Described as a feminist take on Twelve Angry Men, the play is set in rural England in 1759, where Sally Poppy (Haley Wong), a downtrodden young woman with a history of infidelity and theft, is sentenced to death. Sally has been accused of murdering a child, her guilt hinging on the testimony of her distressed … Read more
On an otherwise unremarkable day in the spring of 2017, Flora Yukhnovich, a 27-year-old master of fine art student with no distinct technique, no discernible profile, and no particular prospects, climbed the Wallace Collection’s grand marble staircase and came down again, an hour or so later, fixed on the aesthetic that would make her the … Read more
In the halcyon days when Judy Garland performed at New York’s famed Palace Theater, it was, as Johnny Carson once put it, “bedlam.” Her outsize influence echoes to the present in Ben Platt’s new residency at the same theater, which he helped to reopen on Tuesday following a seven-year, $80 million dollar renovation. Platt took … Read more
“Le Grand Soir” opened in PS1’s courtyard in late April, just in time for the warmer months. When I visited on a sunny day in May, one trio of friends sat atop lilac-colored blocks while a small child galloped toward another before flinging herself on it. “How people would interact with it was part of … Read more
“Photography came into my life right after I became sober,” Elton explains. “After leaving rehab, I went to Cahors to be with friends, a wonderful mix of people, including photography dealer David Fahey. It was during that trip and through the lens of my new sobriety that photography really resonated with me. For my first … Read more
It is 10 p.m. on a clement spring night and a scene is playing out in front of an unremarkable building. There is a throng of people waiting outside, eager to enter the Narnia that beckons beyond the impeccably dressed gatekeepers they are negotiating with. Every so often, the unmarked door opens to let in … Read more
Nonfiction was well matched to partner with the pavilion on this project since the brand “strives to infuse emotion and inspiration into daily life through unique narratives and scent,” according to founder Haeyoung Cha. “Koo is renowned for majestically exploring the poetics of everyday life, and ‘Odorama Cities’ serves an inspired chronicle of the peninsula’s … Read more
A strange thing happens to time during Stereophonic, playwright David Adjmi and director Daniel Aukin’s sensational play at the John Golden Theatre in New York. The show’s three hours and 10 minutes collapse a full year, from June 1976 to June 1977, that a band—made up of vocalist Diana (Sarah Pidgeon), lead guitarist Peter (Tom … Read more
Powerful, yes—but can Americans relate, will they want to give a care when we have our own problems, what does Grenfell have to do with us? Was it even covered in the American media at the time? Although nowhere near as much as it was in London’s news outlets, over the years there have been … Read more
Abad’s signature format was trapunto, a style of large-scale quilt. Despite the playfulness of their textures and coloring, Abad’s versions often tackled dense, complicated intersectionalities, from her identity as an immigrant Ivatan woman in the Western world to the social and political tensions of the authoritarian Marcos regime in the Philippines. “What Pacita was doing, … Read more
