Blog Riley tipped me off to this article about the methods of people addicted (by necessity?) to the interwebs.
Badass dog of the day—5lbs with lion's mane. #obpic http://t.co/TErnVVRX
Archives for May 2008
Interview with Rob Ruggiero, Associate Artistic Director of Theaterworks in Hartford.
Interview excerpted from The Art Agenda. Originally broadcast on 88.1fm, WESU, Middletown on May 29, 2008.
Ruggiero’s new play, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, runs June 6 through July 20 at Theaterworks.
Video from Lex Leifheit on Vimeo.
Dan and I met up with some friends at Mass MoCA’s Badlands opening on Saturday. It was curator Denise Markonish’s first outing in her new role at the museum, and lots of New Haven artists who knew her from her Artspace days were there to cheer her on, including Marion Belanger, Erica Van Natta and Mark Williams.
Vaughn Bell’s biospheres were enjoyed by all. I was tempted to adopt a pocket biosphere, but decided to focus on keeping my new herbs (chocolate mint, rosemary, lavendar) alive instead.
My Americans for the Arts colleague, David Dombrosky, brought Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience to my attention in 2006. The result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts, Homecoming brought distinguished writers to military bases to inspire U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and their families to record their wartime experiences.
Homecoming is continuing in 2008 with a series of writing workshops, and today the University of Chicago Press released an expanded paperback version of 2006′s Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families (Random House), containing stories by American military personnel and their loved ones who wrote candidly about what they saw, heard, and felt while in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as on the home front.
Props due to the amazing Dan McKinley. Who also designed a new book.
Interview with Joseph Smolinski, New Haven-based artist and one of twenty participants in the upcoming Badlands exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.Joseph talks about his tree turbine, thinking about art on a grand scale, provoking discussion about contemporary issues through the creation of art, his potato battery, spying on people at gallery openings, and more …
Interview excerpted from The Art Agenda. Originally broadcast on 88.1fm, WESU, Middletown on May 1, 2008.
Badlands opens Saturday, May 24, 2008.
A few weeks ago I posted news of an adventurous student thesis at Yale, while closer to home, art history Marina Claire Kastan was finishing her 112-pager, “Wearing Your Dreams: Image and Imagination in the American Tattoo.” Kastan was advised by John T. Paoletti, who (as you can see from the Amazon link) is a straight-up art historian.
Thanks to Wesleying for pointing it out!
Lex Leifheit is the Executive Director of SOMArts Cultural Center, co-host of Feast of Words: Literary Potluck, and has an insatiable appetite for art. She lives in San Francisco.
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