Why I’m Not Giving Up on American Democracy
In his dank Budapest prison cell in the mid-1950s, my father imagined he heard Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony. Though no one ...
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Quote of the Day: Macron Takes an Early Look at a Gleaming Notre-Dame
Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, speaking to an assembly of over half of the 2,000 workers and craftsmen who contributed to the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral, which was ravaged by a ...
Alice Hudson, Librarian Who Built a Trove of Historic Maps, Dies at 77
She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most ...
At State Museum, first major show of artist who captured NYC immigrant childhood experience
Art is Contagious" is the first museum show for Margery Ryerson, who taught and painted portraits of children at New York ...
The Churchill of Staten Island
On the 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s birth, Luke Boyd, a Churchill impersonator who lives on Staten Island, will ...
Artists, Then (as in the 17th Century) and Now
The Light and the Dark” dramatizes the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while “300 Paintings” was born during the fever dreams ...
A Holiday Tradition
But sparring at (or about) Thanksgiving isn’t new. It is, in fact, a very old tradition — no less American than pumpkin pie.
Peter Doig Finds the Soul and Menace of a Modernist Gem
The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to cast a fresh eye on Balthus’s enigmatic 1933 tableau, ...
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Biden not the only president to pay island a visit
On Aug. 27, 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant stepped off the River Queen at Steamboat Wharf. It was the first time an ...