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... Home 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
Cover of “Shy.” Photo via Amazon.com Mothers Are Having Their Artistic Moment In “Shy,” the new book by, and about, Mary Rodgers, (the late daughter of composer Richard), she recalls her friend Stephen... City Arts 11 Oct 2022 | 01:32
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
Poster for the New York City’s own “Only Murders in the Building.” Photo via Hulu.com Has the Laugh Track Become Obsolete? This being Emmy Awards month, I looked at the impressive list of heralded comedies — “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Abbott Elementary,”... City Arts 11 Sep 2022 | 12:14
At The Met – Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo: Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met Time Travel through Fall Art Exhibitions Museum-going counterparts of armchair travelers can cross the world and millennia in this season’s exhibitions. Here are... City Arts 06 Sep 2022 | 01:08
The company of “Strings Attached” – Jonathan Hadley, Bonnie Black, Paul Schoeffler, Robyne Parrish, Brian Richardson, Russell Saylor. Photo: John Quilty The Big Bang With Magic Realism I am writing this on a train, which matters. Because the play I am discussing is about an (allegedly true) train ride. “Strings... City Arts 05 Sep 2022 | 01:51
