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Theater workers would be vaccinated, testing sites would crop up throughout the theater district, and crowd-management plans would be developed to minimize intermingling before and after performances. One year later, those long-delayed revivals of Company, The Music Man, and Plaza Suite are beginning to feel within reach.But rest assured, there’s still plenty to do and see this spring and summer—especially as the weather warms and performances move outdoors. Here, we’ve rounded up just some of the events worth seeing (or streaming) in the coming months.Programmed by interdisciplinary artist Zack Winokur, NY PopsUp is an industry-wide effort to bring theater back into the lives of New Yorkers. The arts festival will coalesce with more than 300 free pop-up events between now through Labor Day, converting the parks, museums, and subway platforms of all five boroughs into temporary stages. Several Broadway theaters participating in NY PopsUp events will open their doors for the first time since they first shut down more than a year ago; just this past weekend, Nathan Lane and Savion Glover appeared at the St. James. The only catch: In an effort to make sure COVID-19 guidelines are followed, most of the events will be unannounced and unticketed to keep crowds from gathering. You can follow NY PopsUp’s Twitter and Instagram accounts for the updates on upcoming performances. For more information, visit here. Marking one of the first ticketed events to open in New York since the shutdown, the Daryl Roth Theatre will welcome audiences back with Blindness, a socially distanced sound and light experience that recently finished a widely acclaimed run in London. Based on José Saramago’s Nobel-winning dystopian novel, the production depicts the aftermath of a global pandemic that leaves its victims without sight—escapist entertainment, this is not. Blindness features no actors and instead has theatergoers wear binaural headphone technology, creating the sensation that a narrator is whispering in your ear or just over your shoulder. The open engagement began performances on April 2. For tickets and more information, visit here. Until theaters on and Off-Broadway can fling open their doors in the fall, virtual productions will continue apace, including the slate offered up this spring and summer by Broadway’s Best Shows’s “Spotlight on Plays” series. The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse—featuring Heidi Schreck, Bobby Cannavale, Keanu Reeves, and Alia Shawkat—kicked things off last week. Among the coming attractions are Pearl Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, starring Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen; Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig with Kathryn Hahn; Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders with Audra McDonald; and Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth, led by Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.For more information—and to purchase tickets, which benefit The Actors Fund—visit here.Conceived as “modern dance on ice,” Influences reimagines the artistic possibilities of ice-skating beyond the sequins and shimmery lamé most closely associated with the sport. In partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the Montreal skating company Le Patin Libre will perform a weeklong residency at the LeFrak Center ice rink in Prospect Park. Merging ice-skating with performance art, the elegant athletes behind Influences make the most complicated choreography look effortless. Through April 11. For more information, visit here. Launching on April 7, the Restart Stages initiative at Lincoln Center sets an exciting range of arts programming plein air. Lincoln Center Theater will host a cabaret series, Film at Lincoln Center will offer outdoor screenings, and New York City Ballet will hold dance workshops, among other events—plus, New Yorkers can sign up for blood drives arranged with the New York Blood Center, assist with food distribution efforts spearheaded by the Food Bank for New York City, and vote in the primaries right at Lincoln Center, which will serve as a polling place.For more information, visit here.For anyone suffering from a year without dance parties, the Park Avenue Armory has you covered. Social! The Social Distance Dance Club is exactly what it sounds like: an “interactive music and movement-based experience” where attendees dance in their own socially distanced spotlights. If that sentence alone makes your social anxiety flare up, never fear. Each ticket comes with an instructional dance video from David Byrne, who also curated the dance club’s playlist with Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones. The multifaceted experience starts April 9 and runs through April 22.For more information, visit here. The immersive live-audio company Resounding has announced a residency at Radial Park in Queens, with five different “theatrical drive-ins” confirmed for the spring season. They arrive on the heels of last fall’s “Broadway at the Park,” which featured visual projections on the park’s drive-in screen while actors performed live musical numbers for audiences. Upcoming stagings include the audio play adaptations of Treasure Island and The Tempest, as well as the original ghost thriller Beyond the Veil.The season kicks off April 23. For more information, visit here. “1:1” is giving some of New York’s musicians something they’ve been desperately missing for the past year: a captive audience. Staged in secluded corners of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the concert series features artists from the Silkroad Ensemble performing intimate, one-on-one concerts for patrons in 10-minute intervals. Outdoor performances are scheduled for May 8–9 and 15–16. For more information, visit here. Running over two consecutive May weekends, Downtown Live—a new, free arts festival in New York—will mount performances from notable actors, writers, and musicians at venues across Lower Manhattan (including, intriguingly, a covered loading dock at 4 New York Plaza). Among the talents involved are the hip-hop and spoken-word artists Baba Israel and Grace Galu, the Brazilian theater company Group .BR, and the musical theater artist Katie Madison.Ticket reservations open on April 19; for more information, visit here.The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will soon perform Afterwardness, a new work created by Jones about “isolation and trauma amid the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and ongoing violence against Black bodies,” at the Park Avenue Armory. Its score includes an original composition by Holland Andrews; a violin solo by Pauline Kim Harris, written in homage to George Floyd; excerpts from Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”; and a spoken word piece inspired by the company’s own members.Postponed from March, Afterwardsness is tentatively scheduled to run from May 19 through May 26, but for more information, visit here.Written in response to increasing instances of racial violence against the Black community, Aleshea Harris’s searing What to Send Up When It Goes Down made waves when it first debuted in 2016 and has only become more resonant. Framed as a series of vignettes, Harris uses facilitated conversation, song, and movement to explore themes related to racial identity and police brutality. The play will return for a special series of outdoor performances at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this summer, produced in collaboration between BAM and Playwrights Horizons.Performances are tentatively scheduled for June with more details TBA. For more information, visit here. After its unprecedented (but highly successful) pivot to radio last year, one of the city’s best-loved traditions returns to the Delacorte Theater this summer. Merry Wives, an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor by playwright Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play), will run from July 5 through August 29. Directed by Saheem Ali, the Public’s artistic director and resident director, the production reimagines the action in Shakespeare’s play within a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem.For more information, visit here.Bard SummerScape is back this year, with both indoor and outdoor performances planned across Bard’s Hudson Valley campus between July 8 and August 22. As reported by Playbill, the season will begin with I Was Waiting for the Echo of a Better Day, a new commission from the choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer Jessie Montgomery, and end with the 31st annual Bard Music Festival, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. (Boulanger, who lived from 1887 to 1979, was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and organist.) Bard will also stage King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), an opera by Ernest Chausson, with more events still to be announced.For more information, visit here.The Glimmerglass Festival, featuring an opera company based in Cooperstown, New York, will christen a new outdoor stage for its summer 2021 season. Between July 15 and August 17, “Glimmerglass on the Grass” is set to mount new productions of The Magic Flute, Il Trovatore, and Songbird (La Périchole), as well as the world premiere of The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, a new play with music about the founder of the National Negro Opera Company, and Gods and Mortals, an event celebrating the work of Richard Wagner. “While this move outdoors is primarily for the health and safety of our company members, audience members, and community, it is in harmony with what people love about Glimmerglass—innovative art and performances in a beautiful location,” said the festival’s artistic and general director, Francesca Zambello.For tickets and more information, visit here. Ideas pour from Derrick Adams, and what’s surprising is how many of them work out. A couple of years ago, around the time that he was making his Floater paintings, depicting Black people lounging on swimming-pool inflatables, he thought, Why not start a creative persons’ retreat where the only obligation would be to appreciate leisure? His eight-bedroom retreat opens next year in Baltimore, his hometown. Struck by The Green Book, the guide compiled by postal worker Victor Hugo Green beginning in 1936 to help Black travelers find safe amenities, Derrick initiated Sanctuary, a series of exhibitions located in and inspired by the cities covered by the guide. He wanted to emphasize the accomplishment of the book, not the racism that made it necessary.Adams, 51, a genial, laid-back dynamo whose multidisciplinary art practice spans painting, sculpture, collage, sound installations, video, performance, and fashion, gained widespread acclaim with “Live and in Color,” his 2014 show at New York’s Tilton Gallery. The show recycled images from early sitcoms, game shows, and dramas in collages that were placed in what looked like a vintage television set. The Floater series came next, more than 100 works of Black subjects relaxing on inflatable swans, unicorns, and other fantasy fauna. “I wanted to occupy a different space from all the artists who were speaking on issues of race and trauma and oppression,” Adams says in a Zoom conversation last month. He’s in his Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, studio, a 2,500-square-foot former auto-body shop; I’m in Rhode Island. “People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief. My work is focused on the idea of how crucial it is for Black people to think of leisure as a radical act.” The matchless independent curator Francesco Bonami, who has worked on projects with Adams, tells me, “He addresses important and tragic issues without preaching, but at the same time he serves guilt to the white viewer as an appetizer on a designer plate.”“People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief.” This month, Adams’s “Style Variations” is one of two opening exhibitions at Salon 94’s palatial new venue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Adams, says Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Salon 94’s founder, is “the right vantage point from which to start a new venture, post-COVID, new administration.” Ten of his magisterial Beauty World paintings dominate the main gallery: larger-than-life mannequin heads, transformed by sculpture-like wigs and evocative makeup. Blocks of color combine with semiabstract forms that channel Cubist painting and African sculpture.That, of course, is not all Adams is doing. He is also working on a show for the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, inspired by Patrick Kelly, the young Black fashion designer who died in 1990. The latest version of Sanctuary, his Green Book work, opened in February at the Momentary, a contemporary arm of Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. And he’s been collaborating with Dave Guy, trumpeter for the Roots, on a series of short films. “For Black men, joy isn’t at the forefront,” Guy tells me, “but Derrick brings it to his art and daily life. Who else could make a black unicorn look so cool? Only Derrick can, because he is one.” Adams may be the hardest-working leisure lover on earth.Musicians and other creative people were a big part of Adams’s life when he was growing up in Baltimore. His parents both had administrative jobs with the state, but after the marriage broke up, his mother married the funk-and-jazz drummer Guy Davidson, who had a studio in the basement. His mother’s first cousin is Def Jam’s Russell Simmons, and as a teenager, Derrick often visited Russell and his brother Danny, a painter, in New York. In junior college he came across a book on Jacob Lawrence, and though he knew nothing about art history, the encounter had a profound effect on him. The book stated that Lawrence had taught at Pratt. “And I was like, I’m going to this school,” Adams says.At Pratt, he majored in art education. “I never felt art should be my main source of income,” he explains. (While in school, he also worked in retail for Phat Farm, his cousin Russell’s clothing line, where he learned that popular culture, commerce, and art were by no means incompatible.) He began teaching in elementary schools, and he’s been teaching ever since—he’s now on a tenure track at Brooklyn College. His best friend at Pratt was Mickalene Thomas, whom he still talks to every day. “At school, Derrick was an audacious creative leader,” she says. “Everyone gravitated to him. We have the best laughs—that deep, belly-hurting laughter that makes you tear up slightly or tinkle.” In 1996, he went straight from Pratt to Rush Arts Gallery, the nonprofit Chelsea art space started by his cousin Danny and his two brothers, where for the next four years he worked as the manager and showed Ed Clark, Frank Bowling, Howardena Pindell, and Senga Nengudi, as well as other then-unknown older artists, and introduced newcomers such as Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley. Feeling the need to concentrate more exclusively on his own work, he entered the graduate visual-arts program at Columbia, where he found himself the only Black student. This is when he began to focus on what was missing in the critical conversation. “I felt that white students should be more aware of the accomplishments of Black people as they’re learning about all those oppressive structures that were imposed upon them. They should also know that during these same times, Black people were getting Ph.D.s and attending college.” Adams was invited to join Dana Schutz and a small group of other Columbia grad students in a Brooklyn building they were converting into studio spaces. “It was incredible stopping by his studio,” Schutz remembers. “Each time he had a whole new body of work.”We’re in Adams’s Bed-Stuy studio again, via Zoom, where he and his partner, Michael Chuapoco (a furniture designer), have just finished their first weekly session with a yoga instructor. Adams is dressed, as usual, in black, loose-fitting clothes, often from the New York design team Public School. Over that, he’s wearing what he calls a butcher apron and an antique gold coin from Bermuda on a chain around his neck. “He’s hella stylish!” his friend Marcus Samuelsson, head chef of the Red Rooster in Harlem and the just-opened outpost in Miami, tells me. Adams’s work hangs permanently in both Roosters. “I really love fashion,” Adams says, “and I’m inspired by designers.” He’s a firm believer in the proverb De gustibus non est disputandum—for him, taste has always been something not to be questioned. “I come from a neighborhood where people weren’t criticized for what they had on,” he says. “It was just, ‘This is me.’ ”The studio is full of commanding new paintings. A majestic woman in a white dress and a floppy white hat; one young boy embracing another; a car passing a giant billboard that reads, juice. “I’m feeling really confident,” Adams says, “and I’ve decided I’m making the new work for a museum show—a four-week gallery show is not long enough.” The work is “like driving through a Black neighborhood,” he says. “It’s a world more than a neighborhood—and everyone knows when they drive through a Black neighborhood.”The retreat that Adams plans to open a year from now is in a large Baltimore house that he’s restoring. He’s put in a pool, a greenhouse, a screening room, and studio spaces. Residents will be invited (you can’t apply) for up to four weeks at a time, and there will never be more than 10 of them. It’s not just for Black visual artists but also for Black writers, musicians, culinary people, “even entrepreneurs,” he tells me. He got the idea for his Last Resort, as he’s calling it, when he was invited to the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. “You can come and not do anything,” he tells me. “Everything is very loose.” He continues, “Artists create images that reflect certain ideals and conditions. A lot of my work is about leisure, and I thought, What if I make what I’m making art about—make it actual? Why don’t I just make it so it’s a real place? That will be my legacy.” Daniel Del Core learned about the reality of fashion—as opposed to the fantasy—early on. In May 2017, to be exact: The German-born, Italian-based designer, whose label, Del Core, debuted in Milan this past February, was working at Gucci, creating red-carpet looks as part of Alessandro Michele’s design team. And he had been dispatched to New York to fit Dakota Johnson’s Met-gala dress—black, betrained, and bedecked with ruffles. What he hadn’t planned on was having to drive with Johnson to the gala to make sure she looked A-OK after getting out of the car. “We arrived, and the photographers went wild,” Del Core recalls. “I was blown away. Then, when I turned around,” he says, starting to laugh, “the car had disappeared, and I was standing there like an idiot. [But] as I was walking back to the hotel I thought, Well—in the end, my job is for her. [Being there] made a difference. Dakota looked amazing.”Fashion has had plenty of reality checks lately, some of them very much needed. Yet increasingly there’s a desire for it to return to finding joy and inspiring dreams in our transformed world, something that a new generation of designers—not only Del Core but the likes of Maximilian Davis and Charles de Vilmorin as well—has seized upon. Del Core’s own dramatic entrance, a live runway show at Milan’s historic Cittadella degli Archivi (everyone was rigorously COVID-tested), was ambitious and dazzling, with theatrical flourishes and couture techniques aplenty. It was also a reminder that sometimes designers just need to act on the strength of whatever weird and wonderful synaptic connections power their imagination.In Del Core’s case, those include nature (he has a thing for fungi), science (ditto mold), wanderlust, and science fiction, which is a bit of an obsession. The day we Zoomed, he was wearing a sweater emblazoned with H. R. Giger’s nightmarish Alien. (“I have a Gremlins one too!” Del Core says, grinning.) And that Manhattan evening on the first Monday in May also looms large. “It was what fashion should be,” he says, “and what’s missing a bit now: the fun, the glamour, the explosion of color.”Tick, tick, tick, then, for Del Core’s first collection out of the gate. There was bold-shouldered—bold every which way, actually—and whittle-waisted tailoring with a distinct whiff of the ’80s, in shades of amethyst, scarlet, and a rustlike hue he calls Tierra di Siena. He deliberately opened with the pantsuits and short, sashed coats—“to prove myself,” he says, “because as a red-carpet designer, you don’t do a lot of tailoring; it had to be good”—though there wasn’t exactly a lack of major evening moments either. The floor-length red-and-black floral dress, for instance, an intarsia of four different laces that took 1,500 hours to hand-stitch; or the 800 hours that were needed for an emerald-and-white silk plissé number, an incredible confection of flou and fan pleats anchored to an inner corset. The dress’s pattern was inspired, incidentally, by spore cultures.“When it comes to a dress, there are certain constructions we don’t see anymore—maybe they are too difficult to commercialize or whatever—but I think we should think about the past when we want to be modern,” he says. “I mean, I am concerned about the sales; I’m concerned about where the brand is going”—and deciding to lead with the more commercial tailoring over the big-night dressing suggests he’s as shrewd about the bottom line as he is comfortable in fashion’s dreamy stratosphere—“yet it’s also important to scream a bit, to say, ‘Okay, we were in a bad situation; let’s figure out how we get better and be positive, especially now.’ ”Del Core arrived in Italy, age 16, from his small southern German hometown of Rottweil, and studied art and fashion before settling on the latter. His career since then has taken in periods at Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Zuhair Murad before he spent nearly seven years at Gucci.His own label was meant to launch in 2020, but the pandemic put that on hold for a bit. Del Core lay low, gathered a team that’s around his age (he’s 33), and slowly started working out of his three-story work/living space near Milan’s Piazza San Babila—which, rather evocatively, local lore claims was once a brothel.The enforced delay has also let Del Core really think about the kind of business he wants to build. Sustainable, for sure: He can wax lyrical about the collection’s feathers, which trim everything from a chartreuse coat to the straps of the high-heeled sandals—the plumes are actually hand-frayed recycled polyester—as well as the need to not oversample collections, which wastes valuable resources. “If I want to have 40 looks for a show,” he says, “there is no need to make 80.” Yet he also sees sustainability more holistically, in terms of the need for an equitable workplace. “[Sustainability] is not just the materials; it’s how you treat people,” he says. “It’s extremely important that people work only eight to nine hours a day, and that they rest at the weekend; that the team, and the environment, is in a good mood.”He jokes that since he lives on-site, he doesn’t have to travel far to rest up. He’s been filling that home with furniture of his own design amid walnut flooring and stone surfaces (“I love the contrast that these textures create together,” he says. “The wood creates a warm atmosphere, while the marble textures are cooler to the touch”), along with plants, photography books (he’s a big Tim Walker fan), his collection of geological minerals, and souvenirs from his many far-flung trips hiking and surfing—not least the necklace he was given by the wife of a shaman after he spent a week with the mystic in the Peruvian Amazon, a trip he also treasures for the memory of trekking Pisco Mountain with his boyfriend and sleeping under canvas by a glacier. The ceaseless desire to be in nature, something he’s had since growing up, is what he dreams about as much as fashion. “There’s a long list!” he says when asked where he wants to go next. “I’m going to do a trip to a very, very deep jungle—or somewhere else no one can reach me for at least a week. 