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Art
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CALLING
ALL CURATORS: That mainstay of downtown Troy, the Arts
Center of the Capital Region, needs you. If you’re an
“established, professional” curator of accomplishment and
vision (or have at least convinced enough people that that
is indeed the case), and wish to follow in the footsteps of
such esteemed guest curators as Ian Berry, Jessica Hough,
Lisa Dorin, Susette Min, Marisa White and Luis Camnitzer,
the Arts Center wants to hear from you. There are a couple
of ways to skin the show at the ACCR. You may shape an exhibit
from the center’s “extensive slide registry.” You may bring
your own exhibit, en masse, to the center. In either event,
you need to send your CV, documentation of previous exhibits
and a brief write-up (no more than 200 words) of just what
it is you have in mind to the ACCR by Nov. 15, 2004. For details
call 273-0552, or visit www.arts centeronline.org.
ELVIS (OR AT LEAST A COBRA) WILL BE IN THE HOUSE: Sayeth the
great gods of art: Judge not the work by the materials with
which it is created. As a case in point, black velvet—an oft-maligned
medium—can be used to make art that is perfectly swell. This
fact will be proved again at the Lake George Arts Project’s
16th annual Black Velvet Art Party on Nov. 13 at
the Fort William Henry Conference Center in Lake George. The
event is a fund-raiser for the Lake George Arts Project’s
well-regarded and successful exhibits in the Courthouse Gallery,
and will include music, games, psychic readings and other
shenanigans. How, you’re wondering, to get your black velvet
creations into the show? Artwork should be delivered to the
arts project offices (Old County Courthouse, side entrance,
1 Amherst St., Lake George) on Nov. 2, 3 or 4 from noon to
5 PM. Submitted works must contain “black velvet, black velours,
black velveteen or black flock, and may include other materials.”
For more information, call 668-2616, or visit www.lakegeorgearts.org.
CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER: Author and former Times Union
chief movie critic Amy Biancolli has been named the
2004 Author of the Year by the Friends of the Albany Public
Library. (Past winners include some guy named Kennedy.)
Biancolli, who previously earned kudos for her bio of Viennese
violinist-composer Fritz Kreisler, is being honored
for her memoir House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in
Six Cracked Parts. (You can buy the book at various local
independent bookstores, or online at www.lulu.com/amybiancolli.)
The Author of the Year Luncheon is on Nov. 6 at noon, at the
Albany Public Library main branch. Tickets are $15; call 427-4333
for info. For those (like us) who were saddened when Biancolli
split from the TU (and dismayed when the TU
replaced her with Roger-freaking-Ebert, for God’s sake),
her insightful movie reviews are now appearing in the Houston
Chronicle—at the rate of “about three or four per month,”
Biancolli reports. So go online and have a look. (You
look up the Web site.)
—Shawn
Stone
Vaudeville
Lives
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photo:
Leif Zurmuhlen
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Or
at least it came back from the dead at Valentine’s on Sept.
27, when impresario-mixologist Jim Romano presented the Bing
Bam Boo Room. According to a highly-placed source at the performance,
only two out of the six local gals who were going to do a
burlesque act showed up—but the two who didn’t chicken out
were terrific. Also on hand: a belly dancer who performed
to a Clash song (huh?), a comedic juggler who worked with
empty plastic Price Chopper bags (huh? again!), a Rodney Dangerfield
impersonator (creepily timely) and magician Jeffrey Jene (pictured).
This won’t be the last such evening, either, so keep your
eye on Valentine’s listings.
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