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Corset Portraits of the Loves of Aaron Burr

Artist 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...

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Magdalen: New Views of Girls in Trouble

Every kind of bad name was pasted on them: delinquents, hussies, misfits, fallen, flirts, incorrigbles. For much of the 20th century institutions run by various religious orders such as the...

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Converting A Historic Jail To Women’s Activism

Art deco murals, decorative brick work, mosaics – not quite what you expect to encounter at a women’s prison. The Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility at 550 West 20th Street in Manhattan was built in...

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Caribbean Connections: 6 Printmakers

Since colonial times, the port city of New York has sent ships, goods and ideas to the Caribbean which in turn dispatched its own flow of staples, people, symbols and imaginative language North. In the...

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Wild History Tales From St. Marks Place, NYC

“The street has provided generation after generation with a mystical flash of belonging… experiences of mortal peril, dissipation and adventure…” writes Ada Calhoun in her new book St. Marks’s Is...

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Volunteers: Americans Join World War One

They drove ambulances, bandaged the wounded, fed the hungry, ran hospitals and orphanages and raised money. The men and women who volunteered in Europe during the early years of the Great War – when...

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New World Symphony With Puppets

LaMama Theatre on East Fourth Street is where puppets, monsters and actors cavort, presenting classic and cutting-edge performance, whooping and hollering in many languages to stage just about any...

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Kerry James Marshall: The Master is Present

Kerry James Marshall, at the Met Breuer exhibition until January 29, boldly claims center stage in American art with his show entitled “Mastry.” A Chicago-based painter, Marshall seizes the spotlight...

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New York 2140: A Climate Change Thriller

A global warming apocalypse has been brewing for centuries since the Industrial Revolution converted Western countries and then the world into great carbon emission machines. Some historians divide...

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Arrested Attention: The Women’s House of Detention

The quick-witted Hugh Ryan has a nose for history, as demonstrated in his book When Brooklyn Was Queer. His latest The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison mines...

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