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One year later, those long-delayed revivals of Company, The Music Man, and Plaza Suite are beginning to feel within reach.But rest assured, there’s still plenty to do and see this spring and summer—especially as the weather warms and performances move outdoors. Here, we’ve rounded up just some of the events worth seeing (or streaming) in the coming months.Programmed by interdisciplinary artist Zack Winokur, NY PopsUp is an industry-wide effort to bring theater back into the lives of New Yorkers. The arts festival will coalesce with more than 300 free pop-up events between now through Labor Day, converting the parks, museums, and subway platforms of all five boroughs into temporary stages. Several Broadway theaters participating in NY PopsUp events will open their doors for the first time since they first shut down more than a year ago; just this past weekend, Nathan Lane and Savion Glover appeared at the St. James. The only catch: In an effort to make sure COVID-19 guidelines are followed, most of the events will be unannounced and unticketed to keep crowds from gathering. You can follow NY PopsUp’s Twitter and Instagram accounts for the updates on upcoming performances. For more information, visit here. Marking one of the first ticketed events to open in New York since the shutdown, the Daryl Roth Theatre will welcome audiences back with Blindness, a socially distanced sound and light experience that recently finished a widely acclaimed run in London. Based on José Saramago’s Nobel-winning dystopian novel, the production depicts the aftermath of a global pandemic that leaves its victims without sight—escapist entertainment, this is not. Blindness features no actors and instead has theatergoers wear binaural headphone technology, creating the sensation that a narrator is whispering in your ear or just over your shoulder. The open engagement began performances on April 2. For tickets and more information, visit here. Until theaters on and Off-Broadway can fling open their doors in the fall, virtual productions will continue apace, including the slate offered up this spring and summer by Broadway’s Best Shows’s “Spotlight on Plays” series. The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse—featuring Heidi Schreck, Bobby Cannavale, Keanu Reeves, and Alia Shawkat—kicked things off last week. Among the coming attractions are Pearl Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, starring Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen; Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig with Kathryn Hahn; Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders with Audra McDonald; and Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth, led by Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.For more information—and to purchase tickets, which benefit The Actors Fund—visit here.Conceived as “modern dance on ice,” Influences reimagines the artistic possibilities of ice-skating beyond the sequins and shimmery lamé most closely associated with the sport. In partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the Montreal skating company Le Patin Libre will perform a weeklong residency at the LeFrak Center ice rink in Prospect Park. Merging ice-skating with performance art, the elegant athletes behind Influences make the most complicated choreography look effortless. Through April 11. For more information, visit here. Launching on April 7, the Restart Stages initiative at Lincoln Center sets an exciting range of arts programming plein air. Lincoln Center Theater will host a cabaret series, Film at Lincoln Center will offer outdoor screenings, and New York City Ballet will hold dance workshops, among other events—plus, New Yorkers can sign up for blood drives arranged with the New York Blood Center, assist with food distribution efforts spearheaded by the Food Bank for New York City, and vote in the primaries right at Lincoln Center, which will serve as a polling place.For more information, visit here.For anyone suffering from a year without dance parties, the Park Avenue Armory has you covered. Social! The Social Distance Dance Club is exactly what it sounds like: an “interactive music and movement-based experience” where attendees dance in their own socially distanced spotlights. If that sentence alone makes your social anxiety flare up, never fear. Each ticket comes with an instructional dance video from David Byrne, who also curated the dance club’s playlist with Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones. The multifaceted experience starts April 9 and runs through April 22.For more information, visit here. The immersive live-audio company Resounding has announced a residency at Radial Park in Queens, with five different “theatrical drive-ins” confirmed for the spring season. They arrive on the heels of last fall’s “Broadway at the Park,” which featured visual projections on the park’s drive-in screen while actors performed live musical numbers for audiences. Upcoming stagings include the audio play adaptations of Treasure Island and The Tempest, as well as the original ghost thriller Beyond the Veil.The season kicks off April 23. For more information, visit here. “1:1” is giving some of New York’s musicians something they’ve been desperately missing for the past year: a captive audience. Staged in secluded corners of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the concert series features artists from the Silkroad Ensemble performing intimate, one-on-one concerts for patrons in 10-minute intervals. Outdoor performances are scheduled for May 8–9 and 15–16. For more information, visit here. Running over two consecutive May weekends, Downtown Live—a new, free arts festival in New York—will mount performances from notable actors, writers, and musicians at venues across Lower Manhattan (including, intriguingly, a covered loading dock at 4 New York Plaza). Among the talents involved are the hip-hop and spoken-word artists Baba Israel and Grace Galu, the Brazilian theater company Group .BR, and the musical theater artist Katie Madison.Ticket reservations open on April 19; for more information, visit here.The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will soon perform Afterwardness, a new work created by Jones about “isolation and trauma amid the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and ongoing violence against Black bodies,” at the Park Avenue Armory. Its score includes an original composition by Holland Andrews; a violin solo by Pauline Kim Harris, written in homage to George Floyd; excerpts from Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”; and a spoken word piece inspired by the company’s own members.Postponed from March, Afterwardsness is tentatively scheduled to run from May 19 through May 26, but for more information, visit here.Written in response to increasing instances of racial violence against the Black community, Aleshea Harris’s searing What to Send Up When It Goes Down made waves when it first debuted in 2016 and has only become more resonant. Framed as a series of vignettes, Harris uses facilitated conversation, song, and movement to explore themes related to racial identity and police brutality. The play will return for a special series of outdoor performances at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this summer, produced in collaboration between BAM and Playwrights Horizons.Performances are tentatively scheduled for June with more details TBA. For more information, visit here. After its unprecedented (but highly successful) pivot to radio last year, one of the city’s best-loved traditions returns to the Delacorte Theater this summer. Merry Wives, an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor by playwright Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play), will run from July 5 through August 29. Directed by Saheem Ali, the Public’s artistic director and resident director, the production reimagines the action in Shakespeare’s play within a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem.For more information, visit here.Bard SummerScape is back this year, with both indoor and outdoor performances planned across Bard’s Hudson Valley campus between July 8 and August 22. As reported by Playbill, the season will begin with I Was Waiting for the Echo of a Better Day, a new commission from the choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer Jessie Montgomery, and end with the 31st annual Bard Music Festival, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. (Boulanger, who lived from 1887 to 1979, was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and organist.) Bard will also stage King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), an opera by Ernest Chausson, with more events still to be announced.For more information, visit here.The Glimmerglass Festival, featuring an opera company based in Cooperstown, New York, will christen a new outdoor stage for its summer 2021 season. Between July 15 and August 17, “Glimmerglass on the Grass” is set to mount new productions of The Magic Flute, Il Trovatore, and Songbird (La Périchole), as well as the world premiere of The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, a new play with music about the founder of the National Negro Opera Company, and Gods and Mortals, an event celebrating the work of Richard Wagner. “While this move outdoors is primarily for the health and safety of our company members, audience members, and community, it is in harmony with what people love about Glimmerglass—innovative art and performances in a beautiful location,” said the festival’s artistic and general director, Francesca Zambello.For tickets and more information, visit here. Ideas pour from Derrick Adams, and what’s surprising is how many of them work out. A couple of years ago, around the time that he was making his Floater paintings, depicting Black people lounging on swimming-pool inflatables, he thought, Why not start a creative persons’ retreat where the only obligation would be to appreciate leisure? His eight-bedroom retreat opens next year in Baltimore, his hometown. Struck by The Green Book, the guide compiled by postal worker Victor Hugo Green beginning in 1936 to help Black travelers find safe amenities, Derrick initiated Sanctuary, a series of exhibitions located in and inspired by the cities covered by the guide. He wanted to emphasize the accomplishment of the book, not the racism that made it necessary.Adams, 51, a genial, laid-back dynamo whose multidisciplinary art practice spans painting, sculpture, collage, sound installations, video, performance, and fashion, gained widespread acclaim with “Live and in Color,” his 2014 show at New York’s Tilton Gallery. The show recycled images from early sitcoms, game shows, and dramas in collages that were placed in what looked like a vintage television set. The Floater series came next, more than 100 works of Black subjects relaxing on inflatable swans, unicorns, and other fantasy fauna. “I wanted to occupy a different space from all the artists who were speaking on issues of race and trauma and oppression,” Adams says in a Zoom conversation last month. He’s in his Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, studio, a 2,500-square-foot former auto-body shop; I’m in Rhode Island. “People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief. My work is focused on the idea of how crucial it is for Black people to think of leisure as a radical act.” The matchless independent curator Francesco Bonami, who has worked on projects with Adams, tells me, “He addresses important and tragic issues without preaching, but at the same time he serves guilt to the white viewer as an appetizer on a designer plate.”