2025Photo: Quinn WhartonSave this storySaveSave this storySaveThe creation process is challenging enough for an independent choreographer
vying for grants and rehearsal space and attention in a scattered environment
and suddenly the ordeal of daily existence takes on a palpable weight
That is the premise of SISSY
a luminous new dance-theater work by Celia Rowlson-Hall
premiering this weekend at New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center
with a cast that includes Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges
toils not in the rocky underworld but at a run-down artist’s residency in the Hudson Valley
where an indefatigable director (Zoë Winters) and her six dancers are about to present the final showing of their two-week workshop
The audience—both the fictional one upstate and the real one in Manhattan—soon slips into a world where human-scale beach balls and painter’s buckets become a playground for physical investigation
where the tragicomedy of real life slips in through the cracks
“Somehow I’ve always had a layer of protection between me and my work
even though it’s always been very personal,” says Rowlson-Hall
who has forged a career telling stories through movement
that does not exist.” SISSY marks her return to the stage after nearly two decades as a filmmaker and choreographer for the screen
It’s also her first creative project after giving birth to Romeo
the now two-year-old son she shares with her wife
the director (and SISSY dramaturg) Mia Lidofsky
The work initially took root during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center in September 2023
would walk up the High Line to the studio each day with six-month-old Romeo in tow
Rowlson-Hall was dealing with the spiraling health crisis of her “angel-here-on-earth” father: a longtime public school teacher
and practicing Christian Scientist who had largely lived outside the medical system
As he was shuttled between care facilities and hospitals in Virginia—a “losing uphill battle,” Rowlson-Hall says—plans for an evening-length iteration of SISSY were paused
about the millennia-old universe beneath our feet; another book described how “grief is like pushing through rock,” she says
True to Rowlson-Hall’s own buoyant sensibility
the central boulder in SISSY takes the form of a brightly colored beach ball
deftly navigating around the studio’s overhead lights during a recent rehearsal
as in a guided improvisation onstage: “Are you a pebble in a shoe?” Winters’s character asks
“Under a naked butt cheek on a nude Italian beach?”
The play-with-a-play structure means the cast is composed of six dancers (led by the transfixing Ida Saki) and three actors
but the beauty rests in the blurred distinctions
brings an animated physicality—and a full split—to the role
and she’s speaking a language I understand,” says Tomei
sees his hard-hat exterior unexpectedly soften by the play’s end
who takes salsa lessons and Gaga movement classes in his regular life
SISSY is a kind of dreamscape you “want to get lost in,” he says
“Celia has brought her subconscious to all of us
But it’s motherhood she credits with ushering in a new sense of creative flexibility
“Sometimes when you put something in motion
you have to let it tell you where it’s headed and not try to hold on too tight,” she says
Saki brings up the first lunch break of the SISSY residency in 2023
when she told Rowlson-Hall—by then a friend and collaborator—that she was newly pregnant
“The whole story shifted for her,” says Saki
describing how the choreographer folded the news into the central solo
a complicated investigation of weighted anticipation and transferred innocence
Saki slips into a pair of pants with an attached belly
but the psychological vulnerability is what proves most important
“If you are not actually going through the storytelling and the emotive qualities in that present moment
There is one other uncredited performer who
has been in the room since the very beginning of SISSY
is periodically trotted out on Winters’s hip
a sometimes babbling manifestation of everything her character is juggling
Winters remembers the first time she heard she’d be holding a baby onstage
like a baby-baby,” Rowlson-Hall responded.)
unpredictable element illustrates Rowlson-Hall’s approach to embracing life in all its beauty and complications
Enzo’s occasional vocalizations have a soft-spoken foil in the piece
via an overheard voicemail from Rowlson-Hall’s late father
And there’s a slipperiness between fact and fiction
which gives the performances a translucent clarity
who lost her own dad a decade ago while working with Rowlson-Hall on another project
describes their common vocabulary around loss
“Grief is so surprising and comes out sideways in so many ways,” the actor says
yet so often it’s “side-by-side to humor.”
