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Corset Portraits of the Loves of Aaron Burr

November 12, 2015 by Kathleen Hulser 2 Comments

Madame+Jume_RGB.BillOrcuttArtist Camilla Huey has a close to the skin interpretation of founding father Aaron Burr. While we know about his schemes to gain and keep political power, Huey tempts us to think about Burr’s gender politics. Was the former Vice-President who shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel, a full-fledged Lothario, or might there be another story?

The film “The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Binding and Corsetry”  premiering at Symphony Space at 95th St. and Broadway in Manhattan on Saturday, November 14 at noon offers a much more complicated and nuanced view of the man and his significant female others.  As Thomas Paine wrote in that revolutionary era “If we take a survey of the countries and the ages… we will find the women adored and oppressed. Man who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power,  in paying homage to their beauty has always availed himself of their weakness… at once their tyrant and their slave.” [Read more…] about Corset Portraits of the Loves of Aaron Burr

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Aaron Burr, Documentary, Fashion History, Gender History, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Material Culture, Political History, womens history

Harlem: Life in Pictures

November 2, 2015 by Kathleen Hulser 1 Comment

Malcolm X- Rally for Birmingham, 1963. by Larry Fink. All images courtesy of Ilon Art Gallery
Malcolm X- Rally for Birmingham, 1963. by Larry Fink. Images Courtesy of Ilon Art Gallery

“If new thought can enter the mind, even for a moment, then change has a chance,” writes JT Liss. His photographs search for those figures and visions that allow us to see new ways and think new thoughts.

Ilon Gallery’s show Harlem: Life in Pictures on view in a classic 1890s brownstone, demonstrates how historic images of figures that have become iconic can acquire new resonance when displayed along fresh takes on a neighborhood that has been a cradle of creativity for well over 100 years. [Read more…] about Harlem: Life in Pictures

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Art History, Black History, Documentary, Harlem, Jazz, Musical History, Photography

Erie Canalway Photo Contest Seeks Entries

August 17, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

2015_ErieCanalway-PhotoContestEntries are being accepted through August 28, 2015 for the 10th annual Erie Canalway Photo Contest. Winning photos will be featured in the 2016 Erie Canalway calendar, which is available free of charge in December.

Amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit images in four contest categories: On the Water, Along the Trail, Canal Communities, and Classic Canal. [Read more…] about Erie Canalway Photo Contest Seeks Entries

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Documentary, Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor, Photography

Historic House Demolition Spurs Film Project

August 4, 2015 by Tina Traster 3 Comments

IMG_9264(1)Blink and another house is bulldozed. Most don’t even notice, so I’d like to tell you the story of what happened in my backyard. Unfortunately, it does not have a happy ending.

In Rosalie Fellows Bailey’s Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York, the Lent House (built in 1752) is linked to Abraham de Ryck, one of the earliest settlers in New Amsterdam. The house was built by or for Abraham Lent, who served as Colonel of the First Regiment of Militia of Fort Orangetown during the American Revolution. [Read more…] about Historic House Demolition Spurs Film Project

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Architecture, Documentary, Film History, Historic Preservation, New Netherland, Orange County

The Oneida Nation Supported American Rebels

June 15, 2015 by Bob Cudmore 2 Comments

Oneidas  at the Battle of Oriskany in 2009James Kirby Martin, a history professor at the University of Houston, traces his interest in the Mohawk Valley to his birthplace in northern Ohio.

Joseph Brant of the Mohawk Nation was born in what is now Ohio in 1743 and Martin was fascinated by Brant’s life. The younger brother of Sir William Johnson’s longtime consort Molly Brant, Joseph Brant and Sir William’s son John led devastating raids in the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution.

