This week’s Reel 13 indie feature, Cult of Sincerity, holds a unique place in the history of the internet…it was the first full-length feature film fully streaming on Youtube. It looks better on TV (airs Saturday,
8/23 at …
Susan Haskins & Michael Riedel interview Bartlett Sher, director of the Tony Award-winning revival. Plus: encore of 1999 celebration of “South Pacific’s 50th Anniversary”, with Don Fellows and Ted Chapin; Features clips from both the 1949 and 2008 productions. Watch now.
Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, SundayArts blogger Susan Yung stepped over a dead baby bird on Prince Street, and then some oily treacle running down the Bowery. It was a suitable overture to the show, which “surveys a landscape… darkened by uncertain catastrophe.” Read more…
What’s real minimalism? It’s not there at all. And that’s exactly what happened to Rhys Chatham’s eagerly awaited piece for 200 electric guitars, A Crimson Grail, on Friday night. But what about the other two performers — Beata Viscera and Manuel Göttsching? Read more…
The face of Catholic New York is being rapidly transformed by Spanish-speaking immigrants from Central and South America and the Caribbean, but many Latino Catholics are also turning away from …
The documentary about Petit’s legendary World Trade Center aerial walk opened in theaters last week; watch this post-9/11 NY Voices segment with Petit talking about art and dreams. Read more about the documentary, which opened in NYC Theaters this month.
Hosted by the International Documentary Assoc., a collection of 20 or so acclaimed docs will screen at Village East and IFC cinemas through the end of the week. A few of these docs have been previewed on Foreign Exchange. Read the full lineup here, including films about Liberia, water politics, a matador’s bio (pictured), Laos, Sudanese rap, more.
The Best Buy website has 3 songs from the Police ‘Last Concert’ encore from August 7 at Madison Square Garden, watchable online. They do “King of Pain”, “So Lonely” and “Every Breath You Take” here.
Andy Warhol would have been 80 today; he was born on August 6, 1928. This episode of “USA Arts”, from 1966, an NET production, profiles pop art pioneer Warhol (and Roy Lichtenstein, in part I), as he ascends in status in the art world and in popular culture. His interviews are mesmerizingly detached and hilarious, and the footage is stunning. Watch now.
The Sports Museum of America is the first museum to pay tribute to the history and excitement of all sports. Watch Thirteen/WNET President Neal Shapiro interview Sports Museum Founder & CEO Philip Schwalb.
