New York
theartsdesk Q&A: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Part 2Sunday, 14 February 2010![]() On Tuesday Mikhail Baryshnikov, just turned 62, will dance again, an evergreen superstar as well as philanthropist. The occasion will be the opening of the Jerome Robbins Theater, his latest project in his Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. In... Read more... |
Nico Muhly & the Britten Sinfonia, The RoundhouseMonday, 25 January 2010![]() Nico Muhly didn't have to work much to puncture any atmosphere of classical recital formality at the Roundhouse: he only needed to be himself. Young, slightly dorky and very camp, wearing a black garment that blurred the boundaries between cardigan... Read more... |
Six Degrees of Separation, Old VicWednesday, 20 January 2010![]() John Guare's brittle satire, first produced in New York in 1990, was propelled by two phenomena. The first was a certain David Hampton, a con man who persuaded a suite of gullible Manhattan socialites that he was Sidney Poitier's son (and who,... Read more... |
Boxing Day Bloat: theartsdesk recommendsSaturday, 26 December 2009![]() The morning after the day before has dawned. If you're not inclined to join the shopping queues, theartsdesk is happy to suggest alternatives. Our writers recommend all sorts of cultural things you could get up to in the next week.See Wicked. This... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Tim LawrenceSaturday, 12 December 2009![]() Tim Lawrence is an author and academic, whose musical studies have led him from the dance scene of the 1990s to researching New York's disco scene – his Love Saves the Day was the first and remains the definitive history of the music, history and... Read more... |
Extract: Tim Lawrence's Hold On To Your DreamsSaturday, 12 December 2009![]() Linked to Joe Muggs' interview with Tim Lawrence on theartsdesk, this is extracted from the introduction of Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992. Arthur Russell hailed from the Midwest, yet felt at home in... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Poets HouseSunday, 06 December 2009![]() What do you do when, on a bright December day in New York City, you have a sudden urge to read Tennyson’s "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky?" You could get Google to flash up the eight stanzas, or if you’re feeling romantically old-school, you... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Tim Burton, MoMA, New YorkFriday, 04 December 2009![]() To accompany our review of the spectacular and extensive exhibition dedicated to Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, we present a tiny selection of the 700-plus works on display there until 26 April 2010. Click on any of the images... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Extreme BlakeSunday, 18 October 2009Outwardly the Morgan Library & Museum is a citadel of sedateness - inside it may be the locus of turbulence. Thirteen years ago I walked around one of the rooms with the actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, on whom I was writing a profile. She was then... Read more... |
The battle for BalanchineSaturday, 22 July 2000![]() THE choreographer George Balanchine died on April 30, 1983, aged 79, of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, a rare, if nowadays notorious, condition only discovered at his autopsy. What had been recognised long before his death, though, was that this man was... Read more... |
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