Category: Culture & events
This month, New Women New Yorkers welcomed a new cohort of our storytelling program in partnership with The Moth. Each year, the collaborative program trains a group of up to fifteen immigrant women in the ins and outs of storytelling: How to identify personal stories and build an interesting one, and how to share it in a captivating and confident way. The four workshops span across two weeks and conclude with a recorded final share to an audience of family...
Phil the Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s new initiative, is a warm welcome to a public who may never before have set foot in its concert hall. Written by Bruna Shapira This April, NWNY Cultural Trip took us to Phil the Hall, the New York Philharmonic’s new initiative to welcome New Yorkers dedicated to public service to its concert hall. For most of our group, it was the first time there. “Our community is formed mainly by recent immigrants. It...
An exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum traces how and why the Mexican artist crafted her own image and artistic practice in ways that challenged long-held assumptions on gender, sexuality, and identity. Written by Bruna Shapira Sixty-five years after her passing, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is everywhere. From tattoos, Barbie dolls, Carnival and Halloween customs to an Instagram account with nearly a million subscribers, she has became a pop culture icon. Just to use a word recently incorporated to our vernacular,...
An exhibit at the Wallach Art Gallery traces the evolving representation of the black female figure, from the early stages of Impressionism to the present day Written by Bruna Shapira At some point, every art lover or art history student will come across Édouard Manet’s Olympia (below), a painting widely considered as a foundational work of modern art. First exhibited in 1865, it displays a nude white woman lying on a bed, while her black servant brings her flowers. Curator Denise...
