On June 26, the Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Starting with the Universe” opens. See clips and read more about this engineering visionary.
Last week on Reel 13, you voted on films that featured a Hindu girl with a craving for communion wafers, a young graffiti artist, and a little girl’s life-changing moment. Now find out which film won.
Jim Henson’s childhood friend and the original inspiration for Kermit the Frog, passed away on May 26, 2008 at the age of 71. A professor, he taught philosophy at Yale, …
Tonight is your chance to catch two of opera’s brightest stars live and up close. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna will sing popular arias and duets at Prospect Park this evening, Friday June 20th at 8pm. The event is free.
In music performance today, one of the hottest presenters around is Wordless Music. If you’re a New Yorker, they seem to be suddenly everywhere, and their concerts have been attracting the classical music demographic holy grail: twenty-something hipsters.
Walter Mirisch has produced over 100 films, including Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, and The Magnificent Seven.
Asa Ames is a mysterious and tragic figure. He died from consumption when he was 27 years, 7 months, and 7 days old. Though his own life was short, he immortalized family members and neighbors in a legacy of twelve three-dimensional portraits now displayed at the American Folk Art Museum through 9/14/2008. Watch a video about Ames….
The New York Asian Film Festival kicks off its sprawling, 18-day schedule on Friday, June 20th. The fest plays host to a diverse range of films, from an Indonesian …
His fiery performances of Shostakovich, Mahler, and Beethoven with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela have gotten people excited the way they used to get over Bernstein. Read more…
For more than 30 years, poet and professor Richard Shelton has traveled to a high security prison in Arizona to run a program that encourages prisoners to write and read poetry. Watch the video…
