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128-Year-Old East Village Church, Home of New York Liberty Bell, Destroyed in Fire

by Valentina Di Liscia December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

The fire also displaced a group of women living at a shelter operated by the Women’s Prison Association, the nation’s first organization for women impacted by incarceration.

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Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out

by Hrag Vartanian August 24, 2018April 19, 2022

After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.

Posted inArt

9 New Galleries That Opened in New York City in 2017

by Elena Goukassian January 11, 2018March 4, 2018

Don’t focus on the closings. Three cheers for new galleries!

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The Rise and Fall of the East Village Lenin Statue

by Arthur Nersesian September 26, 2016September 28, 2016

When I first started hanging out in the East Village in the mid-1970s, it was loaded with unofficial monuments to an older Lower East Side: Boarded up Yiddish theaters and a largely unused bocce ball court on Houston Street were reminders of the days when an immigrant community flourished.

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Artist Anton van Dalen on the East Village, Saul Steinberg, and Pigeon Keeping

by Tiernan Morgan September 6, 2016September 7, 2016

Next time you’re walking through the East Village, take a moment to look up at the skies over Tompkins Square Park. You might just spot Anton van Dalen’s flock of snow-white pigeons. The artist, who first learned to rear the birds at the age of twelve, is one of the few remaining pigeon keepers in Lower Manhattan.

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Sacred Bones and the Catacomb Saint of Manhattan

by Allison Meier December 16, 2015December 21, 2015

Catholic churches in Europe host as many bones as a graveyard, with bits of saints and intact incorrupt bodies encased in glass and displayed on ornate altars.

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A Photographer Who Turns Viewers into Voyeurs

by Zachary Small October 22, 2015October 22, 2015

Matthew Morrocco arrived at the café fashionably late, wearing an army jacket and floral print flats. Before sitting down he ordered his coffee.

Posted inArt

Of Death and Disco Balls: Nightlife Art as Activism

by Alexander Cavaluzzo October 8, 2015October 12, 2015

An oversize facsimile of Rush poppers, tipped over, pouring out its viscous contents: this example of underground gay iconography blown up to almost belligerent proportions perfectly represents the aims of Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife as Activism Since 1980.

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After Years of Controversy, Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha Resigns

by Benjamin Sutton June 10, 2015June 15, 2015

On Wednesday evening, a day after five of his staunchest supporters on the Cooper Union’s board of trustees resigned, the college’s embattled president Jamshed Bharucha announced that he will resign at the end of June.

A message painted on a window of Cooper Union's Foundation Building in April 2013. (courtesy Free Cooper Union)
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Cooper Union Trustees Offer to Sacrifice School President to Appease State Attorney General

by Benjamin Sutton April 10, 2015

The board of trustees of the Cooper Union has offered not to renew the contract of the school’s current president, Jamshed Bharucha, if it would help bring an end to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s investigation into the university’s management.

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Painting Four Decades of Change in the East Village

by Tiernan Morgan March 13, 2015March 12, 2015

New Works and the Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre, Anton van Dalen’s first solo show in eight years, charts the shifting landscape of New York City. Populated with imaginative characters, the artist’s latest work vividly documents the forces of gentrification and change.

Faye Driscoll's 'Thank You for Coming: Attendance' at Danspace Project
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From Glitch Parties to Participatory Skipping, a Delirious Dance

by Benjamin Sutton January 14, 2015

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!” chants the beaming cast of Faye Driscoll’s Thank You for Coming: Attendance as if greeting party guests.

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