Kimberly Bartosik/daela premieres I hunger for you at Lumberyard.
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Life begins at forty-seven
Life, I’m told, is supposed to slow down as you grow older, but the opposite has happened to me.
Latest Words on the Banksy Caper (& seller) – Part III
I really wanted to put the Banksy Prank behind me, moving to more substantive matters, but the Sotheby’s plot thickened on Friday with a revelation that suggests the likely identity of the seller of Girl with Balloon (aka Love Is in the Bin).
Monday Recommendation (Unavoidably Delayed)
Wayne Shorter, Emanon (Blue Note)
Although Wayne Shorter’s saxophone artistry and that of his quartet need no enhancement, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra shares the first disc of this three-CD collection.
Introducing
Join us in welcoming Achia Floyd to ArtsEngaged. Here she introduces herself in her own words.
Together in a Shrinking Space
Lucy Guerin Inc performs Guerin’s Split at the Baryshnikov Arts Center,
October 13 through 15.
Scream
My pal went into the Donmar’s Measure for Measure expecting a fight. She’d read that Josie Rourke’s production presents the cut-down text twice. The first, set at the time of Shakespeare’s 1604 premiere, where deputy governor Angelo attempts to coerce soon-to-be-nun Isabella into sex to save her brother’s life. The second, set today – same plot but with a female minister harassing a young man. Pal was having none of it.
What the doctor ordered
Doctors will be able to prescribe visits to the Montreal Museum of Fine Art for their patients, reports the Gazette: Doctors will each be able to assign up to 50 museum prescriptions over the course
Homage to Félicien Rops
“The evil which the curiosity about the past uncovers marches in accelerating pursuit of the horrors lurking in the present . . . “That is a comment by Cyril Connolly about a very different work
Sympathy for the monster: a Frankenstein opera-in-progress debuts at Green-Wood Cemetery
After walking through David Lang’s Mile Long Opera on the High Line last week, I thought Gregg Kallor’s double bill of The Tell-Tale Heart and still-in-progress Frankenstein at the Green-Wood Cemetery catacomb in Brooklyn almost seemed mainstream — well, somewhat.