Articles in the “arts” category

Fleet Week is here, and the next few days in NYC are full of events to celebrate and learn about the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard. A select group reporters were flown by helicopter to the USS...

Saeed Adyani/Netflix Gothamist had an interview scheduled with David Cross to talk about the upcoming fifth season of Arrested Development well before yesterday's extremely uncomfortable NY Times interview with the cast dropped. In that piece— which...

It's easy for New Yorkers clustered in and around Manhattan to forget that there are over 14 miles of public beaches in New York City. There's a unique joy that comes with plunging into the ocean in...

There is generally a 3:1 ratio of live sketches to pre-taped ones in any given episode of Saturday Night Live, with somewhere around 130 live sketches—conceived, written, rewritten and produced in just a few sleep-deprived days...

Since leaving The Daily Show a few years ago, Jon Stewart hasn't really had a major new comedy project—his lack of public exposure has started to make him feel like the friendly ghost of the Bush/Obama...

If it's the weekend before Memorial Day, then it must be time for Fleet Week. It's the 30th Anniversary of the event, which celebrates the sea services and, as the Navy explains, is an "unparalleled opportunity for...

The trains are delayed, there are track fires and sick passengers everywhere, and subway icon Gregg T needs to get to work! This isn't a normal Tuesday commute—okay, maybe this is a normal Tuesday—but in this...

(Giovanni Duca) Back in the halcyon days of the CD walkman, Stephen Malkmus was saddled with a reputation crystallized in that moment when Beavis & Butthead yelled at his former band Pavement to "try harder" during...

Saturday Night Live did not end season 43 on the highest note this past weekend—despite the return of Studio 8H legend Tina Fey, it ended up being one of the weaker episodes of the season. But...

Doesn't it feel like only yesterday that we were kicking back in our disaster relief tents while devouring artisanal bread with cheese, waiting for the rescue boats to save us from Fyre Festival? Ja Rule and...

On Friday night, an otherworldly dance party took over the spectacular Beaux-Arts Court inside the Brooklyn Museum. The Night of 1000 Bowies event was hosted by the House of Yes and Little Cinema, and featured dancing, DJs...

Heavy rains at the start and a steady drizzle throughout couldn’t entirely dampen the celebratory feel of this year’s Dance Parade, the first such spectacle since the repeal last fall of the hated Cabaret Law, which since...

Georgia O'Keeffe's three-month stay in Hawaii has been reimagined in the lush corridors of the New York Botanical Garden, with frangipani, bougainvillea, bird-paradise, hibiscus, and other flora, in the new show, Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i, opening...

Did you know that the city is putting up 21 families, rent-free, in some of the priciest neighborhoods, in custom-made homes with jaw-dropping views? The only catch is that they are filmed 24/7—and maybe the other catch...

(Unbound) Earlier this week, Unbound, a sex accessories company whose stated mission is "educating and empowering women to own their sexuality," submitted a series of new ads to Outfront, the company that manages MTA advertising. The...

Tuesday night's severe thunderstorms (and baby tsunamis!) kicked off a soggy week in NYC that shows no signs of abating through the weekend—it may rain every day through Tuesday ha ha. And while it's easy enough to...

(Gothamist) There may be a worthy debate to be had as to whether dogs belong underground on the subways, but there is no debate when it comes to dogs above ground in NYC—especially when those dogs...

(Unbound) If you've been unlucky enough to be on the subway surrounded by those creepy new Roman erectile dysfunction ads, then you know the MTA is comfortable with a certain amount of racy advertising material. But...

(screenshot) Yesterday's commute home was hell for almost everybody in the city, whether you were huddled inside your apartment like an extra from Children of Men, crammed inside a train along with other soggy straphangers, or...

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I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I know enough to know that if you're a rock star, you are morally obliged to get the show on and get paid under all circumstances. To that end, Smash Mouth—one of the only bands to make the leap from musicians to pure waking memes—will kick off summer in Coney Island next week.

Tom Wolfe (Amanda Schwab/StarPix/REX/Shutterstock) Tom Wolfe, the debonair essayist and author of landmark non-fiction and novels including The Right Stuff and Bonfire Of The Vanities, who also helped create the immersive New Journalism literary movement, has...