where half-assembled folding tables become slides and air-traffic wands light the way
“There’s incredible imagination and magic and suspension of belief and oddness,” Winters says
“Moments that you maybe don’t intellectually understand but can feel so fully.” A duet between two of the dancers comes to mind
where each of Aliza Russell’s footsteps land in Jacob Warren’s hands
It recalls what Rowlson-Hall said after rehearsal
seeing Winters take on the role of the director: “I had this feeling
SISSY runs through April 26 at Baryshnikov Arts Center
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The Zurich-based company Energie 360° has installed new fast-charging stations from Kempower in the car parks of three Coop shops in Switzerland
The new charging stations are located in Winterthur
in Riddes and at the Regensdorf shopping centre
The site in Winterthur has one charging station with two charging points
The site in Riddes has two charging stations with a total of four charging points with a total output of 600 kW
while the shopping centre in Regensdorf even has seven chargers with one arm each
This location has a total capacity of 1050 kW
Kempower states that the charging stations were installed by Energie 360° from Zurich
Coop locations in Haag and Dietlikon had already been equipped with Kempower fast chargers
‘The collaboration with Energie 360° and the associated provision of Kempower satellites at Coop locations in Switzerland is valuable for us
because together we are driving the future of electromobility forward,’ says Philipp Oppolzer
Regional Business Development Director Central Europe at Kempower
we are setting new standards for a reliable and user-friendly charging infrastructure that will accelerate the transition to electromobility in the region
Kempower states on its website that further Coop supermarkets will be equipped with Kempower charging infrastructure by Energie 360° in the coming months
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featuring relics by the likes of Jeanne Lanvin
It all started with a shared address on East 70th Street
where Etéreo’s Zabrina Estrada at the time rented a showroom one floor below Patricia Voto
“We have the same sensibilities of slow fashion and old-world feel,” says Estrada
known for sleuthing out early-20th-century European couture
who honed her ready-to-wear chops at Altuzarra
operates at the bespoke end of fashion—at times reworking heirloom wedding dresses into custom bridal looks
or creating made-to-order pieces using an unearthed clutch of fabric
The two neighbors decided to work on a rarefied upcycling project
built around vintage treasures that were in an otherwise unwearable state
As Voto gamely puts it: “Challenge accepted.”
as seen during a recent visit to ONE OF’s studio
are as much alchemy as they are reverent translation
Voto holds up a silk-wool kimono with an elaborate nuit de chine scene—originally a 1920s dress attributed to Jean Patou
“The tulle was completely broken; the beads were starting to fall off,” says Voto
using coral beads and other materials from unsalvageable sections to restore the rest
the decoration unfolds in landscape across the back of the belted
Another Parisian dress from the early 1920s
wide-leg pants—proof again of Voto’s unconstrained vision for seeing the antique garments as raw material
she has married practicalities (keeping the inner legs clear of beading) with verve (adding a wispy beaded fringe to the outer seam)
there’s a through line back to her early days at Parsons
where a professor took note of her interest in 2D and 3D work and suggested she study product design
“I’m so grateful I did because it allowed me to approach design from a problem-solving lens,” she says
Fragility was one such recurring problem here
featuring gold filigree threadwork on silk
recalling her commutes upstairs to the ONE OF atelier
“The material was just kind of falling apart in their hands.” Voto and her team added an interlining to stabilize the fabric; she pruned back the top to reveal a square neckline
and introduced a dynamic hem that follows the contours of the decoration
a 1930s New York design made of a striped velvet devoré with oversize black flowers
there’s a bandeau top fashioned from three recreated flowers; the little bolero can be worn on top
its velvet ribbons dyed a deep chocolate to match the precise fade of the original fabric
something Margaret Qualley might frolic in with the right amount of insouciance
joking about our email thread: “cc: Margaret!”
