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92NY’s Goldman Center for Children and Family provides an exceptional array of programs designed to support children at every stage of their development.
The radiant and reflective Andréa Burns, Drama Desk Award winner for In The Heights and whose Broadway work also includes The Notebook, On Your Feet!, and more, is the force behind and onstage in the new Lyrics & Lyricists’ show DIAMONDS AND RUST: The Artistry and Activism of Joan Baez …
Welcome to the 92NY blog. Here’s where you’ll find insights and interviews from inside our programs, gems from our archives, and highlights of what’s to come!
For the first time, 92NY is an official charity partner of the New York City Marathon this year. And four determined runners are going the distance for a cause close to our hearts …
Even icons have families. Grammy-winning producer, drummer and bandleader of the Miles Electric Band (M.E.B.) and Emmy Award-winning force behind the Miles Davis documentary Birth of the Cool, Vince Wilburn, Jr. is also Miles Davis’ nephew …
In Man in the Mirror, journalist Anand Giridharadas presents a deeply reported account of the 2023 killing of Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man, by former marine Daniel Penny on a New York City subway …
American Scoundrel, Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark’s bracing new biography of Roy Cohn, has arrived to considerable critical noise and, as of this writing, is climbing the New York Times bestsellers list …
Over the past month, we have brought you to a studio in El Vedado. We have introduced you to the dancers who made it their home. We have told you the story of how The Essence of Us — a work that almost wasn’t made — came into being …
Malpaso Dance Company was meant to travel from Cuba to New York for the world premiere of a new work created for the company by renowned choreographer Pedro Ruiz …
Last week, we brought you to a studio in El Vedado, Havana. This week: the people inside it. Malpaso Dance Company is the only independent dance company in Cuba. Fernando Sáez …
On September 19, a new work born in Havana will have its world premiere at 92NY. Before it reaches Kaufmann Concert Hall, we want to take you to the place where it began …
The buzzy new membership club for dynamic adults in their 50s and 60s, NEXUS at 92NY was created so people could expand their social network while doing the things they love …
For parents of children in kindergarten through fifth grade, the hours after school can be some of the hardest to solve. …
Joy soared higher than the balloons when nearly 200 members of 92NY’s Himan Brown 60+ Program gathered in Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center on June 17 for a jubilant, pull-out-all-the-stops celebration of the 75th anniversary of 92NY’s – and New York City’s – renowned program for adults ages 60+ …
Brian Tyler Cohen has become one of the defining political voices of the post-cable-news era: a commentator, podcaster, and digital force whose independent platform reaches millions by turning the daily blur of outrage, legal drama, and democratic peril into something legible …
As the world commemorates the centennial of music and culture icon Miles Davis, Jazz in July Artistic Director Aaron Diehl presents this summer’s festival in celebration of Miles’ extraordinary influence …
“The Way We Were.” “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” “The Windmills of Your Mind.” The American songbook is filled with the exquisite love songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman …
We are all born to move. Before language, before we learn how to explain ourselves, we move …
Muldoon’s Picnic — the long-running reading and performance series hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, now at 92NY — is named for neither its founder nor a picnic …
On March 22, 1874, a group of Jewish civic leaders did something both practical and visionary. They saw Jewish immigrants arriving in New York from Eastern Europe in record numbers, and understood that what …
On January 24, 1980, two young Brazilian-born guitarists and brothers performed their first concert in America on the stage of The 92nd Street Y …
This year, award-winning poet, biographer, and memoirist Molly Peacock celebrates her 40th year of teaching poetry workshops at 92NY …
“Evergreen,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainbow Connection,” “An Old Fashioned Love Song,” “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “You and Me Against the World,” “Touch” – the Paul Williams songbook spans six decades and artists from …
Megan Doyle is shaping the future of musical theater in New York — and the city is taking notice. City & State named the Executive Director, Musical Theater & Theater for Young Audiences at 92NY one of 2025’s Trailblazers in Arts & Culture …
At 92NY this fall, editor and publisher Gerald Howard joins us to discuss his new biography of Cowley, The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature …
“Stop in the Name of Love,” “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” “You Can’t Hurry Love” “Reach Out,” “Baby Love,” “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” “Heat Wave” … the powerhouse songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland – Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, often referred to as H-D-H – wrote and produced some of the most defining tracks in modern music and shaped the Motown sound …
The rich keep getting richer, the market keeps soaring, and somehow the economy can’t quite make up its mind. “Inflation checks,” AI hype, boom-and-bust anxiety — it’s a lot. So what’s a regular investor supposed to do …
Few voices cut through today’s noise with more clarity — or more provocation — than Scott Galloway. Ahead of his 92NY talk with Ben Stiller on Wed, Nov 5, Prof. G fielded five questions for us …
Launched last year as a membership group for culture-obsessed 20- and 30-something New Yorkers, Collective by 92NY almost instantly became something greater — a community, a home base, and a hub for young people navigating the city …
World-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt’s Bach performances on 92NY’s stage are the stuff of modern legend. In the only US presentation of her four-year, 12-concert Bach Odyssey, she packed Kaufmann Concert Hall …
When a program truly changes lives, word spreads. It’s what has happened with 92NY’s Program for Cognitive Strength and Ability (PCSA). Created to bring connection, stimulation, and dignity to those navigating mild to moderate cognitive loss …
Roundtable — our destination for online learning — is celebrating its third anniversary on Wednesday, June 25 with a special daylong event: A Day of Icons, which gathers five renowned experts as they explore the concept of genius and the makings of five cultural, intellectual, artistic icons — from Shakespeare to Gene Kelly …
John Gregory Dunne spent much of his career as a writer in the shadow of his wife, the great Joan Didion — and in 1970, he briefly left her and their three-year old child for Las Vegas. The memoir he wrote there, Vegas — “the best book about Sin City ever written” (Esquire) — has been quietly influencing younger writers for years, despite being out of print.
