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They Are Their Own Monuments In two North Philadelphia neighborhoods, many hands create homegrown art tributes to local heroes. “On the Day They Come Home,” a sculpture by Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist in the exhibition “Staying Power,” featuring five women who are fighting to end life sentences in Pennsylvania. The women are Tamika Bell, Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger, Ivy Johnson and Yvonne Newkirk.Credit...Kriston Jae Bethel for The New York Times By Tess Thackara May 3, 2021 PHILADELPHIA — In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop ...

(NEWARK, NJ) -- On April 29, 2021, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced that the City of Newark is calling on Newark residents to share their feedback on proposals submitted by the five finalists selected to design the new Harriet Tubman Monument. Five critically acclaimed artists: Abigail DeVille, Dread Scott, Jules Arthur, Nina Cooke John, and Vinnie Bagwell, were chosen by a jury to submit their designs.

Monument Lab app expands space and time at Art Museum steps The tour begins with a twinkling of chimes, as Ursula Rucker, the Philadelphia poet and artist, materializes on a smartphone screen. She stands at the base of the Philadelphia Art Museum steps—“the Rocky Steps, as some like to call them,” she says. “The people’s place.” As one scans their phone around the steps, and look out across the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, virtual signs, maps, photographs, and text boxes appear, an invite to “dig deeper” into the history of the space. The OverTime a...

In OverTime, that backdrop is Philadelphia, where users currently can take a self-guided tour of the art museum area narrated by local poet Ursula Rucker.  To participate, users can head to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art — where the tour begins. Scanning the ground with a phone prompts Rucker to appear on the app. User can select one of three tour options, including one that tells the story of the Rocky statue and other public memorials.  Users also can take the tours remotely from wherever they please — an option intended to include people who cannot access the area or wis...

The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/t-magazine/maggie-lee-nordstrom.html An augmented reality app, Maggie Lee’s latest installation — and more. April 1, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we’re eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. And you can always reach us at Image A textile work by the artist Megumi Shauna Arai for Tiwa Select hangs next to an assortment of kitchen necessities at Beverly’s NYC.Credit...Ryan Lowry By Camille Okhio Friday will see ...