Articles in the “arts” category

(Marvel Studios) I don't think there's much utility in trying to convince anyone to see Avengers: Endgame: Infinity Money: No More Pee Breaks at this point—everyone already knows if they're in or out. Either you already...

(Rat Stubblebine/AP/Shutterstock) Martin Scorsese and Netflix are shaping up to have a very big year together: next winter, Scorsese will release his star-studded (De Niro! Pacino! Pesci! Keitel!) mob movie The Irishman on Netflix (and in...

The Bay Ridge Model Railroad Club has been saved from near-death by a miniature-locomotive enthusiast, who has kindly laid the necessary track to move the tiny trains from its current home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to the...

(HBO) At this point, you can probably count the number of purely good, purely moral Game Of Thrones characters on one hand: there's Ser Davos, whose inspirational speeches and love of fermented crab have made him...

Michael De Feo, also known as The Flower Guy, has been wheat-pasting and painting on the streets of New York for 25 years. This month, Abrams published Flowers, a book documenting his street art and indoor paintings,...

While there are still only 5 female historical statues in New York City—and there are still around 145 male historical statues in New York City—that will change soon. The first monument commissioned under the She Built NYC...

(Courtesy of the Gerber Group) The iconic TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport will be reopening its doors to the public for the first time in decades this year, and when it does, there will be...

A piece of New York City history has just landed on the market, and it can be yours for $12 million dollars. The wood-frame house at 17 Grove Street in the West Village is an architectural relic...

Since as far back as 1870s, New Yorkers (and visitors from all over the world) have used the arrival of Easter Sunday as an excellent excuse to stroll along Fifth Avenue in their frippery and finery. Which...

(HBO) Last week on Game Of Thrones, Jon and Dany went on a dragon ride, the Night King made some art, and Bran waited for an old friend. This week, Tormund explained the origins of his...

(Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix) Today marks the 30th anniversary of the rape of Trisha Meili, the white female jogger who was at the center of the infamous Central Park Five case, in which five teenagers of color were...

Inside the Tenement Museum. (Photo by Tod Seelie/Gothamist) Employees of the Tenement Museum, a Lower East Side cultural institution centered on immigrant and labor history, voted to unionize this week. The workers will be joining the...

I'm not sure if anybody loves Game Of Thrones as much as SNL star Leslie Jones, whose unhinged passion has been channeled into a running series on Late Night With Seth Meyers called "Game Of Jones,"...

(Courtesy of the Guggenheim) As you may have noticed from your Instagram feed over the past 6 months, the Hilma af Klint show at the Guggenheim has been popular af, and now the museum has released...

The most memorable musical moments on the subway are the least expected—think butt bongos, sax battles, hardcore harpists and the roving gang of recorder-playing children. We've all passed by a million anonymous, interchangeable acoustic guitar strummers...

(via Hannah Keyser) There is the MTA's code of conduct for riding the subway, and then there is the far more philosophical and hardcore unwritten code of conduct which all New Yorkers abide by—and it clearly...

Hello, Double-crested Cormorant, you have Caught. Our. Attention. This beast of a bird is not new to New York, in fact, we're pretty sure it has come to life out of a stone sculpture attached to the...

(HBO) HBO's Barry, the comedy/drama about a reluctant hit man who wants to be an actor but can't escape his true calling, is anchored by star Bill Hader's exhausted, elastic performance as the titular character. But...

If you feel a sense of otherworldliness on the Met's Roof Garden this year, that's purposeful. That's because this year's commissioned work, by the Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade, features a series of sculptures under the heavens—and meant...

(Picturegroup/Shutterstock) After being closed for renovations for a little under two years, East Village venue Webster Hall will be reopening at the end of the month. And we now know who the big opening night headliner...

HBO Last season on Game Of Thrones, Jon & Dany took a memorable boat ride, Sansa & Arya took care of Littlefinger, Samwell & Bran put together the details of Jon Snow's true parentage, Cersei &...

(NBC) I have been recapping and reviewing Saturday Night Live for seven or eight years now—I'm not exactly sure how long, because our SNL archives cut off after ten pages, which tops out at about 2014....

Photograph by Dominic McKenzie / Flickr A massive crush of visitors to Roosevelt Island's annual cherry blossom festival prompted the NYPD to ask the MTA to cut subway service to the island on Saturday afternoon. One...

Asbury Park in New Jersey has become synonymous with the rich musical scene which thrived there in the 1970s and still exists now—and a new documentary will explore the complex history of the town, the riots that...

Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed earlier today that Star Wars: Episode IX will be the final Star Wars movie before a "hiatus" on the film saga. "There are movies in development, but we have not announced...

Experimental music movements from No Wave to avant-garde jazz have historically flourished in New York City. While scores of people continue to create mind-expanding music here, the hubs for DIY spaces—critical to artists on the come-up, and...

(HBO) Last season on Game Of Thrones, Jon & Dany took a memorable boat ride, Sansa & Arya took care of Littlefinger (RIP Whisperfinger), Samwell & Bran put together the details of Jon Snow's true parentage,...

The city's parks have not always looked as they do today—have you ever seen Central Park in the 1980s? Decrepit, dirt fields instead of lush grass, and graffiti all over Belvedere Castle. This kind of neglect was...

(Mike Gray/Shutterstock) Whatever your feelings on Upper West Side fetishists Vampire Weekend might be, they make it hard not to love them when they keep throwing out Seinfeld references and Zabar's music videos to and fro....

(Allan Warren) We're less than a week away from the premiere of the final season of pro-incest propagandist television program Game Of Thrones, which means we're reaching a fever pitch of marketing tie-ins. There has already...

