Friday, February 8, 2013
If you have ever said that you create "socially engaged work," read this whole post.
If you have ever expressed frustration that public officials don't care about the arts, read this whole …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:10AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
I wish I could embed the video, but this NY1 gave me a spit-take -- a political consultant talking about small businesses in Manhattan (in context of the Manhattan Borough President race) me…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:48PMI don't write reviews about work in progress, so I will just say that I saw Soldier X by Rehana Mirza in development at the Lark Play Development Center, and that it was quite good and gripp…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 06:39PMTHE FIRE THIS TIME
FESTIVAL
JANUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 2 @ 85 EAST 4TH STREET
The best thing a short play festival can be is a sampler plate of excellent talent. For those who try to…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 06:33PMNEA's Chief of Staff Jamie Bennett, in an interview with Barry Hessenius:
In creative placemaking, an entirely different trope is substituted: you begin with a shared interest – often a p…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:29AMFrom Syracuse.com, a round-up of NY state funding that went out to art and culture organizations.
It includes: two jazz festivals and a conference, heating/venting/roof repair for a…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:27AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
From the legal case on behalf of the Defense of Marriage Act:
Congress recognized the basic biological fact that only a man and a woman can beget a child together without advance planning, …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:39PMSunday, January 27, 2013
This political season -- New York's 2013 city-wide election -- I'm going to be personally involved through the League of Independent Theaters. More details will come.
Today, however,…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 08:26PMSaturday, January 26, 2013
It's finally happened -- cinematographers are just using Instagram filters.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:57PMAnd just having hit "post" on the previous post, I came across this gem from Taylor Mac:
I believe you can make a living as a theater artist but in order to do so, without making work you …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:14PMDave Malloy, in Culturebot:
There is a difference between what is nice and what is deserved. I don’t think that art deserves money. Again, I take it when it is offered to me, I’ll ask …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:09PMFriday, January 25, 2013
"Dr. King would be proud to see our Global Strike team — comprised of Airmen, civilians and contractors from every race, creed, background and religion — standing side-by-side ensuring t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:59PMJohn Clancy lays out what "Independent" really means when we talk about "independent theater":
I am an independent theater artist.
I am constantly developing new work, my own and o…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:49PMSeems like the avant garde is in an arms race of running time.
When I saw The Lily's Revenge, I thought Taylor Mac did a great job managing it's five hour running time by breaking i…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:15AMMonday, January 21, 2013
Hey you -- yes, you. Fractured Atlas is one of the coolest places to work in America, and they do great work for the arts community. And they're also hiring two jobs, a program associate:
…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:20AMSunday, January 20, 2013
From the transcripts of the Federal Open Market Committee:
MR. FISHER: The situation remains real, but we've gone beyond suspended reality. If you will forgive me, you might say we have gon…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:20AMSaturday, January 19, 2013
A friend of mine from a long time ago was in town performing, and it reminded me how much I love her and her music. Enjoy.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:03PM Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker
Belarus Free Theatre
Theatre is a local art, but Belarus Free Theatre is one of the few companies with a truly world-wide reach. The reason is be…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:56PMFriday, January 11, 2013
In a particularly silly essay for the Wall Street Journal last week, critic Joseph Epstein wrote, “[Lyricist Yip] Harburg believed it was the political dimension ‘that Bernard Shaw added…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:21PMHand2Mouth's
SOMETHING'S GOT AHOLD OF MY HEART
Remaining performances:
January 10-19th
La Mama
Looking back at my recent reviews (like Heart Like Fists), it's clear that the young peo…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:01PMTuesday, December 25, 2012
I may be a producer, a performer, a director, and a writer (all at different times), but I am also someone else -- I'm a salesman of IT software to businesses. Yes, that's right, when I'm no…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 08:56PMSunday, December 23, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
If you were paying attention to the internet today, Instagram rolled out some upcoming changes to Terms and Conditions, and got slapped around because of the perception that it would allow t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:27PMSunday, December 16, 2012
Ray Mark Rinaldi writes in the Denver Post to describe the vacancy at the top of the NEA:
[Rocco Landesman's] departure gives President Obama a chance to put someone new in the job, a leade…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:50PMCool opportunity number one:
Fractured Atlas is seeking a full-time Program Specialist for a newly-created position. The Specialist will manage components of Archipelago, Fractured A…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:36PMIn addition to fundraising through Kickstarter/IndieGoGo, Kiva (the microlending organization) has a new thing called Kiva Zip, which they wrote about on Fractured Atlas' Blog:
Kiva Zip is …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:31PMLeah Hamilton at ArtsBlog asks "Has Endowment Become A Dirty Word?", by examining a successful model, the Springfield Arts Collaborative, which supports arts organizations the following:
Se…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:27PMIn the unsung-good-news department:
“DoD needs to demonstrate that it can improve the management of clandestine HUMINT before undertaking any further expansion,” the Senate Armed Servi…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:26PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
HEARTS LIKE FISTS
Flux Theatre Ensemble
at the Secret Theater
November 30 - December 15
Tues - Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 7pm
What's a heart? Fortitude? Love? Arteries to choke with donuts? I…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:56PMSaturday, December 8, 2012
It has been a great week here in New York for the internet reaching out and fostering human connection. First, thanks to Ian Moss for organizing Createquity Office Hours -- it was a gre…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:42AMSunday, December 2, 2012
By which I mean the Adam West feature film. After having read some pretty gritty late-Batman material (The Killing Joke, Knightfall, and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns), it's wo…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:16AM 
