At the age of 72, the artist David Hockney has few living competitors for the public’s affection. Mr. Hockney’s is a household name in England, where he is by common consent the nation’s most popular artist, but also in American households, at least the ones with a Matisse poster hanging in the kitchen. More than Read More
Josh Sternfeld’s Winter Solstice, from his own screenplay, has been generally demeaned for its overabundance of usually praiseworthy qualities like subtlety, restraint and understatement. Still, for a first-time writer-director, Mr. Sternfeld is remarkably sure-footed as he tracks the travails of widower Jim Winters (Anthony LaPaglia) and his two rebellious teenage sons, high-school graduate Gabe (Aaron Read More
Wednesday 13th
But of Kors! Well, what can we say: After all the post–Sept. 11 promises to be “subdued” and “respectful,” Fashion Week has gone ahead and swallowed the city like a great big billowing peasant blouse …. Designers Michael Kors ( Ralph Lauren crossed with Isaac Mizrahi ), Oscar de la Renta (rich, ruffles Read More
In Washington this summer, the National Museum of American Art–a wholly owned subsidiary of the gargantuan Smithsonian bureaucracy–has been exhibiting a recent painting of the Grand Canyon by the English painter David Hockney. Well, it’s not exactly a painting of the Grand Canyon. Some 60 separate canvases have been mounted to form a grid on Read More
Pacific East
* 1/2
318 West 23rd Street
243-0777
Dress: Casually elegant
Noise level: Reasonable
Wine list: Expensive but interesting
Credit cards: All major
Price range: Prix fixe dinner (5:30 to 7 P.M.) $19.98; dinner main courses $13 to $29
Dinner: Sunday to Thursday 5:30 P.M. to 11 P.M., Friday and Saturday to midnight
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