Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta; March 28, 1986) is an American recording artist. Lady Gaga began performing in the rock music scene of New York City’s Lower East Side. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and had her also sign to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
Her debut album, The Fame, was released in August, 2008. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it went number-one in four countries, and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart in the United States. Its first two singles,”Just Dance” and “Poker Face”, co-written and co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, and the album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. In early 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. By the end of 2009, she released her second studio album The Fame Monster, with the global chart-topping lead single “Bad Romance”, as well as having embarked on her second headlining tour of the year, The Monster Ball Tour.
Lady Gaga is inspired by glam rock musicians such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as pop music artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances. For example, critics have pointed out the heavy influence she’s got from Junko Shimada, a Paris-based Japanese designer.[1]
To date, she has sold over eight million albums and 35 million singles digitally worldwide.
The Fame Monster (stylized as The Fame Mons†er) is the second studio album by American recording artist Lady Gaga, released on November 18, 2009. The album’s eight songs were initially intended to be part of a re-release of Gaga’s debut album The Fame. However, Lady Gaga announced that the new songs would be available as a stand alone album, as she thought the re-release was too expensive and that, as the piece represents a separate conceptual and musical body of work, it does not need the songs of The Fame to support it. A Super Deluxe Fame Monster pack containing the two releases was released on December 15, 2009.
The album deals with the darker side of fame, as experienced by Lady Gaga over the course of 20082009 while travelling around the world, and are expressed through a monster metaphor. Gaga compared the feel of her debut album and The Fame Monster with the Yin and yang concept. Cover artwork was done by Hedi Slimane and has a gothic look which Gaga had to convince her record company to allow her to shoot. The composition takes its inspiration from Gothic music and fashion shows. Contemporary critics gave a positive review of the album, with the majority of them complimenting the songs “Bad Romance” and “Dance in the Dark”.
In some countries the album charted together with The Fame while in others like the United States, Canada and Japan, it charted as a separate album. It has reached top ten in most of the major markets. “Bad Romance” was released as the album’s first single. It topped the Canadian, United Kingdom and Irish charts while reaching the top ten in United States, Australia and Sweden. Lady Gaga announced The Monster Ball Tour supporting the album, which started on November 27, 2009 and will continue through June 2010.
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James Kalm is still reeling from the crash and burn of his old computer. This video marks the beginning of new level of half-assed production in HD.
Scott Richter is an artist who has been pushing the limits and ideas of paint and painting for decades. After investigating the process of painting and the mingling of it with elements of sculpture, this show displays a returning to the classic rectangle hung on a wall. Richter’s canvases are luscious, physical and nuanced, with an undeniable presence that is satisfyingly memorable. Includes an interview with Scott Richter.
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James Kalm pedals up to the opening of Inka Essenhighs most recent selection of paintings, The Old New Age. In these works the artist has concentrated on developing a sharp focus depiction of the natural landscape that surrounds her summer studio in Maine. Mingling a fantastic Surrealism with the romantic sublime, forest maddens and spirits in the mist appear to observant viewers. Includes an interview with Inka Essenhigh
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This opening at eDavid Gallery in Bethlehem, PA took place on Friday, October 19th. All four artists attended the opening and provided fantastic insight in to their work. My thanks to each artist for taking the time to speak with me about their passion. There were beautiful works at the show and I encourage everyone to make this Gallery a stop in the Lehigh Valley. David and Amy are friendly people with a warm and inviting gallery. Although this show has finished watch for their next show beginning Friday, November 30th. The video from the new show should be posted by the first Sunday afterwards.
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ARTVOICE Best Dance Company Award 2008 and 2009. Joseph Cipolla, Configuration Dance Theatre Artistic Director, and Michael Shannon, Resident Choreographer, have been described as “The Dream Team” by The Buffalo News (2009 Jan 2).
The New York Times says their “innate classicism is the first great pleasure, an exciting contemporary thrust to their repertory.” Dance Magazine has called Configuration Dance Theatre “a living art gallery.”
