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Affirmative action, New York's Armory Show and the presidency of Woodrow Wilson are some of the topics at the New-York Historical Society's coming season of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series, which begins this fall.
Highlights include Randall L. Kennedy, the Harvard law professor, author and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, discussing the history of affirmative action and its continued importance in “The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action†on Oct. 3. Marilyn S. Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt, curators at the society, will look at the 1913 Armory Show on Oct. 24. Their talk is presented in connection with the Historical Society's major fall exhibition “The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution,†from Oct. 11 to Feb. 23.
Other highlights are Russell Shorto's examination of the Dutch influence on New York City in “From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam†on Oct. 28 and A. Scott Berg's look at the influence of Woodrow Wilson, for the President Bill Clinton Lecture in American History on Nov. 4. Robert A. Caro will address “The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power†at the Harold and Ruth Newman Lecture in American History on Nov. 21.
On Feb. 15 the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, will hold a conversation on W.E.B. Du Bois. The lectures take place at the New-York Historical Society. More information is available here or at (212) 485-9268.
A new series of recitals by rising opera stars will be among the leading attractions in the 2013-2014 season at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, the center in lower Manhattan has announced.
The first performance in the new opera series, known as VOCE at Pace: Rising Opera Stars in Recital, will feature American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton on Nov. 3.
Ms. Barton is the winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Grammy nominee, and 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World Winner. Paul Appleby and Nadine Sierra will perform later in the opera recital series.
The Schimmel opens its season on Sept. 21 with “Sonorama: The Lost Space Age Pop Music of Esquivel,†which the center describes as “a big band tribute to the late, great lounge legend†Juan Garcia Esquivel.
The center will also feature its “Art History Alive†lectures, which this year include discussions of the works of Raphael, Renoir and Frida Kahlo, among others.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: August 15, 2013
An earlier version of this post referred incorrectly to the gender of the mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. Ms. Barton is a woman.
In this video, Lee Daniels narrates a scene from his historical drama, which chronicles the life of Cecil (Forest Whitaker), a man who begins work as a butler at the White House in the 1950s, and continues that work for over three decades.
The Civil Wars may never tour again, given that the members of the folk-rock duo have been estranged for months, but their second studio album still topped the Billboard 200 chart this week, selling 116,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
That was a bittersweet achievement for the duo, Joy Williams and John Paul White, who have won three Grammy Awards over the last two years. Last November, the pair canceled a European tour and “went on hiatus,†saying in a statement they could not work together because of “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition.â€
But the core tracks of the album, also titled “The Civil Wars,†(Sensibility Music/Columbia), had been recorded by the duo in Nashville just before they split up, and the producer Charlie Peacock finished them last winter with studio musicians. Ms. Williams said in a recent interview the duo had no plans to reunite for a concert, much less a tour. “I wish more than anything I could give clear answers about if this band is going to stay on hiatus or not,†she said. “I don't know what's going to happen with the band.â€
Last week's No. 1 album, Robin Thicke's “Blurred Lines,†(Interscope Records), fell to No. 3 on the chart with sales of 65,000. In second place, with 82,000 albums sold, was “Now That's What I Call Music! 47,†a compilation of recent pop hits. Jay Z's “Magna Carta … Holy Grail†(Roc Nation) remained in the Top 10 at No 4. No. 5 was the soundtrack of “Teen Beach Movie†(Disney). The rock band Asking Alexandria's latest album, “From Death to Destiny†(Sumerian), entered the chart at No. 6 in its first week of release. Imagine Dragons' “Night Visions†(Interscope Records) was at No. 7, thanks in part to a sale on iTunes.
The gospel singer Tye Tribbett scored his first Top 10 album with “Greater Than†(EMI Gospel/Motown Gospel), which sold 30,000 copies, enough to place it ninth on the chart. Florida Georgia Line's juggernaut album “Here's to the Good Times†(Republic Nashville) remained at No. 10.
