Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:01:55 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Erica Orden :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/authors/Erica+Orden istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/graffiti-adorns-new-gallery/86607/ Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST The dealer who represents the infamous British artist Banksy is opening his first gallery in New York. Steve Lazarides, who owns Lazarides Gallery, which has four outposts in and around London, will open a pop-up gallery in a former restaurant-supply store on the corner of Bowery and Houston Street beginning tomorrow. The show, "The Outsiders," which will be open for two weeks, features new work from Mr. Lazarides's stable of provocative artists, including a portrait of President Bush made out... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/pavarotti-widow-plans-book-tribute/86179/ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST Luciano Pavarotti's widow, Nicoletta Mantovani Pavarotti, and the luxury Italian art publisher FMR have donated a book dedicated to the deceased tenor to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The book, "Pavarotti and La Bohème," features rare images of the singer taken from his archives and was developed in honor of the one-year anniversary of his death. "Pavarotti and La Bohème" will not be for sale, but will instead be donated to several libraries around the world including the... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/lincoln-center-plans-yearlong-50th-anniversary/86006/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will announce today its plans for a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary in 2009, including a variety of new commissions, concerts, and performances from its 12 resident organizations, as well as the launch of a digital time capsule and the first major exhibition of its history in a show at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The programming will kick off on May 11, 2009, with the commemoration of the campus's original... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/rachel-zoes-study-in-self-promotion/85394/ Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST Rachel Zoe is famous — in certain circles — for many things, but transparency is not one of them. A celebrity fashion stylist, Ms. Zoe is known for her client list, which has included just about every pretty young thing in Hollywood — Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton, Keira Knightley, Joy Bryant, and, most auspiciously, Nicole Richie. Ms. Zoe is known for her fees, which can reportedly top $6,000 a day. And she is known for earning those fees by placing said starlets in a signature mix of Grecian... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/the-moderns-windows-go-from-clear-to-colorful/83916/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST Danny Meyer's restaurant The Modern, located in the base of the Museum of Modern Art, opened in 2005, and until just recently, its exterior had been conspicuously absent of art. Though its bar room features a photograph by German artist Thomas Demand, and its dining room provides a view of the museum's sculpture garden, the restaurant's large, ground-floor windows on 53rd street have been surprisingly blank. The windows are now making up for lost time. Since June, the 28-foot-long space has... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/underworld-takes-on-the-art-world/83322/ Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST The list of contemporary musicians who have dabbled in visual arts projects is a formidable one. David Byrne has tried his hand at photography. Patti Smith was known for her forays into painting. And Joni Mitchell has exhibited her work as a painter, too. Now joining that tradition is the electronic music group Underworld, which during the next two weeks will present an installation at the Jacobson Howard Gallery. The project, which will incorporate several local artists, is the second in a... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/harings-silent-partner-speaks/83012/ Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST The Keith Haring mural that has stood at Houston and Bowery streets since April is a tribute, an anniversary gift, and a historical re-creation. As of last week, it is also a battleground. Last Friday, under the late morning sunshine, an artist named Angel Ortiz added thickets of graphic black lines in the spaces between Haring's original green and black figurines. His was no random act of vandalism. Mr. Ortiz, who goes by the nickname LA II, was an early collaborator of Haring's, working... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/up-for-bid-at-scope-hamptons-collector-mentorship/82508/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST When fairgoers bid at the Scope Hamptons auction, they won't be raising their paddles for a painting by Damien Hirst or Takashi Murakami. They'll be bidding on something potentially far more valuable: wisdom. Today, Scope Hamptons opens its first Collector Mentorship Auction, where young art collectors from the Whitney Contemporaries, the Guggenheim Museum's Young Collectors Council, the Core Club, and the Soho House, among others, can bid on the opportunity to spend time with seasoned... