Tag: performance art

One Day, One Night, Saturday's Alright

Andy Sturdevant — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:39:24 -0500

AMONG THE GREAT unanswerable questions that haunt our city is this one: Why is there a giant, crappy K-Mart superstore sitting in the middle of Nicollet Avenue?

The Paintings Have Been Drinking (Not Me)

Andy Sturdevant — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:34:32 -0500

Travel back with me, if you will for just a moment, to those happy, halcyon days of the year 2001. Oh, what a time to be a young American artist it was!

The Renegade

Lisa Pahl — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:25:41 -0600

Billy X. Curmano, performance artist and provocateur, doesn’t care much for the conventional wisdom that says artists must live in a large city. He may have grown up in Milwaukee and spent time in the East Village and other urban centers of art, but ultimately he decided to make his base of operations a picturesque corner of rural southeastern Minnesota.

Theater in Motion

Lisa Pahl — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:02:27 -0600

In accordance with standards for staging cosmic spectacles, (however low-budget), the cast of A Gift for Planet BX63 (above photo) appeared in glittering, metallic costume.

Claude Wampler: What Just Happened?

Christy DeSmith — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:20:23 -0600

There's some interesting discussion over at the Walker blogs concerning the ~~performance~~ career ender that was staged, just this past weekend, by Claude Wampler. I saw the show on Friday but, sadly, didn't stick around for the Q&A, which sounds to have been very tense. Truth be told, my date was