tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70168575847938861202024-03-05T14:18:00.601-05:00Carolina CultureBy Jeffrey DayCarolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-60377014421424126352011-11-25T15:43:00.001-05:002011-11-25T15:43:18.808-05:00Just for the heck of it I'm posting this.I do miss doing this, but it will eat my entire life up if i start.Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-75210822536353117072010-02-28T12:09:00.006-05:002010-12-11T20:07:25.367-05:00Viewing art and the cityThis is my last posting for Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Day. (Unless 40 people want to donate $1,000 each a year - or some variation of that- for the next three years or so.) I have taken a job at the Arts Institute at the University of South Carolina spreading the good news about the institute and all the arts at USC.
As things shake out with that I hope to be able to continuing writing for Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-28978378209163403792010-02-26T17:02:00.000-05:002010-02-26T17:02:13.733-05:00Southern Exposure concert off due to snowLooks like I made a bad call about what to feature this weekend. The Southern Exposure concert Saturday night has been canceled. The duo is stuck in the snow in New York.Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-9436315958671020432010-02-25T01:50:00.002-05:002010-02-25T01:50:00.258-05:00New music, old music, lots of books, some art and dance
Concert gives an electrifying musical experience
The Southern Exposure new music series can take many guises: Chinese lute players, contemporary chamber music, solo piano, opera. One concert is always devoted to electronic music and it goes by the catchy and slightly dangerous sounding name Exposed Wiring.
This concert is organized by Reg Bain, a composer who runs the experimental music Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-68522182775659330912010-02-23T22:57:00.001-05:002010-02-23T22:59:17.795-05:00End of an artwork - taking apart Jonathan Brilliant's sculpture at USCCarolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-53196754146647281232010-02-23T01:41:00.018-05:002010-02-23T09:32:28.936-05:00Nude Tuesday! Arts forum report, pianist and composer on Boston radio, taking apart art "Insouciance" by Pat Gilmartin. Gilmartin, of Columbia,will be one of 27 artists in a show at the S.C. Book Festival Saturday and Sundayat the Columbia Convention Center.
Talking about the arts Lately we’ve been having a lot of meetings about the arts. A couple have been forums that have revolved around candidates for city of Columbia and Richland County offices, but a Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-33774328142528875972010-02-21T10:11:00.000-05:002010-02-21T10:11:31.719-05:00Art at the book festival
What’s coming up next weekend is called the South Carolina Book Festival. But I’m going to write about art. Art and the book festival.
Each year the festival, which is put on by the S.C. Humanities Council, uses an artwork on its promotional materials and posters. Usually this is a pre-existing artwork.
The artist this year, Claire Farrell of Columbia, did a painting specifically for the Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-66350535857624180572010-02-19T09:26:00.003-05:002010-02-19T17:58:59.673-05:00Forum provides plenty of ideas for the artsA few nights ago a few dozen people gathered at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art to talk about the arts in Columbia. The floor was open to anyone 9the title of the event was “What I Want The City of Columbia to Do For the Art Is ….”), but it turned in a question and answer session with the candidates for city of Columbia and Richland County offices. And that turned out to be pretty good. Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-66708824600893512892010-02-18T02:47:00.017-05:002010-02-18T23:28:39.398-05:00Weekend arts: not as crazy as the last one, but still some goodies Theater piece uses old stories to tap into today's truthsMost of us know at least some stories from “One Thousand and One Nights” – "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor." Those stories had been kicking around from India to Egypt for thousands of years when they were first collected and published in Persia (centered in Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-61801112131714679282010-02-16T01:21:00.002-05:002010-02-16T08:50:27.503-05:00"Nude Tuesday!" Sex talk. Classical music.
Since it is “Nude Tuesday!” this seems the appropriate time to recap the “What’s Love” event that took place Saturday night. It's an event mostly aimed at being a fun, but with all the talk that goes on around it and the large number of people who attend, it's hard to understand why it can't be good and fun.
I’ve found past “What’s Loves” rather tame and not very good. This year’s (held Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-17661777610146332542010-02-14T11:25:00.006-05:002010-02-15T09:23:03.930-05:00An amazing journey through the long tradition of Lowcountry basketryIn the early fall, I was driving from the Francis Marion National Forest down toward Charleston on Highway 17. It had been a while since I’d been down the road and I was appalled. The sprawl of shopping centers and developments stretches nearly all the way to Awendaw.
My dismay at this rapid and ugly development has to be dwarfed by that which must be felt by the basketmaking communities and theCarolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-54058242276157784942010-02-10T01:05:00.004-05:002010-02-11T10:11:53.888-05:00I don't even know what to say about this weekend, well actually I do - a great deal USC dancers just briefly resting up for intense weekend
Before you dig into the listings today I’m going to provide you a little guidance.
Tonight go the Wadsworth and Friends concert or the USC dance performance (above.) The go by and see "Blues Chapel" and "Last Words" (until midnight) at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios and stop in down the hall and hear jazz at the Blue Martini.
Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-49796194038039354472010-02-09T02:00:00.001-05:002010-02-09T08:03:44.004-05:00Nude Tuesday! Questions about the non-nude candidates and some art news"How to Take Photos Abroad" by Leslie Pierce. It will be in
the "What's Love" show taking place this weekend at 701 Whaley St.
