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Performa 09's 'Creation': A Family Affair
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 31 Oct 2009 at 1:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Jennifer Rubell pulled off her grand, biblical gastronomic art event on Friday night, galvanizing more than 500 guests to shell their own peanuts, choose their own glasses, mix their own drinks, and put together their own plates of ribs complete with ...

Art Escape: An Eye for Nature
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 30 Oct 2009 at 10:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Alan Gussow's "Surf/Monhegan" (1986) shows how the painter, born and raised in New York City, found a sense of the city's frenetic energy in the violent surf of the Atlantic Ocean, off the Maine coast.Gussow spent time on Monhegan, an artist's retreat ...

New York Opens Arms for 'Broken Embraces'
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 11 Oct 2009 at 10:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "Good evening, fellow elitists," Richard Pena, program director of the New York Film Festival, said tonight in Alice Tully Hall, addressing some of the criticism of this year's festival with good humor. The audience approved, and it was on to the ...

What Makes New York New York: Nonsense NYC Email List Turns 10
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 11 Oct 2009 at 1:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: This Saturday night, at 3rd Ward in East Williamsburg, we attended "a one-night physical manifestation of the Nonsense NYC email list, celebrating 10 years of weird art and culture coverage in New York City."Nonsense is a weekly e-mail round-up of novel ...

City's Royalty Toasts Shiny New Castle at American Museum of Natural History
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 9 Oct 2009 at 3:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Last night the American Museum of Natural History held a ribbon cutting and dinner to celebrate the restoration, dramatic new night lighting, and new landscaping of its 77th Street facade and grounds.Those holding the ribbon during the cutting included ...

Bloomberg, Weill to Receive 2009 Carnegie Medals of Philanthropy
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 9 Oct 2009 at 6:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Well, there's no surprise winner like President Obama, who has just won the Nobel Prize for Peace, but New Yorkers can be proud that two of the four recipients of this year's Andrew Carnegie Medlas of Philanthropy are New Yorkers Mayor Michael Bloomberg ...

Rubin Museum of Art Parties Higher
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 8 Oct 2009 at 3:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "I'm going to float up to the top," Jeff Wallman said as he ascended the staircase of the Rubin Museum of Art Tuesday night. The Accidentals, a choral group, had just finished performing and 350 guests, dressed in black tie and "Himalayan Haute," were ...

Sandy Weill's Opening Night Cheer: Carnegie Hall's Endowment Is Up 4%
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 3 Oct 2009 at 8:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Speeches at galas are often barely heard, but not so at Carnegie Hall's opening night: The executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall, Clive Gillinson, and its chairman, Sandy Weill, commanded a captive audience and they made the most of it.Mr ...