all stories tagged "Visual Arts"

If you were in New York City in the '60s, there's a good chance you'll remember the psychedelic light shows at the Fillmore East. Allow us to take you back...VIDEO

This week's Kickstarter picks include a documentary on a boxer from Spanish Harlem and a couple of performance artists bringing change to Wall Street (of the nickel and dime variety).VIDEO

A free exhibition series explores the development of cartography throughout the city's history, and looks at new mapping technologies.

WNYC's Brian Lehrer hosted a weekly series, "The New Littles," to highlight the city's diverse and evolving neighborhoods. The show solicited artistic representations of ethnic enclaves including "Little Thailand" and "Little Mexico."

David Michalek, an artist and photographer, returns to the Lincoln Center Festival with an outdoor video projection guaranteed to make New Yorkers slow down.

This week on Kickstarter: block parties, George Plimpton...and phytoremediation (using plants to get rid of toxins -- duh).

It might be understatement to say that Maira Kalman's exhibit at the Jewish Museum revels in the quotidian. "When I see things, I fall in love with them," says the writer and illustrator. Kalman's first career survey, titled "Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)," spans 30 years and showcases an outright passion for the otherwise invisible details of the everyday.VIDEO

Q-tip, a founding member of "A Tribe Called Quest," curated the lineup for this year’s Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, July 11-16.

Are you a museumophobe? Then the summertime city streets can serve as your art fix.