Over on the singles chart, Mr. Thicke reigned as king of the Top 10 for the 10th week in a row, as “Blurred Lines,†his smash hit with T.I. and Pharrell Williams, remained in the first slot. The rest of the Top 10 also remained unchanged from the previous week, with Miley Cyrus's “We Can't Stop†at No. 2, Imagine Dragons' “Radioactive†at No. 3, Daft Punk's “Get Lucky†at No. 4 and Jay Z's “Holy Grail†at No. 5.
The next five hits were, in order, Anna Kendrick's “Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)â€, Bruno Mars's “Treasure,†Zedd's “Clarity,†Capital Cities' “Safe and Sound†and Maroon 5's “Love Somebody.â€
It's still a long way from Valentine's Day but the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts is getting an early present.
The museum announced Wednesday that it had acquired one of the few paintings by Paolo Veronese still in private hands, “Venus Disarming Cupid,†believed to be from 1560. Its attribution to Veronese came relatively recently, in 1990, when the painting was auctioned at Christie's.
The work, based on a drawing by Parmigianino and one of several paintings of the same theme known to have been made by Veronese, sold for $2.9 million to the collector Hester Diamond, who has decided to give it to the Worcester in honor of her stepdaughter, Rachel Kaminsky, a museum board member. In a statement Ms. Diamond said, “The Worcester Museum's willingness to explore new ideas for encouraging audiences of every age to think differently about art reflects the arc of my own collecting.†Matthias Waschek, the museum's director, called the donation “a game changer for our collection.â€
When the painting's previous owner consigned it to Christie's, the work was identified as “Circle of François Boucher.†But the Veronese expert Terisio Pignatti and W. R. Rearick, an authority on 16th-century Venetian painting, endorsed its attribution to Veronese after examining it. The work has been described as notable for the expression on the face of Venus, a mixture of triumph, amusement and consternation. The painting was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late 2006 and will go on view at Worcester beginning Sept. 21 as part of the museum's re-installation of its old-master galleries.
It’s still a long way from Valentine’s Day but the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts is getting an early present.
The museum announced Wednesday that it had acquired one of the few paintings by Paolo Veronese still in private hands, “Venus Disarming Cupid,†believed to be from 1560. Its attribution to Veronese came relatively recently, in 1990, when the painting was auctioned at Christie’s.
The work, based on a drawing by Parmigianino and one of several paintings of the same theme known to have been made by Veronese, sold for $2.9 million to the collector Hester Diamond, who has decided to give it to the Worcester in honor of her stepdaughter, Rachel Kaminsky, a museum board member. In a statement Ms. Diamond said, “The Worcester Museum’s willingness to explore new ideas for encouraging audiences of every age to think differently about art reflects the arc of my own collecting.†Matthias Waschek, the museum’s director, called the donation “a game changer for our collection.â€
When the painting’s previous owner consigned it to Christie’s, the work was identified as “Circle of François Boucher.†But the Veronese expert Terisio Pignatti and W. R. Rearick, an authority on 16th-century Venetian painting, endorsed its attribution to Veronese after examining it. The work has been described as notable for the expression on the face of Venus, a mixture of triumph, amusement and consternation. The painting was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late 2006 and will go on view at Worcester beginning Sept. 21 as part of the museum’s re-installation of its old-master galleries.
In this video, Lee Daniels narrates a scene from his historical drama, which chronicles the life of Cecil (Forest Whitaker), a man who begins work as a butler at the White House in the 1950s, and continues that work for over three decades.
The Civil Wars may never tour again, given that the members of the folk-rock duo have not spoken to each other in months, but their second studio album still topped the Billboard 200 chart this week, selling 116,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
That was a bittersweet achievement for the duo, Joy Williams and John Paul White, who have won three Grammy Awards over the last two years. Last November, the pair canceled a European tour and “went on hiatus,†saying in a statement they could not work together because of “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition.â€
But the core tracks of the album, also titled “The Civil Wars,†(Sensibility Music/Columbia), had been recorded by the duo in Nashville just before they split up, and the producer Charlie Peacock finished them last winter with studio musicians. Ms. Williams said in a recent interview the duo had no plans to reunite for a concert, much less a tour. “I wish more than anything I could give clear answers about if this band is going to stay on hiatus or not,†she said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen with the band.â€
Last week’s No. 1 album, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,†(Interscope Records), fell to No. 3 on the chart with sales of 65,000. In second place, with 82,000 albums sold, was “Now 47,†a compilation of recent pop hits. Jay Z’s “Magna Carta …Holy Grail†(Roc Nation) remained in the Top 10 at No 4. No. 5 was the soundtrack of “Teen Beach Movie†(Disney). The rock band Asking Alexandria’s latest album “From Death to Destiny†(Sumerian) entered the chart at No. 6 in its first week of release. Imagine Dragons “Night Visions†(Interscope Records) was at No. 7, thanks in part to a sale on iTunes.
