June 17, 2009

Wall Street Journal launches summer arts chat series

The New York Times has Times Talks, has New Yorker has its festival and now the Wall Street Journal is launching a series of arts-themed newsmaker public interviews at Lincoln Center called Summer Scoops.

The schedule is short on finance and long on arts, although technology columnist Walt Mossberg will go one-on-one with Moby, and artist Cai Guoqiang will talk about barrier-breaking in China.

Tickets, which are now on sale, are priced from $20 to $30.

The Summer Scoops schedule:

July 1 - East Meets West on the Upper West Side
Choreographer Shen Wei and artist Cai Guoqiang talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Geoffrey Fowler about border-crossing and barrier-breaking: leaving China, conquering New York and returning to Beijing to help stage the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics.

July 15 - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Big Easy musicians discuss the fight to preserve art and culture in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Participants include trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard; singer Tammy Lynn; Ponderosa Stomp founder Ira Padnos; and Journal jazz writer Larry Blumenfeld.

July 21 - Movie Night with the Lumets
Sidney Lumet and his screenwriter daughter Jenny Lumet talk about their movies and the movies they love and hate with Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern.

Aug. 4 - Planet Hip-Hop
Ahmir “?estlove” Thompson of The Roots and rapper Bajah from Sierra Leone talk to Journal culture editor Christopher John Farley about why hip-hop has gone global and where the music is heading.

Aug. 10 - Mossberg, Moby, Music and More
Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg and musician Moby discuss music and entertainment in the digital age, demonstrate their favorite new gadgets, and offer insight on navigating the world of personal technology.

Aug. 18 – pARTners
Stew and Heidi Rodewald, creators of the Broadway rock musical “Passing Strange,” join choreographer Bill T. Jones and his closest collaborators in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zanes Dance Company to talk to Journal editor Wendy Bounds about artistic partnerships.

June 17, 2009 11:06 AM in Broadway, Sightsology, Techology, Upper West Side

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