La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival Returns With Radical New Works for 2025

Vicky Shick in Tides. Photo by Rachel Keane New York City’s East 4th Street between the Bowery and 2nd Avenue has been taken over by dance. The 2025 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, which runs through May 4 in the venue’s four performance spaces, presents eleven shows featuring twenty emerging and veteran, local and international … Read more

‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: A Minor Chord Comedy That Works

Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden in The Ballad of Wallis Island Alistair Heap/Courtesy of Focus Features A carefully considered mix of humor and melancholy glows in the fragile sunshine that bathes an isolated Welsh coastline in The Ballad of Wallis Island, a wan yet affecting consideration of lost love, forgotten bands and the odd ways those … Read more

A Trove of Old Master Works Could Fetch $120 Million or More This May

Francesco Guardi’s Venice, a View of the Punta della Dogana and the Church of Santa Maria della Salute, one of a pair of works estimated to sell together for $10-15 million. Sotheby’s In May, Sotheby’s will present a dedicated auction featuring one of the most significant Old Masters collections to come to market in recent … Read more

Exhibition Review: Cate White’s “Men” at Small Works Projects in SF

Cate White, Miguel (robe man). Courtesy Cate White In April of 1972, the long-circulating magazine Cosmopolitan featured a centerfold of nude movie star Burt Reynolds, a bold first in displaying male nudity for a mainstream American magazine. Intended partially to push the envelope in strategic marketing, the gesture also served as a kind of gendered … Read more

Felix Art Fair Opens With Early Sales and Enthusiasm for Smaller Works

Felix Art Fair opened on Wednesday, February 19, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Felix Art Fair Nobody would have predicted, just a month ago, that L.A. would rally back with such force for this year’s Los Angeles Art Week, especially after last month’s devastating fires. Yet on Tuesday, February 19, the art world gathered at … Read more