Travel past the edge of the woods, located on the periphery of some unnamed European country, and you’ll find a large house. Inside, an institute dedicated to sponsoring artists who deal in “culinary and alimentary performance” has set up shop. Its mission: giving a safe space to those who push the boundaries of good taste, literal and otherwise. The informal organization’s head, Jan Stevens (Game of Thrones‘ Gwendoline Christie), is currently offering a residency to a trio led by Elle di Elle (Fatma Mohamed), a woman dedicated to...
- 6/21/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Channeling the aesthetic and urgency of a driven multimedia creator, “Wojnarowicz” chronicles the too-short life of a determinedly “outsider” artist who was among the most furiously outspoken victims of the AIDS epidemic. Chris McKim’s documentary is largely composed of materials from the late subject’s archives, woven into a collage whole that is equal parts biography, vintage agitprop and objet d’art, plus surviving associates’ audio reminiscences.
While the confrontative nature suggested by the film’s full title is amply represented, there’s also considerable beauty and invention on display here, as often there was even in David Wojnarowicz’s most enraged work. Kino Lorber is currently distributing the feature to virtual cinemas via its Kino Marquee program, with home-formats release planned for May 18.
McKim starts in 1989, when his protagonist had already been diagnosed as HIV-positive, writing, “I realized I’d contracted a diseased society as well.” One symptom...
While the confrontative nature suggested by the film’s full title is amply represented, there’s also considerable beauty and invention on display here, as often there was even in David Wojnarowicz’s most enraged work. Kino Lorber is currently distributing the feature to virtual cinemas via its Kino Marquee program, with home-formats release planned for May 18.
McKim starts in 1989, when his protagonist had already been diagnosed as HIV-positive, writing, “I realized I’d contracted a diseased society as well.” One symptom...
- 3/19/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
On Hole’s 1994 breakthrough album, Live Through This, frontwoman Courtney Love presented a gruesome prophecy: “If you live through this with me/I swear that I will die for you,” she sings on the hypnotic, rumbling “Asking for It.” Love belts the line with more restraint than she usually displays: a disarming moment of vulnerability from the world’s then-most cataclysmic woman.
Love wrote the song after a 1991 show in Glasgow, after Hole wrapped up a European tour with Mudhoney. In one fleeting moment of punk rock abandon, Love stage-dived...
Love wrote the song after a 1991 show in Glasgow, after Hole wrapped up a European tour with Mudhoney. In one fleeting moment of punk rock abandon, Love stage-dived...
- 4/12/2019
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) kicks off its 16th annual Doc Fortnight on Thursday, a 10-day festival that includes 20 feature-length non-fiction films and 10 documentary shorts. This year’s lineup includes four world premieres and a number of North American and U.S. premieres.
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Chris O'Falt and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Heide Hatry: Icons In Ash Ubu Gallery, NYC Through March 7th, 2017
Heide Hatry's show at Ubu Gallery is a series of portraits made from cremated ashes based on photographs of the deceased selected by family members or loved ones who have provided her with their ash remains. These are objects made in the spirit of the Consolatio, the ancient tradition of honoring the dead and consoling the mourners.
The resulting portraits presented in deep shadow-box frames, have a surface both softer and more active than the photo. Granular, like rough cut granite. But these portraits are not "painted", the very tedious, time consuming process uses tiny "dust" particles on wax to create a "mosaic." The solid characteristics of the 'thing' contrasting with the fleeting glimpse of the photo.
She has also released a book publication, Icons in Ash, (which accompanies the show) in which twenty-seven contributing authors, including Siri Hustvedt,...
Heide Hatry's show at Ubu Gallery is a series of portraits made from cremated ashes based on photographs of the deceased selected by family members or loved ones who have provided her with their ash remains. These are objects made in the spirit of the Consolatio, the ancient tradition of honoring the dead and consoling the mourners.
The resulting portraits presented in deep shadow-box frames, have a surface both softer and more active than the photo. Granular, like rough cut granite. But these portraits are not "painted", the very tedious, time consuming process uses tiny "dust" particles on wax to create a "mosaic." The solid characteristics of the 'thing' contrasting with the fleeting glimpse of the photo.
She has also released a book publication, Icons in Ash, (which accompanies the show) in which twenty-seven contributing authors, including Siri Hustvedt,...
