Last Saturday, I signed a waiver and climbed into the Repetti Gallery’s new, crumbling warehouse space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They will be moving there this fall after renovations, but first the gallery’s director Sam Farnsworth and curator William McMillan wanted to open the space up in all its charming decay for a grand, artistic […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Craigslist lately. After a noble year spent living with my grandmother, I’m looking for an apartment to rent. In Brooklyn. One that’s safe, clean, and, ideally, in a neighborhood with Arts! and Culture!
Over the course of my search, I’ve spent a lot of time looking into […]
Global warming, suburban sprawl and urban life are all over the art world right now (see this show at the New Museum). Those concerns were on the mind of the wide-ranging designer/inventor Buckminster Fuller, who died in 1983. Fuller’s work is on display within the walls of the Whitney Museum. WNYC’s Collin Campbell […]
It’s photo month over on the Brian Lehrer Show, and last week, listeners submitted photos to show’s Flickr pool under the theme “Change for the Better, Change for the Worse.” There were over almost 350 entries - 25 or so of which will be selected to be part of the Slideluck Potshow presentation at McCarren […]
Deerhoof has leaked a song from their upcoming album Offend Maggie in the form of sheet music, asking their fans to tell them how it should sound. WNYC Culture has stepped up to their challenge, creating an interpretation of the song relying solely on the sight-reading abilities of Deerhoof fans at their recent […]
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The Buckminster Fuller exhibit at the Whitney may be all the rage but there are a few other Fuller events and exhibits around the city as well. At the Center for Architecture you can spend some time in the Dymaxion Study Center (open untill September 14th). And across the street at LaGuardia Park you […]
Come join WNYC Radio and the Camera Club of New York at our gallery show sponsored by Adorama and Adoramapix.com. On display, you’ll find the work of our winning photographer, Joe Wigfall, the latest video short by the producers of Street Shots, as well as a selection of shots from our photography competition, The […]
WNYC Radio and our contest judge Luc Sante are pleased to announce the winner of the Street Shots Challenge: Joe Wigfall.
“Joe Wigfall combines psychological acuity with impeccable composition–on the fly, of course–and a deep, virtually Rembrandt-etching feeling for tonality. Mr. Wigfall knows his people intimately–you sense that he finds a bit of himself in every […]