Jun 5, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
The Vessel in New York City remains indefinitely closed, after measures fail to prevent a fourth suicide on the art structure in only four years. The Vessel is the centerpiece of the Hudson Yards urban development, a 150-foot-tall assembly of 154 interconnected...
May 15, 2023 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Two murals thought lost from the Empire State Building have been found on an antiques and design website. Winold Reiss, a German-born American artist from the 1920s and 30s, painted eight art deco murals in 1938 to decorate the Longchamps, a restaurant in the ground...
Mar 29, 2023 | Culture, New York, News & Trending
A Hebrew Bible over a millennia old is going up for auction, and Sotheby’s hopes it will sell for at least $30 million. The Codex Sassoon is 1,100 years old. It’s handwritten on parchment and leather-bound, and a nearly-complete copy of the Hebrew Bible....
Jan 11, 2023 | Art, Culture, Music, New York, News & Trending
Opera star Sonya Yoncheva is launching a record label to try to connect her art to the new generation. Sonya Yoncheva, 41, is a soprano from Bulgaria, and has sung in many of the largest operatic venues and productions of the last ten years. In 2021 alone, she sang in...
Oct 24, 2022 | Culture, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
The Hamptons has a long list of art offerings for a nice weekend away from New York City. On the far eastern end of Long Island, New York, the Hamptons has been an artistic and privileged retreat since before the Civil War. These days, it is wide open to tourists,...
Sep 26, 2022 | Art, Music, New York, News & Trending
The Met Opera season opens for 2022, with a lushly dark staging of a play written over 200 years ago. “Medea” by Luigi Cherubini and François-Benoît Hoffman premiered in Paris in 1797, and turned heads then. It’s based on a much older play, written in the 400s...
