Robert Battle
No one could have been better suited than Robert Battle to take over the artistic direction of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from the stupendous Judith Jamison. When he assumed the position in...
View ArticleDr. Kahlil Gibran Muhammad
Dr. Kahlil Gibran Muhammad, formerly an assistant professor of history at Indiana University, was named director of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at a press conference Nov....
View ArticleSusan Feldman
Thirty-two years ago, the New York Landmarks Conservancy hired a young social activist named Susan Feldman to figure out how to bring people to St. Ann’s Church, a Brooklyn Heights architectural gem...
View ArticleFlash Rosenberg
Every dawn, as sunlight glinting off the top spire of the Empire State Building streams through the skylight positioned just over Flash Rosenberg’s bed, she springs up, eager for the fun of doing Flash...
View ArticleLimor Tomer
Limor Tomer became a curator of performance—the role she took at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last July—after a crisis of confidence. She had studied piano as a child raised in Israel, come to New...
View ArticleThe CityArts Interview
By Elena Oumano Bill Bragin, “curator/presenter” of Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, clued into music’s transcendental effects early on. As a teen on Long Island,...
View ArticleThe CityArts Interview: Mathieu Demy
Americano Out of Paris The son of the late French filmmaker Jacques Demy (Lola, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and his formerly estranged wife Agnes Varda (Far from Vietnam, The Gleaners and I), Mathieu...
View ArticlePark Perks
James Burke wants art for all of the people all of the time The pockets of lustrous green that are our parks these days put the lie to the notion of summer drudgery in the city, especially when we can...
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Jonathan Kuhn on keeping art alive The day after the Twin Towers fell, Jonathan Kuhn and his two young sons headed for the woodland solace of Central Park’s North End Ravine, where a lone man was...
View ArticleThe CityArts Interview
Harold Holzer on the 16th Potus Harold Holzer calls himself an “opportunist,” but this is true only in the most positive sense—he embraces all promising opportunities that cross his path. “If a project...
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