Kissing is in the air, and not just because it’s spring and my allergies are attacking my face to death. No. Led by Tino Sehgal‘s “This Progress,” which opened at The Guggenheim back in January and featured “Kiss”, where exclusively male-female couples made out on the rotunda of the museum for like, all day, kissing [...]
About The Bacchae
I know it’s been a while since I threw down a bona-fide review around these parts. So I’m breaking silence with some thoughts on The Bacchae, which wraps up its run The Public Theater’s Shakespeare In The Park this week. (Warning: this may fall more under “rant”.) It’s also been a while since I had [...]
Killing The Family To Build The House
So, crap. Friday, Dan Wakin reports that our dear Brooklyn Philharmonic has canceled all of its concerts for this season, as well as “all of next season’s subscription concerts”. Ironically, the educational programs will still continue, since they still have funding from the government. This is the kind of crap that drives me insane. It’s [...]
“The Christ in Me” and “The Bagwell in Me”: A comparative analysis
Below, you will find a post that I prepared weeks ago but didn’t get around to finalizing. It’s a revisit to Ann Liv Young‘s “The Bagwell in Me.” It’s a kind of mega-rant, full of twists and turns, perversities, theories, doubts, and, as always, criticisms. I know this makes me officially obsessed with her work, [...]
To Do: Shameless Self-Promotion
Ten years after coming out, composer/performer/writer Ryan Tracy has one more thing to come clean about: His songwriting. Since 1998, Ryan has written over a dozen songs that chronicle his pursuit of the big gay life. But for inexplicable reasons, these songs have remained trapped in the closet: Until now! BIG RELEASE Original songs by [...]
ON CHINA PART 1: Three strikes…China’s out. Oh, and take NBC with you.
I’m taking a cue from L. Ro., who has this great post about Olympic culture on her WNYC blog. Because, I too, in theory, am a fan of the Olympics. I think, as a mechanism for global interaction that celebrates the feats of the human body, while fostering sportsmanship and appreciation of cultural differences, the [...]
Yay boundaries!
L. Ro. invites readers to join in a few different threads of confab over on The Culturist. One of them is on something I had written about the Murakami exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. My comment was that “Art, by definition, is false,” and to me, Murakami’s art was too real, or too much part [...]
Don’t Need No Hateration
Here’s more evidence of the campaign to oust atonality from the concert music scene. Bernard Holland reviews a concert of new piano music at Greenwich House. He writes: …something seemed to be whispering in my ear that the Dark Ages of postwar atonality were over and tentative reconnections to the past were under way. To [...]
A New Beginning
Dance Review: Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!” @ DTW There are gaps in Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!,” which had a reprise mounting last week at Dance Theater Workshop, having first run at P.S. 122 last spring. The work, a kind of anthropological rumination on human culture, uses theatricality to isolate activities from their real-world, analogous contexts, [...]
Ann Liv Young: First Responder
A loyal reader sent in this email about an event that took place at the opening of the Center for Performance Research… OMG, C.C.! Do you believe what happened Saturday night? I’m still recovering. I’m hoping you’ll post my account of events, even though I‘m sure you’ll do your own. Anyway… So WTF did you [...]
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