by DOWNTOWN News | Jul 19, 2024 | Art, Culture, Downtown News, News
Philippe Petit, with CBS Sunday Morning’s Martha Teichner. Earlier this week, on the 80th floor of Three World Trade Center, renowned highwire artist Philippe Petit announced to a room of friends, “We are here, in the best place in the world, to introduce my...
by DOWNTOWN News | May 27, 2024 | Art, Events
Mariyka, Rivers of Shadows series, Liner on paper, watercolor, 7 x 4.5 in, 2022. The new exhibition Merging with the Garden is now on display at the Mriya Gallery on Reade Street, showcasing a fusion of contemporary artworks by talented artists from Ukraine and the...
by DOWNTOWN News | Mar 21, 2024 | Art, Culture, LA
Leah Smithson is the new featured artist for 2024 at Hotel Figueroa, with an exhibit of work celebrating women innovators, entitled Limitless. The nearly century-old Hotel Figueroa is celebrating Women’s History Month 2024 by welcoming Los Angeles-based BIPOC...
by DOWNTOWN News | Mar 7, 2024 | Art, Downtown News, Events
Curious to learn more about the printing process? South Street Seaport Museum’s 19th century-style letterpress printers, Bowne & Co., is offering a monthly opportunity for visitors learn about letterpress printing and get hands-on with the Museum’s working...
by DOWNTOWN News | Dec 14, 2023 | Art, Culture
All images: Alice Teeple. Multidisciplinary NYC artist Alice Teeple reinterprets Victorian mourning practices as spiritual alchemy for the modern day, in her first solo exhibit, Solve et Coagula, opening Friday, at Chinatown’s Shelter Gallery. Teeple’s...
by DOWNTOWN News | Jul 3, 2023 | Art, Culture, Movies
Give Me an A is a dark comedy horror short film anthology created by several directors in response to the June 2022 overturning of Roe Vs. Wade. The anthology is made up of 16 shorts by different directors – and a wraparound film that connects each one. Filming was...