The gospel singer Tye Tribbett scored his first Top 10 album with “Greater Than,†(EMI Gospel/Motown Gospel)which sold 30,000 copies, enough to place it ninth on the chart. Florida Georgia Line’s juggernaut album “Here’s to the Good Times†(Republic Nashville) remained at No. 10.
Over on the single’s chart, Mr. Thicke reigned as king of the Top 10 for the 10th week in a row, as “Blurred Lines,†his smash hit with T.I. and Pharrell Williams, remained in the first slot. The rest of the Top 10 also remained unchanged from the previous week, with Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop†at No. 2, Imagine Dragon’s “Radioactive†at No. 3, Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky†at No. 4, Jay Z’s “Holy Grail†at No. 5.
The next five hits were, in order, Anna Kendrick’s “Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When I’m Gone)â€, “Bruno Mars’s “Treasure,†Zedd’s “Clarity,†Capital Cities’s “Safe and Sound,†and Maroon 5’s “Love Somebody.â€
A new series of recitals by rising opera stars will be among the leading attractions in the 2013-2014 season at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, the center in lower Manhattan has announced.
The first performance in the new opera series, known as VOCE at Pace: Rising Opera Stars in Recital, will feature American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton on Nov. 3.
Mr. Barton is the winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Grammy nominee, and 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World Winner. Paul Appleby and Nadine Sierra will perform later in the opera recital series.
The Schimmel opens its season on Sept. 21 with “Sonorama: The Lost Space Age Pop Music of Esquivel,†which the center describes as “a big band tribute to the late, great lounge legend†Juan Garcia Esquivel.
The center will also feature its “Art History Alive†lectures, which this year include discussions of the works of Raphael, Renoir and Frida Kahlo, among others.
Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.
Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.
Albanese
Carrión
Catsimatidis
De Blasio
Liu
McDonald
Quinn
Thompson
Weiner
Group event
John A. Catsimatidis
Republican
11 a.m.
Tours the incubator at CUNY’s Zahn Center for Entrepreneurship, under the guidance of its director, Haytham Elhawary, and shares his own experiences as an entrepreneur with students, at the university’s Grove School of Engineering in Upper Manhattan.
5:45 p.m.
Drops in, if able, on mayoral forum on tolerance and cultural sensitivity, or prior reception, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance on East 42nd Street.
6 p.m.
Attends an invitation-only “friend-raiser,†at a private residence on Central Park South.
7:15 p.m.
Attends the day’s second invitation-only “friend-raiser,†this one hosted by Ed Moldaver and Mary Sliwa, at the Broome Street Gallery.
8:30 p.m.
Stops in at the Feast of the Virgin Mary, at Kimisis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church in Brooklyn.
10 p.m.
Greets the audience at the 19th and final Mr. Catsimatidis-sponsored performance of “The Little Flower,†a one-man play about Fiorello La Guardia, at the Di Capo Theater on the Upper East Side. Mr. Catsimatidis said in an interview with Larry King earlier this year that he aspired “to be a 21st-century La Guardia.â€
Bill de Blasio
Democrat
10:45 a.m.
Leading in the latest polls, the candidate delivers what his staff is billing as a major policy announcement in which he promotes his plan to ask wealthy New Yorkers to pay more to guarantee universal pre-kindergarten and expanded after-school programs for all, at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
1:45 p.m.
