Author Archive
Bard Graduate Center’s The Actress as Artists’ Muse
Return to a world in which stage actresses were treated like rock stars Feb. 9 with The Actress as Artist’s Muse: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and Ellen Terry. The special lecture at the Gallery at Bard Graduate Center will find art historian Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur and former director of Dahesh Museum...
Art Crawl 2012 Kicks Off Feb. 4
This Saturday, Feb. 4, join ARTLOG for the first Art Crawl of 2012. Beginning at 3 p.m. at The New Museum, 235 Bowery, the fifth annual event (presented in partnership with Thrillist, The New Museum, Columbia University Alumni and The Appraisers Association) will celebrate the Lower East Side’s leading galleries from 3–7 p.m., concluding with...
Cecil Fabulous: Beaton’s New York Years Revived
By Marsha McCreadie One high aesthetic compliment is to call an artist ahead of his time. Yet the real trick is to be of your time and ahead of it, too. Cecil Beaton—photographer, illustrator, set and costume designer, even author—turned that trick, and nicely, too. The fabulous results, even a hint at his motivation, are...
Dr. Kahlil Gibran Muhammad
Dr. Kahlil Gibran Muhammad, formerly an assistant professor of history at Indiana University, was named director of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at a press conference Nov. 17, 2010. On the flight home that day, Muhammad glanced over to see his seatmate unfold the New York Times’ Arts and Leisure section and...
BROTHERLY SHOVE
Samuel Brett Williams’ Derby Day makes for a winning day at the races By Dough Strassler Derby Day covers much the same ground popularized by Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County: adults behaving badly and tossing out family secrets with the aim of a javelin thrower. It’s not an entirely polished work, though talented playwright Samuel...
Robert Battle
No one could have been better suited than Robert Battle to take over the artistic direction of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from the stupendous Judith Jamison. When he assumed the position in July 2011, though only 38, he had already achieved more than many people do in a lifetime. Battle graduated from two...
Events Listings
Art Events American Realness: Abrons Arts Center presents 46 productions of 20 dance, theater & performance works over 10 days. Jan. 5–15, Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St., abronsartscenter.org. Peter & The Wolf: Isaac Mizrahi narrates Prokofiev’s classic, performed by the Juilliard Ensemble, as Jason Hackenwerth creates a mobile installation with thousands of balloons. Ends...
Rose Kuo
Under the agile leadership of Rose Kuo, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Rendezvous with French Cinema, and its many smaller programs in between provide platforms for gifted filmmakers and give NYC cinephiles viewing opportunities unequaled at local multiplexes. Kuo, who joined the Society in 2010 after...
The One-Night-Only Return of Nina Ananiashvili
Nina Ananiashvili may have retired in a flower-strewn farewell performance from American Ballet Theatre last year, but the seemingly ageless ballerina is still dancing with the State Ballet of Georgia, the company she has directed since 2004 in her native land. That’s Georgia as in the former Soviet Republic—and the birthplace of George Balanchine. And...
The City Arts Interview: Will Barnet
Will Barnet’s eight-decade career is not only one of the most enduring of any living American artist, it is also one of the most varied. Over the many years, the renowned painter and printmaker has moved through phases of social realism, cubism, abstraction and lyrical realism before his recent return to abstraction. His numerous awards...
Paul Holdengräber
New York City’s reigning nightlife impresario may well be Paul Holdengräber, director of public programs at the 42nd Street Library. His cheerfully inclusive “LIVE from the NYPL” interview series blasts away fusty cultural assumptions by featuring Patti Smith as well as Zadie Smith and such unlikely pairings as Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens. Holdengräber tunnels...
Maurice Prendergast Paris Scene Unearthed at Clarke Auction
While sifting through a large box lot of art dropped off at the Larchmont, N.Y., gallery by what is known in the trade as a “picker,” Nelia Moore, art specialist/auctioneer at Clarke Auction spotted a beautifully executed but very dirty painting on panel of a woman in a veil. After dusting it off and studying...
Graham Caldwell’s ‘The Exploding View’
Through Saturday, catch Graham Caldwell’s The Exploding View at Martos Gallery. By manipulating brightly colored glass to its limits, Caldwell has created distorted, crumpled surfaces reminiscent of sea creatures.
October Is Free Night of Theater Month
As media sponsor of 2011’s Free Night of Theater NYC, CityArts sent our publisher, Kate Walsh, to a press conference at City Hall Sept. 27, where October was declared Free Night of Theater Month.
OUT OF TOWN 9.29.2011
THE ALDRICH: Brooklyn-based art collective MTAA presents “All The Holidays All at Once,” a months-long all-inclusive display of loaned lawn ornaments from every conceivable holiday. Ends Oct. 2, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, Conn., aldrichart.org. BRUCE MUSEUM: “Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students & Circle from the Maida & George Abrams Collection” features 10 of the artists’...
OUT OF TOWN
THE ALDRICH: Brooklyn-based art collective MTAA presents “All The Holidays All at Once,” a months-long all-inclusive display of loaned lawn ornaments from every conceivable holiday. Ends Oct. 2, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, Conn., aldrichart.org. BRUCE MUSEUM: “Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students & Circle from the Maida & George Abrams Collection” features 10 of the artist’s...
No Labor Day Plans? Try the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Craft Fairs
Treat yourself to a day trip this Labor Day weekend with the 2011 Woodstock-New Paltz Arts & Craft Fair, featuring ’60s psychedelics icon artist Isaac Abrams. Since 1964, Abrams has never taken a vocational break from his greatest passion, painting.
2011 Annenberg Prize Announced
Creative Time announced today that Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk is the third winner of the annual Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, to be presented at the third annual Creative Time Summit conference at NYU Skirball Center Sept. 23. Van Heeswijk, known for her intensive, long-term commitment to community organizing and social...
Daedalus String Quartet at Music Mountain
Postponed by Hurricane Irene, the acclaimed Daedalus String Quartet, with award-winning pianist Soyeon Lee, will wrap up Music Mountain’s 2011-2012 season at 3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 11, rather than the previously announced Aug. 28.
Star Light, Star Bright
Thanks to one man, New Yorkers can wish upon a star again The little-guy-against-the-odds story of Jon Morris continues this week. Creative director of The Windmill Factory, two-and-a-half years ago Morris had the idea of creating a starry night sky over the Hudson River for New Yorkers who wanted a glimpse of something other than...