CONFIGURATION DANCE THEATRE
10th Anniversary Celebration in 2010
Founder and Artistic Director: Joseph Cipolla
Resident Choreographer: Michael Shannon
Principal Guest Choreographer: Susan Jaffe
Prin. Choreographer: Harrison McEldowney
Natl Advisory Board: Jack Cullen, Susan Jaffe
Founder Emeritus: Catherine Batcheller
2009 REVIEW EXCERPTS
The Buffalo News (May 5)
Journalist: Steve Sucato
Ballet: Joseph Cipolla’s BREATHLESS
Ballet: Susan Jaffe’s ROYENNE
Ballet: Michael Shannon’s BEEN THERE DONE THAT, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS and BOYS WILL BE BOYS, and WHAT HAPPENED TO US
“Configuration Dance Theatre warrants national attention. Choreographically, there were several knock-your-sox-off moments. ABT star Susan Jaffe showed she can shine as a choreographer as brightly as she did as a dancer. Her ROYENNE was world-class. Its elegant and sharp movements delivered adroitly by Erica De LA O and Raul Peinado.”
“Resident choreographer Michael Shannon’s BEEN THERE DONE THAT spans a human life cycle with choreographic skill that ranged from genius, with two utterly superb. In Shannon’s GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS and BOYS WILL BE BOYS, Young-Sil Kim, Kristen Prescott and Kontono Yamazaki sailed through Shannon’s well-crafted European-influenced choreography marked with clever gesture and phrasing. The other notable moment came in Shannon’s WHAT HAPPENED TO US, a ravishing pas de deux performed with passion by Kim and Peinado.”
“The program closed with BREATHLESS by Artistic Director Joseph Cipolla whose gem was a crisp pas de deux performed skillfully by De LA O and Peinado.”
BRIEF FACTS ABOUT CONFIGURATION DANCE THEATRE FOUNDED BY JOSEPH CIPOLLA IN 2000
CDT performs across the country with artists affiliated with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Susan Marshall Company, Atlanta Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Monte Carlo Ballet, New York City Ballet, and others.
CDT is known for its apprenticeship program for young artists to work with internationally renown stars of ballet, American choreographers, Joseph Cipolla, who was Principal Dancer for Birmingham Royal Ballet; Susan Jaffe who was Principal Dancer for American Ballet Theatre; and Michael Shannon, who was Principal Dancer for the Bolshoi Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and Vienna State Opera Ballet.
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July 1, 2008, New York – New Acquisitions, (July 10 through August 22, 2008) will showcase thirty works new to the gallery in the last year, and will include large and small-scale paintings, dramatic sculpture and important drawings by Forum Gallery roster artists and twentieth century and contemporary masters.
This video features works by Steven Assael, Paul Fenniak, Linden Frederick, Edward Hopper, Michael Leonard, Alan Magee, Odd Nerdrum, Larry Rivers, Max Weber, Tom Wesselmann, and Francisco Zúñiga.
Concurrently, running from July 10 through September 6, 2008 Forum Gallery will offer the rare opportunity to see a separate exhibition of eleven of renowned Paris-based artist Charles Matton’s box constructions, each an exquisitely detailed miniature recreation of a real or imagined location. Matton has said of his works: “I create two kinds of boxes: those whose purpose is to recreate an atmosphere that has delighted me, a memory whose existence I wish to perpetuate; and the more objective pieces that are the result of a detailed examination of the “realistic truth” of a certain place.” Painstakingly crafted from wood, mirrors, moving pictures and wallpaper, depictions of the studios of a Classical Sculptor, of libraries and of a pianist performing Debussy will be on view alongside Matton’s Hommages to James Joyce, Edward Hopper, and Lucian Freud.
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ARTVOICE Best Dance Company Award 2008 and 2009. Joseph Cipolla, Configuration Dance Theatre Artistic Director, and Michael Shannon, Resident Choreographer, have been described as “The Dream Team” by The Buffalo News (2009 Jan 2).
