What a poor self-initiated restoration job undertaken by an old Spanish woman can tell us about art as a vital part of our daily lives
SOURCE: Culturebot at 05:02PMEditorial Intern Culturebot is looking for an editorial intern in New York to help with editorial tasks centered on covering the fall season. The role like requires 8-10 hours of work…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:07PMA new Bravo reality show about wannabe gallerists invites the art world to firmly turn the Gaze toward its own navel
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:42PMParsing Richard Dare's well-reasoned rant on HuffPo to get to the nitty-gritty of what he really means: That art is like black jelly beans no one wants to eat like vegetables except that veg…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 02:26PMLucy Sexton responds to Gia Kourlas--and the field's--critique of this year's Bessie categories, but fails to grapple with the root cause
SOURCE: Culturebot at 11:21AMThis year's Bessie nominees--and the torturous categories into which they've been placed
SOURCE: Culturebot at 02:24PMThe artist talks about her coming up in Shanghai and her first full-length work
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:46PMOne of the core members of Portland's Hand2Mouth discusses creating a performance-memoir of her grandmother's life, playing at 59E59 Theaters this month
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:03PM"I used to say this all the time: the ideal Brechtian space is not a theater, it's a gallery. A gallery alienates everything."
SOURCE: Culturebot at 03:50PMMac Wellman is not only a legend of the experimental theater scene but lynchpin of the downtown scene through his role at the playwrighting MFA program at Brooklyn College. Along with the Wo…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:51PMDD Dorvillier, Brian Rogers, Faustin Linyekula, and David Levine join us for the 2012 Crossing the Line Festival, this September
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:25AMAlec Duffy & co. tackle Bertolt Brecht's juvenilia in their first show at their recently opened Clinton Hill art space
SOURCE: Culturebot at 09:37PMThe subversive arts collective appropriates the frame of Luther's 95 Theses in a video on art workers, art-making, and class
SOURCE: Culturebot at 11:24AMOr, things I learned from several months' consideration of Everywhere Theater Group's "Flying Snakes in 3d!!"
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:29AMAustin's Rude Mechs return to the roots by reviving Richard Shechner's seminal "Dionysus in '69" this fall at NYLA
SOURCE: Culturebot at 04:44PMA controversy has erupted over whether a Washington, DC theater company made inappropriate use of the widely-toured 2009 piece "Americana Kamikaze"
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:31AMIn April, the editorial team behind Culturebot spend a week occupying part of Exit Art with a team of performing artists; here the artists recount their experiences
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:25PMAnd where we can look for alternative presentational aesthetics, with reference to Michael Kliën and Steve Valk
SOURCE: Culturebot at 04:49PMClaudia la Rocco talks her practice, Yussef el Guindi explains why he forsakes NYC for Seattle, & a Québécois theater-maker makes art out of conservative programming at big houses
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:16PMAn artist(?) toying with concepts of erotica and therapy gets rejected by the art world, a whole lot of free publicity, and raises some very interesting questions about the nature of art
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:37PMHelp support the 43 unionized art workers currently struggling to defend their right to collective bargaining against one of the leading auction houses in the world
SOURCE: Culturebot at 11:40PMFour Dublin-based dancers have formed a hypnotically catch art-pop band
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:39PMFriday, May 4 12:56 p.m. I’m sitting in the drowse-inducing warmth of the Festival Hub, about 10 minutes into Andy’s panel discussion on performance in context, and decided to ta…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 02:11PMDirector Grzegorz Jarzyna delivers an emotionally shaking experience in his adaptation of the Dogme 95 film
SOURCE: Culturebot at 07:14PMLive video from your iPhone using Ustream Welcome to Culturebot’s “Ephemeral Evidence” live, streaming part of each day from Exit Art, where we’re in residence April …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:36AMEarl Dax and Zvonimir Dobrovic bring a mind-blowing exploration of queer performance to NYC this June
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:39PMCaden Manson and Jemma Nelson talk about the company's newest work, which returns to Abrons after a brief run in January at American Realness 2012
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:08PMCome early opening night and watch Culturebot's own Jeremy Barker mime his prior coverage of this exciting company during the coffee talk
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:00PMThe trio of magicians who perform "Elephant Room" on working in community theater, performing in broken Japanese, and their upcoming appearance at Satan's Warehouse in Brooklyn
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:26PMForty years later, "performance" remains a dangerous concept
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:24AMIn "All Hands," opening this week at IAP, the Obie-winning company stages its largest exploration of how Americans stage community yet
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