Last night, the stars were aligned in the Skirball Center auditorium as Broadway heavyweights arrived on the red carpet of the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation Gala for a night of song and dance celebrating Roberta Flack and the awarding of $57,500 in college scholarship money.
When Roberta Flack arrived in a shimmery black ensemble and big orange curls, Read More
Independent filmmaker Miranda July knows about abandoning a work in progress.
While scripting The Future, her follow-up to breakout hit Me and You and Everyone We Know (the new film opens July 29), Ms. July met writer’s block and couldn’t find a realistic way to get the character of Jason, who sells trees, to enter Read More
Beatlemania is alive and well! In the auction houses, anyway.
On Wednesday night, Christie’s brought in $361,938 for 46 previously unreleased photographs documenting The Beatles’ first US visit, well-surpassing a collective estimate of $100,000 and shocking photographer Mike Mitchell, who was just 18 when he took the pictures.
“I wasn’t expecting this, when I took Read More
At the Guggenheim’s rotunda on Thursday evening, five dancers, accompanied by John Cage’s solo cello piece One8, performed On Vanishing, a new work by the young New York-based choreographer Jonah Bokaer that the museum had commissioned in conjunction with its current exhibition, Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity.
Audience members, including Mr. Bokaer’s mother, leaned against the museum’s low, spiraling Read More
When Samuel Carter’s female friends told him about their experiences on the streets of New York City — taking a roundabout route to dodge areas where creeps frequent, being afraid to go out at night, and not taking a job because of feeling unsafe in an area — he was blown Read More
Three decades before his arrest and subsequent release last week by the Chinese government incited a media firestorm, Ai Weiwei worked as a Times Square street portraitist.
Enrolled at Parsons and living on the Lower East Side, he encountered drug dealers in abandoned buildings, a gritty underground arts scene, and police brutality at Tomkins Square Read More
Even after a visit to Miss Bugs’ boudoir at the Brooklynite Gallery in Bed-Stuy, it’s still rather hard to describe the artist. For one thing, the artist insisted that The Observer not describe her at all, outside of the female pronoun — this despite the fact that she is actually two people.
“We Read More
Yesterday, The Observer was in the unfamiliar territory of the Walt Whitman Housing projects of Greene County, Brooklyn, where a Nü Revolution was taking place in the form of a musical performance by Les Nubians, a band led by the French-born Afropean sisters Célia and Hélène Faussart.
As The Observer walked through the neighborhood to Read More
