Crowds flocked to Coney for the 41st Annual Mermaid Parade this weekend.
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A Multimedia Jungle of Moving Images
The Whitney Museum’s Dreamlands gathers a century of immersive moving image art, cutting across time and technology.
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An Art Collector’s Dream of a String of Caribbean Museums Starts in Flatbush
It’s a long subway ride from Manhattan’s Upper East Side — where some of the world’s most ornate apartment buildings stand amid a gulch of world-class cultural institutions — to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush, where the Philip Howard Apartments loom over the patchwork of new commercial real estate that has blanketed the neighborhood in the past decade.
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Thrills, Fantasy, and Nightmares in 150 Years of Art Inspired by Coney Island
Coney Island has a history as dizzying as any of the roller coasters, carousels, sideshows, and other frenetic attractions that have operated on its piece of Brooklyn shore.
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An Open-Source Guide to Help You Build Your Own Graffiti Drone
Artist Katsu has been working hard at extending the language of public mark making, and his latest experiments have been drone-based.
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3D Printing Coney Island’s Bygone Electric Eden
Luna Park at Coney Island was an “electric Eden” of spindly towers and ornate architecture laced with some 250,000 lights. The amusement park was closed in 1944 after a catastrophic fire, and mostly photographs remain. To recapture some of the lost wonder, artist Fred Kahl is building a 3D-printed facsimile of Luna Park in miniature.
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The Master of Coney Island: The Art of Larry Millard
When Larry Millard showed up in Coney Island in 1957, he was looking for work as a sign painter. His work was so impressive he was hired to do murals across the amusement area, particularly in the recently demolished Playland Arcade. Yet just as suddenly as he appeared, he vanished in 1960 and was never heard from again.
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Help Save the Coney Island Mermaids, the World’s Largest Art Parade
The world’s largest art parade is in trouble because the organizers were hit hard by hurricane Sandy. They’ve launched a Kickstarter to help save it.
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The Coney Island History Project Reopens Post-Sandy
After sustaining significant damage in Hurricane Sandy, the Coney Island History Project is reopening their reconstructed space on March 24, Coney Island’s Opening Day, and are already looking at ways to capture the story of the storm as part of their mission to chronicle the area’s history.
