MAKE WAY FOR BERTHE WEILL: ART DEALER OF THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE features Berthe Weill (1865-1951), who promoted Matisse and Modigliani, and was Picasso's first dealer. This overdue tribute show includes many pieces that once hung in her Paris gallery, a treasure trove of fine art...
For our last cultural hit in NYC, we headed to the hills, Jez Butterworth's "Hills of California," which were alive – but with the sounds of Yorkshire, England, laid on as thick as molasses. So the moving domestic drama about sibling rivalry, family grief, and...
With apologies to Buffalo Springfield, something's happening here. What it is is becoming clear...
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"Berkeley Plantation, VA: The autumn sun was rapidly dropping toward the broad James River when two pieces of reddish baked clay, each not much larger than a thumbnail, emerged from the Virginia mud. Mark Horton, an archaeologist from the UK’s University of Bristol, gave the...
This is New York, where black has always been and remains a thing, on and off the rack. And in this iteration, breathtakingly beautiful on stage. Don't miss Complexions at The Joyce or "Edges of Ailey" at the Whitney. Sorry to say two other happenings...
We are always on a high in New York- even when the art we are seeing goes low. Such was the case with "Oh Mary!" The high: also saw the show at the Met all about Sienese art and the rise of painting in the...
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (or DEI) is the subtext of our ongoing cultural bath in Manhattan and surrounds, just as post-election, the acronym still echoes loud and clear in the zeitgeist. Yellow Face at the Roundabout Theatre: Identity, noun: The fact of being who or what a...
Right after Election Day, an unhappy affair in our view to say the least, we saw Kenneth Branagh's production of "King Lear," also a less than happy affair. The show is up at Hudson Yards' The Shed through December 15. Let's just say Branagh's was the...
Jealousy, personal politics, and the high price of lies and betrayal. individual and national. The socio-cultural-political themes of the powerful "People of the Book," the most recent (and sadly recently closed) play at Frances Hill Barlow's Urban Stages, could you have been snatched from today's...
