Florent always was a haven for creative nightowls; the chi-chi uptown crowd may have had Elaine’s and the likes, but the downtown people would get their steak-frites in a much more egalitarian setting. Now the 24/7 institution is being forced out by the rising cost of rent. Read more…
In the 1860s, despite increasing westward expansion, many Americans still had not seen images of the frontier. Imagine, then, gazing into Albert Bierstadt’s 84-square-foot oil-on-canvas paean to Manifest Destiny, A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie. It’s at the Brooklyn Museum, and in this video at SundayArts online.
This week’s Reel 13 shorts were all exercises in animation, some with political messages. You voted. Now see which short grabbed the most votes.
This Saturday’s Reel 13 Indie movie (airs at 11:10 p.m. on Saturday, May 24) is not about music per se, but director and star Matt Dillon loaded his soundtrack with rare Cambodian music from the 60s and 70s, from stars of the day. Read more…
In the opera universe, there’s wacky and weird — and then there’s Stefan Zucker. This living “world’s highest tenor” is so strange as to defy description. Watch this clip to see for yourself.
Living in New York City, the line between public and private space blurs. The photographers in an NYPL exhibit called ‘Eminent Domain’ address that line, a line crossed regularly by city dwellers turned inadvertent voyeurs. Watch SundayArts segment…
William Styron’s fiction grapples with some of the most harrowing events and unresolved moral questions of our time. But Styron’s work about mental illness — specifically, the dark demon of depression — deserves an equal share of praise.
Meet Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, a cellist currently studying at the Julliard School of Music. Learn about her musical upbringing in Iceland, hear how she discovered her passion for the cello in a place as unlikely as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and watch her perform “Prelude in E-flat” from J.S. Bach’s A Suite of Dances.
The new building, which opens in August, will be graced by the works of Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Martin Puryear, Maya Lin, and more–they represent a significant cross-section of American and Chinese artists, read more…
Television commercials are probably as good an indicator of a society’s cultural health as any. And anyone looking for proof of the cachet that opera once maintained in American life would do well to consider these commercials, which Rice Krispies ran in the 1960s.
