“My name is Chappell Roan. I’m your favorite artist’s favorite artist. I'm your dream girl’s dream girl.”
Her hair blazes a fiery red. Her makeup is perfectly over-the-top, accentuated by...
I am not sorry if you do not like The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift. It is not for you. It is not an album for radio play, casual Swift fans, pop music lovers, or even music critics. It is...
We walk around museums to feel something, to be witnesses to art, narratives, and cultures that both precede and exceed our lifespans. We carefully inspect canvases and porcelain statues, fulfilling the...
When the pantheon of great American composers is discussed, names like George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein often dominate the conversation. Yet one towering figure, whose symphonies and...
Read and weep popstars: Dua Lipa is back again for another hit album, this time featuring eleven unique titles. Radical Optimism was her first album to debut at Number 1 on the U.K. Billboard. All weather...
I am not what one would call a musical person. I possess no sense of rhythm, and a D-major scale I was tasked with reproducing on a middle school music theory test contained the note ‘W.’
With that...
You look through the crowd of students waiting to enter the school building each morning, or those rushing down the hallway to their next class after the bell rings, or simply a group of teens passing...
In the early 1980’s, Keith Haring began the unconventional practice of public art, transforming the New York City subway’s unused advertising panels into series of chalk drawings. The continuous repetition...
Walking along uncharacteristically dim walls of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), I hold up a magnifying glass to sunken faces, learning about their history in every etching. These faces reflect much...
The venue wasn’t particularly large, the main area was approximately the size of a classroom, with standard tile floors, plain white painted walls, and piping running throughout the ceiling. There wasn’t...
With the whimsical chime of Disney’s Once Upon a Dream in the background, at first glance, the dusty gold face of sleeping beauty at the entrance of the museum glimmers in the light. As you walk further...
The walk to The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes you past the American sculpture room, the European Sculpture Court, and then into a little, hidden corner....
It was April 29th, 2024, towards the end of Spring break, and I found myself wandering through the neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn. The flowers were starting to bloom, painting the streets with splashes...
The first season of HBO’s epic fantasy TV series Game of Thrones premiered on April 17th, 2011. A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book of the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series (ASOIAF, from which Game...
“I am Me, and I hope to become Me more and more,” wrote Paula Modersohn-Becker in a letter to her close friend Rainer Maria Rilke, following her split from her husband Otto Modersohn.
Such a landmark...
As I wandered along the beautiful installations of the Whitney Museum of American Art, a subtle murmur caught my attention from the corner of the room. Entering a gallery surrounded in darkness, I felt...
Sometime in mid-April 2024, I was walking through the 53rd Street station to transfer from the E train to the 6. As I rode up a surprisingly long escalator, I noticed a poster of a young woman in a dirty,...
It was June of 2020, and I was bored out of my mind.
School had ended, and COVID-19 was raging throughout the city. Things had changed so drastically that it was hard to imagine anything returning to...
The stage is simplistic yet elegant: marbled white-pink walls and floor, with a slightly raised section in the back corner. A few tall ‘windows’ are set deep into the walls of the stage, where a spotlight...
