Entropy and much else haunts New York’s rapid transit system, one of the oldest in the world. The subway is fertile grounds for fear: the rats,…
Brandon Harris Talks Gentrification, Race, and the Perennial Struggle of Making It in NYC
In his first book, Making Rent in Bed-Stuy (HarperCollins, 2017), New York-based writer and filmmaker Brandon Harris uses his memoir of “trying to make it…
Summer Streets Hits Astor Place: Food, Mini-Golf, VR, and… a ‘Smell Walk’?
The city’s popular “Summer Streets” program — in which seven miles of New York streets are temporarily turned into pedestrian-only parks — returns the first…
Art This Week: Printmaking in Protest, Robots Will Kill, Mexico + Staten Island
Center for Book Arts Summer Exhibitions Opening Wednesday, July 12 at Center for Book Arts, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through September 23.…
The Museum of Interesting Things Is a Roving ‘Speakeasy’ Run By a Quirky Curator
How did we watch films at home before Netflix and DVD? And before VHS? Denny Daniel will show you at his Museum of Interesting Things. This…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt East Village Towers Rise High in New MoMA Exhibit
In October of 1929, a New York Times headline announced: “Odd-Type Buildings to Overlook Church.” Those odd-type buildings would’ve been New York’s first glass skyscrapers,…
Jennifer Rubell, Art By Animals, and More Art Openings To Investigate
Emergence: Emerging Artists in New York Opening Tuesday January 17 at The Living Gallery, 6 pm to 9 pm. One night only. The term “emerging…
Women Getting Lit, Plexiglas Playgrounds, and More Art
Female Behavior Opening Tuesday January 10 at Cooler Gallery, 7 pm to 10 pm. On view through January 31. Firstly, let’s discuss this gallery’s name.…
This Queer Performance Festival Wants to Mend Our Generational ‘Disconnect’
Nowadays, it’s common to see one generation insisting that the other will never understand them, whether its Jerry Seinfeld lamenting that college kids are “too PC,”…
Art that is ‘Vapid and Screaming,’ Philosophical Collage, a Solo Show Duo, and More
Vapid & Screaming Opening Monday January 2, 6 pm to 9 pm at 208 Bowery. On view through January 4. Nowadays, gallery space in Manhattan…