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E H C I S H ART by Paul Laster and Alexandra Peers OPERA by Zachary Woolfe A I C S S E THEATER by Kimberly Kaye, Jesse Oxfeld and Robert J. Hughes J Y B TELEVISION BOOKS N by Christopher Rosen by Christian Lorentzen I O T A R T MUSIC by Michael H. Miller MOVIES by Sara Vilkomerson S U L I L u r 5 . e o g e S e p a Have a snappy Halloween! o n a d Learn about this month’s tricks and treats at AddamsBroadway.com/events Ticketmaster.com (877) 250-2929 • Groups (877) ADDAMS1 • Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th St. FALL ARTS PREVIEW Editor’s Note The New York Observer | 2 Season 2010–2011 fall season opens october 27 new production/ny premiere Leonard bernstein/Stephen wadsworth a quiet place october 27–November 21 r y e l a G s k r a M w e h t a M , r e t u l p Finally, u S c d e l t t i n U , y a R s e l r a h C © a Bold “One of Bernstein’s most impressive scores.” —Gramophone Bernstein’s final stage work receives its long-awaited New York premiere in a new production by visionary director Christopher Alden. This emotionally searing musical drama explores the alienation, strife, and reconciliation found in a dysfunctional American family. Season for richard Strauss intermezzo october 31–November 20 the Arts ig names are back on the New York culture scene. c Whether it’s Spider-Man and Pacino I n , e n d r B o B on Broadway or a new diva and two new t e n a J , l s operas at the Met, this season is about the return of l a W d e c a panache after years of economic-bred hesitation. r o B e h T This time last year, bold bets were rare, as , y e r n a B producers and curators and directors didn’t know a i n T © whether their investments would pay off, so they “Delicate and delicious … an irresistable triumph.” — Opera Magazine didn’t take risks. In the spring, the cultural deep Leon Major’s lighthearted production highlights the c ontrast between conversational vignettes and lush orchestral interludes in this rarely performed freeze began a slow thaw, mostly through the rise of domestic comedy, based on real incidents from Strauss’s own marriage. fresh new voices. lucky to be me: an evening with The music of Now, we can declare the doldrums finally and christine brewer Leonard Bernstein officially over. In the theater, Bloody Bloody Andrew October 28 at 7:00 pm November 6 at 8:00 pm/November 7 at 1:30 pm Jackson is shaping up to be one of the Public’s biggest One of the world’s most sought-after Scheduled to appear: Michael Cerveris, sopranos sings Wagner, Puccini, Victoria Clark, Darius de Haas, successes ever—and that’s before the musical has and popular songs by Harold Arlen Christine Ebersole, Cheyenne Jackson, and Jerome Kern. Donna Murphy, Kelli O’Hara, and Michael Urie. even landed on Broadway. Kanye West and Bob Dylan Season support provided by are back with new albums, and Philip Roth and ThePeter Jay SharpFoundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Tickets start at $12 PresentingSponsor Salman Rushdie are back in bookstores. NYCOPERA.COM • 212.721.6500 of AQuietPlace In short, New York’s arts world this fall is back in David H. Koch Theater Box Office (63rd & Columbus) season. Enjoy. —The Editors AMERICAN COLOR Lot 203, Sale 2395 © Eggleston Artistic Trust and Cheim & Read, New York Auction Calendar New York · October 2010 christies.com Photographs Fine Musical Instruments Jewels: The New York Sale 500 Years: October 6–7 (2395) October 8 (2346) Including The JAR Decorative Arts Europe, Imperial Topaz, Ruby Including Oriental Carpets Viewing: October 2–6 Viewing: October 2–7 and Diamond Ear Pendants, October 21–22 (2350) Inquiries: Elaine Augustine Inquiries: Laura E. 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If you are unable 10am-5pm and Sunday 1pm-5pm. to attend the auction, visit christies.com to arrange for absentee and online bids. Also available on christies.com are For specific viewing times, please call 212 636 2000. the international auction calendar, online catalogues, and a full listing of upcoming valuation days around the globe. FALL ARTS PREVIEW Art The New York Observer | 4 Untitled , 2010. presents D e c c a / M a c r o B o gr g er v e Gergiev and Mariinsky’s Mahler Six Symphonies Body of Work in Five Concerts! A Pakistani artist’s dark totems mark the fall season By Paul Laster t her first solo of-the-month is an accepted also comes out of a horror film.” October 17, 20–22, and 24 show in New York, phenomenon. But Ms. Bhabha, Growing up in Karachi, in 2004, Huma a standout since P.S.1’s Greater “I used to like drawing the Bhabha showed New York exhibition in 2005, has figure,” said the artist from The powerful Second, the mammoth Eighth, the Asculptures and continued to see her fortunes her Poughkeepsie, N.Y., art haunting Fourth, and more—all in one week with photographs rise with international solo studio. “I remember seeing Van that a New York Times critic shows and inclusion in this year’s Gogh’s paintings and drawings Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra. championed as “not like any Whitney Biennial. Best known of shoes and was influenced recent art I can think of.” Her for raw, figurative sculptures by him. I also remember being most recent solo show in New of fragmented bodies—think very impressed by the Colossus Save 15% on all five Mariinsky–Mahler concerts. York was three years ago, disembodied, almost sinister, of Constantine in Rome. The dubbed at the time by New York heads and feet—assembled from whole body is broken up into Save 10% on any three or four concerts. Dress magazine “a tour de force of detritus and clay, the artist separate parts. When I first Circle and Balcony only; seating locations may ... post-apocalyptic dreams,” mixes elements of Eastern and started drawing feet I was vary by concert. This November, Ms. Bhabha Western art with influences from actually thinking about it. ... It’s is braced to take on the city pop culture and science fiction. as if the sculpture had broken once again, with shows at two “When I first saw the work, I and just the feet remained. galleries. Peter Blum Chelsea was taken by her use of modest, It was like a figureless body. will display her hand-altered everyday materials to make The body had disappeared or carnegiehall.org | 212-247-7800 photographs, and, at Jeannie something both ritualistic and something had happened to it Artists, programs, dates, and ticket prices subject to change. © 2010 CHC. Greenberg Rohatyn’s gallery contemporary,” said art dealer and only the feet were left.” Salon 94 Bowery, Ms. Bhabha Ms. Greenberg Rohatyn. “She She was born in Pakistan will exhibit new sculpture. can interpret the image of a face in 1962; her mother was an Proud Season Sponsor Both shows op en Nov. 17. to make it look like it belongs artist and her father was a In the art world, the flavor- to the tradition of Picasso but successful businessman. She FALL ARTS PREVIEW Art The New York Observer | 6 moved to America in 1981 to said. “I enjoy doing portraits. attend art school at Rhode If you look at Expressionism, Island School of Design, where you see a lot of use of the ‘She can interpret she received a B.F.A. in 1985 head—artists like Basquiat and later returned to earn an and Picasso. I look at whatever a face to make it M.F.A. from Columbia in 1989. few art books I have and look like it belongs While she returns annually there’s a lot of art history,” to Pakistan, in some respects But few of her art-historical to the tradition of she took to Western culture choices have been discussed immediately. “I watch a lot as much as her unusual choice Picasso but comes of movies and television,” of medium. She explained: said the artist. “I like a lot “The choice of materials for out of a horror film.’ of horror and science fiction many years came from not films and the idea of monsters.