Arts & Culture

Listen closely on the corner of 27th and Welton in Five Points: With a little imagination and the right kind of crazy, you might hear the ghostly improvisation of jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. During the first half of the twentieth century,…

When the Beatles album Abbey Road was released on CD in 1987, it spent 92 weeks on the U.K. Top 75 list. Quite a feat for an album more than sixteen years old at the time; it was also the last album the Beatles recorded together before they disbanded. And…

Hold on to your hat — and your purse, wallet, keys and jewelry — because Gregory Wilson’s Thief: A Criminal Act will leave you awed and possibly missing a few valuables. Wilson, a world-renowned sleight-of-hand expert, turns the skills of master criminals — pickpocketing, card sharping, cons and more —…

Dawn Williams Boyd is one powerhouse of an artist. Even articulate PlatteForum director Judy Anderson, whose enthusiasm for the gallery’s changing menu of resident artists never falters, seems to be rendered nearly speechless by her estimation for Boyd: “Dawn is accomplishing an enormous amount of work,” she says simply –…

Everyone’s favorite wine-and-yoga night, Vino and Vinyasa, returns tonight to lululemon athletica, 3000 East Third Avenue. “It’s one of the best-received events that we do here,” says lululemon’s Sybil Mortimer. And no wonder, when the instructor is Baptiste-certified yogi Dave Farmar — which means that he’s studied under the renowned…

Even the most banal moving images have a powerful, almost irresistible pull on the human eye. When artists focus on this quality, the results can be mesmerizing. Experience it tonight when Rubric Video presents Hypnosis, an evening of experimental video works. In Gibson+Recoder’s Untitled, minimalist patterns slowly morph in striking…

The term “urban contemporary art” has gone from vague title to official category over the past five years. But when Aaron Rose first opened Alleged Gallery in New York City in 1992, the new style of art barely had an identity. “I met all of these young artists who didn’t…

About two years ago, Bad Art for Bad People put together a show in Tampa, Florida. “We didn’t really have a theme for it,” Bad Art’s Bob White remembers, “and at the last minute, we decided to make it a prom theme.” Although none of the exhibit guests were notified…

Rarely do we stop to think how cool evolution actually is — particularly in the smallest sense. Sure, Earth as a whole is an amazing place, but it’s often those minute evolutionary quirks that allowed each creature to chisel out a unique niche. Whether it’s a hypersensitive eye or a…