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Piven Theatre Workshop Closes Its Season With LATE: A COWBOY SONG, 7/24-8/29

Piven Theatre Workshop closes its 2009-10 season with the Chicago premiere of Late: A Cowboy Song, written by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Jessica Thebus and featuring Polly Noonan. The production will run July 24 - August 29, 2010 at Piven Theatre Workshop, 927 Noyes Street. Press opening is Monday, July 26, 2010 at 7:30PM.

Dumbo Arts Center Exhibits Sean Capone, 7/22-8/8

Field Transitions | Memory Screens, an installation of new video works by Sean Capone, will be on view at the Dumbo Arts Center from Thursday, July 22 through Sunday, August 8, 2010. Sean Capone received attention for his large-scale, atmospheric video projections of computer-animated florals, seen most recently in the Archway tunnel beneath the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, and in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art during the Armory Fair opening gala. This show will be Sean's first solo gallery exhibition in New York.

Robert Mann Gallery Presents Laurent Millet 5/13-7/19

With his whimsical constructions, Laurent Millet challenges our initial perceptions, applying analogue means to create stunning affects. Developing out of his series Les Zozios, exhibited at Robert Mann Gallery in 2005, the works in The Last Days of Immanuel Kant are ephemeral sculptural tableaux made only to be photographed.

MOMA Presents MATISSE: RADICAL INVENTION

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917, a large-scale investigation into a pivotal moment in the career of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), presents an important reassessment of the artist's work between 1913 and 1917, revealing this period to be one of the most significant chapters in Matisse's evolution as an artist.

MOMA Presents MATISSE: RADICAL INVENTION, 1913-1917, Runs 7/18-10/11

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 is an ambitious exhibition that investigates a pivotal point in the career of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) through nearly 120 of the artist's paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from this five-year period, and the immediately preceding years.

DARK SOUNDS AT THE GUGGENHEIM Summer Concert Series Begins 7/15

On July 15 the Guggenheim will launch Dark Sounds, a three-part series of live music performances accompanying the exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, currently on view at the museum through September 6.

MOMA Presents MATISSE: RADICAL INVENTION

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917, a large-scale investigation into a pivotal moment in the career of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), presents an important reassessment of the artist's work between 1913 and 1917, revealing this period to be one of the most significant chapters in Matisse's evolution as an artist.

Bill T. Jones Traces His Life Through Music

A recent special on 'Q2 with Terrance McKnight' featured an exclusive two-hour interview with MacArthur 'Genius' Award-winner Bill T. Jones and traced his life through music.

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Announces July Schedule

The July 2010 National Jazz Museum in Harlem schedule puts particular focus on the visual side of the jazz genre, as we feature classic films in our Jazz for Curious Listeners series (inaugurating a new collaboration with The Maysles Institute), interview one of the premier jazz photographers in the nation, Frank Stewart, for our flagship Harlem Speaks public program, and screen a rare film of 'The High Priestess of Soul,' Nina Simone.

Dumbo Arts Center Exhibits Sean Capone, 7/22-8/8

Field Transitions | Memory Screens, an installation of new video works by Sean Capone, will be on view at the Dumbo Arts Center from Thursday, July 22 through Sunday, August 8, 2010. Sean Capone received attention for his large-scale, atmospheric video projections of computer-animated florals, seen most recently in the Archway tunnel beneath the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, and in the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art during the Armory Fair opening gala. This show will be Sean's first solo gallery exhibition in New York.

Piven Theatre Workshop Closes Its Season With LATE: A COWBOY SONG, 7/24-8/29

Piven Theatre Workshop closes its 2009-10 season with the Chicago premiere of Late: A Cowboy Song, written by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Jessica Thebus and featuring Polly Noonan. The production will run July 24 - August 29, 2010 at Piven Theatre Workshop, 927 Noyes Street. Press opening is Monday, July 26, 2010 at 7:30PM.

Rachel Walshe Receives DePaul's Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists

The Theatre School at DePaul University is pleased to announce that Rachel Walshe is the inaugural recipient of The Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists. The award is a cash prize of $30,000 granted to a recent alumnus or alumna from DePaul University in Music or Theatre. The prize's intended purpose is to advance the award recipient's professional career by giving them the freedom to engage in their intended artistic pursuits.

Betty Cunningham Gallery Presents Final Day of Rackstraw Downes, 6/30

Betty Cuningham Gallery announces an exhibition of a survey of drawings by Rackstraw Downes. It will be the artist's third show and first drawings show at the gallery. Included in the exhibition will be approximately twenty works on paper selected from the past thirty years. Downes will be present for an opening reception on June 3.

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