Performing in “Songs in Flight” (left to right): Karen Slack, Reginald Mobley, Will Liverman, Howard Watkins, Rhiannon Giddens. Photo courtesy of The Met Museum ‘Songs in Flight’ Connects Past to Present In 2019 a team at Cornell University started compiling a database of ads posted by enslavers searching for runaway enslaved... City Arts 30 Dec 2022 | 01:00
Performance of Les Ballet Afrik, a show that combines various African and queer dance styles and histories. Photo courtesy of Works & Process From Street to Stage The Guggenheim is taking a step away from traditional art forms to feature Works & Process, a performing arts organization... City Arts 18 Dec 2022 | 07:26
Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen in her studio. Photo: Karen Camela Watson ‘There Are No Expectations, Only Discovery’ When artist Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen starts work on one of her intricate hand-cut paper designs, she does not have an architect’s... City Arts 07 Dec 2022 | 03:25
Playwright Alice Eve Cohen’s ancestors in a cornfield on their farm in Oklahoma. Photo courtesy of Alice Eve Cohen ‘Oklahoma Samovar’ Is a Rumination On Jewish Identity, Through A Personal Lens Alice Eve Cohen’s play, “Oklahoma Samovar,” tracks a family’s footsteps over five generations, from Latvia to Brooklyn, Kansas... City Arts 02 Dec 2022 | 10:41
Jeremy Pope (left) and Paul Bettany (right) performing in “The Collaboration” at the Young Vic in London. Photo: Mark Brenner Broadway is Gaining a Few New Artists “My parents did three jobs that they didn’t like in order to keep our family. I’m here doing [multiple] jobs that I love.... City Arts 18 Nov 2022 | 02:51
The Museum of Broadway on West 45th Street. Photo: Monique Carboni A New Museum of Broadway Debuts in Times Square “It’s about time!” That’s what entrepreneur and two-time Tony Award-winning producer Julie Boardman, co-founder of the newly... City Arts 15 Nov 2022 | 10:53
Suzan-Lori Parks playing guitar as part of her new production, “Plays for the Plague Year.” Photo courtesy of The Public Theater Suzan-Lori Parks Wants a Safe Space to Heal from COVID As it becomes increasingly impossible to find a seat on the subway, the memories and the trauma of quarantine slip to the... City Arts 11 Nov 2022 | 06:32
Alex Katz, “Blue Umbrella 2,” 1972. Oil on linen. Private collection, New York. © 2022 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Courtesy private collection. Let’s Gather with Alex Katz Look up, look down, look sideways from the spiraling ramps at the Guggenheim, where the new show, “Alex Katz: Gathering,”... City Arts 01 Nov 2022 | 12:18
Emil Carlsen considered this work, “Afternoon Landscape,” one of his best. Photo courtesy of Salmagundi Club Emil Carlsen at the Salmagundi Club The 35 works on display at the Salmagundi Club through September 30 represent the largest collection of works by an underappreciated... City Arts 04 Sep 2022 | 09:00
Edward Hopper, “City Roofs,” 1932. Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper BequestP.2016.11. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Hopper in the City Edward Hopper (1882-1967) had an enduring love affair with New York, a place he called home for nearly six decades. He was... City Arts 26 Oct 2022 | 12:34
Madame Rouillé, by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr. A Gift That Keeps Giving It’s literally the chance of a lifetime to see a collection of drawings in a history-making promised gift. The Frick Collection,... City Arts 19 Oct 2022 | 11:10
Attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, (Flemish, 1561–1635/36). “Elizabeth I” (“The Rainbow Portrait”), ca. 1602. Oil on canvas. Reproduced with the permission of the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield HouseImage. ©Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, UK/Bridgeman Images Holbeins, Tapestries and a ‘Sea-Dog’ Table Now that the Queen is dead and Charles has been proclaimed King, there could be no better time for The Met to stage “The... City Arts 15 Oct 2022 | 09:50
Peter Mark Kendall and Rosaline Elbay in “Dodi & Diana,” a play by Kareem Fahmy, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, produced by Colt Coeur at HERE Arts Center in NYC. Photo: Robert Altman Making a Middle Eastern ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ While series like Hulu’s “Ramy” and Netflix’s “Mo” bring authentic Middle Eastern-American stories to the screen, Middle... City Arts 07 Oct 2022 | 09:50
Installation view of “Pentachrome” by Michael Lin, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The Met New Art in Old Places at The Met What’s an institution to do when it only has two million square feet and countless ideas? The Metropolitan Museum of Art... City Arts 27 Sep 2022 | 12:42
In “Ohio State Murders,” Audra McDonald stars in a horror story about the destructiveness of racism. Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein Broadway and More: Light the Lights! Do you have your tickets for “Leopoldstadt”? Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning latest features a huge cast, and follows... City Arts 21 Sep 2022 | 01:55
