Benjamen Walker

The Copenhagen climate summit is wrapping up.  Artist Mark Coreth's melting giant ice polar bear sculpture in London's Trafalgar Square is becoming the iconic image of the Copenhagen Climate conference.

A New York Moment explores New York scenes as captured by NYC photographers.  That means you. 

At the heart of the WNYC Cityscapes project are different perspectives on New York City. Geoff Manaugh is the urbanist behind the popular architecure blog BLDGBLOG. We gave him a camera to make some videos for us. Here is his first.

The Bauhaus exhibit at MoMa has drawn huge crowds since opening in November. Check out our online tour of the show with curators Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman.

A New York Moment, explores New York scenes as captured by NYC photographers.  That means you. 

 This weekend, cartoonists will get to escape their drawing boards for a day of artist signings, discussions and live music.

Video artist Omer Fast tells stories of love, war, and displacement that blend fact and fantasy. 

iPhones and mobile devices have changed the way we navigate the city. Apps like Google Maps and Yelp put an unprecedented amount of information about the city at one’s fingertips.

Our new photography series, A New York Moment, explores New York scenes as captured by NYC photographers.  That means you.  

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A heliport on top of Bryant Park? that's just one of New York City "ideas" that were never built. But now you can take a self-guided tour of them, with the help of a new iPhone application called "Museum of the Phantom City".

It uses the ...

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Historian Luc Sante has spent years documenting the street life and culture of New York City through words and photos. And he's a judge for WNYC's Street Photography contest. Streetshots producer Benjamen Walker took a walk with Luc Sante to talk about what's new in ...

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"Foto Modernity in Central Europe 1918 - 1945," which closes on Monday at the Guggenheim Museum, is one of the most talked about photography exhibitions of the year. WNYC’s Benjamin Walker makes the case for a last chance visit.

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The East Village is fast becoming a neighborhood known for luxury condos and NYU dorms – but as Benjamen Walker reports, if you listen closely you can still hear the eclectic mystical East Village.

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The Fall Auction Season is wrapping up. Christie's and Sotheby's both held their Contemporary Art Auctions this week. Benjamen Walker asked whether you have to be a millionaire to get in on New York’s Fall auction action.

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For most of New York's art galleries summertime means group shows. They're a chance for unknown and untried artists to make their debuts. But a show called Old School mixes old masters with new artists. Benjamen Walker reports.

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Last month, an art collector took out a lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art, accusing the Foundation of manipulating the market for the Warhol’s works by refusing to authenticate as many of his pieces as possible. It’s up to the courts ...

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All great photographs tell stories. First Contact: Photographer's Notebook is a show that uses the contact sheet, the negatives from a roll of film printed on a single page, to expose the stories behind some of the 20th century's most famous pictures. Benjamen Walker went ...