CultureNOW - A celebration of NYC culture and community.

CultureNOW - A celebration of NYC culture and community.

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CultureNOW - A celebration of NYC culture and community. episodes

  • Art & Architecture: The Barnsdall Art Park Foundation's Cotsen Residencies
    One of the Barnesdale Foundation's programs is the Cotsen Artist Residencies, which is an extended working creative experience with artists of great stature to inspire talented young students. These Master residencies have been hosted at Lehrer Architects LA Studio. Artists such as Tim Hawkinson, Alexis Smith, and Lita Albequerque have worked there. Michael Lehrer describes the program and what it's like to work with the artists in the same space.
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  • Cloud Seeding
    A three minute video about Cloud Seeding- a participatory art project at the Denver Public Library. It demonstrates how the visitors of the library can use special search kiosks to find books, movies, and music contribute to the evolving collage of visuals arrayed across a large video-beam in the center of the space.
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  • In Passing
    A three minute video about In Passing - an interactive video installation that celebrates the unique movements of automobile travel, focusing a lens on Rhode Island’s unique landscapes streaming past the car's side window.
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  • Symphony Hall - Virtual Tour
    Symphony Hall opened on October 15, 1900 with an inaugural gala led by music director Wilhelm Gericke. The architects, McKim, Mead & White of New York, engaged Wallace Clement Sabine, a young assistant professor of physics at Harvard, as their acoustical consultant, and Symphony Hall became the first auditorium designed in accordance with scientifically derived acoustical principles.
    Symphony Hall is widely regarded as one of the top finest concert halls in the world. The walls of the stage slope inward to help focus the sound. The side balconies are shallow so as not to trap any of the sound, and the recesses of the coffered ceiling, along with the statue-filled niches along the three sides, help to distribute the sound throughout the hall. The 16 replicas of Greek and Roman statues are related in some way to music, art, or literature. They were placed in the niches as part of an appreciation of the frequently quoted words, "Boston, the Athens of America," written by Bostonian William Tudor in the early 19th century. The Symphony Hall organ, an Aeolian Skinner designed by G. Donald Harrison and installed in 1949, is considered one of the finest concert hall organs in the world.
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  • de Musica
    This podcast discusses the sculpture, "de Musica" by Catherine Cullear. The sculpture was designed for its specific site, in front of the Symphony Center.
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CultureNOW dedicates itself to the promotion of diversity in New York through arts education and cultural tourism. The purpose of the organization is to promote awareness of New York City's culturally…