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MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project
by Danilo MachadoDEC 18-JAN 19 | ArtSeen
The Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA), a semi-fictional institution led by Chris E. Vargas, counters the stable, hetero/cis-normative, “serious” structure of the museum with fluid, playful objects and images that center trans people, narratives, and subjectivities. Vargas’s project Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects began in 2015 and now continues at the New Museum in an exhibition entitled curated by Johanna Burton and Sara O’Keeffe.
The New Deal in New York, Revisited
by Nicholas GamsoJUL-AUG 2017 | Field Notes
Reading the May 2017 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, I was surprised to find an article arguing that the New Deal “lives on” in New York City.
New York Cycle, a Diary
by Catherine Cusset, an excerpt translated from the French by Armine Kotin MortimerDEC 18-JAN 19 | Fiction
Fifteen years later, New York has changed. The twin towers no longer fill the view when you cycle down Fifth Avenue or rollerblade toward Downtown beside the Hudson. The East Village, Alphabet City, and the Lower East Side have gentrified. The Williamsburg Bridge has been repaired and now leads on both sides to neighborhoods inhabited by trendy young people.
Up Space, Down Space: Moving Dancers of New York
by MG LeeMAR 2019 | Dance
While there’s been a flourish of big name choreographers and residencies cropping up in Upstate New York—Stephen Petronio and Jonah Bokaer, among others— emerging, local groups are also looking upstate for space and solitude to rehearse.
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