“People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief.” This month, Adams’s “Style Variations” is one of two opening exhibitions at Salon 94’s palatial new venue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Adams, says Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Salon 94’s founder, is “the right vantage point from which to start a new venture, post-COVID, new administration.” Ten of his magisterial Beauty World paintings dominate the main gallery: larger-than-life mannequin heads, transformed by sculpture-like wigs and evocative makeup. Blocks of color combine with semiabstract forms that channel Cubist painting and African sculpture.That, of course, is not all Adams is doing. He is also working on a show for the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, inspired by Patrick Kelly, the young Black fashion designer who died in 1990. The latest version of Sanctuary, his Green Book work, opened in February at the Momentary, a contemporary arm of Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. And he’s been collaborating with Dave Guy, trumpeter for the Roots, on a series of short films. “For Black men, joy isn’t at the forefront,” Guy tells me, “but Derrick brings it to his art and daily life. Who else could make a black unicorn look so cool? Only Derrick can, because he is one.” Adams may be the hardest-working leisure lover on earth.Musicians and other creative people were a big part of Adams’s life when he was growing up in Baltimore. His parents both had administrative jobs with the state, but after the marriage broke up, his mother married the funk-and-jazz drummer Guy Davidson, who had a studio in the basement. His mother’s first cousin is Def Jam’s Russell Simmons, and as a teenager, Derrick often visited Russell and his brother Danny, a painter, in New York. In junior college he came across a book on Jacob Lawrence, and though he knew nothing about art history, the encounter had a profound effect on him. The book stated that Lawrence had taught at Pratt. “And I was like, I’m going to this school,” Adams says.At Pratt, he majored in art education. “I never felt art should be my main source of income,” he explains. (While in school, he also worked in retail for Phat Farm, his cousin Russell’s clothing line, where he learned that popular culture, commerce, and art were by no means incompatible.) He began teaching in elementary schools, and he’s been teaching ever since—he’s now on a tenure track at Brooklyn College. His best friend at Pratt was Mickalene Thomas, whom he still talks to every day. “At school, Derrick was an audacious creative leader,” she says. “Everyone gravitated to him. We have the best laughs—that deep, belly-hurting laughter that makes you tear up slightly or tinkle.” In 1996, he went straight from Pratt to Rush Arts Gallery, the nonprofit Chelsea art space started by his cousin Danny and his two brothers, where for the next four years he worked as the manager and showed Ed Clark, Frank Bowling, Howardena Pindell, and Senga Nengudi, as well as other then-unknown older artists, and introduced newcomers such as Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley. Feeling the need to concentrate more exclusively on his own work, he entered the graduate visual-arts program at Columbia, where he found himself the only Black student. This is when he began to focus on what was missing in the critical conversation. “I felt that white students should be more aware of the accomplishments of Black people as they’re learning about all those oppressive structures that were imposed upon them. They should also know that during these same times, Black people were getting Ph.D.s and attending college.” Adams was invited to join Dana Schutz and a small group of other Columbia grad students in a Brooklyn building they were converting into studio spaces. “It was incredible stopping by his studio,” Schutz remembers. “Each time he had a whole new body of work.”We’re in Adams’s Bed-Stuy studio again, via Zoom, where he and his partner, Michael Chuapoco (a furniture designer), have just finished their first weekly session with a yoga instructor. Adams is dressed, as usual, in black, loose-fitting clothes, often from the New York design team Public School. Over that, he’s wearing what he calls a butcher apron and an antique gold coin from Bermuda on a chain around his neck. “He’s hella stylish!” his friend Marcus Samuelsson, head chef of the Red Rooster in Harlem and the just-opened outpost in Miami, tells me. Adams’s work hangs permanently in both Roosters. “I really love fashion,” Adams says, “and I’m inspired by designers.” He’s a firm believer in the proverb De gustibus non est disputandum—for him, taste has always been something not to be questioned. “I come from a neighborhood where people weren’t criticized for what they had on,” he says. “It was just, ‘This is me.’ ”The studio is full of commanding new paintings. A majestic woman in a white dress and a floppy white hat; one young boy embracing another; a car passing a giant billboard that reads, juice. “I’m feeling really confident,” Adams says, “and I’ve decided I’m making the new work for a museum show—a four-week gallery show is not long enough.” The work is “like driving through a Black neighborhood,” he says. “It’s a world more than a neighborhood—and everyone knows when they drive through a Black neighborhood.”The retreat that Adams plans to open a year from now is in a large Baltimore house that he’s restoring. He’s put in a pool, a greenhouse, a screening room, and studio spaces. Residents will be invited (you can’t apply) for up to four weeks at a time, and there will never be more than 10 of them. It’s not just for Black visual artists but also for Black writers, musicians, culinary people, “even entrepreneurs,” he tells me. He got the idea for his Last Resort, as he’s calling it, when he was invited to the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. “You can come and not do anything,” he tells me. “Everything is very loose.” He continues, “Artists create images that reflect certain ideals and conditions. A lot of my work is about leisure, and I thought, What if I make what I’m making art about—make it actual? Why don’t I just make it so it’s a real place? That will be my legacy.” Daniel Del Core learned about the reality of fashion—as opposed to the fantasy—early on. In May 2017, to be exact: The German-born, Italian-based designer, whose label, Del Core, debuted in Milan this past February, was working at Gucci, creating red-carpet looks as part of Alessandro Michele’s design team. And he had been dispatched to New York to fit Dakota Johnson’s Met-gala dress—black, betrained, and bedecked with ruffles. What he hadn’t planned on was having to drive with Johnson to the gala to make sure she looked A-OK after getting out of the car. “We arrived, and the photographers went wild,” Del Core recalls. “I was blown away. Then, when I turned around,” he says, starting to laugh, “the car had disappeared, and I was standing there like an idiot. [But] as I was walking back to the hotel I thought, Well—in the end, my job is for her. [Being there] made a difference. Dakota looked amazing.”Fashion has had plenty of reality checks lately, some of them very much needed. Yet increasingly there’s a desire for it to return to finding joy and inspiring dreams in our transformed world, something that a new generation of designers—not only Del Core but the likes of Maximilian Davis and Charles de Vilmorin as well—has seized upon. Del Core’s own dramatic entrance, a live runway show at Milan’s historic Cittadella degli Archivi (everyone was rigorously COVID-tested), was ambitious and dazzling, with theatrical flourishes and couture techniques aplenty. It was also a reminder that sometimes designers just need to act on the strength of whatever weird and wonderful synaptic connections power their imagination.In Del Core’s case, those include nature (he has a thing for fungi), science (ditto mold), wanderlust, and science fiction, which is a bit of an obsession. The day we Zoomed, he was wearing a sweater emblazoned with H. R. Giger’s nightmarish Alien. (“I have a Gremlins one too!” Del Core says, grinning.) And that Manhattan evening on the first Monday in May also looms large. “It was what fashion should be,” he says, “and what’s missing a bit now: the fun, the glamour, the explosion of color.”Tick, tick, tick, then, for Del Core’s first collection out of the gate. There was bold-shouldered—bold every which way, actually—and whittle-waisted tailoring with a distinct whiff of the ’80s, in shades of amethyst, scarlet, and a rustlike hue he calls Tierra di Siena. He deliberately opened with the pantsuits and short, sashed coats—“to prove myself,” he says, “because as a red-carpet designer, you don’t do a lot of tailoring; it had to be good”—though there wasn’t exactly a lack of major evening moments either. The floor-length red-and-black floral dress, for instance, an intarsia of four different laces that took 1,500 hours to hand-stitch; or the 800 hours that were needed for an emerald-and-white silk plissé number, an incredible confection of flou and fan pleats anchored to an inner corset. The dress’s pattern was inspired, incidentally, by spore cultures.“When it comes to a dress, there are certain constructions we don’t see anymore—maybe they are too difficult to commercialize or whatever—but I think we should think about the past when we want to be modern,” he says. “I mean, I am concerned about the sales; I’m concerned about where the brand is going”—and deciding to lead with the more commercial tailoring over the big-night dressing suggests he’s as shrewd about the bottom line as he is comfortable in fashion’s dreamy stratosphere—“yet it’s also important to scream a bit, to say, ‘Okay, we were in a bad situation; let’s figure out how we get better and be positive, especially now.’ ”Del Core arrived in Italy, age 16, from his small southern German hometown of Rottweil, and studied art and fashion before settling on the latter. His career since then has taken in periods at Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Zuhair Murad before he spent nearly seven years at Gucci.His own label was meant to launch in 2020, but the pandemic put that on hold for a bit. Del Core lay low, gathered a team that’s around his age (he’s 33), and slowly started working out of his three-story work/living space near Milan’s Piazza San Babila—which, rather evocatively, local lore claims was once a brothel.The enforced delay has also let Del Core really think about the kind of business he wants to build. Sustainable, for sure: He can wax lyrical about the collection’s feathers, which trim everything from a chartreuse coat to the straps of the high-heeled sandals—the plumes are actually hand-frayed recycled polyester—as well as the need to not oversample collections, which wastes valuable resources. “If I want to have 40 looks for a show,” he says, “there is no need to make 80.” Yet he also sees sustainability more holistically, in terms of the need for an equitable workplace. “[Sustainability] is not just the materials; it’s how you treat people,” he says. “It’s extremely important that people work only eight to nine hours a day, and that they rest at the weekend; that the team, and the environment, is in a good mood.”He jokes that since he lives on-site, he doesn’t have to travel far to rest up. He’s been filling that home with furniture of his own design amid walnut flooring and stone surfaces (“I love the contrast that these textures create together,” he says. “The wood creates a warm atmosphere, while the marble textures are cooler to the touch”), along with plants, photography books (he’s a big Tim Walker fan), his collection of geological minerals, and souvenirs from his many far-flung trips hiking and surfing—not least the necklace he was given by the wife of a shaman after he spent a week with the mystic in the Peruvian Amazon, a trip he also treasures for the memory of trekking Pisco Mountain with his boyfriend and sleeping under canvas by a glacier. The ceaseless desire to be in nature, something he’s had since growing up, is what he dreams about as much as fashion. “There’s a long list!” he says when asked where he wants to go next. “I’m going to do a trip to a very, very deep jungle—or somewhere else no one can reach me for at least a week. 