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New York Times
6 hours ago
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- New York Times
Free Shakespeare's Central Park Home Gets an $85 Million Glow Up
After an 18-month, $85 million overhaul, the Delacorte Theater reopens next month with a starry new version of 'Twelfth Night.' I'll leave it to playgoers and critics to deliver their verdicts on the production. I'm happy to report, in the meantime, that the renovation deftly fixes much of what ailed the city's beloved home of free Shakespeare in Central Park. It was on its last legs before it was shuttered. Built during the Kennedy era for the current price of a two-bedroom condo in Fort Lee, N.J., the Delacorte from Day One was a glorified, rickety high-school grandstand, with water leaking into ramshackle dressing rooms and raccoons nesting backstage. Watching great actors and directors put on 'Hamlet' there was roughly akin to consuming truffled langoustine on the L train. The modesty was part of its charm. Like the park, it spoke to the city's egalitarian soul and cultural ambition. Its makeover is the latest change to a park that has recently undergone, or is considering, a variety of alterations, which include the opening of the excellent Davis Center in Harlem, plans to revamp Wollman Rink and a proposal by the Metropolitan Museum to replace an old wing with a new one, a stone's throw from the Delacorte. It may seem odd to think of Central Park as a work in progress. It can come across as a grand relic from another century. But this middle stretch of the park in particular, which includes the Delacorte, has undergone a surprising number of upheavals over the past 200-odd years that mirror changes across the city. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Wall Street Journal
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Claire McCardell' Review: Practical Elegance
In the 2022 exhibition 'In America: An Anthology of Fashion,' staged in the American Wing period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one tableau stood out from the rest. Framed in the meditative Shaker Retiring Room (ca. 1835), flooded with warm light, five mannequins wore dresses designed between 1938 and 1949, all of them the work of one woman. Here was the dawn of American sportswear. In the seeming simplicity of their problem solving and their honest use of buttons, belts and drawstrings, these garments, by the American phenom Claire McCardell (1905-58), clearly share the Shakers' values. Yet in their lean lines and rejection of froufrou, and in their sturdy materials with built-in wear, they are unquestionably midcentury modern. McCardell dropped into the rag-trade ecosystem in 1929, when big-fish suits were forcing backroom guppies to copy Parisian trends. She proceeded to ignore Paris, instead absorbing American ideals into affordable fashions for the Everywoman. She was not so much a bomb going off as a stealthy tectonic shift. But bombs get more attention. While McCardell is revered by fashion scholars and a continuing cycle of designers she's inspired (for instance Tory Burch, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Isaac Mizrahi), there are many in the general public—fashionistas and design hounds among them—who don't know her name or its significance. The discontinuation of her label, following her death from colon cancer at the age of 52, began the erasure. Which is why Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson's 'Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free'—the first comprehensive McCardell biography—is so welcome. This book, Ms. Dickinson's first, grew out of a 2018 feature the journalist wrote for the Washington Post Magazine—an 80th-anniversary tribute to McCardell's breakthrough, her 1938 Monastic dress. Based on an Algerian robe, it was shaped like a tent and cut on the bias; add a belt and the folds could be arranged to flatter every figure. The dress would be a perennial must-have with many variations.
Wall Street Journal
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Notable & Quotable: ‘Colonialist Paintings'
From Heather Mac Donald's speech at the New Criterion's April 24 gala: Consider a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show featured the Met's extraordinary collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, that explosion of creativity that produced Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals, Gerard ter Borch and other masters. Were we to see beauty in those cloud-laden horizons, those serene compositions of domestic order, those haunting portraits of age and vulnerability? No, we were to see what was not there: 'colonialism, slavery, and war,' which, the Met curators reminded us, were major themes in seventeenth-century Dutch history, but which were 'barely visible' in the Met's Dutch collections. Or take the still lifes, a new genre that marked Northern Europe's epoch-changing attention to empirical detail. What was a viewer to make of the dragonfly iridescence of ripe grapes, the delicate play of light on cut glass, the puckered skin of a lemon peel? Do not be taken in! The Met advised us. Dutch still-life paintings omitted the 'human cost of colonial warfare and slavery' that underlay the bounty these canvases documented, the wall labels warned. Of course, by definition, a still life features inanimate objects, not human subjects, so any still life would be hard-pressed to portray colonial warfare and slavery. But never mind. . . .
Forbes
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Madonna's Long-Lost Song Hits No. 1
Madonna's 'Gone Gone Gone' debuts at No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart as fans eagerly await her ... More upcoming remix EP Veronica Electronica. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Madonna attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) In two weeks, Madonna will release a new remix album titled Veronica Electronica. The project serves as something of a companion piece to Ray of Light, which is widely regarded as one of the pop superstar's most critically-acclaimed efforts. Another new single has already been pushed from the set, and it has quickly become a bestseller in the United States. 'Gone Gone Gone' Opens at No. 1 'Gone Gone Gone' currently sits at No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart this Friday (July 11). The track is credited as the original demo version of the tune. The Madonna cut beats several new releases from major players in the music industry, at least early in the day at the beginning of a new tracking frame. Madonna Beats Blackpink, MGK and Babymetal As of the time of writing, eight of the spots inside the top 10 on the iTunes Top Songs tally are filled with new arrivals. That roundup includes just-shared tunes from groups like Deftones, Halestorm, Babymetal, and Blackpink, as well as singer-songwriters like Jessie Murph, Max McNown, and MGK (formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly). Madonna surpasses all of them with 'Gone Gone Gone,' although the ranking could change as Friday progresses. Veronica Electronica is Coming Soon Veronica Electronica is largely composed of remixes of some of the most popular songs featured on Ray of Light, such as the title track, 'Nothing Really Matters,' and 'Frozen,' among others. 'Gone Gone Gone' is the only previously unreleased tune, though the cut did leak onto the internet some time ago, so superfans are already familiar with the composition, even if they haven't been able to own it legally until now. 'Gone Gone Gone' Follows the 'Skin' Remix 'Gone Gone Gone' follows the release of 'Skin,' the first single from Veronica Electronica. That reworking — called the Collaboration Remix Edit — dropped on June 5. Now, fans only need to wait until July 25 to get their hands on the complete EP.
Mint
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Danai Gurira joins Michael B Jordan in The Thomas Crown Affair remake
ANI Published 8 Jul 2025, 06:27 PM IST Washington DC [US], July 8 (ANI): Danai Gurira is reuniting with her 'Black Panther' co-star Michael B Jordan in the remake of the 1999 romantic heist film, 'The Thomas Crown Affair'. Jordan is not only starring in the romantic heist thriller but also directing and producing it. Production begins in London on Monday, and the project has just added Academy Award winner Kenneth Branagh and Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone to its cast. Taylor Russell is also in the cast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 'The Thomas Crown Affair' is a 1999 romantic heist film directed by John McTiernan and written by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer. It is a remake of the 1968 film. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, and Denis Leary, it follows Thomas Crown, a billionaire who steals a painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is pursued by an insurance investigator, with the two falling in is playing the billionaire with the art-loving sticky fingers, while Russell is the suave private detective. Character details for Gladstone and Branagh are being kept under the umbrella, as per the outlet. Amazon MGM has set a March 5, 2027, theatrical release for the romantic thriller. Drew Pearce wrote the script for Thomas Crown after a previous draft written by Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson, which was based on the original film. Patrick McCormick and Marc Toberoff of Toberoff Productions will also serve as producers. Alan Trustman is an executive producer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gurira is best known for playing Wakandan general and master warrior Okoye in Marvel's Black Panther and Avengers movies. The actress will next be seen in Apple TV 's upcoming film Matchbox. (ANI)
