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At Paul Taylor, the music calls for a dance. The men respond.
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not a race, but Lauren Lovette seems to be running, not walking, to create a body of work for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Last year, after becoming Taylors resident choreographer, she presented two new works; this week, as part of the Taylor season at Lincoln Center, she added two more, including the world premiere of Echo on Thursday. Its her finest offering yet. Before any dancing began, the orchestra pit rose to eye level and the members of the Time for Three string trio began to vocalize; soon, the harmony and quiet strength of their voices cast a spell over the David H. Koch Theater. Dancers, all men, mainly bare chested, began a gliding procession toward the stage, migrating along all the pathways of the theater the sides, the aisles. This kind of offbeat entrance isnt exactly new to dance, but ... More

Rare American colonial manuscript collection goes to auction
NEW YORK, NY.- A curated collection of 17th- and 18th- century manuscripts documenting life in colonial New England will be featured at Doyle Auctions November 7th sale of rare books, autographs, and maps. Handwritten material originating from first- and second-generation settlers at Plymouth and the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colonies is the focus of the collection, which was amassed over a period of a decade by Boston-area collector and literary publicist Victor Gulotta. The documents within this collection offer interesting, inspiring, and unusual episodes of 17th-century New England using the 1692 Salem witch trials as their lens, Peter Costanzo, Doyle senior vice president/executive director, books, autographs, and photographs, writes. This disturbing event provided a bookend to the Pilgrim Century that had begun ... More

Several notable collections come together during fall auction to highlight major moments in early American numismatics
DALLAS, TX.- If, as often has been said, it is true that "good things come in threes," a trio of exceptional coins from an important collection could fare exceedingly well when they are sold in Heritage's US Coins SignatureÂ® Auction November 16-19. The three coins, each of which will be offered in the event's Premier Session, come from the Bayfield Collection and include: A 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar B-1, BB-1, R.4, XF45 PCGS. CAC It has been suggested that no coin in the U.S. series defines the quality of a collection more immediately than the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar, which was the nation's first silver dollar and the premier showpiece denomination among U.S. silver issues since the first 1794 dollar was struck. ... More

Tate Britain to host edible artwork by Bobby Baker
LONDON.- From 8 November 2023, Tate Britain will present a restaging of a major feminist artwork which has not been seen for almost 50 years: Bobby Baker's radical sculptural installation An Edible Family in a Mobile Home. The installation accompanies Tate Britains autumn exhibition exploring art and activism in the 1970s and 80s, Women in Revolt!, which opens on the same day. Originally staged in 1976, a replica of Bakers prefabricated East London house will be sited outside Tate Britain on the South Lawn. The installation will contain five life-size sculptures of family members made from cake, biscuits and meringues, which will be steadily eaten by the public. Visitors to Tate Britain will be invited into the house to sample these edible sculptures and talk to hosts - trained by Baker herself. This installation is made possible thanks to public ... More

What the suburbs did for Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen
NEW YORK, NY.- It was the 25th anniversary concert celebrating the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Madison Square Garden in 2009 when Bruce Springsteen bellowed to the crowd: Are you ready for the bridge-and-tunnel summit meeting right here, right now? Because Long Island is about to meet New Jersey on the neutral ground of New York City! Out came Billy Joel, and the two performed a set together of their greatest hits. Springsteen crooned on Joels New York State of Mind, while Joel returned the favor on Springsteens Born to Run. The two had crossed paths occasionally in their hit-making careers, but never in such a high profile way. In retrospect, it was surprising it had taken so long. Author Jim Cullen argues in his new book, Bridge and Tunnel Boys: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American ... More