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Theater workers would be vaccinated, testing sites would crop up throughout the theater district, and crowd-management plans would be developed to minimize intermingling before and after performances. One year later, those long-delayed revivals of Company, The Music Man, and Plaza Suite are beginning to feel within reach.But rest assured, there’s still plenty to do and see this spring and summer—especially as the weather warms and performances move outdoors. Here, we’ve rounded up just some of the events worth seeing (or streaming) in the coming months.Programmed by interdisciplinary artist Zack Winokur, NY PopsUp is an industry-wide effort to bring theater back into the lives of New Yorkers. The arts festival will coalesce with more than 300 free pop-up events between now through Labor Day, converting the parks, museums, and subway platforms of all five boroughs into temporary stages. Several Broadway theaters participating in NY PopsUp events will open their doors for the first time since they first shut down more than a year ago; just this past weekend, Nathan Lane and Savion Glover appeared at the St. James. The only catch: In an effort to make sure COVID-19 guidelines are followed, most of the events will be unannounced and unticketed to keep crowds from gathering. You can follow NY PopsUp’s Twitter and Instagram accounts for the updates on upcoming performances. For more information, visit here. Marking one of the first ticketed events to open in New York since the shutdown, the Daryl Roth Theatre will welcome audiences back with Blindness, a socially distanced sound and light experience that recently finished a widely acclaimed run in London. Based on José Saramago’s Nobel-winning dystopian novel, the production depicts the aftermath of a global pandemic that leaves its victims without sight—escapist entertainment, this is not. Blindness features no actors and instead has theatergoers wear binaural headphone technology, creating the sensation that a narrator is whispering in your ear or just over your shoulder. The open engagement began performances on April 2. For tickets and more information, visit here. Until theaters on and Off-Broadway can fling open their doors in the fall, virtual productions will continue apace, including the slate offered up this spring and summer by Broadway’s Best Shows’s “Spotlight on Plays” series. The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse—featuring Heidi Schreck, Bobby Cannavale, Keanu Reeves, and Alia Shawkat—kicked things off last week. Among the coming attractions are Pearl Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, starring Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen; Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig with Kathryn Hahn; Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders with Audra McDonald; and Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth, led by Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.For more information—and to purchase tickets, which benefit The Actors Fund—visit here.Conceived as “modern dance on ice,” Influences reimagines the artistic possibilities of ice-skating beyond the sequins and shimmery lamé most closely associated with the sport. In partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the Montreal skating company Le Patin Libre will perform a weeklong residency at the LeFrak Center ice rink in Prospect Park. Merging ice-skating with performance art, the elegant athletes behind Influences make the most complicated choreography look effortless. Through April 11. For more information, visit here. Launching on April 7, the Restart Stages initiative at Lincoln Center sets an exciting range of arts programming plein air. Lincoln Center Theater will host a cabaret series, Film at Lincoln Center will offer outdoor screenings, and New York City Ballet will hold dance workshops, among other events—plus, New Yorkers can sign up for blood drives arranged with the New York Blood Center, assist with food distribution efforts spearheaded by the Food Bank for New York City, and vote in the primaries right at Lincoln Center, which will serve as a polling place.For more information, visit here.For anyone suffering from a year without dance parties, the Park Avenue Armory has you covered. Social! The Social Distance Dance Club is exactly what it sounds like: an “interactive music and movement-based experience” where attendees dance in their own socially distanced spotlights. If that sentence alone makes your social anxiety flare up, never fear. Each ticket comes with an instructional dance video from David Byrne, who also curated the dance club’s playlist with Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones. The multifaceted experience starts April 9 and runs through April 22.For more information, visit here. The immersive live-audio company Resounding has announced a residency at Radial Park in Queens, with five different “theatrical drive-ins” confirmed for the spring season. They arrive on the heels of last fall’s “Broadway at the Park,” which featured visual projections on the park’s drive-in screen while actors performed live musical numbers for audiences. Upcoming stagings include the audio play adaptations of Treasure Island and The Tempest, as well as the original ghost thriller Beyond the Veil.The season kicks off April 23. For more information, visit here. “1:1” is giving some of New York’s musicians something they’ve been desperately missing for the past year: a captive audience. Staged in secluded corners of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the concert series features artists from the Silkroad Ensemble performing intimate, one-on-one concerts for patrons in 10-minute intervals. Outdoor performances are scheduled for May 8–9 and 15–16. For more information, visit here. Running over two consecutive May weekends, Downtown Live—a new, free arts festival in New York—will mount performances from notable actors, writers, and musicians at venues across Lower Manhattan (including, intriguingly, a covered loading dock at 4 New York Plaza). Among the talents involved are the hip-hop and spoken-word artists Baba Israel and Grace Galu, the Brazilian theater company Group .BR, and the musical theater artist Katie Madison.Ticket reservations open on April 19; for more information, visit here.The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will soon perform Afterwardness, a new work created by Jones about “isolation and trauma amid the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and ongoing violence against Black bodies,” at the Park Avenue Armory. Its score includes an original composition by Holland Andrews; a violin solo by Pauline Kim Harris, written in homage to George Floyd; excerpts from Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”; and a spoken word piece inspired by the company’s own members.Postponed from March, Afterwardsness is tentatively scheduled to run from May 19 through May 26, but for more information, visit here.Written in response to increasing instances of racial violence against the Black community, Aleshea Harris’s searing What to Send Up When It Goes Down made waves when it first debuted in 2016 and has only become more resonant. Framed as a series of vignettes, Harris uses facilitated conversation, song, and movement to explore themes related to racial identity and police brutality. The play will return for a special series of outdoor performances at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this summer, produced in collaboration between BAM and Playwrights Horizons.Performances are tentatively scheduled for June with more details TBA. For more information, visit here. After its unprecedented (but highly successful) pivot to radio last year, one of the city’s best-loved traditions returns to the Delacorte Theater this summer. Merry Wives, an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor by playwright Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play), will run from July 5 through August 29. Directed by Saheem Ali, the Public’s artistic director and resident director, the production reimagines the action in Shakespeare’s play within a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem.For more information, visit here.Bard SummerScape is back this year, with both indoor and outdoor performances planned across Bard’s Hudson Valley campus between July 8 and August 22. As reported by Playbill, the season will begin with I Was Waiting for the Echo of a Better Day, a new commission from the choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer Jessie Montgomery, and end with the 31st annual Bard Music Festival, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. (Boulanger, who lived from 1887 to 1979, was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and organist.) Bard will also stage King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), an opera by Ernest Chausson, with more events still to be announced.For more information, visit here.The Glimmerglass Festival, featuring an opera company based in Cooperstown, New York, will christen a new outdoor stage for its summer 2021 season. Between July 15 and August 17, “Glimmerglass on the Grass” is set to mount new productions of The Magic Flute, Il Trovatore, and Songbird (La Périchole), as well as the world premiere of The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, a new play with music about the founder of the National Negro Opera Company, and Gods and Mortals, an event celebrating the work of Richard Wagner. “While this move outdoors is primarily for the health and safety of our company members, audience members, and community, it is in harmony with what people love about Glimmerglass—innovative art and performances in a beautiful location,” said the festival’s artistic and general director, Francesca Zambello.For tickets and more information, visit here. Ideas pour from Derrick Adams, and what’s surprising is how many of them work out. A couple of years ago, around the time that he was making his Floater paintings, depicting Black people lounging on swimming-pool inflatables, he thought, Why not start a creative persons’ retreat where the only obligation would be to appreciate leisure? His eight-bedroom retreat opens next year in Baltimore, his hometown. Struck by The Green Book, the guide compiled by postal worker Victor Hugo Green beginning in 1936 to help Black travelers find safe amenities, Derrick initiated Sanctuary, a series of exhibitions located in and inspired by the cities covered by the guide. He wanted to emphasize the accomplishment of the book, not the racism that made it necessary.Adams, 51, a genial, laid-back dynamo whose multidisciplinary art practice spans painting, sculpture, collage, sound installations, video, performance, and fashion, gained widespread acclaim with “Live and in Color,” his 2014 show at New York’s Tilton Gallery. The show recycled images from early sitcoms, game shows, and dramas in collages that were placed in what looked like a vintage television set. The Floater series came next, more than 100 works of Black subjects relaxing on inflatable swans, unicorns, and other fantasy fauna. “I wanted to occupy a different space from all the artists who were speaking on issues of race and trauma and oppression,” Adams says in a Zoom conversation last month. He’s in his Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, studio, a 2,500-square-foot former auto-body shop; I’m in Rhode Island. “People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief. My work is focused on the idea of how crucial it is for Black people to think of leisure as a radical act.” The matchless independent curator Francesco Bonami, who has worked on projects with Adams, tells me, “He addresses important and tragic issues without preaching, but at the same time he serves guilt to the white viewer as an appetizer on a designer plate.”