The Art Dealers Association of America is expanding its natural disaster relief program, and announced $60k in grants to six US nonprofits.
Hurricane Sandy
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Using AI to Pull Memories from Red Hook’s Waters
Traveling between Red Hook and Manhattan by ferry, an AI app talks to the water — and gets the water to talk back.
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Three Years After Sandy, South Street Seaport Gets $10.4 Million from FEMA
This week the South Street Seaport got an essential boost.
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Sandy-Ravaged Rockaways Bungalow Reborn as an Artist Residency
Two years on, the effect of Hurricane Sandy is still visible in the Rockaways’s vacant bungalows. Artist Robyn Renee Hasty is imagining one of these storm-wrecked homes as a creative community space, one that could simultaneously be a model of rebuilding with low-impact design.
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Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet Salvage Songs from Hurricane Sandy
Laurie Anderson was already working on a cycle of songs with Kronos Quartet when on October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy rose the Hudson River into her West Village home.
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Swoon’s Underwater Fairy Tale
In one of the largest galleries at the Brooklyn museum, the artist Swoon has erected Submerged Motherlands, a colorful installation cloaked in the language of fairy tale and myth.
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Chronicling Cottages on the Jersey Shore, Before and After Sandy
Photographer Douglas Ljungkvist first went to Ocean Beach, New Jersey, in 1993, reluctantly. But to please his girlfriend, he stayed, and then came vacation after summer vacation of growing more attached to the little homes in their faded pastel hues.
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Museum of the City of NY Wants Your Photographs of Hurricane Sandy
The Museum of the City of New York is planning an exhibition of photographs from Hurricane Sandy for the one-year anniversary of the storm. And importantly, the organizers aren’t just interested in professional pictures; they want submissions from anyone and everyone with images to share.
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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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After Sandy, Eyebeam Is Thriving
In late October 2012, three feet of water crashed through Eyebeam, a technology and new media non-profit located in a vast warehouse space on 26th Street in Chelsea. The ground floor location proved catastrophic as the flood poured over from the Hudson: Eyebeam sustained damage to just about every part of its operation, from studio space and galleries to the institution’s all-important archive, stored on vulnerable media formats like hard drives and storage cassettes.
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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.
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MoMA PS1 Holds (Very) Open Call for Ideas on the Future of the Rockaways
Sequestered by the sea and the A train still out until at least June, the Rockaways and the continued rebuilding there from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy can be easy to overlook. MoMA PS1 along with MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design are holding a call for ideas for what could be a more sustainable waterfront for the Rockaways. The open call is, in large part, an effort to remind people that help is needed, explained Klaus Biesenbach, director of MoMA PS1, and to grab the attention of architects and artists in considering a stable infrastructure for the future of the area.
