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Hi y’all …
I am in the South. In Durham, North Carolina to be exact, in a Hilton - which, I suppose, is sort of like being anywhere or nowhere at all. Yay hotel chains. The carpeting alone is enough to give a girl the shakes.
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m down here to teach an NEA […]

Photo by Rocco Kasby

This summer, WNYC has celebrated New York’s long history of street photography through our video shorts, conversations on WNYC Radio programs, and The Street Shots Challenge. Now, we’re adding one more interactive element: our very own gallery show.
WNYC Radio and the Camera Club of New York are pleased to announce our […]

Update: Hey y’all, thanks so much for the comments - glad to know it’s not the lamest idea ever. We’re working out the details. Stay tuned.
I have been reading Proust forever.
Well, not exactly forever, but for more months than I care to admit. I somehow managed to get through a liberal arts education without once […]

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Waldo Warshaw will be up to his red-stained elbows in special effects at the Tobacco Warehouse in Dumbo, where “Macbeth 2008,” directed and adapted by Grzegorz Jarzyna, is being presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse through Sunday

While audiences are taking in TR Warszawa’s sold-out show (rush tickets are still available) and […]

By popular demand, and in honor of the first day of summer …
Hello dear Readers. As some of you might recall, my Return of the Swamp Thing post last month, in which I questioned some of the design choices being made in ballet, drew the initial ire of Robert, who wondered what the big […]

WNYC Street Shots Producer Benjamen Walker and Judge Luc Sante: facing the microphone and the sun

The response to our Street Shots contest has been truly overwhelming: 7000+ pictures and 800+ participants. The WNYC culture staff is hard at work identifying potential winners, but we are bringing in a judge with a fine eye […]

On Monday, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy held a press conference in their sumptuous Payne Whitney building headquarters to announce that the New York City Ballet is returning to Paris for the first time since 1995. The two-week season, which begins September 9th, will be the first time City Ballet has been presented […]

I’ve never been the biggest fan of the Beat writers. Too many of their efforts leave me feeling the literary equivalent of the dismay that comes from looking at dreadlock-sporting white kids in Berkeley begging for money so that, as their handwritten cardboard signs charmingly announce, they can score more pot. I’m just not interested.
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Yesterday I had lunch with RoseLee Goldberg, the art historian and curator who founded the interdisciplinarian arts organization and biennial festival Performa.

–Marina Abramovic, who performed Seven Easy Pieces during the inaugural 05 Performa.
09 will be here before you know it, and Goldberg and her team are deep into the planning stages.
“It’s a nonstop post-post-graduate seminar,” […]

Not by Alvin Ailey, but New York City Ballet. I finally managed to see Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work for the company, “Concerto DSCH,” (the title refers to an abbreviation Shostakovich used for his last name) and it is as utterly glorious as everyone has been saying. His ability to create and develop meaningful but mysterious […]