Venues

92nd Street Y

The 92nd Street Y is about people. The people of New York City and the surrounding area. The people of the United States and of the world. It's about people who entertain and challenge, inform and educate. It's about people who learn and discover, observe and participate.

Recommended by Irwin Kula

Ad Hoc Art

When Ad Hoc Art opened their doors off the Morgan Avenue stop in Bushwick, they became the first of nearly a dozen innovative spaces to populate the Buswick gallery scene.

Bushwick Art Gallery

Alphabeta NYC

Alphabeta is an art gallery and urban art supply shop located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Featuring an 800 can rack of spray paint, including Molotow Belton, Montana Gold, Montana Black, Plutonium G, Sabotaz, Monster/Clash and a vast array of wide-nibbed markers, refillable paint markers, and a selection of top of the line urban art books and magazines.

Recommended by Ad Hoc Art

Apollo Theater

The world famous Apollo Theater is so much more than a historic landmark - it is a source of pride and a symbol of the brilliance of American artistic accomplishment. With its rich history and continued significance, the Apollo Theater, considered the bastion of African-American culture and achievement, is one of the most fascinating chronicles in American history.

Recommended by Rev. Al Sharpton

Arena Studios

Arena Studios is one of the freaky little gems you come across in New York City. That is - if you're into S&M, Fetish, Kinky happenings and provocative art.

For the past sixteen years Arena has been involved in the transformation of the New York City fetish scene while their events, most notably the world famous Black & Blue Ball, has kept them at the forefront of the scene world-wide.

Recommended by Molly Crabapple

Brooklyn Academy of Music

BAM is America's oldest performing arts center and a leading presenter of the avant-garde. Since opening in 1861, it has presented the finest in performing arts. The renowned performers who have appeared at BAM include Isadora Duncan, Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt and Arturo Toscanini, and contemporary counterparts such as Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

Recommended by Fred Cray, Noémie Lafrance

Cathedral of St. John the Divine

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. The cathedral is nicknamed St. John the Unfinished.

Located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10024 (between West 110th Street, which is also known as "Cathedral Parkway", and 113 Street) in Manhattan's Morningside Heights, the cathedral is claimed to be the largest Cathedral and Anglican church and fourth largest Christian church in the world (although the title is disputed with Liverpool Anglican Cathedral). The inside covers more than half a city block.

Recommended by Brad Hirschfield

Cave

CAVE was founded in 1996 and organized as a non-profit organization in 2004, CAVE is now one of the longest running experimental art spaces in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY. CAVE strives to provide an explorative arena and support system for the artistic development of its resident and community artists by hosting studio workspace, educational workshops, exhibition and performance opportunities and assistance in the realization of projects that support risk taking in the in visual, media and performing arts.

Recommended by Noémie Lafrance

Chez Bushwick

Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, is dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance, with a strong focus on new choreography. Since its inception in 2002, the organization has been acknowledged as a new model for economic sustainability in the performing arts, offering New York City's only $5 subsidy for rehearsal space, and thereby fostering the creation, development, and performance of new work.

Recommended by Noémie Lafrance

Chocolate Factory

The Chocolate Factory values the process of creation and the spirit of experimentation. The work of our founding artists and our dedication to supporting the creation of new work by Visiting Artists bears this out. Theater Et Al, the company from which The Chocolate Factory emerged, was for many years an itinerant producing organization, renting theaters and rehearsal spaces by the hour.

Recommended by Noémie Lafrance

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