¡A La Máquina! Isea’s Here. The 2012 International Symposium on Electronic Art is soon to raise its glittering, vibrating, chattering, clicking form over the city. It has the [...] Margaret Wright \ Sep 13, 2012 Read More
Culture Shock: Folk Yeah “Sesame Street” was was like a third older brother to me as I was growing up—around for short periods to give my parents [...] Clifford Grindstaff \ Sep 06, 2012 Read More (Courtesy of OFFCenter Community Arts)
Distro Inferno: The Hot Alibi Artboxes Of 2012 The Hot Boxes Of 2012 Last year saw the advent of the first-ever Operation Artbox contest. Then-Arts Editor Summer Olsson and Circulation Manager Geoffrey Plant launched this remarkable [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 06, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: To Grandmother’s House We Go Classic Fable Becomes An Allegory For Death In Tricklock’s Latest Everything is changing in Catherine’s world. She’s getting older. Her grandmother is dying. Even the snowy woods where she grew up are growing [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 30, 2012 Read More
Culture Shock: Low-Rez Mainstream media often overlook the fact that Native people are a dominant force in pop culture. In the rare instance that Native Americans [...] Marisa Demarco \ Aug 30, 2012 Read More Tribal Hiphop by Brent Greenwood
Performance Review: Blackout Innovates With A Trio Of Domicile-Driven Love Stories Blackout Innovates With A Trio Of Domicile-Driven Love Stories A philandering poet, a pair of clowns and a woman on the verge of burning her house down. These are several of the [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 23, 2012 Read More (Aaron Giombolini)
Culture Shock: It’s The End Of The World, And We Love It It’s The End Of The World, And We Love It If I hear one more damned story about the zombie apocalypse, I swear I’ll … read it like all the others that came [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 23, 2012 Read More
Performance Preview: A Sneak Peek At Mother Road’s Upcoming Production Of The Killer Angels Mother Road Opens Doors To The Public In Advance Of Its September Production Taps flowed, pizza was passed around and old friends joked together in the basement of JC’s NYPD pizzeria. As the cast and crew [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More Mother Road’s band of bearded brothers will take on the Battle of Gettysburg in The Killer Angels . (Photo by Julia Thudium)
Art News: Isea, Usea, We All See Emergent Art Forms In Burque An International Symposium And Its Underground Offshoot Cultural geographer Ronald Horvath wasn’t thinking of a specific place when he conjured the concept of “machine wilderness” in the ’60s. It helped [...] Margaret Wright \ Aug 16, 2012 Read More
Gallery Bite: Jessica Kostelnick’s Living Hand To Mouth Installation At The Tan Jessica Kostelnick’s Installation Plays House At The Tan A clay-and-fabric mongoloid creature that looks part lobster and part human lies sprawled across the floor like a fish out of water, gasping [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 09, 2012 Read More