Mike Perry (Meredith Jenks) Sketchy Interviews is a recurring series on Gothamist featuring visual interviews with some of the best illustrators, cartoonists and graphic artists working in the city today. We previously talked to New Yorker...

via YouTube If you're anything like me, then you too wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat frantically wondering, "whatever happened to that Brooklyn model who turned her 1,200-square-foot Williamsburg apartment...

One of the rarest songbirds in North America is visiting Central Park, leaving sending devoted birders into paroxysms of excitement. A Kirtland's warbler, one of 5,000 in the United States, was spotted on Friday afternoon by Kevin Topping. That sent birders into high alert, converging on near West Drive and West 90th Street to spot the endangered bird.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art may have the majority of the new Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibit at its Fifth Avenue location, but you should definitely go to the Cloisters, where part of the...

Now that the Met Gala is out of the way, the real show starts: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. That's the theme for this year's the Metropolitan Museum of Art's big fashion exhibit for 2018,...

The next time you have unfortunately booked yourself a flight out of LaGuardia Airport—the 14th worst airport on the planet Earth—check out this little known artifact while killing time before your delayed flight finally takes off/gets canceled:...

Samantha Bee wasted no words on Full Frontal last night as she started the show addressing disgraced former NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned at the start of the week after four women came forward...

Last weekend's Saturday Night Live with host (and musical guest) Donald Glover was one of the better episodes this season (give or take the cold open). Among the highlights was "A Kanye Place," a pre-recorded sketch...

(HBO) If you ask almost anyone about Henry Winkler, they will tell you he's the nicest man in Hollywood. The man formerly known as "The Fonz" certainly seems to have all the credentials, having written 19...

From our Archives: This story was previously published on Gothamist 2015; we're sharing it again because that's like 500 years ago in Internet time and nobody remembers it. "There was no management plan in place so we...

As she has in years past, Rihanna ruled the Met Gala's red carpet. Always on topic—this year's exhibit is Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination—she wore a Maison Margiela gown and coat, with matching bishop's hat...

The first half of the first season of Luke Cage stands up among the best of the Marvel/Netflix Universe (the second half, post-Cottonmouth's death... not so much). After a stint battling endless hordes of magical ninjas...

After five years of agonizing sleepless nights spent tossing and turning and wondering whether Netflix blue it with their Arrested Development season four revival, the show is set to return for season five on Netflix on...

(SNL) Saturday Night Live has been going through a rough patch this season. The show hit political comedy gold in the lead up to the 2016 election, thanks to some timely guest appearances from the likes...

Cardinal Dolan (Roman Catholic Archdiocese) The Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute fundraiser, the Met Gala, is tonight. The annual event brings fashion designers, celebrities, and socialites to the Met's red carpet on Fifth Avenue...

Sunday saw the annual Kite Festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park, welcoming kite enthusiasts of all ages to Pier 1. Though the wind was not as strong as a kite festival would wish for, many participants showed off...

Tod Seelie / Gothamist It's that time of year again: 32,000 bicyclists will take to NYC streets for the annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour. The route covers 40 miles and ends with a celebration in...

via his website Several women have come forward to accuse Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz of sexual misconduct and verbal abuse. Those women include author Zinzi Clemmons, whose 2017 debut novel What We Lose landed her...

The NY Post has a delightful nonsense story today about that now-ubiquitous LaGuardia Airport security robot who roams Terminal B—you know, the one who looks like the result of a passionate night in Queens between R2D2...

(Courtesy Candlewick Press) For many families, diversity is one of the biggest advantages to living in New York. Sure, the schools are crowded, and you have to carry a stroller up and down subway steps—but as...

Five years ago, Max Roberts's reimagining of the NYC subway map as one based on concentric circles blew our minds. Now, he's got an updated version of the concentric circle map—but now with Massimo Vignelli's design principles!...

erin delconte's flickr Did konversationkleinangst wash over you when you saw your coworker on the G train this week? Did you immediately feel bettwanzengrusel when you yanked your dog away from that uncovered mattress on the...

(Wikipedia) George Wood Wingate When members of the NRA finally held their fundraiser event in Park Slope, local political leaders did not hesitate to issue condemnations, with Brooklyn city councilman Justin Brannan declaring: "We don’t need...