“People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief.” This month, Adams’s “Style Variations” is one of two opening exhibitions at Salon 94’s palatial new venue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Adams, says Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Salon 94’s founder, is “the right vantage point from which to start a new venture, post-COVID, new administration.” Ten of his magisterial Beauty World paintings dominate the main gallery: larger-than-life mannequin heads, transformed by sculpture-like wigs and evocative makeup. Blocks of color combine with semiabstract forms that channel Cubist painting and African sculpture.That, of course, is not all Adams is doing. He is also working on a show for the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, inspired by Patrick Kelly, the young Black fashion designer who died in 1990. The latest version of Sanctuary, his Green Book work, opened in February at the Momentary, a contemporary arm of Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. And he’s been collaborating with Dave Guy, trumpeter for the Roots, on a series of short films. “For Black men, joy isn’t at the forefront,” Guy tells me, “but Derrick brings it to his art and daily life. Who else could make a black unicorn look so cool? Only Derrick can, because he is one.” Adams may be the hardest-working leisure lover on earth.Musicians and other creative people were a big part of Adams’s life when he was growing up in Baltimore. His parents both had administrative jobs with the state, but after the marriage broke up, his mother married the funk-and-jazz drummer Guy Davidson, who had a studio in the basement. His mother’s first cousin is Def Jam’s Russell Simmons, and as a teenager, Derrick often visited Russell and his brother Danny, a painter, in New York. In junior college he came across a book on Jacob Lawrence, and though he knew nothing about art history, the encounter had a profound effect on him. The book stated that Lawrence had taught at Pratt. “And I was like, I’m going to this school,” Adams says.At Pratt, he majored in art education. “I never felt art should be my main source of income,” he explains. (While in school, he also worked in retail for Phat Farm, his cousin Russell’s clothing line, where he learned that popular culture, commerce, and art were by no means incompatible.) He began teaching in elementary schools, and he’s been teaching ever since—he’s now on a tenure track at Brooklyn College. His best friend at Pratt was Mickalene Thomas, whom he still talks to every day. “At school, Derrick was an audacious creative leader,” she says. “Everyone gravitated to him. We have the best laughs—that deep, belly-hurting laughter that makes you tear up slightly or tinkle.” In 1996, he went straight from Pratt to Rush Arts Gallery, the nonprofit Chelsea art space started by his cousin Danny and his two brothers, where for the next four years he worked as the manager and showed Ed Clark, Frank Bowling, Howardena Pindell, and Senga Nengudi, as well as other then-unknown older artists, and introduced newcomers such as Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley. Feeling the need to concentrate more exclusively on his own work, he entered the graduate visual-arts program at Columbia, where he found himself the only Black student. This is when he began to focus on what was missing in the critical conversation. “I felt that white students should be more aware of the accomplishments of Black people as they’re learning about all those oppressive structures that were imposed upon them. They should also know that during these same times, Black people were getting Ph.D.s and attending college.” Adams was invited to join Dana Schutz and a small group of other Columbia grad students in a Brooklyn building they were converting into studio spaces. “It was incredible stopping by his studio,” Schutz remembers. “Each time he had a whole new body of work.”We’re in Adams’s Bed-Stuy studio again, via Zoom, where he and his partner, Michael Chuapoco (a furniture designer), have just finished their first weekly session with a yoga instructor. Adams is dressed, as usual, in black, loose-fitting clothes, often from the New York design team Public School. Over that, he’s wearing what he calls a butcher apron and an antique gold coin from Bermuda on a chain around his neck. “He’s hella stylish!” his friend Marcus Samuelsson, head chef of the Red Rooster in Harlem and the just-opened outpost in Miami, tells me. Adams’s work hangs permanently in both Roosters. “I really love fashion,” Adams says, “and I’m inspired by designers.” He’s a firm believer in the proverb De gustibus non est disputandum—for him, taste has always been something not to be questioned. “I come from a neighborhood where people weren’t criticized for what they had on,” he says. “It was just, ‘This is me.’ ”The studio is full of commanding new paintings. A majestic woman in a white dress and a floppy white hat; one young boy embracing another; a car passing a giant billboard that reads, juice. “I’m feeling really confident,” Adams says, “and I’ve decided I’m making the new work for a museum show—a four-week gallery show is not long enough.” The work is “like driving through a Black neighborhood,” he says. “It’s a world more than a neighborhood—and everyone knows when they drive through a Black neighborhood.”The retreat that Adams plans to open a year from now is in a large Baltimore house that he’s restoring. He’s put in a pool, a greenhouse, a screening room, and studio spaces. Residents will be invited (you can’t apply) for up to four weeks at a time, and there will never be more than 10 of them. It’s not just for Black visual artists but also for Black writers, musicians, culinary people, “even entrepreneurs,” he tells me. He got the idea for his Last Resort, as he’s calling it, when he was invited to the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. “You can come and not do anything,” he tells me. “Everything is very loose.” He continues, “Artists create images that reflect certain ideals and conditions. A lot of my work is about leisure, and I thought, What if I make what I’m making art about—make it actual? Why don’t I just make it so it’s a real place? That will be my legacy.” Daniel Del Core learned about the reality of fashion—as opposed to the fantasy—early on. In May 2017, to be exact: The German-born, Italian-based designer, whose label, Del Core, debuted in Milan this past February, was working at Gucci, creating red-carpet looks as part of Alessandro Michele’s design team. And he had been dispatched to New York to fit Dakota Johnson’s Met-gala dress—black, betrained, and bedecked with ruffles. What he hadn’t planned on was having to drive with Johnson to the gala to make sure she looked A-OK after getting out of the car. “We arrived, and the photographers went wild,” Del Core recalls. “I was blown away. Then, when I turned around,” he says, starting to laugh, “the car had disappeared, and I was standing there like an idiot. [But] as I was walking back to the hotel I thought, Well—in the end, my job is for her. [Being there] made a difference. Dakota looked amazing.”Fashion has had plenty of reality checks lately, some of them very much needed. Yet increasingly there’s a desire for it to return to finding joy and inspiring dreams in our transformed world, something that a new generation of designers—not only Del Core but the likes of Maximilian Davis and Charles de Vilmorin as well—has seized upon. Del Core’s own dramatic entrance, a live runway show at Milan’s historic Cittadella degli Archivi (everyone was rigorously COVID-tested), was ambitious and dazzling, with theatrical flourishes and couture techniques aplenty. It was also a reminder that sometimes designers just need to act on the strength of whatever weird and wonderful synaptic connections power their imagination.In Del Core’s case, those include nature (he has a thing for fungi), science (ditto mold), wanderlust, and science fiction, which is a bit of an obsession. The day we Zoomed, he was wearing a sweater emblazoned with H. R. Giger’s nightmarish Alien. (“I have a Gremlins one too!” Del Core says, grinning.) And that Manhattan evening on the first Monday in May also looms large. “It was what fashion should be,” he says, “and what’s missing a bit now: the fun, the glamour, the explosion of color.”Tick, tick, tick, then, for Del Core’s first collection out of the gate. There was bold-shouldered—bold every which way, actually—and whittle-waisted tailoring with a distinct whiff of the ’80s, in shades of amethyst, scarlet, and a rustlike hue he calls Tierra di Siena. He deliberately opened with the pantsuits and short, sashed coats—“to prove myself,” he says, “because as a red-carpet designer, you don’t do a lot of tailoring; it had to be good”—though there wasn’t exactly a lack of major evening moments either. The floor-length red-and-black floral dress, for instance, an intarsia of four different laces that took 1,500 hours to hand-stitch; or the 800 hours that were needed for an emerald-and-white silk plissé number, an incredible confection of flou and fan pleats anchored to an inner corset. The dress’s pattern was inspired, incidentally, by spore cultures.“When it comes to a dress, there are certain constructions we don’t see anymore—maybe they are too difficult to commercialize or whatever—but I think we should think about the past when we want to be modern,” he says. “I mean, I am concerned about the sales; I’m concerned about where the brand is going”—and deciding to lead with the more commercial tailoring over the big-night dressing suggests he’s as shrewd about the bottom line as he is comfortable in fashion’s dreamy stratosphere—“yet it’s also important to scream a bit, to say, ‘Okay, we were in a bad situation; let’s figure out how we get better and be positive, especially now.’ ”Del Core arrived in Italy, age 16, from his small southern German hometown of Rottweil, and studied art and fashion before settling on the latter. His career since then has taken in periods at Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Zuhair Murad before he spent nearly seven years at Gucci.His own label was meant to launch in 2020, but the pandemic put that on hold for a bit. Del Core lay low, gathered a team that’s around his age (he’s 33), and slowly started working out of his three-story work/living space near Milan’s Piazza San Babila—which, rather evocatively, local lore claims was once a brothel.The enforced delay has also let Del Core really think about the kind of business he wants to build. Sustainable, for sure: He can wax lyrical about the collection’s feathers, which trim everything from a chartreuse coat to the straps of the high-heeled sandals—the plumes are actually hand-frayed recycled polyester—as well as the need to not oversample collections, which wastes valuable resources. “If I want to have 40 looks for a show,” he says, “there is no need to make 80.” Yet he also sees sustainability more holistically, in terms of the need for an equitable workplace. “[Sustainability] is not just the materials; it’s how you treat people,” he says. “It’s extremely important that people work only eight to nine hours a day, and that they rest at the weekend; that the team, and the environment, is in a good mood.”He jokes that since he lives on-site, he doesn’t have to travel far to rest up. He’s been filling that home with furniture of his own design amid walnut flooring and stone surfaces (“I love the contrast that these textures create together,” he says. “The wood creates a warm atmosphere, while the marble textures are cooler to the touch”), along with plants, photography books (he’s a big Tim Walker fan), his collection of geological minerals, and souvenirs from his many far-flung trips hiking and surfing—not least the necklace he was given by the wife of a shaman after he spent a week with the mystic in the Peruvian Amazon, a trip he also treasures for the memory of trekking Pisco Mountain with his boyfriend and sleeping under canvas by a glacier. The ceaseless desire to be in nature, something he’s had since growing up, is what he dreams about as much as fashion. “There’s a long list!” he says when asked where he wants to go next. “I’m going to do a trip to a very, very deep jungle—or somewhere else no one can reach me for at least a week. 