NEW YORK ARTS AND CULTURE

Broadway: Moving from the pulpit to the stage, Desmond Tutu is reappearing off-Broadway in a drama blasting the U.S. government's handling of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The retired South African prelate and Nobel laureate appeared Saturday night at a tiny theatre in Lower Manhattan, playing a judge in Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom. The play portrays the plight of British detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba...Full article

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Adapting Nazi era opera calls for light touch. From New York to LA and London...

Memory Imprints: A Sculptural Installation by Tova Beck Friedman. Inspired by ancient architecture and archaeological sites in the land of Israel, Tova Beck-Friedman sculpts the raw desert formations of her birthplace and incorporates the human figure into her work...Full article

Mining the Collection: Recent Acquisitions. An exhibition of selected works acquired since Yeshiva University Museum relocated to Chelsea in 1999. Given the Museum’s interdisciplinary nature, its collections are eclectic and wide- ranging, spanning 2000 years of Jewish aesthetic achievement. An ossuary from the Roman Period (1st century BCE.. Full article

The Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association. The KTPAA is a performance group that endeavors to preserve, cultivate, and disseminate Korean cultural arts in the United States. Its members consist of professional artists from the New York area Korean-American community who are dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding and appreciation of Korean artistic heritage and history... Full article

Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 1969-2005. August 12, 2005 - October 23, 2005. The exhibition has been organized by the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Massachusetts, to which it will travel in November, 2005. The Jewish Museum presents Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 1969-2005, an exhibition that features a selection of thirty-one major works representing more than three decades of the artist’s career. Joan Snyder is an avowed feminist and belongs to the first generation of women artists to identify themselves as such. Along with Elizabeth Murray...Full article

The Work of Renate Aller. Her photos of the clouds, the tempest of nature and forms of humans, the shapeless sound of elegant heels of fancy women dressed in red and running  with eroticism, class and "un je ne sais quoi" in the streets of New York, ascertain her lyrico-laisse faire-professionalism and mastery of the camera...Full article