Of all the celebrated and powerful who strode the rooms of Wave Hill House and savored its conservatory, gardens and scenic pergola, few were more fascinating than fiery maestro Arturo Toscanini, whose authoritative passion, acute ear, attention to detail and photographic memory have made his name a benchmark of classical music conducting.
WAG takes a tour of Wave Hill, a 28-acre public garden and cultural center in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. In a case of ideal timing for our issue’s “animal kingdom” theme, the year-round destination has a full slate of bird-themed programming set for spring.
Sin — the ultimate pastime. Certainly, the Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance must think so. Throughout the summer, the alliance, which consists of eight venues in…
It’s as if artists were just waiting for that first burst of spring to shed their coats – and shed light on their works….
Theodore Roosevelt, who was as much a naturalist as he was a politician, lived for a time at Wave Hill House, now a public…
Gregory Crewdson is the Hitchcock of photographers. If you know the Purchase College grad’s work – which you’ll find in The Met, MoMA, the…