NEW YORK ― I spent last weekend in Manhattan, checking out the holiday lights and the department store window decorations. And a few shows, too, to see whether they are naughty or nice. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Fifty years ago, Edward Albee burst onto Broadway with his take-no-prisoners view of marriage, academia division. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? cemented his … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 17-19
Art: One of the least well-known painters of the Ashcan School was Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002), a Philadelphian who moved 100 years ago to New York with her husband, fellow artist William Meyerowitz. His work is well-known in modernist circles, and Bernstein’s has grown in reputation since her death at 111, and her pictures fit in well with the George Bellows-William Glackens … [Read more...]