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Karl ‘Chanel’s his inner jerk, calls Adele fat
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsChanel Creative director Karl Lagerfeld isn’t one to mince words — he thinks British singer Adele is “fat.”...
Brandy and Monica reunite for new single
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsGrammy-winning duo Brandy and Monica, who joined together to propel their single “The Boy Is Mine” to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks, have reunited...
Madonna to play Yankee Stadium
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsClearly, Madonna has developed a thing for sports stadiums. Fresh from headlining the Super Bowl halftime show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Material Girl has announced her first...
Pillow Talk
Indianapolis Museum of Art BlogSounds comforting, doesn’t it? Pleasant, soft, warm, intimate, relaxing, playful… We’d like to use the blog for a bit of pillow talk. Care to join us? Come on, we’ll keep...
Sir Paul, Elton to honor Queen Elizabeth
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsFormer Beatle Paul McCartney will star in a musical tribute to Britain’s queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee. The pop superstar will headline the concert to be held in front...
FIRST PHOTOS: Beyonce steps out for Jay-Z benefit
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsBeyoncé went from new mommy to diva in a red dress Monday night when a Daily News lensman captured the first photo of her since she gave birth to Blue...
Madonna to play Yankee Stadium
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsClearly, Madonna has developed a thing for sports stadiums. Fresh from headlining the Super Bowl halftime show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Material Girl has announced her first...
FIRST PHOTOS: Beyonce steps out for Jay-Z benefit
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsBeyoncé went from new mommy to diva in a red dress Monday night when a Daily News lensman captured the first photo of her since she gave birth to Blue...
FIRST PHOTOS: New mom Beyonce steps out for Jay-Z benefit
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsBeyoncé went from new mommy to diva in a red dress Monday night when a Daily News lensman captured the first photo of her since she gave birth to Blue...
Chris Brown to perform at Grammys
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsChris Brown will perform at this year’s Grammy Awards, the event where his career almost ended three years ago. Brown assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna at a pre-Grammy party in 2009 and...
Annie Leibovitz's State of the Union
Eye LevelAnnie Leibovitz, Plano, Illinois, 2011. © Annie Leibovitz, 2011 On Tuesday, January 24, a couple of hours before the president delivered his address to Congress, Annie Leibovitz presented her own state...
'Kisses on the Bottom' from Paul McCartney
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsWhat creates a Paul McCartney? What force of sound and nature can account for it? No one can pick apart the ideal alchemy, but Sir...
Reaser takes tough turn in ‘How I Learned to Drive’
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsA part in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play is usually reason to rejoice. So it might be surprising that Elizabeth Reaser was frightened when she first found out she had scored...
FIRST PHOTOS: New mom Beyonce steps out for Jay-Z benefit
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsBeyoncé went from new mommy to diva in a red dress Monday night when a Daily News lensman captured the first photo of her since she gave birth to Blue...
Van Halen speaks 'A Different Kind of Truth'
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsThe last word on Van Halen’s huge reunion album goes to Eddie himself....
Beyonce steps out for Jay-Z benefit
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsBeyonce went from new mommy to diva in a red dress Monday night when a Daily News lensman captured the first photo of her since she gave birth to Blue...
Brooklyn in the Hall! Jay-Z practices his art at Carnegie Brooklyn in the Hall! Jay-Z practices his art at Carnegie
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsThe time-honored joke — (answer: practice) — could not possibly apply to Jay-Z....
Kelly Clarkson 'nervous' to sing National Anthem
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsThe ladies ruled the night on Super Bowl Sunday, with a trifecta of musical powerhouses — Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and Madonna herself — taking the field at halftime in a...
NBC, NFL apologize for M.I.A.’s finger
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsFumbling the block of M.I.A.’s middle finger salute during the Super Bowl half-time show left NBC and the NFL apologizing afterward....
Madonna wows Super Bowl halftime crowd
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsMadonna sidelined sex in favor of spectacle at her Super Bowl half-time show. Her 12 minute set proved chaste and careful by her younger standards — no hint of nipple-gate,...
Laquita Mitchell stars in NYC Opera’s ‘La Traviata’
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsOpera up-and-comer Laquita Mitchell has been lavishly praised for the power and pure tones of her soprano. But as she fine-tuned her Violetta for New York City Opera’s “La Traviata,” someone...
M.I.A. gives America the finger at Super Bowl
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsThe eagle of halftime show infamy has landed - rapper M.I.A. flipped "the bird" to American audiences at the Super Bowl....
'American Pie' critic gets some pie in the face
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsA few weeks ago I noted the 40th anniversary of Don McLean’s “American Pie” in this space, suggesting its value as a catchy tune and cultural mile marker may outstrip...
