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One of the best parts about living in New York is leaving it, and artists value their summer getaways just as much as everyone else.

Members of the Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group working on a new piece, “3 Dancers, 4 Chairs, 26 Words” during a June residency at Mount Tremper Arts. Photo by Mathew Pokoik.
While some […]

Hey everyone …
Please forgive your faithful Culturist if she’s a bit slow in responding over the next week. I’m up in Maine, and I’m doing all of this from a DIAL-UP connection. So be kind. And rest assured that I’ll be back.
The same could not be said when Cathy Edwards, the much-loved artistic director of […]

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 […]

Andrea Smith carrying Erick Montes in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s “Chapel/Chapter.” Photo by Paul B. Goode
On July 16, Andrea Edwin Smith, a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, died of AIDS-related illnesses. He was 41 years old.
It is terrible any time death finds someone so young, and Andrea’s passing […]

Hey Everyone … the segment I taped on Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls with WNYC’s Soterios Johnson is going to air sometime
tomorrow morning. I’ll add the link when it does…

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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 […]

Because we’ve been sweating nonstop for more days than I care to count…
Because all of the people I know are desperate to go on vacation, and because many of them have to make do with staycations - the adult equivalent of being grounded….
Because I was going to blog about “The Dark Knight,” but the shows […]

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 […]