The New York Asian Film Festival kicks off its sprawling, 18-day schedule on Friday, June 20th. The fest plays host to a diverse range of films, from an Indonesian noir-thriller to a film by the son of legendary director Shohei Imamura that features a 50-person orgy. But one of the most talked about pictures in [...]
In 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor aboard French ship Isere, which transported the statue from France to the US. For transport, the Statue of Liberty was reduced to 350 individual pieces. In the 2002 PBS documentary film “American Stories: The Statue of Liberty” Ken Burns explores both the history of [...]
PBS and Thirteen has a few websites with resources, education, games, and links for parents (that means dads too) and other child caregivers.
The NJ State Dept. of Environmental Protection is catching flack for the decision to cut protection for more than 200 miles of streams that provide key drinking water supplies around the state. Watch report….
When Columbia University revealed a planned multi-billion-dollar expansion to their campus, a number of local business owners got caught in the fray. Without invoking eminent domain, Columbia tried to negotiate to get them to give up their properties–with a few holdouts refusing. Now one of the more vocal holdouts, Anne Z. Whitman, finally reached an [...]
Ellis Gallagher is a native New Yorker who creates chalk etchings of shadows of everyday, urban street objects.
Sculptor Lin is planning a large-scale project: ‘asteroids’ made of different types of broken toys, which will be displayed at the end of the year. See announcement here– There are 2 places to drop off dead toys in Manhattan.
Canny mayors are finally catching up to the fact that healthy cultural scenes — fostered in part by sweeping public art displays — are often linked to healthy economic returns. Read more…
Now that it’s hot as, well, Equatorial Africa here in New York City, the gorillas at the Bronx Zoo’s Gorilla Forest will be out and about their leafy habitats. Read more….
Eight synchronized Yamaha Disklavier player pianos plus an automated ensemble of 2 xylophones, 4 bass drums, tamtam, siren, 7 bells and 3 airplane propellers. If you’re thinking this is a composition perhaps written last week or earlier this year, you’re in the wrong century entirely. Read more…
