Laurie Anderson in Cleveland and Manhattan
Laurie Anderson, "Duets on Ice," (1974) performed in Genoa, 1975. Documentary photograph. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Bob Bielecki.
This Saturday at the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square, Laurie Anderson will be performing Burning Leaves, a retrospective of songs and stories that culls pieces from her acclaimed solo shows The Speed of Darkness, Happiness, The End of the Moon and Homeland.
The Season 1 artist’s new sound sculpture In the House. In the Fire. is also included in The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 currently at the Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition traces how Asian art, literature, and philosophy have influenced and assimilated into the work of vanguard American artists, a diverse selection that includes among them Jack Kerouac, Georgia O’Keeffe, Yoko Ono, James McNeill Whistler, Robert Irwin, and Ann Hamilton (Season 1).
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Laurie Anderson is phenomenal. Anyone see this feature about her in FLYP? She’s ridiculous and I love it. http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/plus/08/#1/1
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