Month: March 2006

  • Art in My Refrigerator

    “Next to my own little private micro-economy, I see some macro-development coming too. There seems to be slowly emerging the widespread belief that Art, Creativity and Culture can actually make us money, instead of only costing us. Even the Dutch conservative party, the VVD, says it is planning to double the national arts budget, which…

  • Eileen Myles’s Hell

    EILEEN MYLES has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB’s in 1974. Bust Magazine calls her “the rock star of modern poetry” and The New York Times says she’s “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.” Now she’s set her sights on…

  • THE MOTHER OF ALL ENEMIES

    Puppeteer Extraordinaire Paul Zaloom returns to New York with his new work The Mother of All Enemies. A mutation of the traditional Middle Eastern Karagoz shadow puppet play, about the consequences of being on the fringes of society – EVERY society. It’s a comedy! Zaloom’s idiot savant hero Karagoz is an Arab / secular humanist…

  • bring a weasel

    The Committee of Lemurs* invites you to: THE STORYTELLER IN THEATER or BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD a festival of theatrical half-breeds written in response to classic stories and inspired by Walter Benjamin’s essay, “The Storyteller” new plays by Bianca Bagatourian, Laura Jones-Katz, Sibyl Kempson and Kristen Kosmas all past…

  • Wendy, the Giant Vagina (Philoktetes Redux B Two)

    These little multi-part posts are difficult to finish. I don’t have the BLOG Muses on speed dial the way I do when making well-meaning art on the road to Hell. I’m not a player in this regard. I’m a bitch . . . or more accurately; I am a big pussy, making this story oh…

  • lost chord radio

    am out in los angeles for the weekend. i came out to see a cool show called Lost Chord Radio at REDCAT which is the Roy & Edna Disney/CalArts Theater. It is part of the huge Frank Gehry-designed Disney Hall which is amazingly beautiful. REDCAT is a fantastic space – beautiful theater & gallery with…

  • walker arts blog

    Well, the Walker Arts Center in MPLS has a blog if you want to be able to keep up with what’s going on out there. They do some great stuff. Actually they have a whole bunch of blogs that link to other blogs, like bill t. jones’ blog. this interweb thing the kids are doing…

  • moving theater at DNA

    Culturebot Contributor Ryan Tracy sent in the following: Moving Theater – Without Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly bring their first evening length production – Without –to the raw, open colonnade space at DNA (Dance New Amsterdam) for a three-night engagement.

  • Philoktetes Redux B One

    I over did it at yoga. Hips are supposed to be supple not crunchy. Or maybe it was the seven Coronas with Rocky at Edward’s on Artist Night (Tuesdays for you kids who know not of ye ol’ four buck burger). I really like Julie, though, our Creative-Writing-Student-Princeton-Smart-Waitron. I also met Kendra, another grad student…

  • artsbloggers wanted

    When I started this site in December 2003 (!) I envisioned it as a group blog. I thought I would find some people, give them log-in info and that it would work. I found out that there weren’t so many people blogging in the arts community then and so I basically have run Culturebot myself…

  • beyond richard florida

    Some of you may be familiar with Richard Florida’s writing about The Creative Class. Well Ann Daly has written an interesting piece in Dance Advance about re-evaluating that theory and how it applies to artists. (P.S.: Ms. Daly has a weekly e-newsletter that’s pretty interesting too)

  • jump into the fire

    Culturebot doesn’t want to add fuel to the fire of the whole My Name Is Rachel Corrie incident and certainly has no interest in getting involved in a debate about Middle East Politics. And plus the Times covered it. But in the course of our weekend revels we stumbled deep into the heart of the…