An Evening with Rosanne Cash (right), the multi-Grammy winner who was performing songs from her lyrical body of work with her husband John Leventhal was enhanced when she brought on “mystery guest: Elvis Costello to join her later in the show. ( Photo by RICHARD TERMINE/92NY) Rosanne Cash Surprises by Bringing “Mystery Guest” Elvis Costello Into Her 92NY Concert If you weren’t living under a rock last week in the city, you no doubt heard of the two big Events in music: Paul McCartney’s... News 18 Feb 2025 | 05:08
Flaco doing a “DeLorean” stretch in a pre-flyout routine at the Rumsey Playfield on February 15, 2023. The pose was named after the early 1980s sports car with gull-wing doors, featured in the Back to the Future movies. Courtesy of David Lei ( Photo: Courtesy of David Lei) Flaco: Owl on the Town For a year, he was one of our most famous celebrities, celebrated for literally flying free and high above the city. Still,... City Arts 14 Feb 2025 | 03:19
Daniel Ficarri plays the newly restored Great Organ at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. ( Photo: Maike Schulz) St. John the Divine’s Organist Celebrates the Return of the Famed Cathedral’s Great Organ When Daniel Ficarri was in high school, he took his first trip to New York City, and the first landmark he wanted to visit... City Arts 06 Feb 2025 | 04:12
A Gorgeous Excitement, a debut novel from Cynthia Weiner, is set with a backdrop of mid-1980s New York where two jarring cases involving young people shook the city and dominated tabloid headlines. Coming-of-Age Novel Takes Readers Back to mid-’80s NYC and Some Infamous Crimes New York City, 1986. If, like me, you were here, you remember the true-crime headlines about the the Preppy Murder involving... City Arts 09 Feb 2025 | 11:14
Recreation of Anne Frank’s room and the desk where she wrote her diary. ( Photo: John Halpern ) Anne Frank The Exhibition Brings Tragic Story to Life, Re-creating the Famous Annex I look down at the sheet of glass that separates me and a large-scale map of Europe. Small red flags flood the region, each... City Arts 14 Feb 2025 | 03:46
Fiona Davis has penned seven previous historical novels about venerable New York institutions. In the latest, The Stolen Queen, she turns her attention to the Met. ( Photo: © Deborah Feingold/Deborah Feingold Photography) Your Invite to the Met Gala Has Arrived Thanks to Fiona Davis and ‘The Stolen Queen’ Fiona Davis has taken us behind the scenes of The Frick, the Dakota, the New York Public Library, the Barbizon Hotel, Grand... City Arts 30 Jan 2025 | 12:41
“Scarborough South Bay by Moonlight” (circa 1878) by John Atkinson Grimshaw is on offer from the Didier Aaron Gallery of New York, London and Paris. ( Photo: Heather Stein) The Winter Show: Art Meets the Heart of New York Every January, when the streets of New York City are cloaked in winter’s chill, the Park Avenue Armory warms with a dazzling... City Arts 01 Feb 2025 | 03:40
Mark Moses and Melissa Gilbert star in a new production of “Still,” playing a couple who dated 30 years ago and meet up again after both have had long and successful careers. They ponder the timeless questions of love lost and what if . . . ( Photo: Michele Willens) New Comedic Production of ‘Still’ Raises Timeless Questions of Love Who, as they reach their later years, doesn’t occasionally look back and wonder . . . was he or she the one who got away?... City Arts 27 Jan 2025 | 03:18
The woman who is the central character in The Cleaning Lady, holding two of her children before she left them to cross into the United States. She was gone for 15 years before returning home. ( Photo: Courtesy of Ericka de Alexander and “Marisol.”) ’The Cleaning Lady’ Seeks to Humanize the Migrant Story “I would have never left [my children] if I had known that I couldn’t [eventually] bring them with me.” So says Marisol Reina... City Arts 23 Jan 2025 | 01:39
Ukrainian Museum director Peter Doroshenko (left) greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sept. 23, 2024. While in town for the UN General Assembly, Zelensky stopped by the museum to celebrate the opening of a four-month exhibit by two avant garde Ukrainian artists. ( Photo: Ukrainian Museum) The Ukrainian Museum Seeks to Sustain an Independent Nation’s Cultural Identity A quiet resistance is taking place on East 6th Street at the Ukrainian Museum. It is not the type of conflict that has fixed... City Arts 17 Jan 2025 | 02:09
Visitors to “Barbie®: A Cultural Icon” can sit in a life-size Barbie pink convertible and pretend that they too are Malibu Barbies. ( Photo: Youtube/Museum of Arts and Design) Need More Barbie? The Museum of Arts & Design has Exclusive East Coast Exhibit If there’s anyone who can one-up Taylor Swift...well, it’s that doll who became a smash hit movie, and is now pulling in... City Arts 10 Jan 2025 | 12:53
Lily Tuck, an UES resident who is a past winner of a National Book Award for fiction, has at 86 years old, just had her latest novel, “The Rest is Memory” published by an imprint of W.W. Norton & Co. ( Photo: National Book Foundation) Award Winning Author Reveals New Novel Was Sparked by a Single Image of Young Girl Tragically, it happened: the holocaust that killed eleven million innocent people in World War 11. From “Schindler’s List”... City Arts 02 Jan 2025 | 12:43
