Lincoln Kirstein
Kirstein’s Dance of Life: A Patron, But No Saint
©Steven Caras/Photograph courtesy of the Nycb Archives, Ballet Society Collection
Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) onstage at the New York State Theater for an 80th-birthday tribute.
In October 1960, Lincoln Kirstein “was able to confide to a few people that the state would be spending $17,500,000 to erect a dance theater. It would be designed by Philip Johnson and seat twenty-six hundred people.” This building would become the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. read more »
Walker Evans at the Met: A Devotion to High Art
Has it ever been observed that the American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975), whose work is now read more »
