John Hanc

4 days ago | yogajournal.com | John Hanc

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. It’s noon on Sunday at UpDog studio on Broadway and 102nd Street in Manhattan. How crowded could class be at a recently opened yoga studio? Packed. The 900-square-foot practice room is filled by the time the teacher walks to the front of the class. As she welcomes the 21 students, everyone—mostly but not exclusively women—smiles back at her.

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | John Hanc

Share This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.What’s all that yelling?It’s hard to make out the words, but at the entrance to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s new “Give Me Liberty” exhibition, a man’s voice was registering anger — loudly enough that it threatened to drown out the director of curatorial affairs, Andy Talkov, who was giving a tour.Just four days before the exhibition’s opening last month,...

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | John Hanc

Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a variety of voices and views. This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. What's all that yelling?

1 month ago | newsday.com | John Hanc

They’re calling it “The Second Coming” of George Washington. On April 24, exactly 235 years to the day in 1790 that newly elected President Washington may (or may not) have made a few impromptu remarks in Oyster Bay, he will return to Long Island — albeit in a different form. An AI version of Washington will be introduced at Raynham Hall, the 18th century home of the Townsend family, now a Town of Oyster Bay museum.

1 month ago | newsday.com | John Hanc

On a cold, Saturday afternoon, the trees in Bethpage State Park might seem barren to a casual observer. But Callan Fleck has quickly spotted the avian life teeming on leafless limbs and desolate winter fields, rattling off their names with ease and familiarity. A hawk. A blue jay. A dark-eyed junco and a red-bellied woodpecker.