MTA With the start of the revised L train project right around the corner, many commuters are anxiously wondering exactly how the suspension of service on nights and weekends is going to impact their daily life....

The view from the top row at Forest Hills Stadium. (Scott Heins / Gothamist) In a city with venues like the hellscape chic Terminal 5 and that midtown behemoth Madison Square Garden, Forest Hills Stadium offers...

Our mass transit system is home to a wide variety of unique specimen, from bag dogs to bizarre blobs, from feral cats to falling wood, from a loose goose to a loose Ben Stiller. Over the...

Coney Island's Luna Park reopened for the summer season this past weekend. Crowds descended upon the beachfront amusement park, which opened in its current iteration in 2010, to experience the likes of gravity-defying rollercoasters, slingshots, and drops,...

Click here for larger, printable bingo card. (By Sarah Butler) The latest installment to our growing NYC Bingo Card Collection is here, and this time we're focusing on our city's animals for a very special NYC...

With just a week left until the season premiere of obscure incest drama Game Of Thrones, star Kit Harington's Saturday Night Live hosting debut was, expectedly, dominated by some funny GOT-related content. Overall however, it was...

Generally speaking, Gothamist is a pro-transit animals organization (even when it comes to big ass iguanas and the occasional raccoon)—especially if those animals are in a bag, as the MTA stipulates. "Bag Dogs," as these NYC...

A three-month-old dachshund mix, arriving all the way from Mississippi, was welcomed by an adoring crowd at the ASPCA Adoption Center on Thursday. The pup, named Apple in honor of its new hometown, is the 100,000th animal...

The inimitable artist T.C. Cannon has a retrospective at downtown Manhattan's National Museum of the American Indian opening this Saturday. The show is culled from roughly 80 pieces the late Cannon created across several mediums (including painting,...

(William Volcov/Shutterstock) Everyone knows that Adam Sandler was an unforgettable cast member of Saturday Night Live in the early '90s—but did you know that he's actually never returned to host the show? That's all going to...

(Matt Baron/Shutterstock) One of the most formative and unique NYC experiences is Berühmtheit Gleichgültigkeit: when you spot a celebrity out in real life and act totally indifferent (but maybe brag about it later to your friends)....

Your complete guide to this eight-story, 200,000-square-foot performance space, opening Friday.

(Ben Yakas/Gothamist) Were you one of the thousands of Game Of Thrones-obsessed New Yorkers who didn't get a chance to get an Iron Throne photo in Queens last weekend? Your chance to sit on the Iron...

Rock and roll has existed for over 70 years now, ever since that fateful night Marty McFly first strapped on a red Gibson guitar, blazed through a ridiculously good version of "Johnny B. Goode" at his parents'...

Back in the 1970s, a confluence of social, economic and political actions led to the burning of the South Bronx, which displaced hundreds of thousands and completely destroyed the neighborhood. Now, a new documentary, co-directed by someone...

One of the lucky fans who got inside poses with the Iron Throne (ALBA VIGARAY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Last week, an eagle-eyed Game Of Thrones fan was able to quickly find a hidden Iron Throne that HBO had planted...

Sunday brought rain and wind and chill—theoretically, a solid backdrop for the 31st annual Phagwah Parade, a celebration intended to "chase away the winter grays" with a full-blown color fight. In practice, though, the wintry weather worked...

Wire, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, The Ramones—the only thing as good as the music that developed during the punk and post-punk scenes of the late '70s and early '80s was the artwork associated with it. Whether it was...

Did you catch the HBO Veep marathon that was on all weekend leading up to the seventh season premiere on Sunday? Have you rewatched the season two episode "Helsinki" anytime recently, the one where Selina Meyers...

Profound, philosophical, "totally remarkable"... these are just some of the words used to describe the late photographer Garry Winogrand, who grew up in (at the time) "the second largest Jewish city in the world," the Bronx. This...

via HBO With less than a month left until Game Of Thrones comes back into our lives for an abbreviated but undoubtedly epic eighth and final season, HBO has been stingy about releasing too many teasers...

Metrograph's beautiful snack selection. (Scott Heins/Gothamist) As the powers that be have looked for new ways to get people excited about going to the movies (and justify that expensive ticket), a concept that was once something...

(Jenn Hsu/Gothamist) A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of getting to know Dan Smith, the somewhat mysterious NYC icon who has spent the last 25 years plastering every laundromat window, pizzeria and bodega door...

Shirley Chisholm in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, December 1968. (Shutterstock) The first new statue of a female historical figure coming to New York City—where currently only 5 of around 150 historical statues are female—will be Shirley Chisholm. And...

Kayvan Novak as Nandor (Russ Martin/FX) Back in 2014, Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi and Flight Of The Conchords comedian Jemaine Clement wrote and starred in What We Do In The Shadows, an absolutely hilarious mockumentary...

Mark your calendars—the 31st annual Fleet Week New York will be held May 22nd through 28th, and the U.S. Navy says about 2,600 Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen will be on hand to join in the "celebration...

via Instagram [Update Below] If you happen to be walking around the Lower East Side this week, you may spot a new "Country Club Cannabis" pop-up at 2 Rivington Street. Along with "COMING SOON" notices, the...

(Photo by Deborah Allen) A coyote was spotted in Central Park on Sunday, a pretty rare sight, even amongst 840 acres of park land, a spokesperson for the Parks Department told Gothamist. "It is rare to...

Between fare evasion, subway accessibility, that whole L train thing and the everyday struggle of making sure the subways keep running, the MTA certainly has a lot on their plate at the moment. So here's one small,...