The Arts in New York City

Not knowing what to expect from my visit to the Museum of Natural History made my experience very peculiar. I was actually uncertain on whether I was going to find some form of art at the museum or not, since I have not been there for the last three years, and I barely recollect anything from my past visits. However, I decided to go for it since I had nothing to lose, except for some time. As I went from one floor of the museum into another, I realized that I had uncovered a unique form of art – one in which realism, created out of artificial objects and materials, is highly appreciated. (more…)

I will admit that although I love watching plays and Broadway shows, I do not get too excited about the newer, or more unknown shows. If given the choice between a popular Broadway show such as “Wicked”, or a less popular one called, “The Farnsworth Invention”, I would shyly prefer to see the first. It also upsets me when a performance doesn’t contain any music or songs because I feel that music plays a large part in telling the story of most Broadway shows. However, I was proven very wrong this past weekend after seeing a less popular Broadway show called the “Farnsworth Invention”. A friend of mine surprised me with tickets to this performance and after telling me its title, I wasn’t too eager to watch it. However, during the show I quickly learned that just because it wasn’t advertised on subways and buses everywhere and just because it wasn’t a musical, doesn’t mean that “The Farnsworth Invention” was an amateur show to be taken lightly. This performance exceeded my expectations and has motivated me to check out other Broadway and off- Broadway shows that are not so common on the streets. (more…)

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Hungry for new art? Then Performa 07, the performance biennial that kicks off this week (see performa-arts.org for details), has a dish for you! Every day at lunchtime from 11 am to 4 pm, Oct. 27-Nov. 20, 2007 Freeman’s restaurant on Freeman Alley in SoHo is serving an experimental culinary work by Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya’s (b. 1973). Dubbed Bring Me the Head of. . . , the work is a ginger spice cake with bourbon, caramel and cream (created by Freeman’s chef Jean Adamson) that can be yours for the bargain price of $10. Art appreciation here is via the taste buds, as restaurant patrons are “invited to consume and thereby destroy the art.” Özkaya concept requires that the dish take the shape of “a head of an icon of childhood,” and in this manifestation the model is Caravaggio’s Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (ca. 1609).

(Lu – this one’s for you!)

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Searching for an event that would make up for the Sigrid Nunez Reading at the Newman Conference Center at Baruch on Tuesday, I quickly realized that I had not look too far. Macaulay’s common events can actually be very beneficial besides contradictory observations many students had made after the first event. I was lucky to have met a guy that over the last two months has become a dear friend of mine: Sean.
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Conversation with Eric Krebs, Theatrical Producer

Wednesday Oct. 24 at 3pm at the 45 St. Theater
354 W. 45 St., just east of 9th Ave. on the south side
(Closest subway is the A/C/E at 42 St. and 8th Ave. From there it’s 3 blocks north and 1 block west.)

More info on Eric Krebs

Reading and Conversation with Sigrid Nunez
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 5:45 PM
Newman Conference Center at Baruch College
(151 E. 25 St., 7th floor)
co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

Free and Open to the Public

More info on this event

BroadwayBox.com is the site for really cheap broadway/offbroadway plays and any other theater show.

Also you guys all should watch NONE OF THE ABOVE, it was a Great show and its especially designed for the 16-20 year old age group. You guys will love it and tix r 25 bucks. You can go watch it or read my review abt it in 2 weeks or so.

It was an amazing and new experience for me to see a Hispanic fable, Blind Mouth Singing, to be performed on stage by Asian Americans. Surprisingly, it went well. The professional acting kept the originality of the text, and enhanced the theme behind the fable. The play pulled me into the world of a rural Latino village in Cuba, where a series of struggle for personal identity and self-worthiness were presented. The conservative “Mother of the Late Afternoon” rejects to changes, and rules her family with strictness, designed to thwart her boy’s hopes and dreams. Her two sons, Gordi, an irrational and rebellious rough rouge, and Reiderico, a sensitive, gentle, caring gay boy who is too logical and ends up retreating into his own world by talking to his alter-ego who lives at the bottom of the well, attempt to survive in the stifling boredom of the house. It is interestingly enough to see different personalities direct each character to go onto different life paths at the end. Blind Mouth Singing provides the audiences with a rich atmosphere and an open space in which one relates to his or her own experiences and starts to explore the inner self.