Billy X. Curmano

The latest issue of the newsletter, that feminist art historian Lucy Lippard has referred to as "hokey fan club press", is just out. "The Fandango" is archived at the Museum of Modern Art Library (NYC), so if you want to…

I was proof-reading material for the next "Fandango" do out shortly. It reminded me of the exhibition I participated in at the Rourke Museum, Moorhead, MN last summer. I decided to re-create an older piece for their Neo-Dada theme. …

Okay, so we aren't selling stock - but we are making our first Tiny Xmas Card available to the public For several years, we've been sending out postage stamp size greeting cards with "The Fandango". This year, we're putting that…

I have had the great pleasure to work with the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Art as both an artist and panelist. For about 30-years, artists have been invited to an annual meeting at the…

I was just thinking about when I was a young boy - maybe even a young man. I liked to rough house, wrestle, play sports, bang into my friends and so on. I think the pain helped me realize I…

There is a video short up at You Tube from my Arctic Adventure. Go see it. The back story from "The Fandango" (Vol. 29; 2005-06) follows Live Art: 66º 33' North is the third installment of a water based environmental…

The first video on the Links Page is from a solo performance in Brooklyn that was part of a much larger project. Here's a back story from "The Fandango" (Vol. 28; 2005) The Greyhound Tour was a slice of…

I finally saw a copy of "The Lure of the Local" by Lucy Lippard. It was published in 1997, but I had no idea I was included in it “But few have yet to discover this vast territory of…

I was busily working the other day when the phone rang. A young woman's voice seemed surprised to have connected with Billy X. I assured her it was indeed I. She told me "they" were studying me and identified herself…

Billy had recorded with both Steve Smith and John Pendergast, but the 3 first played together at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center with New X. It was the end of Billy's swim from the source of the Mississippi River…

The black & white photo on the head of the site is by Kevin Pomeroy. It's the New X Art Ensemble featuring the Amazing Tess Toster Tones at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis John O'Hara bit the orange for Orange Alert.…