What do Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz and Keith Haring all have in common? Each artist has work up for sale at the 4th Annual Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM to us locals) Silent Auction.
BAM certainly plays an integral part in the Brooklyn art scene, and the auction, which raises money for BAM’s Read More
Roads paved with good intentions don’t always lead to Hell—often they go straight to BAM. So it is with the recently refurbished State Ballet of Georgia, now under the leadership of the internationally famous ballerina Nina Ananiashvili, originally from the Bolshoi and a favorite here in New York from her 15 years as an occasional Read More
>> The National, Feb. 22-23, Brooklyn Academy of Music (sold out)
"No way! A 2,500 seat theater!" said The National’s Bryce Dessner, sounding more like one his band’s teenage fans than a well-traveled 34-year-old guitarist. He was calling from Ditmas Park—a few neighborhoods south of the Brooklyn Academy of Music where his brooding hometown Read More
Something Star Trek this way comes! It’s the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s massive production of Macbeth, starring the man most well known as Cap. Jean-Luc Picard, Mr. Patrick Stewart, who, as the New York Post’s Michael Riedel conjectures, may be on his way to a Tony. Follow the logic:
The money’s in Read More
The hummingbird-voiced harpist Joanna Newsom played the first of two shows with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM last night, and it wasn’t cutesy or quirky or kitschy.
It was glorious.
But four years ago, when she was 22 years and two months old, Ms. Newsom’s debut, The Milk Eyed Mender, an Read More
It’s hard out there for Paul Simon. Or, at least, love is, according to a new series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. "Love in Hard Times: The Music of Paul Simon" will celebrate Mr. Simon’s works with three programs in April, according to the New York Times. Mr. Simon himself and David Byrne Read More
Harpist-turned-psych folk poster girl Joanna Newsom will follow Sufjan Stevens’, um, wand waves and perform with an orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Feb. 8 next year. She’ll sing her dreamy, folk-inspired songs and pluck strings on her massive harp in Brooklyn after a two-day stay at the Sydney Opera House with the Read More
Folk poster boy Sufjan Stevens will debut his orchestral piece The BQE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival next week. The shows on Nov. 1-3 are sold out, but this Sunday, Oct. 28, from 7 to 8 p.m., Mr. Stevens will preview some of his orchestral work on David Garland’s radio show Read More
Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude and “genre bending” hipster, chose several films for Jonathan Lethem Selects, a month-long film series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As the 2006/2007 chair of the Friends of BAM board, he chose High and Low, This Sporting Life, La Read More
