For the 5th year in a row, the New York Gypsy Music Festival is touching down at venues all over town — kicking off next Saturday at Le Poisson Rouge. Rob Weisberg talked about last year’s festival. And he’s back with his picks for this year. You can hear him here:

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Turkish clarinetist Selim Sesler will be among the bands at LPR on Saturday night. He was called the “Coltrane of the Clarinet” by the UK-newspaper The Guardian.

Bulgare is a 31-piece folk dance group from Sofia, Bulgaria, that’s on its first ever North American tour. Here they are in...

Coming soon to Whitney Live….. Colin Gee: Artist-in-Residence Colin Gee returns to the Whitney in an unprecedented performance-based artist-in-residence project scheduled to unfold over the course of the next year. Whitney Live will present works in progress and “first peek” versions of several...

A quick post with photos from our 2009 Composers’ Showcase series to tide you over until we make some exciting announcements about upcoming projects……very soon! Were you here at the Whitney for any of these shows? January 31, 2009 – Composers’ Showcase: Dafnis Prieto Pictured: Dafnis Prieto, Judith...

WNYC’s Joel Meyer (left) and WNYC’s Benjamen Walker (right} making today’s podcast from SXSW.

On today’s podcast, host Benjamen Walker and Soundcheck’s Joel Meyer go for a walk down 6th Street in Austin, Texas. If you’ve never been there, apparently it’s a lot...

The film adaptation of a beloved comic book series “The Watchmen” is now in theaters. Host Benjamen Walker (who actually quoted the 80’s comic in his high school yearbook!) invited two fellow self-proclaimed fanboys into the studio to ask the tough questions like, “if there’s no giant...

On today’s podcast, two young musicians have a new take on Indian classical music, the Public Lab lets the process of developing new shows be part of the art, and Bushwick’s emerging arts scene was on display (in addition to meat cooked with a blowtorch) this weekend at the Bushwick SITE...

On today’s podcast, radiators do more than shed paint chips at the Museum of Art and Design, buyers buy with caution at the Armory and Scope shows, and despite protest, the Israeli dance company Batsheva moves to the beat of their own drum.

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On today’s podcast, a Bushwick book club takes on a whole new dimension — singing, young spoken-word artists faced off in the annual New York Knicks Poetry Slam and the Scope show at Lincoln Center is Cheap Fast & Out of Control, and like all those electronics stores in Times Square “Everything must go!!”

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LAST NIGHT

Last night in Williamsburg, the Bushwick Book Club met to … sing...

On today’s podcast, crossword puzzlers gather at a Brooklyn Marriott, Chautauqua! brings intellectual aspirations (!) to PS.122, and there isn’t a great forecast for the Armory Arts Week – and no, we don’t mean the snow.

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