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City Council Influences Landmarks Decision

Last week the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 6 to 3 to give landmark protection to the 100-year-old B. F. Goodrich tire company building on Broadway just north of 57th Street, but not to a connected building around the corner ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Landmarks Preservation Commission,  Gary Barnett

The Chain Store as Patron of the Arts

On Nov. 21, El Museo del Barrio started Target Super Sábado, which provides free tickets on the third Saturday of every month for exhibitions, concerts, gallery tours, art-making workshops, film screenings and spoken word recitals. And Alvin Ailey’s ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: El Museo del Barrio,  Alvin Ailey,  Target Corporation,  Karen Brooks,  Museum of Modern Art

Trustee’s Art on His Museum’s Walls Raises Flag

One day in the mid-1980s, Dakis Joannou, a Greek Cypriot industrialist, was exploring the art galleries of the East Village in Manhattan when he came upon a basketball suspended in a tank of liquid. Captivated, he invested $2,700 in “One Ball Total ...

From DEBORAH SONTAG AND ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New Museum of Contemporary Art,  Jeff Koons,  New York University,  Brooklyn Museum,  Rudy Giuliani

City Pushes for Action on Performing Arts Center at Ground Zero

If preparations are not made and funds are not provided to lay the foundation for the performing arts center at ground zero within the next four months, the project will not happen. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,  Deutsche Bank,  George E. Pataki,  Michael Bloomberg,  Larry A. Silverstein

City Opera and City Ballet Reconcile as Roommates

The renovation of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, formerly the New York State Theater, has given the space new seats, carpeting and lighting; an expanded orchestra pit that can move up and down; a media suite in the basement; and new ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York City Opera,  New York City Ballet,  David H. Koch,  Peter Martins,  Philip Johnson

Architect’s Challenge: A Sliver of a Space

It is difficult to fathom at first why a famous architect with one of the largest practices in the world would personally want to take on a sliver of a building on the Bowery. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Norman Foster,  British Museum,  New York Public Library,  Sperone Westwater,  Bruce Nauman

ArtsBeat: 'Hurt Locker,' 'Serious Man' Are Among Gotham Independent Film Award Nominees

What children’s books have been passed down through the generations in your family? Dan Glickman confirms he will step down as head of the Motion Picture Association of America. Warner Brothers' president of production to step down. ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Warner Brothers,  Dan Glickman,  New York Times Company,  Gail Collins,  James Traub

New Tower Takes Shape on Columbia Campus

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect José Rafael Moneo has had to contend with difficult sites before. At the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, Spain, for example, a project completed in 1986, he built a modern exhibition space over a ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Rafael Moneo,  Columbia University,  Lee Bollinger,  Renzo Piano,  Harvard University

Artistic Director of Symphony Space to Step Down

To appreciate the impact of Isaiah Sheffer’s decision to step down as the artistic director of Symphony Space, try to conceive what it would be like to lose Zabar’s, H&H Bagels or Barney Greengrass. Isaiah Sheffer, artistic director of Symphony Space, ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NPR,  James Joyce,  Leonard Nimoy,  State University of New York

Donor Gives Lincoln Center $10 Million

When David M. Rubenstein turned 54, he read that white Jewish males were likely to live to 81. “So I said, ‘I have 27 years to go,’ ” Mr. Rubenstein said. “I could be like the pharaohs and say, ‘Bury me with my money.’ Or I could start giving it away.” ...

From ROBIN POGREBIN, The New York Times,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: David M. Rubenstein,  Carlyle Group,  Duke University,  University of Chicago,  Johns Hopkins University

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