New York Region to Accelerate Reopening, Raising Hopes and Anxiety
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are pushing ahead with May 19 reopening plans, and the subway will return to 24-hour service.
The tourism industry is hoping that the mid-May reopening will bring tourists back to New York City this summer.Credit.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
May 3, 2021Updated 7:42 p.m. ET
New York and its neighbors New Jersey and Connecticut announced on Monday that they were lifting almost all their pandemic restrictions, paving the way for a return to fuller offices and restaurants, a more vibrant nightlife and a richer array of cultural and religious gatherings for the first time in a year.
Chester Higgins The Indelible Spirit @ Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Bruce Silverstein Gallery // May 06, 2021 - June 26, 2021
May 04, 2021 | in Photography Wrestling with issues of memory, place, and identity I see my life as a narrative and my photography as its expression. My art gives visual voice to my personal and collective memories. It is inside ordinary moments where I find windows into larger meaning. Light, perspective, and points in time are the pivotal elements I use to reveal an interior presence within my subjects as I search for what I identify as the Signature of the Spirit.
Photographer and author Chester Higgins was born in Alabama in 1946, and was formally educated at Tuskegee University, graduating in 1970. Experiences with his family s church community, as well as with college campus student protests, were formative in developing the direction of Higgins s artistic practice. Higgins s oeuvre portrays the dignity of the African American and African diaspori
Want to Kick Poker Night Up a Notch? A Playing-Card Company Has Teamed Up With the Whitney to Release Artist-Designed Decks
The first deck is designed by Shantell Martin, and it runs only $10.
May 3, 2021
Shantell Martin playing cards for Theory 11 s Whitney Museum project. Image courtesy the artist, Theory 11 and the Whitney Museum.
If ya like your poker or blackjack games with a dash of flair, you’re in for a treat.
Speciality playing-card designer Theory 11 has teamed up with the Whitney Museum of American Art to produce a series of playing cards designed by prominent artists.
The first offering will be released May 3 and has been imagined by art star Shantell Martin (who also just so happens to have recently done a Whitney gift shop redesign with her signature whimsical black-and-white squiggles).
Madeline Hollander at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021. Courtesy of Bortolami Gallery. Photo: Nicholas Calcott.
This is often the case for the 35-year-old professional dancer-turned-artist. Where you and I see chaos, Hollander sees choreography: New York City traffic, flood mitigation systems, environmental change. The product of extensive research, her work transmutes the abstract patterns that govern our daily lives into elegant dance performances, heady gallery installations and now, for the first time, film.
The 16-minute video at the Whitney documents Hollander’s search to find flatwings, a new breed of Polynesian field cricket that, due to genetic mutation, has lost the ability to chirp. For the insects, it’s both a gift and a curse: They are now essentially invisible to their predators an acoustically oriented parasitic fly that once threatened to wipe out their entire population but also invisible to their potential mates. The crickets’ ability to adapt is lik
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Cultural Council for Palm Beach County Launches MOSAIC which Promotes Local Institutions for a .
Cultural Council of Palm Beach CountyMay 3, 2021 GMT
Image: Bruce Helander, Magical Mosaic (Everything Under the Sun), 2021
Image: Bruce Helander, Magical Mosaic (Everything Under the Sun), 2021
Lake Worth Beach, Fla., May 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County is pleased to announce the return of its MOSAIC (Month of Shows, Art, Ideas and Culture) celebration, which promotes the area’s arts & culture institutions, many of which are offering unique programming and special offers throughout this month.