The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center presents The Other Side of the Alamo: Art Against the Myth, a group exhibition of more than 40 artworks by 26 select San Antonio-based artists who are countering the mainstream myths of the Alamo's iconic status through their traditional and non-traditional paintings, sculptures, and installation work. The Other Side of the Alamo is curated by art historian, curator and cultural worker, Ruben C. Cordova, Ph.D.
After 25 years as director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Sherri Geldin has announced she will leave the helm at the end of December 2018.
Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction) and Billy Morrison (Billy Idol) have joined forces with their musician friends and special guest performers to present 'ABOVE GROUND' on Monday, April 16 at The Belasco Theater in downtown Los Angeles. This immersive evening of art and music-beginning at 8pm-will celebrate the vinyl album as an art form, and at the same time raise awareness and funds for the treatment of mental health, with the profits being donated to MusiCares. Expect the musicians to perform two seminal albums in their entirety-first Kings Of The Wild Frontier by Adam And The Ants and then The Velvet Underground & Nico by Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground-with completely different stage sets and production for each album's performance.
On March 1st, the Quin will debut a compelling exhibit in partnership with the New York Academy of Art. The collection, co-curated by DK Johnston and Heidi Elbers, Director of Exhibitions at the Academy, features work from seven of the prestigious graduate program's most accomplished alumni. The exhibit will be on view to the public at The Quin, located at the intersection of 57th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan through April 2018.
Young Collectors Contemporary, presented by Young Arts Patrons, has confirmed over 20 artists for the 2018 fair, running March 22-25, 2018 at Crosstown Arts. Young Collectors Contemporary is produced by Young Arts Patrons to serve as a hub for artists and contemporary art enthusiasts to exchange ideas and collect works from emerging contemporary artists. Part exhibition, part party, and part contemporary arts conference the event is for emerging artists, collectors, and the arts community.
This American Blonde Actress and Mississippi Mud Productions announce a special Long Beach, Long Island, performance of FARRAH, all about '70s superstar Farrah Fawcett, on Sunday, March 11th, at 3:00.
The radical ideas of Valerie Solanas explode in 'S.C.U.M.: The Valerie Solanas Story,' a play by Kat Georges, directed by Peter Carlaftes. The work will receive its New York premiere in a staged happening at the Lower East Side's Dixon Place on Sunday, March 25, 7pm. Tickets available at https://scum-nyc-premiere.eventbrite.com.
The Kitchen presents an exhibition and series of performances from time-transcending Afrofuturist musical experimenter and multidisciplinary artist Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother. Using soundscape installation, film, collage, and poetry, Ayewa showcases the creative process of her upcoming second Moor Mother album, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes, and its instrumental accompaniment, Sublime Methods of Spiritual Machines, which investigate the idea that every shadow has a history. Her work speaks about ancestral temporality and the embodiment of what remains and lingers: what takes shape and holds in the shadows of the physical world.
Like Andy Warhol, another well-known, towheaded, Avant Garde artist who pushed the boundaries of his art form, Klaus Kinski was one of the most celebrated and controversial actors in the history of world cinema. The reckless abandon with which he approached both life and art left him tortured, demonized and worshiped by scores of his fans. And since the German actor died in November 1991, there is no way to speak with him now about what motivated him and why he felt so tortured throughout his life. The project first germinated when writer/actor Andrew Perez lined up interviews with Phyllis Winter (a very close friend during the last 10 years of Kinski's life in Lagunitas, CA) and her daughter Sara to learn more about the temperamental artist. He then worked hand in hand with director Eric G. Johnson to interview the two women which led to the creation of a theatrical tribute to the outspoken artist entitled THE SECOND COMING OF KLAUS KINSKI, a hit at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival which is now enjoying an open-ended encore run on Thursday nights at Studio C on Hollywood's Theatre Row.
Rising Ozark, Arkansas born rocker Welles'—the project of twenty-three year old singer and multi-talented musician Jesse Wells—highly anticipated debut album, Red Trees and White Trashes, is due for release on Friday, June 15 via 300 Entertainment. The release follows his 2017 EP, Codeine, which NYLON declared, “It's neither emo nor theatrical—just very matter-of-fact rock that fits nicely alongside the early works of Bob Dylan and The Flaming Lips.”
Creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs – hailed by Opera magazine as “intrepid and artistically ambitious” – is quickly establishing a body of original operatic work that blends two of her great passions, myth and technology, in compelling and relevant contemporary stories. Her latest venture, premiering at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theater on September 27-29 of this year, is the video game opera PermaDeath, co-written with her son Pirate Epstein, founder of the video game company SqueePlay and a former New England Halo champion. Composed by Dan Visconti, perhaps best known in the opera world as the composer of Opera Philadelphia's recent Andy Warhol-themed ANDY: A Popera, the opera is directed by New York-based opera director Sam Helfrich, who helmed the first performances in New York of Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös's Angels in America at New York City Opera last year. PermaDeath is produced by White Snake Projects, headed by Boston producer and Artistic Director of TEDxCambridge Georgia Lyman, with Jacobs as Executive Producer.
One of Broadway's leading ladies, Donna Vivino, will entertain two nights only at The 1919 Lounge at the Empire Arts Center in her solo show. Grand Forks' own Keith Teepen will be joining her on piano. Donna will share songs and stories from her career and beyond, making an evening so unforgettable, you might just forget you're in Grand Forks.
ELECTRICITY, the hit LGBT comedy/drama starring stars TERRY RAY ("My Sister is So Gay") & MEL ENGLAND ("Best Day Ever") returns to Palm Springs with upcoming show dates: February 6-8 & 26-28 & April 9-11, 2018.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) offers an important and potentially controversial conversation on Tuesday, January 30, 2018: Breaking the Silence: The Voices of Theater Around the World at 7:30pm (doors open for networking at 7pm) at The Playroom Theatre, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th fl., NYC. For more details, visit https://truonline.org/events/breaking-the-silence/. Free for TRU members and members of TDF; $12.50 for non-members in advance ($15 at door), free for TRU. Please use the bright red reservation box at https://truonline.org/events/breaking-the-silence/, or call at least a day in advance (or much sooner) for reservations: 212-714-7628; or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com.
If the Dancer Dances-a new feature-length documentary slated for completion in Spring 2018-just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise finishing funds for the film. The powerful documentary reveals the unfolding process of re-creating a work, from studio to stage, while exploring what it takes to keep a dance alive. Created by award-winning filmmaker Maia Wechsler and award-winning writer and editor and former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Lise Friedman, the film follows a group of New York City's top modern dancers as they revive Merce Cunningham's 1968 RainForest, one of the 20th century's choreographic treasures. The film stars the Stephen Petronio Company and members of the former Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
The acclaimed performance artist John Kelly, a Bessie and Obie Award winner, will debut his newest work when La MaMa (66 E. 4 St.) presents the world-premiere of TIME NO LINE, with previews beginning February 22 prior to an official press opening on February 26, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's artistic director.
The Koffler Centre of the Arts announced today that due to overwhelming demand, a second show has been added on Saturday April 21 at 6 PM for Fran Lebowitz: In Conversation, an intimate chat with the author, raconteur, cultural satirist and American cultural icon. The event on Sunday April 22 at 4 PM, which has almost sold out, will be hosted by the award-winning journalist and host of CBC Radio's The Current, Anna Maria Tremonti. Both events take place at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and tickets are available through the Koffler Centre of the Arts by calling 647-925-0643 or online at kofflerarts.org.
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, presented by Art Miami and hosted by the City of West Palm Beach, returned for its second edition from Thursday, January 11th through Monday January 15th where it was immediately recognized as a leading international contemporary and modern art fair. Attendance of prestigious art collectors, connoisseurs, advisors and notable museum professionals surged through the weekend, while galleries reported significant six and seven figure sales of investment quality blue chip, contemporary and Post-War works.
Modfest, Vassar College's annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries, will consider the concept of Adapting, February 1 11, 2018. Throughout these two weeks, artists will examine different perspectives of what this can mean in our ever-changing world through written and spoken words, visual arts and performance.
Alexis Smith's unique art exhibit Private Lives and Public Affairs comes to Pepperdine University's Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art beginning Saturday, January 20 until Sunday, April 1. A special Meet the Artist reception will be held Sunday, January 21 from 4-6 p.m.
