Superhero fashion soars in New York exhibition
Fantasy, irony and imagination make the show, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until Sept. 1, a spectacle not to be missed.
Source : www.iht.com | 05-mai-2008 19:08
Riccardo Muti to lead Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, considered one of the most talented but tempestuous personalities in Italian music, will become music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2010.
Source : www.iht.com | 05-mai-2008 19:08
FASHION: May 68 dressed France up
Not only did the events of May 68 forever change the cultural and political landscape in France, they also transformed the fashion scene, as young French women discovered a new sense of style.
Source : www.france24.com | 05-mai-2008 14:24
Lindsay Lohan to Appear on Season Finale of 'Ugly Betty'
Lindsay Lohan will make a guest appearance on the season finale of ABC's 'Ugly Betty.' The 21-year-old...
Source : www.naharnet.com | 05-mai-2008 13:17
'Iron Man' impressive in opening weekend
"Iron Man" sold an estimated $100.8 million in tickets at North American theaters and almost certainly established a new movie franchise for Marvel Entertainment.
Source : www.iht.com | 05-mai-2008 13:05
Shanghai, where West plus East made style
In "Shanghai Style - Art and Design Between the Wars," Lynn Pan shows how the aesthetics of a China emerging from centuries of classical constraint, and the revolutionary ideas of early 20th century Western art and design, merged in the hot pot of Shanghai.
Source : www.iht.com | 05-mai-2008 13:05
Chinese orchestra to play for Pope, suggesting warmer ties
The China Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform this week for Pope Benedict XVI, state media reported Monday, the latest indication that the often-strained ties between Beijing and the Vatican are improving.
Source : www.iht.com | 05-mai-2008 13:05
People: Gretchen Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Amy Winehouse
Fifteen prominent New Jerseyans have been inducted into the state's new Hall of Fame - even though the actual hall doesn't exist yet. Bruce Springsteen, Yogi Berra, Toni Morrison and General Norman Schwarzkopf were among the honorees on hand for the ceremony at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Two inductees, the actress Meryl Streep and the former U.S. senator Bill Bradley, could not attend.
Erosion in Young Audience Shows Cracks in `Idol' Future
The fevered response to the latest loopy Paula Abdul episode, where she judged a phantom performance,...
Source : www.naharnet.com | 05-mai-2008 13:02
Our Own Devices
James Prescott Joule, whose findings led to the first law of thermodynamics, spent his honeymoon jury-rigging a thermometer to take a reading at the top and bottom of a waterfall where a lesser man might merely have canoodled. Joseph Henry shredded his wife’s silk petticoat to make insulation for . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Planet Shanghai
It’s amazing how much you can accomplish in Shanghai while wearing pajamas. In recent years, Shanghai newspapers have worried that this sartorial habit will give the city a slovenly image, but it seems that many natives see little divide between public and private space. Justin Guariglia, an American photographer who . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Readings and Talks
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
Werner Kleeman, a German native who was a teen-ager when Hitler came to power, in 1933, and who later emigrated to the United States and was drafted, reads from his memoir, “From Dachau to D-Day.” (15 W. 16th St. For reservations, which are required . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
The Fight Back
Up, Odets!!” Clifford Odets cheered himself on in his diary in 1940, not long before he decamped from New York for Hollywood. “Or is it down, down, sunk into the self?” he added. At the time of that diary entry, Odets was in his prime: widely acknowledged as the theatrical . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
The Heatherwick Effect
For the past few years, an office development tucked away overlooking an old canal behind Paddington Station, in London, has been attracting clusters of people who come to see a footbridge. Made of steel and wood, and crossing the water in eight short sections, the bridge looks ordinary, but, when . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
The Hebrew Republic
The Bush Administration’s fervent desire to broker a Middle East peace agreement before it leaves the stage, early next year, seems almost hopeless, given the fractures among the Palestinians, the heedless building of Israeli settlements, and the fact that the Administration itself ignored the problem for years. It is a . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
The Outer Edge
Groovy is as groovy does, and by 1968 no American avant-garde troupe was more far out, hip, and dangerous than the Performance Group. Founded in 1967 by the ferociously gifted theatre director and scholar Richard Schechner, the Group was a precursor to the Wooster Group. (The late Spalding Gray . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Picture Windows
Photographs of stained-glass art by Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke.
