Paul Tschinkel at Freies Museum Berlin Oct 21, 2009
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Krasner and Mark Kostabi are just a few of the artists that Tschinkel accompanied in the last thirty years. For the series innertubevideo , launched in 1974, Tschinkel portrayed over a decade the most energetic bands and musicians of the emerging Punk and NewWave movement. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Stars will see (RED) at AIDS benefit Oct 1, 2009
Laurie Anderson, Antony, Lydia Lunch, Shane MacGowan, Eric Mingus, Martha Wainwright and other guests are expected to perform ... Laurie Anderson, Antony, Lydia Lunch, Shane MacGowan, Eric Mingus, Martha Wainwright and other guests are expected to perform. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Charges laid over domain name theft Aug 7, 2009
Laurie Anderson, Go Daddy Group's disputes manager, said safeguards exist. They include a 60-day waiting period before a transaction is finalised, during which time owners are sent an e-mail informing them of the pending sale. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Letters to the Pink Jun 1, 2009
Editor - David Rubien astutely points to the strong resemblance between Laurie Anderson and Brad Pitt (This Week, April 26). I wonder if he, or anyone besides my addled self, noted the uncanny likeness between the Dalai Lama as he appears in the photo on Page 1 of the April 26 Bay Area section and Hunter S. Thompson in his later years. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Celebrity Birthdays For The Week Of May 31-June 6 May 29, 2009
Singer Laurie Anderson is 62. Country singer Gail Davies is 61. (KIRO TV, WA)
A busy playmaker May 4, 2009
Listening to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at the ICA were Jim and Kim Pallotta, philanthropist Barbara Lee and son Zach, ICA architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio (who make Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people), stylist Mario Russo, Boldfacers founder Lisa Pierpont, ICA director Jill Medvedow, and board president Paul Buttenwieser. Hello Dalai Introduced years ago by Senator John Kerry, Charles Hotel owner Dick Friedman and the Dalai Lama have become fast... (Boston Globe)
From world premieres to theatre of snow Apr 29, 2009
But one of the most highly anticipated concerts is likely to be the world premiere of a new work by acclaimed avant-garde New York-based performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, co-commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Two-Sided Plays, a series of 10 two-person mini-dramas by Anderson, is now being workshopped and will be presented at the Vancouver Playhouse Feb. 16-21. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Stanford Lively Arts season lineup Apr 28, 2009
The 2009-10 season of Stanford Lively Arts will include the premiere of a commissioned collaboration between the jazz trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas and the filmmaker Bill Morrison, as well as new works by Steve Reich and Laurie Anderson and a staged work by Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington and pipa virtuoso Wu Man ... May 5 (MA) - Laurie Anderson; "Two-Sided Plays". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Stanford Lively Arts unveils new season Apr 28, 2009
On May 5, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson will give a U.S. premiere to "Two-Sided Plays," 10 plays on ways to view opposing sides of issues. Other planned events include performances by the new ballet company Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, the vocal quartet Anonymous 4, and South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Wanna get away, eh? Apr 19, 2009
Last year's list of more than 1,000 performers included Joni Mitchell, who teamed with the Alberta Ballet; singer and poet Laurie Anderson; and young jazz sensation Nikki Yanofsky. The Art Gallery of Ontario, reopened in November with renovations by Toronto-born Frank Gehry, is one of the many venues. (Boston Globe)
Woody Harrelson, Salman Rushdie, Madonna Mar 28, 2009
Among the events, which will bring together 160 writers from 40 countries, is the Evolution/Revolution reading series on April 29, which will feature Edwidge Danticat, Salman Rushdie and Muriel Barbery, among other authors, reading in their original languages; an April 30 panel hosted by The New York Review of Books, "The Economic Crisis and How to Deal With It," including George Soros, Nouriel Roubini and Paul Krugman, the Nobel-winning columnist for The New York Times and the International... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cover story: Meet the Casino Ballroom's house photographer Mar 26, 2009
She's snapped shots of Little Richard, Cyndi Lauper, Laurie Anderson, Joe Cocker, Suzanne Vega and George Carlin. Photography by Nancy Grace Horton. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Family drama drives 'Phoebe in Wonderland' Mar 6, 2009
With her black dresses and eerie calm, Miss Dodger comes across like performance artist Laurie Anderson in charge of fourth grade, and the scenes of her playing head-trips on her smug young students are the sharpest moments here. Phoebe's demons aren't so easily laid to rest, though, and much of the drama is in her fraught mother's attempts to cope. (Boston Globe)
Alternative bands are outside the Grammys looking in Feb 8, 2009
OK, so she was a chrome-domed pop star who would later rip up a photo of the pope on national television, but Sinead O'Connor was still an acclaimed artist who broke out the previous year with "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got." She blew away Grammy competition that was arguably much more alternative: Kate Bush, the Replacements, Laurie Anderson, and World Party (who. . (Boston Globe)
