The sanctuary for contemporary art fans, this unique and fascinating art space in Beacon, NY will be a highlight of your trip to Dutchess County, NY
Dia: Beacon Exterior Shot; Photo by Bill Jacobson / Image courtesy of Dia: Beacon
Located in the south-west corner of Dutchess County, the city of Beacon is having its renaissance with colorful art-galleries, artistic collectives, unions and institutes lining up its main street and adding to its creative vibe. Only hour and a half train ride from the city, Beacon offers its visitors a reformative experience of green countryside and vibrant artworks.
Its most alluring treasure, Dia: Beacon, the art and exhibition space that occupies former industrial box-printing facility for Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) factory, is a delight for contemporary art connoisseurs and those who are open to stepping into an unknown territory. Dia: Beacon collection includes paintings, photographs, sculpture, and multi-media works. What strikes the visitors entering the museum are the streams of natural light. Many of the works are site-specific to fit the space and its lighting arrangements in the most artistically productive way. Andy Warhol,Richard Serra, Gerhard Richter and other contemporary masters contributed and created works for Dia installed here for a long-term or permanently. This type of arrangement seems to slow down the passage of time and makes the artwork an integral part of the space itself.
Explore the collection at your own pace or join an informative tour which highlights the works selectively.
Plan your visit by booking your time-entry tickets. Or explore the art center collection online. You can scroll through an exhaustive list of large sculpture masters who have their art shown at the center.
Limited encore engagement on January 10 – 28, 2024 at BRIC House in Brooklyn, NY
A scene from Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” by Krymov Lab / Photo Credit: Bronwen Sharp
Krymov Lab NYC is pleased to announce a limited encore presentation of the celebrated interpretation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, from Russian director Dmitry Krymov, “one of the world’s finest theater-makers” (The New York Times), currently residing and creating in exile in New York. Since founding his NYC-based studio in 2022, Krymov’s company has already won significant acclaim from The New York Times,The New Yorker and New York Magazine, selling out a much in-demand 2023 run of his adaptation of Eugene Onegin at La MaMa Theater. Now, Pushkin ‘EUGENE ONEGIN’In Our Own Words returns from Wednesday, January10 and continuing through Sunday, January28 for a limited encore engagement presented in partnership with Under the Radar; Mark Russell, Festival Director & ArKtype, Festival Producer at BRIC (57 Rockwell Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11217). Tickets start at $52 and are available at https://www.universe.com/events/under-the-radar-presents-pushkins-eugene-onegin-in-our-own-words-tickets-CB1YMZ
Pushkin ‘EUGENE ONEGIN’In Our Own Words is a simultaneously raucous and sobering journey through the past and future of a major cultural touchstone. In Krymov Lab NYC’s production, four immigrant Russians desperately try to communicate the value of an untranslatable classic to a New York audience. Why should we be made to care about the trials of a shallow Byronic hero, a too-deep teenage girl, and a less-than-successful birthday party? In the face of wartime atrocity, is there still a place in today’s world for Dostoevsky, for Tchaikovsky, for Pushkin? Can beauty and intellect survive such horrors? And should it?
Reimagined in 2024 as a new, citywide annual festival of theater and performance emerging from New York and around the world, this iteration of Under the Radaris curated in collaboration with an array of New York arts organizations and curators, rather than being tied to a single host institution. Each harnesses the community-building, connective, celebratory nature of the festival format to introduce some of today’s most innovative voices to wider audiences. The festival sets an example of how collaboration can get the American theater through this moment of existential crisis: reinvigorated and ready to create a theater that can embrace diversity, risk, and reinvention.
The production stars Natalie Battistone (ART’s world premiere of O.P.C. by V (formerly Eve Ensler)), Kwesiu Jones (MTA Radio Plays (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)), Jeremy Radin (TV: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, CSI, Criminal Minds), Jackson Scott (Spanish punk band Mano de Dios), Elizabeth Stahlmann (Tectonic Theater Project’s world premiere of Here There Are Blueberries at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Moisés Kaufman), and Anya Zicer(Bad Roads by Natalka Vorozhbyt at LaMaMa Experimental Theatre).
