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		<title>Making the Leap: Crossing Broders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am organizing/curating a juried exhibition at A.I.R Gallery and the open call for entry is posted on the gallery web page.  Please feel free to tell anybody who might be interested. We invite you to apply to Making the Leap: Crossing Borders The deadline for the juried exhibition Making the Leap: Crossing Borders applications is September [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am organizing/curating a juried exhibition at A.I.R Gallery and the open call for entry is posted on the gallery web page.  Please feel free to tell anybody who might be interested.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><strong> </strong><br />
We invite you to apply to<br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
<span style="color: #007f7f;"><strong><em>Making the Leap: Crossing Borders<br />
</em></strong></span></span></span></p>
<p>The deadline for the juried exhibition Making the Leap: Crossing Borders applications is <strong>September 19, 2010</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>Show dates:<br />
<strong>December 1, 2010 – January 2, 2011<br />
</strong>at<br />
<strong>A.I.R. Gallery,</strong> Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY</p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The curators seek works by Asian women artists who have immigrated to the United States.<br />
</span><br />
As an international center for art, New York City attracts artists from all over the world, many of whom deal with dual cultural, racial and national identities, and issues of separation from families and loved ones.  In the city, one may experience culture shock due to peculiar living situations, and to different gender role expectations than those experienced in more male-dominated Asian countries. These experiences can be both funny and profound.<br />
America is a place where one can escape one’s own circumstances and reinvent oneself.  This has been particularly true for many women artists from Asia, where conservative social structures discourage  women who deviate from the traditional trajectory of obedient daughter and devoted mother.  The curators encourage women artists from Asia to submit work that specifically addresses the challenges of balancing their own hopes and dreams with expectations of society and family. Works should originate from personal experiences related to this transition.</p>
<p>The juror for this exhibition is <span style="color: #7f007f;"><strong>Renee Riccardo</strong></span>, an independent curator and the founder of ARENA Gallery in New York.<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">For more information, and to apply to  <em><br />
<strong>Making the Leap: Crossing Borders</strong>,<br />
</em>please <span style="color: #fe0000;"><strong>go to </strong><strong></strong></span><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&amp;pagename=makingtheleap&amp;pageid=148/">http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&amp;pagename=makingtheleap&amp;pageid=148/</a></span></span><span style="color: #fe0000;"> </span></strong></span></span></p>
<p><strong></strong><span style="color: #000010;"><span style="font-family: Futura,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">A.I.R. Gallery<br />
111 Front Street, #228 Brooklyn, NY 11201<br />
Gallery Hours: Wednesday &#8211; Sunday 11am &#8211; 6pm<br />
212-255-6651<br />
</span></span><span style="font-family: Futura,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">info@airgallery.org</span></span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&lt;<a href="mailto:info@airgallery.org">mailto:info@airgallery.org</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #0000f1;">&gt;<br />
</span></span><span style="color: #21549b;"><span style="font-family: Futura,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">www.airgallery.org</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&lt;<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.airgallery.org/">http://www.airgallery.org/</a></span></span><span style="color: #0000f2;">&gt;<br />
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		<title>Eating in San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben and I went to San Francisco and Los Angeles to visit family and friends, and of course to sample some delicious foods in California. Overall, we ate very very well both in restaurants and at homes. I was particularly jealous of abundant and high quality produce in many farmer&#8217;s market in Northern California. Here [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ben and I went to San Francisco and Los Angeles to visit family and friends, and of course to sample some delicious foods in California.  Overall,  we ate very very well both in restaurants and at homes.  I was particularly jealous of abundant and high quality produce in many farmer&#8217;s market in Northern California.  Here are some of the memorable places that we have eaten in San Francisco.</p>
<div id="attachment_373" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SPQR.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-373  " title="SPQR" src="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SPQR-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">SPQR on Fillmore</p></div>
<div id="attachment_379" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sformatino.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-379 " title="Bone Marrow Sformatino" src="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sformatino-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bone Marrow Sformatino</p></div>
<p>We were expertly guided by our friend L. in our restaurant choices.  We  met L. for dinner on our first night at <strong><a href="http://www.spqrsf.com/menus/">SPQR</a></strong> on Filmore Street,  which is a Roman style trattoria that had an unusual menu. We started  with Bone marrow sformatino, which was totally unexpected and divine and Chopped chicken liver. For our pasta dishes, we had Squid ink scungilli &amp; octopus ‘puttanesca’, Meyer lemon risotto, pea shoots &amp; fried lemon and Beef cheek pyramid , amaranth, lemon &amp; walnuts; the last being the most unctuously good pyramid shaped raviolo/tortellino style pasta.</p>
<div id="attachment_374" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/oyster.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-374 " title="oyster" src="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/oyster-300x192.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="192" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hog Island Oyster Bar</p></div>
<div id="attachment_375" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sushi2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-375 " title="sushi roll" src="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sushi2-300x184.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="184" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Domo in Hayes Valley</p></div>
