Lookback: on hanging a new piece of art
From 2004: It happens that I've just acquired a new piece for the Teachout Museum, a copy of Fairfield Porter's...
From 2004: It happens that I've just acquired a new piece for the Teachout Museum, a copy of Fairfield Porter's...
By Jennifer Lane. Last week was one of those weeks where a handful of organizations decided to send out their rejections on the same day, a sort of "kick 'er while she's down" conspiracy. I'…
Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let's say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.
Playbill.com correspondent Ben Rimalower offers a list of productions that changed the art form of the Broadway musical.
COCA seeks new ways to illustrate the effect of what it does.
(Pictured: Alejandra Enciso Guzmán. The following post is part of a series highlighting and celebrating the theatres and theatre people of San Diego as part of the 2014 TCG National…
Many works being staged at opera houses are considered hybrids of operas and musicals as box office intake sags and producers strive to lure bigger audiences.
I walked, gingerly, into the North Melbourne Town Hall late on Saturday afternoon with absolutely no idea what to expect. It was week two of Melbourne's first Festival of Live Art (FOLA). We…
The theater's new digital home is made possible by a grant from The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.
From 2004: I do think, however, that under the aspect of modernism, we're taught to distrust happiness, at least as...
“What’s the point of doing amazing art if no one understands it or if audiences don’t have a way to get into it,” says dancer Andrae Gonzalo. “If it’s fun…
Ethnic stereotyping is popular culture's original sin, and it's proving a hard one to shed. Look no further than the uproar over last weekend's production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie'' a…
In a commendable group show, five young artists mash up history, art, science and technology.
Get your taste buds ready! The ever-popular public radio series Selected Shorts returns for a weekend of live performances at the Getty by celebrity readers, offering stories revolving aroun…
The homeowner claims the toilets hanging in a tree are art and will also serve as bird-feeders.Â
Theatre Hall of Fame honoree and legendary Broadway star Betty Buckley will be offering a three month Spring Intensive Song Interpretation Workshop at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth beg…
Doug Borwick has a new post (inspired by comments made by Lyz Crane at the Creative Placemaking Summit) on the "central disconnect" between arts organizations and community engagement. Th…
An illuminating show of drawings and paintings at Walker Art Center spans his 60-year career.
“Keep in mind that I’m an artist, and I’m sensitive about my shit.” "Erykah Badu Come and see Kristy Sandoval's newest art pieces at Mykes Café in the Valley this…
Matt Doyle, who recently starred in the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon, will star in the New York premiere of Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's Jasper in Deadland …
Panorama was losing more than $5,000 a week.
In conjunction with the opening of Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue at the BMA, MICA hosted a multimedia screening of her film Psychopompe with live music. At first, the band, led by compo…