Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
May 6, 2013, 7:43 am
Antony Hegarty, the multidisciplinary artist best known as the androgynous, velvet-voiced frontman of the avant-pop outfit Antony and the Johnsons, is currently in residence at the alternative art space Clocktower Gallery, preparing for a solo show of drawings, sculptures, and collages opening at Sikkema Jenkins Co. on Friday, May 31. The exhibition is loosely based on a poem written by the artist titled “The Cut,” which, according to the Sikkema Jenkins press release, “describes the source of creation as a slit in the sky.” (more…)
Tags: antony hegarty, Chloe Wyma, News, Sikkema Jenkins Co., Tim Goossens
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May 1, 2013, 12:17 pm
When we think of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, what comes to mind is neo-classical aesthetics and serious art. So it came as something of a surprise to hear that on September 28, avant-garde composer John Zorn, a fixture of the downtown music scene of the 1970s, would be giving a live performance in one of the museum’s galleries. But so it is. Just a few days after the musician’s 60th birthday, The New York Times reports, the museum will devote an entire day to Zorn with 11 concerts in 11 galleries. (more…)
Tags: David Longstreth, Dirty Projectors, John Zorn, Limor Tomer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, News, Rozalia Jovanovic
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April 20, 2013, 2:27 pm
In conjunction with Urs Fischer’s survey at LA MOCA, Imitation of Christ designer Tara Subkoff’s, filmmaker Tatiana Von Furstenburg, and indie star Chloë Sevigny joined forced to produce a short film for MOCAtv. (more…)
Tags: Chloe Sevigny, Chloe Wyma, LA MOCA, News, Tara Subkoff, Tatiana Von Furstenburg
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April 18, 2013, 10:44 am
When Edgar Degas made the small, plaster cast replica of a ballerina clad in real ribbons, a tutu, and striking an attentive dancer’s pose, he likely never thought the story of his sculpture would finds its way to the stage. Now Tony Award-winning songwriters Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (of “Ragtime” fame) are teaming up with Susan Stroman (“The Producers”) for October 2014’s “Little Dancer.” The New York Times reports that the show, to be performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, is the fictional story of Degas’s Marie, and set within the Paris Opera Ballet. (more…)
Tags: Alanna Martinez, ballet, Edgar Degas, Musicals, News, Sculpture, Theater
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April 12, 2013, 2:04 pm
Kalup Linzy is preparing for a multi-part performance event that will be rolled out over the next few weeks and will include a feature film, “Romantic Loner” (see trailer below), which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival and stars artists like Dan Colen and Nate Lowman, a live performance “version” of the film at MoMA PS1, and a full R&B soundtrack featuring a few syrupy tracks with James Franco. (more…)
Tags: Dan Colen, James Franco, Kalup Linzy, MoMA PS1, Nate Lowman, News, Rozalia Jovanovic, Tribeca Film Festival
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April 3, 2013, 1:30 pm
Sotheby’s announced today that it will offer Fernand Léger’s 1921 canvas “Trois femmes à la table rouge” (est. $5-7 million) at the Impressionist and modern auction in New York on May 7. The work is being consigned by none other than pop singer extraordinaire Madonna, who bought the painting at Sotheby’s New York back in 1990 for a little over $3 million — at a time when Léger was as en “Vogue” as she was. (more…)
Tags: Léger, Madonna, News, Shane Ferro, Sotheby's
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March 21, 2013, 7:41 am
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) draws the line at glam rock, apparently: While it prepares to open its pre-sale blockbuster “David Bowie Is” on Saturday, it has canceled a performance by grindcore outfit Napalm Death for fear that vibrations from the performance’s loud music — a collaboration with V&A ceramicist-in-residence Keith Harrison — would cause artifacts to fall over or off their wall mountings. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Keith Harrison, Napalm Death, News, Victoria and Albert Museum
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March 6, 2013, 6:40 pm
“I feel very uncultured,” Adam Driver, the actor best known for portraying love interest Adam Sackler on the HBO series “Girls,” told ARTINFO Tuesday night. We spotted him at the opening of SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the curator-driven Soho art fair that takes place inside a former elementary school, although he doesn’t claim to frequent “events like this.” (more…)
Tags: Adam Driver, Armory Week, Art Fairs, Arts in the Armed Forces, Girls, Janelle Zara, Spring/Break Art Show
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February 11, 2013, 9:43 am
It should come as no surprise that the forthcoming Starz series “Da Vinci’s Demons,” which premieres on the cable channel on April 12, was created by the co-writer of “The Dark Knight Rises” David S. Goyer, because judging by the show’s trailer (embedded below) it portrays the Florentine artist and inventor as something between a superhero, a Holmesian detective, and his namesake Ninja Turtle. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Da Vinci's Demons, Leonardo da Vinci, News, Starz, Video
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February 3, 2013, 9:54 pm
ARTINFO loves a good Destiny’s Child reunion as much as anyone, but we were even more enamored with the light art covering the stage. It’s not clear if the work was created by the so-called Super Bowl Light Master, who was profiled in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, or another artist. (more…)
Tags: Light Art, Super Bowl
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