Celebrating Community
In this country there is no greater work of public art than the mural by Diego Rivera in the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Complex culturally and politically the grand fresco employs the Sistine Chapel sense of gravitas with narrative references to contemporary history and the sweeping saga of human life. It is a masterwork. Now The Red Hook Houses are the […]
Everyone knows about the Red Hook Rec Center’s pool, but members will find the Center has more then ever to offer, especially for those interested in learning new computer skills or using expensive media tools. The Center’s media lab re-opened in February of this year, after a major face-lift made possible by a $100,000 donation from Amazon. As this paper […]
T he Brooklyn Music School Settlement was founded in 1909, a pioneering music school and the only settlement in the city that taught music to the blind at that time. Nestled in Fort Greene alongside the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the nonprofit, now with its name updated to Brooklyn Music School, continues its mission “to make it possible for everyone, […]
T he Ariston Group is an Italian leading corporation in heating systems and related products. But recently it became the center of a diplomatic clash between Italy and Russia. Indeed the Russian branch of the group, Ariston Thermo Rus, has been expropriated by the Kremlin and acquired by Gazprom, Moscow’s top multinational energy enterprise. It all started on April 26th […]
I get on the B61. 2 stops up a tiny lady, maybe Mexican, gets on with a 60 inch tv, holding it the way you march with a rifle. It soars 2 feet above her head. The tv that makes you feel like you’re in a movie theater. The tv that also makes your neighbors feel like they’re in a […]
The installation of the Brooklyn Museum’s special collection of 100 Views of Edo is on view until August 4. With the cherry blossoms clinging to the branches and the blockbuster “Giants” also on view, the museum offers an especially diverse and powerful experience. Hiroshige’s serial masterpiece launches into our Spring of 2024 from the Spring of 1856 as we watch the […]
Council Member Shahana Hanif, her staff, several artists from the nonprofit Arts & Democracy Project, and a handful of volunteers all gathered in the Old Stone House in Park Slope on a Monday evening last month. At the start of the meeting, each person introduced themselves and stated their artistic skills, before being assigned a project and getting down to […]
It has been a busy year for the Department of City Planning (DCP). The city has seemed weighed down with budget cuts, constant media attention on crime in the subways, and sexual assault allegations against the mayor, and yet DCP has continued its work, publishing Principles of Good Urban Design for New York City (a tool for creating better neighborhoods) […]
Jean-Paul Sartre was right! (maybe) We’ll skip the millennial interview and let a Boomer rant this month. The main threat to society, from my born in the ‘50s point of view, is the trending reduction in human contact. The millennials I have spoken in the past few months don’t seem to be bothered by this, i.e. the dating apps and […]
Sweden is to Europe like the Amazon is to South America. It is a land full of lakes and forests that hug you the very moment of your arrival. Getting on the bus to leave the airport you are driven through a nature scenario, with snowy trees extending miles. If you were sweating in the plane because of your ski […]