In summer, a cool crowd piles in to watch art-house films outdoors on deck chairs; the rest of the year, it's an insidery bar for movers and shakers.
Though Mr. Leventhal cannot take complete credit for innovations introduced on his watch, arts professionals inside and outside the institution said that he was instrumental in expanding Lincoln Center's fare.
Watch Arts Editor Will Gompertz and Margaret Mountford give a preview of the exhibition.
You go into a studio with Larry, and you're watching art.
I felt as if I was watching art moving forward, onward, and upward.
Sitting on the stairs, she watched Art Tatum and Nat Cole play the piano.
And, they added, it was often even harder to persuade other parents that French was useful for more than watching art films or reading a wine list.
That was, in part, because I had a natural gift for it (thanks mom and dad and whatever gods there may be), but it's also because I spent endless hours watching art programs on PBS.
For the Chinese, who watched art disparaged as a frivolous exercise except when put to didactic use, the freedom to explore simple aesthetic pleasures, to repossess historical works and to show off recent affluence has been liberating.
On the other hand, this is what I hear from Andrea Scott, the art editor in Goings On About Town at The New Yorker: I'll be watching art this weekend.
