MoMA hosts The Exchange Café
A new and exciting project is being held at the Museum of Modern Art this month: the “Exchange Café.” The exhibit, which is open every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 1:00-5:00 p.m. and Fridays...
View ArticleEssential visit: 5Pointz, the “graffiti mecca” of the world
The 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. also known as 5 Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burning is located in Long Island City, Queens, and is considered the “graffiti mecca” of the world. 5Pointz is an...
View ArticleIs New York sustainable for artists?
Photo by Shawn Rutkowski, one of the artists interviewed for this piece. http://shawnrutkowski.com/ It’s graduation season and many graduating art majors are choosing between running towards or away...
View ArticleDJs & and sculpture blend on Saturdays at MoMA PS1 Warm Up
All photos by Maureen Drennan. City Atlas attended Warm Up at MoMA PS1 to dance, give out our temporary tattoos (designs by Sascha Mombartz), and hang out in a fungi sculpture. Warm Up, an outdoor...
View ArticleA local guide to FringeNYC
The Dust Can’t Kill Me team Tickets are now on sale for the 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival. It is the largest multi-arts festival in North America and will take place August 8-24 in...
View ArticleOur Climate Projected: an artistic conversation on climate change
Creative responses prior to the September march include a new campaign by Milton Glaser (creator of the “I NY” logo) and also Jessie Reilly’s “Our Climate Projected” initiative, described below. As...
View ArticleLooking back at IDEAS CITY 2015
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else....
View ArticleArt in the Bronx, of the Bronx
On November 20, Intersecting Imaginaries, an art exhibition curated by the community art group, No Longer Empty, opened in the South Bronx. The exhibition explores the intersection between culture,...
View ArticleThe Natural History Museum
Some background to put the following interview with artist and organizer Beka Economopoulos in context: The Paris COP21 climate negotiations completed on December 12 as a success, a failure, or both,...
View ArticleThe conscience of a graphic novelist
Given the imperative of fast action on climate, 2018 must be a year that prioritizes decisions rather than simply adds more detail to a story we already know. 2017 already brought three books that tell...
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