Discount Tickets to “Passing Strange” on Bway
I know these folks from when their band “The Negro Problem” was recording in NYC several years ago. I saw this show when it was at The Public Theatre, and agree with Spike Lee that it’s a boon for Broadway to have a production like this. More info: http://www.passingstrangeonbroadway.com
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$48 ORCH/MEZZ - $21.50 BALCONY
Tues. at 7; Wed. at 2 & 8;
Thurs. at 8; Sat. at 2; Sun. at 3
Fri. and Sat. at 8
“Can you deal with the real?â€
At The Public Theater last spring, I saw a musical called Passing Strange. I was so moved and inspired I went back a second time with the quickness. Now due to popular and critical demand, Passing Strange is moving uptown.
I’m writing to urge you to go see it, as this fresh musical is an unstoppable force of energy, music and mayhem – just what Broadway needs.
The creation of a visionary artist named Stew, a phenomenal singer-songwriter from South Central LA by way of Amsterdam and Berlin, it’s the story of a young black man on a journey of self-discovery. But the pure rock energy, Soul, profound humanity and brilliant cast are the elements that make Passing Strange unforgettable.
The New Yorker called it “a finely-crafted American musical.” And New York Magazine hailed it as “a new musical that – amazing! – actually feels relevant.” Sometimes the critics get it right.
Not the first groundbreaking Broadway hit to get its start at The Public Theater (Hair, A Chorus Line, Noise…Funk), but you can be among the first to see this next big thing. So check out the discount offer. Then go see Passing Strange and tell them Spike sent you.
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or call (212) 947-8844
and use code PSTCE22
[This may not work until Feb 8th]
A $1.50 facilities fee has been included in the price of each ticket. Tickets regularly priced at $111.50. Offer available for selected performances only and excludes seats in center orchestra. Limit 8 tickets per order. Offer not valid in conjunction with any other offer or on previously purchased tickets. Subject to availability and prior sale. Performance schedule subject to change. Telephone and internet orders subject to standard Telecharge.com service fees. All sales final. No refunds or exchanges. Offer may be revoked at any time.
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Agnes Denes (b. 1931) is a New York-based artist considered to be a pioneer of Conceptual art and the Environmental art movement. Denes addresses ecological, cultural, and social issues with works that are often monumental in scale, such as Wheatfield–A Confrontation (1982), a two-acre wheat field she planted and harvested in downtown Manhattan. Between 1992 and 1996, Denes created Tree Mountain–A Living Time Capsule which included a series of intricate drawings on vellum featuring designs for a new forest to be planted in Finland. These works on paper became planning documents for Denes’s major earthwork and reclamation project which involved 11,000 people from all over the world each planting a tree to create a living legacy for future generations. Denes will discuss and present images of drawings and photographs from these and other projects.
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The first Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Award Ceremony took place Wednesday evening, January 16. At the event, 33 individual artists and 7 organizations received grants in the Alliance’s first ever grant cycle. Congratulations to the Alliance for success in meeting their goal to provide grants in their first year of existence; to Artists Unite who received an organizational grant; to Annette Aguilar, Peter Ferko, Keesje Fischer, Rosa Naparstek and Sky Pape, Individual Artist Grant recipients who have a long history with Artists Unite; and all the organizations and artists whose work was recognized by NOMAA.
Giorgio Morandi came to mind, setting up still lifes with simple objects—jars, pots, boxes—and then combining them in various ways. His method resulted in stunningly simple, but interesting and beautiful, paintings. The lesson I learned from Morandi is that there is ample material for art all around us, in the most common, overlooked places and objects. They simply need to be seen with a set of fresh eyes that can translate them into intriguing paintings.
Moreover, seeing things that we are all familiar with, that we can all relate to, but seeing them in a new light, has some magic in it, and that magic is art. It is magical to look at a Chardin still life or a Vermeer interior because we all know what the artist is painting, and yet it is the familiar turned strikingly beautiful. In fact, my favorite Vermeer painting is not one of his famous interiors, but rather one of some buildings in Delft, called “The Little Streetâ€. It depicts an alleyway, some women working and washing clothes. The shapes of the buildings, the colors of the window covers, they all become essential. It is a perfect composition—simple, straightforward, and yet wonderful. I think if I have had a mission statement over the past seven years, it would be just that: take the ordinary and make it into something wonderful through painting.
Two other artists who come readily to mind are Hokusai and Hiroshige. The latter in particular made art out of the most mundane street scenes. By having us look at the street through the looming form of a lantern or kite, he gave us a new way to see a scene that was as familiar in 19th century Japan as it is today. We still understand a busy street or a city lane at night. We can all relate to people crossing a bridge in the pouring rain, struggling to keep their umbrellas upright. It translates across time because of its universality. It is part of the alchemy of taking the ordinary and making it into art.