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[mtaartsdesign]

City of Women!  While the names of accomplished men abound in New York City – Astor Place, Bleecker Street, Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center, Washington Park, and Madison Avenue, to name a few – names of women of merit are not often used to identify public works and infrastructure. But on September 19th, an updated City of Women map will be unveiled at the NY Transit Museum! Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, co-editor of Nonstop Metropolis and co-creator of the City of Women map, will join journalist Julie Scelfo for a conversation on the significance of mapping the unsung heroines of New York City’s cultural history. With over 80 new names added to represent each of the subway’s 424 stations, City of Women 2.0 will further celebrate and memorialize women who have shaped New York City from the very beginning.

For tickets: nytransitmuseum.org/cityofwomen.

Cartography by Molly Roy, from "Nonstop Metropolis," by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Subway Route Symbols ® Metropolitan Transportation Authority

[nyc-urbanism]

#MapMondays – Rebecca Solnit's City of Women, reimagining New York City's iconic subway map, with each of the 472 stations renamed for notable women tied to locations across the metropolis. Names include Emma Lazarus at South Ferry, Jane Jacobs at West 4th, Lady Gaga at Bedford Ave, Aaliyah at Myrtle Ave, Sonia Sotomayor at Soundview, Susan B. Anthony at Canal and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Hunts Point. Solnit explained her reaction to the city's gendered geography and inspiration to create the map: “How does it impact our imaginations that so many places in so many cities are named after men and so few after women? What kind of landscape do we move through when streets and parks and statues and bridges and even rivers are gendered— Astor Place, Lafayette Street, Madison Avenue, Lincoln Center, Washington Square, the Frick, Rockefeller Center, Penn Station, the Bronx, the Hudson—and it’s usually one gender, and not another? What kind of silence arises in places that so seldom speak of and to women? This map was made to sing the praises of the extraordinary women who have, since the beginning, been shapers and heroes of this city that has always been, secretly, a City of Women. And why not the subway? This is a history still emerging from underground, a reminder that it’s all connected, and that we get around.” #mapmonday #cartography #atlas #nonstopmetropolis #metropolis #nyc #midtown #thebronx #queensnyc #statenisland #subway #subwaymap #transitmap #publictransit #brooklyn #manhattan #midtown #cityofwomen #urbanism #nycurbanism (at New York Transit Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4dUPHLHXTs/?igshid=kl7owzrezybh

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Eleanor Roosevelt | 14th Street Union Square on the L train Eleanor Roosevelt poses a particular challenge for any amateur writer. What can I possibly add to the canon? I mean one early author called her "a saint and a mermaid," Truman dubbed her "First Lady of the World," and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover referred to her as "the old cow." There's a lot to unpack there. So rather than try, I decided to pull out my copies of the monumental three-part biography of ER penned by Blanche Wiesen Cook, open up to a random page in each volume and share a passage. Here goes. "Young Eleanor poured herself into her fantasies the first thing every morning. They dominated her waking hours and were continually fueled by the many books she read with such pleasure - novels, history, biography, poetry especially." [Vol. I, p. 93] "She defined war as quite simply a lose-lose situation: All families suffer the same when their sons are killed in battle. Moreover, 'economic waste in one part of the world will have an economic effect in other parts of the world. We profited for a time commercially, but as the rest of the world suffers, so eventually do we.'" [Vol. 2, p. 239] "She suggested a three-point platform: peace, jobs and health. Peace was 'a beautiful idea,' to be vigorously 'worked for.' Unemployment was a scourge that had to end, one that required the cooperation of business leaders and governments. Public health was essential, as people suffered and died for lack of 'a better health program.' [Vol. 3, p. 251] The fantasies of that young girl were made real through an astonishingly prodigious life: ER wrote 8,336 newspaper columns, 27 books, nearly 600 articles and as many as 150 letters on a daily basis; gave 75 speeches a year; hosted eight radio programs and three TV shows. "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." #cityofwomen #eleanorroosevelt #the100dayproject #100daysofwomen #nycsubway #changingthemaps https://www.instagram.com/p/B-s8EHUATks/?igshid=pc3o5b79b7ev

