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Fused plastic and acrylic portraits of abstractions by Paula Maratea Fuld at Gallery 110.
Seattle’s lively gallery scene fires the imagination with innovative takes on well-worn artistic genres and edgy reinventions of cultural clichés. Here’s how some of our favorite galleries are turning art on its head in the coming weeks.
Portraits Redux
Gallery 110 (110 3rd Ave. S) is hosting a double exhibition now through June 2 that shakes up the …more…
These days it’s possible for any jerk with a Fender Squier, a peace button for a pick and a bootleg copy of Garage Band to create a CD. And wading through the mountains of discordant dreck to find that one diamond in the rough can be daunting, if not downright depressing.
But every once in a blue moon a real gem shines through the dense strata of muck. Such is the …more…
Amina Figarova (from AminaFigarova.com, photo by Joke Schot)
NYC via Rotterdam via Azerbaijan. Figure that one out.
The prolific jazz pianist Amina Figarova is releasing a new album with her sextet titled simply Twelve (In + Out, 2012). As a self-proclaimed citizen of the world, Figarova recently moved from Europe to the quaint neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens in NYC. Having been dragged kicking and screaming all the way out that …more…
On the right when you enter the exhibit George Deem: The Art of Art History at the Boston Athenaeum, there is a very large map of the coast of a foreign land. Looking closer, you see that this is not an ordinary hand-drawn or printed map done in ink, and it is not on paper or parchment as it appears to be at first glance. Instead, it’s mixed media – …more…
For my next adventure into new art realms in Washington D.C., I decided to drop by a place called the “Fridge.” After weaving through some tricky DC traffic, I ended up parking the car and walked along some pleasant streets in a neighborhood southeast of the U.S. Capitol Building. I ended up in an alleyway, facing a colorfully-painted building. A small, swinging orange sign read: The Fridge.
The Fridge is a …more…
Liss Fain Dance
Founded in Boston in 1988, Liss Fain Dance makes its home in San Francisco , with local performances at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Z Space. Besides proscenium work, the company also performs in on-site venues, as well as within installation creations that enhance the already evocative material that is signature to Ms. Fain’s vision.
Abstract, dynamic, emotional, fluid, and highly intelligent, LFD presents non-narrative …more…
Today, May 18th, is Art Museum Day. Across the US and Canada, over 120 institutions are offering free admission—including the Detroit Institute of Arts. An initiative of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), Art Museum Day coincides with International Museum Day, an annual event organized by the International Council of Museums. Both events emphasize the importance museums have in society, while at the same time showing appreciation to patrons …more…
Now on display at the Portland Art Museum (Portland, Oregon) through August 5, 2012 are five works by Monet. The Museum has supplemented two of Monet’s paintings from its permanent collection, Waterlilies and River at Lavacourt, with three works from a private collection to stage this special showing entitled “Five Monets / 100 Days.”
The five paintings cover a 25-year period of Monet’s career and show his development as an artist …more…
Life isn’t easy as a Joss Whedon fan. In fact, we’ve gotten a lot of flack over the years. We’ve been made fun of by people who didn’t believe that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is truly one of the best shows of all time (which it is). We’ve watched the poor man go from one great TV project to the next only to face one cancellation after another. But, now …more…
The Omaha Summer Arts Festival is scheduled for June 8, 9, and 10th downtown at the Gene Leahy Mall. If you’ve attended this festival in years past then you already know what a great time it is, but do you know that you can be an intricate part of making it happen? You already know you’re going to go, so why not volunteer to help out?
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Dancers Tzu-Chao Chu and Lana Jones in Dyad
Presenting approximately 200 performances each year throughout Australia, this full-time ensemble company comes to New York in June with three varied programs on the roster:
Dyad, a ballet choreographed by Wayne McGregor to Steve Reich’s Double Sextet is a tribute to the Ballet Russes. In black and white, this piece has been hailed as both complex and fascinating by the Australian press.
Warumuk …more…
Seattle’s innovative improv comedy company, Wing-It Productions, home of Jet City Improv, will host “Laugh for the Future”, their 20th anniversary bash this Saturday at Hotel Deca in the U-District. Featuring free beer, wine, hors d’ourves and entertainment by the Jet City player, the troupe will look at the past 20 years and look forward to the next 20.
The troupe’s social media currently features “blasts from the past” – video, …more…
With most of Seattle’s classical scene done with or about to close out their seasons, things are about to get even busier as we move into our summer activities. It is even harder to choose what to hear and what to do when concerts and workshops operate cheek-by-jowl and overlap. In fact, it is almost (but never quite) too much of a good thing.