Sir William, Britain’s Indian agent in our region, died in 1774 before the war. However, his good relations with the Iroquois Confederacy kept most of them on the side of the British during the Revolution. [Read more…] about The Oneida Nation Supported American Rebels

Filed Under: History, Mohawk Valley Tagged With: American Revolution, Documentary, Fort Plain Museum, Indigenous History, John Johnson, Joseph Brant, Military History, Native American History, Nicholas Herkimer, Oneida Indian Nation, Palatines, Photography, Political History, William Johnson

Modern Ruin: A World’s Fair Pavilion

May 21, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

modern ruinA film screening of “Modern Ruin: A World’s Fair Pavilion,” Matthew Silva’s documentary about an abandoned structure designed by modernist icon Philip Johnson for the 1964 World’s Fair.The film tells the story of the Pavilion from the glory days of the fair, through the years of neglect, up to present day advocacy.

The filmmakers hope this project will be the first step in engaging and informing people about the building in new and exciting ways. This whimsical, futuristic, and soaring structure, constructed for the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, has been left abandoned for the greater part of 50 years. [Read more…] about Modern Ruin: A World’s Fair Pavilion

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: 1964 World's Fair, Advocacy, Documentary, Historic Preservation, New York City, NYC, Queens

NYC Hip-Hop History Photograph Exhibit Planned

March 4, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Hip-Hop - 1The Museum of the City of New York is presenting HIP-HOP REVOLUTION: Photographs by Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo, and Martha Cooper, an exhibition that shows the historic early days of hip-hop culture and music, with its roots firmly in New York, and how it evolved towards the worldwide phenomenon it is today.

Bringing together for the first time the work of three renowned photographers of the hip-hop scene, the exhibition shows the birth of a new cultural movement – with its accompanying music, dance, fashion and style – as it quickly and dramatically swept from its grassroots origins into an expansive commercial industry. [Read more…] about NYC Hip-Hop History Photograph Exhibit Planned

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Black History, Cultural History, Documentary, Museum of the City of New York, Music, New York City, NYC, Performing Arts, Photography, Pop Culture History

World War One Documentaries Being Screened

January 26, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Eastman Kodak Company adRecently rediscovered and digitally converted, The Oyster Bay Historical Society will have another viewing of the World War One documentaries found in it’s collection.

Originally distributed in 1919, these five short documentaries (total run time approximately 60 minutes) include scenes from battles in “No Man’s Land”, the U.S.S. Leviathan, the sinking of battleships by U-Boats, as well as the capture of German prisoners and Armistice Day celebrations. [Read more…] about World War One Documentaries Being Screened

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Documentary, Film History, Military History, Oyster Bay Historical Society, World War One

New Exhibits, Film Planned at Historic Saranac Lake

January 15, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

PastedGraphic-1Amy Catania, Executive Director of Historic Saranac Lake has announced that the Saranac Laboratory Museum has received a major grant from the Will Rogers Motion Pictures Pioneers Foundation to support exhibit renovations.

The $20,000 grant, with the possibility of a small additional grant to be announced later, will support the design and installation of two new exhibits to open in 2015. The grant also supports the production of a short film on Will Rogers Memorial Hospital. [Read more…] about New Exhibits, Film Planned at Historic Saranac Lake

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Adirondacks, Documentary, Historic Saranac Lake, Medical History, Saranac Lake

ADK 46er History Doc Being Shown In Elizabethtown

August 22, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Grace HudowalskiThe Adirondack History Center will conclude its summer lecture series with a showing of the documentary The Mountains Will Wait for You at 7 pm on Tuesday evening, August 26 at the museum in Elizabethtown, NY.

The film tells the story of the first woman to climb the 46 High Peaks and a founder of the Adirondack 46ers hiking club. Grace Hudowalski was born in Ticonderoga and recently East Dix, one of the 46 High Peaks, was renamed Grace Peak in her honor.  [Read more…] about ADK 46er History Doc Being Shown In Elizabethtown

Filed Under: Events, History, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack History Center Museum, Adirondacks, Documentary, Environmental History, Gender History

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