New York Public Radio to archive August Wilson plays

New York Public Radio to Record August Wilson’s Plays
by Felicia R. Lee, The New York Times, November 14, 2012

Making art your business

Artists and the Business of Art

moderated by WNYC's Leonard Lopate

at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space

Wednesday, March 21, 7pm

WNYC's Leonard Lopate will convene two panels of gallery owners and artists to discuss the ecosystem of the New York art world in 2012.

Lopate will explore a wide range of topics in the first panel, including the state of the industry and how it has fared in the economic downturn, the exponential growth of art fairs and their impact on the way art is being marketed these days.  His guests include Sean Kelly, owner of Sean Kelly Gallery in Chelsea, and artists Pat Steir (Cheim and Read Gallery) and Richard Phillips (Gagosian Gallery).

The second panel will welcome four artists at various stages of their careers – MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning abstract expressionist Joan Snyder, interactive video artist Peter Campus, nature photographer Ryan McGinnis, and installation artist Jean Shin – to swap stories and compare notes on surviving as artists in New York.  Topics will include taking a non-art job to pay the bills, the stresses of securing and managing studio space, and the politics of sustaining an art career in a city as expensive as New York.

Tickets are $15. Click here to order.

Live Video Webcast will be available to stream. Click here.

The Greene Space
44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street), Manhattan
(directions)

Checking out "Fela!" at Soundcheck

WNYC's Soundcheck program hosted an intimate in-studio performance today at The Greene Space, featuring the musical duo Dean & Britta and cast members of Broadway's Fela!

Dean Wareham (guitar, vocals) and Britta Phillips (keyboards, vocals) will launch a limited-edition deluxe double CD next Tuesday—13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests.

“It's kind of like making a music video but backwards,” said Wareham of their intriguing commission to score Warhol's simply shot, slowed-down portraits of Factory studio pals like Nico, Jane Holzer and Mary Woronov. The duo opened with “I'll Keep It With Mine,” the Dylan song Nico recorded on Chelsea Girl. They followed with the darkly dreamy, twangy “I Found It Not So”--written for a film of Woronov but mistakenly accompanying a film of Holzer thoroughly, endlessly brushing her pearly whites. I had to agree with Soundcheck host John Schaefer: Mistake or not, the song and the film fit!

Look for Wareham and band, including Phillips, performing Galaxie 500 songs at the Bowery Ballroom, August 19. Complete show information

Soundcheck audio and more information on Dean & Britta

You haven't seen Bill T. Jones's Fela! in any of its incarnations? I don't even want to talk to you. But the irresistible samples Schaefer offered this afternoon--with Fela! star Sahr Ngaujah, other company members and the magnificent musicians from Antibalas rocking the show's versions of "Everything Scatter," "Upside Down" and especially "Water Get No Enemy"--should get more folks there. The little Greene Space was packed with people arranged in orderly rows, but it was hard to stay seated.

Recently, Femi Kuti--son of the late Afrobeat king Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and a renowned singer-bandleader in his own right--visited the Broadway show for the first time. He was moved to tears. Ngaujah told us, "Femi said that [his father] would have been quite amused by what we're doing--in the best way!"

Soundcheck audio and more information on Fela!

Fela! on Broadway website

The Greene Space information and schedule

World AIDS Day with Sonia Sanchez and Ronald K. Brown

In recognition of World AIDS Day 2009, WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space welcomes poet Sonia Sanchez and choreographer Ronald K. Brown, plus a discussion of AIDS in the African-American community.

Complete information here
Tuesday, December 1 -- 7pm-9pm