One of those writers is Stephanie Danler, author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter and the acclaimed memoir Stray, who wrote the forward to the new reissue of Vegas …
Tatami is no ordinary sports movie. Co-directed by Israeli and Iranian filmmakers Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir Ebrahimi — and based on a true story — the film follows Leila (Arienne Mandi), an Iranian judo fighter who is put in political danger when her government tells her to fake an injury and withdraw from the world championships rather than face an Israeli rival in the final. Ahead of a special screening on Tuesday, June 10, Reel Pieces’ Annette Insdorf sat down to talk to us about what makes the film so remarkable …
Defining happiness in adulthood — let alone finding it — isn’t always as simple as it seems. Luckily Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Project, is here to help. Ahead of her upcoming conversation with Allison Gilbert on Sunday, June 1 — part of Connected Lives, 92NY’s new conversation series about building community and connection in the modern world — Rubin sat down to talk to us …
Roundtable — our destination for online learning — is celebrating its third anniversary on Wednesday, June 25 with a special daylong event: A Day of Icons, which gathers five renowned experts as they explore the concept of genius and the makings of five cultural, intellectual, artistic icons — from Shakespeare to Gene Kelly …
Dance is ever moving forward at the Harkness Dance Center – this month, with enthralling new beats. 92NY’s first annual Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival (Apr 21-27) is a weeklong celebration of rhythm dance, with performances showcasing tap, flamenco, hip-hop, Kathak Indian dance, Irish step dancing, street dance and Appalachian flatfooting …
From the palatial estates of Crazy Rich Asians to the high school hallways of Clueless, Jane Austen’s influence is everywhere — literary, cinematic and, let’s be honest, in every modern rom-com where the couple starts out loathing each other …
She was Michael Jackson’s tap instructor. The only female dancer in the Tony Award-winning Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk. She’s been honored with some of the most prestigious awards in dance. Her image was featured on a US postage stamp. Dormeshia is a trailblazer, taking tap to new heights, and elevating and empowering women in the art form as none before …
This week, public high school students in New York City are getting unparalleled access to the arts in all five boroughs during 92NY School Engagement in the Arts’ Teen Arts Week. Launched by our Teen Producers in 2019, Teen Arts Week offers teens free workshops, performances, and hands-on access to the city’s creative industries …
Earlier this month, soprano Karen Slack won her first Grammy Award – for her very first album. It’s a recording debut as bold and rooted in conviction as the singer herself – acclaimed for both her dynamic performances on stages including the Metropolitan Opera and her work creating change in classical music …
Illuminating, comprehensive, and delightfully gossipy, Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists is widely considered the birth of art criticism as we know it — published in 1550, it set the blueprint for art history as a creative, intellectual act — and it established the very idea of a “canon” of great artists whose art would transcend their own lifetimes, including da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Botticelli, Donatello, Raphael and many others …
Lin-Manuel Miranda saw Rent on his 17th birthday and has said it’s the reason he decided to write musicals. The show, with book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, changed what Broadway sounds like and who it speaks to, blending theatrical narrative with rock to tell a story …
When comics pioneer Robert Crumb emerged in the 1960s, his work was unlike anything anyone had ever done with the form. Bringing a sophisticated visual language to a medium that was considered primarily for children, Crumb connected disparate strands of postwar …
The charismatic drummer, bandleader, and composer Allison Miller has been the rhythm machine behind artists from Brandi Carlile, Sara Bareilles, and Natalie Merchant to Dr. Lonnie Smith, timekeeper for jazz supergroup Artemis, bandleader of Boom Tic Boom, and more …
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of NEXUS – a new membership club for dynamic adults ages 50s/60s, created to expand one’s social network while doing the things they love. The club kicks off Wed, Jan 8 with a celebratory party for members and anyone who might want to become one …
