thecatamites, Magic Wand, 2016, Video game, Dimensions variable (still) (image via apexart) Dire Jank Opening Wednesday, March 20 at apexart, 6 pm to 8 pm.…
Art This Week: Beach Bodies, Paintings, and Who Gets To Play
Strange Beach Opening Tuesday, July 24 at Fridman Gallery, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through August 31. Summertime is a time for going…
Two New Docs Take Chinatown as Their Muse
Chinatown – “one of the lone neighborhoods in Manhattan to preserve its heritage and verve,” we noted earlier this year – takes center stage in…
New Play The Dudleys! Is An 8-Bit Game Come To Life
When Pokémon Go became splashed across the screens of America and eager video game players of all ages roamed the streets rather than took to…
Get on Level with Retrofuturism at Low-Level, a Festival Celebrating the Digital Age
If watching this dub-step blasting, Benzedrine-fueled trailer moves you toward a migraine, you might assume that you’re too old for Low-Level Festival. I mean, isn’t this the sort…
At Babycastles ‘Super Hot Ronny’s Rumble’ Will Feature Real-Life Helicopter
You’ve been waiting your whole life for this moment, I can feel it. And now you finally have a chance to say “It’s not a…
At Babycastles, Squinky Makes Video Games For The Awkward in Us All
As we’ve mentioned recently, DIY art and game space Babycastles has been working hard to offer alternatives to the often exclusionary world of video games,…
At The Mystical Digital, Video Games Can Be Witchy Too
The term “gamer” usually conjures up a torrent of awful connotations– an exclusively white-male circle jerk where the only manifestation of “diversity” is between the…
Cut Class and Catch This Documentary About Chinatown Fair Arcade
This morning we got our hands on a screener of The Lost Arcade, showing today at 12:45 p.m. as part of the Doc NYC Festival.…
VideoGamesNewYork Robbed at Gunpoint
It was like something out of Grand Theft Auto. VideoGamesNewYork, the East Village video-game store with the giant Super Mario in the window, was robbed at…