Tag: art

Two new art exhibits have recently landed on the Upper West Side like a massive cupcake that you can't eat.

As part of a regular West Side Rag series, artist Michelle Hill will interview and paint/draw an Upper West Sider. This is the second in that series.

Chelsea and the old museums aren't the only places to see art in this city! Check out some local art shows in the neighborhood this month. Upper West Sider Naomi Davies, who painted the image above, has 11 paintings hanging at St. Agnes Library on Amsterdam between 81st and 82nd ...

Texas movie theater chain the Alamo Drafthouse announced last April that it would open a new five-screen cineplex in the historic Metro Theater on Broadway between 99th and 100th streets. Upper West Siders were ecstatic that it would fill the empty space with movies once again. But for months after ...

The West Side Arts Coalition is holding a new photo show at the Broadway Mall Community Center on 96th Street in the middle of the Broadway median. The photos were inspired by the Shakespeare poem

The new exhibit in Columbus Circle of "Columbus' Living Room" by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi allows people to climb to the top of a 60-foot column and enter a room built around the 120-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus. There are cushy sofas, and magazines and newspapers on the tables, inviting ...

July 20, 2012 Weather: Afternoon Thunderstorms, High of 88 Degrees.

Lincoln Center began showing a film today with a very unique premise: it is made up of images from films that show clocks and watches, and the minutes displayed in the film correlate to the minutes of the days we are living. "The Clock" will be on view at the ...

There's a pretty stunning exhibit coming to Columbus Circle in September. The Public Art Fund will build scaffolding around the column in the center of the circle all the way up to the statue of Columbus, about 70 feet above the ground. In the scaffolding will be steps that will ...

On Sunday night, a group of young artists offered a reminder that the Upper West Side still inspires creative people. Artist Enrico Miguel Thomas drew the pen-and ink picture of the Ansonia above on a subway map (clearly the photo doesn't do it justice). He's become well-known for his drawings ...

We'll be updating our weekly calendar soon, but thought we'd point out two events that are coming up this weekend, so you can bookmark them for your calendar. On Saturday, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine will host a Health Fair from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. "Health experts ...

When the Alamo Drafthouse announced in April that it would be opening a new five-screen movie theater in the historic Metro Theater on 100th Street and Broadway next year, it was arguably the most exciting news to hit the Upper West Side in years. The Metro, which opened in 1933, ...

Spiderman the sex criminal? Wonder Woman the speed dealer? Superman the 'roid-head? Upper West Sider Skye Greenfield wants us to reconsider our notions of good and evil, so she created a series of posters highlighting the imagined wrongdoings of some of America's most popular superheroes. Wonder Woman, for instance, "has ...

The Alamo Drafthouse, the Texas company that will be opening a new movie theater in the historic Metro Theater on Broadway and 99th Street next year, is famous for its strict no cellphone policy. In fact, the company created an advertisement consisting entirely of an angry voicemail left by one ...

It's a not-so-secret secret among theater and opera fans: there are lots of inexpensive tickets available to see some great performances at Lincoln Center. In fact, it can be just about as cheap to catch a show at the Metropolitan Opera as it is to see a movie at the ...

Upper West Side artist and medical student Steven Swancoat is putting up a show of his paintings at Nancy's Wines for Food on Columbus Avenue and 74th Street, and there's an opening party with a wine tasting on Saturday. "The Gallery is priced to sell out and raise money for ...

With 2012 just around the corner, we decided to post some of our favorite photos from the past year on the Upper West Side. They aren't necessarily the most newsworthy shots, but they do capture some of the drama of the past year, and showcase the great photographic talent in ...

Famed composer Philip Glass has never simply gone with the flow, and that's one reason he's a pioneer. On Thursday night, he's expected to make another unique statement: protesting outside of his own opera Satyagraha on its last night at Lincoln Center as part of the "Occupy" movement. The protest, ...

Upper West Side cinematographer Yael Shulman sent us this video she made of the tribute to 343 fallen firefighters on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at the Fireman's Memorial in Riverside Park: The Fallen - Canon 7D, 2011 from Yael Shulman on Vimeo.

“Think,” in spite of some visually arresting features, is experienced mostly as didactic telling rather than as immersive showing, a public relations display that defines its own chest-beating in vague terms.