Month: February 2017

RiverWatch

Many ships pass Battery Park City on their way to and from the midtown passenger ship terminal.  Others may be seen on their way to or from docks in Brooklyn and Bayonne.  Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate Clock and are based on sighting histories, published schedules and intuition. They are also...

Putting the 'In' Back in Indigenous

The George Gustav Heye Center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (located at One Bowling Green) will host “Native Fashion Now,” the first large-scale traveling exhibition of contemporary Native American fashion opening today, Friday February 17 The show celebrates indigenous designers from across the United States and Canada, from the 1950s to...
PochaHaida dress, 2009 Red cedar bark, cordage, and faux-leather fringe Lisa Telford, Haida

Putting the ‘In’ Back in Indigenous

The George Gustav Heye Center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (located at One Bowling Green) will host “Native Fashion Now,” the first large-scale traveling exhibition of contemporary Native American fashion opening today, Friday February 17 The show celebrates indigenous designers from across the United States and Canada, from the 1950s to...
PochaHaida dress, 2009 Red cedar bark, cordage, and faux-leather fringe Lisa Telford, Haida

'Snow Big Deal

At a time when Lower Manhattan is weighing plans for resiliency in the face of extreme weather events, one local leader stood up to last week’s storm and made a difference in the lives of dozens of local families. As a snow-bearing nimbostratus bore down on the City on the evening of February 8, and...

‘Snow Big Deal

At a time when Lower Manhattan is weighing plans for resiliency in the face of extreme weather events, one local leader stood up to last week’s storm and made a difference in the lives of dozens of local families. As a snow-bearing nimbostratus bore down on the City on the evening of February 8, and...

February 16

364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances. 1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de’ Fiori in Rome. 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as...
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending Staircase appeared at the 1912 Armory Sow