What’s most satisfying about the capsule is the inability to discern where old becomes new
only the round satin appliqués were sturdy enough to be saved
Voto transferred them onto an existing ONE OF dress style with a similar fitted bodice
amplifying the skirt with 10 layers of silk gauze
whose chinoiserie panels originally wrapped in horizontal bands
has been deconstructed and remade with a vertical configuration; each of those floor-skimming golden panels is now capped off with a piece of its repurposed fringe
A pair of pants made from technical scuba fabric is layered under a 1930s piano shawl
Voto dreamed up a sleeveless ostrich-feather top—she gives a shout-out to Dersh
a family-run supplier in the Garment District—to pair with an intricately beaded 1920s silk dress from Rhode Island
rendered anew in silk gauze with the original satin appliqués
If there was any piece that gave Estrada pause
it was the 1950s Madame Grès dress in pale yellow chiffon: a rare well-preserved find
describing a push-pull over the questions of preservation versus adaptation
“I really do believe in the circularity of these pieces
we want it to live a new life.” The Grès is now rendered as a discreet two-piece ensemble—“even more modern,” Estrada says
its original label now joined by the capsule’s new one
A 1920s beaded dress from Rhode Island (right)
fashioned into a skirt and paired with an ostrich-feather top
Even with all this exactingly preserved craftsmanship and ornament
what runs through the 10 looks is a palpable sense of ease
It’s the thread that connects the present day to the changing era a century ago
when restrictive corsets fell away and trousers came onto the scene
certain parameters are welcome in today’s breakneck
There’s something more creative about working within those,” Voto says
explaining that there’s no room for error with one-of-a-kind materials
whose constraints are baked into her perpetual hunt
they’ve managed to take a handful of treasures out of retirement and put them back on the town
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jumping away from Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny) in the final 150 metres as the Belgian suffered the most untimely mechanical when starting his sprint
sticking in the wheels until the very best moment after latching onto De Lie’s last lead-out man and outlasting the charge from Michael Matthews (Jayco AlUla) in second and De Lie after he got going again
De Lie was the heavy favourite coming into the day and looked set to take the win after his Lotto Dstny team reeled in a late attack from Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) with 1.2km to go
but dropping his chain in the final sprint left him banging the handlebars across the line as he settled for third
Coquard was yet to win in 2024 despite a whole host of top-five finishes and the win in Regensdorf was his first at WorldTour level since January of last year when he took a stage at the Tour Down Under
Yves Lampaert (Soudal Quick-Step) held onto the leader’s yellow jersey after his stage 1 victory
coming home safely just behind the bunch sprint despite some splits forming over the crest of the final climb
"It's my biggest victory today," said a delighted Coquard post-race
"It's a difficult stage with a hard climb just before the final
Today we knew with the team it was a good opportunity for me
"I'm a good sprinter but with the big guys it's more difficult for me and today was a perfect opportunity
We arrived with a little bunch and I did a perfect final with a perfect sprint."
Coquard will head to next month's Tour with the aim of fulfilling his career goal of a stage win at the Tour de France
even referencing the closest he has come in the past during an uphill battle to the line with Marcel Kittel in 2016
"A lot of times I finished second in Tour de France for example
28mm with Marcel Kittel in Limoges," said Coquard when asked why today was his biggest triumph
"I'm really happy because I went to an altitude training camp for three weeks in preparation for the Tour de France and I won today
The longest stage of the 2024 Tour de Suisse kicked off again from Vaduz in Liechtenstein
with 176.9km in the way of a potential chance for the sprinters
A five-man breakaway formed after an initial attack by Gerben Kuypers (Intermarché-Wanty)
Roberto Carlos González (Team Corratec-Vini Fantini) and Félix Stehli (Swiss Cycling) before they were bridged across to by Antoine Debons (Team Corratec - Vini Fantini) and Luca Jenni (Swiss Cycling)
After the short stage 1 individual time trial
Jenni was the closest on GC at 24 seconds and went into the virtual lead as the break built an advantage over the four-minute mark in the opening 50km
González dropped over the second categorised climb of the day to Ricken (6.1 km at 5.9%) and he was swallowed up with 65km to go
leaving a quartet at the head of the race with a 4:40 advantage to defend
