scholarly journals Presentation of Playing the Stars

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 443-450
Author(s):  
Toby MacLennan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Musical Score ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The People ◽  
National Gallery Of Canada ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Village Voice ◽  
The Village

This talk reports on a performance of the planetarium event Singing the stars with sculptures, which was performed at the H.R. Macmillan Planetarium in Vancouver and the Seneca College Planetarium in Ontario. Subsequent performances were done at the Art Gallery of Ontario, P.S.1, New York City, the 10th International Sculpture Conference, Toronto, and The National Gallery of Canada. It was reviewed in the Village Voice, Arts Canada, The New Art Examiner, Vanguard Magazine, and CBC Radio: Out of the belly of Vancouver’s H.R. Macmillan Planetarium, the star-making machine rises to the star chamber, carrying three musicians with their instruments, and three sculptures. Atop each sculpture is an overhanging frame of five wooden bars, which acts as a musical score. Lights go down over the planetarium audience. Stars move across the sky. Only the constellations and the luminous bars atop the sculptures are visible. Swept up by the grandeur of the constellations, the musicians look up through the bars atop their sculptures and give a concert playing the stars. The concert is inspired by a story from my book, Singing the Stars. A village of people has lost the power of night, which once resided within them. The people attempt to lure the night back with the help of sculptures, which will enable them to play and sing the stars. They hope that, lured by the music, the night will come close to their faces, and bits of darkness will fall into their ears, eyes and mouths and gradually fill up their bodies with the night sky.

Jane Jacobs

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-169
Author(s):  
Paul Kidder ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
The People ◽  
Architectural Preservation ◽  
American Cities

Jane Jacobs’s classic 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, famously indicted a vision of urban development based on large scale projects, low population densities, and automobile-centered transportation infrastructure by showing that small plans, mixed uses, architectural preservation, and district autonomy contributed better to urban vitality and thus the appeal of cities. Implicit in her thinking is something that could be called “the urban good,” and recognizable within her vision of the good is the principle of subsidiarity—the idea that governance is best when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses—a principle found in Catholic papal encyclicals and related documents. Jacobs’s work illustrates and illuminates the principle of subsidiarity, not merely through her writings on cities, but also through her activism in New York City, which was influential in altering the direction of that city’s subsequent planning and development.

Notes on Municipal Affairs

1931 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-682
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Reed
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Cook County ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Total Eclipse ◽  
The People ◽  
Preceding Period

The year which has passed since the preparation of the last “Notes on Municipal Affairs” (June 1, 1930) has been even more eventful than the preceding period.Developments in Particular Cities. New York City. The belief which had been growing for many years that the Tammany tiger was, after all, a self-restrained, self-muzzled beast has suffered a rude shock in the exposures of flagrant corruption in the sale of judicial office, the handling of vice, the purchase of land for school purposes, and in many other directions. The district attorney's office has been exposed to the searchlight of investigator Seabury. Charges were preferred against Mayor Walker by John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Wise in the name of a citizens' committee. Governor Roosevelt dismissed these charges with scant consideration. In the meantime, however, the legislature ordered a most searching investigation of the whole governmental situation in New York—an investigation which bids fair to rival, in extent and dramatic interest, that of the celebrated Lexow committee.Chicago. In Chicago, Mayor Thompson's political career has suffered, if not extinction, at least a total eclipse. Though victorious against a broken field in the Republican primary, he was defeated by Anton J. Cermak in the election of April 7 by a vote of 476,932 to 671,189. It is probable that the people of Chicago were more anti-Thompson than pro-Cermak, but the new mayor is a vigorous and striking figure. For one thing, he is boss in his own right of the Democratic organization in Cook county.

Documentation on the Afro-American: Familiar and Less Familiar Sources

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 293-303
Author(s):  
Dorothy Porter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
The People ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Literary Societies

On the evening of March 20, 1828, a group of free men of color organized a society that had as its purpose “the mental improvement of the people of color in the neighborhood of Philadelphia.” This organization was to be known as the “Reading Room Society.” Immediately a library was established and the librarian instructed to lend books to members for no longer than a week. Books were to be withdrawn or returned at the society's weekly meeting. Freedoms Journal, the earliest Negro newspaper, the first issue of which appeared in March, 1827, and Lundy's Genius of Universal Emancipation, an antislavery publication, were among the first works circulated. In May, 1833, the Philadelphia Library Company of Colored Persons appealed for “such books and other donations as will facilitate the object of this institution.” By 1838, this library had 600 volumes. Since Negroes could not enjoy the same privileges as whites in libraries, they established for themselves some 45 literary societies between 1828 and 1846 in several large cities, mainly in the East, most of which maintained reading rooms and circulating libraries. As a consequence of these activities many Negroes were stimulated to assemble private libraries. In 1838, in Philadelphia and nearby cities, there were 8333 volumes in private libraries. In New York City, David Ruggles, a Negro abolitionist, pamphleteer, and printer, was probably the first Negro book collector. He maintained a circulating library and made antislavery and colonization publications available to many readers. He charged a fee of less than twenty-five cents a month for renting books relating to the Negro and slavery.

scholarly journals Tom Johnson : le simple du village

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-16
Author(s):  
Nicolas Darbon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Morton Feldman ◽  
Village Voice ◽  
The Village