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-thermodynamic-relationship/81686/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST As New Yorkers flock to the Hamptons during the summer months, so does the city's art scene. Think of it as a thermodynamic relationship: When the city art scene cools down, the Hamptons heat up, and no more so than over the next month. This weekend's unofficial kickoff of the Hamptons art fair season offers a chance to assess what's on offer, what's new, and what's to come. First up is ArtHamptons, the International Fine Art Fair, which opens Friday. With 55 participating galleries... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/seeing-beijing-in-new-york/81461/ Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST As Beijing prepares to host this summer's Olympic Games, its archives bureau is working to shape the image of the city in the international eye. For the first time, the Beijing City Archive Bureau has released photographs from its collection for display outside of China. In a show now on view at the gallery at the China Institute in Midtown, historical photographs mingle with contemporary work by 20 photographers of the Beijing City Photographers Association in "Beijing 2008: A Photographic... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/back-to-the-spotlight/81117/ Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST If there is one thing about which the acquaintances of painter Chuck Connelly can agree, it is that Mr. Connelly is his own worst enemy. A successful and prolific artist in the 1980s, Mr. Connelly had a hotshot dealer, Annina Nosei. He had soon-to-be-idolized colleagues, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel. And the press saw the potential of his Neo-Expressionist work: "Chuck Connelly is one of a number of promising artists intent on making ambitious paintings," the New York Times wrote in... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/calendar/lets-go-out-tonight-concert-in-the-park/80533/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST Classical Music CONCERT IN THE PARK Pack your blanket and corkscrew, because tonight offers a double dose of an annual summertime treat, as both the New York Philharmonic and the Brooklyn Philharmonic offer free concerts in Central Park. Which to choose? Well, the careful planner can get a taste of both. While the New York Philharmonic sets up shop to perform on the Great Lawn at 8 p.m., the Brooklyn Philharmonic will already be half an hour into its concert at the Naumburg Bandshell. Your best... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/starting-over-on-the-american-stage/80450/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST Actress Meital Dohan has racked up Israel's most prestigious awards and nominations for her work on the stage and on the big and small screens. So the obvious next move might not necessarily be an off-Broadway production in an 89-seat theater. Yet that's exactly where Ms. Dohan finds herself these days. Ms. Dohan may be best known to American audiences for her role on the Showtime series "Weeds," where she played a sexually manipulative rabbinical scholar who is as skilled in the Talmud as she... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/travel/montreals-tribute-to-yves-saint-laurent/79757/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST The passing of Yves Saint Laurent, one of the world's most prolific and influential designers, was occasion for articles and photo essays celebrating his life and career. But to truly understand the power and extent of Saint Laurent's oeuvre, one needs to see the clothes. Which is reason enough to visit the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts's retrospective of Saint Laurent's work, the first in more than 20 years. "We started working with a living legend," the museum's curator of decorative arts and... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/travel/more-in-montreal/79767/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST Montreal offers an attractive blend of the Old World and the new — and a stay in the city should take full advantage of both. For lodging that's within walking distance of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and near boutique shopping on Rue St. Laurent, try Opus Hotel Montreal (10 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 4C9, 514-843-6000), where I stayed as a guest of the Opus Hotel Group. Though newly refurnished by New York interior designer Yabu Pushelberg, the original structure, built in... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/new-york-city-ballet-goes-to-paris/78786/ Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EST New York City Ballet will perform a two-week engagement at the Opéra National de Paris in September 2008, the company is to announce next month. NYCB's artistic director, Peter Martins, along with the director of the Opéra National de Paris, Gerard Mortier, plan to announce that NYCB will open its performances on September 9 in Paris, where, according to the Opéra National de Paris's Web site, the company will perform an all-Balanchine program, consisting of "Divertimento No. 15," "Episodes,"... