As “Summer for the City” kicks off, open-air performances and social-dance evenings take over the plaza at Lincoln Center, through Aug. 12. On opening night, June 14, couples dance salsa under a sparkling ten-foot disco ball (designed by Clint Ramos, and pictured above), to tunes by the band 8 y...
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Once upon a time in Chicago, a Britney Spears jukebox musical was poised to make its world première. Then, alas, the opening was rescheduled for spring, 2020, whereupon COVID struck, shuttering theatres across the land. Oops! The show was postponed again. Upon a third time, it did première, though by...
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When tickets for the Cure’s North American tour went on sale in March, the front man Robert Smith expressed his frustration with the apparatus that dictates how fans see the group live. In the months since, the singer has pushed to make more concert seats available, and affordable. Such...
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“Horses: The Death of a Rider” (at the Vito Schnabel gallery, through July 29) is a jewel of a show, featuring sixteen paintings, made across five decades, by Giorgio de Chirico—meditations not on horses, per se, but on their symbolic heft. The story of Nietzsche’s devastating encounter...
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The Criterion Channel, a prime site for streaming classic movies, also offers noteworthy new international and independent films, including “Cette Maison” (“This House”), the first feature by the Haitian Canadian director Miryam Charles, a daring blend of documentary and fantasy that invests a deeply personal drama with a wide historical...
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Earlier this year, Rick Easton, the proprietor of the Jersey City bakery Bread and Salt, co-authored (with his wife, the food writer Melissa McCart) a book called “Bread and How to Eat It.” Though it includes recipes for sourdough and pizza bianca, it’s mostly about what you can do...
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The outdoor screening series from Rooftop Films has been a New York mainstay since 1997. Upcoming programs, at venues throughout the city (such as Green-Wood Cemetery, pictured above), include “In the Heights,” at Hinton Park, in Queens, and a première of the post-apocalyptic drama “Biosphere,” at Brooklyn Grange, in Sunset...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre doesn’t perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as regularly as it does at City Center and Lincoln Center, but what it brings to Brooklyn is just as reliably impressive. The company returns to BAM, June 6-11, with two programs. One is a feel-good...
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Clay proves to be terrifically funny stuff in “Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture,” an invigorating exhibition of fifty-odd works at the Museum of Arts and Design, through Aug. 27. With pieces including brightly colored piles of dog dung, a telephone-cum-sex toy, and a frog balancing bagels...
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To honor the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s hundred-and-twentieth birthday and the sixtieth anniversary of his death, Film Forum presents a complete retrospective of his extant work (June 9-29), which ranges from the urbane wit of his silent films and the bitter ironies of his Second World War movies to...
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A few Saturday mornings ago, I made a grievous logistical error. There was a half-marathon in Brooklyn, where I live, and it was pouring rain. And yet I packed my entire family into our station wagon and set out for Staten Island: I had a reservation at a new Turkish...
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The Memphis rapper GloRilla, braced by a resonant voice and a punchy repertoire, strode triumphantly into the summer of 2022 with “F.N.F. (Let’s Go),” a liberated, no-scrubs anthem that announced her star potential. Now Grammy-nominated and with a Top Ten single to her name, GloRilla sets out...
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The ecstatic new paintings by the self-schooled Uman have more colors than colors have names. Her star-making début at the Nicola Vassell gallery—“I Want Everything Now,” on view through June 17—is similarly overflowing. The fifty works on canvas and paper shift in subject from mystical inner...
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Nora Ephron’s iconic romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally,” from 1989, posed the age-old question of whether a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman can ever be just friends—and came down staunchly on the side of “nope!” “Platonic,” a new comedy series on Apple TV+, goes the...
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Now in its twelfth year, Blue Note Jazz Festival pushes past the boundaries of genre and setting suggested by its name. Much of the action moves beyond its downtown home, starting from the sizzling opening bell: Grace Jones, a uniquely severe singer who, by all appearances, was incubated in Jamaica,...
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“Do Not Detonate,” a series of works that inspired Wes Anderson’s new movie “Asteroid City,” opens June 2, at Museum of the Moving Image, with Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 melodrama “Some Came Running.” Like Anderson’s film, Minnelli's portrays a disparate batch of outsiders who converge on...
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At 9 P.M. one recent Saturday at Superiority Burger, the chef Brooks Headley was ricocheting around the dining room. A profile in GQ revealed that he clocked about thirty-five thousand steps, or roughly seventeen miles, each night. And who could blame him? For six years, he spent the majority...
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Pickleball mania reaches a fever pitch with CityPickle, in Central Park’s Wollman Rink, where fourteen newly installed courts welcome amateurs and professionals alike. The tennis-adjacent game—in which two or four players volley a plastic Whiffle-like ball with paddles—has become increasingly popular in recent years, owing...
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Since the late nineteen-seventies, the name Yvonne Jacquette has been synonymous with aerial landscapes: cities twinkling at night or patchwork rural expanses, seen from the high floors of skyscrapers or from low-flying planes. These paintings (and drawings and prints) are vibrant but distant, expressing their love of the unpredictable world...
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Inspiration struck Joseph Alessi, the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, when he heard the pianist Makoto Ozone and the vibraphonist Gary Burton perform Chick Corea’s “Brasilia” at Birdland, the midtown jazz club, in 2017. “Something came over me,” Alessi recently recalled. “I just love the music so much....
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The full title of “The Cotillion,” Colette Robert’s new play with music, is “The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel,” and that exaggerated, super-elegant, ultrarefined sensibility—the centerpieces are tasteful, the gowns are divine—conveys...
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The appalling inhumanity of an ostensibly humanitarian program is brought to light in “Something Like a War,” from 1991, one in a group of documentaries by the Indian filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj that are streaming on the Criterion Channel. The program in question is population control in India, promoted—starting...
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The other day, a friend taught me a word in Korean: 손맛, sonmat, which translates to “hand taste.” It identifies the ineffable quality of food that is made by hand—specifically, by a lovingly careful hand, such as that of a mother. Over bubbly-skinned, fried mini mandoo, filled with...
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