Copyright 2010 The New York Sun Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:54:58 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about webmaster@nysun.com en-us Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/10/lyn-devon-to-collaborate-with-ballet-his.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/10/lyn-devon-to-collaborate-with-ballet-his.html Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:09:00 EST Fashion designer Lyn Devon, who has dressed the quirky actress Greta Gerwig as well as the polished Whitney Museum chair Brooke Neidich, has found a new group of muses for her modern, romantic clothes. On October 21 at the midtown nightclub Covet, Ms. Devon will outfit the sexy, athletic dancers of Ballet Hispanico for a short performance choreographed by Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro. The event, “Dance into Fashion,” is a benefit for the company’s education programs, hosted by the company’s Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/07/moma-opening-the-original-copy-the-photo.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/07/moma-opening-the-original-copy-the-photo.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:03:00 EST Studying how photography has been used to document and make art of bodies, monuments, and various things that constitute sculpture is the premise of MoMA's new show on the 6th floor. At the opening tonight it was kind of like a walk along a long stretch of beach, past sandcastles, lifeguard stands, views of the dunes... and all those people... Photos: Amanda Gordon Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/07/peter-stein-bows-out-of-met-operas-new-p.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/07/peter-stein-bows-out-of-met-operas-new-p.html Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:32:59 EST The Metropolitan Opera announced today that Stephen Wadsworth, the head of dramatic studies for the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program., will replace German extreme-theater practitioner Peter Stein as director of the fall season's new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. The Met Opera attributed the withdrawal to "personal reasons." For those enchanted by their first experience of Stein earlier this month, when he brought his 12-hour production of Dostoevsky's "The Demons" to Amanda Gordon and Gary Shapiro http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/06/handing-the-torch-of-liberty-to-a-newspa.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/06/handing-the-torch-of-liberty-to-a-newspa.html Sat, 5 Jun 2010 17:45:19 EST A room full of editors, writers, public figures and donors gathered in midtown last night for the presentation of the 2010 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award. Attorney Kenneth Bialkin, chairman emeritus of the American Jewish Historical Society, presented the society's highest honor to Seth Lipsky, the Wall Street Journal stalwart and the founder and editor of the New York Sun and the English edition of the Forward newspaper. Peter Kann, who first met Lipsky in Vietnam, and later worked with Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/06/moma-and-givenchy-to-fete-marina-abramov.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/06/moma-and-givenchy-to-fete-marina-abramov.html Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:44:19 EST We've looked at Marina a lot these last few months -- and we haven't seen her eat a thing. So at the closing party for her retrospective tonight, let's hope she digs into her meal, which the caterer, Canard, tell us will be filet of beef, purple cauliflower, and carrots, served with candied bacon jam. The sweet and savory jam is prepared from sautéed bacon, honey, brown sugar, and stock, by reduction in the oven: sounds like performance art bacon to me Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/broadway-meets-broadway-with-detours-to-.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/broadway-meets-broadway-with-detours-to-.html Fri, 28 May 2010 23:26:00 EST There's only one Broadway, but there are many groups that support it. The Broadway Association, founded in 1911, brings together businesspeople not directly involved in Broadway to look after Broadway's interests. These are folks in hotels, public relations, restaurants, real estate, and politics (Mayor David Dinkins, for instance; Bill Rudin; Tim Zagat, whose father was a founder). Among their activities is a monthly luncheon; May's meeting was upstairs at Sardi's, and featured guests from Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/for-the-kitchen.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/for-the-kitchen.html Fri, 28 May 2010 20:51:00 EST The kitchens New Yorkers cook in will forever be small, but the Kitchen, the experimental arts space in Chelsea, keeps on growing. Its annual gala on Wednesday at Capitale had all the fabulous marks of a well-supported cultural institution in New York: two media sponsors (Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg), some famous people (Josh Hartnett, Mary-Kate Olsen, Cindy Sherman and David Byrne), heaps of cannolis, well-credentialed indie bands on the bill via Brooklyn (The Dirty Projectors) and Santa Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/achis-heroes-pediatric-cardiology-patien.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/achis-heroes-pediatric-cardiology-patien.html Fri, 28 May 2010 17:47:43 EST Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/creative-time-crashes-chinatown-peking-d.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/creative-time-crashes-chinatown-peking-d.html Thu, 20 May 2010 00:31:00 EST It took repeated bangs on the gong -- not a fancy-pants hand-held xylophone, but a big brass clunker -- to get people to their seats at the Creative Time benefit last night. Then Anne Pasternak, Creative Time's President, gave an official welcome to a several-course Chinese banquet at Jing Fong in Chinatown. Liz Swig toasted the honorees, Marc and Andrea Glimcher of Pace Gallery, with a tale from her and Marc's childhood: something about being left on his parent's boat together, exploding soda Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/jon-tischs-civil-society.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/05/jon-tischs-civil-society.html Fri, 7 May 2010 00:25:00 EST There was the 7-year-old who recently planted trees with classmates at the Town School, and the 20-something who works Excel spreadsheet magic on behalf of nonprofits. There was a member of Vanity Fair's best-dressed list, who delivers meals with City Meals on Wheels, as well as Bill Clinton, who said that he'd just been talking to nine new employees of his foundation about the fight against AIDS in Africa. Mayor Bloomberg boasted that under his leadership, New York City has the nation's first Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/04/a-stage-busting.