Dance
Get the story behind the dancer with Cédric Andrieux, featuring Jerome Bel. Audiences will be guided through the life of the infamous French dancer, from his training to his time dancing with Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The production integrates spoken word with, what else, dance (Joyce Theater, Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m., $10-$59). Read More
LISA + DONNIE R OK. The words are both hopeful and bone-chilling. They were scrawled, in 2005, on a once-pretty white house with pale-blue shutters in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.
Five years ago this month, one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history swept through Louisiana and Mississippi. An exhibition opening Aug. 28 (a day Read More
This fall, Park Avenue museum the Asia Society is opening an unlikely blockbuster. For the first time, the institution, founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1956, is saluting a single artist, who is far from a household name yet something of a cult: Yoshitomo Nara. With his intriguing cartoonlike children and animals, often shown furious Read More
It’s an annual tradition in the art world: the Yale Center for British Art holds a summer tea in New York to announce its upcoming exhibition season.
Amid the crumpets and collectors gathered in the London Hotel’s second-floor tea room, Director Amy Meyers welcomed all to the “wonderful summer fete” and kicked off the lineup. Read More
Hilde Limondjian retired from her job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last month after 41 years. In charge of the Met’s concert and lecture series for most of her life, she’s seen the institution, and the cultural life of the city, go through sweeping changes. Shortly before her goodbye party, hosted by Read More
YouTube has quietly enacted a sort of practical joke on their viewers — their very own vuvuzela button added to videos posted on the site.
When pressed, the soccer ball icon — located at the bottom right of the YouTube control panel — emits a loud buzzing over the audio of any video, Read More
It seems as if the French soccer team may not get away from its actions during the World Cup scot-free.
According to the Associated Press, French striker Thierry Henry called for a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy upon the team’s return to France to discuss their disastrous World Cup showing.
Sarkozy, who Read More
