"You can't stop change" is a truism applicable to any New York City neighborhood, especially those that are attractive to the young, hip and creative. Take, for example, Bushwick in Brooklyn.
"You can't stop change" is a truism applicable to any New York City neighborhood, especially those that are attractive to the young, hip and creative. Take, for example, Bushwick in Brooklyn.
As the summer kicks off, chances are you are looking for some fun activities afforded by this great city. Here are some places in which you can kill some time until the October rapture.
Governors Island is indeed a welcome escape from the city. The problem, for me, is that I would have been much more enchanted with it if I hadn't already been to Snug Harbor.
A century and a half ago, you would not have heard extraordinary Schubert pieces except in the homes of musical friends. I doubt you would have heard performances as impassioned as those of David Finckel, Wu Han and Philip Setzer.
During a recent performance, the audience was treated to a special guest appearance, although it's likely that nobody watching the show had any idea who was stepping into a role for a one-night stint.
This observer believes the musicalized version of George Bernard Shaw is not only a sorrowful entertainment, but indicative of a much larger concern about how the musical, as a genre, is evolving.
Significantly younger but born into the same war-torn state as fellow countrymen Max Pechstein and Otto Dix, among others, Baselitz' graphic imagery echoes his predecessors' more vivid and visually processed sense of trauma.
The performances of Object Collection upset our notions of space, time, narrative, sound, and just about every base element of time-based work that we think we know something about.
NEW YORK-- This week an explosion of Andy Warhol's paintings are heading to auction in New York, with Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips de Pury toge...
The Airborne Toxic Event has sort of a magical thing going on. You can identify with most of their songs, and on Friday, an NY crowd ranging from tweens to older men sporting port bellies surely did.
Directed by Robert LePage, the new Die Walkure is not as intrusive as I expected, but nor does it serve the opera as well as the production the Met discarded, a perfect conception by Otto Schenk.
Jerusalem is a rare demonstration of the theater's power to convoke and communicate. I left the play feeling that no amount of material encroachment could stifle humanity.
The United States Postal Service doesn't seem to know where the Statue of Liberty is. Case in point -- they printed three billion stamps commemorating...
If there's one thing that gets me inspired, it's vintage shopping. I've found some of my favorite vintage pieces at the Brooklyn Flea.
Blending pop-culture references -- from The Wild One to Shakespeare to Freudian therapy -- playwright David Davalos sets his dynamic comedy in 1517 Germany.
The film looks like a busy desktop from 2007, and has a compulsive ADD vibrancy to it, complete with virus warnings, sticky notes, multiple windows, spastic video games, webcams, kittens and text messages.
We're still curious about rebellions against imperial power, be they Victorian or modern. The authoritarianism of forms, political and aesthetic, draws artists like red flags draw bulls.
Despite the torrential rain last Thursday night, celebrities, designers, and scenesters turned out in full force to fete a host of celebrations taking place throughout the city that evening.
If a night at the W Hotel is like being with a new and thrilling lover... and the Hilton and Hyatt are reliable husbands... then the Roosevelt is like sleeping at Grama's. I loved sleeping at Grama's.