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/broadway-receipts-down-in-2007-08/78819/ Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EST Despite critical hits such as "In the Heights" and "August: Osage County," Broadway's paid attendance and grosses both showed slight declines in the 2007-08 season, the Broadway League announced yesterday. Paid attendance for the season, which ended May 25, dropped by 0.2%, to 12.27 million, and grosses declined to $937.5 million from $938.5 million in the 2006-07 season. League officials attributed the numbers to the 19-day strike by the stagehands union, Local One, in December 2007. Officials... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/style/museum-made-accessories/76343/ Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 EST Two museums are giving their artists new life with wearable art. The Guggenheim Museum's new jewelry line is literally a chip off the old block. Made from remnants of the Guggenheim's Frank Lloyd Wright building, which were collected during the museum's 2007 restoration, "Restoration Rocks" is a collection of earrings, pendants, bracelets, a ring, and cuff links. The fragments, composed mostly of the building material gunite, were cast in resin and set in sterling silver by California-based... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/at-a-secret-sale-artist-is-anybodys-guess/75955/ Wed, 7 May 2008 00:00:00 EST Sculptor Mark di Suvero's works have sold at auction for nearly $1 million apiece, but for art buyers who want to snag one of his latest creations, one needs only $250 — and a keen eye. Tonight, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council will host a "secret sale," consisting of works on paper from 200 contemporary artists, as part of its "Downtown Dinner" benefit. Funds raised from the event will support the council's arts programming. All of the artwork, which includes pieces from blue-chip artists... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/vito-schnabel-cultivates-a-community/75530/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST For an art dealer with just five years in the business and without a secure stable of artists, Vito Schnabel is building quite a showroom empire. The son of artist Julian Schnabel, the 21-year-old has just returned to New York from London, where he curated a show at the Scream Gallery. In an interview in his family's residence, he discussed his plans to open three separate exhibition spaces in Manhattan during the next few months. Mr. Schnabel will soon take command of a 4,300-square-foot space... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/new-york/downtown-icon-is-re-created/75076/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST A freestanding slab of concrete wall at the northwest corner of Houston Street and Bowery is being transformed into a fluorescent pink, orange, and green Keith Haring mural — again. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Haring's birth on May 4, the gallery Deitch Projects, which has represented the artist's estate for more than a decade, and the Keith Haring Foundation have hired artists to recreate the mural that Haring, who died of AIDS in 1990, painted on the wall in 1982. "For people like... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/exposing-revisionist-history-in-the-church/74945/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST While most of the city prepares to welcome Pope Benedict XVI to New York today, one corner of town will offer a tribute that's decidedly less inviting. The documentary "Constantine's Sword," opening today at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, casts a critical eye on the church's treatment of other religions, primarily Judaism, since the 11th century, and its findings aren't pretty. But while the film offers a blistering indictment of papal practices from Hitler's era through the present day, it fails to... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/made-in-queens/73638/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST As the most prolific Japanese artist in decades, Takashi Murakami has been credited with single-handedly revitalizing his country's contemporary art scene, merging modern anime and manga influences with traditional Japanese techniques, and blanketing Tokyo in his cartoonish "Superflat" style. But the bulk of his work is pumped out of a place halfway across the world from his homeland: Queens. No, Mr. Murakami has not abandoned the land of the rising sun for Queens Boulevard, though he will be... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/one-man-nine-times/72855/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST As packs of suited businesspeople made their way through the lobby of Lever House, several unexpected visitors stopped the lunchtime crowd in its tracks. Scattered throughout the space were nine male figures — each 8 feet tall and rendered in polyurethane — standing mid-stride. Their eyes closed, their bodies bare. One passerby posed a question that cut straight to the chase: "Are there going to be naked women, too?" The artist, Richard Dupont, halfway through the process of installing the... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/judith-jamison-to-retire/72072/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST The artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Judith Jamison, will retire in 2011, Ms. Jamison announced yesterday. Ms. Jamison, who has led the troupe since Ailey's death in 1989, has overseen the growth of the company into a 30-member troupe with a $56-million home base in Midtown, which opened in 2004. During Ms. Jamison's tenure, the company has also created a bachelor of fine arts program for dancers with Fordham University, and has expanded its performances in New York... