Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Another good year of Fresh Meat

  Published: June 25, 2007, 7:02 pm

  Tags: Theater Reviews, Reviews, Trans, Performance Art

  a fabulous collection of performances by transgender artists. The show was well organized (except for the obnoxious bit where they sold out, had a huge line, and started the show about 15 minutes late) and, for once, didn't feel too long. It was heavily dance-focused with performance of Afro-Colombian dance by Columbian Soul, aerial

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• Berlin's Tesla gallery hosts ghostly techno-art

  Published: September 18, 2007, 8:28 am

  Tags: Art, Berlin, Gallery, Julien Maire, Julienmaire, Martin Riches, Martinriches, Performance Art, Performanceart, Random Number Generator, Randomnumbergenerator, Tesla Gallery, Teslagallery

  Misc. Gadgets Do you like art? Do you like mystery? Do you like technology? We get the impression that at least some of you are either nodding in agreement, or mouthing the words, "Yes I do," over and over. If you're one of those lucky few, here's some information you might enjoy. Two artists at the Tesla gallery in Berlin have created fairly

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• Mime artist Marceau dies

  Published: September 23, 2007, 5:15 am

  Tags: Arts Entertainment, Performance Art, France

  The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, aged 84.

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• Queen awards Humphries CBE

  Published: October 10, 2007, 5:19 pm

  Tags: Arts Entertainment, Performance Art, Television, Human Interest, Royalty, United Kingdom, England

  Barry Humphries, the creator of Dame Edna Everage, has been made a CBE by the Queen.

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• Arnhem dancers the latest YouTube hit

  Published: November 1, 2007, 9:07 pm

  Tags: Arts And Entertainment, Dance, Digitalmultimedia Art, Performance Art, Popular Culture, Indigenous, Indigenous Culture, Multiculturalism, Information And Communication, Internet, Australia, Ramingining 0822, Greece

  A group of traditional dancers from Arnhem Land have become a sudden smash hit on the internet - with a unique interpretation of the Greek Zorba.

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• New York Art World Fueled By Booze And The 'AIDS Thing Going On' [Art Is Dead]

  Published: December 7, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Aids, Art Basel, Art Is Dead, Clips, Miami, Performance Art

  newVideoPlayer("art_party.flv", 475, 376);Down in Miami, Art Basel and its retinue of smaller art fairs are gradually destroying that city's sun-addled stale-air mind. Here in New York, however,...

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• Artists vs. Performers

  Published: July 24, 2007, 11:13 am

  Tags: Performance, Art, Industry, Songwriting

  far greater. My song and any artistic cred are all I have to get by on, and I expect to be fully compensated for them. It's a misconception that artists (pure artists, I mean) "get all the chicks." Until there's a public performance of it, they're likely unknown, and even then . . . it really only applies if the artist also happens to be really

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• LUSTRE at P.S. 122

  Published: March 6, 2008, 9:45 am

  Tags: Justin Bond, Ps 122, Nyc, Theatre, Kiki And Herb, East Village, Transgender Issues, Performance Art

  melange of spoken word, performance art, dance, and cabaret as Bond and a cast of gender-variants took us on a

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• Black Party 2008 Recap

  Published: March 31, 2008, 6:23 pm

  Tags: Circuit Parties, Black Party 2008, Black Party, Friendship, Gay Porn, Music, Nyc, Nightlife, Dj Culture, Performance Art

  my arrival at the Black Party to an hour more amenable to sustaining my energy until the close of the event, an accomplishment I have only made four or five times in fifteen attendances, of which this year's was my eleventh consecutive. Boo me. But as I had many out of town friends visiting, there was once again the pre-party gathering at a

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• Alicia Shvarts: Abortion, Art, Politics, Shock, and Consequences

  Published: April 19, 2008, 9:23 pm

  Tags: Art, Body Image, Laurie And Debbie S Blog, Gender, Media, Sexuality, Abortion, Alicia Shvarts, Body Impolitic, Choice, Extreme Art, Feminism, Miscarriage, Performance Art, Pregnancy

  Nick Mamatas discusses Shvarts’s work in the context of “extreme art.” One quality of extreme art (think about explicit erotic art as one example) is that it is rarely mediocre; it is usually an artistic failure and occasionally an extraordinary artistic success. This is because making art about shocking subjects will by

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• Tonight: Karen Finley At Rapture

  Published: April 24, 2008, 9:55 am

  Tags: Best Bets, Rapture Books, Nyc, East Village, Performance Art

  Cafe & Book's closing party: a rare opportunity to see legendary performance artist Karen Finley. 8PM, 200 Avenue A. Free admission!Karen Finley performs a work-in-progress: Impulse To Suck. Rapture celebrates its final "transition" tonight beginning with a performance of a work-in-progress by the highly acclaimed and controversial

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• The Irrelevance of Modern Art and Aliza Shvarts

  Published: April 21, 2008, 5:50 pm

  Tags: Art, Karen Finley, National Endowment For The Arts, Amateurs, Crazy Liberals, Aliza Shvarts, U S Supreme Court, Yale University, Piss Christ, Andres Serrano, Shock Value, Performance Art

  latest court jester in the art world: Aliza Shvarts. A Yale art student, Ms. Shvarts, whose last name could only have led to years of therapy, has stirred controversy with her most recent work.A Yale University student's senior art project, which she said documented her bleeding during repeated self-induced abortions, sparked a protest on

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• Spitzer’s Downfall Inspires Performance Art

  Published: May 22, 2008, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Government Politics, Cultural Affairs, Albany, Pop Culture, Art, Eliot Spitzer, Karen Finley, New York University, Performance Art, Prostitution, Sex

  The performance artist Karen Finley, no stranger to startling her audiences, has a new work in progress about the Spitzer scandal.

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• pop it like it's hot

  Published: June 28, 2008, 6:30 am

  Tags: The Rest, Able Crew, B Boy, B Boys Theatre, B Boyz, B Boyz Amp Amp Ballerina, B Girl, Ballet, Break Dancing, Brooklyn Monkeys, Dance Performance, Gorilla Crew, Modern Dance, Performance Art, Street Dance

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• b-boyz & ballerina

  Published: June 28, 2008, 6:19 am

  Tags: The Social Whore, Able Crew, B Boy, B Boys Theatre, B Boyz, B Boyz Amp Amp Ballerina, B Girl, Ballet, Break Dancing, Brooklyn Monkeys, Dance Performance, Gorilla Crew, Modern Dance, Performance Art, Street Dance

  my wife with a dance performance unlike the usual. No thanks to my penchant for break dancing (as a spectator, on a brutally honest and uncool note), I decided we should catch B-Boyz & Ballerina at Esplanade last night. Admittedly, I was a bit apprehensive about my wife’s reception to the show. She’s not a boring prune of

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