Alpecin-Deceuninck and Soudal Quick-Step took up the mantle of pacing on the front around the 60km to-go mark and the deficit started to melt down
intermediate sprints and Tissot bonus second
EF Education-EasyPost - as the bunch began eyeing up the final climb
the pace was heating up and the gap was down to around one minute
causing Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) to drop and fight to get back on as he looks to get some climbing in the legs ahead of the Tour de France
GC teams began moving up in the kilometres preceding the Regensburg Cat.3 climb but there wasn't too much urgency in the pace with the gap stabilising around 1:14
This was made worse by a small crash in the peloton going through narrow
technical roads and a lot of road furniture making it hard to carry speed through the corners
Jenni took off from the four-man break as they hit the 3.5km climb which averaged a 5.7% gradient with a 50-second advantage in hand
EF picked up the tempo on the climb with 13km to go to ensure Marijn van den Berg had an opportunity to fight for victory
Q36.5 went on the attack with David de la Cruz after no team took up full authority on the lower slopes of the climb
But this prompted Alpecin to get back into gear and really light up the inclines to put the pure sprinters in pain
De la Cruz and Jenni were quickly reeled in with 11km to go with this new injection of pace and from then on in
Alpecin continued their effort with splits forming all down the climb after the crest
Søren Kragh Andersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) took off on the descent with Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla) as those behind fought to get back on
they were quickly pulled back once the road flattened out again
giving Bettiol the chance to launch an opportunistic move
It looked like the Italian had a chance of making it to the line with only splintered groups trying to chase him down
That was until Lotto Dstny came to the fore alongside Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale with De Lie sat in ready to sprint and he was done just before reaching the flamme rouge
The Belgian squad got the technical run into Regensdorf just right
navigating the multiple 90-degree corners with De Lie still in third wheel
the talented young sprinter couldn't finish the job as he dropped his chain
allowing Coquard to get a gap and sprint to victory
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during which time he also wrote for Eurosport
Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert
he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby
the Adimora Investment Foundation completed a new building with 31 maisonette lofts designed by Lütjens Padmanabhan
Pensimo has built 31 affordable maisonette lofts with room heights of up to six meters on the Zwhatt site in Regensdorf for the Adimora investment foundation
Completion took place in the middle of last year
"The concrete walls remain unfinished and the furnishings are limited to the bare essentials," is how Pensimo describes the concept
The floor plans allow for individual extensions
The residential building is stepped upwards and
has the shape of an urban row of terraced houses - but in the form of an urban terraced house
The apartments are not divided into types S
L and XL with 40 to 93 square meters of living space
The new brand identity makes the municipality's sharpened positioning tangible and is intended to strengthen Regensdorf's role as one of the most modern and attractive municipalities in the canton of Zurich in the long term
Process is responsible for the implementation
the municipality of Regensdorf will develop into one of the most modern municipalities in the canton of Zurich
In addition to major infrastructure projects
over 2,000 apartments are planned or already under construction
businesses are moving in and extensive investments are being made in the quality of life within the municipality
In order to do justice to all these changes in terms of communication and to convey the attractiveness of the municipality to the outside world in a targeted manner over the next few years
the Regensdorf brand was strategically realigned
developed and implemented in close cooperation with the Process agency
the entire brand architecture within the municipality was sharpened
reorganized and prioritized in terms of communication
The old figurative mark was completely renewed and the entire corporate design was redesigned and redefined across all channels
This included developing and implementing templates for all communication channels and media
including official documents and templates that are implemented and rolled out within the municipality
it is crucial that our communication is clear
uniform and consistent," says Sandrine Rickli
"Our new image enables us to meet the communication requirements and convey our messages in an appealing and understandable way."
