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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Luca Guadagnino, an acclaimed Italian filmmaker, has built a reputation for crafting visually sumptuous and emotionally resonant films. Known for his distinctive directorial style and keen eye for detail,...
In the filmmaking industry, there are few names that evoke as much admiration and respect as Greta Gerwig. Known for her distinct directorial style, sharp wit, and clever storytelling, Gerwig has created...
The familiar thrum of an audience waiting in anticipation for the show to begin envelops your senses. You can hear small bits of conversations as you patiently (or not) wait in line to get inside the venue....
Marina Lambrini Diamandis, currently known as MARINA, has transformed pop as a genre and the art of songwriting.
MARINA originally went by the stage name Marina and The Diamonds, with “the Diamonds”...
“And live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” Kenan Thompson enthusiastically stated, as he opened the world-renowned Saturday Night Live, breaking his character playing a Columbia University student’s...
