Category: Current

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcelo Bettoni June 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] Edgard Varese in his studio in New York City, spring 1957, Courtesy of The New York Public Library Digital Collections [spacer height=”20px”] Edgard Varèse and the Jazzmen: The Avant-Garde That Anticipated Free Jazz [spacer height=”20px”] In the spring of 1957, while the jazz world was undergoing an aesthetic… Continue reading Edgard Varèse and the Jazzmen

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero June 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Kyle Booten Gyms Dispersed Holdings [spacer height=”20px”] Right now, few things are as talked about – or worried over – as the rise and sudden ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence. Rapid advances in generative AI naturally raise apocalyptic fears of the possibility of a self-sustaining technology for… Continue reading Kyle Booten: Gyms

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero May 2025 [spacer height=”40px”] The modern understanding of jokes begins in 1905. That was the year Freud published Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Freud’s account of jokes laid the foundation for how we think of jokes – what they are, how they work, what they really mean – and while… Continue reading The Art Blague as a Nonverbal Joke

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David May 2025 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”30px”] Audiences will be delighted to see the all too short run of The Threepenny Opera in Brooklyn directed by Barrie Kosky and presented by BAM and St. Ann’s Warehouse at the Howard Gilman Opera House. The Threepenny Opera has a long and powerful history. Having  premiered at the Berliner… Continue reading The Threepenny Opera

[spacer height=”10px”] Randee SilvApril 2025 [spacer height=”40px”]   [spacer height=”40px”] Anne, could you tell us more about your project The Dread Path of Fire?  What motivated you? What inspired you? I wrote the score for The Dread Path of Fire after watching Dune (2021). Its rhythm mimicked the loping, reaching quality of that movie—an epic… Continue reading Conversing with Anne Lesley Selcer

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero April 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino Theatreland ē· rā/ tiō editions 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Let me start from the beginning, with the opening lines from “History,” the first poem in Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino’s collection Theatreland: [spacer height=”10px”] to wish to pause and planning, planning to return are… Continue reading Theatreland: Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Randee Silv April 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Encounters shift depending on where you stand. Shades of colors of light. Of forms. Motion merges. Edges merge. Interpretations. Responses unfold. Reflections mirrored. Your reactions. My reactions. To be witnessed. To be unveiled. Dialogues enter. Re-enter. Surfaces provoke questions with no answers. Answers with no questions.… Continue reading Ethel Schwabacher

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus DavidMarch 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] By Lisa Sanaye Dring  A co-production of Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse  Directed by Ralph B. Peña  [spacer height=”20px”] “Step into the intense world of sumo wrestling with “SUMO,” a powerful play by Tow Playwright-in-Residence Lisa Sanaye Dring. Set in a sumo stable, this gripping drama follows… Continue reading Sumo@The Public Theater

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero February 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] The Missing Pieces by Henri Lefebvre translated by David Sweet SEMIOTEXT(E) [spacer height=”20px”] There’s a scene in Dubravka Ugrešić’s comic novel Fording the Stream of Consciousness where Jean-Paul Flagus, a French writer, entertains a group of his fellow writers at an international conference by recounting incidents… Continue reading Lost & Found: The Missing Pieces

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David February 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] photo courtesy of Emilio Madrid [spacer height=”20px”] The Antiquities The Judy Theater January 11 – March 2, 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] The Antiquities offers us a spectacular and chilling glimpse into the nightmarish fall of mankind. Written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison, and directed by David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan, The… Continue reading Review: The Antiquities

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Julia Kooi Talen January 2025 [spacer height=”40px”]At this moment I am free [spacer height=”20px”] Amy Saikia Wilson is a visual artist whose work mostly lives as sculpture and installation. Her practice is an act of sharing inconclusive narratives with themes that span instinct and the unconscious, the body and complex trauma, human connection and… Continue reading Interview with Artist Amy Saikia Wilson

[spacer height=”0.1px”]January 2025 Daniel Barbiero [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”30px”] In the Preface to Love in the Age of Loneliness, his new collection of poetry, Bill Pendergraft quotes evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson to the effect that the human predicament peculiar to the present age is the product of our having “Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and… Continue reading Love in the Age of Loneliness

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Tim Gaze January 2025 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Kernels is a compilation of previously published short books, focusing on my abstract black and white creations. 3 of these series purely use the technique of decalcomania.  I consider myself to be a writer more than a visual artist. The title Kernels was my attempt to… Continue reading Kernels

[spacer height=”0.1px”]December 2024 Marcus David [spacer height=”40px”] [spacer height=”40px”] 300 Paintings Created and performed by SAM KISSAJUKIAN Vineyard Theater, Manhattan [spacer height=”20px”] There has always been a fascinating connection between mental illness and art. When an artist is creating under the influence of madness, we as an audience often take notice with anticipation. We are… Continue reading “300 Paintings” Sam Kissajukian

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero November 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Monet, Sunrise, 1872. Oil on canvas, 48 × 63 cm. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris [spacer height=”20px”] Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment, an exhibition jointly organized by the US National Gallery of Art and the Musée d’Orsay of Paris, brings together work from two opposed sides of late 19th… Continue reading Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland November 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] still photo from Agraj Nagarkoti’s performance “The Transitional Being” [spacer height=”20px”] I met Agraj Nagarkoti in my performance art workshop at National Institute of Design. As a student in the Master of Photography and Design program at NID, Nagarkoti explores themes of gender identity, incorporating performance into her… Continue reading Interview with Agraj Nagarkoti

