The Vessel Indefinitely Closed

The Vessel Indefinitely Closed

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...
Two Murals Found After 60 Years

Two Murals Found After 60 Years

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...
Hebrew Bible Up For Auction

Hebrew Bible Up For Auction

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....
Opera Star Seeks New Audience

Opera Star Seeks New Audience

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...
Met Opera Opens With Medea

Met Opera Opens With Medea

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...
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