Missed Connection no. 2 @ The Strand
Artists Wanted : Art Takes Times Square
On June 18th, the world’s most visited attraction will be transformed into one of the year’s most immense exhibitions of art. Right now there are over 100,000 viewers collecting their favorite works on the Art Takes Times Square website to help determine whose artwork will take over the massive, glittering screens of Times Square. This is your chance to be the star.
Be a part of this international phenomenon for a chance at over $16,000 in awards, including a $10,000 grant and massive Times Square billboard exhibition for the winning artist and a $5,000 Dream Getaway in NYC for the winning collector…
Participation is free. Click Here to Learn More »
Your Final Deadline to Enter is Friday May 25, 2012 11:59pm EST
(Casel) Manuel Galvez is a contender for Art Takes Times Square, to see more entrants, click here ».
* Include a link to your Tumblr page to be eligible for review by the Tumblr jury panel and you could be the Tumblr Pick! One artist from the Tumblr community will be selected by:Paddy Johnson, Founding Editor of Art Fag City
Hrag Vartanian, Founding Editor of Hyperallergic
Jenny Moore, Assistant Curator at New Museum
Dave Harper, Curator at BAMarts
David Goerk, Gallery Dealer at The Pace GalleryGood Luck!
Margaret Atwood, Martin Amis, and E.L. Doctorow in conversation at Times Talks / PEN World Voices.
(via PEN.org » Blog Archive TimesTalks: Margaret Atwood, Martin Amis, and E.L. Doctorow - PEN.org)
We like: day of creative writing workshops throughout the city. On the subway, in the park, on a bridge, on a ferry, and in a museum.
2010 PEN Translation Fund Recipient Daniel Brunet Presents Dea Loher’s Bluebeard
When: May 21, 2012
Where: Goethe-Institut New York, Wyoming Building: 5 East 3rd Street, NYC
What time: 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Daniel Brunet received a PEN Translation Fund Award in 2010 to support his translation of Dea Loher’s play The Last Fire. He has continued to translate Loher’s work, and now is presenting a reading of his latest: Dea Loher’s Bluebeard—Hope of Women, which will be shown as a staged reading this Monday at the Goethe Institut’s event space in the East Village, the Wyoming Building.
Cathy Park Hong reads at Bookcourt during the Brooklyn Litcrawl. Hong was an impressive performer at the height of her craft.
WE WON! Thanks to your votes, Brooklyn Public Library will receive $250,000 from Partners in Preservation for restoration of our Central Library front doors.
Brooklyn Central Library on winning the crowdsourced $250,000 preservation grant in NYC.
Vote to help us restore Central Library’s iconic front doors.
(via fictionthatmatters)
“The PEN America Center’s organizational focus is the effect of world events on the safety and freedom of expression of writers, so the topic of war naturally looms large in its cultural consciousness. As part of the recent PEN World Voices Festival, Polish journalist and author Wojciech Jagielski was interviewed by Joel Whitney, a founding editor of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics.”
(via A Reporter’s Perspective on War at PEN World Voices - WNYC Culture)
MOMA’s supercool dial-a-poem exhibit.
Listen to Dial-a-Poem by clicking the play button above; by picking up one of the four telephones in the exhibition; or by calling the local New York number 347-POET001 on your own phone. (Dial-a-Poem is free, but your mobile phone fees will apply.)
(via MoMA | Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language | Dial-a-Poem)
Hey BEA folks, check out this cool poster I designed. It reminds you to donate your leftover books to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, where we will sell them and used the funds to fight to end AIDS and homelessness! Come on, donate!
