Robert Stern is known for creating a range of stylistically different buildings, from a Walt Disney project to a master plan for Times Square. Most recently he completed a spectacular new apartment building at 15 Central Park West. Watch story…
This week’s Reel 13 shorts capture distinct senses of time and place. You voted for your favorite. Now find out which film won.
In 1990, thieves disguised as Boston police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and plundered five hundred million dollars worth of art. Follow the art detective assigned to the case in the documentary Stolen. Watch online.
Susan Haskins & Michael Riedel interview Bartlett Sher, director of the Tony Award-winning revival. Plus: encore of 1999 celebration of “South Pacific’s 50th Anniversary”; Features clips from both the 1949 and 2008 productions. Watch now.
Established in 2001, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Award — a cash prize of $25,000 — recognizes an American artist younger than 50 who has produced a significant body of work and consistently demonstrates exceptional creativity. Here are the 2008 nominees.
Most of us don’t have the opportunity to be in Beijing for the Olympics, but Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s new work – The Copier, by Jill Johnson – might satisfy the interests of at least a few fans. The company’s dancers are essentially world-class athletes, capable of doing things most of us can’t even dream [...]
Animation reigns this week at Reel 13. You voted for your favorite, now find out which film won. Watch now…
Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, SundayArts blogger Susan Yung stepped over a dead baby bird on Prince Street, and then some oily treacle running down the Bowery. It was a suitable overture to the show, which “surveys a landscape… darkened by uncertain catastrophe.” Read more…
A profile of political painter Leon Golub and his wife, the prominent anti-war and feminist artist, Nancy Spero. Originally aired as just ‘Golub’ in 1990, the film was updated and lengthened in 2004. Watch now.
As cross-cultural borders blur, we are seeing so-called “uptown” (read: high brow) performers now appearing in club settings. One of them is violinist Eugene Drucker. Read an interview with SundayArts blog writer Jennifer Melick.
