After two years of cutbacks that led to virtual versions of its events, the European Fine Arts Fair, known as the European Fine Arts Fair, TEFAFIt will make a comeback with the New York fair to be held on May 6-10. Park Avenue Armory. It will be the first personal TEFAF exhibition since early March …
By now, Park Avenue Armory’s Recital Series concerts are a known quantity: art song and chamber music in ornate, intimate spaces. Whether the programming is classical or contemporary, the packaging is the same, with just a few surprises – like soprano Barbara Hannigan did. He translated Erik Satie’s music semi-staged monodrama. But it was not …
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Now, of course, the entire nation faces problems of police brutality against Black people; the exclusion of people of color from the museum canon; and the lack of representation of Black and brown in Hollywood. But those who have followed Weems throughout his 40-year practice through photography, video, installation, music and text say the artist …
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Park Avenue Armory takes a forward-looking approach to the 2022 season. “The trend throughout this season is the futuristic view of technology and the world,” Rebecca Robertson, Armory’s president and executive producer, said in an interview Tuesday. One of the highlights of the season, announced Wednesday, is the North American premiere of Dutch composer Michel …
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This Armory program was born out of a desire to pair two song cycles, Beethoven’s “An die ferne Geliebte” and Berg’s “Altenberg Lieder” – both of which, as the program notes write, “talk about ways to deal with unfulfilled desires, dreams. it didn’t happen.” To put these loops in context, she performed selected songs by …
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