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Pity the Yanks Not Named A-Rod
The media focused on A-Rod, whose face shall never grace this blog.As a Mets fan genetically programmed to despise the Yankees, I never thought I'd say this, but I feel sorry for all Bronx bombers not...
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More Mets Bright Spots
Matt Harvey pitched his first shutout, beating Colorado 5-0.It's hard to believe he's been pitching so briefly that this is his first shutout. Harvey, now 9-3 with a 2.06 ERA, looked really sharp,...
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Ballet, Rebooting
Whim W'him's Ty Chen & Kylie Lewallen in Monster. Photo: Bamberg Fine ArtWhat do we want from contemporary ballet? What do new small companies do that the big companies don't? The Ballet V6.0...
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Swiss Institute's A Sunday in the Mountains—Beware!
SPECTRE, beware! Left: Carron's Death Race 2000. Right: Mosset's Toblerones.A Sunday in the Mountains, at the Swiss Institute (through August 25) puts a subversive spin on the travelogue image of...
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Dance Magazine piece on Wendy Whelan's Restless Creature
Wendy Whelan and Brian Brooks. Photo: Christopher Duggan courtesy Jacobs PillowOn Wendy Whelan's new project, Restless Creature, in Dance...
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Hale Woodruff: Talladega Murals
The Mutiny on the Amistad, 1939. Oil on canvas Overall: 71 1/4 x 125 3/8 x 2 1/8in. Collection of Savery Library, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama Hale Woodruff's exhibition, Talledega Murals,...
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Fall For Dance Among the Trees and Stars
STREB al fresco. Photo: Tammy ShellBatteries recharged, dance returned to life last Monday with the advent of the 10th Fall For Dance. To celebrate, in addition to the standard five programs at City...
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Blurred—Make that Erased—Lines
Olivia Ancona. Photo courtesy The Drawing CenterArtists commonly erase lines, a necessary step in the creative experimentation process. To some, it's an end in itself—Rauschenberg erased a De Kooning...
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America's Cup: Innovation + Technology = Thrills
Gilles Martin-Raget / America’s CupWith the city's cultural season full speed ahead and accessible by the magical plastic device called a Metrocard, my brainspace has been occupied by an event far...
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September Performance Notebook
High culture season's underway. Notes from recent outings:Edward Watson and slime, in MetamorphosisRoyal Ballet, Metamorphosis, The JoyceEdward Watson as Gregor is the draw in this clever adaptation of...
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Geometry and Strange Fish at the Drawing Center
Sean Scully, Untitled, 1975. Acrylic & tape on paper, @23x31". Courtesy Neo Neo York, Inc.The Drawing Center's two exhibitions, through November 3, offer a satisfyingly balance of minimal and...
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Chris Burden: Extreme Measures
Mad stacks: Tower of Power, 1985. Photo of New Museum installation by Benoit Pailley.Chris Burden has finally received a retrospective of his major works, at the New Museum through January 12, titled...
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October Culture Notebook
Here, culture highlights of the first part of a (good) crazy October in NYC.From the last couple of Fall For Dance programs:Dorrance DanceDorrance Dance is an alpine gust of fresh air, not just in tap,...
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San Francisco Ballet at Lincoln Center
In Ratmansky's From Foreign Lands, Sofiane Sylve gets some helping hands. Photo: Erik TomassonWhen a fine company like San Francisco Ballet comes to New York's Koch Theater for a major two-week run of...
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Making Old Ballets New: Puppets, Vampires, and Fates
Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty. Photo: Simon AnnandWhy do we need story ballets, if we do? If Tchaikovsky/Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, now over a century old, is about the life of ballet itself, how...
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ABT premieres Ratmansky's The Tempest
Marcelo Gomes holding Daniil Simkin in The Tempest. Photo: Marty SohlAnother major story ballet makes its New York premiere, the third in quick succession—this time, Alex Ratmansky's The Tempest for...
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ABT in Repertory—Hitting the Sweet Spot
Gillian Murphy and Marcelo Gomes in Bach Partita. Photo: Gene SchiavoneABT's fall rep season is brief, about a week and half this year. The upside is that it leaves us wanting to see more of the...
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Everybody Dance Now! Or just stand there.
Earth to Annique (in Gatekeepers): you can come down now! Photo: David AndrakoThis fall, two organizations have opened within one block near the BAM Harvey Theater, BRIC House and Theater for a New...
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Book Rec: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
I was just sitting down to put fingers to keys about James McBride's The Good Lord Bird, took a moment to read the newspaper, and saw that he won the National Book Award for it. Hallelujah! A...
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L'Allegro—Will there ever be another?
Spencer Ramirez, right. Photo: Kevin YatarolaCan a dance like Mark Morris'L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato ever be made again? It seems unlikely, at least in the foreseeable future. In 1988,...
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