Mayor Bloomberg’s administration came forth this week to open discussions that may make it possible for more then 181 venues (the number currently licensed under the current cabaret laws) to be able to host public dancing events. Read more…
By the standards of the classical-music world, Lang Lang is a superstar. He’s appeared in just about all the major media outlets, he has the backing of a major record label, and has managed to stay in the spotlight by ruffling a few feathers with his unorthodox demeanor and sometimes overheated, bombastic interpretations of music. [...]
Thirteen/WNET president Neal Shapiro interviews Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, about MoMA’s growing permanent collection, their expansion and renovation, and the transformation of a former warehouse in Long Island City, Queens, into a high-tech study and storage center. Watch the interview.
The summer public art onslaught continues with the New York City Parks’ Dance Out! initiative, a series of site specific dance performances around the city. The parks’ series will travel not just to flagships like Central Park or Prospect Park, but to less obvious spaces like St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx or Staten Island’s [...]
A young girl from Oregon finds a curious, yellowed circus program in her school’s drama closet that reads “Official Program of Cobina Wright’s Society Circus for the benefit of the Boy Scout Foundation, Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President, Season 1933.” The program seems to promote some kind of high-society theme party at the opulent Waldorf-Astoria [...]
In Basil Twist’s new collaboration with Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken for Pilobolus, a shadowy wedge grows into a figure’s waist; creatures that appear like frothy doodles inhabit a sea blue scrim; a face morphs into a scary biting and licking machine; nebula-like wisps dance across a starry field; blobs consume other blobs and grow. [...]
On July 11, 1939, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio took the field for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game — held at Yankee Stadium for the first time. Tonight, the midsummer classic returns to the “House That Ruth Built” for the fourth and final time.
Comprising a film retrospective, a gallery installation, live concerts, and a panel discussion, Jazz Score — at MoMA until Sept. 15 — celebrates some of the best original jazz composed for the cinema from the 1950s to the present. Watch a video about the exhibit.
Last week, Jennifer Melick took her 11-year-old son to the opening night of Damn Yankees at City Center. The next morning, she read the reviews and decided that it’s a problem if, when you read a performance review, you feel you’re intruding on a private conversation between the critic and five of his jaded best [...]
This one-hour film tells the dramatic story of the famous landmark’s construction through interviews with historians, architects, and engineers, while weaving in contemporary portraits from present day New Yorkers who describe their personal connections to Grand Central. Watch entire episode online.
