Chicago to Washington: No Go
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Gail Kalver, managing director of the Hubbard Street Dance Company, says she intends to pursue a Kennedy Center engagement this summer anyway. “We had a letter of intent to appear at the Kennedy Center,” she says. “We’re going to find out if it’s worth anything.” The dance company had turned down other offers in order to participate in the Washington festival. The Goodman Theatre, which had planned to present its production of She Always Said, Pablo, had been ready to sign a contract with the Kennedy Center. “We are continuing negotiations,” says Goodman producing director Roche Schulfer.
Neopop artist Robert Longo can’t complain about the exposure he’s getting around here. Longo is the focus of a major exhibit opening this weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and, though it wasn’t planned to coincide with the MCA showing, another show featuring his work–“Andy [Warhol] and His Children”–also opens this weekend at the Kass/Meridian Gallery in River North. Longo is one of the artists benefiting from intensified interest in pop art in the wake of Warhol’s death in 1987.
