New School: Arts & Culture

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 creatives from different fields share how their practices have changed to adapt to the “new normal.”

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 as an act is the only thing that transcends all else, then studying its representation in our society and who we choose to remember could be helpful to understanding our country’s long suppression of diversity. I reached out to an obituaries writer at The New York Times and an archive librarian at University of Santa Barbara’s Special Collection Library to learn about the diversity initiatives these two institutions have taken on.

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 religious significance. Special thanks to Christopher "Doc" Kelley Additional audio provided by: MAPS, from Psychedelic Science Conference, 2013

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CRIMINAL HAIR by WNSR contributors