Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the Philharmonic with Emanuel Ax at the piano as they perform John Williams’s first piano concerto. At 94, John Williams has spent a long lifetime stitching notes to action, letting a flight or a sunrise dictate the arc of hi... See more
When Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up in the Oval Office with his trademark grin and a fake Daily News cover reading “Trump to City: Let’s Build,” he was playing to the president’s roots in Queens real estate. Mamdani dangled a rare pearl of a project that ... See more
For those of us who grew up analog, a visit to the Cooper Hewitt’s survey Art of Noise turns into a nostalgic romp through the technologies of yesterday. My Proustian trigger was a portable gramophone designed by Mario Bellini for the Italian company Mine... See more
Perhaps a Carnegie Hall archivist has recorded how often an evening-long work of brand-new chamber music, performed in the big auditorium, has prompted a standing ovation, but I would guess almost never. I was afraid that Kevin Puts’s Emily — No Prisoner ... See more
Almost immediately after the Parks Department’s new Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center opened in the Little Haiti section of East Flatbush in early February, the building hummed with teens vigorously hanging out. They slumped, joked, strolled, shot hoops,... See more