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One year later, those long-delayed revivals of Company, The Music Man, and Plaza Suite are beginning to feel within reach.But rest assured, there’s still plenty to do and see this spring and summer—especially as the weather warms and performances move outdoors. Here, we’ve rounded up just some of the events worth seeing (or streaming) in the coming months.Programmed by interdisciplinary artist Zack Winokur, NY PopsUp is an industry-wide effort to bring theater back into the lives of New Yorkers. The arts festival will coalesce with more than 300 free pop-up events between now through Labor Day, converting the parks, museums, and subway platforms of all five boroughs into temporary stages. Several Broadway theaters participating in NY PopsUp events will open their doors for the first time since they first shut down more than a year ago; just this past weekend, Nathan Lane and Savion Glover appeared at the St. James. The only catch: In an effort to make sure COVID-19 guidelines are followed, most of the events will be unannounced and unticketed to keep crowds from gathering. You can follow NY PopsUp’s Twitter and Instagram accounts for the updates on upcoming performances. For more information, visit here. Marking one of the first ticketed events to open in New York since the shutdown, the Daryl Roth Theatre will welcome audiences back with Blindness, a socially distanced sound and light experience that recently finished a widely acclaimed run in London. Based on José Saramago’s Nobel-winning dystopian novel, the production depicts the aftermath of a global pandemic that leaves its victims without sight—escapist entertainment, this is not. Blindness features no actors and instead has theatergoers wear binaural headphone technology, creating the sensation that a narrator is whispering in your ear or just over your shoulder. The open engagement began performances on April 2. For tickets and more information, visit here. Until theaters on and Off-Broadway can fling open their doors in the fall, virtual productions will continue apace, including the slate offered up this spring and summer by Broadway’s Best Shows’s “Spotlight on Plays” series. The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse—featuring Heidi Schreck, Bobby Cannavale, Keanu Reeves, and Alia Shawkat—kicked things off last week. Among the coming attractions are Pearl Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous, starring Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen; Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig with Kathryn Hahn; Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders with Audra McDonald; and Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth, led by Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline.For more information—and to purchase tickets, which benefit The Actors Fund—visit here.Conceived as “modern dance on ice,” Influences reimagines the artistic possibilities of ice-skating beyond the sequins and shimmery lamé most closely associated with the sport. In partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the Montreal skating company Le Patin Libre will perform a weeklong residency at the LeFrak Center ice rink in Prospect Park. Merging ice-skating with performance art, the elegant athletes behind Influences make the most complicated choreography look effortless. Through April 11. For more information, visit here. Launching on April 7, the Restart Stages initiative at Lincoln Center sets an exciting range of arts programming plein air. Lincoln Center Theater will host a cabaret series, Film at Lincoln Center will offer outdoor screenings, and New York City Ballet will hold dance workshops, among other events—plus, New Yorkers can sign up for blood drives arranged with the New York Blood Center, assist with food distribution efforts spearheaded by the Food Bank for New York City, and vote in the primaries right at Lincoln Center, which will serve as a polling place.For more information, visit here.For anyone suffering from a year without dance parties, the Park Avenue Armory has you covered. Social! The Social Distance Dance Club is exactly what it sounds like: an “interactive music and movement-based experience” where attendees dance in their own socially distanced spotlights. If that sentence alone makes your social anxiety flare up, never fear. Each ticket comes with an instructional dance video from David Byrne, who also curated the dance club’s playlist with Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones. The multifaceted experience starts April 9 and runs through April 22.For more information, visit here. The immersive live-audio company Resounding has announced a residency at Radial Park in Queens, with five different “theatrical drive-ins” confirmed for the spring season. They arrive on the heels of last fall’s “Broadway at the Park,” which featured visual projections on the park’s drive-in screen while actors performed live musical numbers for audiences. Upcoming stagings include the audio play adaptations of Treasure Island and The Tempest, as well as the original ghost thriller Beyond the Veil.The season kicks off April 23. For more information, visit here. “1:1” is giving some of New York’s musicians something they’ve been desperately missing for the past year: a captive audience. Staged in secluded corners of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the concert series features artists from the Silkroad Ensemble performing intimate, one-on-one concerts for patrons in 10-minute intervals. Outdoor performances are scheduled for May 8–9 and 15–16. For more information, visit here. Running over two consecutive May weekends, Downtown Live—a new, free arts festival in New York—will mount performances from notable actors, writers, and musicians at venues across Lower Manhattan (including, intriguingly, a covered loading dock at 4 New York Plaza). Among the talents involved are the hip-hop and spoken-word artists Baba Israel and Grace Galu, the Brazilian theater company Group .BR, and the musical theater artist Katie Madison.Ticket reservations open on April 19; for more information, visit here.The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will soon perform Afterwardness, a new work created by Jones about “isolation and trauma amid the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and ongoing violence against Black bodies,” at the Park Avenue Armory. Its score includes an original composition by Holland Andrews; a violin solo by Pauline Kim Harris, written in homage to George Floyd; excerpts from Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”; and a spoken word piece inspired by the company’s own members.Postponed from March, Afterwardsness is tentatively scheduled to run from May 19 through May 26, but for more information, visit here.Written in response to increasing instances of racial violence against the Black community, Aleshea Harris’s searing What to Send Up When It Goes Down made waves when it first debuted in 2016 and has only become more resonant. Framed as a series of vignettes, Harris uses facilitated conversation, song, and movement to explore themes related to racial identity and police brutality. The play will return for a special series of outdoor performances at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this summer, produced in collaboration between BAM and Playwrights Horizons.Performances are tentatively scheduled for June with more details TBA. For more information, visit here. After its unprecedented (but highly successful) pivot to radio last year, one of the city’s best-loved traditions returns to the Delacorte Theater this summer. Merry Wives, an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor by playwright Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play), will run from July 5 through August 29. Directed by Saheem Ali, the Public’s artistic director and resident director, the production reimagines the action in Shakespeare’s play within a community of West African immigrants in South Harlem.For more information, visit here.Bard SummerScape is back this year, with both indoor and outdoor performances planned across Bard’s Hudson Valley campus between July 8 and August 22. As reported by Playbill, the season will begin with I Was Waiting for the Echo of a Better Day, a new commission from the choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer Jessie Montgomery, and end with the 31st annual Bard Music Festival, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. (Boulanger, who lived from 1887 to 1979, was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and organist.) Bard will also stage King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), an opera by Ernest Chausson, with more events still to be announced.For more information, visit here.The Glimmerglass Festival, featuring an opera company based in Cooperstown, New York, will christen a new outdoor stage for its summer 2021 season. Between July 15 and August 17, “Glimmerglass on the Grass” is set to mount new productions of The Magic Flute, Il Trovatore, and Songbird (La Périchole), as well as the world premiere of The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, a new play with music about the founder of the National Negro Opera Company, and Gods and Mortals, an event celebrating the work of Richard Wagner. “While this move outdoors is primarily for the health and safety of our company members, audience members, and community, it is in harmony with what people love about Glimmerglass—innovative art and performances in a beautiful location,” said the festival’s artistic and general director, Francesca Zambello.For tickets and more information, visit here. Ideas pour from Derrick Adams, and what’s surprising is how many of them work out. A couple of years ago, around the time that he was making his Floater paintings, depicting Black people lounging on swimming-pool inflatables, he thought, Why not start a creative persons’ retreat where the only obligation would be to appreciate leisure? His eight-bedroom retreat opens next year in Baltimore, his hometown. Struck by The Green Book, the guide compiled by postal worker Victor Hugo Green beginning in 1936 to help Black travelers find safe amenities, Derrick initiated Sanctuary, a series of exhibitions located in and inspired by the cities covered by the guide. He wanted to emphasize the accomplishment of the book, not the racism that made it necessary.Adams, 51, a genial, laid-back dynamo whose multidisciplinary art practice spans painting, sculpture, collage, sound installations, video, performance, and fashion, gained widespread acclaim with “Live and in Color,” his 2014 show at New York’s Tilton Gallery. The show recycled images from early sitcoms, game shows, and dramas in collages that were placed in what looked like a vintage television set. The Floater series came next, more than 100 works of Black subjects relaxing on inflatable swans, unicorns, and other fantasy fauna. “I wanted to occupy a different space from all the artists who were speaking on issues of race and trauma and oppression,” Adams says in a Zoom conversation last month. He’s in his Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, studio, a 2,500-square-foot former auto-body shop; I’m in Rhode Island. “People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief. My work is focused on the idea of how crucial it is for Black people to think of leisure as a radical act.” The matchless independent curator Francesco Bonami, who has worked on projects with Adams, tells me, “He addresses important and tragic issues without preaching, but at the same time he serves guilt to the white viewer as an appetizer on a designer plate.”