What the Fashion Week DJs are spinning
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsWhen the obscure tune “Midnight City” by Parisian musician M83 played as models lined the catwalk to end the Diesel Black Gold show last season, it became an overnight sensation....
NBC’s ‘Smash’ puts Broadway in the spotlight
NYDailyNews.com - Arts“I came to watch,” whispers Debra Messing as she strides onto the set of “Smash,” where an elaborate dance number has been filming on and off for three hours. ...
Jim Farber’s top 10 in music
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsJim Farber’s Top Ten for the Week of February 5th: ...
Keith Urban returns to the stage
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsKeith Urban is back. The country star returned to the stage during The Grand Ole Opry on Friday night, hitting a few high notes in his first public appearance since...
Bon Iver blows off Grammy Awards, rejecting performance inquiry, says front man Justin Vernon
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsBon Iver, a critically acclaimed indie group, shed their soothing folk-melody aura to tell the Grammys, ‘F— you!’ “We kind of said ‘f— you’ a little bit and they sort...
‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder tries to halt Madonna song
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsJoe Francis is going wild on Madonna’s Super Bowl show. The soft-porn entrepreneur’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Material Girl, threatening to sue if she plays the song...
Adam Lambert: I'm new lead singer of Queen
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsThe surviving members of Queen have found a new 'Somebody to Love.' One-time 'American Idol' runnerup Adam Lambert will be the classic rock band’s new...
Drake sued over ‘Marvin’s Room’ royalties
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsA drunk dial may have Drake on the hook for thousands of dollars in unpaid royalties. A woman claiming to be the ex-girlfriend of the hip-hop/R&B star says she is...
Ja Rule says jail is definitely not cool
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsSchool is cool, jail is not, Ja Rule said Thursday. After some radio talk hosts criticized the "Pain Is Love 2" rapper this week for...
Portrait of Fred Korematsu Unveiled, February 2, 2012
National Portrait Gallery | Face to Face blogThe journey to justice is often complex and arduous. After the prolonged internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, more than forty years passed before the United States...
Super Plants
Indianapolis Museum of Art BlogSuperbells. Supertunias. Superbenas. Super small. Super large. Super great. Super sucky. Super bloomer. Super fruiter. Super foliage. Super flowering. Super yields. Super disease resistance. Super narrow. Super broad. Super weeping....
Madonna’s new single scores a touchdown
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsHas Madonna, at 53, turned into Sporty Spice in her prime? That's the athletic persona — and the peppy sound — she adopts for her new video and song, "Give...
Links, “S” Edition: Sarkozy, Sol, and Syarmulkes
Art Fag CityA style trend piece we can get behind: Sol LeWitt yarmulkes. [Tablet]France doesn’t have enough poor people who support President Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy hired some fake laborers to attend a...
Madonna’s new single scores a touchdown
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsHas Madonna, at 53, turned into Sporty Spice in her prime? That's the athletic persona — and the peppy sound — she adopts for her new video and song, "Give...
Steven Tyler defends national anthem performance
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsSteven Tyler says he meant to sing the national anthem like that. The Aerosmith frontman and “American Idol” judge endured plenty of jabs after his rendition of the anthem at...
Madonna’s new single scores a touchdown
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsHas Madonna, at 53, turned into Sporty Spice in her prime? That's the athletic persona — and the peppy sound — she adopts for her new video and song, "Give...
When Art History and Sports History Collides
Indianapolis Museum of Art BlogWhile flipping channels this past weekend, I stopped on a program on the Indianapolis PBS affiliate WFYI called “From Naptown to Super City.” The documentary outlines Indianapolis’s progress from a...
Portrait of Fred Korematsu Unveiled, February 2, 2012
National Portrait Gallery | Face to Face blogThe journey to justice is often complex and arduous. After the prolonged internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, more than forty years passed before the United States...
The Making of The Art of Video Games
Eye LevelFabrication is underway for the 20 "genre kiosks" for The Art of Video Games exhibition. The Art of Video Games exhibition opens in less than two months (on March 16, 2012),...
R&B singer David Peaston dies at 54
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsDavid Peaston, who rode several Apollo Theater triumphs tantalizingly close to the top of the music world, died Wednesday in St. Louis from complications of diabetes. He was 54....
tUnE-yArDs plays the Allen Room
NYDailyNews.com - Arts“I’m a new kinda woman,” announces Merrill Garbus on her latest CD. Like she had to tell us. The music on Garbus’ album sounds more...
Madonna likes Eli better than Brady
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsMadonna said Thursday she'd rather date Eli Manning than Tom Brady -- even though it might be more a matter of geographical convenience than hunkiness....
Material Girl likes Eli better than Brady
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsMadonna said Thursday she'd rather date Eli Manning than Tom Brady -- even though it might be more a matter of geographical convenience than hunkiness....