an annual event along New York’s Rockaway Beach
“You have to be really patient and follow your intuition in a way
but you’re never sure of what’s going to happen
You don’t know what you’re going to see.” That’s the mindset she hopes the audience brings to this year’s performance on Saturday: magic hour serving as lighting designer
The ninth iteration of the summer program features not one but two innovative artists: the late Merce Cunningham
with a response shaped by her experience in the ’90s
as part of the broader Cunningham community
some onlookers will make a pilgrimage and others will happen upon a magic moment
“I've been calling it a ‘natural occurrence,’ which is something that birders talk about,” Okshteyn says
“It’s something that you experience and you’re like
which begins with a closeup of dancers’ torsos: arms outstretched
there’s no doubt about it,” Lent says of bringing Beach Birds to the beach
The fact that it has already migrated from stage to screen helps pave the way for this latest iteration
Mitchell adds: “It’s not bound to the rules of the theater
so we can stretch it and amplify certain aspects.” The setting demands sly adaptations
there are no entrances and exits when the Atlantic Ocean is the backdrop—the only wings belong to the errant birds overhead
taking away a sonic cue helpful for dancers when choreography doesn’t adhere to music
Repeated jumps prove difficult on soft sand; likewise
lifting to the ball of one’s foot in relevé fails to register when the ground gives way underneath
so the choreography has shifted in subtle ways
“But it’s remarkable how much you can do,” Lent says
Several of the original 1991 cast members moonlighted in the rehearsal studio
sharing recollections from Merce himself and teaching sections of the choreography
“Just to be able to watch that transmission process is really
reflecting on a few favorite gestures: “I think about this specific leg-shaking movement that feels kind of like a flutter
I think about these beautiful head movements that are sharp and somehow animalistic.” But the avian world wasn’t the only inspiration for Beach Birds
The two trustees staging the work got to pore over Cunningham’s original notes
where he privately named each of the dance’s four sections
they're lined up in roughly two rows across the back
and he's labeled each of the dancers with a chess piece,” Lent explains
they move in roughly the same way that the chess piece would.”
Dancers featured: Arielle Francois and Marc Crousillat
If the Cunningham flock is set to hit the sand at Beach 108th Street
Michelson’s follow-up performance takes place on the nearby boardwalk at Beach 102nd Street
who presented her first dance in the ’90s at the Cunningham Studio
is newly represented by David Zwirner—a reflection of the rising stature of those working in the performance realm
She shared little about her response in advance
keeping it a surprise even for those closely involved in this year’s event
Whatever transpires will draw a crowd far more heterogeneous (children underfoot
sunscreen-caked passersby) than a high-brow dance event normally convenes
can you save me two seats?’ or ‘Are there tickets?’” Okshteyn says with a laugh
Her response: “It’s general beach seating.”
That informal approach is a mainstay for Beach Sessions
“I always consider the beach quite democratic—at least Rockaway,” says Okshteyn
when the weather and waves and birds are left to chance
“It’s wonderful to me how beautiful stillness reads in such a lively space,” Lent says
reflecting on the quieter sections of Beach Birds
“It doesn’t feel like nothing’s happening because there’s so much movement in the landscape.”
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I'm happy, and feel privileged, to be selected as the new restaurant reviewer for St. Lucie County and it comes with an added benefit. We both spell Lucie the same way, so my name will be easy to remember.
Food has always been a passion for me. I love researching recipes and cooking techniques, creating menus, hosting small and large dinner parties, and sampling restaurants.
Prior to moving to the Treasure Coast, I lived in Miami where I was a trial lawyer for many years. Entertainment always included food, whether it was exploring restaurants or cooking for large and small gatherings.
In 2006, my husband and I moved to North Central Florida, so I could live my dream — owning and operating a bed and breakfast. As innkeepers, we frequented every restaurant in the area to better guide our guests in their dining choices. I prepared creative breakfasts every morning and catered city, charity and other events. I cooked farm-to-table dishes at the farmer’s market and hosted cooking demonstrations at a local olive oil store.
After selling our bed and breakfast, we moved back to south Florida to be closer to family.
Since moving here in July, dining out has been our first choice of entertainment. I love being introduced to all the wonderful Treasure Coast restaurants. I enjoy a variety of cuisines and consider service, taste, presentation and atmosphere important components of a successful dining experience.
For the past eight years, I have been writing a column called “Food Focus” for The Observer, a North Florida newspaper. My column is about cooking skills, food trends, and curated and personal recipes. It has been very popular and I will continue to write it to keep me tuned in to the preparation side of food.
