Month: June 2009

  • 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…

  • Five Questions for Sarah Cameron Sunde

    Name: Sarah Cameron Sunde Title/Occupation:Organization:  Freelance Director / Associate Director, New Georges / Co-Artistic Director, Oslo Elsewhere URL:  www.newgeorges.org / www.osloelsewhere.org and right now,www.amishproject.com! 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Northern California, in the Bay Area….Somewhere around the age of 16, I decided…

  • Is the Curtain Closing on Live Theater in America?

    The more I think about it, the more cheesed off I get that the 2009 Aspen Ideas festival is going to host a roundtable called “Is the Curtain Closing on Live Theater in America?” The discussion is with Michael Eisner, founder, The Tornante Company; former chairman and CEO, the Walt Disney Company; trustee, the Aspen Institute, David…

  • Lincoln Center Festival Opens July 7

    Two top theater companies – France’s Le Théâtre du Soleil and Hungary’s Katona József Theatre – share opening night honors at Lincoln Center Festival 09, which runs from July 7 through July 26, 2009 and offers 56 performances by artists and ensembles from 14 countries. The three-week Lincoln Center Festival 09–boasting 14 North American, U.S., and…

  • Curatorial Masterclass at EYEBEAM

    An initiative of Eyebeam’s Summer School program, the Curatorial Masterclass will be led by Eyebeam research partner Sarah Cook from CRUMB, the online resource for curators working with media art. The series will be an opportunity for emerging and established curators of art to get together within a focused period of time to learn from…

  • pride.

    goeth before a fall, they say. so a few notes on sexual liberation in honor of pride. remember the vagaries and extraordinary demands of desire. remember harry hay. remember the cockettes. remember the dream of freedom – not mere equality. remember that the real mob at stonewall were mostly, “…teenagers from Queens, Long Island and…

  • What I've Been Doing

    So I just spent a week at the Airlie Conference Center as part of HERE Arts Center’s “innovation team.” It was very intense and very productive – I gained a lot of knowledge and I think we made some amazing progress as a team. For discretion’s sake, I will wait for HERE to start talking…

  • organization and flow

    wonder what I’ve been doing? well it looks kinda like this: zoinks! it looks insane but it actually makes sense. plus I love organization and flow. i’m a nerd like that. more info to come…

  • Summer in Art Centres 2009 – France

    Going to France this summer? You might want to check this out! OUT IN THE SUN / SUMMER IN ART CENTRES 28th May – 30th September 2009 Outings in 43 contemporary art centres across France http://www.dca-art.com For its second edition, OUT IN THE SUN / SUMMER IN ART CENTRES is providing a large range of…

  • PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS coming soon

    Don’t miss out! The new book drops in September — get this collection of visionary writing delivered to your doorstep at the early-bird price of $15 (tax and shipping included)! PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS is the nation’s only literary journal devoted solely to plays. They are collaborating with designer Jessica Fleischmann of Still-Room to…

  • arts + culture at aspen ideas

    This sounds exciting – wish I could get there! At the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival, the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic welcome today’s edgiest and most eminent critics, artists, administrators and patrons to the Arts and Culture programming track.  They will offer fresh and dynamic perspectives on the status of the arts in the face of unprecedented…