From 1941 to 1976, the MTA hosted a beauty competition called Miss Subways and plastered images of the winners on trains and buses (often placed near ads as a way to draw more attention to them). Decades later, photographer Fiona Gardner and journalist Amy Zimmer sought out former competitors, shooting ...
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, in association with The Kymara Gallery, presents XXX: Sensuality Through the Eyes of the Photographer, a group show of erotic images featuring unseen work by internationally respected photographers Mick Rock, Jan van Breda, Hans van der Kamp, Lee Black Childers, Anton Perrich, ...
Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the most significant composers of modern and electronic music, influencing artists from The Beatles to Bjork, Miles Davis to Animal Collective, Frank Zappa, and more.
See all five parts of Tina Packer's "Women of Will" condensed into one evening. A true tour-de-force performance of Packer’s 40-plus years spent investigating the women of Shakespeare.
ManhattanSat, Mar 23, 2013, 7:00 pm - Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 9:00 pm
f Water and Ice is a composition for string quartet and video that evolved out of Paul D. Miller's large-scale multimedia work Sinfonia Antarctica. Of Water and Ice is a music/video exploration of the composition of ice and water and our relationship to the vanishing environment of the arctic poles.
Opera is full of courtesans and lechers and, in the 20th century, outright acts of perversion. (Salome, anyone?) But you have to go back almost 350 years for the work with the most depraved protagonist of all: Eliogabalo, by Francesco Cavalli.
Scarlett Johansson returns to Broadway as "Maggie the Cat" in Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." On the eve of his 65th birthday, "Big Daddy" Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is distressed by the rocky relationship between his beloved son Brick, ...
You too can experience the privilege, respect and air of superiority enjoyed by millions who call themselves New Yorkers. But it requires training, even if you were born here.
"Fortuny y Madrazo: An Artistic Legacy" is a seminal exhibition analyzing the work of celebrated Spanish artist and designer Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871–1949) in the context of the family of artists from which he descended.