- 1/21/2017
- by Millree Hughes
- www.culturecatch.com
After six years of hard work, Beth B and co-producer Sandra Schulberg are finally releasing their feature film, Exposed,which is currently showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and will be showing at the Museum of Modern Art on March 3rd, and will have a theatrical run at the IFC Center, NYC beginning March 13th.
Exposed is about liberation of the self, the body and the mind. The film focuses on performance artists who have been featured at the Whitney Biennale, Ps 122, and Deitch Projects. These performers are a new generation of artists who are declaring their freedom of expression as Robert Mapplethorpe and Karen Finley did.
The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated Best Documentary Film, has shown in over 30 film festivals worldwide, and had its U.S. premiere at Doc NYC. It has received extraordinary international press (Top Ten Film in Time Magazine Lightbox and Filmmaker Magazine) and has been touring the world (Moscow, Taiwan, Norway, Australia...).
The filmmakers are coordinating the combination of live performances and film screenings that create a phenomenal event and great exposure for the venues, performers and the film. The audience they have seen at the screenings is very diverse including: art world, Lgbt, students, feminists, burlesque, disability, and human rights groups (it was shown at the Nuremberg Human Rights Festival!).
Below are quotes from several rave reviews
"One of the most revealing portraits yet of the marginal performance medium, the film is likely to blow the cobwebs off any preconceptions viewers might have about gender, sexuality, empowerment and the body."
Read more: Doc NYC 2013: Highlights From the Largest Documentary Festival in the U.S. - LightBox http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/13/doc-nyc-2013-highlights-from-the-largest-documentary-festival-in-the-u-s/#ixzz2pqB77LEO
What the Critics Are Saying
"Beth B turns her all-embracing camera on the alternate burlesque scene in the intelligent and enjoyably outrageous 'Exposed." –Variety
There is a philosophy behind all of the performances in Exposed. Provocation is the weapon of choice against a society that seeks to limit what is considered to be outside the norms, “the other.” -- Die Tageszeitung
Exposed is a wonderful film that I think you will appreciate and enjoy!
Warm Regards,
Beth B
http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/exposed-beyond-burlesque-screening-at-the-ica-london/
http://www.close-upfilm.com/2014/01/exposed-burlesque-18-film-review/
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/exposed-beyond-burlesque-25685
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/exposed-beyond-burlesque--film-review-9050818.html
Exposed…as reviewed in Little White Lies:
Director Beth B takes us a whirlwind journey through the intoxicating world of body performance.
It’s tempting to write burlesque off as glorified stripping, but director Beth B’s unique documentary shows the human body as a great performance art canvas for those brave or extroverted enough to use it. Her six-years-in-the-making film homes in on performers that use nudity, not to titillate — although that's involved — but to serve witty and inventive routines on gender, sexuality and politics. You ain't seen a Us justice system satire till you've seen a Us justice system satire called 'The Patriot Act' featuring a buxom, glitter-spangled blonde stuffing dollar bills in her mouth.
A composite of performances and interviews, Exposed works as both an X-rated cabaret show and analyses of its subjects’ motivations for letting us see everything. Whether its Mat Fraser taking ownership of his thalidomide-induced disability, Dirty Martini arabesqueing a fuck-you to instructors who said her body was wrong for dance, Rose Wood refusing to bolt himself into one gender or The World Famous *Bob* explaining a novel form of transexualism, the common thread is of individuals taking control of themselves and sharing this liberation with an audience.
"There is freedom in vulgarity" smiles Bunny Love, the most conventionally attractive of the bunch. She is perfectly aware of what she calls her "juicy" qualities and uses them to create performances that disturb and transfix in equal measure. "This is all just an illusion," she says of hair, eyelashes, lips, waist and boobs, "I can put it on and I can fake you out but it’s so much more complicated than that." These complexities are expressed via a maniacal on stage unravelling, like if Blanche DuBois’ spirit was embedded in the body of Marilyn Monroe and we saw her work at the Flamingo Hotel.
