#museum of the city of New York

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New York Observer

Detail of stairwell decoration created by Michael Beirut of Pentagram design, Museum of the City of New York, 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue.

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Streets of El Barrio: Museum of the City of New York East 103rd Street and Fifth Ave in Spanish Harlem, upper Manhattan

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Bowery at Night, William Louis Sonntag Jr., 1895

[artphotocollector]

“New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know what to do with myself.”--Jay-Z

This is the 100th year of the Museum of the City of New York. Tucked away in East Harlem next to El Museo del Barrio, the museum has always housed an impressive collection of photography. For New Yorkers, especially, the museum has held a treasure-trove of our history and culture. Not always given the wider attention it deserves, the MCNY has always been a powerhouse.

Marking its inaugural photography triennial, “New York Now: Home,” the curatorial team solicited images from over a 1000 artists, and found its way down to 33 individuals whom they chose to represent “home” in all of its fluid manifestations. Some of the artists are established and known, while others are emerging. The curators Sean Corcoran and Thea Quiray Tagle have presented us with an array of representation, as diverse and innovative as the city itself.

Featuring the work of established artists such as Anders Jones, Linda Troeller, Maureen Drennan  and Jamel Shabazz , New York: Home also shows younger artists like Cheryl Mukherji  and Diana Guerra  both of whom were new discoveries. The exhibition takes us on a wide-ranging experience through New York. We see it afresh through new eyes. While “home” has infinite meanings that transcend language and location, the representations we see in this inaugural triennial of our great city are as diverse and wonderful as the people who live here. In New York: Home we feel connected. --Lane Nevares

[hyperallergic]

An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all: Gingerbread.

Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off, up through January 16, features seven bakers’ edible replicas of New York City’s five boroughs (the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island). The bake-off and exhibition are a new initiative for the East Harlem museum, but one that will likely become a tradition, according to MCNY Chief Operating Officer Jerry Gallagher.

[goingplacesfarandnear]

Anne Frank House in New York City Headlines Fall Culture Calendar

De Boekenkast: bookcase in front of Secret Annex. New Yorkers will have the opportunity to actually tour a re-creation of Anne Frank’s hiding place, never before seen outside Amsterdam (© Anne Frank House, photographer Cris Toala Olivares) By Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com New York is one of the premier cultural capitals of the world and fall is when the…

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130 Years Of Brooklyn Bridge Photos, Decade By Decade https://www.design-miss.com/130-years-of-brooklyn-bridge-photos-decade-by-decade/ Il famoso ponte sospeso di Brooklyn di New York ha da poco compiuto 130 anni e ny.curbed.com gli dedica una galleria fotografica storica, decade dopo decade, dalla costruzione e dall’inaugurazione del 24 maggio […]

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🗣️ College students: Do you want to inspire curiosity in a captivating environment where science, community, and communication intertwine? Become a Museum intern! Applications for the Museum Education Experience Program (MEEP) are open through August 23. Apply today!

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Streets of El Barrio: East 104th Street between Madison Ave and Fifth Ave in Spanish Harlem, upper Manhattan

Museum of the City of New York

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Central Park and the Plaza, William Anderson Coffin, 1917-18

Oil on canvas 24 ¼ x 29 ¼ in. (61.6 x 74.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

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Forbidden – In the heart of downtown Los Angeles, photographer Eriberto Oriol walks the streets capturing tense and always moving moments that shape his love of the city – Los Angeles. Streetwise – alert to his surroundings, he sometimes travels to out of the way places or of areas where few dare to travel. Iconic – his powerful photos of changing faces and changing forces have become iconic…

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Saturday Christmas Eve Surprise!

Saturday Christmas Eve Surprise!

Somehow it just didn’t seem right to do a post about political turmoil on Christmas Eve, and especially since it’s Saturday and I haven’t done a Saturday Surprise post for several weeks now.  So, let’s combine Christmas Eve and Saturday Surprise into one fun (hopefully) post! I thought it might be fun to look at some of the Christmas food traditions around the globe. In Portugal, for instance,…

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Allegory of Vigilance (c. 1772), (detail) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), oil on canvas, 68.9 x 54.9 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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