New School: Arts & Culture

New York City is constantly changing. Starting in 2026, the MetroCard will no longer be available for New York City residents.Produced by: Nika Berezutski, Piper Lacy, Ewan McDougall, Sophia ...

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was first published in New England Magazine in 1891, and was rediscovered in the era of Second Wave feminism along with Gilman’s other works...

Gridlocked is an immersive audio piece exploring the relationship between cars and urban life in New York City. Created as a soundwalk—an audio experience meant to be heard while walking—it u...

Since 2007 the African Burial Ground has served as a reminder of the suffering of slaves. Located in the financial district in Manhattan, New York, it is a memorial to those who lost their li...

Roaratorio is an acoustic experimental production created by the composer John Cage in 1979 for West German Radio. Cage, whose complex and challenging music often seemed chaotic, was act...

Cast: Isabel Guastella, Elena Hollenbeak, Sophia Longmuir, Atticus Malloy, Jean-Luc MontaudyBand: Nicolas Bond, Deniz Oszan, Lio SpinelliCo-Director and producer: Maddy Burger ...

The New School’s student-lead film festival, the New Screen Fest, is back for its third annual run. Diverse, creative films from a multitude of genres will be on display on Saturday May 10th ...

The Lang Theater Production for Spring 2025 will be a staging of La Cocina, written by Tony Meneses and directed by Danica Selem. A contemporary adaptation of the 1960's play The Kitchen by A...

Step into the world of The New School’s Comedy Club, Mother Figure, where creativity and laughter take center stage. This audio piece explores the vibrant community of aspiring comedians, the...

The Edges of Ailey exhibition at The Whitney Museum celebrates the life and work of choreographer and activist Alvin Ailey, whose revolutionary artistry reshaped American dance and culture. F...

The Village Halloween Parade is one of New York City’s most cherished cultural rites, drawing people from all over the city—and all over the world, to participate in a celebrat...

We bring to you a live-recording of Edgar Allen Poe’s chilling classic, The Tell-Tale Heart. Since its publication in 1843, this story has captivated audiences with its intense exploration of...

The Merchant's House Museum, which from 1835-1933 was a residential home for a wealthy family, now exists as a historic house museum in the heart of the East Village. The museum is furni...

Producers Andrea Tlacuilo and Alisha Mess tell the story of how Michael Jackson overcame MTV’s racial barrier with his smash hit music video “Billie Jean.”We’d love to give a special thanks t...

Since the development of the Disney company in 1923, Disney has grown to be a staple of North American culture, but with its popularity came something unexpected — the cultural phenomenon of ...

In a post-Covid society where community is hard to come across The Gaia Music Collective is here to save the day. A New York City based music collective that hosts a variety of singing events...

Producer Maddy Burger interviews her former professor Bureen Ruffin, who teaches first-year writing at The New School. They discuss their individual and collective journeys, while asking deep...

The Village Halloween Parade celebrated its 50th anniversary this week, with performance artist Laurie Anderson as the Grand Marshall. WNSR’s Sarah Montague attended. She says is wa...

Going to summer camp is almost a rite of passage for many Jewish tweens and teens nationwide. With puberty hormones raging, unspoken (and spoken) peer pressure, and the inherent design o...

The average New Yorker or tourist who visits the Empire State Building may not notice Legends Sports Bar, one of many which are opposite this iconic landmark. From the outside, there are...

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade returned in person this year with a wide array of colorful costumes and a great deal of merry noise. Reporter Jean-Luc Mountady stopped by to ca...

Producer Violette Hedo reflects on the nature and cultural significance of this iconic New York food. ...

Taking a media critique approach to historical analysis, Calvin Ryerse explores the rise of Rush Limbaugh, the man who proved conservative media could be a powerful and profitable c...

The Twilight Saga is a series of four fantasy novels by Stephanie Meyer.  The film adaptations, beginning in 2008, attracted a huge following, fashioning a generation of what produc...

Producer Bria Dixon investigates the way Black fashion of the 1990s "celebrates self love" and Black culture.Music & Video Sources-“Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (Original Video).” YouTube, upl...

Description: The South Korean drama series Squid Game, released on Netflix in Sept. 2021, became the streaming platform’s most viewed series to date with approximately 142 million household v...

The New School is historically unconventional, and has an equally unique mascot. Here is the story of Gnarls the Narwhal, and how their identity represents us, the student body. Produced...

On Sept. 25 2021, the Student Leadership and Involvement team hosted a bike ride event in Central Park. Both faculty and students alike participated in this event, where they expressed how th...

Content warning: this includes descriptions of eating disorder behaviors and anxiety.Food, exercise and family collide in unexpected ways. Marley Collins talks to her family about food, exerc...

When it comes to delivering babies in the good ole USA for Black women, you will find that we are living in two very different America's when you look at the infant mortality rate. Producer A...

\Producer Christian Nesfield interviews his grandmother, Ellen Holden, about the history his family, and Orchard Street in Ridgwood, New Jersey where they’ve lived for over a hundred years. ...

They were chosen because the islands were so remote. Told through personal narratives of young people, we explore the history of the United States' nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Fo...

Fiction plays an important part in most people's everyday lives. Producer Sheyda Parnianpour was inspired by the Oscar Wilde quote 'Life imitates art far more than art imitates life' to expl...

Radio date is a short feature documenting the eclectic, isolating, and humorous experience of Black, queer, nonbinary dating during the CO-VID 19 pandemic. It's meant to reveal my newly acq...

Mother and Daughter is a radio feature by Andy Hartman where she details her gender transition and relates it to her mother's experiences with pregnancy and breast cancer. Produced by Marley ...

Common understanding of Mexican food is far from its authentic actuality. Traditional dishes from south of the border have become appropriated by white restaurateurs and immigrants alike to t...

Produced by Jack Irwin, Ariana Martinez, Xander Nazon, and Violet Heppler ...

Just in time for Mother's Day, we examine an employment bias against mothers who have taken time off to care for their children. Although the return to the workforce is not easy, many mothers...

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As we’ve spent more and more time at home, the user base of apps like Tiktok has grown dramatically. We explored the impact that this highly accessible dance platform is having on the dance c...

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As many people are interacting with less people, social awkwardness has been normalized. Students and essential workers share their socially awkward situations. Produced by Helen Chappel...

Numerous communities have seen themselves affected creatively and professionally by the Covid-19 pandemic and the social distancing restrictions that have been established. Artists and creati...

Pickles and cultural preservation happenings on the Lower East Side. Reported, Produced, & Mixed by Adina Karp ...

Diversity in representation after death can be found in both obituaries and archives, but it's not something that happens overnight, and it is not something that happens on it’s own. If death...

Street Harassment in NYC by WNSR contributors ...

Traveling around Europe with your two best friends can be fun, if you know what you're doing. This is a story about the time I almost got lost in Italy four times. ...

A young woman attempting to find her place and voice in the film industry. ...

Examining diversity initiatives within archives and obituaries. ...

57 Years after the Good Friday Experiment gave 20 christian college students the mystical experience of their lives, one professor decides to pay homage to the site, as a place of sacred and ...