Spring Arts

Who Matters Now: A Baker's Dozen of the Season's Rising Stars

With warmer weather comes the heat. Here are some of the fresher faces in theater, opera, dance, the visual arts, film and television–the ones people will be talking about this spring.

David Lomeli, singer
Nemorino, The Elixir of Love
New York City Opera
March 22 to April 9
In this production of Donizetti’s Elixir of Read More

Burnham, Baby, Burnham: Harper Honcho Falls at Literary Bee

Village Voice columnist Michael Musto, Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham, artist Maira Kalman, author James Frey, Vogue editor Sally Singer and others gathered at Diane von Furstenberg’s studio beneath the High Line on Monday, Oct. 26, for a spelling bee to support the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and independent publishing.

“I’m so damn, Read More

Maira Kalman’s New York: Goethe Rides the F Train

THE PRINCIPLES OF UNCERTAINTY
By Maira Kalman
The Penguin Press, 325 pages, $29.95

Let’s say it’s raining. You enter a shop for a bowl of soup. While you wait, a woman sits down at another table. She’s wearing the most dazzling, improbable, patent leather heels. You can’t take your eyes off them, because they Read More