This act is the first of a run of performances that never dip in quality or boundary-pushing content. Beth B has found the best in the business and won their trust before channelling their symbiotic urges to opine and entertain. Dumb vessels for objectification do not live at this address. Instead we have eight character studies heartily engaged in the struggle to express themselves in nuance. All have learnt (the hard way) that, to get all Oscar Wilde: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
Through a camera that repeatedly finds interviewees at dressing tables where the careful transformation from everyday person to feathery, glittery peacock is happening, Beth B replicates her subjects' obsession with glamour and the performance possibilities offered by costume. Yet just as their work is to take it all off, so too it is for Ms B, who finds them make-up free after a gig, or going to a friend's birthday in *gosh* jeans. Focus is not on getting carried with shimmer and lights but in using our gravitation towards such things to tell different stories.
Just one of these stories would be refreshing but Exposed has gone all-out, providing a luxurious sweet store of perspectives as coherent as they are unconventional. Knitted into the seams of this celebration of countercultural entertainment are circumspect moments delivered and captured so lightly that those seduced by the viewpoints on offer will feel drawn to watch and rewatch.
"I don’t like to perpetuate perfection because I think flaws are more interesting," says Bambi the Mermaid, best known for her 'egg-laying'. It's a point-of-view we need at a time when Photoshopping images of beautiful celebrities is du jour and it's a point-of-view adopted with absolute commitment by Bambi and everyone else prepared to show us who they are with nothing on.
--
www.exposedmovie.com
www.bethbproductions.com...
Exposed is about liberation of the self, the body and the mind. The film focuses on performance artists who have been featured at the Whitney Biennale, Ps 122, and Deitch Projects. These performers are a new generation of artists who are declaring their freedom of expression as Robert Mapplethorpe and Karen Finley did.
The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated Best Documentary Film, has shown in over 30 film festivals worldwide, and had its U.S. premiere at Doc NYC. It has received extraordinary international press (Top Ten Film in Time Magazine Lightbox and Filmmaker Magazine) and has been touring the world (Moscow, Taiwan, Norway, Australia...).
The filmmakers are coordinating the combination of live performances and film screenings that create a phenomenal event and great exposure for the venues, performers and the film. The audience they have seen at the screenings is very diverse including: art world, Lgbt, students, feminists, burlesque, disability, and human rights groups (it was shown at the Nuremberg Human Rights Festival!).
Below are quotes from several rave reviews
"One of the most revealing portraits yet of the marginal performance medium, the film is likely to blow the cobwebs off any preconceptions viewers might have about gender, sexuality, empowerment and the body."
Read more: Doc NYC 2013: Highlights From the Largest Documentary Festival in the U.S. - LightBox http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/13/doc-nyc-2013-highlights-from-the-largest-documentary-festival-in-the-u-s/#ixzz2pqB77LEO
What the Critics Are Saying
"Beth B turns her all-embracing camera on the alternate burlesque scene in the intelligent and enjoyably outrageous 'Exposed." –Variety
There is a philosophy behind all of the performances in Exposed. Provocation is the weapon of choice against a society that seeks to limit what is considered to be outside the norms, “the other.” -- Die Tageszeitung
Exposed is a wonderful film that I think you will appreciate and enjoy!
Warm Regards,
Beth B
http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/exposed-beyond-burlesque-screening-at-the-ica-london/
http://www.close-upfilm.com/2014/01/exposed-burlesque-18-film-review/
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/exposed-beyond-burlesque-25685
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/exposed-beyond-burlesque--film-review-9050818.html
Exposed…as reviewed in Little White Lies:
Director Beth B takes us a whirlwind journey through the intoxicating world of body performance.
It’s tempting to write burlesque off as glorified stripping, but director Beth B’s unique documentary shows the human body as a great performance art canvas for those brave or extroverted enough to use it. Her six-years-in-the-making film homes in on performers that use nudity, not to titillate — although that's involved — but to serve witty and inventive routines on gender, sexuality and politics. You ain't seen a Us justice system satire till you've seen a Us justice system satire called 'The Patriot Act' featuring a buxom, glitter-spangled blonde stuffing dollar bills in her mouth.
A composite of performances and interviews, Exposed works as both an X-rated cabaret show and analyses of its subjects’ motivations for letting us see everything. Whether its Mat Fraser taking ownership of his thalidomide-induced disability, Dirty Martini arabesqueing a fuck-you to instructors who said her body was wrong for dance, Rose Wood refusing to bolt himself into one gender or The World Famous *Bob* explaining a novel form of transexualism, the common thread is of individuals taking control of themselves and sharing this liberation with an audience.
