The Pint-Size Singers at the Met Opera Children’s Chorus Tryouts

The Pint-Size Singers at the Met Opera Children’s Chorus Tryouts

The Metropolitan Opera’s stage door, a plain entrance hidden in the tunnels of Lincoln Center, routinely welcomes star singers, orchestra musicians, stagehands, costumers and ushers. But a different bunch of visitors arrived there on a recent afternoon, carrying stuffed toy rabbits and “Frozen” backpacks. They were children, ages 7 to …

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Can These Six Artists Predict the Fate of the Art Market?

Can These Six Artists Predict the Fate of the Art Market?

The spring sales of modern and contemporary art often arrive in May with a steady drumroll of paintings whose estimates soar above $50 million — a sign of confidence in the industry’s roster of ultrawealthy collectors who trade them like financial assets. Now that drumroll sounds like rain’s pitter-patter as …

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A Guide to New, and Creatively Designed, Restaurants in New York City

A Guide to New, and Creatively Designed, Restaurants in New York City

May brings thousands of visitors to New York City for art and design fairs and related events. The largest and most established include two major art fairs, Frieze New York (Thursday through Sunday), and TEFAF New York (Friday through Tuesday), the NYCxDesign Festival (May 15-21), the International Contemporary Furniture Fair …

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The New York Nonprofit Where Generations of Artists Got Their Start

The New York Nonprofit Where Generations of Artists Got Their Start

The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. CURRENTLY PROJECTED ON the walls at Artists Space, a nonprofit arts organization in TriBeCa, are two films by Carolyn Lazard that the 37-year-old artist shot inside a training center at Elmhurst …

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