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red hook open studios waterfront

Brooklyn Paper

Red Hook Open Studios forges ahead after fire

Ringmaster Jan Vasquez and his sister Carolina Vasquez performing their new act for the 2025 Flip Circus Tour.

QNS

Flip Circus returning to Queens this fall featuring all new acts

"Self Portrait" by John Wilson, 1943

Arts & Entertainment

John Wilson at The Met: Witnessing humanity and defying erasure through his canvas

Posted on October 9, 2025

NY: A Night Against Censorship with George Takei

Brooklyn Paper

George Takei speaks out against censorship at BPL Banned Books Week event

Jack Kirby (left), a cartoon portrait of Jack Kirby with superheroes

Lower East Side

A human superhero: Push to honor Lower East Sider and Superhero co-creator Jack Kirby

Posted on October 7, 2025

Jeremy Piven doing standup comedy

Arts & Entertainment

Jeremy Piven on standup, family legacy, and his return to New York’s stage

Posted on October 7, 2025

$Light refracting off Shoshanna Weinberger art$

Lower Manhattan

Shoshanna Weinberger showcases the space between light at PES FUTURES in Lower Manhattan

Posted on October 2, 2025

Cultural Institutions Group Announcement

Brooklyn Paper

‘A generational investment’: NYC Cultural Institutions Group adds five, including BRIC, in historic expansion

In the Fiddler’s House

Arts & Entertainment

Itzhak Perlman Celebrates 80th Birthday with Klezmer Concert at Beacon Theatre

Posted on October 1, 2025

Jasmine Wahi, Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Jennifer Hoffman Williamson, Sophie Landres, Kalia Brooks, Deborah Willis, Carla Williams, Cheryl Finley, Ebony L Haynes, Lauren Marinaro, Legacy Russell, Ruba Katrib, Meg Onli

La Résilience: A night of badass women at the Angel Orensanz

Posted on October 1, 2025

Sixties Surreal opened at the Whitney.

Sixties Surreal at the Whitney: yesterday’s dreams, today’s echoes

Posted on October 1, 2025

"Crucifixion" by Marc Chagall

Arts & Entertainment

Marc Chagall in Soho: Color as covenant, dream as destiny in a master’s art

Posted on October 1, 2025

Punk rock performers gathered together at art show in Soho

Arts & Entertainment

Guitars down, paintbrushes up: Punk rockers hit the canvas in Soho

Posted on October 1, 2025

the twisted spine bookstore owners

Brooklyn Paper

Crowdfunding fuels Twisted Spine, city’s first horror bookstore, for a brick-and-mortar launch

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Brooklyn Paper

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ returns to Brooklyn Academy of Music for first time since brief suspension

armored

QNS

New York Knights: Armored League takes fight club to next level in Astoria

Four Yachtsmen by Marcel Mouly

Arts & Entertainment

Marcel Mouly: Color breathes and structure sings in Soho exhibit

Posted on September 25, 2025

Tony Bechara: Annotations of Color Schemes is at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton.

Color, carried: Tony Bechara’s Annotations of Color Schemes at LongHouse

Posted on September 24, 2025

Eisa Davis in silhouette portrait

Eisa Davis turns theater upside down with provocative “The Essentialisn’t” in Soho

Posted on September 24, 2025

brooklyn nets biggie uniform

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Nets bring back famous Notorious B.I.G.-inspired jerseys, plan Biggie-themed games

In Man Ray’s rooms at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the hush has weight and the light thinks—slipping across paper, catching on glass, teaching objects to cast dreams instead of shadows.

Arts & Entertainment

Man Ray exhibition at The Met blurs science, sorcery and art

Posted on September 18, 2025

Dismissed by Kre8

Arts & Entertainment

In Kre8’s world, graffiti grows wings and glows neon in his modern surrealism

Posted on September 18, 2025

aiweiwei camouflage

Arts & Entertainment

Your fall arts guide for New York City 2025

Posted on September 18, 2025

Jamie Bernstein at home lying down while petting her pet dog

Living legacy: Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the Maestro, becomes the Village’s unofficial tour guide

Posted on September 17, 2025

designers at the people's runway brooklyn

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn designers take center stage at NYFW with ‘The People’s Runway’

