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Instagram Photos Reappear on the Streets Where They Were Taken

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 16, 2015January 20, 2015

What if instead of only showing up online, your Instagram photos of sunsets, street art, photogenic cityscapes, or alluring strangers on subway platforms were posted back into New York City’s public spaces?

Posted inBooks

Catching Subway Riders in the Act of Reading

by Jillian Steinhauer January 12, 2015October 15, 2022

For bibliophiles and generally nosy people, one of the worst things about the rise of e-books and e-readers is that they don’t have distinct covers.

Posted inArt

The Merits of Old Masters’ B-Sides, at the Frick

by Peter Malone January 12, 2015April 15, 2016

Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant moment in each artist’s career.

Posted inArt

“My Own Career Bores Me”: Mark Flood on His Gallery Experiment

by Samuel Jablon January 9, 2015January 10, 2015

Mark Flood Resents was an artist-run gallery, showroom, exhibition space, hangout, and crash pad where nothing was for sale.

Posted inIn Brief

City Initiative Will Measure Staff and Leadership Diversity at New York Museums

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 7, 2015January 9, 2015

Diversity, nebulous though it is, has long been something museums have tried to maximize among their visitors, but a new initiative being launched by New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs aims to measure the diversity of staff and board members at the city’s cultural institutions.

Posted inArt

Making Sense of a Biennial of “Makers”

by Sarah Archer October 1, 2014October 1, 2014

NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial is the closest thing you’ll find to a crowd-sourced exhibition on view in New York right now — perhaps anywhere.

Posted inIn Brief

What the New York Skyline Will Look Like in 2020

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 18, 2014

New York City’s iconic skyline continually changes, even if the most adored landmarks still date from the early part of the 20th century.

Posted inArt

New York Murals: The City’s Best Overlooked Museum

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 17, 2014April 20, 2014

You might walk by some of the permanent works in New York City’s best art collection and not even notice them. The murals embedded in the city’s public spaces — in bars, restaurants, hospitals, skyscraper lobbies, and schools — together make up a historical tapestry of New York’s visual culture.

Posted inNews

New York City Schools Fail at Art

by Laura C. Mallonee March 3, 2014

New York State public schools administrators aren’t taking art seriously, according to a new report filed by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli last Tuesday.

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Fighting for the Future of St. Mark’s Bookshop

by Jillian Steinhauer February 10, 2014November 7, 2015

“There are too many good bookstores in Brooklyn,” Bob Contant said. Contant is one of two co-owners of St. Mark’s Bookshop, the embattled last independent bookstore standing in the East Village. He was explaining to me why he wouldn’t consider a move to what’s generally deemed New York’s most literary borough.

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City Council Members to Hold Cultural Plan Hearing

by Mostafa Heddaya November 18, 2013November 18, 2013

Tomorrow afternoon, a number of New York City Council members will be holding a public hearing to decide on the scope of the proposed cultural plan first announced by City Council Members Stephen Levin and Jimmy Van Bramer in August.

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The Hidden Power of New York City’s Everyday Objects

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 30, 2013August 5, 2013

Can one single object encapsulate the dense knot of energy that is New York City? An exhibition is trying with 62 objects, selected by 62 people who all dwell in its diverse, sprawling bounds.

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