This is New York • 8th October 2007 Around Washington Square Every spring the sidewalks, stoops, fence posts and fire escapes surrounding Washington Square blossom with eye-catching canvases, wild watercolors, still lifes and sculptures.
Artist Bio • 13th April 1988 Solitude Standing by Suzanne Vega "If striving for getting beneath the surface and uncovering the feelings and thoughts that we all harbor within ourselves is a theme that seems to recur throughout many of Suzanne Vega's songs, that's understandable. Suzanne is someone who knows all too well that our perception of things can often be very different from what they actually are."
The Hour • 27th January 2005 Cultivating a taste for the 'bizarre' "Look out!" Two agile teens whiz by on skateboards across the cavernous hall. Club crawlers dance to funk music vibrating through the floor. The totally-tattooed man shows you his chest and then bares his soul. And a few dim-eyed, aging hipsters look like circus roustabouts as they smoke in the shadows before the urge to guzzle beer tugs them back to the bar.
The Hour • 24th October 1994 Exploring the nature of art at Weir Farm As an early-morning light filters through scarlet and russet-colored trees, and a whisling autumn wind fills the air above Weir Farm with flickering, spiraling leaves, various local painters make their pilgramage to the top of the meandering Nod Hill Road to capture some of the scenes on canvas.
The Hour • 9th December 1994 Artists at work in their Sono lofts Anyone who ever wonders about the relationship between the artist's creative act and the vision of reality seen daily before his or her eyes has to only enter the old factor building near the seaport at 18 Marshal Street.
The Hour • 27th August 2017 Spinning the story of Gray on Gray "Does anyone know what I'm supposed to be doing tonight?" The actor-monologist Spalding Gray walks tentatively out to center stage inside the Norwalk Community College theater Saturday night.
The Villager • 4th September 1994 Ginsberg is back to read in a Village bar Poet Allen Ginsberg stood waiting in the wings on the downstairs stage at the Village Gate--one of a handful of city night spots that has an historic link to the oral tradition.
The Hour • 9th January 2004 Athol Fugard shares life secrets The poetically resonant dialogue of his plays alone mesmerizes audiences in theaters from Johannesburg to New Haven. And when his lithe figure appears at the doorway of the White Barn Theatre, many of the guests just stand motionless and send him admiring and fascinating stares.
Downtown • 10th August 1995 Luka Bloom's acoustic motorbike Luka Bloom is a traveler, a nomad. It's no accident the Irish singer-songwriter's three albums have names inspired by geography or vehicles; they reflect the songs, which are linked by their sense of place and motion. Of course, Bloom has been a traveling kind of...