Features
A Love Letter to Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Destiny Mata honors the legacy and spirit of public housing residents from the neighborhood.
Abrons Arts Center
Art
Community Care Through Art in Chinatown
In an already trying year, the art in From Chinatown, With Love is a reminder that community will help us get through the tremendous challenges.
Art
Sea of Surveillance: Christopher Gregory-Rivera Exposes Policing in Puerto Rico
Las Carpetas takes a crucial step in exposing the surveillance of activists. But are pictures of folders the most effective way to tell the stories of people impacted?
Art
Lorelei Ramirez Brings the Fine Art of Virtual Comedy to Twitch
With Art is Easy, the artist and comedian invites viewers to tune in for a mix of cathartic comedy and Photoshop draw-alongs, aimed at making the shit show we’re all currently waist-deep in feel just a bit more bearable.
Art
Dancers and Performers Offer “Real Talk” on Canceled Shows, Contracts, and More
This week, contributors to the living document “Creating New Futures” will host a conversation focused the ripple effects of the pandemic and the need for radical change in the arts.
Performance
A Play Casts Hercules as a Toxic Male (but Still a Hero)
A reinterpretation of a Euripides play tells a seldom staged and lesser-known side of the famous hero.
Performance
A Play About Jackson Pollock’s Life Obscures Lee Krasner’s Importance
Pollock by Fabrice Melquiot is in many ways just another paean to the 'heroic male painter.'
Art
A 24-Hour Cultural Filibuster Against Gun Violence
For Bang, Bang, Gun Amok, artist George Emilio Sanchez has brought together some 50 artists to perform for a full day.
Performance
What Roberto Bolaño Can Teach Us About Making Art Under Fascism
A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup.
Performance
The Embodied Life Writing of Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.
Performance
Detox, the Musical: Richard Maxwell's 'The Good Samaritans'
Richard Maxwell’s style can be off-putting or self-defeating, yet its virtues are manifest in this piece.
Art
The Passionate Art of LGBTQ Prisoners in the US
In this politically polarized moment, when the notion of compassion itself seems to be on trial, exhibitions like this one have become ever more urgent.