15/5-NY6 Here & Once, Bang!

It seems ACC has not get in touch with the National Arts Journalism Program before I get here, luckily Wonnie send me an email about their coming function (including a saturday conference) in Philadelphia Museum of Art. Their own website must has not been updated for almost a whole year, though I didn't remember having download their second report on art criticism in the US.
Finished some work with Lawman on the other side of the Alantic in the morning, started off just shortly after lunch and supermarket shopping. Other than the little exhibitions I walkby that stills open on Monday, one that of Parson Design with a student doing his presentation, plus some of the used bk stores, the only target of today for me is the Big Bang concert theater at CUNY Graduate Center. It is really a strange performance, for it invited an astronomer as narrator, narrating a sequence of episodes from Big Bang(birth of the galaxy) to the end of galaxy(time/universe), some incidents that happened in split seconds, some billions and billions of years. accompanying the text reading is a projection of stellars bodies and some scientific diagrams, plus a live musical ensemble. All of these are the brainchild of the composer Patrick Grant. Sitting there, you are like watching a popular science tv program (which I actually did this morning on Stephen Hawking), or a scientifc lecture, but suddenly, the background music, images, and narrator each jump to the front and takes on the stage and make the show a live one, which could thus only be art, but with concrete substance in science education, while the electronic music suiting the occassion, leads you to music appreciation. It does not even bother about those cliche of art and science coming together. Maybe it is also free, it gives no pressure whatsoever to the audience, and I really enjoy it, and feel good having learn something at the same time.