Yay! Charles Goldman — we’re almost done with his web site, then I’ll tell you about it — has pointed me to a cool weblog by an artist, Tom Moody. He also has a second blog about electronic music here.
I like his post about the lethargy of the art world and Chelsea as an artist-free Brasilia for collectors.
I need to organize my links area. It’s time to separate political vs. general vs. cultural ones somehow.
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I haven’t really found other blogs, other than Andy’s Chest, that talk about art, theatre, and other cultural goings-on in NYC with any regularity. Some of the art people I know have blogs, but don’t like to mix their blogging with their “areas of business”.
Send me some suggestions! I’m looking for others to give me recommendations on art galleries, books, theatre, music, etc. I can’t do it all myself.
Non-NYC ones are OK too.
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From the NY Times Science section, a very interesting article on why religion ‘evolved’ in human societies.
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Dana Schutz at LFL Gallery — no pressure to buy, since they’re all sold.
Andy Warhol Still Lifes at Paul Kasmin — no pressure to buy, since you can’t afford them.
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Caryl Churchill’s latest play, “Far Away,” is at New York Theater Workshop, and it’s brilliant. I don’t feel like I can write a good review of it, but the people that call it a “tiny epic” are correct. It’s about an hour long, but it has more substance than most plays I’ve seen lately. Frances McDormand is brilliant, as are the other members of the cast. The equally fabulous Kathleen Chalfant will take over in McDormand’s role soon. The sexy Chris Messina, last seen (by us at least) in “This Thing of Darkness,” by Craig Lucas and David Schulner, also stars.
I know most of my friends in NY don’t have a lot of money to spend on culture, so check out the “Cheap Tickets” link at the top of the NYTW site for information on rush tickets or ushering.
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Tonight we saw Mac Wellman’s “Antigone” at Dance Theater Workshop, a collaboration with Annie-B Parson. It’s great fun, and it was one of the most beautiful — visually, musically, and verbally — evenings of theatre I’ve had in years. The cast is awesome, and the music and sound design are by Cynthia Hopkins. The Village Voice review seems pretty fair to me.
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In honor of my friend Jonathan, I present The Wau Wau Sisters‘ cover of “C’mon Feel the Noise!”
MP3 (3MB)
Now he owes me the pictures of him in an S&M/Leather production of a Jean Genet play in grad school.
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Moving Pictures and Bill Viola at the Guggenheim
Group show at Massimo Audiello — in the 526 West 26th St. building
Joyce Pensato at Elga Wimmer — same building
K48 show — same building — photo
Apex is doing a cool thing — a different show every day. I recommend Charles Goldman on Dec. 12. We went to see Dean Daderko‘s curation, featuring our friend Nancy Hwang, on Saturday:
For more info on the Charles Goldman event on Dec. 12, click MORE.
Thursday, December 12, 2002
7 – 9 p.m.
Apexart C.P.
291 Church Street
212.431.5270
An evening of sounds and sights presented by Charles Goldman
Featuring:
The Brides of Wittgenstein — sonic experimentation
Harrell Fletcher — video projection
Sxip Sheary — sound composition
The Brides of Wittgenstein are a group of visual artists who wish to remain anonymous. This public performance is their first and stems directly from their weekly explorations into the sonic transformation of concrete space. They are not a band and do not call this rock and roll. Opening for them is Sxip Sheary. Sxip is a composer, story teller and sound artist who has worked in various mediums all over the country. He performs on a variety of traditional and re-imagined instruments. For over ten years Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on interdisciplinary, site-specific projects exploring the dynamics of social spaces and communities. He will present a video made in collaboration with Jess Hilliard. This evening has been organized by Charles Goldman. Charles is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. In January of 2001 he curated an exhibition for Apexart entitled Making the Making. He is both a friend to and an admirer of the participating artists and the venue.
The event is free of charge.
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I’m going to the White Columns and Schroeder Romero openings tonight. I should be at the latter (in Williamsburg) at 8ish. E-mail me or call me if any of you want to meet up there.
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The Evolutionary Control Committee … have topped themselves with this stroke of genius. It’s months worth of Dan Rather speaking on the CBS Evening News, edited down to its essence — Rather naming one calamity after another … and set to a cut up and rearranged AC/DC groove. … This could easily be cute and nothing more, but the ECC has made it an actual song… The B-side has a very long string of Rather disasterspeak on its own. Mix your own hit!
— College Music Journal (CMJ), 8/98
Go and download it right now!
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I get regular emails of poetry from RealPoetik. They don’t put the stuff they send out on the web right away, so I’ll post the latest one, from Stacie Barrie:
I Sold You, You Sold Me
(a poem in Newspeak)
From the age of pavement
From the age of split seconds I salute:
Not files
Not papers
Not pictures
No need
No mini
No maxi
No need
Minus time
Minus space
Plus persons
Plus statues
Plus corporations undead
Freeway, landfill, proving grounds
Newthink bellyfeels prolefeed
Old behind
Old below
Oldthink always new
Victory is apathy
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A couple more, found while researching her on the web:
Outskirts, by Stacie Barry
Jesus in the Psych Ward, by Richard Jordan
untitled, by Sal Salasin
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