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Message of hope in the darkness âpunctuating Hanukkah in a very special wayâ
By Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff,Updated December 10, 2020, 6:48 p.m.
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Governor Charlie Baker, left, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh at the annual Boston Common menorah lighting on the first night of Hanukkah Thursday.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
In the spring, many Boston-area Jewish people celebrated Purim together cautiously, then Passover the next month apart. Fall brought the High Holidays and more remote services on Judaismâs most sacred days.
Now,
with coronavirus cases steadily climbing, Hanukkah, a celebration of shining light into darkness, bringing warmth into the cold, and hope to the hopeless, will be celebrated apart.
Futura, a king of the aerosol can, returns to his roots
The graffiti artist Futura at the Recon, a clothing and collectibles store on the Lower East Side that he co-owned, in New York in 1999. The artist has gone from painting subway cars to the runways of Comme des Garçons after a hiatus, his two exhibitions are his first in his hometown in 30 years. Chester Higgins Jr./New York Times Photo.
by Max Lakin
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The week before he turned 65, Futura was contemplating his legacy. Considered one of the progenitors of graffiti art, and one of its most recognizable figures, he was sitting in Eric Firestone Gallery in NoHo, where Futura 2020, his first solo exhibition in New York in 30 years, is on view. Across the river, in Queens, his installation at the Noguchi Museum, a suite of hand-painted Akari lanterns, had opened the day before. Futura, who is rangy and was wearing a wool knit cap pulled to just above his eyes and a jacket from his recent collection wi
Few books are more famous than John James Audubon’s Birds of America. From the moment his birds began to emerge from the printing press in the 1820s, people marveled at their liveliness, as if the images might literally fly off the page in a ruffle of feathers. That liveliness was the product of Audubon’s genius and his love for the “feathered tribe,” but it was also the result of long, hard work. The artist traveled thousands of miles to watch, hunt, and draw his birds, neglecting his wife, children, and dry-goods business in the process. He then took his paintings to England and spent nearly infinite care supervising the preparation and printing of the 435 plates that make up the giant book. The result was a volume of such staggering charisma that it holds a whole fistful of auction records. For many decades until very recently, The Birds of America was by far the most expensive printed book in the world.
Art & Design|Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots
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The graffiti artist Futura, born Leonard McGurr, near the Eric Firestone Gallery in Manhattan, where “Futura 2020,” his first solo exhibition in New York in 30 years, is on view.Credit.Celeste Sloman for The New York Times
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Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots
The artist has gone from painting subway cars to the runways of Comme des Garçons. After a hiatus, his two exhibitions are his first in his hometown in 30 years.
The graffiti artist Futura, born Leonard McGurr, near the Eric Firestone Gallery in Manhattan, where “Futura 2020,” his first solo exhibition in New York in 30 years, is on view.Credit.Celeste Sloman for The New York Times