Dream-like states: Ming Smith’s black and white photos – in pictures | Art and design
[ad_1] Ming Smith: Evidence will be the inaugural exhibit at the Nicola Vassell Gallery, and will include some of her most recognizable images – and others that have never been seen before. Smith was one of the few women in Kamoinge, a collective of Black photographers established in New York in 1963 [ad_2] This content […]
‘We got shot at’ – the outrageous life of Jayne County, the first trans rock’n’roller | Music
[ad_1] Jayne County is explaining the term “wrecking”, which was a popular pastime among the more confrontational drag queens of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 60s. “Just deliberately trying to freak out the regular people, the solids as we called them,” she laughs. “Shaking people out of their normality, just trying to see what nerves we […]
This man made opera history. Why did I not know him? | Opera
[ad_1] Here’s a little song I wroteYou might want to sing it note for note Don’t worry, be happy” Everyone knows Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 earwormy hit and its gloriously silly video. I remember dancing round the living room with my sisters singing along full pelt, each of us taking turns to try our hands at […]
New York City Ballet review – Sofia Coppola’s beautiful, intimate portrait | Dance
[ad_1] It’s fair to say dance on screen is getting more ambitious when New York City Ballet go and hire Sofia Coppola to direct their latest film. But the heavyweight director isn’t heavy-handed in this beautifully judged reimagining of a gala for the screen, telling the story of the company’s return to the theatre, from […]
‘I couldn’t even move my eyeballs’: how dancer Tiler Peck stepped back to the barre | Dance
[ad_1] Possibly the best piece of dance to come out of lockdown is William Forsythe’s The Barre Project. This half-hour film set to the music of James Blake transforms something basic and well-worn – the ballet dancer’s daily exercises at the barre – into something completely fresh. It is short but magnificently satisfying, and thrilling […]
New York, New York, New York review: superb reflections on a city resurgent | Books
[ad_1] This is a big book, 425 pages before the notes, about the big changes that transformed New York over the last five decades: spiritually, by making it “more like America and less like what it had always been”, and physically amid “the most dramatic peacetime transformation” of any city “since Haussmann rebuilt Paris”. Thomas […]
‘We can still bloom and grow after trauma’: the artist sharing survivors’ stories of abuse | Art
[ad_1] Passersby in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District will see something rather atypical in one of the many storefronts at the moment: a group of old-fashioned lightbulbs standing alongside small internet-connected printers, each unspooling an anonymous newsfeed of survivor stories. It’s part of a new project from New York City’s public artist-in-residence, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, an installation called […]
Subway to Studio 54: a bygone New York – in pictures | Art and design
[ad_1] Dangerous Ride, Franklin Street Station IRT Broadway Line, New York Subway, NY, 1978 Spiller roamed the streets far and wide to capture a glimpse of the speed, energy and absurdity of the era Facebook Twitter [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
New York prayer vigil for rapper DMX – in pictures
[ad_1] Supporters and family of the rapper DMX have held a prayer vigil outside the New York hospital where he remains on life support after being admitted on Friday after a heart attack Continue reading… [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
New York’s New Cannabis Laws Look a Lot Like Colorado’s
[ad_1] Hundreds of retail shops will be spread across New York under plan. The marijuana industry in New York will be similar to Colorado’s, where nine years after it was legalized there are nearly 1,000 retail stores and small medical marijuana dispensaries spread across that state. For many people who suffer from conditions such as […]