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Wild Gift
Matt Wolf’s documentary, “Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell,” reconstructs the emergence and all too quick dissolve of the musician and composer, who died of AIDS in 1992--as well as the rise and fall of the downtown New York community that nurtured him. A young man from Oskaloosa . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Yentl Illness
A musical about a chain-smoker with the power of reincarnation: what are the chances of remaking that nowadays? Few movies feel more comically rooted in their era than Vincente Minnelli’s bizarre extravaganza of 1970, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” screening May 9 at the Rubin Museum . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
On the Horizon
MOVIES
WATCHING HAWKS
June 4-15
In his postwar films, Howard Hawks, whose career began in the silent era and ended in 1970, reworked his themes of sexual and generational combat in almost every genre: Western (including “Red River” and “Rio Bravo”), comedy (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “Man’s Favorite Sport?”), historical . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Night Life
ROCK AND POP
Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements.
B. B. KING BLUES CLUB & GRILL
237 W. 42nd St. (212-997-4144)--May 7: The Electric Prunes, the psychedelic-era band best known for the single “I Had Too Much to Dream . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Movies
OPENING
THE BABYSITTERS
Reviewed below in Now Playing. Opening May 9. (Village East Cinemas.)
BATTLE FOR HADITHA
Nick Broomfield directed this fictional reconstruction of the massacre of Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in 2005. In English and Arabic. Opening May 7. (Film Forum.)
BLOODLINE
A documentary about the Priory of . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Above and Beyond
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HOUSE TOUR
The arrival of Robert Fulton’s steam ferry, in 1814, helped turn Brooklyn’s riverside farmland into one of the city’s most beautiful neighborhoods. Wealthy merchants drawn by the area’s sudden accessibility (one developer, Hezekiah Pierpont, described his property as “the nearest country retreat”) constructed elegant brownstone and . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Around the Bend
Gluttons for “Duck Soup” will remember the scene in which Groucho is faced with an official document. “Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report,” he says. “Run out and find me a four-year-old child.” My sentiments exactly, as I sat in a cathedral-size auditorium . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Art
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)--“Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions.” Through May 11. | “Gustave Courbet.” Through May 18. | “Super-heroes: Fashion and Fantasy.” Opens May 7. | “Jeff Koons on the Roof.” Through Oct. 26. | “Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960.” Through . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Classical Music
Opera
METROPOLITAN OPERA
John Dexter’s cartoonish 1979 production of Mozart’s Turkish delight, “Die Entführung aus dem Serail,” uses cardboard-cutout sets and an endearing comic touch that, while pleasing, recalls an anodyne style of production outmoded at Peter Gelb’s vibrant new Met. Diana Damrau’s tawny, pliant soprano makes for a . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Dance
NEW YORK CITY BALLET
As part of a Russian-inspired all-Robbins program, N.Y.C.B. is staging the seldom seen “Les Noces,” Robbins’s 1965 remake of Igor Stravinsky’s extraordinary expressionistic work from 1923, about a joyless peasant wedding. At its first performance this week, Tiler Peck and Adam Hendrickson will be . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Daughters of the North
In Hall’s unsettling third novel, a series of ecological and geopolitical disasters in Britain has caused all citizens to be herded into urban centers, where women are fitted with contraceptive coils. Hall’s work covers familiar fictive ground in imagining a dystopia in which women’s bodies have become the battleground for . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Hardheaded Weather
This collection of both new and previously published poems showcases Eady’s enormous range as a chronicler of contemporary American life--class, race, family, gender, jazz and blues, and the distinctions between urban and rural environments all play a role in these impeccable lyrics. Eady’s plain-spoken, pragmatic voice is accessible . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
I Have To Ask
Barack Obama walked onto the set of “The View” a few weeks ago and sat down. It took a moment for the fluttering to die down. When it did, Barbara Walters turned to him and said, “We were just saying before you came out--maybe we shouldn’t say this, but . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
Many-colored Glass
By the lights of many in the international art world, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke are the leading painters of our day, though it’s hard to find anyone who will declare them equally great. (I’m an exception.) Their careers are intertwined by biography and circumstance. Both are from the former . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
The Theatre
OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS
Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information.