As a food critic for TCPalm and its readers, I will dine anonymously to assure that when I review an establishment's food, service and atmosphere, I will experience them in the same manner you would.
I am looking forward to hearing from fellow restaurant connoisseurs.
It’s easy to find the “big name” players in the local restaurant game, and I want to review as many of these as I can for my column.
But it’s the smaller places — the cafés, the ethnic restaurants, the “hole-in-the-walls,” the “dives”, the unique places — that I am most eager to visit. To hunt them out, I would greatly appreciate your help. Please send me your thoughts and suggestions for my next visit and let me share your dining secrets with our neighbors.
You can email me at Lucie@theloveofcooking.com, or find me on Twitter at @LucieLovesFood
According to Pensimo, the second stage of the major project is being planned by Donet Schäfer Reimer Architekten and Salathé Architekten.
The study contract for the second stage of the transformation of the former Gretag site in Regensdorf, which is now being developed under the name "Zwhatt", has been awarded to the two teams led by Donet Schäfer Reimer Architekten (DOSCRE), Zurich, and Salathé Architekten from Basel. Together, they are responsible for the development of the two building plots in the second stage, as announced by Pensimo.
The owners also imposed conditions on the outdoor spaces. The planners hope that a "Tiny Forest", a densely planted small forest, will have a positive impact on the microclimate and water balance in addition to biodiversity benefits. Special emphasis is also placed on the reuse of usable building components.
Around 230 apartments and approx. 3,000 square meters of commercial space will be built on the four sub-plots F1, F2, F3 and F4. If everything goes according to plan, the buildings will be ready for occupation in 2030.
All in all, around 650 apartments and 15,000 square meters of commercial space are to be built by 2030 as part of the "Zwhatt" site development. The "Längsbau" property has already been occupied and the letting of the apartments in the timber high-rise H1 and the "Querbau" has begun. A further residential tower is currently under construction. (aw)
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Spirit animal: Snowbird. Between an interminable winter and a four-month-old niece in Fort Lauderdale, my southward migrations are averaging once a month.
Current mood: Easy, breezy. Back in my home state, I can finally shed the layers—molt, if you will. The patterned bands on this Suno skirt remind me of traditional Seminole clothing (a collection of which is currently on view at Gainesville's Florida Museum of Natural History). A simple braid feels right; so does a white shirt that billows like a main sail.
What I'm wearing: Suno skirt, Rachel Comey shirt, Porselli x A.P.C. ballet flats, Classic Specs sunglasses, SkinCeuticals sunscreen (invisible but essential!), and a Baby Gap dress on baby Lila.
On my agenda today: A morning class at the Yoga Joint; strawberry and tomato picking with my family; afternoon pit stop at Laser Wolf, a friend's gem of a craft-beer bar; and, in true Florida fashion, a feast of super-fresh stone crabs from our favorite seafood shop, the Fish Peddler.
