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The Tender Gravity of Domestic Spaces Haunted by AIDS
A multimedia exhibit at Museum of the City of New York looks back at the domesticity of the AIDS crisis.
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A Documentary About Latin Boogaloo Screens at El Museo del Barrio
The documentary We Like it Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo, which traces the rise of the musical movement, is screening March 31 at El Museo del Barrio.
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Political Cartoonists Talk Trump at the Museum of the City of New York
On March 23, five US-based political cartoonists will discuss the realities, challenges, and urgency of their work today.
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Tour New York’s Gilded Age Architecture with a New Museum App
“A Walk Through Gilded NY” is an audio and visual tour through the past and present of the city’s turn-of-the-century architecture.
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Unmet Promises: Gay Gotham at the Museum of the City of New York
As I walked through the two floors of the museum I kept asking myself, where am I in this celebration of upper-class gay white male creativity?
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The Challenge of Making a Permanent Exhibit About Mercurial New York
The Museum of the City of New York opens its first permanent exhibition, an ambitious multimedia journey through 400 years of the city's turbulent history.
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How Zoning Laws Shaped New York City Over the Last Century
The Museum of the City of New York explores how a century of zoning code in New York City has influenced the built environment of today.
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The Flattering Tricks of 19th-Century Portraiture
For the wealthy 19th-century elite, a portrait rendered by a respected artist was a signifier of status — an oversized and ostentatious calling card.
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Jacob Riis's Photographic Battle with New York's 19th-Century Slums
Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding light, he illuminated some of the darkest corners of Manhattan's impoverished tenements.
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The Raw and Stylish Designs of 20th-Century American Protest Posters
Three uptown cultural institutions in New York City this summer have had significant exhibitions devoted to the history of art and social activism. Taken together, they paint an arresting portrait of the role of artists in affecting social change.
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From Punk to American Folk: Two Takes on Music and Politics
At the center of Folk City is a clue that the exhibit is more about space than about music.
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50 Years of Fighting to Save New York City's Historic Architecture
The obliteration of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in 1963, just a half-century after its completion, helped galvanize grassroots preservation efforts that eventually led to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner signing the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965.