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Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 On view October 21, 2012—March 11, 2013 Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980  chronicles the vital legacy of the African American arts community in Los Angeles, examining a pioneering group of black artists whose work and connections with other artists of varied ethnic backgrounds helped shape the creative output of Southern California. The exhibition presents approximately 140 works by thirty-two artists active during this historical period, exploring the rising strength of the black community in Los Angeles as well as the increasing political, social, and economic power of African Americans across the nation. Several prominent black artists began their careers in the Los Angeles area, including Melvin Edwards, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, and Betye Saar. Their influence, like that of all of the artists in the exhibition, goes beyond their immediate creative c...

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Les autres articles Itinéraire d’une journée à 10 dollars dans le Financial District L’Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum, le porte-avions-musée à West Side The Jewish Museum Source:  http://frenchdistrict.com/new-york/articles/chelsea-market-new-york/#ixzz29mT0Kfzi Under Creative Commons License:  Attribution Share Alike

Eleanor Antin: Conversations with Stalin Friday, November 2, 2012  6:30 PM Lower Gallery Spanning a variety of mediums including photography, video, film, performance, installation, drawing, and writing, Eleanor Antin’s work has explored entrenched assumptions about gender and power. As one of the first artists to re-introduce autobiography, narrative, and performance back into the art world in the 1960s and ’70s, Antin created an imaginary theater of personae and mythological characters, dramatizing contemporary personal and political narratives through a kind of historical time travel. In this performance, she reads four chapters from her coming-of-age memoir  Conversations with Stalin , a no-holds-barred black comedy of growing up in New York City. This event is the culmination of a four-part series of readings across the city. Free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6–9 pm; no special tickets or reservations are required.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/nyregion/oh-the-horror-the-horror-of-upper-east-side-halloween-decor.html?nl=nyregion&emc=edit_ur_20121021 At no point is the East Side’s submission to child-centeredness more aggressively in evidence than in the days leading up to Oct. 31; we are now in the era of what one Park Avenue exile calls “a hedge-fund Halloween.” By this she means the relatively new tradition among town-house owners, mostly between Fifth Avenue and Lexington Avenue, to appoint the stoops and facades of their buildings as if someone had asked them to enact a particular 0.01 percent nightmare: “Imagine that you’d failed to acquire some of the most expensive real estate on earth. Pretend you lived in Brooklyn instead, and not in Cobble Hill but in  Dyker Heights , that distant precinct famous for its polyvinyl snowmen and street-clogging paeans to Christmas.” Some people might wonder what extremely wealthy people would do with potential further cuts to the capital ...

CURRENTS | Q&A A Living Room Suspended Over Columbus Circle http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/garden/a-living-room-suspended-over-columbus-circle.html