Two annual activities are back again, though …more…
There is nothing more satisfying than when art bleeds with culinary brilliance. It is an indulgence for the senses that shouldn’t be skipped. In Gustave Blanche III’s exhibit of paintings showcasing long-time chef Leah Chase, a slice of Louisiana’s food history is preserved. Wearing her signature pink hat and seen slicing and dicing various colorful vegetables, the onlooker can’t help but be swept up in the long standing history of …more…
Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick in NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (Photo: Joan Marcus)
In my last ArtsAmerica blog entry, I wrote about what I consider to be an unfortunate omission from the list of this year’s Tony Award nominees for Best Play: David Auburn’s The Columnist. Now I’d like to call attention to an unfortunate inclusion among the nominees for Best Musical: Nice Work If You Can …more…
There’s no doubt about it: Onstage Atlanta, the area’s premier semi-professional theater company, chose an opportune moment to stage John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. President Barack Obama’s recent statement in support of the concept of gay marriage (following the passage of an amendment in North Carolina defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman) has again raised the thorny issue of how we regard the gay …more…
The great blues singer Bessie Smith is getting a revival at St. Luke’s Theatre, an intimate Off-Broadway venue on West 46th Street, thanks to a powerhouse performance by Miche Braden in The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith. With no more than a pointed look and a swish of the hips, the Drama Desk Award-nominated Braden commands the room the minute she enters. And it doesn’t hurt …more…
Photo of Mater Matrix Mother and Medium multimedia performance by Rodrigo Valenzuela.
An intricate 250-foot fiber web of brilliant blue and white flows around the Alki Courtyard at Seattle Center, just north of Key Arena—Mater Matrix Mother and Medium, an ever-evolving art installation by Seattle-based multi-disciplinary artist Mandy Greer. The crocheted river twists and winds its way around columns and trees, rising up to 15 feet overhead.
This masterpiece also formed …more…
Although Detroit is known for drawing some high-end shows – especially some of the best of Broadway – there also are some amazing community theaters in the area.
One such group is the Grosse Pointe Theatre. Over the past 60 years, the small tribe of thespians who make up this local studio have put on a variety of productions from “Arsenic and Old Lace” to “Kismet” to “Little Shop of Horrors.” …more…
This weekend the Simsbury ArtWalk will take place from 11am-5pm in the center of the town on Hopmeadow Street (Route 10). This will be the first ever ArtWalk, and will not only display the talent of local artists but also will benefit the Simsbury ABC House, a nonprofit that provides education and aid to young men in disadvantaged school districts. Not only can you experience the wonderful work of local …more…
“I stuck my neck out,” late Old Globe Theatre founding artistic director R. Craig Noel said in 2003, “and I’ve been terribly stubborn about it.” He was referring to the return of Shakespeare repertory at the Globe, which suspended in 1984 after 35 years—too many actors had been lured away by the considerable monetary prospects in television and film.
Since the Globe’s 2004 reopening of its Summer Shakespeare Festival, Noel’s gamble …more…
Every May 8, Sherri Mandell and her family visit a desert cave in Tekoa, Israel, where they spend the night. In this case, “family” is only as real as a mother’s memories and as imaginary as the departure of a human soul—for on May 8, 2001, Mandell’s 13-year-old son Koby was murdered in that grotto in an act attributed to Palestinian terrorists. Life’s somewhat more manageable now, with Mandell a …more…
Deborah L. Sherman and Steve Garland ( Pic by George Schiavone)
The GableStage presents the Southeastern Premiere of the play Time Stands Still from May 5th – June 3rd at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies, the 2010 Broadway production was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for Laura Linney.
The …more…
The 2011-2012 Houston Symphony classical season is ending on a high note with conductor Hans Graf leading the orchestra in one the of the most famous cantatas ever composed, Carmina Burana.
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Written by German Carl Orff, Carmina Burana is based off of the 24 medieval poems in a collection with the same name. The poems range in subject matter from the joy of spring, the fickleness of …more…
Last weekend the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra carried off a busy schedule. This included a double bill with superb renditions of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 and the Shostakovich Symphony No 15 as well as a well-attended free public concert at Champions Square adjacent to the Mercedez Benz Superdome featuring jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins.
Maestro Carlos Miguel Prieto picks up his baton this Saturday night (©Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra)
Artistic director and maestro …more…
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