A CurtainUp Review -- Blue Man Group
April 8, 2004
In an early scene in this enduring shrine to everything that's good in downtown performance art, one of the Blue Men, famously, pulls paint balls out of a gum ball machine and tosses them across the stage into the mouth of one of his two colleagues. Th...
High Tech Meets Goo With Blue Man Group
November 17, 1991
Blue Man makes an abstract painting on stage by pouring paint onto drums, drumming the hell out of it and catching the cascading spatters on canvas. Then he goes to an art show and deconstructs a fish. Blue Man is the performance group that opens i...
Brand Blue
March 1, 2003
When Chris Wink talks about the challenges facing his organization, he doesn't quote from Who Moved My Cheese? but rather from the Detroit rock duo the White Stripes. He points to the song "Little Room," whose lyrics run in full: "Well, you're in your ...
Music & Marshmallows, in Sync
July 29, 2005
Blue Man Group has been around so long and played so many cities that it's easy to forget that its roots are in the New York performance art scene of the 1980's. Created by Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink, the three earless mutes glistening w...
Blue Man Group Review
August 16, 2006
For sheer, weird, exuberant fun, it’s hard to top this crowd-pleasing East Village happening, which may be the world’s most accessible piece of multimedia performance art. The premise is simple: Three deadpan aliens, with comical puzzlement, gamely work their way through the trappings of modern culture. They drum on paint...
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