Spring Arts Preview: Top 10 Theater
By Daniel D'Addario | March 8, 2011 | 7:37 pm
Arcadia,Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opens March 17... MORE >
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Spring Arts Preview: Top 10 Art Exhibitions
By Daniel D'Addario | March 8, 2011 | 7:36 pm
Watermill Quintet, Guggenheim Museum, March 13... MORE >
Spring Arts Preview: Top 10 Books
By Daniel D'Addario | March 8, 2011 | 7:35 pm
Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reasonby Anne Roiphe(Nan A. Talese, $24.95), March 15... MORE >
Spring Arts Preview: Top 10 Pop Music
By Daniel D'Addario | March 8, 2011 | 7:34 pm
The StrokesAnglesMarch 22, RCA ... MORE >
Spring Arts Preview: Top 10 Films
By Daniel D'Addario and Una LaMarche | March 8, 2011 | 7:33 pm
Desert FlowerNational GeographicMarch 18... MORE >
Spring Arts Preview: Top 10 Opera
By Daniel D'Addario | March 8, 2011 | 7:32 pm
The Queen of Spades, Metropolitan Opera, begins March 11... MORE >
Suffering at One's Own Rhythm: 'The Long Goodbye' by Meghan O'Rourke
By Anne Diebel | March 8, 2011 | 7:32 pm
Nine months after his mother's death, Roland Barthes made a brief entry to his diary of mourning: "Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering." In the notes that make up his Mourning Diary, Barthes reflected on the particularity of an individual's experience of loss, lamenting at once the "egoism" separating the mourner from others and the absence of social rituals that could lift the mourner out of his solitude and make his... MORE >
Blake Butler and What Happens When a Novelist Lives on the Internet
By Michael H. Miller | March 8, 2011 | 7:31 pm
"I am going to see how fast I can write a novel," Blake Butler wrote on his blog, gillesdeleuzecommitted - suicideandsowilldrphil dot com, on April 14, 2008. "I am going to write nonstop on it until I am done. I started today at 12:30 p.m. and now have 4,500 words at 8:18. I hope to have a draft of a 30,000-word novel in 10-15 days. I am going to try to blog about it while... MORE >
From Merce to Martha to Morris, the Spring Dance Performances You Won’t Want to Miss
By Robert Gottlieb | March 8, 2011 | 7:29 pm
Okay, dance people, buckle up--March is going to be a bumpy month. It's a modern-dance invasion. (Paul Taylor's come and gone; everyone else is on his/her way.) Start figuring out your priorities now ... next week will be too late. To begin with: You're going to be spending a lot of time at the Joyce. First up, Larry Keigwin, from the 8th through the 13th, with a full-evening work called Dark Habits. Keigwin is always smart... MORE >
When Nice Becomes Vice: The Hardening of Chris Messina
By Daniel D'Addario | March 8, 2011 | 7:26 pm
"When I was doing Vicky Cristina Barcelona," said Chris Messina, "and Rebecca Hall was, like, giving me the side of her lips to kiss, because she wasn't into me, you go home with that, you go home feeling... MORE >
Feminist, Political Artist Judy Chicago Is Thriving When Feminism and Political Art Aren’t
By Phoebe Hoban | March 8, 2011 | 7:22 pm
On an evening last week at the Museum of Art and Design, Judy Chicago, vivid and flamboyant in a white silk bolero embellished with black lace, pointed to a boldly graphic tapestry titled Paddle Your Own Boat, and laughed. "People never get that there is humor in my work, but I think this is funny." The piece depicts a woman manning a canoe, whose progress is being seriously impeded by wailing children, chiding relatives... MORE >
Raul Esparza’s Formula: The Actor Has the Brains to Play Stoppard
By Jesse Oxfeld | March 8, 2011 | 7:20 pm
Raúl Esparza was waiting for fried chicken and talking about the mystery of existence. "The most beautiful thing about the play, and what moves me every night, has to do with humanity's search for something greater than themselves," he said. "Some sense of fitting in, whether it's in time, whether it's a sense of history." He was discussing Tom Stoppard's Arcadia on a day off from rehearsal for the David Leveaux-directed revival of the play... MORE >
Directed Suicide: Michael Greif Helms Tony Kushner’s Newest Play
By Robert J. Hughes | March 8, 2011 | 7:14 pm
Director Michael Greif's works have addressed AIDS, mental illness, poverty and self-delusion. And those are just the... MORE >
The Last Dance: The Merce Cunningham Troupe Unearths a Rare Work
By Guelda Voien | March 8, 2011 | 7:13 pm
It's a famous image. Merce Cunningham, chair strapped to his back, suspended in the air, somehow peaceful, not a hair out of place, effortless. His signature: the eerily calm upper torso. The image is from a dance called Antic Meet. It's a 1958 collaboration between Cunningham and his close friend, artist Robert Rauschenberg, staged to the music of Cunningham's longtime lover, John Cage. It will be performed in New York by the Joyce Theater... MORE >
After His Suicide, the Met Scrambled to Salute Alexander McQueen
By Rachel Corbett | March 8, 2011 | 6:53 pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala is perhaps the institution's most famous and most glamorous event, New York's version of the Oscars. The event, a million-dollar fund-raiser for the Met, is planned out months, sometimes more than a year, in advance. But when 40-year-old British designer Alexander McQueen committed suicide last February, the Met began to scramble furiously. They scrapped plans for the scheduled exhibition and got to work on the upcoming retrospective... MORE >
