Archive for the ‘ Visual Arts ’ Category
Mayor Bloomberg spoke yesterday at La MaMa’s Fiftieth Anniversary Gala at the Ellen Stewart Theater on East 4th Street, the block that is now renamed “Ellen Stewart Way.” Bloomberg talked about his first encounter in 2006 with Ellen’s driving visionary force, which made him hand over the building that was formerly called “the Annex” for [ READ MORE ]
Today, I received an alarming message from Jack Moore, founder and director of Videoheads – since 1966! “It looks like the end of Videoheads and their collection. After 45 years of work, play and accumulation, Videoheads is in great danger of disappearing. Various deals to sell our material or license it for publishing have been [ READ MORE ]
A new museum? A Lab? An art space, or factory – like Andy Warhol? A think tank? Or a community center? There’s a new hotspot in town. The new Serieuze Zaken is Amsterdam Arts Lab. This is the petri dish for creativity in Amsterdam West. It started as a merger of meneer de wit and [ READ MORE ]
Was that fabulous last night? Those of you who were there must agree. Laurie Anderson. Delusion. Finely worked jewels of personal short stories sprouted from the back of Laurie Anderson’s mind, interspersed with shards of music played on her electronic violin, backed up by arrays of sound bits. Laurie Anderson – in real life of [ READ MORE ]
RITSAERT IS DEAD . . . Art is money and money is art. Ritsaert ten Cate was aware of that. The fun thing about him was: he had money. He had the money and made an art form out of presenting, producing and creating the cutting edge in the (performing) arts. What’s even more fun: [ READ MORE ]
In a packed Melkweg space last Friday night the master of minimal music dazzled and mesmerized a conspicuously young audience with pieces from all stages of his illustrious career. Most of his listeners must have been born decades after Einstein on the Beach premiered in 1976. I perceived some chuckled reactions to the relentless repetitions [ READ MORE ]
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