Unveils an endorsement, at First Avenue and 27th Street, across from Bellevue Hospital.
4:20 p.m.
Joins union officials; his wife, Chirlane; and others at a rally in support of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, the only hospital serving roughly 100,000 Rockaway residents, amid fears that financial pressures could shut the place down, at the hospital on Beach 19th Street in Far Rockway.
6:30 p.m.
Participates in mayoral forum on tolerance and cultural sensitivity, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance on East 42nd Street.
John C. Liu
Democrat
7 a.m.
Greets morning commuters, at the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike subway station on Queens Boulevard.
12 p.m.
Holds news conference to recommend that the city could collect $400 million in annual taxes by legalizing medical marijuana and allowing adults to posess up to an ounce of marijuana for recreational use, all of which could then be taxed. Turning contraband into a legal, taxable product, like alcohol or cigarettes, would also free up $30 million a year that the city now spends on law enforcement and the courts and could be used to cut tuition at CUNY, Mr. Liu contends. Event takes place outside City Hall.
6:30 p.m.
Participates in mayoral forum on tolerance and cultural sensitivity, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance on East 42nd Street.
Christine C. Quinn
Democrat
7:30 a.m.
Greets morning commuters, at the Fordham Road subway station in the Bronx.
11:30 a.m.
Joins David Burney, commissioner of city’s Department of Design and Construction, and Leighton Pierce, a Pratt Institute dean, at a news conference to announce details of Built/NYC, a pilot program aimed at spurring opportunities for local product designers to contribute to city’s capital projects. Program will encourage the department to commission designs from New York City designers for public spaces like parks and municipal offices. Event takes place downtown at the Future Perfect.
Some of Ms. Quinn’s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.
William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat
11:45 a.m.
Tours the Senior Citizens League of Flatbush, housed inside the East Midwood Jewish Center on 1623 Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn.
6:30 p.m.
Participates in mayoral forum on tolerance and cultural sensitivity, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance on East 42nd Street.
8:30 p.m.
Attends the Black Pride Heritage Awards at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat
11:45 a.m.
Visits with senior citizens, at the Jewish Association for Service’s Roy Reuther Senior Center in Far Rockaway, Queens.
12:30 p.m.
Visits with senior citizens, at the Jewish Association for Service’s Rockaway Park Senior Center in Queens.
2:30 p.m.
Holds a news conference promising that restoration and protection of New York’s beaches would be a priority of his administration, as part of his continuing “Keys to the City†tour, on the recently rebuilt boardwalk at Beach 97th Street in the Rockaways.
6:30 p.m.
Participates in mayoral forum on tolerance and cultural sensitivity, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance on East 42nd Street.
Sal F. Albanese
Democrat
7 a.m.
Greets morning commuters, along with his wife, Lorraine, at the Fort Hamilton subway station on East Fifth Street in Brooklyn.
5 p.m.
Greets evening commuters, at the Bayside Long Island Railroad station in Queens.
6 p.m.
Greets concertgoers on the lawn of the Queens JCC, there for performance of community band called Overture, on Union Turnpike and 196th Street.
Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent
10 a.m.
Meets with members from the Center for Arts Education to discuss the status of arts education in public schools, at campaign headquarters on West 30th Street.
George T. McDonald
Republican
11 a.m.
Joins individuals who have been stopped and frisked at a news conference, where he presents his five-point plan to eliminate the city’s widespread use of “stop, question and frisk†by the police within five years, at Doe Fund’s office on 2960 Frederick Douglas Boulevard in Washington Heights.
8 p.m.
Participates in mayoral forum on tolerance and cultural sensitivity, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance on East 42nd Street.
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The journalist Katherine Boo, the playwright Larry Kramer and the first-time novelist Sergio De La Pava are among the winners of the 2013 Pen Literary Awards, announced today by the PEN American Center.
