In the 1860s, despite increasing westward expansion, many Americans still had not seen images of the frontier. Imagine, then, gazing into Albert Bierstadt’s 84-square-foot oil-on-canvas paean to Manifest Destiny, A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie. It’s at the Brooklyn Museum, and in this video at SundayArts online.
This week’s Reel 13 shorts were all exercises in animation. You voted. Now see which short grabbed the most votes.
This Saturday’s Reel 13 Indie movie (airs at 11:10 p.m. on Saturday, May 24) is a rare opportunity to hear some music that was almost lost to time. While the …
In the opera universe, there’s wacky and weird — and then there’s Stefan Zucker. This living “world’s highest tenor” is so strange as to defy description. Watch this clip to see for yourself.
Living in NYC, the line between public and private space blurs. An exhibit of photographs, called ‘Eminent Domain’ at the NY Public Library, addresses that line, a line crossed regularly by city dwellers turned inadvertent voyeurs. Watch profiles of photographers on SundayArts…
William Styron’s fiction grapples with some of the most harrowing events and unresolved moral questions of our time. But Styron’s work about mental illness — specifically, the dark demon of depression — deserves an equal share of praise.
Meet Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, a cellist currently studying at the Julliard School of Music. Learn about her musical upbringing in Iceland, hear how she discovered her passion for the cello in a place as unlikely as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and watch her perform “Prelude in E-flat” from J.S. Bach’s A Suite of Dances.
This August, just in time for the Olympics, the U.S. will open a brand new embassy in Beijing. The $550m complex, designed by the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, will be one of the State Department’s largest foreign construction projects to date. To mark the occasion, the State Department plans to display master works by 18 American and Chinese contemporary artists.
Television commercials are probably as good an indicator of a society’s cultural health as any. And anyone looking for proof of the cachet that opera once maintained in American life would do well to consider these commercials, which Rice Krispies ran in the 1960s.
The New York Photo Festival in Dumbo was the place to be this weekend for anyone interested in contemporary photography. That’s why I was surprised to see a 1922 historic carved wood carousel completely rehabilitated to it’s original condition among the the photo galleries in the waterfront area of Brooklyn, under the Manhattan Bridge overpass.
