The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten, Anthony Roth Costanzo as Akhnaten. ( Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) How Great Art is Made Where does the artistic journey begin? How does it evolve? Did you ever find yourself wondering ‘Who came up with this?’... City Arts Sep 09 2019 | 02:06 PM
Maud Earl, "I Hear a Voice" (1896; Saint Bernard). ( Photo: David Woo, American Kennel Club) Top Dogs Fans of PBS’s “Victoria” will no doubt have noticed the British monarch’s infatuation with Dash, a Cavalier King Charles... City Arts Aug 28 2019 | 04:26 PM
Photo via Amazon.com A Daring Debut Novel Back-to-school for some means keeping up with more than one’s grades. If you’re a low-income student going to a rich kid school,... City Arts Aug 21 2019 | 11:40 AM
"Opening to the prayer Shabbat Shekalim." This bright and beautiful manuscript page from a 14th century Mahzor was found in the binding of a later Christian theological text. ( Photo: Adel Gorgy) A Jewish Treasure from the Middle Ages By Mary Gregory When Dr. Barbara Drake Boehm, senior curator of medieval art at The Met and The Cloisters, was approached... City Arts Aug 12 2019 | 12:05 PM
Photo courtesy of Amazon.com A family at sea By Lorraine Duffy Merkl On our family cruise, the floating Merkls did not get into a brawl like “The Floating Feldmans,”... City Arts Aug 09 2019 | 11:41 AM
Try Guys onstage: Eugene Lee Yang (front) with Zach Kornfeld, Ned Fulmer and Keith Habersberger in the back ( Photo: Oscar Kim Bauman) Legends of YouTube take the stage “We’re gonna turn this beautiful theater into a synagogue of fun!” Zach Kornfeld of YouTube comedy ensemble the Try Guys... City Arts Aug 05 2019 | 05:19 PM
Lucian Freud, “Woman in a White Shirt,” 1958-60. © Devonshire Collection. ( Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees) A collector’s paradise Who can forget Keira Knightley, as Elizabeth Bennet, roaming the sculpture gallery at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s manse, in the... City Arts Aug 02 2019 | 12:42 PM
Broadway director Harold Prince receives the Golden Plate award from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison at the American Academy of Achievement’s 46th annual International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, June 23, 2007. Photo: Academy of Achievement, via Wikimedia Commons ( Photo: Academy of Achievement, via Wikimedia Commons) The Astonishing Hal Prince When I learned that Harold (Hal) Prince had died, I felt as though all of Broadway must have stopped breathing, at least... City Arts Aug 02 2019 | 11:36 AM
Scene from Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.” Photo: Niko Tavernise-Netflix Hometown Launch By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer Martin Scorsese's big-budget mafia epic "The Irishman" will premiere as the opening night film... City Arts Aug 02 2019 | 11:57 AM
The Word is ‘camp’ Who knew the term had so many meanings and layers? The first section of this ambitious show is devoted solely to contextualizing... City Arts Jun 12 2019 | 10:11 AM
augusta savage returns to new york This show comes to the New-York Historical Society by way of the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville, Florida, not far from where... City Arts Jun 04 2019 | 03:21 AM
the enduring legacy of a masterpiece Countless people have read “The Tale of Genji.” the renowned classic of Japanese literature, but a show at... City Arts May 28 2019 | 02:49 AM
vital signs The 2019 Whitney Biennial is beautiful. It's not the most provocative, radical, assertive, or declarative Biennial in memory,... City Arts May 22 2019 | 10:33 AM
A 20th century giant Like Abraham Lincoln, after whom he was named, Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) was a tall, imposing figure, “a giant... City Arts May 14 2019 | 03:31 AM
the art of liberation The new exhibit at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising,... City Arts May 07 2019 | 03:35 AM