Dog owners know that it is nearly impossible to have any objectivity when it comes to the relative cuteness of their pups. There have literally been wars fought over people insulting royal dogs (Note: I could...

The L Train, that unavoidable waystation between Brooklyn and Manhattan festooned with broken seats and bloody bandages, is set to shut down for lengthy repairs in less than a year. Which means you only have so much...

Patrick Harbron/FX After five seasons filled with amazingly bad wigs, period-appropriate soundtrack cues, and increasingly-complicated intelligence operations, The Americans will bow out of the spy game with its sixth and final season. FX's brilliant show about...

(Matthias Clamer/FX) Last year, Legion burst out of the gates with its first season, successfully avoiding the cliches and pitfalls of other superhero adaptations to become a genre-bending cyclone that smoothly switched between sci-fi thriller, psychological...

As of today, Governors Island is officially open for the season! And that season now lasts through October 31st (one day it may be year-round). There are a few new features being introduced this year—Extended hours! Camping!...

Ashley Judd (ABC News) Actor Ashley Judd has filed a lawsuit against producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of blacklisting her in Hollywood and thwarting her career. "I lost career opportunity. I lost money. I lost status...

Courtesy Roz Chast Sketchy Interviews is a new recurring series on Gothamist in which we will feature visual interviews with some of the best illustrators, cartoonists and graphic artists working in the city today. For our...

If you're familiar with the Museum of the City of New York's portal to the past, then you're likely aware that Bronx native Stanley Kubrick used to document New York City and its inhabitants for Look magazine...

Last week, the Parks Department announced that they had recently unearthed 2,924 color slides from 1978. The slides were forgotten and hadn't been seen in 40 years, but upon their rediscovery they were immediately celebrated with a...

The trees may not have cooperated with the annual festival at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, but the cosplayers definitely came through.

It seemed like everyone who was within the city limits decided to take a stroll along the High Line last weekend. The enormous crowds don't always make for a peaceful experience, and they certainly aren't ideal for...

(Matthew Septimus) When Michelle Buteau initially made the career jump from journalism to comedy in the early '00s, she hustled to get any gig she could, no matter how strange. The decision to do a 180...

OMG get it togeither MTA. (Courtesy Micah A.) In addition to screwing up you're commute, the MTA is screwing up it's sign spellling. As you can see hear, the MTA really needs to spellcheck! Its NORFOLK...

Joseph Vargas (Danny Lewis) Dorienne Rosellini stood in the carpeted theater hallway, scanning her school schedule to make sure she could stay to see Spider-Man: Homecoming. "I was gonna go to class, but then I looked...

chris farling/flickr There are only a few fundamental truths about living in New York City: You will develop a love/hate relationship with the subway. Every bar and restaurant you love will eventually turn into a bank,...

(L) The wet paint & (R) the end result (courtesy Josh Boerman) Like a dysfunctional democracy running on fumes in the year 2018, our subway is a complex system with myriad antiquated moving parts that probably...

Courtesy of the artist. Earlier this week, fake ads for Michael "The Fixer" Cohen started popping up in the subway system. It was a clear knock at the unflinchingly loyal personal attorney to President Donald Trump,...

On any normal weekday, NYC commuters are laser focused on getting through the subway system as fast as humanly possible. But there is one person whose presence can make even the most jaded straphangers willingly spend hours...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden is now officially open for the season (along with its bar!), and this year’s site-specific commission is a powerful pair of imposing sculptures by Pakistani artist Huma Bhabha. Titled We...

The New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show 2018 (NYBG) The New York Botanical Garden's annual Orchid Show has been showcasing thousands of orchid plants, featuring 100-120 different varieties, since March 3 (it closes April 22). The...

154 flights of stairs. 80 landings. 600 tons. INFINITE INSTAGRAMS. Given its slightly secluded location on the far west side of Manhattan, you may not have noticed when "Vessel," a 150-feet tall, $200 million interactive sculpture, topped...

One of the more beloved venues of circa-when-I-lived-there Williamsburg—a time when Kent Avenue was just a blank canvas for developers—was Glasslands. It was always very hot in there, no matter the season, the wine always stung my...

Hillary Clinton, the only person who can unite the GOP in 2017, was a guest on The Daily Show last night, amped to talk with Trevor Noah about all things Russia, Trump and the state of...