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/food-drink/new-role-for-the-tasting-room/71913/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST The phrase "dinner theater" makes director Marlo Hunter a little nervous. Of course, Ms. Hunter's project, "Eating Their Words," could be described, at first glance, as such an endeavor. After all, it's dinner and theater — in the same room, at the same time. It's the details, then, that set apart Ms. Hunter's project, a three-act, five-course event born of chef-playwright collaboration; with a Broadway playwright, Theresa Rebeck, a celebrated chef, Colin Alevras, and Tony Award-winning actor... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/sense-of-place-stone-by-stone/71205/ Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST The artist Michal Rovner estimates that she has collected more than 10,000 cubic-foot stones on her farm in Israel. There are so many stones that the municipality governing her village wants to investigate what she's up to. The answer, though, can be found easily enough at PaceWildenstein's West 22nd Street gallery in Manhattan. Ms. Rovner used about 1,200 stones from her farm to build a 60-ton archaeological sculpture, "Makom II," which goes on view today. Ms. Rovner and a team of eight masons... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/nycb-to-celebrate-robbins-in-spring-season/70463/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST New York City Ballet will feature 33 ballets by Jerome Robbins in its 2008 spring season in honor of the 90th anniversary of the choreographer's birth. The tribute will include two rarely seen works: "Les Noces," created for American Ballet Theatre in 1965, and "Brahms/Handel" from 1983. Robbins served as NYCB's associate artistic director beginning in 1949. The tribute will include guest artists to represent the other companies with which Robbins worked. The Jerome Robbins Celebration will... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/dont-buy-the-art/70159/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST The painting and sculpture on display in a new exhibition space opening in Chelsea this weekend may boast some of the most collectible names in contemporary art — including Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, and Ellsworth Kelly — but the sales prices aren't sky-high. In fact, they're nonexistent. The FLAG Art Foundation, a space for contemporary art founded by collector Glenn Fuhrman, who is co-managing partner and co-founder of Michael Dell's investment firm, MSD Capital, will open its inaugural show... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/public-theater-receives-27-million-grant/69967/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST The Public Theater has received a $2.7 million, five-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch the inaugural season of a new play initiative, PUBLIC LAB, the theater announced today. The program, in collaboration with the LAByrinth Theater Company, will develop and stage a new work every month this spring and will offer all tickets to its shows for $10. PUBLIC LAB's first production will be Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy's "Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?" The work's... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/baryshnikov-center-names-stanford-makishi-as/69731/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:26:19 EST The Baryshnikov Arts Center has appointed the former director of creative services at Carnegie Hall, Stanford Makishi, as its new executive director, the center announced yesterday. Mr. Makishi, who danced with and then worked in the administration of the Trisha Brown Dance Company between 1992 and 2000, replaces Christina Sterner, who resigned from the position at the end of last year, after helping Mikhail Baryshnikov develop many projects, including the White Oak Dance Project. The... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/new-york-city-ballet-to-host-open-dress/69732/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:29:20 EST The New York City Ballet will host two open dress rehearsals of Susan Stroman's "Double Feature," the company announced yesterday. The rehearsals, which will take place on January 30 and 31, will be free and open to the public, and tickets will be available online, on the company's Web site, beginning January 21. Ms. Stroman, who choreographed the ballet, an homage to the silent-film era, in 2004, will conduct the rehearsals. The company hosted its first open dress rehearsals last year prior to... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/public-theater-selects-12-playwrights-for-its/69733/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:30:01 EST The Public Theater has selected 12 playwrights for the inaugural run of its Emerging Writers Group, the theater announced yesterday. The program, a subset of the Public Writers Initiative, a long-term initiative to support playwrights, provides emerging playwrights with a $3,000 stipend, a reading of their work at the Public, and a biweekly writers' group led by associate artistic director Mandy Hackett. Selected playwrights include Christina Gorman, whose play, "Split Wide Open" was a... