Tag Archive | "Arts"
American fashion designers’ innovation, craftsmanship displayed in new exhibit
By Amy Brittain “American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion" opened in early November at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea. Curator Patricia Mears picked 90 dresses to illustrate the relationship between hands-on craftsmanship and the ideals of beauty in America – a departure from a common idea that U.S. fashion is simply a collection of concepts from abroad.
Continue reading...Keeping the Fulton Fish Market spirit, not smell, alive
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
By Spencer Bailey For artist Naima Rauam, the Fulton Fish Market no longer resembles the place, full of fishy fragrances, she found 40-some years ago. In 2005, the market moved to Hunts Point, in the Bronx, after decades of development, mostly facilitated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s investment in the seaport area. Last Sunday, Rauam presented the fourth annual Fulton Fish Market Day, featuring an exhibit of her sketches, drawings and paintings and a panel of local historians.
Continue reading...Classical Latin America
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Anyone who believes that classical music is the sole province of old Europe, think again. Or better yet, just listen to Polly Ferman play the piano. Ferman, 65, grew up a precocious pianist in Uruguay. She started playing at age three, gave her first concert when she was seven, and by 11 had played with a [...]
Continue reading...Documenting disappearing storefronts
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
By Spencer Bailey Many decades-old New York City shops, some of which have been around for over 50 years, have shuttered as landlords raise rent, urban development increases and storeowners retire from family-run businesses. James and Karla Murrays’ “Store Front” project helps capture these ever-dwindling, multi-generational stores as they struggle to survive.
Continue reading...Diplomacy … with diamonds
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Madeleine Albright can give as good as she gets. Take the incident in 1994, when she criticized Saddam Hussein’s policies, and was called an “unparalleled serpent” in the Iraqi press. The former Secretary of State responded by arriving at her next meeting with Iraqi officials with a serpent on her shoulder: an 18-karat gold snake [...]
Continue reading...The life of an outsider moving in
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Brooklyn artist Adam Taye, 35, sits in a plastic yellow chair in his cramped second-floor studio, which overlooks Cortelyou Road, and talks about his life. He drinks a large coffee with a dash of soy milk. Raised in Boise, Idaho, in a Mormon family – “I consider myself a secular Mormon,” he says – Taye went [...]
Continue reading...The Coens get personal
Thursday, October 8, 2009
By Marlow Stern Following the critical and commercial disappointment of 2004’s “The Ladykillers,” filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen took some time off to think. Out of this brainstorming session came the concepts for future films: “No Country For Old Men" and “Burn After Reading” – and now, “A Serious Man," starring Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik, a Jewish academic undergoing a spiritual and existential crisis.
Continue reading...‘Inglourious Basterds’ hands Jews the smoking gun (or bloody Louisville Slugger)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
By Marlow Stern For movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, it’s a bold move to pre-screen Quentin Tarantino’s brutal epic, “Inglourious Basterds,” at a museum that bills itself as “a living memorial to those who perished during the Holocaust.” But how are influential NYC Jewry – rabbis, film critics, Jewish historians and viewers – reacting to a film described by influential Jewish publication Tablet Magazine as “a failure of Jewish morality”?
Continue reading...A hustler aims for Hollywood
Thursday, October 8, 2009
By Clare O'Connor Jeremy Redleaf, the young creator and star of the TV series “Odd Jobs,” shot the show on his own dime in New York. He then found the perfect way to turn it into a viable business. He set up a job board similar to Craigslist on his Web site, OddJobNation.com, allowing employers to advertise for help with any odd jobs at all – and for the unemployed to find a day’s work.
Continue reading...Juilliard and the job market
Saturday, September 26, 2009
By Clare O'Connor Violinist Jane Hunt realizes that to make any money as a musician, she must be savvy. Rather than resign herself to a precarious and often financially risky life of constant auditions for orchestras, she has taken a modern, populist approach to classical performance: marketing, networking, publicizing.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
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