New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) presents the world premiere of a new play from its acclaimed Company-in-Residence Elevator Repair Service (The Sound and the Fury, The Select, Gatz) -- FONDLY, COLLETTE RICHLAND -- opening tonight, September 28, 2015.
Hauser & Wirth and the Estate of Philip Guston are pleased to announce jointly that the gallery now represents the Estate exclusively worldwide, following the closure of the McKee Gallery earlier this year. David and Renée McKee began working with Guston in 1974, and will continue to work closely with Hauser & Wirth, the artist's daughter Musa Mayer and the Estate in an advisory capacity.
Veteran producer Pat Addiss (Buyer and Cellar, Love Letters) and Georganne Aldrich Heller (Howie the Rookie-Bam, Silent, Forgotten) president of Irish Theatre & Film Production (georgannealdricheller.com) have announced that they will join forces in presenting two invitation only, special staged readings of 'Loves of Picasso' written and directed by Terry D' Alfonso. The two readings will be held on October 9th at 2PM and 5pm at MOMA to coincide with museum's opening of the largest ever Picasso sculpture exhibit that same week. The script is based on the private life of Picasso, the women he loved and will include video installations conceived by Terry D' Alfonso.
Redmoon, Chicago's leading model for using spectacle and art as a means to social change will host two Halloween-themed spectaculars: the new teen-focused Skelebration, Friday, Oct. 30 from 7 - 11 p.m. and the 6th annual Boneshaker, Saturday, Oct. 31 at 9 p.m. - Sunday, Nov. 1 at 2 a.m. at the company's massive 57,000 square-foot Pilsen headquarters, 2120 S. Jefferson St. Tickets for Skelebration are $10 in advance or $15 at the door for ages 15-20 years. Early Bird Boneshaker tickets are available for $75 through October 16. Boneshaker tickets purchased after October 16 are $100. Boneshaker tickets include snacks, desserts, and an open bar. Tickets for Skelebration and Boneshaker are available in advance online at redmoon.org/box-office or by calling 312-850-8440 ext. 123. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. Tickets will be available at the door, subject to availability.
New York City Ballet will open its 2015-16 Season at Lincoln Center tonight, September 22 with eight performances of Peter Martins' production of Tschaikovsky's Swan Lake, through Tuesday, September 29, to launch the Company's 2015 Fall Season, which will continue for four weeks through Sunday, October 18.
LOS ANGELES…Beginning today, September 19, 2015, Maccarone will present “Basic Perversions,” an exhibition of new paintings by Alex Hubbard. Comprising over a dozen works in pigmented urethane, resin, and fiberglass, this exhibition inaugurates the gallery's new 50,000-square-foot West Coast complex at 330 South Mission Road in the Downtown L.A. Arts District. Hubbard's third solo exhibition with Maccarone, “Basic Perversions” will remain on view through December 20, 2015.
The dance lab is part of the Regional Dance Development Initiative (RDDI) of NEFA's National Dance Project (NDP). The RDDI provides professional growth for dance artists in regions across the U.S. through a 10-day dance lab designed to clarify goals, develop strategies, hone public presentation skills, and strengthen partnerships between artists and presenters. NEFA and CDF will engage a cohort of national dance leaders to work with Chicago dance artists in an immersive curriculum. Since 2004, dance labs have been held in the Pacific Northwest, the San Francisco Bay Area, New England, and Minnesota.
Artadia is pleased to announce the 2015 Chicago Artadia Awardees.
Jack Eidson & Sally Lindel present the World Premiere of THE LILLIPUT TROUPE, a new play with music by Gaby FeBland. Directed by Alex Benjamin, performances begin November 6 at Off-Broadway's Chernuchin Theatre at the American Theatre of Actors.