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Sublime music and concept for City of Women with music by Iain Chambers and powerful research by Veronica Horwell, soul enchanting chorus, and the wonderful @beibeiwangpercussion ‘s skills grasping one’s heart rhythm! Some feverish tiny A6 sketches inspired by it, drawing and shading whilst queuing at the doctor. Also thinking what is acceptable to draw... symbols and meanings. But I wish I could have been there in person! #WomenWorkandPower #CityOfWomen Iain Chambers’ new vocal work ‘City of Women’ celebrates the advance of women in and around the City of London, in their own words. The 30 minute piece – for soloists and choir – was performed multiple times inside Leadenhall Market over the Open House weekend. It explores women’s freedom of thought (and religion), their right to work, to be independent financially and socially, and to vote and take part in public life. The perfect theatre of Leadenhall Market was chosen because, until the 1840s, women porters did heavy lifting there — carrying a whole sheep carcass, or a side of beef. The music is set to the words of women of character who made great breakthroughs. Some are well-known, like suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst defending herself at the Old Bailey, or reformer Elizabeth Fry experimenting with micro-loans. Some you might not have met, like the risk-taking financier Hester Pinney or the cross-dressing pickpocket Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse. The words draw on fresh historical research by Veronica Horwell, Iain’s collaborator on the acclaimed 2017 project The House of Sound, which recreated the sound of the square mile from 1400-2000 with period musicians and radiophonic sound design. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoGc64Ejn-J/?igshid=16xq2elcun407

[walmat]

Press conference "City of Women. Female Artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938." Thanks for this preview @belvederemuseum . Swipe 👉 1 The First Frost. by Olga Wisinger-Florian 2 Stillife by Broncia Koller Pinell 3 Exhibition View . . #belvederemuseum #lowerbelvedere #cityofwomen #femaleartistsinvienna #OlgaWisingerFlorian #BronciaKollerPinell #artinvienna #igersaustria #igersvienna #collectmomentsnotthings #visualstoryteller #artsyvisualstorytelling #artsycontentcreator #artblogger #justgoshot #neverstopexploring #discoveraustria #rsa_minimal #minimalmag #archidaily #ig_ometry #m_inimal #tv_simplicity #viennamylove #viennanow #stadtwien #fromwhereistand (at H Unteres Belvedere) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtBEPODhsl0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=os1jsf1rv93

[estherattarmachanek]

#unteresbelvedere STADT DER FRAUEN KÜNSTLERINNEN IN WIEN VON 1900 BIS 1938. #Opening Donnerstag, 24. Jänner 2019 Es sprechen: #StellaRollig Generaldirektorin #SabineFellner #curator #Exhibition : 25. Jänner - 19. Mai 2019 Rennweg 6, 1030 Wien #CityofWomen https://www.belvedere21.at/ #trudewaehner 1932. #future of this #youth https://www.instagram.com/p/BtA1UF2hgtv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hkez2cey0l3v

[hugogaray]

City of Women - Federico Fellini (1980) @mubi #marcellomastroianni #annaprucnal #bernicestegers #federicofellini #cityofwomen #lacitadelledonne #foreignfilm #mubi

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]tip: Stadt der Frauen, Belvedere Wien #cityofwomen

]tip: Stadt der Frauen, Belvedere Wien #cityofwomen

“Eine euphorisierende Schau im Belvedere bringt viele unbekannte Namen der Wiener Moderne ins Gedächtnis”, schreibt der Standard zur Ausstellung: STADT DER FRAUEN KÜNSTLERINNEN IN WIEN VON 1900 BIS 1938 25. Januar 2019 bis 19. Mai 2019

Heute sind sie kaum mehr bekannt, auch wenn sie ein Stück Kunstgeschichte geschrieben haben: Künstlerinnen wie Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Helene Funke oder Erika…

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The City of Women project

I’ve long loved Rebecca Solnit. It started way before mansplaining became a global phenomenon and The Nation proclaimed her the “Voice of the Resistance”. I carted around Field Guide to Getting Lost during our year traveling abroad [the rest of the philosophy queen’s body of work easily accessible on the Kindle].

So when I read that she would be at the Queens Museum for the book launch of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas I jumped at the chance to see her in the flesh. One of the most powerful maps was titled City of Women. It reimagines the subway map to conjure “a feminist city of sorts, a map to a renamed city.” 

