Art
A New Afterlife for Cemeteries: Training Future Preservationists
The sprawling 19th-century cemeteries whose monuments and mausoleums dot the United States are often short on hands to preserve their heritage.
The Bronx
Art
A Decade of Drawing the Metropolitan Museum's Flowers
For 10 years, artist Abbie Zabar had a ritual: go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and sketch the new floral arrangements adorning the entrance hall.
Art
NYC's Oldest Surviving Bridge Reopens After Four Decades of Decay
On June 9, New York City's oldest surviving bridge reopened after over 40 years of abandonment.
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NYC's Oldest Surviving Bridge Reopens After Four Decades of Decay
On June 9, New York City's oldest surviving bridge reopened after over 40 years of abandonment.
Art
Planting Frida Kahlo's Botanical Paradise in the Bronx
Plants and flowers appeared throughout Frida Kahlo's paintings, and although interpreting her art regularly evokes her biography of illness, injury, pain, and tumultuous love, the first exhibition to examine her work from a botanical perspective opens this week at a garden.
News
Museum Archive Leads Bronx Students to Forgotten Slave Burial Ground
Major online archives of accessible images have become regular news out of museums, and part of the reason is stories like this: elementary school kids in the South Bronx have used a photograph from one of those archives to bring about historic recognition for a long-forgotten slave burial ground.
News
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective in the Bronx Raided and Shut Down
The South Bronx-based arts community center Rebel Diaz Arts Collective was reportedly shut down yesterday and locked out of their converted warehouse space. A rally/press conference is being held tonight at 6 pm outside their building at 478 Austin Place.
Announcement
Go for stillspotting but Stay for the Bronx: 10 Great Things to See
This weekend, Oct 13-14, The Guggenheim Museum will be hosting the fifth and final edition in the stillspotting nyc [http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/] series, stillspotting nyc: bronx [http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/visit/bronx/]. For this installment, Guggenheim has teamed up with Charlie
Art
From Da Bronx to Eternity
Stepping through the gates of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, you are first awed by the sheer number and size of the mausoleums that tower over its more than 400 acres. Once you begin to explore this 19th century city of the dead, you discover the incredible details that went into all these personal
Art
From Courbet to the Bronx, The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Names Gets Marriage Memorial
When Woodlawn Cemetery was established in the Bronx in 1863, the art of funerary commemoration was in its height. That era of memorial sculpture ended, and most of us are laid to rest under somber slabs of dark granite with only the barest of ornamentation. Patricia Cronin saw the revival of this tr