Author Elle Evans (left) with Elle culture writer Lauren Puckett-Pope (center) and Kathleen Harris, executive editor of Zibby Books. Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl Chick Lit Author Who Wrote “Wedding Issues” Under Pen Name Has Day Job: M.D. I think of myself as somewhat of a Jack of all trades but Elle Evans has me trumped by most counts. This ambitious Boston... City Arts 23 Apr 2024 | 03:59
The newest interpretive exhibit at the Tenement Museum, “Union of Hope 1869” notes the lives of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black Americans who left rural New Jersey for a better life in New York City. Photo: Tenement Museum Tenement Museum Opens Its First Exhibit Dedicated to a Black Family That Moved into Area in the Civil War Era We are all proud of our original heritages and those that we identify with as Manhattanites. For everyone, New York City... City Arts 23 Apr 2024 | 04:20
Richard Rothbard has performed magic on wood for 55 years. He first began woodworking in the 1960s as a Broadway actor who helped create furniture for the sets and for his own apartment. ( Credit: Nicholas Liu) “An American Craftsman” Offers Handmade Wares with Character Richard Rothbard is holding a rock, but it’s made of wood. His well-practiced fingers have carved onto its surface a network... City Arts 11 Apr 2024 | 11:33
Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Self Portrait–She Now Calls Herself Sahara (from the series Two Deserts, Three Winters) c. 1990s, mixed media on canvas, 81 x 138” on view in the Whitney Biennial Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art Ten Must See Exhibitions For the Spring ‘24 Season There’s never been a better time to take a look, and this season’s exhibitions offer expansive visions, voices, concepts... City Arts 12 Apr 2024 | 08:34
The current exhibition features 130 artworks including paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, textiles and works by American artists in Paris. ( Photo: Tehsin Pala) Explore The Works of American Artists in Post WW II Paris at The Grey Art Museum During the COVID-19 pandemic, many museums in the city suffered financially. The galleries remained empty, with pieces on... City Arts 09 Apr 2024 | 06:24
Manhattan model Karen Rempel preens in a pink pouffe at Hauser & Wirth’s Editions art gallery on West 18th Street. ( Photo: Philip Maier) Karen’s Quirky Style Vogues at Hauser & Wirth’s Editions Gallery in Chelsea Trees are flaunting their blossoms and I’m voguing in wearable art by Engineered by Andrea T. at the Hauser & Wirth Editions... City Arts 11 Apr 2024 | 01:20
Arthur Pendelton (center) surrounded by the cast of “Oscars Shadow.” Photo Austin Pendelton: A True Legend Still Thriving As He Directs His Latest Play At one-point last year, I was watching “From Riverside To Crazy” on Broadway. I noticed this short white-haired man roaming... City Arts 04 Apr 2024 | 10:23
Beatrix Potter, Mrs Rabbit pouring out the tea for Peter while her children look on, 1902-1907. Linder Bequest. Museum no. BP.468. ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Photo: Courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. ( Ellie Atkins) Hop Over to the Morgan to See “the Other Potter” Who Created Peter Rabbit Potter fans have been crowding an elegant gallery space in Manhattan for a delightful show about the author of a celebrated... City Arts 19 Apr 2024 | 10:57
Picque III, by Pablo Picasso, 1959. Photo: National Arts Club Breaking the Mold at the National Arts Club: Old Masters Next to the Moderns They’re breaking the mold at the National Arts Club. Its current show, “Prints: From Old Masters to Moderns,” places works... City Arts 19 Mar 2024 | 05:27
A sold out Steve & Eydie tribute show at Carnegie Hall on March 18th featured David Lawrence (left) playing his father Steve Lawrence while Debbie Grayitte played Steve’s singing spouse Eydie. The show was made all the more poignant because David disclosed at the show’s close his father had passed away on March 7. Photo: Russ Rowland Steve and Eydie Tribute at Carnegie Hall: A Night to Remember...and Repeat? Steve and Eydie. That’s all you had to say for decades. Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, who met on the Tonight Show in the... City Arts 23 Mar 2024 | 11:22
Filmmaker Ed Zwick has put down the camera and picked up a pen to write a how-to memoir, “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My ” imparting some of the life lesson’s he’s learned in a storied Hollywood career. Filmmaker Behind “My So-Called Life” Looks Back on His Real Life in Best Selling Memoir He has had hit TV series, (“Thirtysomething,” “My So-Called Life”) award-winning TV movies, (“Special Bulletin”) followed... City Arts 18 Mar 2024 | 01:04
Playwright Deb Margolin said she always wanted to write about her scientist father who was blacklisted in the McCarthy era. She finally did so in the play “This is Not Time of Peace” which enjoyed a recent run on Theater Row. Photo: Penn State/YouTube This Is Not Time of Peace Let Margolin Explore Complicated Relationship with Her Father Playwright Deb Margolin always wanted to write about her father. A scientist working with titanium, he had been “named” in... City Arts 20 Mar 2024 | 05:26
An off Broadway comedy, “Five the Parody Musical” at the off Broadway Theater 555 spoofs the women in the life of former President Donald Trump. Photo: Theater 555 Five the Parody Musical, Spoofing Women in Trump World, Extends Run Well, we’ve had “Six.” So why not “Five?” Yes, we are talking theater here. “Six,” about the multiple wives of Henry VIII,... City Arts 04 Mar 2024 | 11:51
Pamela Kelley, who has written extensively about Nantucket and Montana in the past, turns her attention to Gotham in her latest novel, “The Fifth Avenue Apartment.” And she hints a sequel may already be in the works. ( Photo: Allison Thompson Photography) New Novel is the “Sweeter Side of Sex and the City” They say that in New York, you’re always looking for a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment. Sophie Lawton, the main character... City Arts 22 Feb 2024 | 05:19
Actress Christian Lahti stars as Ljuba, the stern but troubled office manager overseeing a Russian troll farm. Photo: Nina Ward/Vineyard Theater The Funny Side of “Russian Troll Farm” Extends Run at the Vineyard Theater As the lights come up, we see office workers typing away, under a commanding photo of Vladimir Putin. Welcome to the Vineyard... Home 15 Feb 2024 | 11:24