Despite skepticism over the practicality of having 20,000 owner/managers arguing over team formations, the project is groundbreaking for sports fan-club collaboration, and pioneering as an experiment in democracy. "It's a completely unique opportunity to get as close as you can to the game without ...
When buying art there are many factors that a serious art collector should look at in order to get the best deal. In no particular order they are:
1. Know Your budget
No matter how much you like an art piece, don't put yourself in enormous debt to acquire it. If you can't afford it, so be it. Just ...
BAM: Your 1971 article is a comprehensive, very eloquent assessment of the state of women’s art at the time. Where do you believe feminism stands today?
LN: I think we’ve made a lot of progress. I know it’s not fashionable to admit it, but I’m just stating a fact. I think women ...
The work is removed from its case once a year so that the poplar panel on which it is painted can be measured for warping or expansion, and the silica gel used to maintain the box’s humidity can be changed. Over the past two years, a team of French and Canadian researchers also undertook the first ...
But City Opera’s production, originally conceived by Jonathan Eaton, is rife with shtick; at this point in its life, and despite the director Cynthia Edwards’s efforts to enliven it, its characters seem dutifully to assume positions onstage marked out for them with masking tape. Towering ...
Cracked Floor Is Sculptor’s Statement
To some eyes the 548-foot crack running the length of the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern museum in London may be nothing more than a hole in the floor. But it is, in fact, “Shibboleth,” created by the Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo and named ...
It may work. It was easy to spot early-music regulars (including performers and series directors) in the Sunday afternoon crowd. But when the audience members were asked, during a between-groups onstage chat, how many were attending their first early-music concert, a surprising number of hands went up. ...
In a brightly Mozartean quartet, Jonah Bokaer and Marcie Munnerlyn, in one set of steps, move to and fro along the stage’s rear horizontal area, while Rashaun Mitchell and Jennifer Goggans, in another, pass back and forth along its midground. Mr. Mitchell’s entrance is the most exciting moment ...
On Friday night he presented his first premiere here, “Appomattox,” by Philip Glass. On Sunday afternoon I caught up with the first new production of a standard repertory work in the Gockley era, the veteran English director Graham Vick’s staging of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser,” ...
This was no joke or acting stunt. It was what actually happened on a quiet Friday afternoon in Lund, a small university town in southern Sweden where “The History of Sex,” an exhibition of photographs by the New York artist Andres Serrano, had opened two weeks earlier.
Around 3:30, half ...