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/04/a-stage-busting.html Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:08:09 EST A "Demoliton Party" at New York City Center had guests in hard hats, cocktails in hand, as the midtown theater's chief executive, Arlene Shuler, recalled her first time on the stage. "I was 13 when I danced here as Clara with the New York City Ballet," she said. Now it was time to take take the stage apart. Shuler watched as Mayor Bloomberg and a few others wielded sledgehammers for what the chairman of City Center, Ray Lamontagne, called a "stage busting." Over the summer, a sprung floor will Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/04/party-artifcacts-the-balletomanes-menu.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/04/party-artifcacts-the-balletomanes-menu.html Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:01:00 EST Santiago Calatrava, Natalie Portman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Narciso Rodriguez, Carolina Herrera, Anne Bass, Alexandra Kotur, and Paul LeClerc were among those who supped on the above menu created by Harlem-based Acquolina Catering for New York City Ballet's spring gala. The two soups were served in shot glasses, next to a petite salad. The Ossobucco was generously portioned. The sorbets were shaped into fruits -- berries, pears, etc., but were left untouched by most guests, who took to the dance Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/04/meet-kate-light-making-music-with-new-yo.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/04/meet-kate-light-making-music-with-new-yo.html Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST For Kate Light, a violinist in the New York City Opera Orchestra, playing the waltzes at the company's gala as patrons danced was fun but frustrating. “I wanted to watch,” she said a few days after the event, speaking by telephone from her Upper West Side apartment. But the music --especially the waltz by Chabrier--was whirling by. “All I saw was this swirl of pink dress being lifted off the ground,” she said. Don’t be mistaken, however: Light is a skilled multi-tasker. The violinist is also a Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/03/conserving-mckim-mead-white-drawingsedwa.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/03/conserving-mckim-mead-white-drawingsedwa.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:24:00 EST BUILDING ON PAPER The other night, preservationists in brooches, architectural historians in tweed, and a group of architects dressed in flannel shirts and jeans were gathered in the library of the New-York Historical Society, examining delicate sheets of paper filled with lines and cursive. Unrolled, with leather weights placed at their edges, the drawings revealed the innermost secrets of some of New York's grandest buildings: the stranger's reception room at the University Club, the ornate Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/01/the-place-to-be-tonight-frederic-frankli.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2010/01/the-place-to-be-tonight-frederic-frankli.html Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:18:00 EST If you think recollections of the past decade were interesting, wait until you hear from Frederic Franklin, 95, who is speaking tonight at the Works & Process series at the Guggenheim. His career as a ballet dancer began in 1931, when at age 17, he arrived in London from Liverpool and got a place in a tap dancing troupe going to Paris. His partner was Josephine Baker. From 1938 to 1952, he was premier danseur with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Beyond dancing, he has deployed his Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/the-bullfight.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/the-bullfight.html Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:37:11 EST When Wall Street imploded, Eric Fischl went to the Andalusian town of Ronda to paint the Corrida Goyesca. With the bullfighters dressed in 18th century attire, the scenes evokes Goya, with Fischl's stamp of warm color and light. The exhibition of eight paintings runs through December 19 at Mary Boone Gallery, 541 W. 24th St., www.maryboonegallery.com Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/head-to-head-with-the-white-house-new-yo.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/head-to-head-with-the-white-house-new-yo.html Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:13:36 EST Mayor Bloomberg may have worn a red tie to reference the rich hues of India at the White House State Dinner last evening, but he just as eaisly could have been representing New York's (holiday) red state of mind the same evening: At New York City Ballet's opening night, red was the favored color: Balanchine's "Rubies pas de deux" was on the program, in which red costumes sparkled, as they did in the world premiere of "Naive and Sentimental Music" choreographed by Peter Martins, which included Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/photos-from-the-american-folk-art-museum.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/photos-from-the-american-folk-art-museum.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:57:00 EST Click here for photos. We were in luck at the Folk Art Museum gala last night when the first person we laid eyes on was its president, Laura Parsons (wife of Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons). Ms. Parsons was sitting with Raffaella Cribiore, a curator of papyri at Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. We learned about two works in Ms. Parsons's personal collection: A self-portrait by Clementine Hunter and Hale Woodruff's "Cotton Pickers," which hangs in her living room. Over by the Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/new-at-the-new-york-public-library.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/new-at-the-new-york-public-library.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:04:00 EST Patience and fortitude are still keeping watch at the New York Public Library’s flagship Fifth Avenue entrance, but the world is changing around them, and so, in a fashion, are they. The Library has a new logo developed in-house and based on its iconic lion statues. It is a bold graphic inspired by the design of stained glass, complete with a circular frame. The former logo was also a lion, but with finer detail that apparently made it difficult to read in contexts like Twitter. The logo isn’t Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/the-place-to-be-tonight-art-new-york-cit.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/the-place-to-be-tonight-art-new-york-cit.html Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:05:00 EST Good morning! A great event to get to tonight is the free, public opening of the contemporary art installations presented by New York City Opera in its renovated house. The setting is the very, very special Promenade, with its Elie Nadelman sculptures. And since there's no performance tonight, it is your prerogative to dwell luxuriously here instead of worrying about getting back to your seat. What you'll see: In addition to E.V. Day's manipulations of City Opera costumes, suspended in air