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At The Races With New Yorker Cartoonist Saul Steinberg

January 18, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Saul Steinberg, UntitledSaul Steinberg is best known for the visual wit of his pen-and-ink drawings featured in The New Yorker for close to 60 years.

In 1952, Steinberg visited Saratoga Springs, NY, on commission from Harper’s Magazine to provide drawings for an article. Though he previously produced a series of drawings of horses and their riders in the 1940s, this visit may have prompted his interest in thoroughbred racing. [Read more…] about At The Races With New Yorker Cartoonist Saul Steinberg

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: National Museum of Racing

After Roe: Brooklyn Exhibit Examines Reproductive Injustice

January 13, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Mary Enoch Elizabeth BaxterThe Brooklyn Museum will present “Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter: ‘Ain’t I a Woman,’ ” an exhibit marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Landmark Roe v. Wade Decision, set to run from January 20th to August 13th.

On the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) — and in the year after its overturning — Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter: “Ain’t I a Woman” examines the long history of reproductive injustice in the United States from an activist point of view. [Read more…] about After Roe: Brooklyn Exhibit Examines Reproductive Injustice

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Brooklyn Museum

America’s First Christmas Card & An Early Albany Department Store

December 24, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

America's First Christmas Card, Designed and printed by Richard H. Pease for his "Pease's Great Variety Store in the Temple of Fancy" c.1851. Image courtesy of Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections.Before F. W. Woolworths’, Whitney’s, or even Myer’s department store, there was Pease’s Great Variety Store, located in the Temple of Fancy at 516 and 518 Broadway in Albany, NY.

As with other fancy goods stores, Pease’s catered to the middle and upper middle class selling highly decorated goods like ceramics, prints, furniture and other decorative household items that progressively thinking people might have wanted to purchase. [Read more…] about America’s First Christmas Card & An Early Albany Department Store

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Albany, Albany County, Albany Institute For History and Art, Art History, Christmas, Cultural History, Holidays, Instagram, Pop Culture History

Brooklyn Museum Announces 2023 Exhibition Schedule

December 22, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Still from Ain’t I a WomanThe Brooklyn Museum has announced their 2023 exhibition schedule, including a group show of contemporary artists reflecting on the complex and continuing legacy of the Great Migration; a landmark exhibition celebrating the creativity, ingenuity, and global impact of contemporary African fashions; a multidecade survey of visually captivating, experimental work by María Magdalena Campos-Pons; and the first major exhibition of zines by artists working in North America, bringing attention to this unexamined but vibrant aesthetic practice. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum Announces 2023 Exhibition Schedule

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Brooklyn Museum

The Origins of Rockwell Kent: The Development of an Artist and His Craft

December 19, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall 1 Comment

Our America a series designed by Kent for sets of chinaRockwell Kent, the artist who made the Adirondacks his home from 1928 until his death in 1971, mastered more media than any of his contemporaries, even if one were to include Andy Warhol.

And no one was more skillful than he at agitprop – exhorting the masses to political action through expressive combinations of images and words, in posters, pamphlets, books and even bottle caps, those he used to seal the milk bottles from his Ausable Forks dairy farm. [Read more…] about The Origins of Rockwell Kent: The Development of an Artist and His Craft

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Adirondacks, Art History, Ausable Forks, Clinton County, Cultural History, Essex County, New Deal, Plattsburgh, Political History, SUNY Plattsburgh

Gordon Parks Photography Exhibit at the Albany Institute

December 15, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Gordon Parks photo courtesy the Gordon Parks FoundationThe Albany Institute of History & Art has announced “Gordon Parks: I, too, am America,” an exhibition of forty photographs drawn from the Ulrich Museum’s holdings of over 170 photographs by Gordon Parks (1912-2006), one of the most preeminent photographers of the 20th century, through February 4th, 2023. [Read more…] about Gordon Parks Photography Exhibit at the Albany Institute

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Albany Institute For History and Art, Gordon Parks

Frick Exhibition Features Major Decorative Arts Gift

December 6, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Musical Automaton Rhinoceros Clock, ca. 1765–72 photo by Joseph Coscia Jr.The decorative arts objects amassed by Henry Clay Frick and held by the Frick Collection in New York City have been significantly enriched in recent decades by gifts from other collectors. [Read more…] about Frick Exhibition Features Major Decorative Arts Gift

Filed Under: Arts, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Frick Collection

Sibyl’s Dollhouse On Display On Long Island Through December

December 2, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Sybil’s Dollhouse courtesy Tom EdmondsBob Tuma found time from piloting his charter fishing boat to build a finely detailed 3-story colonial revival style dollhouse in 1/12th scale with 16 rooms, including 5 bedrooms and a children’s playroom over a two-year period, working in the basement workshop of his Montauk, Long Island home during the 1960s and 70s. [Read more…] about Sibyl’s Dollhouse On Display On Long Island Through December

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Southampton Historical Museum

Harvey Silver’s Portraits of 1960s and 1970s America Going On Exhibit

November 24, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

High school students, NYC, 1975EV Gallery in New York City has announced their Holiday Photography Show, “Changin’ Times” by Harvey L. Silver is set to open on Saturday, December 3rd, with an opening reception from 6 to 9 pm.

[Read more…] about Harvey Silver’s Portraits of 1960s and 1970s America Going On Exhibit

Filed Under: Arts, Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Harvey Silver

Artists Reflect On the Impact of Great Migration in New Exhibit

November 24, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

A Movement in Every DirectionBetween 1915 and 1970, in the wake of racial terror during the post-Reconstruction period, millions of Black Americans fled from their homes to other areas within the South and to other parts of the country. This movement of people caused a radical shift in the demographic, economic, and sociopolitical makeup of the United States.

For instance, New York City — and particularly Manhattan — became home to hundreds of thousands of Black Americans during this time, catalyzing the start of the artistic and cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. [Read more…] about Artists Reflect On the Impact of Great Migration in New Exhibit

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Art History, Black History, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Great Migration, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York City, painting, Photography

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