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Get Out the Good China
Gown by Guo Pei. Photo: Susan YungChina: Through the Looking Glass, the Met's new blockbuster exhibition focused on China's influence on Western fashion design, peppers stunning vintage and new haute...
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Refreshing, Ancient Bournonville at NYCB
Bournonville Divertissements. Photo: Paul KolnikIt seems illogical to view New York City Ballet's Bournonville renaissance as fresh, as opposed to what defines new—brand new work by young...
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Lyon Opera Ballet and Hubbard Street—The Rep's the Thing
Sarabande. Photo: Michel CavalcaLyon Opera Ballet can be counted on to bring interesting repertory to New York. Last year, at BAM, it performed Christian Rizzo's ni fleurs, ni ford-mustang, a somewhat...
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ABT—Dark the Soul, Bright the Stars
Julie Kent & Marcelo Gomes in Othello. Photo: Gene SchiavoneWe love ballet because it can defy mortality. The grace and ease with which the pros do the most difficult steps refutes gravity and the...
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Philippe Parreno at the Armory—Ghosts of Broadway
There are many worse ways to spend a half day in New York than absorbing Philippe Parreno's multi-faceted installation at the Park Avenue Armory, on view through August 2. The idea that it's a love...
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ABT's New Sleeping Beauty—A Fresh Look from the Past
Gillian Murphy as Aurora. Photo: Gene SchiavoneABT recently had its New York premiere run of Alexei Ratmansky's grand, ambitious new production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Met Opera House. As...
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Polished Coolness—Polish National Ballet
Moving Rooms. Photo: Ewa KrasuckaJudging from its New York debut at the Joyce, you might think the Polish National Ballet to be one more compact, highly skilled post-classical ballet company that draws...
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The Royal, Ranging Far & Wide
Natalia Osipova in The Dream. Photo: Bill CooperThe Royal Ballet was in town after a decade's absence, presented by the Joyce Theater Foundation at the Koch Theater. The first program comprised The...
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ABT's Abrera—Real-life Cinderella
Joseph Gorak and Stella Abrera in Cinderella. Photo: MIRA.ABT's annual two-month Met season, was, as usual, largely about classic stories dramatized through ballet. But more so than in recent years,...
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National Ballet of China Shows Its Breadth
Yu Xuejiao and cast. Photo: Stephanie Berger A question recurs with regularity—why do we watch ballet? Is it for story, classical form, innovation of the genre, or musical elucidation? In the case of...
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Epic Faile and Lots of Kicks
Foosball table installation with posters by, uh... oh, FAILE!. Photo: Susan YungBesides earning a reputation as "the shoe museum"—with its current The Rise of Sneaker Culture show and recent Killer...
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Books on Planes
I didn't intentionally read the fascinating historical account of The Wright Brothers (David McCullough) and the novel In the Unlikely Event (Judy Blume) back to back; it was chance. But it was also...
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Bowery Summer Art Walk
Half Bowl, from the Available Light series, 2012.Sarah Charlesworth's (1947—2013) work gained prominence in the late 70s and early 80s as part of the awkwardly named "pictures generation," when it fit...
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It ain't easy being a Mets fan, but it is amazin'
Flores thinking he was on the trading block.Every Mets fan knows all too well feeling despondent, questioning the sanity of a commitment to a team that, when winning .500, it's a great day. There are...
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Stanley Whitney Gets a New York Museum Show, Finally
My Tina Turner, 2013. Oil on linen, 60"x60", collection of Emily ToddCourtesy the artist and team galleryThe Studio Museum in Harlem has given Stanley Whitney his first New York museum show, a...
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Beamish and Bouder in the Joyce's Ballet Festival
Sterling Baca. Photo: Jade YoungThe Joyce is on to something with its Ballet Festival, in which six companies share the theater for two weeks in the previously sleepy ballet month of August. It's a bit...
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Pearl Buck's Story, Told Through Dance
Stephanie Kim and Isaac Huerta. Photo: Elizabeth HinleinPearl, a dance/theater spectacular performed at the Koch last week, tells you more than you thought you wanted to know about Pearl Buck, the...
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Creative Domain, a film on Paul Taylor's process
James Samson working with Paul TaylorSo much goes into creating a dance, but we rarely see this painstaking process. Instead, most of us saunter into the theater, plop down, possibly scan the program,...
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Purity, by Jonathan Franzen
Purity, the title of Jonathan Franzen’s novel, is the name of one of the protagonists. It is also an adjective the he uses several times to describe an aspirational aspect of some of his charismatic,...
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Arvo Pärt, Celebrated with Music, Dance, and Crickets
Rebecca Krohn and Amar Ramasar in Christopher Wheeldon's Liturgy. Photo by Kelley McGuireOf all the esteemed professionals on staff at the Met Museum, perhaps the one most needed at Sept 11th's Arvo...
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