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Then and Now: Artists Who Defined Cultural Movements Dominate New York’s Fall Art Season
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
by Tamara Moscowitz on Playing Around
New York’s fall art season is well underway and in an unusual turn five major museums are presenting a wide range of exhibitions from a
England Swings: Noel Coward in Jazz
Friday, June 22nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Welcomed by Todd Barkan, Program Director of Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Eric Comstock and his trio gently mambo us into “You Were There.” England Swings is
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Paris, between World War I and II, was a glorious era for the arts (Proust, Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, The Ballet Russes). It was also a
The Importance of Being Hans: Hans Hofmann Modernizes the Moderns
Friday, April 13th, 2012
by Ann Rebecca Bleefeld on Playing Around
Painter, teacher and mentor Hans Hofmann’s considerable reputation as an innovator of ideas and methods, as well as one of the great influences on American
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso And the Parisian Avant Garde
Friday, February 24th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Ten years in the making, The Steins Collect, a stunning exhibition, not only offers us great paintings by Matisse and Picasso (as well as Bonnard,
Saying ‘Thank You’ from the Heart of DC
Friday, January 13th, 2012
by Martha Kepner on Playing Around
Now that we have come down from the frenzy of the holidays, it is time to send out the last kind of holiday card –
Diego Rivera Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
What could be more timely in New York City, as the Occupy Wall Street movement grows and expands, than an exhibition of the murals of
Stieglitz Reigns at the Met
Friday, October 14th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Didn’t we just see Stieglitz at the Met a year ago? Well, yes and no. We saw Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, three masters of early 20th
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