The candidates forum Monday night (see Sunday's posting too)
Dan Cook from Free Times said: Worst Format Ever. I'd just say it should have been only candidates for mayor. And that only two of those candidates - Kirkman Finlay and Steve Morrison - really Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-1343871778009518312010-02-07T04:53:00.003-05:002010-02-08T13:54:26.784-05:00The candidates and the arts - unanswered questions, but upcoming chances to ask more
During many years of attending art events I’ve noticed how rarely one sees elected officials in the audience. (Many others one would expect to see are also rare birds, but let’s save that for another time.)
A few months ago I emailed art questions to the Columbia mayor and city council asking about their involvement in the arts – what they attended, what groups they were members of, if they Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-71508716414648707182010-02-04T01:33:00.006-05:002010-02-04T09:17:06.421-05:00Don't even think about sleeping this weekendThursday, Feb. 4
Exhibitions take you from the church to the graveyardSusan Lenz began working on her series “Blues Chapel” in 2006 and “Last Words” in 2008. She wasn’t thinking about it at the time, but it turns out they made good neighbors like a church and a graveyard. “Blues Chapel,” an homage to women in the blues. and “Last Words,” fabric pieces based on gravestone rubbings, open today at Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-21324717069398831572010-02-03T11:01:00.001-05:002010-02-03T11:03:58.473-05:00"Chemisty" and "Grass Roots" storyI have a pretty big piece about the exhibitions "Chemistry of Color" at the Columbia Museum of Art and "Grass Roots: African origins of an American Art" at USC's McKissick Museum in this week's Free Times. freetimes Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-42483037390298460132010-02-03T01:32:00.001-05:002010-02-03T01:32:00.340-05:00A womb-like world of paper at art center"Within and Out," an installation by Jocelyn Chateauvert, takes its inspiration from the sculpture of Richard Serra. Her paper pieces could not be further from the incredible, but oppressive rusty steel slabs by Serra, but one can see the connections down to some of the colors.The Charleston artists has turned one of the studio apartments at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art into a magical roomCarolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-39681147496103828962010-02-02T01:58:00.001-05:002010-02-02T01:58:00.228-05:00Nude Tuesday! Tiptons concert coming Friday and another tomorrow
"Subjective Perception" by Colin Quashie of Charleston
Tiptons concert back on
The Tiptons saxophone quartet got stuck in the storm Saturday night so couldn't make the planned gig at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art. But they will be in Columbia Friday, Feb. 5 at the unlikely location of Dianne's on Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-30992544329394108042010-01-31T01:52:00.000-05:002010-01-31T01:52:00.657-05:00African-American artists have to walk a tricky line
I can’t remember the last time there were so many exhibitions around that appeared to make a nod to Black History Month.
The main ones are at the Columbia Museum of Art and the McKissick Museum at USC. Oftentimes, it’s the smaller art places that make a point of putting up an African-American show during February because a lot of the bigger places say don’t set aside just one Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-42912889998392434662010-01-30T13:44:00.000-05:002010-01-30T13:44:24.726-05:00Tiptons saxophone quartet concert tonight canceledThe concert scheduled for tonight at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art has been canceled. The band is stuck in the storm somewhere to the north.Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-61185251290988985082010-01-28T01:58:00.005-05:002010-01-31T11:51:28.528-05:00Pounding nails pounding drinks pounding marimbas pounding prose pounding paper pounding prostitutes
Thursday, Jan. 28
Pounding nails again
Steve Harley is back at Trustus Theatre for the first time in a dozen years to take on about a dozen characters in “Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead.” Harley originally did the play at the theater in 1997.
In the play by Eric Bogosian (who wrote the play for himself and performed it many times) Harley takes on the guise of characters Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-68666636164836340202010-01-27T13:10:00.000-05:002010-01-27T13:10:52.005-05:00Artist asked to take down show in Bishopville
Installation at the Bishopville Opera House
Alejandro Garcia of Columbia was told Wednesday to remove his exhibition "An Alien at the Opera" from the Bishopville Opera House.
"They told me I had to come and take it down today," Garcia said.
A call to the Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-84388215722179335542010-01-26T01:00:00.004-05:002010-01-26T21:15:08.688-05:00Nude Tuesday! and some literary news
Nude figure by Bonnie Goldberg of Columbia
(We always need more nudes. Send them to carolinaculture@hotmail.com)
Fiction Project "suspended"
Just heard that the S.C. Fiction Project, run by the S.C. Arts Commission has been canceled this year. The 10 winners have been getting $500 awards and publication in a special section of the Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston since 1993. Most of Carolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-12921910919635378012010-01-21T02:06:00.006-05:002010-01-24T20:03:57.952-05:00Art shows, classical to crazy concerts, dance and more to do during the coming days
Thursday, Jan. 21.
The artist, the pigs, the (former) president
I’ve always felt that Tarleton Blackwell’s paintings of pigs, dogs, wolves had a political or at least a social commentary, but that hasn’t ever been completely clear in his paintings and he hasn’t been one to talk about it. For 20 years the Manning resident has mined and mixed images from fairy tales like the “Three LittleCarolina Culture by Jeffrey Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227187705335156127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016857584793886120.post-51622437130130056342010-01-20T09:51:00.000-05:002010-01-20T09:51:02.832-05:00Columbia arts and the recession - not as bad as it might beEven though times are hard and artists have really suffered, the local arts community appears to be holding up pretty well.
See my cover story in this week's Free Times.
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