Says Solnit:

It’s a map that reflects the remarkable history of charismatic women who have shaped New York City from the beginning, such as the seventeenth-century Quaker preacher Hannah Feake Bowne, who is routinely written out of history—even the home in Flushing where she held meetings is often called the John Bowne house. Three of the four female Supreme Court justices have come from the city, and quite a bit of the history of American feminism has unfolded here, from Vic­toria Woodhull to Shirley Chisholm to the Guerrilla Girls. Many of the women who made valuable contributions or might have are forgotten or were never named. Many women were never allowed to be someone; many heroes of any gender live quiet lives. But some rose up; some became visible; and here they are by the hundreds. This map is their memorial and their celebration.

A 16 x 20 poster of the map is framed and conspicuously placed in my Brooklyn apartment.

That was the fall of 2016. Then came the election and the Women’s March and the #metoo movement and, most recently, #timesup. I was pissed off and also itching to make art.

So I’ve combined the two.

This project is straightforward: ride the subway, photograph the journey, research the woman assigned to each stop [adding my own when necessary] and write a blog post.

425 subway stops. 425 women.

Here we go. 

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[estherattarmachanek]

#unteresbelvedere STADT DER FRAUEN KÜNSTLERINNEN IN WIEN VON 1900 BIS 1938. #Opening Donnerstag, 24. Jänner 2019 Es sprechen: #StellaRollig Generaldirektorin #SabineFellner #curator #Exhibition : 25. Jänner - 19. Mai 2019 Rennweg 6, 1030 Wien #CityofWomen https://www.belvedere21.at/. #bronciakollerpinell #stilleben mit #rotemelefanten https://www.instagram.com/p/BtA0JyThuKf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p6y3zohmqxy3

[thehillshaveeyes]

Puede ser muy machista, o es solo la idea de alguien que le fascina y le aterran las mujeres. #federicofellini #lacittadelledonne #cityofwomen #luisbacalov

[cityofwomen]

Edna St. Vincent Millay | 8th Avenue station on the L train Today marks a shift of focus for the City of Women project: we begin riding the rails, line by line. First up is the L train, moving from Eighth Avenue in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to Rockaway Parkway in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. We begin with Edna St. Vincent Millay, born February 22, 1892 in Maine, the eldest of three daughters. She was publishing poetry as early 1906 and it was “Renascence” that brought her to the public fore and the attention of a wealthy benefactor who sponsored her attendance first at Barnard and then at Vassar. Vincent, as she was known, was the very model of the "flaming youth" era of Greenwich Village. She had affairs with men and women, drank and smoked, wrote prose under a pen name, acted and wrote an opera that was performed at The Met. While labeled frivolous and unquestionably pretty, she forged her own route to power in a male dominated world. In 1923, Millay became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Though she thought there was "a beautiful anonymity about life in New York," she left in 1925 with her husband for a 600-acre farm in Austerlitz, NY. Millay continued to travel, going on reading tours, and working on radio broadcasts of her poetry. She was wildly popular, with ''no other voice like hers in America. It was the sound of the axe on fresh wood.'' A freak accident in 1936 left her in chronic pain and a drug addict. Vincent kept tabs on her own intake: morphine, two gin rickeys, one martini, a beer, and half a pack of cigarettes - all before lunch. She eased off the drugs with her husband's help, but not the alcohol. After he died, she feel into a deep depression. ''I have been ecstatic; but I have not been happy'' she wrote in her dairy as a young girl. It was to remain true most her life. My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- It gives a lovely light! #cityofwomen #changingthemaps #ednastvincentmillay #womenpoets #womenshistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/B9TCmtlA07O/?igshid=1jlfymlpas4cp

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[carolynporco]

Yesterday, I learned of an article in the The New Yorker magazine about a forthcoming book, “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas,” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. In it, the 'great and significant' women of NYC are honored by their appearance on the subway map of the city, near the place of their birth or their greatest moment.

The article reads: "Many of the women who made valuable contributions, or might have, are forgotten or were never named. Many women were never allowed to be someone; many heroes of any gender live quiet lives. But some rose up; some became visible; and here they are by the hundreds. This map is their memorial and their celebration."

I am from the Bronx, and I am proud to be included on this map.

I only wish my mother, who lived out her life in NYC in utter frustration, could have seen this. If I didn't have her fire within me, it would never have happened.

Thanks to you, Mom, and thanks to Solnit, Jelly-Shapiro, and The New Yorker.

The New Yorker: City of Women