Time Out featured ERPA recipient Conni's Avant-Garde Restaurant this week. This weekend's show is apparently sold out (I'll be eating there Sunday, March 1st!) so get your tickets now for their next gig, April 24 and 25.
Eat it and don't weep.
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Call in theater?
Pay $15, get a key to a private room and a cell phone, close the door behind you and ...?? get a call from Calcutta? is it theater, is it phone sex porn, or is it yet another provocatively inspired marketing attempt to get audiences to the theater? Maybe it's all three: "Call Cutta in a Box" at the Goethe Institute is by award-winning theater experimenters Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel) and it's getting attention, press and audiences. In this competitive theater scene, it's a win win win.
You be the judge.
Meanwhile, I'm getting me a ticket. I wanna see for myself.
Through Feb 27 at the Goethe Institute.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Does New York care about the arts? Part 2
Last week The Field testified at a City Council hearing on "Best Practices" in the arts economy. One of my favorite local heroes, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli testified too.
As Morgan says so uber-articulately: "I worry, that [these} artists, who make New York City a flourishing bastion of cultural progression and economic innovation, may disappear not because their art is worthless, but because they can’t hire people with MBAs and marketing degrees to sell their art for them."
Does New York care about the arts? Part 1
No and Yes.
The Honorable Senator Charles Schumer voted FOR Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) amendment excluding the arts from the Economic Stimulus Bill. Did you hear me? Schumer voted that the arts should not get any $$$$ in the Bill.
This is outrageous. We need to tell him that is outrageous.
Tell the Senate that you support the arts in the ESBill. Do it now! Time is a-wasting!
Tuesday 2/17 at 6:30pm: come say it out loud and listen to our local politicians talk about $$ and the arts. Thanks to ART/NY for always pushing the advocacy envelope.
I'll be there...
The Honorable Senator Charles Schumer voted FOR Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) amendment excluding the arts from the Economic Stimulus Bill. Did you hear me? Schumer voted that the arts should not get any $$$$ in the Bill.
This is outrageous. We need to tell him that is outrageous.
Tell the Senate that you support the arts in the ESBill. Do it now! Time is a-wasting!
Tuesday 2/17 at 6:30pm: come say it out loud and listen to our local politicians talk about $$ and the arts. Thanks to ART/NY for always pushing the advocacy envelope.
I'll be there...
Monday, February 9, 2009
Investor model for art?
Trust Art? an innovative way to support artistic entrepreneurs AND to make some money yourself? I love it. Will it work? I have my usual skeptical questions: Who are these investors? How will they find Trust Art? Will they invest sight unseen in any of the sponsored projects because they love and trust Trust Art? We'll watch and wait (and hope!)
It just so happens that one of The Field's Members, Propel-Her dance collective, is one of Trust Art's inaugural recipients. (FYI: We had ZERO to do with Propel-Her's selection for Trust Art! The Field doesn't curate and we don't play favorites! )
And from the same folks at Trust Art:
Making artistic innovators famous? It seems a wee odd to me that the folks ranked as having "artistic capital" also have "society/philanthropic capital" but then in certain circles I suppose art = wealth = society (not in our circles but ok!)
It just so happens that one of The Field's Members, Propel-Her dance collective, is one of Trust Art's inaugural recipients. (FYI: We had ZERO to do with Propel-Her's selection for Trust Art! The Field doesn't curate and we don't play favorites! )
And from the same folks at Trust Art:
Making artistic innovators famous? It seems a wee odd to me that the folks ranked as having "artistic capital" also have "society/philanthropic capital" but then in certain circles I suppose art = wealth = society (not in our circles but ok!)
Friday, February 6, 2009
Senator thinks the arts are a waste? TAKE ACTION
from the astute Thomas Cott of You've Cott Mail (the #1 go to guy in the arts!)
TAKE ACTION NOW!!!
E-mail your Senator this morning
Posted on Stage-directions.com, 2/5/09
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has introduced an amendment to the $800+ billion stimulus package before Congress that would deny any "community park, museum, theater," or "arts center" from receiving any money to use for "renovation, remodeling, construction, salaries, furniture" or "rotating pastel lights" among other items. If this amendment passed, theaters and arts organizations could expect to receive no money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009. The amendment was introduced before Congress Feb. 3 and is still being considered. An aide at Senator Coburn's office in Washington D.C. did not know the status of the amendment when reached for comment shortly after Noon (PST) on Thursday, Feb. 5, so it has not passed as of then. In order to defend art's place in our nation's policy and defeat the amendment, the American Arts Alliance has set up an action page with a sample letter voters can use to write their Senators and voice their disapproval.
TAKE ACTION NOW!!!
E-mail your Senator this morning
Posted on Stage-directions.com, 2/5/09
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has introduced an amendment to the $800+ billion stimulus package before Congress that would deny any "community park, museum, theater," or "arts center" from receiving any money to use for "renovation, remodeling, construction, salaries, furniture" or "rotating pastel lights" among other items. If this amendment passed, theaters and arts organizations could expect to receive no money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009. The amendment was introduced before Congress Feb. 3 and is still being considered. An aide at Senator Coburn's office in Washington D.C. did not know the status of the amendment when reached for comment shortly after Noon (PST) on Thursday, Feb. 5, so it has not passed as of then. In order to defend art's place in our nation's policy and defeat the amendment, the American Arts Alliance has set up an action page with a sample letter voters can use to write their Senators and voice their disapproval.
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