Autumn de Forest

Autumn de Forest: Voltage in plain sight

Posted on September 11, 2025

TV Suite by Al Hirschfeld

Arts & Entertainment

‘Strokes of Genius’: Al Hirschfeld’s famous caricatures celebrated at The Algonquin

Posted on September 11, 2025

We Wanted to Come Home by Hank Willis Thomas

Arts & Entertainment

‘I AM MANY’ opens: Hank Willis Thomas’ bold new exhibition in Tribeca

Posted on September 11, 2025

artwork by TAKI Gold

Arts & Entertainment

Gold after fire: TAKI Gold’s illuminated joy through art

Posted on September 10, 2025

group of Cristin Tierney Gallery staff in Tribeca

Arts & Entertainment

New digs, same soul: Cristin Tierney Gallery reimagined in Tribeca

Posted on September 10, 2025

Bronx designer with woman on fitting a dress for a fashion show

Bronx Times

Custom glam: Council Member Farías collabs with Bronx dressmaker Edwin Reyes for elected officials’ fashion show

ihop collapse

Brooklyn Paper

Flapjack failure: 9 injured by iHop ceiling collapse in Georgetown

Amanda Flowers stars in the cult film "Spirit Riser."

Tribeca

Tribeca theater to host screening and director Q&A for ‘Spirit Riser’

Posted on September 5, 2025

Untitled by Slava Ilyayev, Framed Original Oil Painting on Canvas

Slava Ilyayev at Park West SoHo: Oil, light, and the scent of forever

Posted on September 4, 2025

red corset design created by Padina Bondar

Renaissance, rewired: Padina Bondar and Kozo come together for New York Fashion Week with SoHo show

Posted on September 4, 2025

new york liberty jonquel jones reading at bpl storytime

Brooklyn Paper

Slam Dunk: Liberty’s Jonquel Jones brings storytime magic to young fans

Tete de Morte, Lampe Cruches et Poireaux, Pablo Picasso

Arts & Entertainment

Access and excess: Picasso, recharged, as part of Park West SoHo’s quietly ferocious autumn

Posted on August 28, 2025

Actress and artist Heather Litteer standing in between doorways

Arts & Entertainment

Actress and artist Heather Litteer turns a life of risk and freedom into bold storytelling art

Posted on August 27, 2025

vintage

Bronx Times

L Train Vintage opens first Bronx store in Wakefield

us open fan week

QNS

US Open Fan Week sees record turnout of nearly 240K people

Mark Rothko No. 16, 1960

Arts & Entertainment

Rothko’s Fever: On color, consciousness, and the courage to collect what moves you

Posted on August 21, 2025

advantage arena

QNS

Immersive ‘Advantage Arena’ gaming lounge returns for 2025 US Open

the royal pyrate cast

Brooklyn Paper

New musical ‘The Royal Pyrate’ tells a swashbuckling love story in Red Hook

people wearing yellow for joy exhibit at the whitney museum

Arts & Entertainment

Wearing joy like sunlight: ACI 100’s yellow debut at the Whitney Museum

Posted on August 14, 2025

subway drawings, in color and black and white, by Keith Haring

Chalk against the underground: The enduring legacy of Keith Haring’s subway drawings

Posted on August 14, 2025

Jamaican Reggae Queen Marcia Griffiths.

Caribbean Life

Marcia Griffiths joins Beres Hammond, Cham for reggae magic this weekend

From left, Carimi, Sizzla, and Shirley Ann Cyril-Mayers.

Caribbean Life

Excitement builds: Carimi and more added to CMA Awards!

exterior of for the record store

Brooklyn Paper

For the Record: Greenpoint café spins vinyl and brews community

More from around NYC

mixed

Permits filed for mixed-use building with 44 residences in Port Morris

Restauranteur Victor Koenig and others at what would become Durow's Restaurant in Glendale in this 1940s photo.

Serving up the history of a classic Glendale restaurant: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

red hook open studios waterfront

Red Hook Open Studios forges ahead after fire

Antoine Craigwell delivers opening remarks at the In My Mind Conference.

At The Center, ‘In My Mind’ Conference spotlights mental health and LGBTQIA+ veterans of color