"There is freedom in vulgarity" smiles Bunny Love, the most conventionally attractive of the bunch. She is perfectly aware of what she calls her "juicy" qualities and uses them to create performances that disturb and transfix in equal measure. "This is all just an illusion," she says of hair, eyelashes, lips, waist and boobs, "I can put it on and I can fake you out but it’s so much more complicated than that." These complexities are expressed via a maniacal on stage unravelling, like if Blanche DuBois’ spirit was embedded in the body of Marilyn Monroe and we saw her work at the Flamingo Hotel.
This act is the first of a run of performances that never dip in quality or boundary-pushing content. Beth B has found the best in the business and won their trust before channelling their symbiotic urges to opine and entertain. Dumb vessels for objectification do not live at this address. Instead we have eight character studies heartily engaged in the struggle to express themselves in nuance. All have learnt (the hard way) that, to get all Oscar Wilde: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
Through a camera that repeatedly finds interviewees at dressing tables where the careful transformation from everyday person to feathery, glittery peacock is happening, Beth B replicates her subjects' obsession with glamour and the performance possibilities offered by costume. Yet just as their work is to take it all off, so too it is for Ms B, who finds them make-up free after a gig, or going to a friend's birthday in *gosh* jeans. Focus is not on getting carried with shimmer and lights but in using our gravitation towards such things to tell different stories.
Just one of these stories would be refreshing but Exposed has gone all-out, providing a luxurious sweet store of perspectives as coherent as they are unconventional. Knitted into the seams of this celebration of countercultural entertainment are circumspect moments delivered and captured so lightly that those seduced by the viewpoints on offer will feel drawn to watch and rewatch.
"I don’t like to perpetuate perfection because I think flaws are more interesting," says Bambi the Mermaid, best known for her 'egg-laying'. It's a point-of-view we need at a time when Photoshopping images of beautiful celebrities is du jour and it's a point-of-view adopted with absolute commitment by Bambi and everyone else prepared to show us who they are with nothing on.
--
www.exposedmovie.com
www.bethbproductions.com...
- 1/14/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
With the premiere of HBO’s Looking still over a week away, this is the perfect time to remember another TV series about a group of gay (and straight) friends in San Francisco. It was 20 years ago today that Tales Of the City made its American television debut.
Based on the newspaper column–later book series–by Armistead Maupin, Tales centers around a found family living together in a boarding house at 28 Barbary Lane. Tenants include Mary Anne Singleton, a naive girl fresh off the bus from Cleveland, Michael “Mouse” Tolliver, a gay emigré from Florida, his best friend Mona Ramsey, a frustrated feminist copywriter, and Brian Hawkins, a leftie lawyer who dropped out and became a waiter. They all live under the eye of enigmatic landlady Anna Madrigal. Tales stars Laura Linney as Mary Anne, Marcus D’Amico as Mouse, Chloe Webb as Mona, Paul Gross as Brian and Olympia Dukakis as Mrs.
Based on the newspaper column–later book series–by Armistead Maupin, Tales centers around a found family living together in a boarding house at 28 Barbary Lane. Tenants include Mary Anne Singleton, a naive girl fresh off the bus from Cleveland, Michael “Mouse” Tolliver, a gay emigré from Florida, his best friend Mona Ramsey, a frustrated feminist copywriter, and Brian Hawkins, a leftie lawyer who dropped out and became a waiter. They all live under the eye of enigmatic landlady Anna Madrigal. Tales stars Laura Linney as Mary Anne, Marcus D’Amico as Mouse, Chloe Webb as Mona, Paul Gross as Brian and Olympia Dukakis as Mrs.
- 1/10/2014
- by John
- The Backlot
Amy Poehler won't be Tweeting, pinning or posting a selfie anytime soon. "I'm not a real social media person. I'm not on Twitter," the Parks and Recreation star and Golden Globes cohost tells Paper Magazine for its holiday gift guide issue. She also notes that she finds people can be mean online - even when they don't intend to be. "I try not to read too much online because I always get my feelings hurt, even if someone's flattering you," says Poehler. "Like, somebody Tweeting, 'Call me crazy, but I think Amy Poehler's attractive.' And you're like, 'Okay?...
