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Meaningful Events to Honor Juneteenth in New York City

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu June 16, 2022June 17, 2022

From Harlem to Brooklyn, from joyful dance to quiet reflection, here are eight ways to observe Juneteenth and recognize the enduring repercussions of slavery.

Posted inArt

Janine Antoni Traces the Passage of Time in a Cemetery’s Catacombs

Avatar photo by Laura Raicovich November 8, 2019November 8, 2019

The artist’s new commission leaves much to contemplate simultaneously — mortality, desire, and the ways in which absence and longing are such a fundamental part of life.

Posted inArt

Learning the Art of the Condolence Letter

Avatar photo by Deena ElGenaidi March 25, 2019

This lesson on crafting letters of condolence will take place at Green-Wood Cemetery.

Posted inArt

An Artist’s Ofrenda Celebrates the Day of the Dead at Green-Wood Cemetery

Avatar photo by Deena ElGenaidi November 8, 2018November 1, 2021

Last weekend, visitors to the Green-Wood Cemetery celebrated the dead with an altar for Dia de Muertos.

The statue of J. Marion Sims has been removed from Central Park (illustration by the author for Hyperallergic)
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Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Enslaved Women Removed from Central Park

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 17, 2018April 17, 2018

The monument to J. Marion Sims will eventually be installed, along with a display adding historical context, near his grave in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.

Matthew Jensen: Among Trees and Stones (courtesy Matthew Jensen)
Posted inArt

Exploring Beech Trees and Buried Painters in a Cemetery Attic

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 17, 2017October 20, 2017

For Among Trees and Stones, artist Matthew Jensen explored Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, installing an archive of its history in the gatehouse.

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An Installation Weaves Through a Brooklyn Cemetery Chapel

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 12, 2016October 12, 2016

Aaron Asis has strung fuchsia parachute cord through the chapel at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery as part of a series of interventions at the burial ground.

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Marking an Artist’s Forgotten Grave with His Own Sculpture of Death

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 29, 2016June 29, 2016

The unmarked grave of 19th-century artist Thomas Crawford will soon be commemorated with the installation of one of his own sculptures at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

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Tour Green-Wood Cemetery’s Forgotten Artist Graves with Hyperallergic’s Allison Meier

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic May 4, 2016May 7, 2016

Hyperallergic invites you to step into a museum of the dead with an afternoon tour at Green-Wood Cemetery led by Hyperallergic staff writer (and resident cemetery aficionado) Allison Meier.

Posted inArt

The Forgotten First Woman Violinist to Perform on the American Stage

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 27, 2016November 23, 2022

Violinist Camilla Urso “stood on the stage like a statue on fire,” in the words of writer Theodore Tilton.

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Commemorating the Civil War with Brooklyn’s Buried Dead

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 7, 2015July 7, 2015

For 13 years, volunteers at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery scoured its archives for internments related to the US Civil War, whether soldier or civilian.

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A Guide to the 19th-Century Artists’ Graves of New York City

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 25, 2015June 29, 2015

Cemeteries are like indexes of a city’s history, listing the names of its deceased from famous to forgotten in an endless litany.

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