<p>Particularly I enjoyed mainly West Coast selection of raw oysters at <a href="ttp://www.hogislandoysters.com/"><strong>Hog Island Oyster Company</strong></a> for lunch one day.  This restaurant is inside the <a href="http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/"><strong>Ferry Building Marketplace </strong></a>on Embacadero, which is full of gourmet and specialty food shops.  You can enjoy an excellent individually brewed coffee at Blue Bottle Coffee in the same building afterward.  I also caught up with one of my oldest friend G. and her boyfriend for dinner at <a href="http://"><strong>Domo Sushi</strong></a>, which had some very interesting inventive sushi rolls.</p>
<div id="attachment_376" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/crab.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-376 " title="crab" src="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/crab-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Thanh Long&#39;s Roasted Crab and Garlic Noodles</p></div>
<div id="attachment_378" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/duckconfit1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-378 " title="duckconfit" src="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/duckconfit1-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Duck confit at the girl &amp; the fig</p></div>
<p>One of my favorite meals was at <a href="http://www.anfamily.com/Restaurants/thanhlong_restaurant/displaypages/homepage.html"><strong>Thanh Long</strong></a>, whose justifiably famous specialty is Vietnamese style roasted crab and garlic noodles.  I should have known that it was going to be a memorable feast when the waiter came around with plastic bibs for each of us.  The monstrous dungeness crab was sweet and buttery.  I could not believe that I could finish the whole crab.  Another favorite meal was the lunch at <a href="http://www.thegirlandthefig.com/html-sonoma/index.html"><strong>the girl &amp; the fig</strong></a>, where we had a very good duck confit (and I have eaten my weight in duck confit in my life) and the best Quiche Lorraine that I have ever had (really!) when we went to Napa and Sonoma for a little wine tasting.  We also liked <a href="http://serpentinesf.com/dinner.html"><strong>Serpetine</strong></a> in newly gentrifying Dog Patch neighborhood.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson&#8221; et &#8220;Hair&#8221;: deux comédies musicales politique et la poursouite de l&#8217;utopie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il est rare que j’aille au spectacle d’une comèdie musicale, mais je me suis trouvée ce mois-ci à deux comèdies musicales politique qui viennet tous les deux de Public Theater.  «Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Sanglant Sanglant Andrew Jackson)» est un nouvel opéra d’emo rock basé sur la vie de le septième président de l’Amérique, Andrew [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_367" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 252px"><a href="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/12523a.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-367" title="12523a" src="http://kiragreene.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/12523a.jpg" alt="" width="242" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</p></div>
<p>Il est rare que j’aille au spectacle d’une comèdie musicale, mais je me suis trouvée ce mois-ci à deux comèdies musicales politique qui viennet tous les deux de Public Theater.  «Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Sanglant Sanglant Andrew Jackson)» est un nouvel opéra d’emo rock basé sur la vie de le septième président de l’Amérique, Andrew Jackson; «Hair (Cheveaux)» est une reprise de l’opéra rock de l’époque hippie (1967) très connu.  C’est interessant que ces deux comèdies musicales semtblent avoir un tel rapport à notre époque d’incertitude et de désaroi politique.</p>
<p>À Public Theater dans East Village, le septième président des États-Unis, dans un paire de jean moulant noir (incarné par Benjamin Walker qui utilise le micro comme une arme) entre en scéne dans «Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson» féroce et prêt à toutes les luttes.  Tapageur, abruti et rusé, cette musicale comedie plaider la cause que ce pays avait toujours une relation avec son président profondément irrationnelle et personnelle.  Réalisé par Alex Timbers, un des fondateurs de troupe de hipsters, <em>Les Frères Corbusier</em>, «Bloody, Bloody» présente un chapitre sauvage et bizzare dans l’histoire américaine qui ne semble pas très lointain.  Après tout, il était la méfiance généralisée d’un gouvernement perçu comme égoïste et élitiste qui a mis le “franc-tireur (maverick)” Jackson à la Maison Blanche en 1829.</p>
<p>«Parfois, il faut reprendre le pays», chante la foule qui se presse autour de Jackson dans la chansons qui ouvre le spectacle, «Le populisme, Yea, Yea» dans la sincère ironique (ou sincèrement ironique) style typique d’emo.  Ce n’est pas seulement la démagogie de Sara Palin et <em>Tea Party</em> que cette scène de moque; également il y a des éléments de la campaigne populaire de Barack Obama qui a dynamisé les jeunnes dans la dernière élection présidentialle dans le populisme troublant de Jackson.  L’idéalisme, le ressentiment, une attention de courte duée et un sens vorace du droit sont mélangés dans ce pays: l’Amérique, l’adolescent éternel.  Qui serait mieux placé pour mener ce monstre adorable qu’une rock star?</p>
<p>Sur Broadway, le même sens de l’idéalisme et l’impulsivité est en étalage dans une autre comédie musicale «Hair», une autre production par Public Theater.  Cette fois la sincérité sans l’ironie n’est que le nom de la partie; les jeunes de ce drame musical se rebellent contre la société et l’authorité sans aucune ironie ou auto-conscience.  Les jeunes comédien séduisants, vêtus aux couleurs vives et aux cheveux longs vivent dans un squat grandiose d’East Village à New York, en faisant l’amour libre, se drogant et organisant les «Be-Ins».  Ils chantent et dansent avec une joie et un enthousiasme déchaînés, et il faudrait une personne plus dure que moi de ne pas être influencé par cette euphorie.  Après tout, ils ne savent pas encore les conséquences de la liberté sexuelle débridée et l&#8217;usage de drogues, ou qu&#8217;ils finiront par mettre les costumes d’affaires pour démarrer de nouvelles entreprises.</p>
<p>Malgré tous ses charmes et sa vivacité, en fin de compte «Bloody, Bloody» semblait complice, vide, inutile et triste dans son regard ver l’histoire.  On s’est montré notre intelligence supérieure sans aucuns effets sur la réalité politique ou la déstructration de la société.  Une partie du problème est également la monotonie et les jérémiades du genre de la musique emo.  Par contraste, une partie du plaisir de «Hair» est la musique: de nombreuses variations encore vivant apès toutes ces années sur la musique populaire américaine comme country, rock’n roll, jazz, folk, etc.  On commence à voir cette passion sans artifice avec une certaine nostalgie, et à se demander peut-être notre cynisme a atteint un point final futile.</p>
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