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Before the Scenes With Richard Maxwell
"Wait, where are you going?" theater director/writer Richard Maxwell asked a few museumgoers leaving his rehearsal at the Whitney Museum Thursday afternoon during his five-day residency on the museum's fourth floor this week. "This isn't a lounge," he joked to another couple seated on the floor watching.
Most theater rehearsal spaces are dingy places. Maxwell's rehearsal space is impossibly grand: 4000 square feet of landmarked modernity designed by one of the most renowned architects of the twentieth century.
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With Help From Volkswagen, Kraftwerk Relives Autobahn
Kraftwerk, the German techno pop group that improbably came to fame in 1974 with "Autobahn," an almost lyric-less piece of synthesizer music, has come back for a grand eight-show retrospective at MoMA. The lead-up to their premiere last night was highly anticipated, with tickets being resold for huge amounts online. What they were buying into was a specific presentation of Kraftwerk, with curatorial and advertising agendas.
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Ready to Burst? Michael Clark at the Whitney
Michael Clark's Who's Zoo, commissioned for the 2012 Whitney Biennial performance series on the fourth floor of the museum, did not live up to expectations. A legendary London-based choreographer and dancer, Clark famously worked with the late gender-morpher, costume-as-art performer and London nightclub habitué Leigh Bowery, and Y.B.A. star Sarah Lucas. His project at the Whitney, which ended yesterday, involved a live residency during museum hours and recruited volunteer participants. Though I saw the work on Apr. 5, apparently it changed immensely over the course of its run.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres at the Armory
This year for the first time the annual Armory Show has a program of performance and film. It is modest, to be sure, but it could prove a refreshing alternative to viewing the booths.
The program got off to a firm start on Wednesday at the VIP preview with an unusual composition by Icelandic artist Örn Alexander Ámundason, "Kreppa: A symphonic poem about the financial situation in Iceland," superbly performed by the Metropolis Ensemble, a New York chamber orchestra that specializes in new music and contemporary composition.
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Film in Spotlight at the Whitney Biennial
This year's Whitney Biennial turns decisively toward performance and film. The Breuer building's 4th floor is devoted to live events, where folding chairs are set up before a 6,000-square-foot theater. Performances will also take place amid the works on the 5th floor mezzanine. Biennial curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders invited Thomas Beard and Ed Halter of Light Industry, the Brooklyn film and video center, to book screenings for 15 film- and video-makers, giving each artist about a week to screen their work in the museum's second-floor theater.
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Image courtesy the artist and Macarone Gallery.
In his sculpture and installation, Eli Hansen, who lives and works in Taco
