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Monday, March 18, 2013

heard ny









heard•ny is an installation & performance piece that will be presented from monday 25 march through sunday 31 march, 2013, as part of a series of events celebrating grand central terminal's centennial.

artist nick cave will transform grand central terminal's vanderbilt hall into a pasture for a grazing herd of 30 fantastical life-size horses. sixty dance students from the ailey school will don cave's celebrated 'soundsuits' & perform specially choreographed 'crossings' at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. every day.

cave worked closely with chicago-based choreographer william gill to design the dancers' movements, incorporating both choreographed & improvised movement. the horses will preform as a 'herd' in the vanderbilt hall or in smaller groups within the main concourse & throughout grand central terminal. 

this is a creative time project founded in 1974, creative time is a new york based non-projit that has commissioned & presented the most innovative art in the public realm throughout new york city, across the united states & around the world.

wish i was there! 



Saturday, March 2, 2013

carl van vechten

agnes de mille as venus, 1940


marie doro, 1933


kaloah, 1936


james earl jones, 1961


emilie grigsby, 1934


harry belafonte, 1954


pearl bailey, 1946


cab calloway, 1933


clare luce booth, 1933


tallulah bankhead, 1934


tallulah bankhead's winston churchill, 1941


truman capote, 1948


alvin ailey, 1955


rose covarrubias, 1932


joe louis at greenwood lake, n.j. (joseph louis barrow), 1941 


anton dolin, italian suite, 1940