We first put up the website, and had a few sites in addition to ArtCal, in August of last year. We've now reached over 40 sites with over 400,000 unique visitors and 1 million page views each month. Here is the official launch press release.

1. Listen to David Behrman. [If you're using a feed reader to see this, you may not see the music widget below.]

2. Go see Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next Election in Brooklyn, July 1 at 8pm. The title of the evening comes from the text of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

"He loves you, and he needs money!"

"Results like this do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being."

[click here if you don't see the video above]

Friday

• Cinders Gallery opens Crooked Smiles, Steady Voices, and a Trunk Full of Cash (see invitation above)
• Over the Opening presents LOSHADKA
• Ad Hoc Art presents Poets of the Paste featuring ELBOW-TOE, Armsrock, Gaia and Imminent Disaster

Saturday

• Art In General Fundraiser
• Sarah Braman opens at Museum 52
• Joao Ribas curates a show at Andrew Kreps
• Eyebeam MIXER

Saturday and Sunday

• Art By The Ferry Festival on Staten Island

I just found this great podcast via googling for Elliott Durko Lynch. The April 6 episode is amazing. The story about New Orleans by Rik Reppe (roughly 20 minutes in) made me cry.

Radio All Stars Podcast

Elliott Lynch and Sara Shaylie. Photo by Usry Alleyne

I'm doing a little writing about the Movement Research Festival going on right now on their Critical Correspondence site. I wrote about the appearance at Catch 30 of my new favorite dance / theater artist working in Minneapolis: Elliott Durko Lynch.

Check it out.

The photo above is of a performance in Minneapolis from the amazing mnartists.org website. He has a YouTube channel too.

Two recommended benefits are coming up:

• This Monday May 12 you should join us for The Civilians' benefit titled "Paris Commune II Communards in the South Pacific."
• One of the best visual arts benefits in NYC is the annual raffle from Momenta Art, which happens this year at White Columns on May 21st. If you don't believe me, check out Edward Winkleman's post.

Elevator Repair Service in "The Sound And The Fury"

James and I have been busy attending music and theater performances. Here are some recommendations:

• The New Georges (see earlier posts) present "Stretch", described as a fantasia about the final days of Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon's loyal secretary. You even get a live score for violin, trumpet, bass and IBM Selectric typewriter. Use code BLAST here for $16 tickets through May 14.
• The Elevator Repair Service, one of the greatest theater companies I know, are presenting "The Sound And The Fury" at New York Theater Workshop. Brave the evil Telecharge's "Broadway Offers" site here to get $20 tickets for Memorial Day Weekend. Anything starring Susie Sokol cannot be missed.
• There are still tickets left for Gotham Chamber Opera's "Ariadne Unhinged" this weekend, with music of Monteverdi, Haydn, and Schoenberg, production and choreography by Karole Armitage, and design by the artist Vera Lutter. We're going tonight.

On the subject of Off and Off-Off Broadway, check out The Playgoer on Christopher Isherwood's stupid attack on Off-Off, as if it's some kind of community theater. See, my visual arts readers? It's not only the visual arts that get this kind of random stupid articles from The New York Times. Do not miss the comments, especially that from sbs about the difficult relationship between Equity creative theater companies doing the best work in NYC including Elevator Repair Service and Target Margin.

[photo from the Elevator Repair Service website]

Here is my quick video of Flora Wiegmann's performance during the preview of the Whitney Biennial as part of the "Animal Estates" project of Fritz Haeg. Click the screen icon on the lower right for a bigger version. She's a wood duck!

Visit this New York Times article for more information on the artist.

Click here if you don't see the video above.

performance by Flora Wiegman at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, 8/14/2007

James and I already bought our tickets to this. Can't wait!

Amy Granat, Felicia Ballos, and Flora Wiegmann: An Evening with Cinema Zero

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues

February 22 and 23 (Friday and Saturday), 8pm
Tickets: $10

Filmmaker Amy Granat teams up with choreographers Felicia Ballos and Flora Wiegmann to present a new collaborative film and dance performance. In addition, Granat has selected a film and video program featuring short works by Hollis Frampton, Joan Jonas, Peter Kubelka, Richard Serra, and Joyce Wieland, among others.

Cinema Zero is an ongoing project that activates connections between artists of different generations and fosters experimentation across disciplines.