New York Magazine - USA (2019-11-11)

theeroticizednudebody,blackresistance,andpop
meansthattheshowshouldbestartling,groov-
able,anda littleraw. h.s.

POPMUSIC

18.SeeJadenand

WillowSmith
ReintroducingtheSmiths.
Terminal5, November26.
SmithscionsJadenandWillowmake musictheir
parentswouldbeproudof.Willow’s futuristicsoul
jamshavegrownhazyandartyinjust a few years;
Jaden’s spacy trapbangershavelandedhiminthe
orbitofleft-of-centernewrapfigureheadslike
A$APRockyandTyler,theCreator.Catchthesib-
lingsperformingcutsfromJaden’sErysalbumand
Willow’s self-titledreleaseat Terminal5. There’sno
tellingwhoelsemightmakeanappearance. c. j.

BOOKS/TALKS

19.& 20.Readand

GotoTheBeautifulOnes
Insidethe“vault.”
Spiegel& Grau;theTownHall, 123 West43rd Street,
November18.
Originallyintendedtobehismemoir,Prince
startedwritingTheBeautifulOnesbeforehisdeath
in2016.Framedbyeditorandco-writerDan
Piepenbring,thebookcombineshisunfinished
manuscript;lyricsheetsfor “1999,”“LittleRedCor-
vette,”andothers;previouslyunpublishedphotos;
andan11-pagehandwrittensynopsisoftheOscar-

winningPurpleRain. Catchthetributeeventwith

hislongtimebandNewPowerGenerationand

occasionalcollaboratorSpike LeeinNovember.

CLASSICALMUSIC

21.HearWordsandMusic

AnotherhighlightinLincolnCenter’sWhite

LightFestival.

DavidRubensteinAtrium,November14.

ThePulitzerPrize–winningcomposerCaroline

ShawjoinstheAttaccaQuartetasa vocalist inher

meditativelysensualworksfromtheirrecent

albumOrange.Best ofall,theconcert is free. j.d.

BOOKS

22.ReadWildGame

A familysecret.

HoughtonMifflinHarcourt.

A complicatedmother-daughterrelationshipcen-

tersAdrienneBrodeur’svividmemoir.At14,the

authorbecamefriend,confidante,andwilling

accomplicetohermother,whowashavingan

affairwithherhusband’s marriedfriend.

TV

23.Watch Je nnySlate:

St ageFright

Kidsseeghosts.

Netflix.

In herfirstcomedyspecial,JennySlate blendsthe

stand-upanddocumentaryformat andtakesusto

her(haunted)childhoodhome; interviewsher

family; and recalls once waking up from a night-

mare so scary she peed herself on the way to her

parent’s room. Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk

called it “a beautiful, personal hour.”

ART

24. (^) See Per forma
    Live art.
    Various locations, through November 24.
    This year, New York’s performance-art biennial
    honors the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the
    German art school that was first to consider per-
    formance and theater as visual art. Performances
    began earlier this month, but you can still see new
    works by Yvonne Rainer, Bunny Rogers, and Ray-
    mond Pettibon.
    MOVIES


25. (^) See Lee Grant
    The legend.
    Film Forum, November 17 to February 12.
    A 13-film series salutes the 94-year-old actress-
    director, an immediate sensation in the play and
    1951 film Detective Story who was promptly black-
    listed from Hollywood for criticizing a government
    committee investigating alleged Communist loyal-
    ties. She managed to hold on via the theater—and
    came blazing back in Norman Jewison’s In the
    Heat of the Night, which plays November 17 fol-
    lowed by Grant in conversation with Bruce Gold-
    stein. In December, she’ll present two of her docs,
    Down and Out in America (1986) and Women on
    Trial (1992) as well as her Oscar-winning hell-
    raiser of a performance in Shampoo. d.e.