Read that the artists are getting %50 of sales. Exciting times for the ADD theater goer.
I saw an incredibly spooky show last night featuring the very talented Yuki Kawahisa in a funny/terrifying performance directed by Kenneth Collins. The show had the dreamy silver feeling of cinema with the proximity and heat of a live show. It worked - I was completely upset at one point, and then drawn in again by the noir dialogue which kept circling and repeating like an orderly, deadly lullaby. Check it out.
I was so privileged to meet Bryan Doerries and Phyllis Kaufman of the Philoctetes Project today. I admire their project intensely.
The readings and discussions of ancient plays that they have brought before soldiers, inmates, and civilians are hilarious and tragic reminders that nothing is new, that no one is alone, that our problems go as far back as humanity.
I missed Doug Aitken’s SLEEPWALKERS at MoMA, back when. Happy to discover this compelling document of the event. Better late than never.
Going to see Kalkwerk tonight, part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Thank you, Mr. Ondrejcak! Looks to be an eerie evening.
Tis the season for a roadtrip….
Discovering Paul Auster’s THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE.
NPR’s recent programming about spiritual experiences and the brain has been keeping me thinking. Love it.
STUDIO 360: Reinventing the Critic
In today’s scary media landscape — full of layoffs and closing papers — arts coverage is especially vulnerable. Arts critics must invent new ways to do what they do. Film critic Mike D’Angelo and visual art critic Lori Waxman are two journalists blazing that trail. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