BABYLOVE
Christen Clifford wrote and performs this one-woman show, about her experiences as a new mother. Julie Kramer directs the Hourglass Group production. Opens May 7. (45 Bleecker, 45 Bleecker St. 212-239-6200 . . .
Source : www.newyorker.com | 05-mai-2008 06:00
New album, new fears, same old attitude for the Roots
As an independent-minded hip-hop group, the Roots are accustomed to major-label pressure, but a grim industry climate has ratcheted up the tension.
Source : www.iht.com | 05-mai-2008 03:49
Tan Dun infuses Western music with Chinese traditions
Tan Dun is a kind of rock star of the modern music scene, and whatever it is that is behind his extraordinary success, it surely isn't innocence ? or a lack of sophistication.
Source : www.iht.com | 04-mai-2008 17:39
All eyes on BarberOsgerby's Iris tables
Like most of this duo's designs, Iris is rooted in an engagingly simple idea - in this case, the pleasure of looking at a rainbow of colors.
Source : www.iht.com | 04-mai-2008 12:50
Banksy, Britain's famous graffiti artist, organizes 'Cans Festival'
Banksy and 40 other street artists from around the world have covered a disused south London tunnel with their work. Visitors can contribute, too.
Source : www.iht.com | 03-mai-2008 00:03
An engineer turned jeweler, Hervé Van der Straeten blurs traditional boundaries
In his hands, a mirror mutates into an earring, a light fixture into a lipstick case. A jeweler since the age of 20, Van der Straeten designed the "Palazzo" perfume bottle for Fendi; a sandal for Bruno Frisoni and "KissKiss" make-up cases for Guerlain.
Source : www.iht.com | 03-mai-2008 00:03
FRENCH 'CHANSON': Marchet plays and Cathrine talks
"Frère animal" (Animal Brother) is a two-voice project : Florent Marchet did the music and Arnaud Cathrine wrote the lyrics. A fairy tale-like meeting.
Source : www.france24.com | 02-mai-2008 20:11
Dornac: Unmasking a photographer of Parisian society
A man anxious to remain anonymous contacted a Paris auctioneer of the PIASA group, Delphine de Courtry. He had 179 photographs signed Dornac, and wanted to part with them. Here was, perhaps, a chance to find out more about the mystery photographer.
Source : www.iht.com | 02-mai-2008 19:07
In a chokehold, on the mat and in life
"Redbelt" is a satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy.
Source : www.iht.com | 02-mai-2008 17:16
Fulco di Verdura: The elegant beguiler of stars
A friend of Cole Porter, discovered by Coco Chanel, the Palermo aristocrat Verdura was the favorite jeweler in a gilded circle that included Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn and the Duchess of Windsor.
Source : www.iht.com | 02-mai-2008 17:16
Italy from Bonaparte to the Belle Époque
An unusually rich crop of exhibitions are focusing on Italian art of the 19th century.
Source : www.iht.com | 02-mai-2008 17:16
My best friend's big fat (shouldn't happen) Scottish wedding
The romantic comedy "Made of Honor" adds tart satirical flavors to a cotton-candy formula without sabotaging the sugar rush.
Source : www.iht.com | 02-mai-2008 17:16
Sean Combs looks West, embracing his Walk of Fame star and hunting for a home
When Diddy, the one-man, publicity-generating rapper and producer, met Hollywood's well-oiled hype machine, sparks were bound to fly.
Source : www.iht.com | 02-mai-2008 17:16
People: Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Dennis Rodman
The recording artist Mariah Carey and the rap singer and actor Nick Cannon have married this week in the Bahamas, according to several media reports. The New York Post said the pair had wed in a secret ceremony in front of family and friends at Carey's house in Eleuthera, citing a source close to Carey. Latina.com, the Web site for Latina magazine, cited a source near Cannon as saying the nuptials took place on Wednesday, and In Touch Weekly said Cannon had designed a $2.5 million ring he gave to his bride. Carey, 38, recently released the No. 1 single "Touch My Body" off her best-selling album "E=MC2."
CINEMA - SCULPTURE: French Grévin Museum honours Bollywood star
Shahrukh Khan, considered as Bollywood's biggest star, with 50 movies under his belt, has become a wax statue at the Paris Grévin Museum. After Gandhi, the actor is the second Indian national to grace this famous museum.
Source : www.france24.com | 02-mai-2008 16:34