With the January 2018 closing of St. Joseph’s Chapel in Battery Park City came the liberation of John Collier’s Statues of Patron Saints. Once cramped in their dark alcoves behind the alter of St. Joseph’s, the four pale gold saints now breathe freely on the balcony of St. Peter’s Church, looking out over Barclay […]
National Museum of the American Indian
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian at One Bowling Green offers New Yorkers the best of what Washington D.C has to offer: free admission to museums. This summer, the museum opened Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean. The exhibit is a reflection of a growing interest across the Caribbean in […]
Demand for School Space Increases as Financial District becomes the Diaper District
This month, Blue School is opening a 40,000 square-foot campus at 156 William Street to house students in grades four through eight. The new space will allow Blue School to double its enrollment over the next ten years. The school hopes to cement their dedication to the FIDI and South St. Seaport neighborhoods with the […]
Teen Training in the Arts
The Whitney Museum is now accepting applications for its fall, 2018 program, Youth Insights Artists. The classes, which pair high school students with professional, contemporary artists, run from late September through the end of the year, with the option of meeting on either Wednesday or Thursday afternoons, from 4:00 to 6:30 pm. The […]
Swedish Midsummer Festival in Wagner Park Celebrates the Solstice
On Friday June 22nd, Battery Park City Parks hosted the Swedish Midsummer Festival, a celebration of the summer solstice. Thousands of Swedes and Swedes for a Day, not unlike St. Patrick’s Day, danced traditional Swedish folk dances with Barnklubben Elsa Rix, a children’s dance club, and joined in lively dance around the Midsummer pole. There was wreath […]
Qiurui Du: A Bizarre Dream
Van der Plas Gallery is very pleased to announce the debut solo exhibition of Qiurui Du, A Bizarre Dream. Through his vibrant paintings and illustrations Mr. Du offers a perspective on the rapidly changing landscape of the world, particularly his hometown of Beijing, China. In an age where technology proliferates at breakneck speeds, the […]
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY Presents THE RIVINGTON SCHOOL
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY presents THE RIVINGTON SCHOOL 57 Stanton Street, April 5-April 30, 2018 The Rivington scene centers around a group of artists who creatively thrived around Rivington and Forsyth Streets on New York’s Lower East Side during the 1980s and was centered around three tiny galleries, Nada (helmed by artist Jim C.), Freddy […]
Hope Springs Maternal
The Tribeca Performing Arts Center at Borough of Manhattan Community College will present Are You My Mother?-a stage musical version of the classic 1960 book for children by P.D. Eastman, about a lost baby bird that mistakes a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a cow for its mother. It happens on Sunday, April 8, […]
Steven Amedee Gallery Kyle Simon ~ What a Little Moonlight Can Do
In the distant past the night sky was sacred and frequently absent from paintings. It was not until Galileo’s insistence that the heavenly bodies could be examined scientifically that painters of the Renaissance more readily incorporated the cosmos into their work, without the preordained confines of religious symbolism. Steven Amedee Gallery is proud to present What a […]
“Manifestipi”
The National Museum of the American Indian, at Bowling Green in the Alexander Hamilton Custom House, is undergoing a transformation. For many years, exhibitions centered on the vast amount of Native American artifacts that were collected more than a century ago by George Gustav Heye who, like many others, saw a complex civilization disappearing as […]