December 2011
12 posts
““What we’ve found is that our front-page traffic is growing really...”
– Capital’s Tom McGeveran on the Buzzfeed Ben Smith hire, and a new direction towards original content.
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Ann Liv Young: Sherry is Present Featuring A Very...
Anyone else remember Pee In the Pangate? Ann Liv Young will be performing for audiences once more. Louis B. James gallery doesn’t have has a website which strangely doesn’t come up on google, so I’m posting the full press release below.
Ann Liv Young: Sherry is Present Featuring A Very Sherry Christmas Performances
December 5, 2011 – January 7, 2012
Opening Reception:...
Occupy Museums protests the anti-democratic...
Occupy Museums to protest the anti-democratic policies of Lincoln Center and Bloomberg on the last performance of Satyagraha Thursday December 1, 2011 at 10:30PM.
It is no doubt timely that Philip Glass’ opera ‘Satyagraha’—which depicts Gandhi’s early struggle against colonial oppression in South Africa—should be revived by the Metropolitan Opera in 2011, a...
November 2011
16 posts
I Paint What I See, E.B. White
“What do you paint when you paint a wall?”
Said John D.’s grandson Nelson.
“Do you paint just anything there at all?
“Will there be any doves or a tree in fall?
“Or a hunting scene like an English hall?”
“I paint what I see,” said Rivera.
“What are the colors you use when you paint?”
Said John D.’s grandson, Nelson.
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Random Awesome: Random Awesome, Nov 16 →
randommeetup:
Time for another Random Awesome meetup, scheduled for this Wednesday at Night of Joy in Williamsburg.
You know the drill: Freaks, geeks and artistes - we take all comers. No presentations, business cards optional - the focus is on awesome people and drinks. We believe firmly in getting people…
Yvonne to Marina: Deal With It
forwardretreat:
I happened to post Jeanette Hayes’s Marina Abramović GIF from Dump.fm a few days before Yvonne Rainer publicly denounced Abramović’s plans for MOCA’s fall gala, which happened on Saturday. “Don’t you think this one calls for a ‘Deal With It’ GIF, too?” I said in a note to Jeanette, who I hoped might make one to mark the occasion. Yes, it most certainly does.
Work of Art is Eliminating Artists in Height Order
Sometime during the first minute of this week’s episode of Work of Art, my TV’s closed captioning simply said: “[All groaning]”. That’s a fitting reaction to most of the episode.
No two ways about it: this week was incredibly boring. The challenge (work with kids) was unoriginal, the guest judge (producer Sarah Jessica Parker) was a punt, and the elimination (Tewz) was overdue. There was...