The New York Times says their “innate classicism is the first great pleasure, an exciting contemporary thrust to their repertory.” Dance Magazine has called Configuration Dance Theatre “a living art gallery.”
CONFIGURATION DANCE THEATRE
10th Anniversary Celebration in 2010
Founder and Artistic Director: Joseph Cipolla
Resident Choreographer: Michael Shannon
Principal Guest Choreographer: Susan Jaffe
Prin. Choreographer: Harrison McEldowney
Natl Advisory Board: Jack Cullen, Susan Jaffe
Founder Emeritus: Catherine Batcheller
2009 REVIEW EXCERPTS
The Buffalo News (May 5)
Journalist: Steve Sucato
Ballet: Joseph Cipolla’s BREATHLESS
Ballet: Susan Jaffe’s ROYENNE
Ballet: Michael Shannon’s BEEN THERE DONE THAT, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS and BOYS WILL BE BOYS, and WHAT HAPPENED TO US
“Configuration Dance Theatre warrants national attention. Choreographically, there were several knock-your-sox-off moments. ABT star Susan Jaffe showed she can shine as a choreographer as brightly as she did as a dancer. Her ROYENNE was world-class. Its elegant and sharp movements delivered adroitly by Erica De LA O and Raul Peinado.”
“Resident choreographer Michael Shannon’s BEEN THERE DONE THAT spans a human life cycle with choreographic skill that ranged from genius, with two utterly superb. In Shannon’s GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS and BOYS WILL BE BOYS, Young-Sil Kim, Kristen Prescott and Kontono Yamazaki sailed through Shannon’s well-crafted European-influenced choreography marked with clever gesture and phrasing. The other notable moment came in Shannon’s WHAT HAPPENED TO US, a ravishing pas de deux performed with passion by Kim and Peinado.”
“The program closed with BREATHLESS by Artistic Director Joseph Cipolla whose gem was a crisp pas de deux performed skillfully by De LA O and Peinado.”
BRIEF FACTS ABOUT CONFIGURATION DANCE THEATRE FOUNDED BY JOSEPH CIPOLLA IN 2000
CDT performs across the country with artists affiliated with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Susan Marshall Company, Atlanta Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Monte Carlo Ballet, New York City Ballet, and others.
CDT is known for its apprenticeship program for young artists to work with internationally renown stars of ballet, American choreographers, Joseph Cipolla, who was Principal Dancer for Birmingham Royal Ballet; Susan Jaffe who was Principal Dancer for American Ballet Theatre; and Michael Shannon, who was Principal Dancer for the Bolshoi Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and Vienna State Opera Ballet.
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timelapse video of Blu painting the wall at Deitch studios in Long Island, New York.
see the finished piece here: http://blublu.org/sito/blog/?p=159
more about blu here: http://www.blublu.org
more about the gallery at: http://www.deitch.com
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James Kalm is accompanied by Kate for a visit to Peter Dobills four hour endurance piece titled Receiver. With a list of individual actions and videos included in group shows locally Ab Uno is the first comprehensive overview tracing the arc of Dobills performance career. In Receiver, the artist is suspended in a pool of milk, while a bowl placed overhead drips a continuous stream of milk into his nose. By constructing extravagant sets in which to carry out his actions, Dobill seeks to add a visual component to the performances. Also featuring a clip of Hanging one of the artists first pieces. Includes interviews with artist Peter Dobill, and Ben Abbot, Director of Nurture Art,
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James Kalm drops in for an exhibition of recent paintings by one of the last stalwarts of New York School Abstract Expressionism, Thornton Willis. With Lattice Willis is re-investigating a compositional format he explored in the 1960s. After developing a signature image, that both drew attention and limited progression in the late seventies the wedge series was superseded by the crystal series. Lattice is a return to purely horizontal/vertical elements, reducing painterly forms to their most essential simplicity. Featuring an extended interview with Thornton Willis.
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