A new Whitney Museum restaurant by Danny Meyer (the Modern, Tabla, Shake Shack) is slated for a fall opening. “The Whitney’s current restaurant, Sarabeth’s[,] has been at the museum for almost 20 years and … will close on Jan. 17, the same day the museum’s big Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition ends.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Netflix Consents To Delay On Warner Bros.’ New Releases
“Warner Bros. has struck a deal with Netflix Inc. whereby the fast-growing DVD subscription firm won’t offer the studio’s movies until 28 days after they go on sale. … It’s part of a strategy by several studios to create staggered releases of DVDs so that the most profitable transactions are available first and cheaper rental options take effect further down the road.”
Never Mind The Spin; Latest News From City Opera Is Bad
“The scheduling drama … suggests that City Opera remains in trouble,” continuing “to bleed money while downsizing its seasons. … Would anyone be surprised if, in the not-too-distant future, City Opera simply closed up shop entirely for the fall season and turned over even more valuable performance time to the ballet?”
NY City Opera Cedes Fall Use Of Theatre To NY City Ballet
“The new arrangement will allow City Ballet to present its first uninterrupted fall season of repertory performances since 1965. In exchange the opera will receive $9 million of $100 million donated by the energy magnate David H. Koch for the refurbishing of the theater, which is now named for him.”
Should Mona Lisa Have Been Watching Her Cholesterol?
“An Italian medical expert says he has found evidence of a range of afflictions in some of the world’s greatest works of art. Vito Franco, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Palermo, claims that there are clear signs of diseases, from bone malformations to kidney stones, that cast certain icons of perfection in a very different light.”
Avatar‘s Case For Environment Better Than Copenhagen’s
“The film is brilliant PR — smug and simplistic but effective and energising. James Cameron, who won an Oscar for sinking the Titanic, now wants to save the world and may just succeed in converting the next generation,” who are seeing his movie, and absorbing his message, in droves.
Steep Challenge: Reflecting Charles Addams’ Wit Onstage
“What works brilliantly in morbidly hilarious cartoons … is a tougher trick to translate to live theater, as the producers of ‘The Addams Family’ have learned” in the show’s Chicago bow. They chose “to eschew the slapstick humor of the popular ‘Addams Family’ television show of the 1960s and three movies in the ’90s” in favor of the cartoons.
How Disability Altered A Scholar’s View Of Shakespeare
Adam Cohen, a Shakespeare scholar and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, died of cancer Saturday at 38. During his illness, radiation treatment left him temporarily unable to read — and thus, he later wrote, forced him to “experience the plays as Shakespeare probably intended”: visually.
As B. Dalton Shutters, A Look At Its Rise And Fall
“[B]ack in its day, B. Dalton Bookseller was one of the nation’s top retailers and on the cutting edge of technology. Founded by the Dayton department stores in 1966, it underwent phenomenal growth in the 1970s and 1980s, eventually expanding to nearly 800 locations in 1986, when Barnes & Noble bought it. Yes, it was a different time.”
Parsing The Personals In The New York Review Of Books
“They’re sort of like the brainy, geriatric version of the ads on Match.com. Nothing as vulgar as a photograph, of course, and quite a bit of talk about culture signifiers. The women – it’s about 90 percent women – are always slender – so slender, in fact, that you could probably fit six of them into the backseat of a Chevrolet.”