Arts

In her book-to-screen take on Bonjour Tristesse, writer Durga Chew-Bose crafts a lush atmosphere as meticulously and stylishly as she did in her 2019 essay collection Too Much and Not the Mood. It’s not easy to adapt one of the more beloved pieces of 20th-century literature, and Chew-Bose had the additional shadow of Otto Preminger’s […]

Of the artists who rose from the 1980s East Village to prominence, Mark Kostabi is certainly in the top tier, and among the few survivors who deserve the appellation maestro. There are others of course: Jeff Koons, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Eric Fischl. Though Kostabi – like Warhol, Picasso or Dali in the

Later this month, Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning, the eighth entry in the series, hits theaters, and it’s teasing in every way that it will be the last big screen adventure for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his venerable team of Impossible Missions Force agents, among them Luther (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg). Or, at

When the Cornelia Street Café announced its closure in 2018 after more than 41 years of operation — due to a crushing rent increase — the loss was acutely felt by the neighborhood and the community of artists who called the café basement stage home. For co-founder and owner Robin Hirsch, though, losing the place

Well, hello there my friends and welcome to the April edition of “Tits Up Brooklyn!” where we explore some of the music and arts that Brooklyn had to offer this muse-ical muse. Oh, the month of March was a busy month for so many reasons. Good reasons, bad reasons and downright ugly reasons, but we

Review of “The Art of Trader Joe’s: Discovering the Hidden Art Gems of America’s Favorite Grocery Store,” by Julie Averbach Review by Michael Quinn   I don’t know anyone in the city who doesn’t shop at Trader Joe’s. Even if you dread the crowds, you may go for the low prices. While I’m not generally

Peter Frampton made a splash in New York, first appearing at the ninth annual star-studded benefit concert for God’s Love We Deliver at the Beacon Theater. He shared the stage with iconic performers like Cher, Beck, Alicia Keys, and many others. Frampton then on Saturday March 8th in somewhat  of a surprise appearance at the

522 West 21st Street March 5 – April 15 by Lee Klein The only thing that the wealthy off-the-charts eccentric Venetian habitué Marchesa Luisa Casati is recorded as having said is “I want to be a living work of Art.” Enter Walton Ford, a present day storied visual cataloguer of ecology and Animalia who has now gone

He’s an impresario. He’s a musician. He’s a performance artist, an actor, a singer, and a producer. He’s Willard Morgan, and if you ask his neighbors, he’s the Mayor of West 8th Street. That stretch of thoroughfare may only run from Fifth to Sixth Avenue, but it is one of the most historic cultural spots