Pushkin ‘EUGENE ONEGIN’In Our Own Words plays on the follow days from January 10 through Sunday, January28:
Tuesdays @ 7:30 pm
Wednesdays @ 7:30 pm
Thursdays @ 7:30 pm
Fridays @ 7:30 pm
Saturdays @ 2 pm and 7:30 pm
Sundays @ 3 pm and an additional performance on 1/21 at 7:30 pm
A Classical Holiday: Carnegie Hall piano recital by Katya Grineva
Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 8 pm
Pianist Katya Grineva at Carnegie Happ, 2005 / Photo credit: Jennifer Taylor
Acclaimed Russian pianist Katya Grineva returns to Carnegie Hall for her highly anticipated “A Classical Holiday” concert for one night only, Wednesday, December 27, at 8:00 p.m. In what has become a seasonal tradition for local New York City families and tourists alike, Katya’s festive concert is a highlight of the holiday season. Katya’s playing is hailed for its fluidity and abundance of poetic expression. A “noted exponent of Romantic repertoire (WNYC Radio),” she captures audiences with her breathless, ethereal concerts. (Program details are below.)
Performing works from her holiday album A Classical Holiday, Katya showcases new arrangements of Christmas classics including I’ll be Home for Christmas, Ave Maria, The Nutcracker, and more. Drawn to spirituality and mysticism, Katya’s poetic style brings a different ethereal dimension to this holiday concert. This year’s program includes: “Oh Starlight Dust”by 11th century Saint Hildegard, “Initiation of the Priestess”by Gurdjieff/Hartman, and the rarely played Liszt Legends (last performed on the Carnegie stage in 1947 by Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
Date: Wednesday, December 27, 2023, 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, Corner of 57th Street & Seventh Avenue, Trains N/Q/R/W 57th St
Tickets: $54 and Up. Students: 50% Off with Student I.D. at Box Office. To purchase, contact carnegiehall.org | CarnegieCharge 212.247.7800 | Box Office at 57th Street & Seventh Avenue
Program
A Classical Holiday: Music that Celebrates the Eternal Mysteries / Katya Grineva (piano)
BACH/GOUNOD Ave Maria
LISZT Legend No.1 “St. Francis of Assisi Talking to the Birds”
VON BINGEN “O choruscans lux stellarum” (arr. Gail Smith)
GURDJIEFF / HARTMANN “The Initiation of the Priestess”
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight”
FANNY MENDELSSOHN Allegro moderato from Four Songs for Piano, Op. 8, No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker (arr. Pletnev)
CHOPIN Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
CHOPIN Ballade No. 1 in G Minor
BLOCH Poems of the Sea
DEBUSSY “Clair de lune”
SCHUBERT/LISZT Swan Song
ROGERS My Favorite Things by Rodgers (arr. Byron Duckwall)
LISZT Legend No. 2 “St. Francis de Paolo Walking on the Waves”
Music by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Liszt performed by Sophia Agranovich, pianist at Bargemusic Masterworks Series on Friday, August 4, 2023 at 7 pm
Sophia Agranovich, piano in Bargemusic Masterworks Series / Photo credit: Bill Walendzinski
Bargemusic Masterworks Series will feature a piano recital by an acclaimed musician Sophia Agranovich on Friday, August 4, 2023, at 7 pm. Called by the critics “a tigress of the keyboard,” Ms. Agranovich is best known for playing music by Golden Age Romantic composers. Her program at the Bargemusic includes works by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Liszt.
Bargemusic’s unbeatable location on a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge will color your night with the unforgettable lower Manhattan skyline, shimmering lights reflected in the East River, and the gentle sound of waves. The concert runs without intermission; seats are limited so book ahead.