The Treasure Coast is filled with wonderful restaurants and new ones are opening — and
family-owned restaurant that has been around for decades
Ask Ruffino’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria in Port St
They met while working at a restaurant on Long Island
got married and moved to Florida to open their own Italian restaurant
a large model of a smiling man sporting a white shirt
apron and chef’s hat greets you at the door while holding an empty skillet
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We were welcomed instantly by Daniella and seated at a table with comfortable black chairs and yellow vinyl tablecloths
The divine aromas emanating from the kitchen are immediately apparent
One whole wall is a mural of the sea with boats seen bobbing on the water through stone archways
It makes you feel as if you are sitting on a terrace in Italy
As we sipped our drinks and studied the menu
Each yummy bite was like a taste of heaven
The menu contains authentic Italian dishes made with fresh ingredients
My husband and I started with clams casino ($11.95)
This was a hard sell since my husband would eat bruschetta every day of his life
But even he loved the perfectly seasoned flavors of this appetizer
Entrees are served with a salad or soup of the day
my husband ordered the tortellini in brodo (for a slight upcharge of $2.50) and was served a large bowl of cheese tortellini pasta in a mild chicken broth
for dinner he ordered chicken Parmesan with spaghetti ($20.95)
which he has ordered in every Italian restaurant he has ever eaten at in the past 30 years
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Thin chicken cutlets are dipped then breaded
sauteed and smothered with slowly simmered
rich marinara sauce and crowned with melted fresh mozzarella
The deliciously seasoned broth was packed with cannellini beans
I ordered linguine in white clam sauce ($20.95)
fresh clams was heaped onto a pile of pasta in a luxuriant broth of clam juice
I employed the warm garlic sticks to soak up the briny
Desserts are Italian favorites such as tartufo
Perhaps it’s the love of a family working together
and a wonderful variety of authentic and consistently mouthwatering
Or maybe it’s a secret kept by the chef at the door
Lucie Regensdorf dines anonymously at the expense of TCPalm for #WhatToDoIn772. Contact her at Lucie@theloveofcooking.com
during a sunset viewing of James Turrell’s Meeting at MoMA PS1.Photo: Courtesy of Laura RegensdorfSave this storySaveSave this storySaveI am leaning back against a teak-paneled banquette
watching a cotton ball pelican drift across the sky
sat around the perimeter of this square-shaped room
all have their eyes fixed on a rectangular hole in the ceiling—like a high-def TV with one strange channel
A computer-programmed cycle of LEDs starts up
bathing the interior in chartreuse (mood-lifting
and a blue-gray so pale it makes the sky look wan
A tiny plane zips through the lower left corner of the frame
I think to myself—because there is suddenly so much space to think—I have found my meditation chapel
Of course, this isn’t a meditation chapel at all. We’ve come for a 45-minute sunset viewing of James Turrell’s Meeting
a permanent installation inside a former classroom at MoMA PS1
when a thirtysomething Turrell lugged a jackhammer to the roof of the fledgling art space—pummeling through what turned out to be a 42-inch-thick slab of concrete—the California artist had previously created just one oculus work for a private commission in Italy
to his own Quaker roots; he even pitched a tent in the open-air room during construction
(“I lived outside inside PS1,” Turrell put it.) The scale was intimate—and the infrastructure
occasionally problematic—but the impact was enormous
informing what turned out to be a series of such “Skyspaces.” Here
the cut-out rectangle is less a viewfinder than a shapeshifting bridge
“The sky’s no longer out there anymore,” Turrell once explained
“but it seems to be brought close in touch with you and [the space] where you sit.”
An installation view of James Turrell’s Meeting
at MoMA PS1.Photo: Pablo Enriquez / Courtesy of MoMA PS1Or
as I sometimes feel during the slow-evolving sunset
I imagine the windows that astronauts peer through
as darkness falls and the portal takes on a fuzzed-out gray
it reminds me of that staticky television in Poltergeist—ready for someone to walk right into
if only the room would rotate 90 degrees like some Fred Astaire dance number
the way Turrell can take a chunk out of a building and spark a kind of mental road trip
empty of day-to-day narrative and attuned to shifting color fields
finally catches a moment to take stock and observe
followed by the rumble of a faraway jet engine
I think I see a star stitched into the platinum sky
At a time when anxiety seems to blanket the country
it’s no small feat to inspire a sense of marvel in your backyard
like the fact that PS1 then was a little bit rough,” Turrell said in an oral history of the project
explaining that Meeting “just made such a pure sky out of New York
which was kind of unexpected.” A slice of clouds between tall buildings—or a 45-minute window of time in an overscheduled day—has an outsize effect in the city
“It made [Meeting] more transcendent than it was ever intended to be,” Turrell continued
