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Restoring a Tiffany Mosaic and Its Ethereal Light to a Bronx Cemetery
The Tiffany-designed 1914 Swan Memorial in the Bronx's Woodlawn Cemetery is being restored after over a century of deterioration in the open air.
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Celebrate Voting Rights at These Suffragists' Graves in New York City
Honor the memory of suffragists in New York City at these memorials for the movement's leading figures.
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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.
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From a Synagogue to a Pizzeria, an Alternative Tour of Stained Glass in NYC
Although it's an art form more associated with medieval cathedrals, there is stunning stained glass in New York City.
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A Guide to the 19th-Century Artists' Graves of New York City
Cemeteries are like indexes of a city's history, listing the names of its deceased from famous to forgotten in an endless litany.
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Exhuming the Artistic Afterlife from One of NYC's Historic Cemeteries
Up in the Bronx, at the end of the line of the 4 train, is a "remarkable museum of American funerary art," as the wall text for Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn at Columbia University's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery puts it.
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An After-Midnight Murder Mystery Takes Place in a Cemetery
How do you get people to see theater in a Bronx cemetery at three in the morning? Don't tell them where they're going.
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The Tombs of Artists: A Last Statement From the Grave
As a last final statement, artists' tombstones don't disappoint. From the wildly eccentric to those that incorporate their own creations, the graves of artists are a fascinating reflection of their work.
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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
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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