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Category Archives: Performance

Ohno: Oh Yes

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Kazuo Ohno, a seminal figure in the butoh dance movement and one of the great creative spirits of our time, passed away June 1, 2010, at the age of 103. I saw Ohno perform in 1996 at the Japan Society in New York.  In an essay posted on my first website, I wrote, ” I [...]

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Okie Troglodytes

Thursday, May 27, 2010

In the mid-1980′s I was living in my home town of Enid, Oklahoma, working as a video producer for a local ad agency.  I had access to industrial video gear (a Sony DXC-M3 camera and portable U-matic deck), a romantic identification with stone age cave painters, and some unembarrassable friends, one of whom lived on [...]

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My Interview with Yasuko

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

At the May 1 opening of my solo exhibition “Healing Hands” at CRS in New York, I was interviewed by Yasuko Kasaki, author, teacher, healer and founder of CRS, in their beautiful, newly renovated studio. The exhibit consisted of three bodies of work:  “Healing Hands”, a series of color drawings based on the hands of [...]

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Drawing as Theater / Presence as Provocation: Kentridge and Abramovic at MoMA

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art in New York currently hosts retrospectives of two idiosyncratic and uncompromising living artists, Yugoslavian born Marina Abramovic and South African William Kentridge.  The two artists could hardly be more different from each other, but each has followed the path of art as something deeply personal and necessary. Marina Abramovic emerged as [...]

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Events

Friday, February 12, 2010

I’m involved with several events over the next few days.  Click on “Calendar” for details. Sunday the 14th:  Opening for Spring Studio 18th Anniversary Show, featuring hundreds of artists.  Spring Studio, NYC, starts 6:30. Sunday the 14th:  Blacklight Body Painting Dance Party at St. George Healing Arts, Staten Island, 6 pm on, donation suggested. Tuesday [...]

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