By Erick Neher | Arts Review
What cineaste wasn’t exhausted by the avalanche of discourse surrounding Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? In the weeks before and after the film’s mid-July release, I sometimes felt that most of my waking hours were spent...
Read MoreBy Marina Harss | Arts Review
Since Susan Jaffe took the reins at American Ballet Theatre at the end of 2022, people have been wondering what direction the company would take under her leadership. It was not an easy time to step into this position....
Read MoreThe past season’s exhibitions had something for everyone, especially if you were willing to travel a little. Engaging shows of paintings, sculpture, and photographs by old and modern masters, American and European, could be seen...
Read MoreAs the cherry trees and the Bradford Callery Pears began to bloom in New York, defying the notably erratic spring weather, a constellation of exhibitions worth paying attention to also appeared. They included paintings and...
Read MoreIt has been a legendarily terrible theater season in New York. Only six new musicals opened on Broadway, less than half the usual number, two of them (Queen of Versailles and Beaches) dead on arrival. Non-musical works on the...
Read More— In 2010, only a dozen years after Frank Gehry’s remarkable star turn in Bilbao, Newsweek featured an article titled “The Death of Starchitecture.” “The phenomenon of using iconic architecture to promote a city,...
Read MoreBy Marina Harss | Arts Review
— The successful return of an important ballet is more than an artistic triumph; it is a marker of ambition, energy, hope, and, with any luck, financial health. Dance Theatre of Harlem, the ballet company founded by...
Read MoreBy Marina Harss | Arts Review
I’ve been struck recently by how context colors art, whether we are seeing something for the first time or returning to a work we thought we knew through and through but that suddenly reveals new colors and sensations. The work...
Read MoreBy Karen Wilkin | Arts Review
Despite the opprobrium now attached to the concept, the past season’s exhibitions are best described as notably diverse, both in form and origin. Museum shows included a survey of paintings by a self-taught nineteenth-century...
Read More— Dear H, The fifteenth-century paintings of the Dominican monk, Fra Angelico, were celebrated in a major exhibition in Florence, from September 2025 through January 2026. Some of his works, gathered from...
Read MoreThe anxiety of influence, both theatrical and historical, is alive and well. The shadow of the past has a way of surfacing whenever the theater turns, as it often does in times of existential crisis like these, to work freighted...
Read MoreWhen I went off to see The Choral at my local arthouse, I expected nothing more than the usual well-made, charming British product. Seeing that it starred Ralph Fiennes, I could be fairly sure that it would be well acted; while...
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