Perking up those peepers
byWhen it comes to facial expression, the eyes have it. And eyelid surgery is an increasingly popular way to look younger.
When it comes to facial expression, the eyes have it. And eyelid surgery is an increasingly popular way to look younger.
However spectacular introspective winter, joyous spring, sultry summer and bountiful fall/autumn may be individually, the group has been unbeatable as a brand, particularly when it comes to its greatest iteration, Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.”
Paul Revere was a lot more than the man who alerted fellow colonists that “the British are coming.”
We tend to think of movies as visual. But the Jacob Burns Film Center is teaming with the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts to shine a trending spotlight on movie soundtracks.
Katonah native Ben Mandelker was a comedy writer driving for Uber. Then his podcast with fellow funnyman Ronnie Karam, “Watch What Crappens,” happened.
What makes Italian beauty products so special? A recent panel discussion at the Italian Trade Commission in Manhattan sought to answer just that.
What is the best kind of publicity? The kind that comes your way without your even trying.
NBC’s Natalie Morales uses her talents and skills to combat Alzheimer’s, which took her mother-in-law’s life.
Though vastly different men, ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti were larger than life figures who defined their art forms. Now these irresistible legends are the subjects of new films.
David Hosack, MD, America’s first botanist and friend to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, has been a footnote in the nation’s history (though he does get a shout-out in “Hamilton.”) Victoria Johnson is looking to change that with her National Book Award finalist “American Eden.”
Amy Ray of Indigo Girls cultivates her music – and her garden.
What’s Collectible columnist Jennifer Pitman considers Gino Sarfatti of Arteluce and Angelo Lelii of Arredoluce, Italian lighting designers and manufacturers who flourished during Italy’s postwar design boom.
Do you know what makes a great trip? When you never want to leave your hotel, because it offers you so much of everything. That is how my sister, my 101-year old mother and I felt about our recent stay in Manhattan at the JW Marriott Essex House New York on Central Park South.
In the Russian nesting doll of narratives that is art history, “Secret Departure of Ivan the Terrible” is not merely a Nazi-looted work. It is also part of a genre – the man on horseback – that sweeps us from the ancient world to our own time, in which it has become a symbol of the controversy over Confederate monuments as well as a metaphor for dystopia.
Cockatiels, cougars and a half-naked Henry Kissinger: It’s all in a day’s work for pet photogapher Jim Dratfield.
Training opera singer Jonas Kaufmann to make an entrance on horseback is all in a day’s work at Bronx Equestrian Center.
Lalique teams with McLaren for the “Flying Falcon,” the second animal sculpture in the “Essence of Speed” series.
We all know about George and Martha Washington, but what about his first love, Westchester County’s Mary Philipse? Journalist Mary Calvi has the answers in her first novel, “Dear George, Dear Mary.”
What might the classical composers of yesteryear be like if they were in the music business today? They might be like Chloe Flower – pianist, composer and arranger whose work spans Frédéric Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninoff on one end of the spectrum and the rappers Swae Lee and 2 Chainz on the other with some Johnny Mathis and Celine Dion in the middle.
The Hudson River Museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing and its Planetarium, as well as its centennial, with “The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art.”