The Fragonard Room inside the Henry Clay Frick Estate is the setting for an ensemble of canvases by Fragonard and a remarkable group of French furniture from the eighteenth century. Walk through the room online with Colin Bailey from the museum as your guide.
A new exhibit, Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, opened Friday at New York Botanical Garden. The exhibit replicates many of Charles Darwin’s botanical experiments, along a 33-stop tour that includes …
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly this weekend ran a feature on the population influx to Utica, and the role of churches in settling immigrants from Somalia, Burma, Bosnia and more. GO
Isiah Thomas is just one of a long line of New York sports characters who have fallen on both sides of the hero/villain divide. George Steinbrenner, Walter O’Malley, Patrick Ewing, and Roger Clemens inspire many a heated debate on the back page of the paper or at the end of the bar.
Narrated by Vincent Pastore (’Big Pussy’ from The Sopranos!), this great episode of New York Voices (aired June 2003) delved into the paragons and pariahs of New York sports.
It’s spring in New York, and Philip Glass is bursting out all over — from Satyagraha at the Met to new box sets of previously recorded works and even a documentary about the composer at IFC Center.
The partners from revered graphic design firm Pentagram discuss the numerous places around New York that they’ve put their thumbprint on–how the projects can be viewed as a whole, and …
Charles Mingus(1922-1979), the acclaimed jazz composer, would have turned 86 yesterday. Mingus is heralded as the heir apparent to Duke Ellington, a close friend and colleague of Mingus during his …
Come spend an exciting day with Cyberchase when the NY Mets take on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Harry and Digit kick things off with a spectacular Math & Sports pre-game show, test your math skills during the game… and maybe even meet Harry and Digit! Special pricing for teachers and students.
New York Voices visits three properties that have “gone green”: The new corporate headquarters of the Hearst Corporation; a green roof in the South Bronx; and the former ice house of the Nassau Brewery, which has been converted into environmentally-friendly apartments.
Much of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits on top of a 55-acre oil spill that is 50% larger than the Exxon Valdez spill off the coast of Alaska. Decades of oil …
