New York City is an influential and fertile environment for all variety of arts and entertainment.
Literary Arts
- Most of the major publishing houses are either based in or have at least a presence in New York.
- And writers have long congregated in New York. William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allen Poe in the 19th century; Frank McCourt and Tom Wolfe in the 20th century, to name just a few.
- The New Yorker magazine was birthed out of a group of writers gathering at the Algonguin Hotel’s restaurant in the 1920s.
Performing Arts
- Dance
- Music
- Theater
You can find artists performing in almost every part of Manhattan from the Lower East Side to the heights of Harlem and everywhere in between. Venues tend to specialize in staging concerts, dance or plays. But at one super-venue, Lincoln Center, you can experience all of the above in one location.
Visual Arts
- Galleries are located throughout Manhattan, with clusters in Soho and the Upper East Side. Brooklyn also has established artistic communities and centers.
- Sculpture and other works of art are also on display in public spaces – urban pocket parks, lobbies of commercial buildings, sanctuaries of churches and synagogues.
Television
- Since television incorporates all three types of art – literary, performing and visual – we have placed it in a separate category of its own.
- From the earliest days of television’s history, New York was a center for its development. Today, many popular national television shows continue to be taped and produced in Ne w York, including Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, Late Show with David Letterman, The Rachel Ray Show and Live with Regis and Kelly.
The city’s galleries, concert halls, clubs, theaters and studios are venues for living artists. The museums of New York maintain, preserve and exhibit the work of artists past.
You could spend a week long vacation just visiting museums in New York and you would have only just begun to experience the wealth of beauty and knowledge housed in the halls and galleries of the city.