The Elisabeth Morrow School (EMS) in Englewood, New Jersey will once again partner with Project Cicero NNJ to host a book drive that will benefit local schoolteachers from under-resourced schools in Northern New Jersey. This past March, in its inaugural year, Project Cicero NNJ collected approximately 35,000 books from individuals and families from 21 local schools to help supplement or create classroom libraries for teachers of the Englewood Public School District and Teach for America- Greater Newark. Approximately 200 teachers from those districts attended the book drive at The Elisabeth Morrow School held on March 9, 2013 and were able to select books to take back to their classrooms, thanks to the generous donation of boxes from Staples and Lowenstein Sandler LLP and a truck supplied by North Jersey Media Group.
Sculptor, painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer, the renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was above all a master engineer of shifting lines and dancing shadows. After visiting Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, Calder began the experiments with abstract construction that would come to define his oeuvre. He drew inspiration from the playful work of Joan Miro? and Paul Klee, and adopted the intuitive approach of the Surrealists, making hand- cranked and motorized kinetic sculptures that challenged the definition of sculpture as a form fixed in space and created a place for motion in the expressive vocabulary of art. Calder's mechanized works gave way to his mobiles and stabiles, sculptures whose disparate metal elements - made from bent wire and flat sheet metal cut-outs - were constructed with such masterful equipoise that their movements occurred naturally and unpredictably in response to the energy of the surrounding atmosphere. 'How can art be realized?' Calder asked. 'Out of volumes, motion, spaces bounded by the great space, the universe...Not extractions, but abstractions. Abstractions that are like nothing in life except in their manner of reacting.'
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Shirazeh Houshiary on view at 201 Chrystie Street from 30 October – 28 December 2013.
New York, NY…Dominique Lévy is pleased to announce the second exhibition at her gallery's new home at 909 Madison Avenue. Opening to the public on November 23, 2013, Boris Mikhailov: Four Decades will explore the full career of one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. For over 30 years, Ukranian-born Mikhailov has investigated the fate of the individual within the framework of history, making life-size color photographs that reveal the ever-widening gulf between public ideology and private existence in post-communist Eastern Europe. Deeply rooted in the tradition of social study and commentary, Mikhailov's work locates its power in deep engagement with its subjects. His works are portraits that draw the viewer into a world of humor, lust, vulnerability, survival, aging, and death -- a realm that is foreign and specific, but somehow disturbingly close.
NEW YORK.... Sculptor, painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer, the renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) was above all a master engineer of shifting lines and dancing shadows. After visiting Piet Mondrian's studio in 1930, Calder began the experiments with abstract construction that would come to define his oeuvre. He drew inspiration from the playful work of Joan Miro? and Paul Klee, and adopted the intuitive approach of the Surrealists, making hand- cranked and motorized kinetic sculptures that challenged the definition of sculpture as a form fixed in space and created a place for motion in the expressive vocabulary of art. Calder's mechanized works gave way to his mobiles and stabiles, sculptures whose disparate metal elements – made from bent wire and flat sheet metal cut-outs - were constructed with such masterful equipoise that their movements occurred naturally and unpredictably in response to the energy of the surrounding atmosphere. “How can art be realized?” Calder asked. “Out of volumes, motion, spaces bounded by the great space, the universe...Not extractions, but abstractions. Abstractions that are like nothing in life except in their manner of reacting.”
The Asia Society Hong Kong Center presents No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the first touring exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, from today, October 30, 2013, to February 16, 2014.
The Public Theater announced that Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare has joined the next Public Forum Drama Club, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy by Tony Kushner, on Sunday, November 3 at 7:00 p.m. at Joe's Pub, continuing the fourth season of PUBLIC FORUM.
Broadway veteran and Youtube sensation Todrick Hall just released his newest creation- a spin on CHICAGO's 'Cell Block Tango' that involves Disney's greatest villains. This special Halloween video features the talents of Adam Lambert, Shoshana Bean, Cassie Scerbo, Amber Riley, Blake McGrath, Kimberly Cole and Pia Toscano. Check out the spoof below!
FOX invites viewers to catch up or visit SLEEPY HOLLOW for the first time by watching the first five epic episodes online or on participating cable and telco providers nationwide.
TV One announced today that it will premiere 12 Years A Slave: A TV One Special with Cathy Hughes, a one hour program featuring a discussion with the film's director Steve McQueen and cast members Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o and Alfre Woodard.
CANTON, Ohio (October 29, 2013) — It's 1732 and Europe has a problem. Who better to bring it to a level of social consciousness than one of the greatest composers of all time – Johann Sebastian Bach? The issue is … coffee addiction!
The Asia Society Hong Kong Center presents No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the first touring exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, from October 30, 2013, to February 16, 2014. Featuring recent work by 13 artists from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, No Country presents some of the most challenging and inventive voices in South and Southeast Asia today.
The VSO offers a five-concert Today Masterworks series at the Flynn Center in Burlington, with additional select Sunday Matinee performances in Rutland (beginning at 3:00 pm). All Flynn concerts begin at 8:00 pm and are preceded at 7:00 pm by Musically Speaking, a free pre-concert discussion that provides entertaining insight into the evening's program.
CANTON, Ohio (October 24, 2013) — One of the legends of Canton Symphony Orchestra lore will be featured in the orchestra's upcoming November 3concert. Scott Johnston – 35-year veteran of the orchestra – highlights a Baroque-music-filled evening.
A TAVOLA: A PERFORMANCE was conceived to explore the multiplicity of everyday transactions which occur around the dining table - private, social, economic and cultural. With the A Tavola (to the table) series, Elke Solomon continues to pursue her interest in the intersection of the cultures of food and art. The event takes place tonight, October 23, 2013 at 7 p.m. at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC.
A TAVOLA: A PERFORMANCE was conceived to explore the multiplicity of everyday transactions which occur around the dining table - private, social, economic and cultural. With the A Tavola (to the table) series, Elke Solomon continues to pursue her interest in the intersection of the cultures of food and art. The event takes place on October 23, 2013 at 7 p.m. at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC.
Reuniting for the first time since Parade, Brooke Sunny Moriber and Emily Klein will premiere a duet from Love Quirks, whose studio cast recording is now available on iTunes. The audience can expect to hear 24 songs from Bisen-Hersh's catalog featuring material from Love Quirks, More to Love, Stanley's Party, Malka, If Adele Can Do It, So Can I and The Final Frontier... including 3 premieres! Songs will include 'Thanksgiving Day', 'It's Not You, It's Me', 'I'm Not Interested in You', 'I Like Big Girls', 'Dear Facebook', 'It's Not You, It's Me' and 'Can You Believe I Was Ever Sad We Broke Up?'.
Choreographer Jonah Bokaer, who has become increasingly recognized for his unique collaborations with emerging and established visual artists, filmmakers, and scientists, will present the world premiere of 'Occupant,' a work he created with his long-time collaborator, visual artist Daniel Arsham, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts during Art | Basel Miami, December 6-8. The dance will be seen in preview at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., November 8-10.
