Mariela Quintana

Good News for Artsy Women: We’re Gonna Make It After All

When you think about the Bronx, what building comes to mind? Is it, perhaps, a poured concrete and Plexiglass stadium?

By Mariela Quintana | Apr 11 02:16 am ET

Gun-Toting Grandmothers Meet Pornographic Yo-Yos in Brooklyn

Museums are great, but many feel that the best part of visiting one is stopping at the gift shop on the way out.

By Mariela Quintana | Mar 28 02:46 am ET

Sketches and Portraits by Artists as Young Renaissance Men

Before you book a semester abroad in Florence, check out The Morgan Library and Museum’s current exhibition “Michelangelo, Vasari and their Contemporaries: The Drawings from the Uffizi.” Borrowing

By Mariela Quintana | Mar 25 10:40 pm ET

Despite Bizarre Plot, Cell Phone Rings True

Striving to show some shred of our shared humanity, Sarah Ruhl successfully distills and dramatizes the feelings of emptiness and disconnect in her new play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone.

By Mariela Quintana | Mar 24 10:49 pm ET

No Spring Break for NY Museums

The Chelsea Art Museum

By Mariela Quintana and Julia Halperin | Mar 3 11:26 pm ET

DUMBO Smacks of Art Better Than Even Disney Could Do

It’s time for another outer-borough adventure—this time, we head to Brooklyn. According to the borough president, delightfully named Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn is a great place to walk.

By Mariela Quintana | Feb 29 12:34 am ET

Not Your Average Public School, P.S. 1 is a Haven for Contemporary Art

While the Core Curriculum encourages Columbia students to become intelligent citizens in today’s complex and changing world, it is often too easy to forget the city to which we owe this intelligent

By Mariela Quintana | Feb 15 12:41 am ET

From Egg to Peacock in 24 Hours

What is it about student theater? The energy, the excitement, the intensity—it has to be more than those raging adolescent hormones.

By Mariela Quintana | Feb 10 10:27 pm ET

August Makes Your Family Seem Normal

Attempting to breathe new life into the all-too-familiar dysfunctional family theme, playwright Tracy Letts presents the Westons in his recent play, August: Osage County.

By Mariela Quintana | Jan 30 11:32 pm ET

Getting to the Point of Seurat’s Drawings at the MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition of Georges Seurat’s drawings displays a body of understated, shadowy sketches, revealing the stylistic innovations the artist made over the course of his short

By Mariela Quintana | Nov 16 02:17 am ET

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