Category: Entertainment
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Pratt Institute’s graduate facilities in fine arts and photography will soon move to Navy Yard
Pratt Institute’s MFA in Fine Arts and MFA in Photography facilities are scheduled to move soon from the Pfizer Building on Flushing Avenue to the new Dock 72 building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard (BNY), enabling access to a growing creative community on the edge of Pratt’s Brooklyn campus. Dock 72 features floor-to-ceiling windows with…
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’Anthem to US’ calls on the public to add a piece to the nation’s songbook
GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Brooklyn Public Library and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts have announced Anthem to US, a new project presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Queens Public Library. This project invites members of the public to create a contemporary anthem to add to the…
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“Anthem to US” calls on the public to add a piece to the nation’s songbook
GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Brooklyn Public Library and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts have announced Anthem to US, a new project presented in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Queens Public Library. This project invites members of the public to create a contemporary anthem to add to the…
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Photographs by Sylvia Plachy in BPL exhibit ‘It Happened in New York’
GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Brooklyn Public Library currently presents “It Happened in New York”, an exhibition of photographs by Sylvia Plachy. Between 1974 and 2004, Plachy was a staff photographer for the Village Voice. The exhibition is an ode to New York and Plachy’s immense power of observation. Plachy, who was also a contributing photographer…
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Artist-dissident Ai Weiwei gets ‘incorrect’ during an appearance at The Town Hall in Manhattan
Visual artist and activist Ai Weiwei, left, speaks during a conversation with author Mira Jacob, right, on stage at The Town Hall theatre, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in New York. Ai was in New York to discuss his new book, the graphic memoir “Zodiac,” structured around the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, with additional references…
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Brooklyn Museum to open new education center
The Brooklyn Museum’s new Toby Devan Lewis Education Center, first floor. Photo by Alexander Severin/Brooklyn Museum PROSPECT HEIGHTS — On Saturday, the Brooklyn Museum will welcome visitors to its newly renovated Education Center, named in honor of philanthropist, collector and curator Toby Devan Lewis and her important contributions to the art world. The revamped 9,500-square-foot…
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As New York makes an energy transition, fireplace users get a pass
As New York City and the state begin enforcing stringent new climate laws this year, the oldest form of heating – wood-burning – has been excluded from the regulations. Fireplaces and wood stoves aren’t mentioned in the final rules that went into effect this month for the city’s Local Law 97, which forces buildings to…
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Actor Liev Schreiber speaks at Upper East Side temple in effort to bolster Ukraine humanitarian aid
Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side welcomed five-time Golden Globe and three-time Emmy nominee Liev Schreiber for Friday Night Shabbat service on Jan. 19. The actor and director discussed humanitarian aid to Ukraine and America’s role in the conflict. It’s been almost two years since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. So far,…
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Stand-up comedy: Meet the ‘Ernest Hemingway of sexting,’ Che Durena
Che Durena performs to a small yet jovial crowd at St. Marks Comedy Club in NYC on Oct. 31, 2023. Photo: Mimi Lamarre Click here to sign up for BKLIVE, the Brooklyn Eagle’s Arts and Culture newsletter. “I am the Ernest Hemingway of sexting,” comic Che Durena tells a small yet animated audience at the…
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams says story of firing a gun at school, recounted in his book, never happened
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference at City Hall in New York, Dec. 12, 2023. AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie, File Even for Eric Adams, whose hardscrabble upbringing featured heavily in his rise to become mayor of New York City, the tale of his near-miss school shooting was harrowing. One day…