#bill t. jones

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Jodie Foster wearing a Giorgio Armani dress at 67th Academy Awards, Shrine Auditorium | Los Angeles, California, 27 March 1995 VS Bill T. Jones, body painted by Keith Haring, 1983

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Dancer Bill T. Jones getting painted by Keith Haring by Tseng Kwong, 1983

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Footnote 47 in “My Government Means to Kill Me” spotlights a pair of gay forerunners that I admire with all my heart: dance legends and lovers Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.

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Post-Modernist dancers Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane with a backdrop by Keith Haring on the cover of Ballet News, August 1985.

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Artist Alex Katz created this mural, Bill 2, a portrait of modern dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, in 2019 for Murals of La Jolla in San Diego. Murals of La Jolla is a project started in 2010 by The Athenaeum and the La Jolla Community Foundation. It commissions artists to create work to be displayed on buildings around La Jolla. A map of all the murals currently on view can be found here.

From the Murals of La Jolla website about the work-

Alex Katz’s mural, Bill 2, celebrates Bill T. Jones, one of the most noted and recognized modern-dance choreographers of our time. Executed in Katz’s bold and simplified signature style, Bill 2 depicts Jones’ visage, through a series of distinct expressions. The repetition of his face has a cinematic and lyrical quality, reinforcing his place in the world of dance, music and film. Portions of the face are dramatically cropped, giving the viewer only quick and gestural glimpses of Jones. Bill 2, is a striking homage to two artists, Katz and Jones, both renowned in their respective fields of visual and performing arts. The mural’s proximity to the new Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center gives a nod to the interconnected worlds of art, music, and dance.

The Guggenheim museum in NYC is currently showing Alex Katz: Gathering, a retrospective of the artist’s work from the late 1940’s until the present. The exhibition will be up until February 20, 2023.

From their website about the exhibition-

Emerging as an artist in the mid-20th century, Katz forged a mode of figurative painting that fused the energy of Abstract Expressionist canvases with the American vernaculars of the magazine, billboard, and movie screen. Throughout his practice, he has turned to his surroundings in downtown New York City and coastal Maine as his primary subject matter, documenting an evolving community of poets, artists, critics, dancers, and filmmakers who have animated the cultural avant-garde from the postwar period to the present.

Staged in the city where Katz has lived and worked his entire life, and prepared with the close collaboration of the artist, this retrospective will fill the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. Encompassing paintings, oil sketches, collages, drawings, prints, and freestanding “cutout” works, the exhibition will begin with the artist’s intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway from the late 1940s and will culminate in the rapturous, immersive landscapes that have dominated his output in recent years.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has numerous performances every year. Conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones, and choreographed by Jones with Janet Wong and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the latest work, Curriculum II, will be performed at on March 10, 11, and 12, at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston.

Jones also hosts the series Bill Chats at NYC’s The New School. On January 30th, he will be in conversation with Bessie Award-winning theater director and performance artist, Niegel Smith and curator, producer, and director, Kamilah Forbes. For more events check out the New York Live Arts calendar.

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The Universe of Keith Haring

The Universe of Keith Haring    [trailer]

A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring.

If one is already familiar with Haring's life and work then the doc probably won't provide a lot of new info. It also doesn't dwell too much on the later darker days of his life.

But it contains lots of fascinating footage from his early days and interviews with people who knew him back then. Haring had so much enthusiasm and energy. He was truly driven.

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Keith Haring body painting Bill T. Jones in London, 1983.

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'Paradise Square,' a Breathtaking, Exquisite, Mindblowing, American Musical

'Paradise Square,' a Breathtaking, Exquisite, Mindblowing, American Musical A thread ⬇️

(center L-center R): Matt Bogart, Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, Nathaniel Stampley and the ensemble of Paradise Square (Julieta Cervantes) First there was Lin Manuel Miranda and Alex Lacamoire’s Hamilton which codified our founding fathers through a current lens and brought them into living reality with a new understanding of the birth of our nation. Now, there is the musical Paradise…

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I don't think either approach is bad but there's a certain irony in RTD era companions travelling full time with The Doctor but the audience sees their families a lot, but Moffat's companions travel part time but the audience hardly sees their family.

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Keith Haring

Bill T. Jones

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I just found out that the first episode of doctor who came out 10 days before i was born and now I'm crying over that. God, this show means so much to me and she's my age. Now knowing that, I feel like she's been watching over me all my life.

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Keith Haring painting Bill T Jones, by Tseng Kwong Chi (London, 1983)

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raiting stones ships cuz i'm bored and you can't legally stop me