Breakthrough into Performance A Touchstone Work of Late Modernist American Poetry Jerome McGann I T he first public radio station in the United States, KPFA in Berkeley, Califor- nia, began broadcasting in April 1949. A…
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David Byrne and the
David Byrne and the Utopian Imagination Benjamin Gillespie We’re not fixed, our brains can change. Who we are thankfully extends beyond ourselves . . . to the connections between all of us. —David Byrne, Americano…
Hell’s Kitchen Paintings
Hell’s Kitchen Paintings Richard Maxwell I take photos on my phone. I use the photos as an atmospheric reference to go back to. Impressed with the empty streets of Hell’s Kitchen, my home for the…
Diario, Enero 14, 1959
Diario, Enero 14, 1959 Julian Beck My father, Julian Beck, co-founder of The Living Theatre, kept workbooks—in which he made journal entries—starting in 1952, just after he and my mother, Judith Malina, began Living Theatre…
Convulsión paralela
Parallel Seizure Art and Culture at the End of Days Vaughan Pilikian T here is a photograph from early on in the spread of coronavirus that shows the basement of a shopping mall somewhere in…
Global Voices in the
Global Voices in the Time of Coronavirus Selected and edited by Benjamin Gillespie, Sarah Lucie, and Jennifer Joan Thompson In March 2020, Frank Hentschker, director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate…
Essential Ruptures
Essential Ruptures Herbert Blau’s Power of Mind Joseph Cermatori F rom the 1950s until today, some six years after his death, Herbert Blau has been regarded as one of the United States’ most significant theatre…
Nuestro pueblo, 2019
Nuestro pueblo, 2019 Bonnie Marranca I have always admired Thornton Wilder’s innovative clarity in opening a win- dow onto ordinary life while there was always something extraordinary and profound at the indiscernible far away. Seeing…
Cultures Are Not
Cultures Are Not Anyone’s Property Ariane Mnouchkine in conversation with Joëlle Gayot Introduction by Nora Armani C ultural appropriation is a label that has been applied to creations not only in the performing arts, pero…
What Matters
What Matters Carolee Schneemann In 2006, Katarina Weslien, a visual artist and then director of graduate studies at Maine College of Art, in Portland, asked several artists to write short texts on the most important…