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Anne Hathaway in Cinemas Near You One Day Soon
Anne Hathaway and co-star Jim Sturgess. Courtesy: Patrick McMullan. The people gathered at the downstairs floor of McNally Jackson books last week were excited. Or, more specifically, the mostly...
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Literary Brooklyn’s Self-Reflective Gathering
Hughes. Courtesy Amy Wilton. Home to Walt Whitman, the father of American poetry, Brooklyn has raised Henry Miller and inspired Hart Crane and Truman Capote, among many others. And in today’s...
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This morning it was revealed that Larry Gagosian got maybe the deal of this young decade, paying $36.5 million for the Harkness Mansion. Five years ago, it sold for a record-setting $53 million, and it...
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After Irene Shutters Showings, Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival Plays On
After a two-day hurricane delay, the Metropolitan Opera’s third annual Summer HD Festival, which presents previously recorded Met performances in glorious high-definition video in Lincoln Center Plaza,...
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Broadway’s American Idol: In Search of the Next Broadway Star
They want to be Roxy Hart. "You see, everyone thinks they've got it," said Arne Gundersen. The president of the Actor’s Equity Foundation and a judge of Broadway.tv’s new competition Next Broadway Star...
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The Stars Come Out in the Hudson
Installing the stars. Photo: The Windmill Factory. Wednesday night, as The Observer crossed the West Side Highway at Bank Street and walked over to Pier 49, the pink-orange sun was reflecting onto the...
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Intensity Rising in Marc Spitz's New York
Spitz. “I’ve not left Manhattan in two and a half years,” Marc Spitz told The Observer over breakfast in a chic West Village café last week. “When I turned forty, I was just like, buckle down, do good...
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A Selective Guide to the Chelsea Art Walk
Jason Polan, “Living and Working,” at Nicholas Robinson Gallery Tonight in West Chelsea, 125 galleries will stay open until 8 p.m. for the second annual Chelsea Art Walk. Unfortunately, many of the...
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Tying the Knot in a Pop-Up
In the days after the same-sex marriage law was passed, a group of friends hatched a plan. “We got really excited and said, ‘Let’s do free weddings, it’s the least we can do,’” Bex Schwartz, one of the...
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Confronting Comfort at the BMW Guggenheim Lab
A two-story carbon fiber frame, draped with shimmering black mesh, hovered over a throng of people who were drinking champagne and laughing. It was crowded, and some of the people were spilling through...
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New York Art Gallery Squeezes Nature Into a Broom Cupboard
‘Untitled’, by Jon Feinstein There are one million linear feet of scaffolding erected in New York City at any one
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The Complete Works of Judy Garland
Last week The Observer reported that Judy Garland’s TV oeuvre is screening at the Paley Center for Media. If that
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