Tag: art

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.

I have a British relative who is crazy about hats. When she saw the exhibit Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, she raved about it. But that's what you'd expect from someone who has “madhatter” in her e-mail address and took her ...

This morning at about 8:30, Jacqulyn Buglisi directed dancers from Buglisi Dance Theatre, the Juilliard School, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, the Ailey School and Ballet Hispanico in a performance in Lincoln Center's central plaza to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. More than 100 ...

Jamie Beck, whose sumptuous romantic photography is featured on her site From Me To You, earned a special honor this year at New York Fashion Week. Jamie was one of five fashion bloggers chosen to ride in the Mercedes Benz Fashion Ranger, which is traversing the city to find great ...

The Groggers, a pop-punk band from Queens, just came out with a new album, and on it is one of the catchiest, funniest songs about the Upper West Side I've heard. The song, Upper West Side Story, is basically about being an Orthodox Jewish player on the Upper West Side: ...

With record rain having already fallen on New York City over the weekend, and more to come, it's time to take off our pants and hang them up to dry -- and then pause and reflect in our underwear. That feels better, doesn't it? Above, check out a picture that ...

Lincoln Center finished up its 23rd Midsummer Night Swing season last night, and posted a bunch of pictures of the action. We put a few of our favorites below, along with some flickr shots, and you can check out the whole gallery here. The Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival ...

By Harriet Flehinger On Wednesdays this summer, sling a folding chair over your shoulder and head out of the house. Come to Richard Tucker Park (66th St and Broadway, across from Lincoln Center) for live world music from noon until 2 p.m. Performers range from the Metro Brass Quintet to ...

Project Nim, a documentary that won raves at Sundance and is coming out in New York theaters this Friday, tells the story of Columbia University graduate student Stephanie Lafarge, who tried to raise a chimpanzee as a child in her Upper West Side apartment as part of a professor's experiment. ...

July 22, 2011 Weather: Thunderstorms, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: The photo above was sent to us by Upper West Sider Paul Katcher of a woman playing piano on a pier off of Riverside Park as part of yesterday's Make Music NY Festival. News: An Upper West Side physics professor ...