having warped the sky from familiar blue into shades of indigo and gunmetal and gray
has transformed into a black felt rectangle seemingly tacked to the ceiling
People begin to unpeel their backs from the teak-clad walls
as though the carnival ride Gravitron were slowing to a halt and releasing its grip
Tickets for sunset viewings in September and October go on sale later this month at momaps1.org
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which I’m always interested in,” the artist explains
offering up an example: “One person’s beauty is another person’s disgust.” It’s a thread running throughout four decades of jarring
she photographed her prescription-pill-addict mother at home in Fort Lauderdale
dyeing her eyebrows in bed and fastidiously applying makeup
Manicured hands pry apart a langoustine or a ripe orange in 100 Food Porn
a prescient 1989–1990 series soon followed by hard-core (and hot-button) subject matter
Minter riffed on cosmetics advertising with a suggestive lipstick bullet in 1994’s Rouge Baiser; a decade later
she exploded the norms of conventional makeup use in her close-cropped
during a moment of calm between installing her gallery show and the museum retrospective
Minter spoke with Vogue.com about the downside of laser hair removal
and how “Pretty/Dirty” seems to find kinship with another timely two-word phrase: “nasty woman.” “Isn’t that great
Your work has drawn such a wide mix of opinions over the years
Isn’t it interesting how yesterday’s smut is today’s erotica
I just assumed everyone else thought just like I did and was a pro-sex feminist
I was reclaiming sexual imagery from an abusive history
and it really frightened a lot of feminists; they couldn’t wrap their brain around it
why won’t you make images for your own pleasure
Now your retrospective is part of a larger series at the Brooklyn Museum called “Reimagining Feminism.” Is there more room in the definition of feminist art these days
I love the title of Roxane Gay’s book: Bad Feminist
The idea that you had to be a certain kind of feminist to be a good one—there’s no ideological right way
You can be a sexual being and be a feminist
attractive women owning sexual agency is so powerful and so threatening—to both male and female
You couldn’t possibly have any serious ideas
Was that reaction the same when you were younger
Did that affect how you styled yourself in terms of makeup
But I’ve always been interested in the paradox about fashion: It’s so easy to criticize and have contempt for fashion and glamour
and at the same time it’s one of the giant engines of the culture
You have more confidence and you’re taken more seriously if you feel good about the way you look
Women are judged all the time to such standards that you’re going to be constantly failing
What do you look for in terms of models for your work
I’m not interested in making another pretty girl
but I am interested in women with character to their faces—and nobody seems to notice
I love the idea of an Asian girl covered in freckles because she’s Chinese and Irish or something
And I love blue-eyed or green-eyed or hazel-eyed black people
but I like the idea that we’re all going to be a shade of brown at some point in the future
Maybe that is when we’re going to get along a lot better
How did you arrive at the decadent makeup looks
like the turquoise glitter eyes in Blue Poles
You don’t shy away from things that are usually perceived as flaws
They’re really just images that everybody knows—everything I paint
It’s just nobody’s ever made a picture of it before
We all know what armpit hair looks like growing in
We all know what it looks like to have freckles
I think the eye craves what it doesn’t see—like this last body of work
in my painting show [at Salon 94] and in the Brooklyn Museum show
Pubic hair has been erased from the culture
so I wanted to make a case to women: Shave all you want
make topiary out of it—but don’t laser because fashion is fleeting and laser is forever
I tried to make the most beautiful pictures of pubic hair
There is a movement again for it—I’m thinking of Petra Collins’s generation
In recent years you’ve supported Planned Parenthood
organizing a benefit auction and collaborating with Miley Cyrus
What prompted you to take activism to the next level
I’ve always been an activist—I was just another marcher
But that was so easy after watching the TRAP laws being enacted
I was outraged because I remember when abortion was illegal and women got unsafe abortions
and I saw [access to care] being systematically erased
It’s going to be on the ash heap of history.” That just makes me crazy
I got my birth control at a Planned Parenthood clinic
I got my abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic
This was the only safe place back when I was a college student
the retrospective includes photographs you took of your mother at that time—applying makeup
That’s what she did: She was a groomer [laughs]
She was at one point a very beautiful woman
but she was a drug addict—a Southern belle who didn’t know what hit her
And she had a fungus under her acrylic nails because she didn’t take care of them
that could be the thread that runs through everything
Did you share her grooming habits or rebel against them
so they could go to the bars and buy booze