The Problem of the Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Art

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatja Scholte
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Small Space ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Press ◽  
Used Car

In the summer of 1961, Allan Kaprow (1927–2006) installed dozens of used car tyres in the courtyard of the Martha Jackson Townhouse Gallery in New York City. The artist had collected these tyres from a nearby garage and invited his friends and fellow artists to participate in the Happening called Yard.2 There was no audience except for the participants who jumped over the heaps of tyres and moved them around. Photographs of Yard show Kaprow arranging the tyres within the small space of the courtyard, which was officially the sculpture garden of the gallery. Apart from the photographs, accounts of the event are scarce, and the press hardly paid any attention to it. And yet, Yard became one of Kaprow’s seminal Happenings. The work has been acquired for many museum collections and was re-executed on numerous occasions, both by Kaprow and others, at different places and with other participants.

scholarly journals “For Heart, Patriotism, and National Dignity”: The Italian Language Press in New York City and Constructions of Africa, Race, and Civilization

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Peter G. Vellon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moral Outrage ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
The Press ◽  
Dark Continent

“For Heart, Patriotism, and National Dignity”: The Italian Language Press in New York City and Constructions of Africa, Race, and Civilization” examines how mainstream and radical newspapers employed Africa as a trope for savage behavior by analyzing their discussion of wage slavery, imperialism, lynching, and colonialism, in particular Italian imperialist ventures into northern Africa in the 1890s and Libya in 1911-1912. The Italian language press constructed Africa as a sinister, dark, continent, representing the lowest rung of the racial hierarchy. In expressing moral outrage over American violence and discrimination against Italians, the press utilized this image of Africa to emphatically convey its shock and disgust. In particular, Italian prominenti newspapers capitalized on this racial imagery to construct a narrative of Italianness and Italian superiority in order to combat unflattering depictions of Italian immigrants arriving in the United States.

Christopher Wheeldon

2021 ◽  
pp. 735-753
Author(s):  
Rachel Straus
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
The Press ◽  
Michael Jackson

In 2000, English-born Christopher Wheeldon became the first artist-in-residence at New York City Ballet (NYCB). The press compared his choreography to George Balanchine’s. This chapter discusses Wheeldon’s critically acclaimed NYCB ballet Polyphonia (2001) in relation to the “thick narrative” of the company’s history. It argues that Wheeldon’s collaborations with NYCB dancers Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto, in Polyphonia and other works, produced a unique aesthetic, one that transcended Balanchine’s neoclassical legacy. The chapter ends by considering how Wheeldon’s controversial decision to direct the Broadway musical about Michael Jackson is not out of character, but emblematic of his propensity to embrace the role of an outsider, who works to understand the unfamiliar and who surpasses what is expected of him.

Journalism Teachers Relations with their Colleagues and the Press

1941 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-44
Author(s):  
Charles L. Allen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Press

The following remarks are an excerpt from the address of Professor Allen, AATJ president, at the convention in New York City December 28, 1940. Other portions of the address will be found in the official minutes.

The Big Jump

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-216
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Storm Water ◽  
State Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Development Corporation ◽  
Press Office

This chapter recounts how the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) press office suggested to orchestrate a symbolic jump into the floating pool for the cameras to record. It describes the Floating Pool Lady's many guises, such as an architect's model, as the C500 barge, and as a floating pool in formation. It also explores how the author experienced the Floating Pool Lady in person through her arrival in New York City with storm water from the Atlantic sloshing around in her pool or her trip from Brooklyn piers 2–3 to her summer home between piers 4 and 5. The chapter mentions Lyn Parker, who had decided to introduce the author as the human Floating Pool Lady, making her shed tears of joy as dozens of happy, wet faces turned toward her and said “Thank you!” It points out how the author continued to make visits to the floating pool at odd hours to meet the press and to see her creation in action as it served the public.

Prisons and Prisoners

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-125
Author(s):  
William vanden Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
The Press ◽  
Novel Approaches

This chapter tells the story of Bill vanden Heuvel's work with the New York City prison system. Following riots in the Tombs detention center and a rash of suicides in late 1970, Mayor John Lindsay asked vanden Heuvel to serve as Chair of the Board of Correction, a post he held for three years. During that time, he made numerous proposals to improve conditions in the New York City prison system, developing novel approaches to health care, education, training and living conditions. His legal training gave him an eye for spotting inequities in bail and sentencing procedures, and he worked closely with advocates both inside and outside the prisons to create a system that could be remedial as well as punitive. The chapter includes his speech at a service of concern after deadly riots broke out at Attica State Prison in September 1971. His ideas for improving media coverage of the prisons are presented in his article "The Press and the Prisons," first published in June 1972.