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero October 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Dominique Noguez The Three Rimbauds translated by Seth Whidden Seagull Books [spacer height=”20px”] Do we need another Rimbaud? Now, even one hundred and fifty years after he stopped writing poetry? It’s a question his long afterlife keeps open. At the moment he ceased to be a… Continue reading A Counterfactual Rimbaud

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David November 2024 [spacer height=”40px”] [spacer height=”40px”] ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE returns to The Public for a thrilling final New York City encore of its critically acclaimed production of GATZ and if you haven’t this is your last chance to see this theatrical and literary tour de force by one of the American theater’s most… Continue reading “GATZ” at the Public Theater

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David December 2024 [spacer height=”40px”] [spacer height=”40px”] La MaMa, in partnership with The Polish Cultural Institute of NY, proudly presents The Books of Jacob / Part II, a grand experiment in form which combines, not only, the real stage with virtual reality, but also takes us around the world with a synchronized performance… Continue reading The Books of Jacob / Part II

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero September 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Remedios Varo, Carta de tarot (Tarot Card), 1957. Oil on bone; 12 × 5.4 cm (4 3/4 × 2 1/8 in.) [spacer height=”20px”] Among the later works of the painter, sometime Surrealist, and esoteric visionary Remedios Varo is a mysterious painting of 1957 simply titled Tarot Card. The painting… Continue reading Remedios Varo’s “Tarot Card”

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David November 2024 [spacer height=”40px”] [spacer height=”60px”] Attention! The Devil is loose in Moscow and fortunately for us Theater 86 is extending its run of their critically acclaimed adaption of Master and Margarita to include 16 performances in January of 2025. For fans of the beloved novel by Mikhail Bulgakov this is a… Continue reading Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita at Theater 86

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David October 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] The Mulberry Tree: A Play About Loyalty and Loss, Set in Historic Palestine Directed by Alexandra Aron Written by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast [spacer height=”20px”] “Despite the current circumstances, there was a time not too long ago in Palestine when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived… Continue reading The Mulberry Tree @ La MaMa

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland October 2024 [spacer height=”50px”] [spacer height=”30px”] As part of my Fulbright Scholar experience in India, I had the great pleasure to teach performance art to Photography Masters students at the National Institute of Design in Gandhinager, India. NID is the most highly selective art and design school in the country and photography… Continue reading The Value of Performance Art Within A Discipline-Based Arts Education

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland August 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Mix media Installation:सुबह  का इंतजार, Waiting for the Dawn, Mera Kamra l (03:57 min), A Letter to My Mother (03:33 min), Mera Kamra ll (01:40 Min), 5-6 color woodcut prints, stop-motion animation using woodcut prints, Projection on the wall and platform, Vibration bass, AMP, wire and plywood platform,… Continue reading Interview with Janhavi Khemka

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David October 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”30px”] Ivo Dimchev needs our help and the stakes could not be any higher. What is at stake, you might ask…well, nothing short of a grammy award. Yes, thats right, Ivo is going for the Grammy and he will get one. How do I know, well, a… Continue reading “Paradise Gone” at La Mama 

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David November 2024 [spacer height=”60px”] [spacer height=”60px”] This season La Mama celebrates 20 years of puppet programming with a fresh crop of creative new theatre works showcasing a vast array of puppet artists from diverse backgrounds. Pushing boundaries has always the aim of experimental theater and by bringing us these thoughtfully crafted shows with innovative… Continue reading Review: La Mama Puppet Festival 2024

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland September 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”30px”] I first learned about The Alternative Art School (TAAS) during the pandemic. One of my favorite artists–Janine Antoni posted about teaching there. In 2022, I signed up for my first online course with Amber Imrie on Artists and Social Media. Over the next two years, I’ve… Continue reading The Alternative Art School (TAAS)

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero July 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Dale Tracy, Gnomics above/ground press, 2024 [spacer height=”10px”] “Gnomics” is the name that poet Dale Tracy has given to the twenty-four short poems that make up the content of her new chapbook of that title. A gnomic utterance is a short, condensed statement of a universal… Continue reading Dale Tracy, Gnomics: Review

[spacer height=”0.1px”] Colette Copeland July 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] Dream 6 – The Ship, from the series ‘In Dream—Between Fact and Fiction’, Digital PhotoMontage – also translated to Gum Bichromate Print, 2023 [spacer height=”30px”] I met Delhi artist Aditi Aggarwal in an online class facilitated by renowned artists RAQS Media Collective at The Alternative Art School.… Continue reading Interview with Aditi Aggarwal

[spacer height=”0.1px”]July 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”30px”] BUREAU OF SENSORY AFFAIRS Study #4, Light Affect [spacer height=”20px”] The Bureau of Sensory Affairs (BSA) is an institution dedicated to sensory experimentation. Based in Washington, DC, and co-chaired by Alma Laprida and Nate Scheible, its mission is to provide a platform for research into the limits of… Continue reading Bureau of Sensory Affairs