Bierstadt, N.C. Wyeth, Tooker and Parrish lead Heritage's American Art auction
DALLAS, TX.- This fall, Heritage presents another leap forward in its special relationship with classic American art significant works by the most notable artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. The most American of auction houses' connection to this history is built on its dedication to scholarship, connoisseurship, and emphasis on provenance: Heritage understands and loves these works and is proud to share them with collectors who appreciate their place in not only the canon, but in America's conception of itself. The story of America is still young but has been ever-dynamic, aesthetically and socially innovative, and sensitive to its multiple unfolding histories and the artwork produced by its sharpest artists reflects a nation in all of its complexity. Heritage's Views and Visions: Important Works by American Masters SignatureÂ® Auction ... More

'Pal Joey' review: Bewitched, bothered and bewildering
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not often that the standout star of a show is its music supervisor, arranger or orchestrator, but in the gala presentation of Pal Joey at New York City Center through Sunday, all three are one man, Daryl Waters. More than the authors of the ambitious, bewildering revivals new book, Waters, who has served similar roles on musicals as varied as Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk, After Midnight, The Cher Show and New York, New York, makes a clear case in beautiful sound for its investigation into the melting pot of American music. That the rest of the revival (really a new creature, made from spare parts) is more suggestive than convincing is no crime; there has never been a satisfactory Pal Joey. Though the 1940 original featured some soon-to-be standards by Rodgers and Hart Bewitched, ... More

'I'm Still Alive': Sean Young takes the stage in 'Ode to the Wasp Woman'
NEW YORK, NY.- Manhattan has dressing rooms dingier than the one in the basement of the Actors Temple Theater. But not many. Sean Young, curled into a folding chair atop peeling linoleum tiles with a smudged mirror behind her, claimed not to mind. I dont have the disease of snobbery, she said on a late October morning. I have an incredibly high tolerance for dirty dressing rooms, you know what I mean? I like slumming it. Young was in rehearsal blacks leggings, a muscle tee, sneakers her hair half up. She was two weeks out from the first preview of Ode to the Wasp Woman, which is scheduled to open Thursday and run through Jan. 31. Written and directed by Rider McDowell, the play details the lurid, untimely deaths of four Hollywood has-beens and barely-weres. Young, in her New York stage debut, plays Susan ... More

SJ Auctioneers announces online only Happy Hour of Fine Collectibles auction
BROOKLYN, NY.- The temperature may be dropping outside, but things are heating up at SJ Auctioneers, which will hold an online-only Happy Hour of Fine Collectibles auction on Sunday, November 12th, beginning at 5 pm Eastern time. The catalog is packed with a fine selection of jewelry, silverware, trains, toys and collectibles from noted artists, designers and silversmiths. They include names such as Cartier, Tiffany & Co. Dominick & Haff, Jose Hess, Emile Delaire, Gorham, Movito, Reed & Barton, Watson, Wallace, WM B Kerr, Sackermann Hessenberg & Co., Italian Vetreria Murano, Arte, American Flyer, Lionel, Nintendo, Tootsie Toy, Buddy L, Matchbox and Lesney. Altogether, 218 lots will come up for bid. The silver selection is primed for gift-giving. The auctions expected top lot is an S. Kirk & Son sterling silver repousse footed ... More

'Sabbath's Theater' review: John Turturro embodies a life and a libido
NEW YORK, NY.- John Turturro begins the New Groups Sabbaths Theater with his pants down. He ends it with his pants off. In between, he masturbates on his lovers grave, wears a pair of pink panties on his head and lingers on an oncology ward discussing outrÃ© sexual practices. This suggests a work meant to shock or at the very least goose the viewer. But excepting the performances of Turturro and Elizabeth Marvel as Sabbaths wives and lovers, the show, for all its full-frontal nudity, is strangely inert. Flaccid? Sure. Sabbaths Theater, now playing at the Signature Center, is an adaptation of Philip Roths 1995 novel, which won the National Book Award. Its the story of Mickey Sabbath (Turturro), a former avant-garde puppeteer who devotes his later decades to adultery and complaint. When his mistress, Drenka (Marvel), dies, Sabbath, suddenly ... More