“People couldn’t exist if they lived in constant grief.” This month, Adams’s “Style Variations” is one of two opening exhibitions at Salon 94’s palatial new venue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Adams, says Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Salon 94’s founder, is “the right vantage point from which to start a new venture, post-COVID, new administration.” Ten of his magisterial Beauty World paintings dominate the main gallery: larger-than-life mannequin heads, transformed by sculpture-like wigs and evocative makeup. Blocks of color combine with semiabstract forms that channel Cubist painting and African sculpture.That, of course, is not all Adams is doing. He is also working on a show for the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, inspired by Patrick Kelly, the young Black fashion designer who died in 1990. The latest version of Sanctuary, his Green Book work, opened in February at the Momentary, a contemporary arm of Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. And he’s been collaborating with Dave Guy, trumpeter for the Roots, on a series of short films. “For Black men, joy isn’t at the forefront,” Guy tells me, “but Derrick brings it to his art and daily life. Who else could make a black unicorn look so cool? Only Derrick can, because he is one.” Adams may be the hardest-working leisure lover on earth.Musicians and other creative people were a big part of Adams’s life when he was growing up in Baltimore. His parents both had administrative jobs with the state, but after the marriage broke up, his mother married the funk-and-jazz drummer Guy Davidson, who had a studio in the basement. His mother’s first cousin is Def Jam’s Russell Simmons, and as a teenager, Derrick often visited Russell and his brother Danny, a painter, in New York. In junior college he came across a book on Jacob Lawrence, and though he knew nothing about art history, the encounter had a profound effect on him. The book stated that Lawrence had taught at Pratt. “And I was like, I’m going to this school,” Adams says.At Pratt, he majored in art education. “I never felt art should be my main source of income,” he explains. (While in school, he also worked in retail for Phat Farm, his cousin Russell’s clothing line, where he learned that popular culture, commerce, and art were by no means incompatible.) He began teaching in elementary schools, and he’s been teaching ever since—he’s now on a tenure track at Brooklyn College. His best friend at Pratt was Mickalene Thomas, whom he still talks to every day. “At school, Derrick was an audacious creative leader,” she says. “Everyone gravitated to him. We have the best laughs—that deep, belly-hurting laughter that makes you tear up slightly or tinkle.” In 1996, he went straight from Pratt to Rush Arts Gallery, the nonprofit Chelsea art space started by his cousin Danny and his two brothers, where for the next four years he worked as the manager and showed Ed Clark, Frank Bowling, Howardena Pindell, and Senga Nengudi, as well as other then-unknown older artists, and introduced newcomers such as Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley. Feeling the need to concentrate more exclusively on his own work, he entered the graduate visual-arts program at Columbia, where he found himself the only Black student. This is when he began to focus on what was missing in the critical conversation. “I felt that white students should be more aware of the accomplishments of Black people as they’re learning about all those oppressive structures that were imposed upon them. They should also know that during these same times, Black people were getting Ph.D.s and attending college.” Adams was invited to join Dana Schutz and a small group of other Columbia grad students in a Brooklyn building they were converting into studio spaces. “It was incredible stopping by his studio,” Schutz remembers. “Each time he had a whole new body of work.”We’re in Adams’s Bed-Stuy studio again, via Zoom, where he and his partner, Michael Chuapoco (a furniture designer), have just finished their first weekly session with a yoga instructor. Adams is dressed, as usual, in black, loose-fitting clothes, often from the New York design team Public School. Over that, he’s wearing what he calls a butcher apron and an antique gold coin from Bermuda on a chain around his neck. “He’s hella stylish!” his friend Marcus Samuelsson, head chef of the Red Rooster in Harlem and the just-opened outpost in Miami, tells me. Adams’s work hangs permanently in both Roosters. “I really love fashion,” Adams says, “and I’m inspired by designers.” He’s a firm believer in the proverb De gustibus non est disputandum—for him, taste has always been something not to be questioned. “I come from a neighborhood where people weren’t criticized for what they had on,” he says. “It was just, ‘This is me.’ ”The studio is full of commanding new paintings. A majestic woman in a white dress and a floppy white hat; one young boy embracing another; a car passing a giant billboard that reads, juice. “I’m feeling really confident,” Adams says, “and I’ve decided I’m making the new work for a museum show—a four-week gallery show is not long enough.” The work is “like driving through a Black neighborhood,” he says. “It’s a world more than a neighborhood—and everyone knows when they drive through a Black neighborhood.”The retreat that Adams plans to open a year from now is in a large Baltimore house that he’s restoring. He’s put in a pool, a greenhouse, a screening room, and studio spaces. Residents will be invited (you can’t apply) for up to four weeks at a time, and there will never be more than 10 of them. It’s not just for Black visual artists but also for Black writers, musicians, culinary people, “even entrepreneurs,” he tells me. He got the idea for his Last Resort, as he’s calling it, when he was invited to the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida. “You can come and not do anything,” he tells me. “Everything is very loose.” He continues, “Artists create images that reflect certain ideals and conditions. A lot of my work is about leisure, and I thought, What if I make what I’m making art about—make it actual? Why don’t I just make it so it’s a real place? That will be my legacy.” Daniel Del Core learned about the reality of fashion—as opposed to the fantasy—early on. In May 2017, to be exact: The German-born, Italian-based designer, whose label, Del Core, debuted in Milan this past February, was working at Gucci, creating red-carpet looks as part of Alessandro Michele’s design team. And he had been dispatched to New York to fit Dakota Johnson’s Met-gala dress—black, betrained, and bedecked with ruffles. What he hadn’t planned on was having to drive with Johnson to the gala to make sure she looked A-OK after getting out of the car. “We arrived, and the photographers went wild,” Del Core recalls. “I was blown away. Then, when I turned around,” he says, starting to laugh, “the car had disappeared, and I was standing there like an idiot. [But] as I was walking back to the hotel I thought, Well—in the end, my job is for her. [Being there] made a difference. Dakota looked amazing.”Fashion has had plenty of reality checks lately, some of them very much needed. Yet increasingly there’s a desire for it to return to finding joy and inspiring dreams in our transformed world, something that a new generation of designers—not only Del Core but the likes of Maximilian Davis and Charles de Vilmorin as well—has seized upon. Del Core’s own dramatic entrance, a live runway show at Milan’s historic Cittadella degli Archivi (everyone was rigorously COVID-tested), was ambitious and dazzling, with theatrical flourishes and couture techniques aplenty. It was also a reminder that sometimes designers just need to act on the strength of whatever weird and wonderful synaptic connections power their imagination.In Del Core’s case, those include nature (he has a thing for fungi), science (ditto mold), wanderlust, and science fiction, which is a bit of an obsession. The day we Zoomed, he was wearing a sweater emblazoned with H. R. Giger’s nightmarish Alien. (“I have a Gremlins one too!” Del Core says, grinning.) And that Manhattan evening on the first Monday in May also looms large. “It was what fashion should be,” he says, “and what’s missing a bit now: the fun, the glamour, the explosion of color.”Tick, tick, tick, then, for Del Core’s first collection out of the gate. There was bold-shouldered—bold every which way, actually—and whittle-waisted tailoring with a distinct whiff of the ’80s, in shades of amethyst, scarlet, and a rustlike hue he calls Tierra di Siena. He deliberately opened with the pantsuits and short, sashed coats—“to prove myself,” he says, “because as a red-carpet designer, you don’t do a lot of tailoring; it had to be good”—though there wasn’t exactly a lack of major evening moments either. The floor-length red-and-black floral dress, for instance, an intarsia of four different laces that took 1,500 hours to hand-stitch; or the 800 hours that were needed for an emerald-and-white silk plissé number, an incredible confection of flou and fan pleats anchored to an inner corset. The dress’s pattern was inspired, incidentally, by spore cultures.“When it comes to a dress, there are certain constructions we don’t see anymore—maybe they are too difficult to commercialize or whatever—but I think we should think about the past when we want to be modern,” he says. “I mean, I am concerned about the sales; I’m concerned about where the brand is going”—and deciding to lead with the more commercial tailoring over the big-night dressing suggests he’s as shrewd about the bottom line as he is comfortable in fashion’s dreamy stratosphere—“yet it’s also important to scream a bit, to say, ‘Okay, we were in a bad situation; let’s figure out how we get better and be positive, especially now.’ ”Del Core arrived in Italy, age 16, from his small southern German hometown of Rottweil, and studied art and fashion before settling on the latter. His career since then has taken in periods at Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Zuhair Murad before he spent nearly seven years at Gucci.His own label was meant to launch in 2020, but the pandemic put that on hold for a bit. Del Core lay low, gathered a team that’s around his age (he’s 33), and slowly started working out of his three-story work/living space near Milan’s Piazza San Babila—which, rather evocatively, local lore claims was once a brothel.The enforced delay has also let Del Core really think about the kind of business he wants to build. Sustainable, for sure: He can wax lyrical about the collection’s feathers, which trim everything from a chartreuse coat to the straps of the high-heeled sandals—the plumes are actually hand-frayed recycled polyester—as well as the need to not oversample collections, which wastes valuable resources. “If I want to have 40 looks for a show,” he says, “there is no need to make 80.” Yet he also sees sustainability more holistically, in terms of the need for an equitable workplace. “[Sustainability] is not just the materials; it’s how you treat people,” he says. “It’s extremely important that people work only eight to nine hours a day, and that they rest at the weekend; that the team, and the environment, is in a good mood.”He jokes that since he lives on-site, he doesn’t have to travel far to rest up. He’s been filling that home with furniture of his own design amid walnut flooring and stone surfaces (“I love the contrast that these textures create together,” he says. “The wood creates a warm atmosphere, while the marble textures are cooler to the touch”), along with plants, photography books (he’s a big Tim Walker fan), his collection of geological minerals, and souvenirs from his many far-flung trips hiking and surfing—not least the necklace he was given by the wife of a shaman after he spent a week with the mystic in the Peruvian Amazon, a trip he also treasures for the memory of trekking Pisco Mountain with his boyfriend and sleeping under canvas by a glacier. The ceaseless desire to be in nature, something he’s had since growing up, is what he dreams about as much as fashion. “There’s a long list!” he says when asked where he wants to go next. “I’m going to do a trip to a very, very deep jungle—or somewhere else no one can reach me for at least a week. 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