Shauna Lyon

Shauna Lyon Goings On editor For our winter culture preview, our critics round up the most exciting events on the jam-packed calendar. Oscar season—which kicked off earlier than usual, this summer, with two culture-dominating blockbusters—is in full swing, with such delights as Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” a bio-pic of Leonard Bernstein centered on his love life; Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” about the journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s path to writing the seminal book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent…

In early June, when smoke from Canadian wildfires engulfed New York City in an otherworldly orange haze, Clark Hodgin set out to capture the eerie scene, for Carolyn Kormann’s first-person dispatch. Hodgin’s collection of uncannily beautiful images of iconic spots includes one in Central Park, where kids who have taken to the irresistible boulders appear frozen in amber, a cell phone in hand, backpacks and all. The image underlines the strangeness of that dystopian moment, which was surreal and…

Kampimarn—who grew up in Udon Thani, in northeast Thailand, and came to the U.S. thirteen years ago—once cooked at the highly praised Somtum Der, in Red Hook, but it was with the pre-service family meals that he auditioned his recipes; these became the basis for the menu at UnTable. The appetizer Yum Samgler, which evokes a jaunty fruit ceviche, is more poignant with a primer: Yum refers to cold salad, in this case a refreshing medley of cherry tomato, grapes, fig, strawberry, and avocado, and S…

Shauna Lyon Goings On editor With spring showers come joyous flowers and lots and lots of culture, in a season that is more packed than ever—or, at least, since 2019. In shows grand and small, there’s no denying that a certain artistic frisson is in the air—from the oft-reliable bellwether the Whitney Biennial to Mark Morris on Burt Bacharach, from a climate-change piece directed by the delightful boundary pusher Peter Sellars to that stirrer of our youthful souls Olivia Rodrigo. Broadway is as…

It’s clear that Aguilar values beauty and craftsmanship, from the clean design of the pristine cooking stations to the handsome ceramic and wooden serving pieces and the meticulous plating. If you sit at the main, black-quartz bar (the seats are all barstools, and the best face the long, open galley kitchen), you can watch the ballet of chefs as one of them—often Aguilar himself—crafts, say, a perfect crab tostada, piling fresh jumbo lump meat with serrano pepper, avocado crema, and copious lime…

Summer Culture Preview

Hallie Meyer’s gelato project expands from Union Square to Greenpoint, offering bounteous daily flavors topped with luscious imported Italian cream.

What’s happening this season in art, theatre, TV, music, dance, and movies.

What’s happening this season in art, music, theatre, dance, movies, and television.

What’s happening this season in music, theatre, art, dance, movies, and television.