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/shrek-the-musical-will-open-on-broadway/69734/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:51:25 EST "Shrek the Musical" will begin preview performances on Broadway in early November, DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions, Ltd. announced today. The musical, the first major theatrical production by DreamWorks Animation, will feature a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for "Rabbit Hole," music by three-time Tony Award-nominee Jeanine Tesori, and direction by Jason Moore, best known for staging "Avenue Q." Tim Weil, who served as music... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/steven-holl-architects-to-design-arts-facilities/69738/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:25:40 EST Steven Holl Architects will design several arts facilities for Princeton University, the school announced yesterday. The project, which will occupy 135,000 square feet, will include a black box theater, dance, orchestral, and acting studios, and classrooms. The buildings will house the school's dance and theater programs, portions of its music department, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts. Preliminary plans for the new arts facilities... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/new-york/christies-to-auction-leona-helmsley-lots/69565/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST Christie's in New York will auction a collection of paintings, sculpture, furniture, and other property from the estate of real estate tycoon Leona Helmsley in multiple sales of around 500 lots throughout the upcoming year, the auction house announced yesterday. Helmsley's property, retrieved from her New York, Greenwich, Conn., and Sarasota, Fla., residences, will be included in 15 sales, the first of which, Important American Silver, will take place January 17. Helmsley's property will also... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/philharmonic-announces-200809-season-2008-01-11/69346/ Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST The New York Philharmonic's 2008–09 season will celebrate the final year of music director Lorin Maazel's tenure at the orchestra with performances of Benjamin Britten's large-scale "War Requiem," Mahler's rarely performed Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand," and two of Mr. Maazel's own compositions, the orchestra announced yesterday. Mr. Maazel, who will have led the orchestra for seven years when he departs, will also conduct three of the four new works commissioned by the Philharmonic... Erica Orden http://www.nysun.com/arts/philharmonic-announces-200809-season/69326/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:44:39 EST The New York Philharmonic's 2008–09 season will celebrate the final year of music director Lorin Maazel's tenure at the orchestra with performances of Benjamin Britten's large-scale "War Requiem," Mahler's rarely performed Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand," and two of Mr. Maazel's own compositions, the orchestra announced today. Mr. Maazel, who will have led the orchestra for seven years when he departs, will also conduct three of the four new works commissioned by the Philharmonic... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/art-basel-beyond-the-box/67776/ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST MIAMI BEACH — Art Basel Miami Beach, the country's largest art fair, wrapped up its four-day run yesterday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. And at this collector's paradise of 300 international galleries, the big names did their thing: White Cube sold Jake and Dinos Chapman's "The Model Village of the Damned" (2007) for about $1.3 million, Terence Koh titillated with sexually explicit photography at Peres Projects, and Deitch Project's owner Jeffrey Deitch showed off his latest Ryan... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/now-emerging-from-london/66594/ Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST What began as a makeshift meeting of artists in a London basement is about to get a New York outpost. Museum 52, a four-year-old London gallery, will open a 2,200-square-foot, split-level space Friday at the corner of Rivington and Ludlow streets, in the hotbed of the city's newest commercial gallery scene. And it will be run by three directors, all under the age of 30, whose pedigrees include the London gallery White Cube and the pioneering Chelsea gallery D'Amelio Terras. The gallery's London... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/please-ride-the-art/66329/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST In a two-story, cinder-block garage on Broome Street, designer Josh Hadar flipped down his protective face mask, fired up a blowtorch, and went to work on a 3-foot piece of metal pipe. When the pipe glowed a vibrant orange, Mr. Hadar used his gloved hand to force the metal into a gentle curve, then dislodged the pipe from its vise and brought it to the bathroom sink, where he plunged it under running water. He popped his head out, smiling through the smoke. Mr. Hadar, 39, uses this and other... