podcast: Women of the Avant-Garde Oct 30, 2009
Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more. Related Poets. (Harper's Magazine)
Paul Tschinkel at Freies Museum Berlin Oct 21, 2009
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Krasner and Mark Kostabi are just a few of the artists that Tschinkel accompanied in the last thirty years. For the series innertubevideo , launched in 1974, Tschinkel portrayed over a decade the most energetic bands and musicians of the emerging Punk and NewWave movement. (AbsoluteArts.com)
From world premieres to theatre of snow Apr 29, 2009
But one of the most highly anticipated concerts is likely to be the world premiere of a new work by acclaimed avant-garde New York-based performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, co-commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Two-Sided Plays, a series of 10 two-person mini-dramas by Anderson, is now being workshopped and will be presented at the Vancouver Playhouse Feb. 16-21. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Stanford Lively Arts unveils new season Apr 28, 2009
On May 5, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson will give a U.S. premiere to "Two-Sided Plays," 10 plays on ways to view opposing sides of issues. Other planned events include performances by the new ballet company Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, the vocal quartet Anonymous 4, and South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Woody Harrelson, Salman Rushdie, Madonna Mar 28, 2009
Among the events, which will bring together 160 writers from 40 countries, is the Evolution/Revolution reading series on April 29, which will feature Edwidge Danticat, Salman Rushdie and Muriel Barbery, among other authors, reading in their original languages; an April 30 panel hosted by The New York Review of Books, "The Economic Crisis and How to Deal With It," including George Soros, Nouriel Roubini and Paul Krugman, the Nobel-winning columnist for The New York Times and the International... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cover story: Meet the Casino Ballroom's house photographer Mar 26, 2009
She's snapped shots of Little Richard, Cyndi Lauper, Laurie Anderson, Joe Cocker, Suzanne Vega and George Carlin. Photography by Nancy Grace Horton. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
PARIS FASHION WEEK: Dries Van Noten's "drab beauty" Mar 9, 2009
Van Noten's creative vision seemed to be exemplified by the lyric Laurie Anderson recited on the soundtrack: "I wanted you. And I was looking for you. But I couldn't find you.". Today in Fashion & Style. (International Herald Tribune)
Family drama drives 'Phoebe in Wonderland' Mar 6, 2009
With her black dresses and eerie calm, Miss Dodger comes across like performance artist Laurie Anderson in charge of fourth grade, and the scenes of her playing head-trips on her smug young students are the sharpest moments here. Phoebe's demons aren't so easily laid to rest, though, and much of the drama is in her fraught mother's attempts to cope. (Boston Globe)
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008: EMILY JACIR Feb 12, 2009
Previous finalists have been Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Stan Douglas, Cai Guo Qiang, and Yasumasa Morimura in 1996; Huang Yong Ping, William Kentridge, Lee Bul, Pipilotti Rist, and Lorna Simpson in 1998; Vito Acconci, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Tom Friedman, Barry Le Va, and Tunga in 2000; Francis Als, Olafur Eliasson, Hachiya Kazuhiko, Koo Jeong-a, and Anri Sala in 2002; Franz Ackermann, Rivane Neuenschwander, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Simon... (AbsoluteArts.com)
