Gisele Regatao

Senior Editor, Culture, WNYC News

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Cherry Blossoms with Cosplay

Saturday, April 26, 2014

One of the true signs of spring is being celebrated this weekend, along with all things Japanese.

Sakura Matsuri at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is the annual festival of Japanese culture. It often coincides with the flowering of the garden's hundreds of cherry trees.

The festival features music ...

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An Architect of Ideas, Not Buildings

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Lebbeus Woods designed complex worlds that were rarely built, but fostered discussions about the role of architecture.

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A Censored Warhol is Back, 50 Years Later

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Pop artist Andy Warhol’s only public art piece was on view for just 48 hours, at the 1964 World's Fair. It’s now back at the Queens Museum.

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Weekend Staff Picks: Kids, Cats & Cappuccinos

Saturday, April 26, 2014

A pop-up shop where you can enjoy a cappuccino while playing with a cat is among the picks suggested by our colleagues at WNYC.

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Theater Smackdown: Do Stars Shine or Fade on Broadway?

Friday, April 25, 2014

Reviews are in for the latest crop of Hollywood starts taking to the stage, including James Franco, Michelle Williams, Alan Cumming and Neil Patrick Harris, and they're not all sparkling.

 

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Though This Be Madness, Could This Dictionary Be Shakespeare's?

Thursday, April 24, 2014

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Two New York City bookstore owners claim they have an annotated dictionary from 1580 used by the bard himself.

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Marshmallows and Colombian Workers as Art

Sunday, April 20, 2014

A gallery in Chelsea is about to become a marshmallow factory.

Oscar Murillo, a London-based emerging artist originally from Colombia, is turning David Zwirner on West 19th Street into a candy-making facility.

His piece, entitled "A Mercantile Novel," opens on Thursday April 24th and is done in collaboration with Colombina, ...

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Eating the Easter Bunny

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Spring is the season of new life—chicks, lambs, bunnies. But in the city they are most easily enjoyed in their delectable chocolate analogs.

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Soderbergh's 'The Library' Takes the Blood out of a School Shooting

Saturday, April 19, 2014

'The Library' marks filmmaker Steven Soderbergh's New York theater debut.

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Food, Coffee and Music for Record Store Day

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Long lines and lots of shiny new vinyl recall the heyday of record shops.

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A Festival on Baldwin's Black and Gay World

Saturday, April 19, 2014

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A new festival explores the work of one of the most celebrated writers on the issues of race and sexuality.

"James Baldwin, This Time!" will happen from Wednesday the 23rd until Sunday the 27th at New York Live Arts in Chelsea. The writer of books like Notes of a ...

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Weekend Staff Picks: Blossoms, Beats & Banjos

Saturday, April 19, 2014

A Pete Seeger sing-along tribute will be a part of this year's Brooklyn Folk Festival at The Bell House.

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Ai Weiwei's Provocative Art, Now in Brooklyn

Friday, April 18, 2014

Is he a great artist, or just a great social activist?

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Museums Offer a Bang for the Bucks

Friday, April 18, 2014

Most New Yorkers think museums in the city are expensive, but they offer a lot for the money.

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Among the Orchids, Evidence of Evolution

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Among the hundreds of species on display at the New York Botanical Gardens right now, one particular orchid stands out for its role in history.

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Wild German Artist Packs MoMA

Sunday, April 13, 2014

On Saturday, MoMA is opening the first comprehensive retrospective of the experimental German artist Sigmar Polke. But with an excessive 250 pieces, "the show is a disaster," says WNYC's art critic.

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Weekend Staff Picks: Delicacies, Drums & Emmylou

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball Tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday is where you can find one of our staff members. Find out what some of the others are doing this weekend. 

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Digging Into the Past for New Art

Friday, April 11, 2014

Surging values for postwar and contemporary works are inspiring dealers and collectors to rediscover artists long overlooked.

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An Iconic Murder Helped Create the 911 System

Monday, April 07, 2014

In 1964, The New York Times reported that 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her apartment while dozens of her neighbors did nothing. The real story was a little more com...

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Massive Reptiles Once Flew, Above the Dinosaurs

Sunday, April 06, 2014

It's a bird, it's a plane? It's ... a pterosaur?

These giant flying reptiles lived alongside the dinosaurs, and are the subject of a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.

More than 150 species of pterosaurs have been discovered, according to curator and chair of the ...

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