Mr. De La Pava received the organization’s most lucrative award, the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, given to a promising debut work of fiction. “A Naked Singularity,†Mr. De La Pava’s nearly 700-page novel about a public defender, has a remarkable history. Originally self-published in 2008, the book slowly generated buzz on blogs before being picked up by the University of Chicago Press, a distinguished publisher not known for its contemporary fiction. Writing for Slate, Paul Ford called it “the sort of book you write if you’re not sure anyone will ever let you write another one.â€
Ms. Boo won the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,†her already decorated book about life in a Mumbai slum.
Two awards honored playwrights at different stages of their careers. The Master American Dramatist award went to Mr. Kramer. The citation said “The Normal Heart,†Mr. Kramer’s play about the AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, proved theater can “change the world, save lives and move audiences to action.†Kirsten Greenidge, writer of, among other plays, “Milk Like Sugar†and “Luck of the Irish,†won the American Playwright in Mid-Career award.
Mark Kram Jr.’s first book, “Like Any Normal Day,†about a once-promising high school quarterback turned quadriplegic and his relationship with his brother, scored the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and the sportswriter Frank Deford was recognized for lifetime achievement.
These and other winners will be honored at a ceremony on Oct. 21 at CUNY Graduate Center’s Proshansky Auditorium in New York City.
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Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times I love the unintentional typo of the sign in the courtyard of my sister’s West Village apartment building, where it’s rumored Jack Kerouac once lived.
Taken at face value, though, I do wonder why a no scatting zone would be necessary in this day and age. I then imagine under the sign an illustration of Ella Fitzgerald scatting inside a “No†symbol â€" a circle and a diagonal red line through the picture â€" stifling her singing “Bu di di bi bu bi dibi…†from “How High the Moon.â€
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The anonymous gas station operator whose shop walls were graced with a Banksy mural, which he subsequently cut out and put up for auction, has decided to come forward.
Eytan Rosenberg, 44, owned the garage on the corner of Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles with his family, including his father Josh Rosenberg and his sister Ronit Karben. In 2008, he was approached by a regular customer, Thierry Guetta, better known as the street artist Mr. Brainwash, who asked permission for a friend to paint on the walls.
“He didn’t say Banksy,†Mr. Rosenberg said in a phone interview late on Thursday afternoon. “He wasn’t trying to sell me on it and he didn’t try to hype it at all.â€
He wouldn’t have known who Banksy was, anyway; the pseudonymous British artist was just gaining international acclaim. Still, he gave his permission for the painting to happen. It was stealthy.
“I think he came at 4 a.m.,†Mr. Rosenberg recalled. He checked his security feed for evidence of the elusive artist after seeing the piece the next day. “I went right to my cameras, and they were completely blank,†he said. His tech specialists were stumped: another Banksy mystery.
The mural, “Flower Girl,†showing a girl peering up at a security camera sprouting out of a stock, remained a source of local fascination for years, along with a similar piece on a wall at an adjoining car wash. “Garden Girl†depicts a girl with a watering can looking over a stem sprouting an antenna.That piece remains.
Once Banksy put up his stencils, “there was never any mention of what would happen subsequently†to them, said Michael Doyle, the consignment director at Julien’s Auctions, which is handling the sale of “Flower Girl.†“I’m assuming that was not really one of Banksy’s concerns at the time.†(A spokesperson for Banksy did not comment.)
After Josh Rosenberg died in 2009, Mr. Rosenberg and his family decided to sell the business; a Chevron franchisee bought it in 2012.
“I said, ‘I’ll sell you the location but I’m going to take the Banksy,’†Mr. Rosenberg recalled. He worried that if he didn’t cut it out, it would be demolished or painted over. So he spent around $80,000 to remove “Flower Girl†and repair the wall. “It was almost like a family heirloom at that point,†he said.
Nonetheless, he decided to part with it. “I would love to be able to keep it, but it’s owned by me and my sister,†he said. “It’s a large piece, and I’m not an art collector, and I really don’t know what to do with the piece.â€
He does, however, have plans for the proceeds, which will be split with his sister. “This thing I see as a gift from God, or whatever higher power,†he said. “I’m not going to be greedy, I’m not going to be stingy. I plan to use the proceeds that I have to do other beneficial things - push it forward or whatever that term is. Let the good energy continue.â€
