Art

One Man Band: Llyn Foulkes Is Bringing His Los Angeles Style to New York
By Dan Duray

Top 10 Museum Exhibitions
By Sarah Douglas

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Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
Director: Ramona S. Diaz
March 16
“How do you take somebody from a Third World country and throw him into this circus?” asks Jonathan Cain, the keyboard player and guitarist for the rock band Journey. He’s referring to Arnel Pineda, the 45-year-old Filipino singer-songwriter whom the band Read More

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Shostakovich: The Complete Quartets, Cycle 1
The Jerusalem Quartet
Alice Tully Hall
March 17-24
It’s not often that part of a chamber music series is preceded by the launch of its own multi-feature, interactive web site. However, Shostakovich’s string quartets were composed between 1934 and 1974 under the constraints of Soviet Socialist Realism and are rife with embedded codes and symbols. So it seems appropriate that audiences would be invited to participate in some type of interactivity in addition to listening. The Jerusalem Quartet performs the complete cycle of the quartets over four concerts. Read More

Hands on a Hardbody
Brooks Atkinson Theatre 
Opens March 21
The weird, charming 1997 documentary about a group of Texans competing in an endurance contest to win a pickup has become a—hopefully—weird, charming Broadway musical. The creative team augurs well for charming weirdness: the book is by I Am My Own Wife author Doug Wright; the music is by Phish frontman Trey Anastasio. Even weirder: it ís by all accounts a sympathetic, insightful commentary on financially struggling contemporary Americans—and when do you ever see that on Broadway? Read More

Speedboat by Renata Adler

(NYRB Classics, March 19)

The first novel by Renata Adler, a former staff writer at The New Yorker, has been criminally out of print and overlooked for years. The book follows a disillusioned journalist named Jen Fain as she hops between parties and lovers in New York. She is happy and Read More