Over the past 20 years, a new vanguard of African-American creators has helped define the 21st century. Jordan Peele. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Kara Walker. Ava DuVernay.
The fine arts season may be winding down, but that doesnât mean the art-going options are drying up. After fanning out across the city, the art critics for The New York Times have 10 first-rate museum exhibitions to recommend, including âAugusta Savage: Renaissance Womanâ at the New-York Historical Society and âT.C. Cannon: At the Edge of Americaâ at the National Museum of the American Indian. Many of these shows are closing soon, so donât let them pass you by.
The fine arts season may be winding down, but that doesnât mean the art-going options are drying up. After fanning out across the city, the art critics for The New York Times have 10 first-rate museum exhibitions to recommend, including âAugusta Savage: Renaissance Womanâ at the New-York Historical Society and âT.C. Cannon: At the Edge of Americaâ at the National Museum of the American Indian. Many of these shows are closing soon, so donât let them pass you by.
NEW YORK â Getting into this yearâs Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island will cost you $57, plus the round trip on the ferry. But thatâs nothing compared to what it cost nearly 200 galleries to exhibit there. And so dealers have made the reasonable decision to bring a little of everything that sells â which may account for the conservative vibe. That said, there are many islands of daring, including special sections focused on solo presentations, small galleries, the influential Harlem gallery ...
When the Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, Heidi Schreck was in bed with her husband refreshing Twitter. Ali Stroker was with her husband as well, on the couch watching the broadcast on TV. Jeremy Pope was dancing with his mother. Then their days changed with the news that they were up for some of the top honors in Broadway theater. Here are edited excerpts from interviews with them and other nominees after they found out.
Who knew a hostless Oscars might turn out to be a good idea? Sundayâs ceremony, with its diverse winnersâ list, made for a lively show, even if there were several head-scratchers. Here are the highs and lows as we saw them.
Who knew a hostless Oscars might turn out to be a good idea? Sundayâs ceremony, with its diverse winnersâ list, made for a lively show, even if there were several head-scratchers. Here are the highs and lows as we saw them.
Merce Cunningham, that marvel of a choreographer, understood that dancing meant different things to different people. In the book âMerce Cunningham: Fifty Years,â he is quoted as saying: âWhat to some is splendid entertainment, to others is merely tedium and fidgets; what to some seems barren, to others is the very essence of the heroic.â
The 61st annual Grammy Awards on Sunday worked to right the wrongs of the past few yearsâ ceremonies, where the leading narrative was tension over a lack of diversity and poor representation for the most influential young artists in music. Big stars still stayed home â and one of the biggest got cut off mid-speech â but the show corralled a former first lady and delivered many messages of inspirational uplift. Here are the highlights and lowlights as we saw them:
The Golden Globes on Sunday featured a number of upsets and rousing thank-yous as well as flubbed intros and snoozy speeches. Here are the highlights and lowlights as we saw them:
The Golden Globes on Sunday featured a number of upsets and rousing thank-yous as well as flubbed intros and snoozy speeches. Here are the highlights and lowlights as we saw them:
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