1001, Jason Grote's theatrical reinvention of The Arabian Nights, opens tonight in Boston, in a production by the adventurous Company One. Mr. Grote, who has family ties to Massachusetts, is a Brooklyn-based playwright/screenwriter and a past reviewer for our Artist Fellowships. Intrigued by the writer and his new production in Boston, we poked our nose into his business … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2011
Studio Views: Ariel Freiberg
Ariel Freiberg's paintings intrigue and implore, exaggerate and embellish, all the while eliciting "a bit of an adrenaline rush." Here, she invites us into her studio - and as collaborators on her new project. My Dream Harvester community arts project is an open forum for accounts of dreams from slumber or wished aspirations. Dream Harvester and I will be live and dreaming … [Read more...]
Are You “Dance-Curious”?
Whether you are a choreographer, dancer, figure painter, lover of archival images, or just "dance-curious", Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive is for you. They have collected film and video footage of human bodies in exquisite motion performing at Jacob's Pillow from the late 1930's to the present. You can really sense the trajectory of dance (and fashion and music) through the … [Read more...]
Going for the Gold
You might view the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan story as a key to understanding the scandal-devouring nature of American culture - a kind of tabloid Rosetta Stone. Or you might view it as an occasion to rock. In either case, you'd be right: Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera, returns the the A.R.T.'s Club Oberon in Cambridge for six performances July 18-21, 2011. In early … [Read more...]
Artist Opportunities Beneath the Creaking Floor
Public Art Arise from the dark all you spooky, funky, goth-loving artists who own nothing in pastel shades. The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston is now accepting proposals from artists, artisans and/or designers to develop public artwork(s) celebrating Poe and his creative work. The site is Edgar Allan Poe Square in Boston and is a roughly triangular brick paved plaza of … [Read more...]