Author

Ismail Okafor

Contributing Writer

Ismail Okafor listens for the sound as well as the story, writing about artists, live performance and the business around music. He covers DJ craft and discovery routes, musical narrative technique, and the working economics of players and studios.

Articles by Ismail Okafor

Plaza with abstract sculpture and benches in morning light

Guides

How public art gets commissioned in New York, from percent-for-art to the subway

Ismail Okafor

Guides

New York's major art museums offer several routes around full-price admission

Ismail Okafor

Converted industrial studio building with glowing windows in winter

Artists

What an artist residency means in New York

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Diverse visitors climbing a grand museum lobby staircase in daylight

Guides

How to visit the Brooklyn Museum

Ismail Okafor

Empty chairs in a morning sculpture garden corner

Guides

First visit to MoMA

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Numbered diagram showing four steps of drip painting technique

Artists

Where to see Jackson Pollock in New York

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Visitors of mixed ages waiting in an installation queue

Artists

Where to see Yayoi Kusama in New York

Ismail Okafor

Dark museum gallery with a single projector beam of light

Artists

Where to see Kara Walker in New York

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Gallery intercom buzzer panel beside a locked entrance door

Guides

Lower East Side galleries in a day

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Sunlit prewar apartment facades on a quiet Upper East Side block

Artists

Where to see Alice Neel in New York

Ismail Okafor