The Dump (or Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest): He’s Our President, He’s Our Problem at...
Once upon a time, way way back in the 1900s, 4 artists sued the National Endowment for the Arts for defunding their Solo Theater, Individual Artist Fellowships. Though deemed, unanimously, to hold the...
View ArticleDowntown Icons, Non-Consenual Relationships with Ghosts, & Passages
Downtown Icons Panel at La MaMa – Susana Cook, Karen Finley, Maura, C. Carr, Kate Bornstein & Holly Hughes Photo by John Issendorf Someday, if the Earth survives this oligarchy’s drive to suck the...
View Articlein spite of safety and comfort: Perforations Festival round up
Maria Magdalena Kozłowska, Agnieszka Kryst, Robert Wasiewicz, Katarzyna Sikora, Ramona Nagabczyńska and Pawel Sakowicz in “Make Yourself” by Marta Ziółek’s (seated behind mask) In the middle of Bruno...
View ArticleJohn Gutierrez’s view from Miguel Gutierrez’s “This Bridge Called My Ass”
Miguel Gutierrez, Alvaro Gonzalez, Evelyn Sanchez and John Gutierrez. Photo by Paula Lobo For many years I’d been told that I should meet Miguel. So often I sort of just refused. There aren’t that...
View ArticleCreating New Futures: A Statement in Solidarity with Emily Johnson & Calls to...
Square image with black background and hot pink text centered in the image. The text reads # (hashtag symbol) No More Harm. The hashtag symbol and the words No More Harm are next to each other with no...
View ArticleThe Theater(s)We Need Now
Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what life is like, I know...
View ArticleMeghan Moe Beitiks on Prague Quadrennial 2023
It’s twelve years since I saw my last Prague Quadrennial, the international exhibition, festival and symposium of Performance Design and Space (PQ). By its own description, the PQ has “evolved into a...
View ArticleOn NYCB’s 75th Fall: Leadership, Youth, and Deviation
This fall, NYCB kicked off the celebration of their 75th anniversary dedicating the entire season to the work of George Balanchine, the company’s co-founder and artistic realizer. On the night of...
View Article“When The End Becomes The Beginning:” Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born’s...
I recently found myself in something of a reunion. I met up with an old friend from elementary school who happened to have transferred to my (our) college, but despite the shared experience at our...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Cultural Asset Mapping
In August 2021, after more than two decades working with artists and in nonprofit arts and culture organizations of all sizes, I joined the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to...
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