Culture

A Riverdale culture plan with a smaller scale, a useful Thursday admission rule and room to look slowly.

Alex Strada’s Public Address brings shelter residents’ and workers’ perspectives into civic space. The park and museum dates are different.

Alice Austen House’s Photoville installation brings documentary photographs into a Rosebank meadow and along the South Beach boardwalk, where looking is free and the harbor supplies the horizon.

Harlem and the East Village get three days of free music, an exceptional lineup, and the kind of public gathering this city still does beautifully.

A festival is more than a lineup. It is the argument New York has in the lobby afterward.

The walk out of the theater, the argument in the lobby, and the delayed realization on the train are part of the festival too.

Outdoor movies turn public space into a temporary theater. The screen is only one thing competing for attention.

Arcades are only one doorway. Developers, competitors, performers, students, and small communities have built a much larger city around play.

Film at Lincoln Center’s horror series brings premieres, old nightmares, and a crowd that knows dread can be fun.

ALZA is giving vertical microdramas a theater, an audience, and a chance to prove they are more than a format trick.