Press and Communications: An Annotated Bibliography of Journalism Subjects in American Magazines

1942 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-231
Author(s):  
F. E. Merwin ◽  
N. N. Luxon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Impact

Articles for the current period show that major interest in the field of press and communications continues to center on the war. The annual April meetings of the major newspaper groups in New York City were largely devoted to discussions of the impact of the war on the press. F. E. M.

Carlisle Floyd's “Susannah”

Tempo ◽  
1957 ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Ronald Eyer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Native America ◽  
Musical Drama ◽  
The Press ◽  
Carlisle Floyd ◽  
New York City Opera ◽  
Creative Talent

On September 27, 1956, a new and most promising creative talent was brought to national attention with the production by the New York City Opera Company of Carlisle Floyd's two-act musical drama, Susannah. Up to that night, Carlisle Floyd was almost as little-known in his native America as in Europe, and the following day the press, including the musical press, had to scurry around to his hotel to find out something about him.

THE STORY OF THE HUGE FACE OF AN ARRANGEMENT: VARISPEED'S ADAPTATION OF ROBERT ASHLEY'S PERFECT LIVES

Tempo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (268) ◽  
pp. 6-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gelsey Bell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Specific Event ◽  
Recorded Performances ◽  
Broad Outline ◽  
Working Processes

AbstractRobert Ashley's opera Perfect Lives was conceived for the medium of television and first broadcast (by the UK's Channel 4) in 1984. Partly for this reason, and also for other factors (the apparently necessary involvement of Ashley himself as narrator; the absence of a complete, fully notated score) the work has received very few live performances. In 2011 the New York City-based performance collective Varispeed reconceived the work as a day-long, site-specific event, following Ashley's available notations and recorded performances in broad outline but departing from them in creative ways. In this article Varispeed founding member Gelsey Bell describes the working processes and decision-making that informed the collective's approach to this experimental classic.

Seismic Hazard Study for New York City Area Bridges

2000 ◽  
Vol 1696 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-228
Author(s):  
Ayaz H. Malik
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Seismic Hazard ◽  
York City ◽  
Ground Motions ◽  
New York State ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
City Area ◽  
The City

In the early 1990s, site-specific studies were conducted to evaluate the seismic hazard for four New York City area transportation construction projects. The rock motions developed as a result of the four independent site-specific studies reflected wide disparities in the ground motions for the city area. An expert panel was assigned the task of developing rock motions for the New York City area that can be applied uniformly for the design of new structures and retrofitting of existing structures. Summarized are the findings and the resulting changes to the New York State Department of Transportation requirement for evaluating ground motions in the city area, namely, importance classification, performance criteria, two-level seismic hazards, and site amplification factors.

The Murder of the Innocents: Foundlings in 19th-Century New York City

Prospects ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 261-283
Author(s):  
Julie Miller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
York City ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Press ◽  
Fallen Women ◽  
New Yorkers

In the 1850s a diverse, sometimes discordant, collection of New York City public officials, reformers, and physicians came jointly to the conclusion that their city's foundlings constituted a problem in need of immediate solution. While once they had allowed abandoned babies to languish in the almshouse — where their death rate at times reached 100 percent — they now felt that the plight of these unwanted waifs was a judgment on themselves and their society that had to be addressed.Pressed into action by a force made of both sympathy and anxiety, they got to work. In the decade before the Civil War municipal officials assembled committees to look into the possibility of building a public foundling asylum, reformers conducted investigations, and the press hovered — prodding, accusing, and carrying out investigations of its own. The Civil War brought all this activity to a halt, but as soon as the war was over it resumed. In less than a decade following the end of the war four foundling asylums opened in a city that previously had not had a single one.Why did these citizens identify the phenomenon of infant abandonment as a problem when they did? What sort of a problem did they think it was? The answers to these questions reveal at least as much about their collective anxieties about such matters as rapid urban growth and fallen women as they do about the plight of the unwanted children they tried to help.It is difficult to understand this shift in sensibility without understanding what came before it. Antebellum New Yorkers, like their European counterparts, equated infant abandonment with illegitimacy.

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