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/new-tharp-ballet-for-abt/65474/ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST American Ballet Theatre's spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House will include a new work by choreographer Twyla Tharp, the company announced yesterday. Ms. Tharp has choreographed 15 pieces for ABT. Her most recent ballet for the company, "The Brahms-Haydn Variations," was in 2000. Ms. Tharp's new ballet, which will receive its world premiere on June 3, will be set to a commissioned score by Danny Elfman, known primarily for his compositions for film and television, including scores for... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/cultured-criminal/63679/ Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST The earliest news stories about Steve Kurtz's arrest proffered cinematic references to convey the intensity and surrealism of his situation. "A doomsday episode of 'CSI,'" "Straight from the set of 'E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,'" "A slowly unfolding nightmare," the stories said of Mr. Kurtz's ordeal. In 2004, Mr. Kurtz, an artist and professor of art at the State University of New York at Buffalo, called 911 when he awoke to find his wife had stopped breathing. When EMS technicians arrived... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/macarthur-genius-wants-her-work-seen/63304/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST As of today, painter Joan Snyder is a MacArthur Foundation anointed "genius," and there's just one modest request she has: Could the institutions that own her paintings please put them on display? "At least two major museums in New York own my work, and it sits in the basement," she said, referring to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. "And now the Guggenheim has one, and I hope they hang it." Ms. Snyder, though, is far from discontent. The MacArthur Foundation will... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/calendar/mtv-goes-broadway-with-blonde/62388/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST It started in the pages of a book, jumped to the big screen, moved to Broadway, and now it's set for the small tube. The story of Elle Woods, who transforms from a sorority sister to a Harvard Law School student, will receive its fourth incarnation when MTV airs "Legally Blonde the Musical" — the Broadway show that is based on the film "Legally Blonde," which is based on a novel by Amanda Brown — in a special on September 29. The program, which will be executed with the consultation of the... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/finding-room-for-fantasy/62273/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST The British artist Mike Nelson generally does not work with precious materials. Weathered wooden doors, grease-caked kitchen utensils, dust respirators: These are the tools of the installation artist's trade. But Mr. Nelson is now displaying the result of his use of perhaps the most valuable commodity in Manhattan—space, specifically 16,000 square feet of usable space in an abandoned building in the Essex Street Market in the Lower East Side. His installation "A Psychic Vacuum" is open to the... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/saluting-sills/61257/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Opera will host a public tribute to legendary soprano Beverly Sills on September 16, the institutions announced yesterday. The event will feature opera stars such as Anna Netrebko and speakers such as Mayor Bloomberg and Henry Kissinger. Sills, who died on July 2, served as the general director of the NYCO and as the first female chairman of the board of Lincoln Center after her long tenure as a renowned singer. The free event will... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/style/fall-fashion-for-the-under-30-set/60977/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST Despite living in America's fashion capital, New York's young professionals often struggle to find office-appropriate attire that is both affordable and fashion-forward. As the post-college years turn into the late 20s (and even early 30s), New York women with desk jobs are bound to ask: After Banana Republic, what's next? If money were no object, the working gal could outfit herself head to toe in Celine, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren. But that's a big "if" — and inexpensive, fast fashion H&M... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/robbins-in-the-real-world/60366/ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST Jerome Robbins was a true crossover artist. A two-time Academy Award-winner, four-time Tony Award-winner, and the only American artist capable of playing second-fiddle to George Balanchine at New York City Ballet, Robbins left a legacy of multi-platform choreography in his substantial wake when he died in 1998. Now, on the eve of the 2008 Jerome Robbins Festival, two young dancers are doing their part to see that his legacy endures by turning one of Robbins's most accessible but least... ERICA ORDEN http://www.nysun.com/arts/public-theaters-fall-season-announced/59522/ Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST The Public Theater will present works by playwrights including Sam Shepard, David Henry Hwang, and Caryl Churchill as part of its 2007–08 season, the theater announced yesterday. Mr. Hwang will present "Yellow Face," in collaboration with the Center Theatre Group. James MacDonald will direct the premiere of Mr. Churchill's two-person play "Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?," which begins performances in the spring. And Mr. Shepherd will direct the American debut of "Kicking a Dead Horse" for next...