The Mori Art Museum is pleased to present "Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats" from Saturday, October 31, 2015, through Sunday, March 6, 2016, marking the first large-scale Murakami exhibition in Japan in 14 years. Takashi Murakami is known as one of the most internationally acclaimed contemporary artists working today. In addition to his retrospective, which began at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and later travelled to prominent museums around the world, he has held solo exhibitions and large-scale installations in a number of venues such as The Palace of Versailles and the Rockefeller Center, astounding the global audience with the massive scale and polished quality of his works.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts celebrates distinguished American composer John Luther Adams with the William Schuman Award Concerts in a three-night series of New York premieres, each composed in honor of one of Adams' greatest influences.
Dominique Lévy is pleased to present its first exhibition with the artist Senga Nengudi. Organized by Begum Yasar, this selection of recent sculptures and historical performance photographs from the 1970s inaugurates “The Back Room,” the gallery's new 3rd floor project space.
New York…Beginning September 10, 2015, Hauser & Wirth is proud to present 'Mike Kelley', the gallery's first U.S. exhibition devoted to one of the most ambitious and influential artists of our time. Organized in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the exhibition is the first in New York to focus exclusively on one of the most significant of Kelley's later series, Kandors. These visually opulent, technically ambitious sculptures combine with videos and a sprawling installation never before exhibited in the United States, as the late Los Angeles artist reworks the imagery and mythology of the popular American comics book hero Superman into an extraordinary opus of nurture and loss, destruction, mourning and – possibly - redemption.
CYNTHIA-REEVES announces the international premiere of New York-based artist, Anita Glesta's WATERSHED video installation at London's annual Totally Thames Festival, Tuesday, September 22 - Sunday, September 27, 2015. A public art project addressing climate change through large-scale imagery and sounds of ocean life and flooding waters, WATERSHED acts as a moving information 'billboard' about global warming that will be projected onto the face of the National Theatre [Lyttelton Flytower], facing the Thames River itself.
New York, NY—Dominique Lévy is pleased to present its first exhibition with the artist Senga Nengudi. Organized by Begum Yasar, this selection of recent sculptures and historical performance photographs from the 1970s inaugurates “The Back Room,” the gallery's new 3rd floor project space.
Outside the Lines Too is a hip and imaginative coloring book featuring original line drawings from more than 100 creative masterminds, including animators, cartoonists, fine artists, graphic artists, illustrators, musicians, outsider artists, photographers, and street artists. Following the success of Souris Hong's first New York Times best seller Outside the Lines, Outside the Lines Too continues this collaborative artistic concept allowing artists of all ages to 'color in' existing works on perforated pages that tear out allowing fellow creatives to easily display their finished works. With most pages commissioned especially for this book, the collection features the work from artists of all genres including: Dalek,Timothy Tompkins,Ryan Humphrey, Richard Colman,Maria E. Piñeres, David Ellis, Jim Houser, Justina Blakeney, Kevin Lyons, Rainer Judd, Tim Biskup, Aaron Axelrod and more.
CYNTHIA-REEVES is pleased to announce the inclusion of JaeHyo Lee's SLANTED BENCH in 'CRAFTED: Objects in Flux', an international overview of thirty contemporary artists expanding the conversation and discipline of conceptual practices and techniques of craft making at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through January 10, 2016. The exhibition is the first of its kind within an encyclopedic museum to explore the broad possibilities of contemporary artistic engagement with craft. Curated by Emily Zilber, the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, the exhibition opened on August 24 and aims to 'demonstrate vitality, viability and variety inherent in choosing craft as a foundation for contemporary artistic practice,' the curator writes in the exhibition's catalogue.
Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to announce its representation of the Estate of Alina Szapocznikow. This Fall, the gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her work, (October 30th -December 5th) with a meticulously chosen group of major figurative sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, contextualized with drawings and works from the 'Souvenir' series.
The Hypocrites are thrilled to launch their 2015-16 season with the Chicago premiere of the smash Broadway musical AMERICAN IDIOT, featuring music by Grammy Award-winning punk rock band Green Day, book by Green Day frontman/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer and lyrics by Armstrong, direction by Steven Wilson, musical direction by Andra Velis Simon and choreography by Katie Spelman. AMERICAN IDIOT will play tonight, August 28 - October 25, 2015 at The Den Theatre's Heath Main Stage, 1329 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.
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