Art in One Form or Another

Traffic Art

You definitely have a captive audience here! As part of the LA><ART program,which promotes experimental exhibitions and public art initiatives, artist Joel Kyack has launched his project Superclogger, which will present puppet shows to drivers caught in afternoon traffic jams in various Los Angeles highways. Shows will be performed on a mobile theater housed in the back of a nondescript white pickup truck, with soundtracks broadcasted to the drivers’ stereos. Via psfk.

A Behanding in Spokane

Thanks to a 'snow storm' special on Friday I was able to enjoy A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway in the 10th row alongside Hank Moody (I prefer his stage name to David Dukovany) and Roger Sterling (aka John Slattery). Christopher Walken plays a man whose been searching for his decapitated hand from 47 years ago while two con artists and an off-kilter hotel clerk rounds out a memorable and hilarious story.

Go See: A View from the Bridge

Liev Schreiber can downright act and I'm not talking about his performances in Scream, X-Men or Repo Man. I just caught his performance in A View from the Bridge on Broadway.

Set during the 1950s in Red Hook, a poor Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, the play depicts the fall of family man Eddie Carbone (Leiv Schreiber) who has helped raise his wife’s orphaned niece, Catherine (Scarlett Johanssonn). Now 17, she wears heels and “walks wavy,” transforming Eddie’s paternal affection into passion.

Desperate to keep her from marrying Rodolpho, a charming immigrant, Eddie informs on him and his tough brother, Marco, who exacts revenge.

Living in Andreas Gursky's World

I am very careful about whose photography I would give up an organ for: Thomas Struth, Richard Misrach. Maybe Jenny Holzer and Marilyn Minter. Giving up a limb, however, is a consideration on a whole other level. There is only one artist that would get an arm or a leg from me: Andreas Gursky.

Whenever I travel, I think about the scene in front of me as an Andreas Gursky. Filmmaker Ben Lewis does the same. He takes a bizarre journey where the adventure documents how it's Gursky's World and we're all living in it. His adventure takes him from Reading to Dusseldorf. When he meets finally his hero, he gains a fuller understanding of what it means to live in a 'Gursky World'.

Ari Gold, Zoe Bartlett and Pushing Daisies Dude Don't Scare Me on Broadway

Last week we caught the preview of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow Broadway revival. The play is about two Hollywood power brokers (Jeremy Piven and Raul Esparza) and an assistant (Elizabeth Moss) who debate the merits of art vs. commerce over green-lighting a sure-fire blockbuster or a script that has more "spiritual meaning."

While the idea of Jeremy Piven playing a studio head may seem like he is rehashing his role on Entourage, he really is able to make Bobby Gold a more dimensional character.

Elizabeth Moss played Karen perfectly walking the line between sexy and naive. Raul Esparza who played Charlie Fox stole the show, selling the idea to the crowd that he'd serve up his own mother for Executive Producer credits in a blockbuster movie.