Carol Boveâs Light-Touch Heavy Metal Faces Down the Met
The American sculptor is the second artist invited to occupy the sculptural niches on Fifth Avenue.
Carol Bove at her studio last November in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in front of her unfinished sculptures for the front niches of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the back, left, is a plaster replica of part of the museumâs facade.Credit.George Etheredge for The New York Times
March 4, 2021
âI didnât want them to sit politely on the pedestals,â Carol Bove said to me this past summer.
The sculptor was tiptoeing around a pile of crushed, tangled steel tubes, lying on the floor of her studio in the far south of Brooklyn. Sheâd reopened her workshop after a pandemic shutdown, and all around were the accouterments of art and industry. Forklifts and girders. Weldersâ masks and hazmat suits. But there was also, rather incongruously, a shadow of a century past: a huge plaster replica of a Beaux-Arts scu
How a Holocaust Survivor Showed Up for a Vaccine and Charmed a Hospital
Mira Rosenblatt, 97, stunned nurses with her tale of endurance and hardship. “I felt shaky from the story,” one said.
When Mira Rosenblatt, center, visited Mount Sinai Brooklyn for her vaccination, she shared her life story with the staff, including Sylvie Jean Baptiste, left, and Kristine Ortiz, in the gray sweater. Credit.via Mira Rosenblatt
By Alyson Krueger
March 4, 2021
It is Sylvie Jean Baptiste’s job to check on patients during the 15-minute wait that follows their Covid-19 vaccinations.
“I am there for them if they need support,” said Ms. Baptiste, a nursing graduate student and employee at Mount Sinai Brooklyn in Midwood. “I offer them a snack, maybe water or juice. If they seem nervous I start conversations with them.”
He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom
The life and work of Thomas Wiggins, who toured as “Blind Tom,” has been given more attention in recent years.
Born into slavery, Thomas Wiggins, who performed as “Blind Tom,” became a touring phenomenon, playing his own compositions and improvising on the piano.Credit.George Kendall Warren/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
March 3, 2021
Charity Wiggins, a slave on a Georgia plantation, was 48 in May 1849, when she gave birth to a baby boy.
The child, whom she named Thomas, was born blind, and Charity feared that their owner would deem him a useless burden with potentially dire consequences. Sure enough, before long Charity’s family of five, at the time was put up for sale to settle some of the owner’s debts.
The Panic of the 30-Somethings, and More
By Jordan Kisner
How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood
By Kayleen Schaefer
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In the 1950s, sociologists came up with a checklist for entering adulthood: finish school, leave home, make your own money, marry and become a parent. Only once a person had managed all five, the thinking went, were they finally an adult. “These markers are supposed to be some sort of an end,” Schaefer writes. “When we arrive at them, we will know what we’re doing and who we are.”
Are you laughing or crying yet? In her thoughtful and well-paced evaluation of “adulthood,” Schaefer explores the struggle today’s ascendant adults face in getting anywhere near these goals “on time.” Her tone is both skeptical of these 70-year-old benchmarks and sympathetic to the many people, like herself, who feel anxious and ashamed for failing to meet them. It’s not that 30-somethings are ditching school, independence and traditional family