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On Gore / Lieberman

For all of the “things would have been perfect with Gore” people responding to news of Ralph Nader’s announcement, I would like to remind them that the VP candidate was Joe Lieberman. I might have voted for Gore, but there was NO WAY I could have voted for him once Lieberman became the VP candidate. That man is a wacko war-monger, and he serves as the head of John McCain’s state campaign in Connecticut.

Here is a nice item from Think Progress:

On the 2/12 edition of Bill Bennett’s radio show, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) explained that he was supporting Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for president because he believes that withdrawal from Iraq would “abandon” the country “to the killers” and “empower them to come after us again.” “McCain will never let that happen,” claimed Lieberman.

“The guy has been almost always right on the big issues of foreign policy over the last twenty years,” said Lieberman. “That’s why I want him to be my president,” he added.

Also, read this post by Howie Klein on Huffington Post on Lieberman’s homophobia, reporting that he “sided with Jesse Helms on removing federal money from public schools that counsel suicidal homosexual teens that it’s OK (or ‘an acceptable lifestyle,’ in Lieberman’s and Helms’ disapproving parlance) to be gay.”

Letting the Democratic Party know that they have your vote, no matter what kind of candidate they choose for us, is stupid.

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Seen in Miami: Tim Sullivan at Lisa Dent Gallery (Aqua Wynwood)

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Tim Sullivan 2007
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Despite my dazed feeling by the time I reached Aqua Wynwood, the work I saw by Tim Sullivan, being shown by Lisa Dent Gallery, really stood out. The image above is from his series of self portraits taken once per year. Below is an installation shot of the video “Hamburger A/Hamburger B” from 2007. The image above is from the artist’s website, and the one below is courtesy of the gallery. Apparently he has never been in a show in NYC!

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Ensemble Origin at Zankel Hall

James and I are headed to this on the 15th. For the art crowd, you may have heard of Ichiyanagi’s wife from 1956-63, Yoko Ono.

Ensemble Origin at Zankel Hall
March 14th and 15th, 7:30pm

Featuring the Shinnyo-En Chorus of Japan and Music by the Seminal Japanese Avant-Garde Composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, Ensemble Origin’s Founder and Artistic Director

Presented with support of The Japan Foundation
and the cooperation of the Consulate General of Japan in New York
and the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies at Columbia University.

Sponsored by Shinnyo-En

In 1998, fifty years into a storied career, the Japanese composer Toshi
Ichiyanagi undertook an ambitious project with a two-part mission: to
reconstruct ancient instruments preserved in Japan and to employ them in the
creation of a new kind of music. He and a diverse network of collaborators
would present the music‹performed on the restored Silk Road instruments‹in
concerts around the world. By 2006, with assistance from the Buddhist order
Shinnyo-en (as part of their contribution to the arts), the project had
succeeded in recreating 14 kinds of ancient musical instruments, including
examples from China and other parts of Asia, and in assembling a team of
musicians who could play those instruments, under the name Ensemble Origin.

The Blue Flower

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Meghan McGeary as Hannah

I wrote about an extraordinary musical theater work called “The Blue Flower” in early 2003. A quote:

The historical context and references range from the events leading to WW I, the Weimar Republic, a fictionalized menage of Franz Marc, Max Beckmann, Hannah Höch, and Marie Curie, plus Dada. Part of it takes place at the Cabaret Voltaire — the last time Zurich was really interesting.

There is a new production running through March 2nd at The West End Theater (86th and Broadway). Visit www.theblueflower.org or go here to buy tickets.

Visit their myspace page to hear some of the music.

[the image above is from the Blue Flower’s website]

Cinema Zero at The Kitchen

Flora Wiegman performance

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.

Ensemble Pi: The Rest is Silence - March 1

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James and I don’t only follow the purely visual arts. We attend a lot of theater, dance, and other performance. The next few weeks have a lot of things of interest. I’ll do several posts with recommendations, but this one is really important, and has a visual component too. Come see it with us on the 1st.

Ensemble Pi: The Rest is Silence

Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 8pm
Tickets at the door $15.

Venue:
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
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Program:

  • William Kentridge, Philip Miller: Two Shorts from Nine Projections featuring a live performance of original score for string quartet, trumpet and piano (2003)
  • Frederic Rzewski: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier, for piano (2003) U.S. premiere
  • John Harbison: Abu Ghraib, for cello and piano (2006) N.Y. premiere
  • Kristin Norderval: Far From Home, for two voices and computer-generated sound (2007)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano trio No 2 in E minor, opus 67 (1944)

Guest Speaker: Naomi Wolf, author: The End of America

[image at top is Eyal Danieli, invitation for Ensemble Pi]