The cast of “La Dame Blanche”: Left Column: Katy Lindhart, Kofi Hayford, Joe Lodato. Middle Column: Steven Herring, Andrew Dwan, Maestro Keith Chambers. Right Column: Arnold Livingston Geis, Kathleen Norchi, Laura Zahn. Photo courtesy of NewAmsterdamOpera.org Rare Operatic Birds Take Flight This Spring Small opera companies need to take different routes in order to stand out and compete against the wealthier and more international... City Arts 12 May 2022 | 08:15
Author Zibby Owens. Photo: Kyle Owens The Park Avenue Podcast Queen Turned Author Upper East Sider Zibby Owens is on the move. The 45-year old energetic Jewish mother of four and “Good Morning America” regular... City Arts 06 May 2022 | 12:53
Leerone Hakami and Shay Slusky of West Amadeus Music Studio. Photo: Kay Bontempo ‘Do You Want These Concerts?’ For Leerone Hakami and Shay Slusky, as for nearly all New York City’s professional musicians, the beginning of the COVID-19... City Arts 02 May 2022 | 09:51
Mikhail Turovsky, “Sunflower Suite 17,” n.d., oil on canvas. On loan from the artist. Photo by Volodymyr Gritsyk. © Mikhail Turovsky. Image courtesy of The Ukrainian Museum The Ukrainian Museum “#Stand with Ukraine!” “Save Ukraine” read two paper signs at the entrance to the Ukrainian Museum, located in the East Village’s... City Arts 21 Apr 2022 | 10:31
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98 - 1543). “Sir Thomas More,” 1527. Oil on panel29 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (74.9 x 60.3 cm). The Frick Collection, New York, 1912.1.77. Photo: Michael Bodycomb Renaissance Splendor at the Morgan Fans of the Frick Collection’s famous 16th century portrait duo, “Sir Thomas More” (1527) and “Thomas Cromwell” (1532-33),... City Arts 12 Apr 2022 | 12:39
Gail Morris “Speakeasy” Last Door on the Right, 36x36. Photo courtesy of Bonner David Gallery ‘Beauty Feeds Beauty’ “We love beauty,” gallery owner Christi Bonner Manuelito said about the art displayed at Bonner David Galleries in both their... City Arts 14 Apr 2022 | 10:04
Chelsea Factory Resident Artists Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson rehearsing with their company, Music From the Sole. Photo: Joe Carrotta Chelsea Factory Welcomes Artists In From a garage built to house factory equipment in 1914, to a photographer’s studio, a dance company, then events venue, the... City Arts 08 Apr 2022 | 01:43
There are a number of offerings with deep discounts either through the TKTS Booth or online. Photo: Leida Snow Broadway is Back Whatever it takes. Vaccinated, boosted, masked. No matter how grateful we’ve all been for Zoom these past two years, there... City Arts 04 Apr 2022 | 01:11
Leo Moss (d. 1936), Doll with tears. Macon, GA, ca. 1922. “Mabel Lincoln 1922” handwritten on label sewn totorso. Manufactured body, cotton, papier-mâché, glass. Collection of Deborah Neff. Photo: Ellen McDermott Photography What’s in a Doll? Nearly three years in the making, “Black Dolls” at the New-York Historical Society is child’s play and so much more. Drawn... City Arts 04 Apr 2022 | 10:50
The Whitney Biennial 2022 includes Ellen Gallagher’s “Ecstatic Draught of Fishes,” 2022. Oil, pigment, palladium leaf, and paper on canvas, 89 3/4 × 118 1/8 in. (248 × 300 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy the artist; Gagosian, New York; and Hauser & Wirth, New York Art ... It’s About Time These days, we seem to think of those days. There are movie remakes, revivals on Broadway, and popular television characters... City Arts 03 Apr 2022 | 06:18
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will perform “The Best of Duke Ellington” June 10–11. Photo: Frank Stewart The Sounds of Sunshine Spring and summer in the city just sound different. Catch the buzz with live music indoors, outdoors, or online. It’ll be... City Arts 13 Apr 2022 | 03:01
Sangster, parasol, silk and wood, 1860s, USA. Photo: Eileen Costa The Message of Accessories They say “clothes make the man,” but the “Head to Toe” show at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology says clothes... City Arts 01 Apr 2022 | 09:46
“POTUS” playwright Selina Fillinger and Tony-winning director Susan Stroman. Photo: Jenny Anderson Women Take the Stage The show is called “POTUS,” but rather than focusing on the one who rules the country, it’s about seven key women behind... City Arts 30 Mar 2022 | 11:37
Karl Haendel, installation view of “Praise New York” at Mitchell-Innes Nash. Photo courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York An Homage to NYC’s Religious Leaders Artist Karl Haendel has been thinking about the idea of portraiture for a number of years, but as a contemporary artist,... Home 25 Mar 2022 | 03:01
“Playing Othello” actors panel. Photo courtesy of David Stone, Columbia University ‘Such Sweet Thunder’ Columbia University extends a “sweet invitation” for the whole community of New York City to take part in its current series... City Arts 20 Mar 2022 | 12:42