Alicia Zuckerman

Alicia Zuckerman appears in the following:

Art Show Focuses on Garment Workers

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

At one time, New York City had hundreds of thousands of workers churning out much of this country’s clothing. Today, there are about eighty-thousand blue-collar garment workers left in the city. A recent art installation focused on some of them.

This past weekend, an old, empty ...

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Play Questions Faith in Courtroom Setting

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" is a play by Steven Adley Guirgis that's currently on stage at the Public Theater. In the play, questions of sin, faith, and the possibility of forgiveness are thrashed out in an other-worldly courtroom setting.

It's a co-production with the ...

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"Ashes and Snow" Exhibit at Temporary Museum

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Recently, you may have noticed huge, mysterious photographs of elephants on the sides of buildings all around town. They're not accompanied by any text, or other clues as to why they’re there.

They are the work of Gregory Colbert. On Saturday, a temporary museum built specifically ...

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NASA's Artist-in-Residence

Monday, February 21, 2005

A few years ago Laurie Anderson got a phone call from NASA asking her to become its first Artist-in-Residence. Anderson is a boundary-defying artist. She sings, she plays violin, she composes music, she writes prose. At first she thought the phone call was a prank, but when she realized it ...

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Exhibition of Prisioners' Paintings

Thursday, December 16, 2004

Each year, The Fortune Society—an ex-prisoner advocacy group—holds an exhibition of art created by inmates. The fifth annual "Insider Art" show is taking place this week at the Lab Gallery of the Roger Smith Hotel at 47th Street and Lexington Avenue. It was curated by ...

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Boom Box Symphony

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

For the past 12 years, composer Phil Kline has been leading people through the streets of New York for his annual Christmas symphony ... using tapes, played on boom boxes by the participants. This year, the Jewish Community Center commissioned a Hanukkah version of the ...

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Soccer and the Symphony

Monday, November 29, 2004

The Mexican American Symphony Orchestra makes its debut tomorrow night under the baton of a precocious Manhattan School of Music student, who founded the ensemble. One of the pieces on the program is based on a soccer match between Mexico and Brazil. Alicia Zuckerman has ...

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Convention Draws Hundreds of Artists to City

Saturday, August 28, 2004

The conventional wisdom was that the city was going to clear out this week. But besides the thousands of delegates, protestors and journalists pouring into town for the Republican National Convention--writers, actors, dancers, musicians, and other artists are also seizing the moment. WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman ...

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No More Pencils, No More Books.

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Tomorrow is the last day of school at the Bronx Charter School for the Arts--a new elementary school for grades K through 3 in the industrial neighborhood of Hunts Point. WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman has been stopping by all year, and now has the last in ...

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Four Winners Chosen for WTC Site Culture Center

Friday, June 11, 2004

About a year ago more than a hundred cultural institutions submitted proposals and crossed their fingers, hoping to win a spot in the cultural complex being planned for the World Trade Center Site. Yesterday we found out that the four winners are the Joyce International ...

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Brooklyn Beer

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Williamsburg, Brooklyn is now known among the city's hipsters as a good place to go out for a beer. What most people don't know is that the eastern part of Brooklyn was once one of the country's largest centers of beer-making.

A new exhibition tells ...

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TAT's Cru

Saturday, May 08, 2004

Back in the early 1980s, Wilfredo Feliciano and Sotero Ortiz became two of the best graffiti artists in the Bronx, illegally painting countless city walls and subway cars. The two are still at it today, but they’ve gone legit, and they’re teaching their kids about an energetic artistic sensibility born ...

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Graffiti: All Grown Up

Friday, May 07, 2004

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Two of most prolific teenage graffiti artists of the eighties are all grown up now, raising kids, making money, and still painting the streets of New York. 

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Circus Tells Tales with Opera

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Cirque Boom, a two-year-old circus company in Brooklyn, calls what it does circus that matters and theater that amazes. Tonight in DUMBO Cirque Boom is adding opera to the mix, using acrobats and professional opera singers in The Hoffmann Circus, a re-telling of Jacques Offenbach's ...

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Janney's Sonic Forest Gets Second Chance

Friday, April 23, 2004

People walking through the Lincoln Center Plaza one day last summer encountered some exotic sounds. Sonic Forest, a temporary electronic installation by the interactive artist Christopher went up on August fourteenth. So hours after the project opened, it fell silent, as the blackout of 2003 ...

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Bronx Charter School for the Arts

Saturday, March 27, 2004

A few months ago, we introduced you to the Bronx Charter School for the Arts — a new public elementary school in an economically struggling section of New York City. Alicia Zuckerman caught up with the students and teachers backstage before their first public performance.

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First Performance At Bronx Arts

Monday, March 22, 2004

The Bronx Charter School for the Arts is a public and privately funded free elementary school in Hunts Point. Since it opened in September, WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman has been checking in on its progress. She was there for the school's first public performance.

Sullivan: ...

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Voters In New York City Decided Between 'Two Johns'

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

There were nine names on the Super Tuesday ballot, and four candidates still in the race. WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman visited polling places across New York City today and found that for many voters, the race came down to deciding between the two Johns.


Thompson: I ...

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Voters In Bushwick

Monday, February 23, 2004

One week from tomorrow, New York State Democrats will go to the polls to vote in the presidential primary. In the next installment in an ongoing series about voters in the Metropolitan area, WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman spoke with residents in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

ZUCKERMAN: ...

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International Artists Face hurdles to Perform Here

Friday, January 09, 2004

Emiline Michele is one of sixteen artists appearing at Global Fest, a marathon showcase of international music at the Public Theater. But as the popularity of international music grows, so do the hassles international artists have to face to perform here. WNYC's Alicia Zuckerman has ...

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