Résumé Tom Johnson est un compositeur né à Chicago mais résidant en France, où il connaît une relative notoriété, grâce notamment au succès de ses opéras. Son cas est pourtant intéressant en tant que manifestation anachronique de la simplicité en musique — au sens donné à ce terme par les théories de la Complexité ou du Chaos. Élève de Morton Feldman, admirateur de Satie et de Cage, après avoir participé activement à la vie de l’école de New York par ses comptes rendus dans la célèbre revue The Village Voice, il a poussé la logique minimaliste dans l’un de ses ultimes retranchements. En effet, sa conception post-duchampienne de l’objet trouvé s’applique en particulier aux formules mathématiques qu’il musicalise de la façon la plus stricte, sans adjonction aucune de sentiment, sans interprétation, avec une dimension qui peut être ludique tout de même. Protestant pratiquant, Tom Johnson refuse l’auréole de compositeur, et lui préfère l’humble statut de « trouveur ». Le déterminisme implacable de ses trouvailles sonores, leur mécanique horlogère et désincarnée, contredisent bien des réflexes d’auditions et des habitudes esthétiques. Ainsi la « voix du Village » sonne-t-elle étrangement « simple » dans le fatras grandiloquent de l’intellectualisme européen.

scholarly journals Digitizing Snow:

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Jivraj
Keyword(s):  
National Gallery ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Current State ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Reproduction Process ◽  
Digital Reproduction ◽  
National Gallery Of Canada ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario

This thesis looks at the current state of digital reproductions for contemporary photographic artworks—how they are made, the purposes they serve, and how they are disseminated by cultural institutions. Using four selected photographic installation artworks by Canadian artist Michael Snow, this research examines how museums pursue reproductions of artworks that are installative by design and possess elements that are not easily reproducible like sound or the use of time. The reproduction process and terminology used at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada (two institutions with significant collections of Snow’s artworks) are both examined, as well as how digital reproduction is currently discussed and theorized by museum professionals and digital specialists. Reproductions are used for outreach, research, advertising, and conservation, but between texts and institutions alike there lacks consistent terminologies and purposes for reproductions due to the dearth of research into this type of imagery.

scholarly journals Little Humans by B. Stanton

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerri Trombley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
York City ◽  
School Division ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
The People ◽  
The University

Stanton, Brandon. Little humans. New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2014. PrintFrom the creator of Humans of New York, comes the most dynamic, colourful and diverse group of little people of New York City. Brandon Stanton’s ability to capture the unique personalities of his subjects and “tell” a story through pictures is both captivating and brilliantly vivid. The ‘Little Humans’ are shown throughout the book in bright close-ups and even brighter clothing. Each page is filled in entirely with a close-up photograph of a child in different situations. Cultural diversity and differences are prominent in the photographs, but the text tackles the sameness we all share.“Little humans can be tough…but not too tough to need a hug.”Set against New York City streets, Little Humans embodies the ethnic diversity of the people of NYC. The text is limited, but has themes of resiliency, strength, identity and character woven throughout. Stanton writes of how little people are strong, talented and helpful.The story itself could have been written with more depth; however, the lack of narrative allows the reader to engage with the photographs and imagine the story of each unique person that is highlighted.Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Kerri TrombleyKerri Trombley is a Vice Principal with Sturgeon School Division and is currently completing her Master’s Degree in Elementary Education at the University of Alberta. She shares her love of literature with all of her students.

Making the Scene

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Greenland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
York City ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
The People ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Improvised Music

This chapter examines how intimate social correspondence between active participants in New York City's avant-jazz scene engenders individual and group identities—a sense of who we are, where we go, what we love, and how we live. It first considers how fellowship, and particularly camaraderie, develops among fans during and after jazz performances. It then looks at how jazz fans interface with “club/houses” and the people that run them and goes on to discuss social determinants of musical taste. It also explores one of the occupational hazards associated with jazz fandom in New York City, what Steve Dalachinsky called “divided nights.” The chapter shows that active concertgoers, particularly avant-jazz fans, collectively identify and express themselves through improvised music, and describes gregarious yet self-contained, intimate jazz communities as an example of both an extended family and “a group of separates.”

Days of Chess and Backgammon

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Parks ◽  
The World ◽  
Chess Players ◽  
The Village

The author here considers the games of chess and backgammon. The author shares how he became fascinated by chess, intrigued by its philosophical side. He was twelve years old in 1959, when Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship. As a folklorist, he did field research on chess havens in New York's West Village, interviewing the players in Washington Square Park and at the two warring chess clubs on Thompson Street, Chess Forum and the Village Chess Shop. He talks about the Capablanca table; José Raúl Capablanca, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927, is said to have won the World Chess Championship on that table. Fischer also played on that table, in New York in 1965. Chess, the author observes, seems to lend itself to grandiose metaphors. Metaphors abound in the down-and-dirty trash talk exchanged by the chess players in New York City parks. The author concludes by recalling how he and his father would engage in a gentle competition playing online backgammon games.

Ethics of homeless representation in costume design

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Ridder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Costume Design ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The People ◽  
Reference Images ◽  
Primary Reference

Marisol, set in 1993 New York City, depicts the end of the world from the perspective of a twenty-something Puerto Rican white collar woman who loses her guardian angel. In approaching the costume design for this play I encountered a deeply concerning question: how can I design costumes for homeless characters without appropriating the physical appearance of people who experience homelessness in real life? Homeless characters are represented in many iconic plays in English language theatre, from Angels in America to Oliver!, and costume designers are frequently asked to address the ethics of representation with their design choices. In this short article I share my process in sourcing primary reference images for homeless characters without appropriating the exclusionary violence of the people who are considered ‘out of place’ in today’s New York City. I considered the ethics of different approaches to sourcing primary research that I have used in the past but ultimately chose to give up ‘authenticity’ for ethics. For the design I used reference images sourced from Japanese label N. Hoolywood’s Fall 2017 Menswear Collection, a fashion design that directly appropriates people who experience homelessness. My choice to frame homelessness through the lens of fashion served our production of Marisol only because of its design concept but leaves open the question of how to ethically design costumes for homeless characters in other plays.

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