- 12/13/2013
- by Lee Hernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Stepping off the set of "Parks and Recreation," Amy Poehler covered the Winter 2014 issue of Paper magazine.
The 42-year-old actress looked picture perfect in Louis Vuitton and Stella McCartney for the Walt Chin-shot front page while opening up about her most memorable moments on "Saturday Night Live" and her true feelings on social media.
Highlights from Miss Poehler's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Paper!
On SNL:
"I remember a Christmas show with Elijah Wood and the band was, oh shit... an Australian group that you can look up. So you say goodnight onstage, and then you run really fast, and put ice skates on, and you get to ice skate at Rockefeller Center. And that was the first time I ever: 1) skated at Rockefeller Center, and 2) skated along with 10 other people that were my friends. It was snowing, it was Christmas and the day before,...
The 42-year-old actress looked picture perfect in Louis Vuitton and Stella McCartney for the Walt Chin-shot front page while opening up about her most memorable moments on "Saturday Night Live" and her true feelings on social media.
Highlights from Miss Poehler's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Paper!
On SNL:
"I remember a Christmas show with Elijah Wood and the band was, oh shit... an Australian group that you can look up. So you say goodnight onstage, and then you run really fast, and put ice skates on, and you get to ice skate at Rockefeller Center. And that was the first time I ever: 1) skated at Rockefeller Center, and 2) skated along with 10 other people that were my friends. It was snowing, it was Christmas and the day before,...
- 12/10/2013
- GossipCenter
New York, May. 2: An artist's upcoming performance and installation at the New Museum in New York titled, 'Sext Me If You Can,' will hang paintings of indecent texts on the walls of the modern magazine from May 23-26.
Karen Finley, the sexually explicit performance artist, who had her Nea grant rescinded in the '90s, is no stranger to controversy.
After tackling subject matter including sexual abuse, rape and addiction, she is turning her focus to a lighter subject-the sext-and how it pertains to eroticism, technology and commerce, the Huffington Post reported.
For the piece, New Museum patrons will be able to personally commission a work by the artist by purchasing access to a private phone number.
For.
Karen Finley, the sexually explicit performance artist, who had her Nea grant rescinded in the '90s, is no stranger to controversy.
After tackling subject matter including sexual abuse, rape and addiction, she is turning her focus to a lighter subject-the sext-and how it pertains to eroticism, technology and commerce, the Huffington Post reported.
For the piece, New Museum patrons will be able to personally commission a work by the artist by purchasing access to a private phone number.
For.
- 5/2/2013
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Many of you know by now that three members of the Russian punk band and activist group Pussy Riot were found guilty of hooliganism charges today, with Moscow Judge Marina Syrova announcing a prison sentence of two years for the three women who staged the anti-Putin protest in Russia's Cathedral of Christ the Savior last February.
Following the guilty verdict's announcement this morning, small protests were held in dozens of cities across the world, including demonstrations in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Washington, D.C.
In New York City, around 40 protestors gathered in Manhattan's Upper East Side, beginning with a small number of demonstrators playing musical instruments in front of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Manhattan. The group of balaclava-clad supporters then moved to the Russian Consulate, where marchers were met by a mixture of English and Russian-speaking participants, many of whom donned paper masks and held signs that read, "Confront...
Following the guilty verdict's announcement this morning, small protests were held in dozens of cities across the world, including demonstrations in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Washington, D.C.
In New York City, around 40 protestors gathered in Manhattan's Upper East Side, beginning with a small number of demonstrators playing musical instruments in front of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Manhattan. The group of balaclava-clad supporters then moved to the Russian Consulate, where marchers were met by a mixture of English and Russian-speaking participants, many of whom donned paper masks and held signs that read, "Confront...
- 8/17/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
"Has any attack in history ever been commemorated the way this one is about to be?" asked Edward Rothstein in the New York Times a few days ago. "It seems as if every cultural institution, television network and book publisher feels duty-bound to produce some sort of Sept 11 commemoration. Is there a precedent for this almost compulsive variety show about an attack on a nation's people? No examples suggest themselves. And in the United States, the attack on Pearl Harbor — the only incident remotely comparable — doesn't seem to have inspired anything similar, even though that surprise assault initiated one of the most traumatic and transformative decades in this nation's history…. Of course Sept 11 is something different…. Had a bomb fallen on the twin towers," he suggests, "even that would have been less traumatic. This was something unforeseen, expertly planned, a jarring demonstration of vulnerability. So otherworldly did it seem when...
