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Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky Cooper discovered she had a ‘thing’ for cartography after she was hired to help map all of Manhattan’s public art. Soon enough, she was inspired to embark on her own idea– to map Manhattan’s memories. Becky hand-printed a few [...]
Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the city’s streets like the backs of their hands, but if like me, you just love that sketch-booky/ void of perfectly straight lines/ children’s book nostalgia-kind of art, then I suspect you’ll fall head over heels for [...]
Nestled in a hidden location in midtown Manhattan, the Counjuring Arts Research Center is ground zero for illusionists and historians alike. Bill Kalush, the center’s founder and director, explains how he built the collection piece-by-piece and shows us some of its highlights…. Film by Cool Hunting, subscribe here. ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .
(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them… On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look. Despite its impeccable brickwork, number 58 Joralemon Street is not like the [...]
What the heck is The No Pants Subway Ride you ask? I Well it’s a not so prestigious (at least not yet) annual event that was started by a group of people called Improv Everywhere on the New York City subway. What started as a small prank by a couple of guys has turned into [...]
Last year Vahram Muratyan came out with his wonderful book of graphic illustrations comparing Paris and New York side by side. I have a copy lying around somewhere in my mess. But to my delight, I’ve just come across an animated video version of his work. It’s a little fast and should be about half [...]
Paris and New York: both have islands, both have Statues of Liberty, crazy people on the metro, and unbeknownst to most, they both have parks in the sky. Until a little while ago, I was under the impression that New York’s much-adored HighLine was a totally unique feature to the Big Apple. But when le [...]
If you had the misfortune of being a staircase, what other kicks could you get out of life than tripping people up as they climbed you? The staircase of the 36th Street subway station in New York thought he could get away with it until filmmaker Dean Peterson came along… (notice how most people run [...]
A few days ago I posted a photo on my Facebook page of the Statue of Libery in Paris in 1886, before it was disassembled and crated for its voyage to New York. Many of you seemed to be quite intrigued by it and since then a few more photos have surfaced for me to [...]
No matter how much I like to deny it, I’m a sucker for romantic stuff like this. Sophie Blackall is an Australian artist living in New York who found the perfect inspiration for her drawings– the Craigslist Missed Connections page. Having never really been a user of Craigslist (which apparently means I’ve been living on [...]
Secretly, a lot of us probably believe our lives deserve their own HBO television shows, but it
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Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky
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They met in Paris in 1932. Both already married, American novelist Henry Miller and Cuban diarist
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…
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They say that when Frida loved, she loved hard and passionately. There’s no question that
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I‘ve been curiously following the work of Marc Johns for quite a long time and have recently
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Paris and New York: both have islands, both have Statues of Liberty, crazy people on the metro, and
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A few days ago I posted a photo on my Facebook page of the Statue of Libery in Paris in 1886,
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Let’s start with the New Yorkers, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt– most famous for
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I‘ve been meaning to show you Vahram Muratyan’s work for quite some time. In fact
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