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January 3, 2007
TT: Words to the wise
Pardon my unscheduled return, but I forgot to blog about two imminent events to which I wanted to draw your attention: - I'm a great fan of Farah Alvin, a smart singer-songwriter who doubles as a stage performer with pipes to burn. The last time I heard her live was in I Love You Because, an off-Broadway musical about which I raved last year in The Wall Street Journal, making special mention of Alvin, whom I called "the best young musical-comedy singer to come along in years."Alvin rarely performs in New York nightclubs, but she's doing a one-nighter on Thursday at the New Leaf Café, an Upper Manhattan spot (it's in Fort Tryon Park, close to the Cloisters) of which I'm very fond. She'll be singing three sets, starting at eight o'clock. I'm in Connecticut and can't make it, so kindly go in my place and cheer her on.
For more information about the New Leaf Café, including directions, go here. To read what I wrote about Someday, Alvin's debut CD, go here. To order Someday or hear her sing, go here.
- Jane Wilson, one of my favorite American painters, has a one-woman show going up this Friday at New York's DC Moore Gallery. I last wrote about Wilson in a 2003 "Second City" column published in the Washington Post:
I paid a much-delayed visit to DC Moore Gallery last week to see an exhibition so lovely as to make me forget all about spring--except that Jane Wilson's latest paintings, a sequence of Long Island skyscapes, are as redolent of the changing seasons as a long walk along the shore. Call them Rothkoscapes, near-abstract studies whose canvas-filling horizontal bands of color and Constable-like storm clouds inhabit that intriguing middle ground between abstract expressionism and representation that is the most critically underrated painterly idiom of the postwar era. I especially liked the crisp focus of a suite of four small watercolors of Noyac Bay, but that's just me: Wilson's large-scale oils are fully as involving.
The new show runs through February 10. For more information about the gallery, which is at 724 Fifth Avenue, go here. To look at some of Wilson's paintings, go here.
Now, back to the grindstone!
Posted January 3, 2007 9:37 AM