- 9/10/2011
- MUBI
Today is MTV’s 30th birthday, and the good folks at EW.com have asked me to say a few words. Turn up your computer speakers and listen to our story, won’t you?
As you’re aware, MTV premiered 30 years ago today. As you’re aware if you’re old, MTV took a while to go nationwide. The prevailing wisdom, as I recall it, was that such a thing could never catch on. The idea of a 24-hour music-video channel was tantalizing for the youth of the early ‘80s, and the wait for the cable systems in St. Louis to carry it was excruciating.
As you’re aware, MTV premiered 30 years ago today. As you’re aware if you’re old, MTV took a while to go nationwide. The prevailing wisdom, as I recall it, was that such a thing could never catch on. The idea of a 24-hour music-video channel was tantalizing for the youth of the early ‘80s, and the wait for the cable systems in St. Louis to carry it was excruciating.
- 8/1/2011
- by daveholmes
- EW.com - PopWatch
Sylvia Roth: Paintings and Monoprints The Outside In Piermont, NY
Sylvia Roth, founder of Hudson River Editions, is a painter and master printer who has worked with the likes of Karen Finley, Richard Pousette-Dart, April Gornik, Alfonso Ossorio, and John Chamberlain. Among her many early brushes with greatness was Roth's study of painting with one of my all-time favorites, Philip Guston, at New York University.
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Sylvia Roth, founder of Hudson River Editions, is a painter and master printer who has worked with the likes of Karen Finley, Richard Pousette-Dart, April Gornik, Alfonso Ossorio, and John Chamberlain. Among her many early brushes with greatness was Roth's study of painting with one of my all-time favorites, Philip Guston, at New York University.
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- 6/4/2011
- by ddlombardi
- www.culturecatch.com
Joaquin Phoenix's much-anticipated documentary I'm Still Here directed by Casey Affleck has something for everyone. A man on a journey, a fumble along the way, a cross roads, failure, and finally redemption. It's a beautiful piece of performance art. Carolee Schneemann and Karen Finley take note. There are very few actors who take risks to create gutsy statements on what goes on in our culture and I think this is one of them. I love the pseudo documentary aspect because really who is to say where the line starts and crosses from reality into fiction. I genuinely loved what he attempts to do, not in regard to a music career or leaving acting, which he never fully intends, but perhaps may have thought of on occasion when those nagging existential questions of meaning and pointlessness plagues us...
- 9/9/2010
- by Hellin Kay
- Huffington Post
Great Evenings in the Great Hall, The Cooper Union?s dynamic performance series celebrating the college?s 150th anniversary, continues this fall with appearances by Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Adam Gopnik, Olympia Dukakis, Amy Goodman, Siri Hustvedt, Isaiah Sheffer, Maria Tucci, and Karen Finley. From September through January 2010, in six provocative and entertaining presentations, The Cooper Union will showcase the stirring words of the radicals and reformers who spurred change and propelled advancements in civil rights, the labor movement, education and the arts for the past century-and-a-half. Period music and historic artifacts will complement the fiery oratory and inspiring dialogue that have filled The Great Hall since 1859.
- 8/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Revel in New York is a smart series of mini-docs covering a Big Apple subspecies that shares an inescapable common denominator: their jobs are much cooler than yours. Each urbanite featured is involved in one way or another with an artistic career, either overtly (the Bushwick, Brooklyn art-making collective), or in more of an under-the-table fashion (Adam Moskowitz is a cheese monger who, we eventually learn in the closing credits, is also a painter and rapper). The artistic range encompasses rock stars Brazilian Girls, wacky live performer Ann Liv Young (sort of a Karen Finley meets Paul McCarthy), publicist Susan Blond (a former minor Warhol girl) and even Al Sharpton, who, it turns out, claimed James Brown as something of a father figure early in his adulthood. The mini-doc format is consistent without being repetitive - the subjects themselves tell the stories of their jobs/lives, some a little more...
- 7/23/2009
- by Michael Shaw
- Tilzy.tv
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