Posted in Design, New York City, Visual Art, tagged Christo, Jeanne-Claude, Pont Neuf, Reichstag, The Gates on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last Wednesday, the artist Jeanne-Claude, wife and creative partner of the artist Christo, passed away. New Yorkers remember Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s ambitious 2005 piece, The Gates, a sweeping installation with 23 miles of saffron fabric fluttering throughout Central Park.
The couple showcased their dramatic work all over the world, famously wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and [...]
Posted in Film, Literary, Music, New York City, Science, Technology, Theater, Video, tagged Cindy Mayweather, Connie Willis, David Goldberg, Janelle Monae, Mike Daisey on November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We’re counting down… Tonight, Studio 360 is live in the Greene Space, taping a show all about time travel. We have an all-star line-up of experts: astrophysicist David Goldberg, novelist Connie Willis, monogloguist Mike Daisey, and 28th century pop idol Janelle Monae (a.k.a. Cindy Mayweather).
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Posted in New York City, Theater, tagged Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh, St. Ann's Warehouse, The New Electric Ballroom on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week, Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom opened to rave reviews at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn. I fell in love with Walsh’s work reading his first play, Disco Pigs, while living in Cork City, Ireland. Walsh isn’t just a playwright, but [...]
Posted in Design, Music, New York City, Technology, tagged Greene Space, Janelle Monae, Studio 360 Live, Time Travel on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Say you’re from the future, a future in which time machines exist. Why not take a trip back to the good old 21st century? And join us here at WNYC on Tuesday, November 17, as Kurt hosts the live taping of our show all about time travel. You’ll meet some of [...]
Posted in New York City, Theater, Visual Art, tagged Bob Marley, Candace Breitz, john lennon, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Performa '09, Performance art, South Africa, twins on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week New York welcomes “Performa ‘09“, the third biennial of performance art to hit the city. The event features more than 150 artists over three weeks, and one of whom has me very excited.
I was lucky enough to experience South African artist Candice Breitz’s video installation “Legend” a few [...]
Posted in Literary, New York City, Visual Art, tagged carl jung, red book, william blake, Sonu Shamdasani, unconscious, Jungian, psyche on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Carl Jung, one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, had his own very fraught and very formative “confrontation with the unconscious.” He meticulously documented the experience. But his journals have remained unpublished and shrouded in mystery — until now. Bound as a single volume, The Red Book will be released [...]
Posted in Film, Literary, New York City, tagged Elyot Vionnet, I Shudder, Kurt Andersen, New Jersey, Paul Rudnick, Studio 360 on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you been acquainted with a Mr. Elyot Vionnet?
You may not think so, but he’s actually someone we have all experienced at one time or another. For instance, remember the time when that woman with the cell phone and the couture shopping bags slammed right into you on the sidewalk and then gave you [...]
Posted in Music, New York City, tagged Brooklyn Arts Council, Memorial Sing, Papa Dish, September 11th on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“And here in New York City, we heard that awful sound…”
– Papa Dish, “The September 11th Song.”
Today, artists across the country are commemorating the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Here in New York City, I’ll be heading to the September 11th Memorial Sing, tonight 5-7:30pm. Organized by the Brooklyn Arts [...]
Posted in Dance, New York City, tagged audition, Jose Limon, Julliard, Martha Graham, Paulus Berensohn, pottery on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last weekend on the show, we heard from Paulus Berensohn — a sculptor based at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, and a man of strong opinions when it comes to things clay. He believes clay is the source of life on this planet, that there is movement everywhere, and that it’s important [...]
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