Museum of Contemporary Art News

THE TRAP DOOR THEATRE is proud to present The Locketeer Adapted from The Numbered by Elias Canetti, Adapted and Directed by Catherine Sullivan

The Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA is a celebration of art and performance presented as part of the Getty-led initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Organized by REDCAT, CalArts' Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with partner organizations throughout greater Los Angeles, the 11-day festival will feature more than 75 works by Latin American and Latino artists, performed at more than 25 indoor and outdoor spaces. Highlights include:

NYU Skirball's 2018 Winter/Spring season will feature works by some of the world's leading provocateurs, artists and activists, performing unconventional and often controversial works, showcasing diverse and cutting-edge international talent from Slovakia, Brussels, Chile, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, the U.K. and the United States.

The Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA is a celebration of art and performance presented as part of the Getty-led initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Organized by REDCAT, CalArts' Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with partner organizations throughout greater Los Angeles, the 11-day festival will feature more than 75 works by Latin American and Latino artists, performed at more than 25 indoor and outdoor spaces. Highlights include:

Carriageworks today unveiled a major new commission by renowned German artist Katharina Grosse of a site-specific installation representing the third in the Schwartz Carriageworks series of major international projects. The world premiere of the work titled The Horse Trottted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped is presented free to the public at Carriageworks from 6 January as part of Sydney Festival 2018 and continues until 8 April 2018. Grosse's exciting new work envelopes Carriageworks, responding to the unique industrial architecture and grand scale of the heritage building.

High Concept Laboratories NFP (HCL), a Chicago-based arts service organization, today announced the addition of four new members to its board of directors: Peter Taub, former director of performance programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Jim Foster, vice president of learning and development for HUB International; Jennifer Nieman, associate director of strategic new product planning for Astellas Pharma; and Benjamin van Loon, communications manager for World Business Chicago.

Reimagining great popular music of the past 40 years is the goal of Songbook: Steven Page and the Art of Time Ensemble. Page, co-founder and former lead singer of Barenaked Ladies, and Art of Time, an acoustic instrumental ensemble, will present their takes on contemporary songs at the Virginia G. Piper Theater at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9. The Toronto-based musicians will perform inventive arrangements of well-known rock and pop songs.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents A Date With John Waters on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.

The Locketeer is an adaptation of Elias Canetti's play from 1956, The Numbered wherein a nameless future state claims its power by imposing life spans on its citizens. This competition for status causes social paranoia and a tragicomic refusal of facts. The adaptation will be devised with the ensemble.

On Feb. 2 at 8 p.m., multiple Grammy Award-winning and current double Grammy Award-nominated male vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo will infuse the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts with its compelling blend of South African traditions and gospel sound.

Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theatre of California, reinvents its theatre to present Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, as reimagined by the Chicago theatre hooligans The Hypocrites. This wacky beach party with flying beach balls, rubber duckies, ukuleles, banjos, plastic swimming pools, and a tiki bar brings the audience on stage for a night they won't forget.

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. will welcome back to its stage MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellow Michelle Dorrance and her internationally renowned company Dorrance Dance from December 19 to 31.

Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at Miami Dade College (MDC) is pleased to announce Unicorn Gratitude Mystery, a gripping and uproarious one-woman performance by pioneering artist Karen Finley. Created during 2016's unprecedented presidential election campaign and updated for the present moment, Unicorn Gratitude Mystery delves into American politics and culture as only Finley can, with dark humor, piercing insight, and take-no-prisoners portrayals of hypocrisy and malfeasance. Unicorn Gratitude Mystery will have one performance at the Miami Light Project at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse onFriday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts have announced performances for March 2018. See the brand new lineup below!

Musician, visual artist, and performer Sahra Motalebi returns to The Kitchen - following her 2015 performance Sounds From Untitled Skies-with Directory of Portrayals (from Rendering What Remains), an open-form opera based on an ongoing online exchange between the artist and her sister.

From January 24 to February 3, 2018, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) reprises Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang's the whisper opera in 13 performances at NYU Skirball.

Creative Time has announced the hoisting of the seventh public artwork in the Pledges of Allegiance series, Fly Together, by artist Ann Hamilton. The flag will be raised today, December 13th in partnership with eleven institutions nationwide.

This spring, The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present the first exhibition dedicated to sculptures by renowned contemporary artist Jack Whitten. Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2016, on view April 22 through July 29, 2018, reveals an extensive and entirely unknown body of the artist's work.

Curious Theatre Branch and Prop Thtr present the 29th Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, opening Saturday, January 13th and running Wednesdays through Mondays until Sunday, February 25. This year the Rhino features 32 shows, 6 nights a week, for 6 weeks. Rhino opens on Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8 pm with Full Moon Vaudeville, hosted by The Crooked Mouth band with guest performer Ian Belknap.

NYU Skirball's 2018 Winter/Spring season will feature works by some of the world's leading provocateurs, artists and activists, performing unconventional and often controversial works, showcasing diverse and cutting-edge international talent from Slovakia, Brussels, Chile, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, the U.K. and the United States.