Museum of Contemporary Art News

Internationally celebrated and collected, world-recognized master of spray paint CHOR BOOGIE; presents as curator, the ArtOFFICIAL Truth, at Project One in San Francisco.

The Flomenhaft Gallery is proud to exhibit the sculpture of John Henry, known world-wide for his boldly distinctive art.

The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards presented Lookingglass Theatre the prestigious 2011 Regional Theatre Tony Award.

Beginning July 9, 2011 and on view through September 25, 2011, the Tampa Museum of Art will present Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, Selections from the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection.

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) offers its 21st annual Rhythm World, the oldest and most comprehensive festival of American tap and contemporary percussive art in the world, July 25-August 7, 2011 in downtown Chicago.

The Music Institute of Chicago, which aims to engage arts enthusiasts of all ages, presents the puppet theatre company Blair Thomas & Company in A Kite's Tale, combining theatre and puppetry, set to "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky.

The Music Institute of Chicago, which aims to engage arts enthusiasts of all ages, presents the puppet theatre company Blair Thomas & Company in A Kite's Tale, combining theatre and puppetry, set to "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky.

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. is pleased to present select winners and finalists from The A.W.A.R.D. Show! series of 2009 and 2010 at Joyce SoHo from May 31- June 5. In shared programs, twelve winners and finalists from series at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, On the Boards (Seattle) and Joyce SoHo (New York City) will perform works that they either showed in their respective cities or that they created after they received cash awards

Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith's RADIO PLAY, now in performances at Performance Space 122, will close at May 29, 2011. Modeled after radio programs of yesteryear, RADIO PLAY gathers a group of actors, musicians and sound-effects artists to create a surreal sonic entertainment. Songs, stories and soundscapes collide in a comedic mash-up of non-temporal quasi-political pop-cultural tropes.

Participating in Art Hong Kong is another step in Galerie Lelong artists' distinguished history in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Museum participation began with a 1937 Japanese exhibition on Surrealism which included the work of Joan Miró. Since the 60's, Miró's work has been presented in a number of monographic exhibitions in Japan. Alberto Giacometti's first monographic exhibition in Tokyo took place at the Minami Gallery in 1958, and Giacometti in Asia recently toured Japan and Singapore from 2007-08.

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith for the final time on Sunday, May 22, 2011

In his newest show inventive musician and monologuist Joseph Keckler (New Museum, Joe's Pub, HUMAN JUKEBOX) joins forces with Drama Desk Award-winning director Josh Hecht, and violinist Dan Bartfield to take the audience on a ride through the underworld -- the underworld of low-level jobs the performer has held in the New York art world.

Audiences of all ages from diverse Chicago neighborhoods will gather to witness a major cultural event designed, authored, built and performed by the young people of Chicago May 18-20 at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Produced by Chicago's acclaimed large-scale spectacle theater company, Redmoon, the first-ever 'Youth Spectacle' will give Chicagoans a fantastical glimpse into the way local youth experience and interpret the natural world every day.

String quartets from the Colburn School Conservatory of Music triumphed at the 2011 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition- earning three of the competition's coveted prizes.

New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation and the Prospect Park Alliance are proud to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by Robert Lobe in Prospect Park on view from May 14, through November 2011.

Audiences of all ages from diverse Chicago neighborhoods will gather to witness a major cultural event designed, authored, built and performed by the young people of Chicago May 18-20 at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Produced by Chicago's acclaimed large-scale spectacle theater company, Redmoon, the first-ever 'Youth Spectacle' will give Chicagoans a fantastical glimpse into the way local youth experience and interpret the natural world every day.

Due to popular demand, Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith's RADIO PLAY, now in performances at Performance Space 122 is extending an additional week through May 29, 2011.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents Nocturnes, an exhibition of new works by Ashley Bickerton on view 6 May - 25 June, 2011 at 540 W. 26th Street.

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011