New York City’s most vital and glamorous industries — entertainment and fashion — have been intertwined throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This exhibition celebrates the collaborations of performers with fashion designers, who together brought contemporary clothing style to theater , opera and dance. The couture, sportswear and retail designers recognized that the introduction of […]

FRIDAY 13

The Brooklyn Academy of Music takes the month of February to celebrate Brooklyn-based bands and solo artists at the Sounds Like Brooklyn music festival. Tonight, DIY indie phenomenon Clap Your Hands Say Yeah perform songs both inspired and droll from their repertoire. Chairlift opens.
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave bet Ashland Pl […]

Co-presented with the National Jewelry Institute, Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style highlights 80 prominent New York women who used their style, talent, or wealth to capture the attention of society and the media. The exhibition features a runway of original attire—much of it created by the most important designers of their times—and […]

Christian Siriano, the winner of season four of “Project Runway”, has partnered with Payless ShoeSource on an accessories and footwear collection to make its debut at his show on Feb. 19 at The Salon at the tents at Bryant Park. The collection of clutches, totes and skyscraping heels ranges in price from $25 to $45 […]

Apple is expected to debut a $99 iPhone, as well as an iPhone 3G with updated performance, sometime in June or July. This means, once again, Apple has made a fool out of its customers. All of us idiots that just had to have the cool look and innovation promised by Apple, at a premium […]

Driving across most of the country’s fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the beginning of […]