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Queens of Bohemia: Laura Keene, Ada Clare & Adah Isaacs Menken

October 12, 2021 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Deux grisettesNineteenth century critics constructed an image of the artist as masculine, ignoring the fact that women were very much part of the bohemian subculture. In literary and pictorial representations, the figure of the “grisette” was consistently associated with the Latin Quarter.

The term refers to a group of independent young women who frequented Parisian cafés, posed as artist’s models, and provided additional sexual favors. The most enduring grisette is Mimi in Henri Murger’s “Scènes de la vie de Bohème,” the source for Puccini’s opera La bohème. [Read more…] about Queens of Bohemia: Laura Keene, Ada Clare & Adah Isaacs Menken

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: art, Art History, Cultural History, Greenwich Village, John C. Heenan, New York City, Performing Arts, The Bowery, Theatre, womens history

List of America’s Public Monuments Reveals One-Sided History Obsessions

October 11, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Top Ten Subjects of Monuments in the United StatesWho are the 50 individuals most frequently represented by a public monument in the US? What percentage of those 50 are white and male? How many are women? And what are the dynamics that helped shape who is — and who is not — on that list?

Answers to those questions are among the findings of the National Monument Audit, a first-of-its-kind report issued by Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit art and history studio. [Read more…] about List of America’s Public Monuments Reveals One-Sided History Obsessions

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: Abe Lincoln, Abolition, American Revolution, Civil War, George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr, Military History, Monuments, Religious History, sculpture, womens history

Felipe Galindo Feggo’s Community Portraits on Exhibit in NYC

October 10, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Coffee Shop VI by Felipe Galindo FeggoThe Morris-Jumel Mansion has announced the opening of a new exhibit “Portraits From My Community” by New Yorker cartoonist Felipe Galindo Feggo, featuring a selection of thirty mixed-media artworks portraying the people of Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood, on display through January 2nd. [Read more…] about Felipe Galindo Feggo’s Community Portraits on Exhibit in NYC

Filed Under: Arts, Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Morris-Jumel Mansion

Adirondack Film Festival Returns October 14-17th

October 9, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

adirondack film festivalThe 2021 Adirondack Film Festival will be held from October 14th through 17th, in a hybrid in-person and virtual format.

This year’s festival will feature 70+ films including features, documentaries, experimental shorts, music videos, plus popcorn, panels and parties. Films will be shown on multiple screens in downtown Glens Falls, or from the comfort of your own home. [Read more…] about Adirondack Film Festival Returns October 14-17th

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events Tagged With: Adirondack Film Festival

Poetry: Leaving the Tunnel

October 9, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne 1 Comment

Leaving the Tunnel

Nothing we see is color
Cezanne said that
but no one believed him

All we really see is light

The mineral-laden earth
with its zillions of herbal
veins and carnivorous flowers

mere pinpoints of light

reverberations of molecular light
adorned with ornaments
of human bones

Read More Poems From the New York Almanack HERE.

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: art, Poetry

Charlie Pfaff, Walt Whitman and the King of Bohemia

October 6, 2021 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Pfaffs advertisementDuring the 1830s, young Romantic poets in Paris were loud and rebellious. They raised the noise levels in literature. Pétrus Borel headed the “Petit Cénacle,” an eccentric group of writers who had declared war on Classicism.

Considered a social nuisance, their rowdy and unruly behavior led to arrests. A journalistic term of abuse was turned into a banner of pride. The group’s members adopted the name Les Bousingos (“faiseurs de bousin” = brawlers). [Read more…] about Charlie Pfaff, Walt Whitman and the King of Bohemia

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Cultural History, Literature, Mark Twain, New York City, Publishing, Walt Whitman

Erie Canalway Photo Contest Winners Announced

October 6, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Winter Sunset (Ganargua Creek) by Susan LynchJudges selected 12 photographs that represent the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor for the organization’s 16th Annual Erie Canalway Photo Contest. Winners were chosen from a competitive group of more than 300 entries. [Read more…] about Erie Canalway Photo Contest Winners Announced

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Mohawk Valley, Nature, Western NY Tagged With: Erie Canal, Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor, Photography

3-day Adirondack Quilters Conference Planned For Old Forge

October 5, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Adirondack Quilters ConferenceView, the Center for Arts and Culture in Old Forge, NY will host an Adirondack Quilters Conference from October 18th through 20th. The conference is a new addition to the annual Quilts Unlimited Exhibit and will feature a series of lectures and workshops featuring both traditional and art quilting techniques. [Read more…] about 3-day Adirondack Quilters Conference Planned For Old Forge

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events Tagged With: View

‘Wild, Picturesque and Beautiful’: Mount Ida, Poestenkill Falls and Troy’s Prospect Park

October 2, 2021 by John Warren 1 Comment

Henri Gaugain, Amerique Septentrionale - Etat de New-York No 15, pl 3 Falls of mount Ida, above the town of TroyIt’s likely that the early farmers, millers, colliers, lumberers and teamsters helped spread the word of the springs and waterfalls on the Poesten Kill, but it was the early artists and travelers whose record remains.  One of the first depictions of the beauties of the Poesten Kill High Falls was an engraving made in Paris in 1817.  As the 19th century wore on, changing attitudes about nature combined with regional guides and maps led to increase in American travel for travels sake. [Read more…] about ‘Wild, Picturesque and Beautiful’: Mount Ida, Poestenkill Falls and Troy’s Prospect Park

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Art History, Geology, Poestenkill, Tourism, Troy

Poetry: 13th Lake Quadrangle

October 2, 2021 by Edward Zahniser Leave a Comment

13th Lake Quadrangle

My brother Matt and I fished the beaver pond’s
opposite banks. He wore his red felt hat—
from his teen years’ pitch for sartorial splendor.
I had just caught a small but legal brook trout
when six hummingbirds locked onto Matt’s hat
like onto radar. They encircled his head then left
abruptly, lifted like a brief thunder storm.
I yelled across to Matt:
“What was that like?”
He yelled back:
“It sounded like the D.C. beltway!”
Then wild quiet got its grip again.

Read More Poems From the New York Almanack HERE.

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts Tagged With: art, Poetry

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