How We'll Be Able to Hear Live Music This Summer

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( monday, march 1 street view [How We’ll Be Able to Hear Live Music This Summer]( Lincoln Center and other institutions embrace the distanced outdoor concert.   Photo: Sachyn Mital   Last summer, after the first COVID wave had broken, a few peeps and pops of live music materialized here and there, like memories of another world. A jazz trio, a brace of cellists, a platoon of orchestra members playing from the back of a pickup truck, an old-timey swing band that got passersby to dance — these felt like good omens for New York’s artistic resurrection. But they were only a tease. The nation’s performing-arts ecosystem shut down a year ago and will likely stay dormant for another six months or so, until filing into a theater or concert hall no longer feels like a potentially lethal activity. This time, though, when warm weather finally arrives, artists and presenters will be ready. Lincoln Center’s two opera houses, three theaters, and clutch of concert halls lie dark, but parts of the campus that are open to the sky will alive with ten new venues, ranging from proper stages and widely spaced chairs to movable corrals. Other performance spaces will sprout across New York, reshaping the city’s geography of culture. [Continue reading »](     Never miss a story from Curbed: [Subscribe now.](     [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Call in the Brutalists! Biden Implodes Trump’s Classical-Architecture Mandate. Good riddance to “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again.”]( By Diana Budds [The Outlaw History of Arturo Di Modica’s Crosby Street Studio It’s the Charging Bull sculptor’s largest yet least obvious New York work.]( By Christopher Bonanos [Slouchy Ceramics, Deconstructed Furniture, and Other Things I Liked This Week Selected pieces from four new design exhibitions and one crowdsourced Instagram account focused on graphic-design finds.]( By Diana Budds [Artist Emily Mason’s 4,700-Square-Foot Studio Is Just As She Left It Inside the sunny Flatiron District loft where the late artist painted for 40 years.]( By Wendy Goodman [North-Brooklyn Locals Do Not Like the Plastic Mural Proposed for Their Park It’s fake flowers versus new green space at Marsha P. Johnson State Park.]( By Caroline Spivack [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed](     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Getunlimited access]( more great stories from New York, home of Intelligencer, the Cut, Vulture, Curbed, Grub Street, and the Strategist. [SUBSCRIBE NOW](     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved