Drawing out the public’s inner artist
By Susan Yung
Graced by balmy, late summer weather, the Big Draw lived up to its moniker this past Saturday, September 9, and drew crowds to a park, a plaza, a pier, and a museum in Lower Manhattan, where five different artists instructed audiences to use their right brain for a change.

Move over, Ebert
By Rachel Fershleiser
Matt Kohn wants to be sure people know about the booze. The writer, filmmaker, and screening series host sees wine as an integral part of his intimate, intellectual Speakeasy Cinema evenings at Collective: Unconscious in Tribeca.

A coffee cart the size of Sisyphus’s rock
By Leonard Quart
Immigrants from all over the world continue to arrive in New York in large numbers hoping for a better life. Some succeed, but it’s usually an arduous process. “Man Push Cart” is a neorealist, low budget, independent film with a minimal narrative, directed by an Iranian-American, Ramin Bahrani that focuses on one such story.

Brooklyn Mural Surfaces in Manhattan
By Nicole Davis
Remember the Pathfinder? Not the car — the mural. Nearly 20 years ago, the controversial painting was unveiled on the side of the Pathfinder Press building, a socialist publisher at 410 West Street.

Picturing loss: 7 W.T.C. exhibit commemorates country’s grief
By Nicole Davis
It is exhilarating and slightly spooky to stand on the 45th floor of 7 World Trade Center, with its lighthouse-like views of the city and the Trade Center construction site below. As it happens, the unfinished floor in the newly rebuilt Tower is also the perfect vantage point for a body of photography whose focus is the nationwide commemoration of the attacks five years ago.

A bad read
Concerned about air quality in Lower Manhattan? Test it yourself this week when art/technology collective Preemptive Media [PM] launches “AIR,” or Area’s Immediate Reading.