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A Photographer Captures the Unique Personalities of New York City Pigeons

by Claire Voon April 26, 2018April 27, 2018

Andrew Garn’s book of photographs invites readers to see pigeons as friendly, feathered neighbors rather than pesky foe.

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

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan September 6, 2016February 21, 2023

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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Pigeons Recruited to Measure the Invisible Toxicity of London’s Air

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 31, 2016April 1, 2016

Pigeons outfitted with lightweight backpacks soared over London from March 14 to 16, collecting air quality data across the city that was shared via Twitter.

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Brussels Museums Now Showing Buckets and a Pigeon, Thanks to Water Damage

by Claire Voon February 17, 2016February 29, 2016

The infrastructure of some of Brussels’s federally funded art museums is in such poor shape that government officials will congregate next week at a “crisis meeting” to discuss it.

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Painting Four Decades of Change in the East Village

Avatar photo 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.

“Like a Homecoming”: Gary Simmons Exhibition Opens at MCA Chicago
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“Like a Homecoming”: Gary Simmons Exhibition Opens at MCA Chicago

Gary Simmons: Public Enemy surveys the artist’s career in exposing legacies of race and class in US popular culture.

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