/2013) The works in The Future That Was exhibitions in New… … 
CRIT SNIT | Curators are the new enemy of the art world (9/24/2013) The British art critic Waldemar Januszczak rails against curators in… … ART & POLITICS | Hope lingers in Sarajevo’s Festival MESS, one of the Balkan region’s most important festivals (10/2/2013) Dino Mustafic, director of Festival MESS, describes this year's Festival… … 
CONFERENCE ON BREAKING BOUNDARIES | The early marriage of Theater, Architecture and the Visual Arts (10/7/2013) This conference, "Ephemeral and Permanent," focuses on the interrelations of… … 
THEATER COMMENTARY | Viewing Jane Bowles and her “In the Summer House” through the prism of Tennessee Williams (10/16/2013) You've likely not heard of Jane Bowles, but she wrote… … 
FESTIVAL WATCH | Cuba hosts an international theater festival in Havana (10/18/2013) Companies from more than 70 countries in Latin America, Europe,… … A secret history of Post-Expressionism | Alfonso Ossorio at 100 (10/25/2013) Alfonso Ossorio is a central figure of postwar American art,… … 
Philip Smith’s psychologically-charged canvases on view (10/26/2013) Painter Philip Smith works the canvas like a physicist’s blackboard.… … 
VIDEO | In Provincetown, a site-specific workshop re-imagining of “In the Summer House” by Jane Bowles (11/1/2013) This post offers two videos. First, a video excerpt of… … 
FESTIVAL WATCH | Performance actions teem in Bulgaria’s festival for independent theater (11/7/2013) Of particular interest would the November 9, Open Space Forum,… … 
CULTURE KLATCH | Trans Europe Halles grapples with art for social change in Europe and the Arab world (11/8/2013) Twenty-five artists and cultural operators from Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Palestine,… … 
BUT IS IT PERFORMANCE DESIGN? | Tino Sehgal’s “This situation” dreamily implicates the art experience, and quite likely elite academia itself (11/10/2013) "The situation" is purely experiential, engaging viewers immediately in real… … 
PERFORMANCE DESIGN? | Ghost train from Bulgaria speeds through Berlin (11/11/2013) HR-Stamenov's The Phenomenon of W24°58'59,43″ N42°07'55,29″ is very much a… … 
CULTURE KLATCH | Indonesian government focuses on the nexus of culture and sustainable development in Bali forum (11/20/2013) Everyone knows that by investing in the arts and incorporating… … 
CAUSES | Buy an original artwork at Bliss Out at Topaz’s fundraiser for the typhoon victims in the Philippines (11/30/2013) Come for performances, purchase artwork, food, drink and bliss out… … 
CAUSES | AAJA-NY holds Typhoon Haiyan relief fundraiser at Katra Lounge with Asian Affinity Roundtable (12/4/2013) Proceeds will go to International Rescue Committee (rescue.org) … 
REPORT FROM THE FAR FAR SOUTH | Deeper into an Argentine voice: Santiago Loza (or Loza into Paula via Drut) (12/31/2013) This is part of a series of U.S. artist Samuel… … 
CONVERSATION | Jean-Guy Lecat talks about creating a Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn on Jan. 5th (1/1/2014) TFANA will host a series of free public discussions about… … 
VIDEO | Monsieur Space on building theatre today (1/5/2014) JEAN-GUY LECAT ON BUILDING THEATRE TODAY: "The difference between a… … 
IRAN REPORT | Foreign shows teem at annual Fajr International Theater Festival (1/31/2014) Iran’s 32nd Fajr International Theater Festival runs from January 16… … 
PHOTOGRAPHY | José Picayo snaps striking portraits for Sept. 16 exhibit (9/13/2015) Cuban-born Jose delves into paired portraits, one photograph of the… … 
POETRY MATTERS | A gentle poet gives a timely, passionate defense of the poetic. (9/14/2015) Author Jay Parini argues that poetry offers a way to… … 
CAUSES | Go to Asian American Arts Alliance’s benefit gala on September 16 (9/14/2015) What follows offers my personal testimony — a clear example… … 
GET TO KNOW | Brit musician Scanner scans landscapes and video design (9/21/2015) An electronic musicians give examples of how the Internet has… … 
LEARNING IDEAS | If you think it, students will come — to a science fair-meets-“shark tank” style pitch battle (12/9/2015) The student-powered, teacher-led projects are crowdfunded by citizen donors and… … 
NY FASHION WEEK | Nibble on Yulissa’s Creations, the future of specialty cakes (2/17/2016) Hey there you, fashion models! Before hitting the runway, check… … 
FUTURE OF FASHION | Womenswear label walks the ethically conscious runway (2/18/2016) Lace-weaving is a dying art. A new signature clothing line… … 
RUNWAY FASHION | From Haiti with self-love, Kréyol rises at NY Fashion Week (2/19/2016) People ask, "Why the name Kréyol? Is it just a… … 
RUNWAY CULTURE | Kate’s eco-leather jackets at NY Fashion Week (2/19/2016) KATE by Katherine Tramposh is a fair-trade and organic fashion… … 
ON THE EDGE | Sexy Hervé Léger turns punk at NY Fashion Week (2/20/2016) Creative director Lubov Azria fesses up to pushing the brand's… … 
NEW KID “FASH-UN” | Renaissance style from House of James at NY Fashion Week (2/20/2016) A crowd-pleaser in the House of James was the dark… … 
KANYE WEST’S FUCK-YOU FABRICS | “Hold positions until the end of the show” (2/21/2016) After Kanye West thanked Adidas for supporting him and "paying… … 
Criticism Without Borders (8/26/2016) Museums + Galleries Dance + Movement Design … 
WHO MENTORED YOU? | Five big-name mentors on how they chose their protégés (11/6/2016) How are mentors and mentees matched? Is it based on… … 
WE’RE WITH HER (11/8/2016) Gender is on the ballot today, but not in the… … 
Haikus inspire her sculptures of sun, moon + monuments (11/9/2016) The raw aesthetics of each sculptural piece embody the artist’s… … 
MoMA | “Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction” (4/16/2017) At #MoMA | "Making Space" exhibit shines a spotlight on… … 
Leadership (5/14/2017) Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than… … 
This Is What Democracy Looks Like | #WomensMarchNY (1/20/2018) A year after Trump’s Inauguration, thousands of women found solidarity… … 
Kanye West’s fuck you fabrics at NY fashion week (7/10/2019) Kanye West instructed these models to stand and nothing at… … 
Her Famous Directing Mentor Pushed Her to Write (7/11/2019) Lara Foot’s staging of Woyzeck. | Photo by Mark Wessels.U.K. and… …